The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-03-21
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Grass widows play the mischief with green
blades---Revivals are plenty throughout
the country and conversions arc reported by
the misunderstanding is unpopular sheet
music. A bass solo, ch7-Roses are pro.
tected by tholns and ladies by pins.---By
ron is said to have written '.The Bride Of Adv.
dos" in one night and without mending his
pen!--We bster, in early life, was so diff
dent in defamation as often to receive 70
proof from his teacher-A cobbler bouch
at auction "Drew's Essay On Souls" and the,
inquired il there were any more works o,
shoemaking.--Printing was invented il
l45O; for the next century $4,000 books were
printed; the century closing at 1922 showed
an issue Of nearly two millions--LE SAGE
the author Of Gil Bias, died a pauper.-I
is said that oil the leading express companie.
are about to onsolidate--An amendm, NJ
passed the Wisconsin, Legislative bill charter
ing the Oshkosh and Miss. II. r., requiring til,
roads to be fenced. This is right.--Yo,
can correct q whisky mistake by rectify,ng i,
WHY is-President Johnson like Mt. Chin.
borazo, in South Amcrica7 Because he is the
greatest of the Andes--''Do you like melt
rare, sir?" "No, ma'am; three times day,
you please. "-Thc Mo railroads have oil
reverted to the state on account of the swi,.
ding Of their managers. They are all to te
sold. Missouri is the pit, in the New Englasd
play of "villuiny. "-Everybody 10 doing
one and the same thing at this moment; they
are growing older!-If book bores you, it
is easy to ahat i sp.-fiarriet Martincau has
been in her bed almost ycar.-The cattle
disease bids fair 70 destroy all the cattle in Eu
rope; it is sort Of email pox. We have Ind
war, now comes pestilence in the shape Of
cholera, and II the Yindrpess kills the cattle
and the srich'na the hogs. we may yet 6rd a
famine "A woman rushed to soldiers
"arns;" she was arrested for appropriating
government property!-The books of gas
company are called light literature In New
York alone thirty distileriss have been seized
by officers for violating the law. Make the
tax sensible and thus remove the cause for
evading the law -Gustavc Grail, editor of
the Stats Zeit4ng, of Dubuque, died at that
place Feb. 2Sth. He was shown remarkable
honor in burial. dead Ducks, with "John.
son sauce" is a favorite dish at the Forney
House, Washingten.-A company Of sol.
dies returned to st. Cloud on the 22d; they
cred sc guns in honor Of George Washington,
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second Hickory They have found the
Devil in Bracken county, Ky. Seven persons
have sworn to seeing it in the shape Of &
monstrous ape, with long arms, terrific fork.
ed tail, and all the other usual signs by which
our grandams taught US to distinguish auld
Clootie. The negroes were scared into insan.
ity, the creduous whites not far behind, and
the "Dcvil is to pay" there, sure enough. We
had him at Nc regor short time, but close
examination Of his pretensions dissipated him,
and it will be the same in Kentucky when
sense takes the place Of fright. Believe in
no devils except your own bid dispositions;
these will be torment enough ON earth. with.
out sending for the boss of the birthstone
store. "Be good and you will be happy -
Gen. Beauregard and other corporators have a
contract to keep the mouths of the Mississippi
open for ship, drawing Is to 10 feet of water.
-Forney says the President should not make
game OF him!-The Frcedmen's Bureau il
happily called smashed furniture of
the most loudly '.loyaI" chaps in Ohio was w
Rittenhouse, OF Ross county. He wanted sv.
erybedy hung that did not wear Grape for tbs,
death of Lincoln. He was elected Treasurer
by confiding people, and the other day turned
up missing, with only $4,000 to he paid by
his securities - roderick is said to have
keSt one Of the most splendid houses OF i'll.
fame, at Cin., Ohio, that could be found east
Of Paris Or Turkish seraglio He died. A
few days ago the furniture was offered for sale,
and the papers Of that city tell US that tho
most fashionable and nristocratic ladies' of the
"Queen City" wed with each other in bidding
for vessels, china ornaments and pictures, des.
ecrated by the damnable contamination of
crime!