The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1862-03-26
A nytllings.

Anythings.
A good joke is told in Harper Of Colonel
Kruger, of the Wisconsin Sd, while or Pro-
vost duty at Frederick, Maryland. The
duties of the regiment were so important,
that it was next to impossible for soldier
to get pass except in most urgent cases Of
necessity. The Chaplain of the regiment
embraced the opportunity to distribute
religious tracts very freely, and broad
smiles were created one day by the discov-
cry of one Of these short moral treatises
entitled "comc, sinner, come" with the
following endorsement: Cant do it; COL
Ruger won't sign my pass -. Accounts
from the east and west all indicate that the
fall Of snow for the winter just passed, has
been unusually heavy, but we are not pre-
pared to credit theitem which is going cur
rent through the press, that in one of the late
snow storms house in the town Of Next
co, Maine, occupied by two families, was
showed up and submerged to such an ex-
tent that they could not get from under the
snow by way of cutting through the roof,
and were finally relieved by their neighbors
from death only by tunnel cut forty feet
through the snow bank. There is too
much Of the Munchausen about that for
one dose. {. 4. The Linn county Register
cborroc %bok 4,,.o ,;t;,aoc ,e &I,ot oo,,,t,, ~o
centlypurchascd sausage in Dubuque and on
arriving home found a splendid young dog
within the same in good preservation.
The Times rallies to the defence of the
Dubuque sausage trade by charging the as
seltion to be vile SANDER, and gives the
word of prominent manufacturer that no
dog is put in sausage entire the identity Of
the little bankers being invariably destroyed
by cutting them up fine. Since the defence
of the milkman's lad to the charge that
dirty water wrs put in the milk, we have
seen nothing that compares with the above
retort from our friend Petit. The fol-
lowing good fling at Floyd is from the La
Crosse Democrat 1.-THE Richmond Eram-
liner says the difficulty between Davis and
Floyd will soon be healed. Yes,-Floyd
hccled it at Fort Donclson.' The same
paper has an announcement that this month
has done we'll for our cause as for two
weeks it has been one steady March-March
March. :. We all wish to close our eyes
on the world in the places we love best
the child in It's mothers bosom, the patriot
in his country's. The last sensation to
excite the sullible, is to the effect that the
rebels arc secretly building somwhcre, one
hundred steam gun boats, to be ready the
first of June. ...I 1t is suggested that were
Yancey to get safely home he would be as
unlikely to recognize the Southern Confed-
cracy as was Lord Palmerston himself
Such are the vicissitudes of life. .. Ever
since the first inglorious affair Of General
Price in Missouri, the rebel Generals have
characterized their military movements by
rapid and continuous excavations. :. "A
polite way Of telling man he lies is to say
you tell telegram. -. Vanity Fair charac-
terizes Floyd as the "hero of hundred
flights" We will add that the most in
veterate thief in the world, would find him
a foemcn worthy Of his steal. Orphcus C.
Kerr, the correspondent of the New York
Sunday Mercury has been deeply affected
by the patriotism Of the ladiesas manifested
at the great White House Ball. He adds
that when he looked upon the women Of
America around him that night, and saw
how much Of the upper portion Of their
dresses had been cut away to make band,
ages for the soldiers, he couldn't help feel
ing that secession was at best gloomy
fantasy. IL is related of an Ohio Dutch.
man that in view Of the very stringent law
against profanity he recently addressed,
very cautiously, letter to his brother al
"Amsterd-m.". 80. Since Windship came
upon the public stage with his extraordin
airy feats of strength, there has been rap.
id development of strong men, at ratio
which, within the lives Of some Of US, viii
undoubtedly develop men that will riva
the famed "giants of Anek." We see ar
item afloat that one Thompson-with "p'
who lifts seven hundred more pounds
than Windship, is giving exhibitions al
Buffalo. He lifts 1000 pounds and raises
a dumb bell weighing 1872 pounds over his
head, with one hand.