Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-12-21

Miscellaneous.

There are said TO be 1910 banks IN the
United States, exclusive of faro banks.
The Washington Life Insurance Com
many holds the best of securities and gives
insurance at cost.
The absence of insanity in Arabia is
attributed TO the fact that the Arabs are
no-mad-ic people.
Portland. Oregon. it is said has
larger number of saloons than any other
city of its size in the United States
Mrs. II. l.. Simonds, of Morton, Wis,
made and sold from the milk OF four cows
.O24 pounds OF butter, from January to
November "a, 1871.
AT a recent sale of lot of old coins,
in New York city, cent OF 1il3 brought
S67 cent of 1194, $3.50; a cent OF
1877, S23 cent of 1909, SAB The re-
maindcr of the pieces sold equally high.
The marble quarries of Vermont are
literally mines of wealth. Over thou
sand men are employed, and many OF the
mills where the saving is done is valued
at 500. 600 The marble is sold at prices
ranging from $50 to $14 per cubic foot.
A sexton being very familiar with a
physician, was asked whether he had en-
tbTtu lutO pdltucIsijp WIN nm. "I
yes" said he, "we've been together for
some time | always carry the doctors
work home when it is done. :"
Mr.. CASTOR, residing near Blue Rap.
ids, Kansas, last spring thought he would
experiment on his sod ground with few
peanuts He procured a half pound at
the store and planted them. In the fall
he drew up the vines and shook from them
bushel and peck of peanuts, as fine as
can be grown anywhere.
There are 3O,320 blind persons in the
United States, 81 per cent. of whom were
born blind, 40 per cent. made sightless by
disease, and Is per cent. by accident.
Thrty-one States now make provision Tor
the education of the blind, and, since the
establishment of these schools, 40 years
ago, GAG pupils have been educated.
A Detroit policeman found note
book which evidently belonged to man
of careful habits The book is full of
such sentences as these Monday-Buy
gallon Of whisky to-day take four
drinks. Tuesday-get a gallon OF whls-
XIV at noon Of; also, get shaved don't
get drunk. Wednesday-see if the whis-
XIV is out also, don't drink until after
dinner also, see about more whisky.
Here is an item of interest to the
LAWYERS. The Probate Court Of Clncln-
natl has just decided that an attorney can
not receive compensation for partial or
unfinished services; that he must go
through with case once undertaken, or
surrender all pecuniary claims against his
client Also, that he cannot, without the
consent Of the client, transfer to another
attorney a case intrusted to him.
Some time since an inventor applied
to the Patent Office for patent for new
process of embalming, and, in order to
comply with the supposed requirements
of the law, that model be deposited in
the Office, he prepared neat little coffin,
with glass face, in which he deposited
the remains of tiny infant, which had
been embalmed by his process. 1t being
considered not desirable to make the
Patent Office catacomb, the model was
returned to the inventor for burial.
A Danbury, Conn, man saw his
daughter into the cars and passed round
to her window for parting look at her.
While he was passing out the daughter
left tho seat to speak to friend, and at
the same time prim looking lady, who
had occupied the seat with her, moved
up to the window. Unaware of the i'm
portant change inside, our venerable friend
hastily put his face up to the window, and
hurriedly exclaimed, Zone more kiss,
sweet pet" In another instant the point
of blue cotton umbrella caught his
seductive lips, followed by the passionate
injunction, 'Scat, you grey-headed
wretch ~ and he scattered.
Mr.. ID. A. A. Buck, Worcester
(Mass.) jeweler, has constructed min
iature steam engine, which is probably
the tiniest thing in the world of the kind.
The machinery is gold and silver, COM
prising 148 pieces, fastened together with
screws, the largest of which is one-eighth
of an inch in size. The engine, boiler.
governor and pumps stand in space
ven-sixteenths of an inch square, and
are weights of an inch high. The en-
CINE alone weighs but fifteen grains, and
yet every part is complete, and it may be
set in motion by filling the boiler with
water and applying heat, being supplied
with all valves, etc, to be found in an or
binary upright engine. 1t is marvel of
mechanical ingenuity.