Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-27
New, ParagraDfns.

l his insanity.
The books in the library of the Britt
Museum occupy twelve miles of shelves.
In Wisconsin,, the law reducing the "a
Of interest to 10 per cent took effect on {
lst Of April. ~ 49,. ...i CT O.
The expense Of taking the census this 70
. throughout the Union will be about q mi
mion Of dollars.
| The Cnited States are first in gold, first
copper, first in lead, first in iron, first
coal, and the first in cotton, among Il
nations of the earth. e9
The ladies have paid for Mt. Vernon, b.
1t is now said that they must have $140, ,O(
more, to invest for the purpose of keepir
the place in repair. q,
There are now nineteen passenger railroat
in the city of Philadelphia, transport ri
daily, from one portion of the city to Ii
other, lac, 900 persons.
Another clock has been placed in the Oil
Hall, New York, in place OF the one destro,
ed by fire on the occasion of the suppos {
success Of the Atlantic telegraph.
The annual session of the r. W. Gran
Lodge of Good remplars of North Americ
is to be held 1T Nashville, Tenn, on th
22d of May nexs. '-5
Three years 60, a man invested $50, 90
in real estate at st. Paul. A short time since
determining to tealize what he could on il
he sold it for just $1,000. ..".. ...
Patrick F. Shesken, who killed Henr,
AcA uley, for insulting his sister while at
ball, in Chicago, several months ago, va
acquitted on ths 1th inst
The census OF clerks, just taken In the city
OF Washington, shows this Industrious little
army to number 9O8 men within fraction
Of full regiment These are the bees thai
make the honey for the drones .y.-
Lord Lyons, in obedience to the iustrac.
tion- of his government, intends to extend
AL invitation to the Japanese embassy to
visit Great Britain, on their return homo
from the United States. o . d. l..
A foundry firm at Hannibal, Mo-, have
tust completed a locomotive to run by steam
On common roads, which, upon trial, proves
eminently successful - SO mucl, so, that q
gentleman of that city has contracted for
one, at a cost of $4,000, for a trip to Pixies
Peak
The friends of Mr.. Frank B. Sanborn are
about to present to his sister one of the
latest style of Colts revolvers, US q testi-
monial of her bravery onthe arrest of her
brother. 1t will bear an engraved repre-.
sentation of the old Pine Tr flag, and the
motto ".,ic itur ad asir f'
Mr. Bomberger, 76 year of age, residing
in Baltim, IRE, J, mmi'tei su eide the other
day, BY cuttiis mis- throat with a razor. He
has been fer some time i'll with Il disease of
the lungs, aud preferred to die at once
rather than linger out miserable existence.
lie was q soldier o. 1912.
Mr.. II. A. Wells, for nearly three years
past school teacher in Litchfeld, Mont
gomery county, ILL.,, member of the
Methodist Church, licensed preacher, and
very highly esteemed, disappeared recently,
carrying with him most of the school funds.
besides having run in debt some $3.50.
A steam pow has been introduced into
Somers. tshire, England. 1t plowed upwards
of acres of difficult soil in a day. The
same amount of work would have employed
40 horses The expense was Is an acre, and
blowing by the ordinary means would have
cost at least double that sum.
The new Police bill for the regulation of
the police in New York aud Brooklyn,
reduces the number of Commissioners to
three, who are to be appointed by the Gov
ernor. By the old bill there were seven
Of whom two were the
Mayors Of the two cities named.
A half-w witted man named Isha P. Rudd,
residing in Lincoln county, Tenn, has been
seized with mania for burning all churches
over ten years old, as he thinks that is
long enoug gh for such buildings to do service.
He had actually carried his theory into effect
on four buildings, worth in the aggregate
IS 900 or Sc 900, when arrested.
The St. Louis Democrat says that the body,
without the head of Sarah Lamb has been
found at the precise spot in the Mississippi,
below fuckers Island, where George H.
Lamb said he sunk it in November, 1858.
1t is supposed the decapitation was produced
by the heavy weight cf the stone tied to the
neck. The body was completely decomposed,
but the evidence given at the inquest seemed
to identify it.
Those who live on Fifth avenue, the
aristocratic residence street in New York,
stand in slippery places. 1t is the calcula.
ton of one cf the most experienced house
agents and real estate brokers in that city
that the average tenure Of the magnificent
mansions on that avenue by the families Of
commercial aristocracy does not exceed
three years sin uti'er words, that the ocsu.
pants, on an average, fail once in three
years; and, as some stand longer, others
must fall even sooner.
During a recent fire at Nagasaki, Japan,
bv which the Office and storehouse OF the
American Consul, and other buildings, were
consumed, to the value Of $400, 900, great
numbers of Japanese were present with little
engines throwing water by jerks about 80
feet, but without much effect. Some of the
Japanese placed themselves on the tops of
the neghboring houses. with fans. to create
breeze and keep the fire away. The officials
wore magnificent fire dresses, and made {
splendid picture in the light OF the flames.
The Pope of Rome is now in his sixty
eighth year, and even should he be obliged
to flee from the eternal CITY," he viii
have quite CROUCH to maintain himsel
comfortably for the remainder Of his life. l
appears that the tP ter Pcnce' contrit U
tions have already announced to $16O, 900, O
which sum Ireland has contributed $50, 10000
as mu:h AS all the Othes countries Of Europ
taken together Besides this, it is currentl
reported hat the Pope has no less thai
$l2, 100000, the picus offerings of goc,
Catholics. packed away at the Vatican g.
that in case he should consider anothe
hegira necessary the money for his travelin
expenses is abul dainty provided.
Miss Kate Fox, the original spirit rapper
publishes card in the New York Time
against Free Loveism, which, she says, i
rampant in New York, where regula
association of fee lovors is fourishin
uudirturbed and unrobuked. She says it
important that all spiritualists who love an
revere ''pure religion and undefiled," an
who conform their lives to the morality Q
the Bible, should mark the broad differenc
between themselves and set of peopl
whose principles they loathe and abhor, an
, whose practices they condemnation the
regard as nuisance in the community an
the vsritable "spawns of hell"
Thaddeus Hyatt, the man who would be
martyr to the U. s. Senate, lives like
fighting cock in the Washington city prison