Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1866-12-22

Why does the railroad conductor cut Q
hole in yosr 'ickst2 To let you pass through.
"Jvhn, did you ever bet ON q horse r.sey'
"No, but ! have seen my sister Bet on sn
old mare
Mr.. Mills. Of Dss Moin.s. has invented .
brick machine which costs 81 200, and ts-ns
out 25 600 brick per day.
A disloyal sheet in Virginia favers tho
senatorial a.pirstions Of II. g., "because hs
was an influential original secessionist.'
1t is reported that the steamship Great
Eastern viii begin to make regular trips be-
tween New York and Brest early in March.
John, did Mrs. Green get tho medicine I
ordered ?" ~ guess 50" replied John, "for
saw Grape on the door the next morning.
M. Leutze, the artist, has been commits.
stoned by Mr. Seward to execute . portrait
cf his late daughter, tho lameuted Fanny
Seward.
An exchange Gays FIVE negroes have just
been sentenced to the New Hampshire pen
itentiary, and two to the Massachusetts le-
gislature.
The Louisville journal we'll puts the case
thus: Radicals think that war kept the
Southern States in the Union, and that peace
put them out"
The Chicago Republican, after calling An.
drew johnson a traitor, says that "Gonerat
Sherman is far more dangerous man than
the President"
A cotton factory in Augusta, Ga. h.
turned ont during the past year 9,4l0,00o
yards of cloth. Good-let politics alone,
and build more such establishments.
Father wants you to send him two yards
Of black tweed cloth he don't care what COL
or i. is, and when he kills his pig last wesk.
he'll pay you what you owe him"
"Do you think you CT MD do the landlord
in the Lady Of Lyons p said . manager, 70
. seedy actor, in quest OF an engagement.
" l have done great many landlords.
Senator Wright, John Van Buren,, Doctor
Hawks and Simeon Draper, all died OF
Bright's disease Of the kidneys. Louis Ma
polcon is afflicted with the melody.
A higher than the highest Yo Semitic va.
te,fall has been found on the south fork Of
the Tuolnmme river IN California. It has u
clear unbrotcn fall Of two thousand fee:.
Brigham Young is luxuriating in the hon-
eymoon Of his 45,h bride. beautiful ,nish
girl of II years. He has just lost 24,h
wife, who was buried without any smony,
or even notice Ct htr death.
"I would not be a woman, for N could
not love her." says Montague. lady NJ. W.
Montague eays, The only objection have
to be a man, is that l should have to marry
q woman
A new island is forming in tho Missouri
river, opposite St. Joseph. and ,wo citizens
have bui shsnty on i: in order to secur re
the first claim to entry when government
places it n the market. 1t is two miles
long
The following somewhat remarkable sd-
| vertisement appeared in the columns of a
newspaper: Lost, by poor lad tied up
in brown paper, with a white string . Ger
man flute in On overcoat, and several other
articles Of wearing apparel
There are seven hundred and fifty paper
mills IL active operation in the United
States. 7oey produce two hundred and seS,
enty mil'on pounds of paper, which, at an
average of ten cents per pound would be
WORTH @~enty. seven million dollars.
4 correspondent of the Louisville Journal
T. It's at some length on the best way to pre-
mt hydrophobia. A wag, in reply, suggests
hat be once prevented case Of the dread
/ tul mslady bv getting on a fourteen rail fence
and staying there until the dog" left.
| Two veterans in matrimonial service are
Joseph Webber and mis- wife, Of Belcherto~n.
Mass-tbe one 81 and the other o. years
ago las. April. They still enjoy good de-
gree of health, and are getting to feel quite
well acquainted with each other.
The Advance, the new democratic paper
at Marshalltown, published for salu,atory
the following:
Oun nSALrrAroRr.-The Union, the Con
stitu,ion and the Laws; Let them be OF,
Rule and Guide.
Whereupon radical sheet came ont A.
said - If it proposes to live up to the dam
able political heresies contained its saiu
tory, It will not live long in Marshall COUNTY
The immortal hero Of the Dutch Gap car = 4,
is to be set to music. A Lowell poet ha~
written the 6rst verse, and will soon 6uish
the remainder,
Ben Butler was . soldier brave,
A soldier brave WAS he;
He had for silver spoons and sich,
A par-i-al-i-ty.
A correspondent Of the Buffalo Express
tells a story s'riking'y illustrative Of the ups
and downs Of American life. Fifty years
ago wealthy man at the east set up his es-
tahl,sh shmeat, and employed poor neshbor' ;
son for his coachman. Much aga,ust hi.
wishes, the young man vas dressed up in
iverv, big buckles, bright buttons and all.
| The grandson Of that rich man 10 now Goa CHI.
man to the coachman's son, sud 10 made to
| wear the earmarks Of . servant.
The Muscatine Journal publishes list ~
| long rs your arm, Of the probable candidates
for Governor on the radical ticket 1t enG~
mera,es among others c, |. Samuel Merr =
b T. Hant. Gen. Vandever, G. +. Clarkson .
4. W. Palmer, b. 4. Cue, Col. j. Is. Leat q,
C. C. Nourse, Elder Grinnell, aud othe n
whom nobody ever heard Of before. II a. =
one has any more one horse politicians, T. q:
them out.
! A very devout and pious deacon, who so'd
coal, told his servant gir! in early fall 70 han
We, dish cloth out Of the window, and thR
first morning that she found it frozen 10 rss-
port to him. A swapping October moroins
the cloth was found frozen; the girl ent@rest
the breakfas. room and reported to the dca
con. sho was Just ready to enter into family
devo,ious: he immediately replied, raisioc
bis eyes skywara, "Lord, help the poor
must raise on coal to-day Let Us prey, =
There is some reason 10 believe thaf ths
me.enric shower actually mecf IN W. daV
time. We learn that ~ Stamford, Cornsc~
,icut, the meteors were quite numerot d.