Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1864-08-20
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

May publishes the following order, which
is characterized as remarkable" by one
Of our contemporaries:
ADJr's AND INSPECTOR GEN. OrrrcE,
R,cuxoSD, NAV 2lst, 1864
Special Order No. 234-Owing to the
jnestimable service rendered 10 the Con.
federate States by Major General N. P.
Banks, U. 8. A., all officers and men in
The service of the Confederate States are
hereby prohibited from harming hair Of
his head, and are especially ordered, under
oil circumstances to allow him to escape.
BY Order, s. COOPER,
Ajj't and ms. General.
This order, we confess, is . little re-
msrkable; but we think the most remark.
able feature of the order is that it does not
include Abraham Lincoln. This most
remarkable omission throws shade OF
suspicion on the authenticity Of the docu.
mcnt. Nevertheless the order is unques.
tionably sensible as far Is it goss.-Louis
riHe Journal.
RATHER EXPENSIVE KITE FLYrSc-A
few days since q number Of small boys
were sitting on the sidewalk near the Ger.
mantown Railroad depot making kite,
and as they were about shaping the paper
for it, passer By saw among the covering
intended for the sticks five hundred dol.
lar United States five twenty bond. lie
took the bond and went with the boys to
their home, ard their learned that wo-
man belonging to the house had found it
in the street. She did not know its char
acter, end picked it up because there we're
pretty pictures upon it. The owner Of the
bond, living in tho neighborhood, had lost
it, from his pocket, and had returned to
the city after it. He recovered his pro.
perty.-lhiadelphia Age.
A Practical SoLD,ER.-A Christian
Commission brother was congratulating
wounded man upon the fact that he owed
the salvation Of his life to pocket Tesla.
ment, which happily interviewed between q
rebel bullet and his short ribs. He prom.
Used to give the soldier another Testament,
and hoped it would be instrumental in
saving not only his life. but his soul. His
remarks we're overheard by New Yorker,
who wes suffering from slight but smart.
ing wound in the side, and expressed him.
self as follows:
Look here, partner, It it had not been
for euchre deck, don't know where I'd
have been. It didn't burt me much, but
it knocked the ace Of spades and king Of
hearts higher than kite. Can't you give
Teller new pack?
VALUABLE "SEcBErs The unpleas.
ant cdor produced BY perspiration is fire.
qucn,ly the source Of vexa,ion to persons
who are subject to it. Nothing is simpler
thnn to remove this odor much more effec-
tualIy than by the application Of such
costly orgneots and perfumes rs are in
use. 1t is only necessary to procure some
OF the compound spirits Of ammonia, and
place about two table spoonsful in basin
Of water. Washing the face, hands and
arms with this leaves the skin as clean,
sweet and fresh a. one could wish. The
wash is perfectly harmless, and very cheap.
1t is recommended on the authority of on
experienced physician.
A celebrated philosopher used to say:
1.-THE favors of fortune arc like steep rocks
--only eagles and creeping things mount
to the summit"
A vacant mind invites dangerous in-
mates, as deserted mansion tempts wan.
dering outcasts to enter and take up their
abode in its desola!e apartments.
The lady looks eldest who tries to con.
ceal her age. If she refuses 10 let her
age be upon her tongue, it will be all the
more in her face.
Army contractors are sometimes am.
pushed enemies who lie in weight. Ave,
md in measure too.
A Wit has jus. discovered the true cause
Of bravery in negro troops; they aro the
color.bearers Of the human race.
Prejudices are Ike rats, and a mans
mind like atrap; they get in easily, and
then perhaps can't get out at al.
What belongs to yourself, and is used
by everybody more than yourself? Your
hamc.
ISLANDER issuing from lovely lips are
like spiders crawling from the petals Of
the rose.
AS we grow older. it is with hearts rs
With heads Of hair-it is not easy to dis.
anguish the true from the false.
Proverbs, like the sacred books of every
nation, are the sanctuary Of its ins.itu
ions.
We know of q case where three Coz.
.ens are three bro,hers-the propretors
IF the West Point Hotel.