The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-01-03
A splendid opera house is to be erected
in Evansville, Indiana, next spring.

A splendid opera house is TO be erected
in Evansville, Indiana, next spring.
An experiment tried by an eminent
physician Of st, Petersburg, during the
4 prevalence of the cholera there several
years ago serves to illustrate tho influence
| Of the mind upon the body. He obtained
of the authorities two criminals who had
been condemned to death, to do with them
| as he thought fit. One Of these conyicts
| was made to sleep in bed, in which he was
told, man died with the cholera but the
night Observation-Disclosures such was not the
fact After n restless night, the criminal
was taken with all the symptoms Of cholera,
and died of that disease declaring that he
had caught it from the bcd-a victim to his
own fears. The other was made to sleep
on bed whcreon man had died few
hours previously of the fatal disease This
fact however, was unknown to the occupant
of the bed, who awoke in the morning
refreshed by his sleep, remaining in perfect
health.
The English court Of appeals has de-
cided that If the husband and wife have
known nothing of each others existence for
seven years, either of them may marry
again without being guilty of bigamy.
Peter Timmons, of Coles county, H.,
has SOW that raised him twenty-five pigs
in eighteen months. twenty-five of which he
sold for $685., and the remaining three, not
sold. are worth $50 each. making $G25 gross
receipts from one SOW in eighteen months.
The same sow has since raised fourteen pigs
at one litter, supposed to be worth SIC each,
making 1924,
A new and frightfnlly literal transla-
ton Of the New Testament has been printed,
in which John tho Baptist is styled "John
the Dipper." Another specimen is: "Nei-
Their do men light a lamp and put it under a
corn measure, but on lamp stand and it
| giveth light to all who are in the family
This new version. the Springfield Republican
suggests, might suit that rustic minister
who, in a no. controversy against immersion,
took for his text, "Bc not carried about
with divers"
The citizens Of Rushville, Illinois, have
subscribed ninety odd thousand dollars for
the suppression of the liquor traffic in that
town.
| The most inspired and distinguished Of
the New York hair drcssers has introduced
the custom Of dressing the hair of his lovely
customers, by adding and blending with the
natural growth tresses of false hair. This
is. perhaps, no new thing, but the novelty
| Of the present fashion rests in the fact that
there is no wish to match the natural hair
with the false, but the contrary---locks of
yellow are intermixed with the dark hair of
the brunette, while the blondes golden
tresses are striped with black. This unique
style is called the Zebra. and it is expected
that it will be a great success.
! Roman tombs, moro than | 800 years
IN F,, a.,
of pottery, have been exhumed close to
Queen Victorias palace, at Windsor.
Another new steamer, the Endymion,
has been launched for the British navy.
| Her armament will be four 100 FOUNDER,
Armstrong guns, rifed, muzzle loading, and
nine llO-pounder breach-loaders.
| The Canadian Government has decided
on sending special commissioners to Eng
land, the West Indies, Brazil, and Central
America, for the purpose Of concluding
| treaties Of commerce in the hope of increas-
ing Canadian commerce in those quarters,
In the same proportion that it may diminish
with the United States in consequence OF
the abrogation Of the reciprocity treaty.
! Il man at st. Cloud, Mimi, eat on a
wager the other day, six dozen raw eggs in
] % nl,nu.os, aul tie offered 60 bet tflat he
could eat four dozen more. He had already
eaten three hearty meals the same day.
We should like to know whether the eggs
"set well' on his stomach
"A Paris newspaper announces, as an
| inducement to subscribe, that none Of its
patrons have yet died Of the cholera.
Norway and Sweden, which touch each
other on the map and politically are united,
are separated physically by high noun
| tof,, Nl,,e ho. ohn,,t 10 No v,sn
| by line which will connect the railway
ly, permit travellers to tyavel by steam from
| Stockholm to Christiana.
In Siam, white elephant is valued
above all creatures and things and worship
ped as deity. Recently the King sent a
England but the one which he considered
worth most of all was small bunch of the
hairs OF white elephant tail, tied togeth-
er with golden string.
"A strike of peculiar character has
occurred in Belgium, which has brought
the desired change. The consumers OF
oysters by some agreement, decided from a
certain day to commence strike, and cat nc
more Of the dainty fish till the price was
lowered. The effect was magical. In few
an alarming extent, and the proprietors Of
the fisheries were right glad to give way.
The winter has seen new fashion in
ladies' dress inaugurated in Paris 1t con-
sists in havin the great coats which, in imi-
tation of the men, are now worn fabricated
partly Of one color, partly OF ano.her-the
body, for example, being black, and the
sleeves blue. At first view, the contrast OF
the colors in one garment seems strange, but
improves on being looked at, and the fash
ion, consequently, will probably become
general.
"A curious and cruel way Of cooking
turtles appears in q Chinese cookery book.
The turtle is placed in vessel of water on
the FIRE, with q lid over it having an aperture
| Of such size and SO arranged that the turtle
can just get his head out, and within the
reach of highly spioed wine. As the tempera-
ture of the water increases, so does his
thirst, and he gradually goes on drinking
the seasoned fluid until the heat kills him,
by which time his whole system has become
impregnated with the vino aromatic season.
ing, and flavor, described as delicious, il
Impaired to the flesh.
The Irish papers are making consider
able fuss over what they call the "cattle
Melon" which is considered quite an acqui-
sition to the agricultural resources of Ire
land 1t is nothing more than the Yankee
pumpkin, . good thing to have about tho
house.
"A colored belle, called the "Venus Of
Cairo is about to appear in Paris, in TRACE