Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-04-07
FAw AND FIGURES,

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roses.
Bos1os has fined man 50 for attempt
to kiss lady in the street.
THERE are more Jews in the city OF
New York than in the Holy Land.
THE Brooklyn retail grocers lose s.
600, 900 year by the credit system.
THE blood of healthy, fulfgrown
| average man weighs twenty pounds.
THE highest point reached by man,
| without the aid of balloon, is $1,000 feet.
A BoY in Trenton, who killed "valu-
able" dog which bit him, has been fined
*25.
Mr.. BURLTysAxR intended to settle in
California after his mission for China had
closed.
In New Hampshire, judges cannot serve
after attaining the age Of 70; but they can
20 to the Legislature.
THE annual expenditure in the British
Consular Service in Greece is $50, 900; and
in the United States, 432, 500.
THE cranberry crop at Hsrwich, Mass,
amounted, during the past year, to 1891
barrels, which were sold for $39,590.
New YORK in 1850, with population
Of $780, 85, produced only 1851 ,105
bushels of wheat; or about two and . half
bushels to each inhabitant.
WHY is lawyer the most ill-used man
in our social system! Because, though
he may drive his own carriage, he must
! draw the conveyances Of other people
A FEMALE physician has been arrested
in Philadelphia on the charge of evsding
the special internal revenue tax, but
claims exemption on the ground that she
is not allowed to vote.
AMHERST College claims the honor of
being the first of the New England edu-
cational institutions to admit women to
study and graduate on the same terms a.
men.
MEMBERS OF . family named Wood
filled the ONCE of Parish Clerk in Dds
bury parish, England, for $50 years sue
cessively. They began in 1891, and ended
in 1889.
REV. Dr.. DowNINe, OF New York,
thinks that oil bachelors above thirty
should be compelled TO marry, or else con-
tribute one. fourth Of their earnings to the
support OF needy spinsters.
THE model girl of the period lives in
Lafayette, Ind. She wears with pride
and just pride, too-a dress made up OF
material woven by her own fair hands.
She is still unmarried.
A GENTLEMAN Of Columbus, Ga, the
other day, who has great patience and is
fond Of making minute observations,
timed the pace of snail. 1t made 10
inches in 60 minutes.
THE base ball season will open at Gin
cinnati on the 10TH of April, between the
Red Stockings and a picked nine. The
Red Stockings will bat in the same order
as last year, and will occupy the same
positions.
A WRITER in the Fond du Lac Journal
figures out that, with capital OF about
$4,000 and yearly expenditure Of Lbout
100000, an annual income Of some $780,
900 may be realized in the beet sugar bust
ness
THERE are two lovely young ladies in
May & Rogers paper mill at Lee, Mass,
who have worked within ten feet of each
other fifteen months and have not spoken
together mad as March hares all the
while.
THE female teachers of San Francisco
are married of mom rapidly than their
places can be properly supplied. Out Of
sixteen teachers in the Lincoln school
thirteen have been married within i've
years, and the other three were already
married.
PHILADELPHIA has q novel will ease.
II appears that a man and his wife each
made will in favor of the other at the
same time, but by some blunder the man
signed his wife's will and the wife signed
her husbands. Not until after the death
Of the husband was the mistake discov.
cred.
THB Louisville Commercial says: 90 We
have heard that, within few days past,
one of our cotton spectators made over
one hundred thousand dollars in a single
transaction with . New York broker,
without the exchange Of 50 much az .
pound Of the ex.kingly staple"
THERE is woman in Dexter, Ne, who
has been married twenty five years, is the
mother OF nine children, mostly boys, and
has done her own work with the aid OF
members Of her own family. She has, In
that period, manufactured eleven and
half tons of butter and thirty-hve and
half tons OF cheese.
A RESPECTABLE looking man presented
pistol at . ticket agent ct Elizabeth, n.
j., and demanded ticketto New York.
1t was given him, and he jumped on
train, leaving the revolver. In the even
ing he returned and apologized, saying
that important business called him to
New York, and having left his pocket
book at home, he Yves bound to get
ticket. He paid for his ticket, got back
his revolver, and, thanking the agent, de-
parted.
A Maternal which can be pressed into
the form of combs, buttons, knife handles,
&C, may be made from leather scraps by
cutting them into small pieces and keep.
ing them for several days in chloride Of
sulphur in this way they become hard
and brittle. After being washed they are
dried, ground to powder and mixed with
glue, or solution Of gun arabic, or any
other adhesive substance, when the mix
ture ID ready for the moulds.-Erchange.
CHAMBRRs' JOURNAL gives some stats.
tics Of the business within q square mile
In London. Ten thousand vehicles passed
Blackfriar's bridge In twelve hours, $4,000
At Fleet street and $4,000 at London
bridge. One day OF twenty -four hours,
not extraordinary, $4,000 vehicles passed
over the Thames In nine hours Of one
day In 1640, $4,000 people entered the