The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-11-21

A cord Of wood prepared for use is wortl
$l2 in st. Paul.
Cincinnati has public drinking foun
tains.
The falls Of St. Anthony are IT feet
above the oceans level and - feet above
the level Of lake Superior.
There are SO,337 pupils in the public
schools of Philadelphia. The cost Of the
schools last year was 81 ,O2O, ,4O5.
The Chicago & Northwestern railway
campany report the manufacture of 86 cars
at Fond du Lac during the month of Octo-
ber at cost Of Sl62,OOO.
Business men would do we'll to re1nen6-
Der that cash y means Specie. So
cided
A western editor asserted, apparently in
good faith, that contemporary had gone to
heaven, and exclaimed enthusiastically,
"BuIly for our contempt
1t is reported that the ground at Bay
neld, Wisconsin, was covered on the 9th
instant by two feet of snow. His honor
judge ClOugh was unable to reach Superior
City, and thc October term of the circuit
court was not holden.
The mortality report of Chicago for the
month OF october shows that out of l,l7O
deaths there were 673 from cholera, or
nearly l6S each week.
The negroes of Botetourt county, Vir-
glnla, have increased three or four hundred
III number since the last census This is
the only increase Of this population in any
country di strict in that state.
1t is said that there are threo women to
one man in England. This may RATIONAL
ly account Tor the ready Mormon prose-
lytism in British borough
In view Of the anticipated impeachment
Of the president and large number of peo-
pie, the boarding house keepers of Wash
ington have increased their prices.
The whole merchant fleet of Prussia be-
fore the war consisted of ,665 ships of all
dimensions, the greater number of small
tonnage employed in the coasting trade
AT the present moment not less than TO-
2O2 vessels sail under the Prussian flag or
under Prussian protection.
A down east paper has the following To-
cal notice: "a child was ran over BY .
wagon years old and cross eyed with
pantaloons on which never spoke after
wards.'
The sum total of the hansoms and four
wheeled cabs at present in London amounts
to G, ,229, of which 3.sl5 are licensed to ply
seven days, and 2,4l4 for six. At cor
responding period of last year there were
in all 6, ,224 cabs in the various streets of
the metropolis.
"Madame, your boy can't pass for half
fare, he is too large" said conductor of
railway train which had been detained
on the road by snow. "Ie may be too
large now," replied the matrons shut he
was small enoug gh when we started" The
conductor gave in, and the boy passed for
half fare.
The winning-post to the race of life is q
slab of white or gray stone standing out
from that turf where there is no more
jockeying.
Seventeen Of the signers of the Declara-
ton of Independence, including both
Adamses and MIR. Jefferson, were Of Welsh
descent.
A lady whose husband has deserted her,
says: ''May two hundred and forty-seven
Nightmares trOt quarter races across his
stomach every nj ght.'' This probably
would be relief to what he has endured.
A lady had her pocket picked of about
thirty dollars while walking in Washing
ton street, Boston, last Saturday. She
subsequently recollectcd that a man had
unnecessarily crowded against her, saw him
afterwards in Court street, accosted and
charged him with the theft, whereupon he
restored her pocket-hnok.
At an assemblage of few friends, one
evening, the absence of lady was noticed,
which was apologized for by an acquain-
tance, who stated that she was detained by
an interesting little incident. "Ah, yes,''
exclaimed Mrs. John Smith, "and beau
tiful little incident it was, too-weighed
just nine pounds and a half.''
1t is somewhat singular that Washing
ton drew his last breath in the last hour of
the last day of the last week of the last
month of the last century. He died on
Saturday night, twelve o'clock, December
81, 1899.
The telegraph operators at Boston, the
other evening, opened direct communion
ton with Port Hood, Louisiana. Port
Hood reported heavy snow storm, while
New Orleans reported the weather sultry.
The wires were never known to have
worked better such distance.
The railway between Calcutta and Bonn
bay is about one thousand miles long, and
is traversed by trains in about four days.
N1,o kyof Ok Sont SlSf0 nf nj q
and cargo. European passengers cannot
travel the whole distance ON account of the
heat.
The Hoosac Tunnel still opposes three
miles of hard rock to the industrious en-
ergy of multitude of laborers, working
with the great patent drill and borer. TO
the stockholders, this enterprise has long
beon, and must continue to be, looked mp
on as decidedly "grcat bore.'
Petroleum is about to be used as steam
boat fuel. A company has beeneorganiz-
cd in Memphis, Tenn, which is building
boat of not less than fifty-horse power,
that will save one third of the space devo-
ted to fuel, while it's ightness will greatly
| lessen the draft Of the vessel.
Mrs. Deborah Bedford, aged ninety three
years, the sole survivor Of the historical
Wyoming massacre, which occurred during
the revolutionary war, is still living with
her son, DIR. A. Bedford, in Wayerly, Pa.
Although III she has, of course, during so long
| life, suffered somewhat from the storms
of time, her mind is still active, and she in
.upublo Of a,.o,ib;ns, ;n q perfectly
clear and connected manner, the cruel
scenes which she witnessed as six years
old child.
The Newburyport Herald tells story of
a newly married couple who attended a