The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-01-03

A new opera house, with n stage large
enough to accommodate several hundred
performers, is to be built at st. Paul, next
spring.
A French savant says that Adam was
l23 feet inches tall, and that Eve was llS
feet, % inches Noah, he declares was an
equally largo young man.
The wife of u German surgeon died re-
Gently in Paris When friends came to con-
dole with him, he was found busily dissec,ing
her body.
A woman in Paris murdered err daugh-
ter, and then ate her breakfast with the
bloody knife, she had used for that purpose
MIR. George Love, of Athens, Harrison
county, Iowa, has been expelled from church
for voting for Vallandigham.
A railroad is being constructed from
st. Paul, Minnesota, running northward
from that place TO Pembina. British capital
lists furnish the money for building this rond
and have the controlling interest in it.
Their object is to reach the settlement OF the
Hudson Bay company, and ultimately to ex-
tend the road to the valley Of tho Sas-
katchawan river, and from thence to the
Frazer river gold regions and tho Pacific.
These capitalists will construct road down
a.. r.
D. Ogden, on tho part Of the Northwestern
Railroad company, has signed an agreement
on the part of that road to have their line
extended to Winona by the time the road
from ST. Paul to Winona is completed. It'll
contemplated that both these roads will be
completed and in Successful operation with
in the next two years.
a Dutch lady is exploring Upper Egypt
hnr vrcht s,xx, ~1A
English and ten Egyptian sailors.
Rome has been greatly scandalised by
the flight Of five nuns from the convent of
the Good Shepherd One of them fell, in
! getting over wall, and broke her leg.
Some Of the specie that for years past
has been hidden away in old stockings, is
coming to light. 4 Harrisburg, Pennsyl-
vania business man has received between
one and two hundred dollars, in gold from
a wealthy old farmer, in payment for y
bill
Henry Steers is building at his yard, in
Grcenpoint, i. J., q large wooden steamer
for the Pacific Mail Stcamship Company
! This vessel is said to be the largest wooden
steamer ever built. She Is 5000 tons bur-
then, $50 feet in length, so feet in breadth,
with 81 feet inches in depth Of hold
material, and will cost over million dol
lars.
A correspondent of TIE Prori9cace Jour
| nal, writing from the Isle Royale, says:
= Fishing is good Of the rocks OF the island,
but sometimes tie tables are turned. As
for instance, just as we had entered the
harbor, boat pulling across had shark
reach over the stern, and seizing the cox
! -, r,nl l,nro ~
his Mortified crew"
| The London Medical Gazette chronicles
! the excsion of enlarged spleen by Surgeon
Wells of London. The patient was lady,
and was likely 10 survive the operation,
which is an extremely rare one in the annals
of surgery. The excised organ weighed
& Tbs. 4 OF.
AT the Knickerbocker banquet in New
York the following remarkable toast was
given:
Holand-Land Of dykes and Van Dykes,
of brooks and Ten Brooks, of pools and
| Vanderpools, of schooners and Schoonmak.
ers: land of cities with euphonious Names
Of Saardam, and Edam, Of Amsterdam and
Rotterdam; land of cider and Zuydcr- Zees;
proprietor of bottom lands on the largest
known European scale. Eroad-based Hol-
land, Hail!
London has new underground penny
trains all day long. The advantage Of
this over the old style of locomotion is that
! ii is six times quicker and six times cheaper
Anna Dickinson appeared in the Boston
Music Hall in red gown the other night
A correspondent says that the wrongs Of
woman were red dressed on that occasion.
"A young female Quaker, accompanied
by three others of her persuasion, is now
making a tour Of Great Britain, with view
Of correcting, by public exhortation, the
vice and immortality of the present day.
The Madison Journal gives a fearful
story Of hydrophobia Mt Waterloo, Wis,
upon the authority Of Henry Drew, assist
ant superintendent Of public property. II
says: Some six or seven years ago mad
dog went through the village of Waterloo,
Jefferson county, and bit number of ami
mails. Among others, it snapped at the leg
Of COW belonging to Mr. Babcock. The
animal was examined, but no mark was
found, and it was supposed that it had cs-
capped being bitten. The animal was after
wards sold to a man by the name Of Gar
rison, who used her milk freely, as did two
Of his children. Some Of the neighbors, in
GLIDING Mr.. Drcw's family, were also sup
piled with the milk of this COW. At differ
ent times during the time since the COW was
bitten, there has been mex plicable and fatal
sickness among those using her milk, and
two children of Mr.. Garrison's, two of Mr.
Drew's. and two others, have been STACKED
with spasms, and died in great agony. Mr..
! Garrison has also been attacked at times
with spasms. The mystery Of this sickness
was solved by the death, with every symp-
tom of hydrophobia, short time ago, of the
COW 50 slightly bitten seven years ago, and
in whose system madness had been latent
ever since. The case is singular one and
worthy the attention of scientific men.
An editor Of temperance paper once
wrote long, dull leader. II had no cap
ton. When the compositor said, "What
shall l head this p the editor replied,
Drunkenness is Folly" The compositor,
having foul case, set up Drunkenness is
jolly" Both editor and printer werc right.
--"Hotel dc Horse {" is the modern name
for livery stable on. East Broadway, New
| York.
Two young gentlemen, rivals, called
the same evening on the object Of their af-
! fections. "John," said the one who came
in last, and who had ap umbrella in his
hand, off come here again and find you
here, I'll run this umbrella through you
and spread it,"
Time for N1atrimony.
DR.. johnson in his work on the economy
of health, says that marriage should not be