The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-10-19

cos. Of over six hundred millions of dollars.
According to the census recently taken
for the city Of Paris. the population OF the
capital, exclusive of foreigners, travelling
through it, is 100000.
The publishers Of the Anglo American
Times, the American weekly paper ia Lon
don, propose similar journal in Paris, to
be called the Franco American.
The Mont Cents Railway is nearly
done. It will be open for travel by winter.
The incline sometimes attains 81 feet TO the
100, and some Of the turnings have radius
Of only 1873 feet.
There ;s an organized band Of kidnap-
pers in Pekin, China. who steal children
and young women, and carrying them with
out the walls, put them to death unless paid
large ransoms for their release.
"A London paper is responsible for the
statement that large quantity of the whit
ing manufactured at the chalk quarrics on
the banks Of the Thames is exported to
America to be returned mixed with -four.
"A new practice is in vogue among the
fashionable of both sexes in Paris. They
spend from four to FIVE hours in the water
Of bath establishments, singing, playing
games Of dominoes, chess, etc., and also in
Irritation.
The proposition made to send section
of the "original big tree" from California
to the Worlds Fair, at Paris. is said by DR..
MCGOWAN to be impracticable, for want Of
a saw long enough to cut it. Tho cutting
will require saw forty feet long.
1t is ascertained by the cholera returns
in London, that the cases we're always
heavier on NJ ondays and Tuesdays than on
any other days, owing to greater drunken
ness which prevails on Saturday night,
often extending over Sunday morning
1t is an interesting item in the history
Of the Atlantic telegraph, that the manufac-
ture of the wire for the cable laid this year
kept nearly two hundred and fifty hands
employed in England for eleven months.
Upwards Of thirty thousand miles we're sup
piled.
+ Among other novelties which seem like
ly to become very fashionable in Paris, are
watches and chains made of hardened india
rubber, which closely initiates different
sorts Of wood Should these articles 60 in
10 general use, the pickpockets will lose con-
siderably.
During the performance Of the Bar
Der of Seville" recently, at Hamburg,
| Miss Alice Riggs, Of New York, sent Patti
bouquet larger than corn basket, and
which the pretty singer was unable to car
ry. She had 10 get assistance to remove it
from the stage.
Ono Of the interesting features Of the
Paris Exhibition will be tn collection Of Pc
riodical literature now in course of forma-
tion in England. Newspapers, magazines,
| and pamphlets of all kinds are to be CLASH
fed and exhibited; the issues of the year
| 1866 only to be included.
1t is announced that the privilege Of
| printing the catalogue Of the Paris Expo
sition has been sold at auction for 500, 900
to Paris bookseller. Upon this he calcu.
lates that he will make profit Of $4,000
by selling million copies, the probable de-
mand at the Exposition.
A servant girl at farm house in the
vicinity::of Guilford, England, dreamed one
| night, that the house was attacked by rob
hers, and, getting up, hid her watch in .
roll of butter. where it was found at the
tea several nights after, to the great sur
prise of the family and of Sarah herself, as
we'll.
-" Let me co. said a pickpocket to a
| gentleman in Paris, "and | will return
your pocket -book---upon my honor l will !;
| q pal has it." The gentleman released
/ HIUl, AHu III lew odyo ING PUCAcC Oooh duu
contents were restored. There is ''honor"
among thieves.
The Dublin (Ireland) Freeman states
that Owen Dufie, of Monaghan county, is
one hundred and twenty-five years old
When one hundred and sixteen he lost his
second wife, and subsequently, married 9
third, by whom he had son and daughter.
| His youngest son is two years old, his eld-
IL ets kms~ 10 -
his mental and corporal faculties, and fire.
quently walks to the county town, distance
Of eight miles.
An entertainment called "Lucifer in
the Jaws of He'll was announced recently
at Dieppe, France, and crowds iocked to
see it. At the appointed time, . great pile
Of wood, saturated with turpentine, was
lighted, and the performer, clad in fan
tastic fire proof suit, and holding huge
fork in one hand, walked through the fame,
stirring up the wood as he went. Encour-
aged by the applause, he entered second
time, lost his way, and wandered aimlessly
forward and backward. The fremen, see-
ing his condition, exerted themselves to
save him, and in a few minutes he was with
drawn. He died shortly afterward.
Sensational paragraphs about the Great
Exhibition Of '67 are beginning to creep in
to the paper, and we are told that one of
the novelties which will attract most atten-
ton is new model guillotine invented by q
compatriot Of Count Bismark. The guillo-
tine is capable Of cutting off six heads per
minute, and eight if properly Handled The
machine is worked by steam, and the knife,
instead Of falling straight, cuts with ro-
tary movement. This reminds one Of poor
Louis XVTs telling DIR, Guillotin that the
blade should be curved. The new guillo-
tine can be taken to pieces and put together
again in ten minutes; the engine works
the wheels, and the machine can steam to
the place Of execution, and take the body
up to the cemetery afterwards.
Rev. j. P Thompson describes droll
caricature which he saw in Geneva At =
distance it was simply the likeness Of Louis
| Napoleon; but closer inspection showed
that the tuft Of hair on the forehead was an
eagle, the symbol of the empire, under
meath which the ..crows feet on the brow
recorded Dec. ii. The ear was formed Of .
group Of Savoyards tied hands and legs to-
gether the moustache was q cannon with
musket protruding from it's mouth; the
beard was the flag of Austria Mexico WAS
tucked away under his COLLAR; his neck
was formed Of the head Of Orsini; while
the pupil Of his eye was a miniature like
ness Of Piux IN, tiara and all. 1t was
most significant picture: the whole story
Of Napoleon wrought into his personal fea-
lures.
Personal and Literary.