Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-04-28
FACTS AND FIGURES.

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THE settlement Of Cincinnati was COM
menced In December, 178S.
SxvENTY-sEvxN different kinds Of rice
are cultivated in India
A LADY in Maine was LETT by the war
with 81 orphan grandchildren.
THERE are said to be 100000 French
Canadians In the United States.
MAINE calculates that she has popula
ton of seven hundred thousand.
APARm female Is reading peoples for
tunes by the lines on their feet.
THE Jerseyman who invented patent
leather died recently, worth over $780,
600.
THE outstanding i've per cent. bonds
of the State of Indiana viii be redeemed
July 1.
AN experiment in France proves that q
horse will live for twenty four days on.
water alone.
month" is the sole unrhymable mon
osyllable in the English language, says the
Boston Advertiser.
THE quantity of malt used In the United
Kingdom in 1867 was .47,8S0,0O0 bushels,
each making 10 gallons Of beer.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, proposes to cele
brate, on June Z, the fifteenth anniversary
of the location OF the State Capital in that
city.
A MAN in New Orleans offers to fight
an alligator under water, with only knife,
if some one will give him $500.
THE jewellers on the Rhine are wonder
ing at an old man of rs, who bathes in the
icy river, and rests on cake Of ice.
ST. JOHN, N B., has mushroom,
grown in cellar during the winter,
measuring fifteen inches in circumfer-
ence.
A CONNECTICUT woman, who married
her father-in-law few years ago, now
thinks the marriage null, and sues him
for services as housekeepcr.
A COUNTRY Postmaster in New York
State has posted notice in his Office d.
rceting people "to lick their own stamps,
else the letters won't CO."
A DowN-E EAST paper says, IN an obitu-
airy notice, that "the deceased had been
for several years director OF bank, not
withstanding which he died Christian,
and universally respected"
ACCORDING to the circular Of Messrs.
Dupee, Beck & Sayles, Of Boston, the
amount of fine copper secured from the
Lake Superior mines during 1869 realized
23.4S3,070 pounds
LONDON city pauperism increases. The
number of paupers in that city In the
second week in March was TIA, 76O, to
contrast with lao, 1855 for the same week
in 1869. The indoor poor were 1887
against 36,7S
The Pittsfeld Eagle says there is a
woman living on Washington Mountain
| who is the mother of twenty five children,
| twenty three of whom are now living,
and more healthy woman Is seldom
| seen.
IT is stated positively that there is .
young lady in one Of the Biddeford
| (Maine) mills who is worth at least
$4,000, but who works quietly day by
day, earning her six dollars weekly, in
stead of retiring with competency.
IT is said that the machine power of
England and Wales is competent to per-
form the labor of nearly six hundred
millions Of men, and is probably greater
in productive capacity than the labor
power of all the world beside.
JEDDo, the capital of Japan, is, without
exception, the largest and most populous
city in the world In contains the vast
number of 100000 dwellings, and 5,0OO,-
600 human souls. Many of the streets are
nineteen Japaneseries in length-22 Eng
lish miles.
THERE is a man in the vicinity OF
Cedar Keys, Fla, who has twenty-five
children living. The family subsist prin-
cipally on fish and oysters. They have
never had plate or cup and saucer in
their house. In lieu of cups they use
gourds and shells.
A MISSIONARY in India lately preached
on the subject Of faith, illustrated by the
story Of Abraham and Isaac, with such
magnetic eloquence that one Of his native
hearers Immediately went home and
slaughtered his son and offered him up as
sacrifice.
A FRENCH chemist has succeeded in
producing paint with which to illumi-
nate numbers of street doors at night.
Figures traced with it shine 80 as TO be
read through the most profound darkness;
and the preparation Of the compound Is
said to be simple, inexpensive, and unin-
furious in any way.
THE Chinese never have any pockets,
the only places answering for such being
the capacious sleeves. Speaking of the
compression Of the women's feet, and the
painful process Of compression, mission
airy recently said he regarded it as less re-
voting, and far less injurious than the
practice of COMPRISING the waist by
lacing.
OF the cases Of suicide, mental disorder
Is the most active, one-third OF all cases
that occur being traceable TO it /; one ninth
to physical suffering; one-eighth TO loss
of property; one-tenth TO remorse, shame,
or fear of punishment; one-eighth TO
family troubles one-ninth to gaming and
other vices, and very small proportion
TO disappointed love.
THE total value of property reported
stolen in Chicago the past year. was 1908,
292 (; total value Of stolen property recov-
cred, 1885, 02. The total amount Of fines
assessed in the Police Court was $l70, 576;
total number Of arrests, 28,078; OF these,
23,073 were males, and 5,0O5 females;
married, 1852; single, 20, I28. The num-
Der Of lost children was 1867, and the
number of dodgers accommodated, 2,755.
AN exchange says that great economy
in the manufacture Of bread is secured by
l.