The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1865-12-27
GLEANlNGs.

Representatives.
While couple were being married in
an English Church the other morning, the
mother Of the young lady, who was under
age, rushed into the church and forbade the
wedding The officiating minister at once
stopped the service, and the bridegroom had
pronounced the words: with this ring
thee we'd declared that no legal marri-
age had taken place. Since then, however,
the matter has been discussed at meeting
Of the clergy, and the unanimous decision
they arrived at was, that the couple had been
properly and lawfully married according to
the rites Of the Church. The point is
worry ticklish one. and will probably have to
be settled in the law courts
The London Spectator, in the course Of
a caustic and denunciatory criticism of q
new poet, remarked "And this extraordina-
ry production, Mr.. - modestly conceives
TO be equal to Goethe" The audacious
publisher managed to make favorable no
tice on, of this for his advertisement thus:
extraordinary production equal
to Goethe. Spectator.
TT is reported that oil has been struck
on Copper creek. Crawford county, Wis, ut
the depth Of 500 feet.
A man in Maine lost a COW last week
without any apparent disease; but an ex-
animation after her death discovered the
cause-a piece Of hoop skirt steel spring.
about two inches in length, which the cow
had swallowed, and not being able to d.
gest it. il had worked through the stomach
and had just penetrated the heat, causing
instant death.
Joseph Ashley a Fall River, Mass
glrtton, recently undertook on a wager OF
$50. to eat turkey weighing nine pounds
at one sitting. He accomplished the task in
80 minutes.
-Four black swans have been imported
from England. and have been domicilcl in
the lakes Of Spring Grove cemetery, Cincin-
natl.
poor-house recently which had elk fingers
on each hand and six toes on each foot.
The first sewing machine manufactured
by the Wheeler & Wilson Company. is now
on exhibition at their rooms, No. log, Lake
street, Chicago. 1t is fourteen years old
and bears the simple inscription, "a. B.
Wilson, Patented August 18th, 1851, Water
town Conn, %. l.
DR. Carnochan of New York, performed
two amputations last week while the pa
tients were under the influence Of nitrous
oxide gas. DIR. Carnochan states that from
the rapidity with which the gas operates,
the entire insensibility to pain, the sudden
ness Of returning consciousness, attended
by no nausea or sickness, the gas appears
to be far superior to chloroform as an anes-
thetic agent.
Ohio in the only state that came out Of
the war with less debt than she went in
with, the principle Of taxation having been
adopted even in the darkest hours. The
State debt is now $l3, ,OO,l7o against $l4,-
$50. 253 in 1860.
1t is stated that a card of Mr.. James
Stephens was dropped into the letter-box of
the Right Hon. the Attorney General, the
morning after the Head-Centres escape
from jail
The quickest stage or other trip be-
tween the Rocky Mountains and the Mis-
souri, river, was made in October by Ben
Holidays line in three days and eleven
hours-distance R53 miles. Louis McLain
and party of San Francisco, were the pas
sengers.
Instead Of asking each other whether
they are ready TO go home, the printers on
the Boston morning papers look to the cap
ping of their pistols, and say, when leaving
early in the morning: Are you ready to
meet the garroters 20
A complete change Of system will be
shortly introduced in the madhouses in
France. Strait waistcoats, and all the other
instruments hitherto used, are to be abo-
lished, and the patients will live together
and be constantly occupied at some useful
work. The experiment has been tried at
the lunatic asylum at Rlois with great sue
cess.
There are now in existence no less than
fourteen hundred snd fifty. seven oil compa-
MES, with total capital of eight hundred
and sixty-nine millions five hundred and
ninety-four thousand dollars.
Prof. Agassiz has already obtained spe-
cimens Of more than seven hundred hereto
fore entirely unknown fishes, in South
America.
Secretary McCulloch, in his report,
most aptly (but innocently) speaks of the
public debt as "a matter Of interest" He
never spoke truer word.
Freeman Hardy, who fifteen years ago
was poor carpenter in Cincinnati, has just
built him house costing $350,OOQ.
A youngster of fourteen years and his
sweetheart" two years younger, recently
eloped from Wallingford, Conn.
An action has been brought in one Of
the New York courts BY person claiming
that he has been injured to the extent Of
$1,000 by being described as colored per-
son in one Of the city directories. The
error happened in this wise The person
who gathered the names for the directory,
set down coll" meaning collector Of bills,
after the mans name. The compositor set
it up "colrd," and SO it went inteprint.
Edward B. Ketchum. the forger of mil
lions, still remains in the custody Of the
law awaiting sentence.
Among the patents lately taken out in
France are the following hygienic
alphabet, in gingerbread; a method Of max
ing head-dresses, caps and pocket handker-
chiefs in paper; mechanical fan, opening
and shutting instantaneously machine
points, reproducing infinitely the relief
people hear aud no fewer than ten patents
for stopping railway trains.
The miners of Edmond's Main Colliery,
England, place which was the scene Of .
frightful explosion some time since, are
now out on q strike. The masters insist
that the men shall begin down in the pit at
six o'clock, but the men will only agree to
be at the pit at six.
The Dutch ambassador ut Washington
has made piteous appeal for an increase
of pay on the ground Of the increase Of liv-
ing in this country, stating that he is 80
hard up that he is obliged to give up his
establishment and take lodgings near q
BARRIERS shop, but the government Of the
Netherlands has refused his request.