The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1867-10-17

Pennsylvania can supply 10000 tons
Of coal per anurm for 800 years
Nine hundred and ninty millions OF
men Use tobacco.
The use Of the word "hclI, ," as APPLIED
to n gambling house, is over one hun
drcd years old.
a sermon in four words on the vanity
of earthly possessions: "Shrouds have
no pockets"
a new instrument for measuring the
intensity of light, called the "Cueimc-
ter has been invented by. u Frencl-
man.
Peaches twelve inches In circumfcr-
ancc were exhibited Mt a Fair In Illinois
last week. A@L
Twenty thousand Methodist churches
in the United States accommodates six
millions of people. @#*#
| Some sculptor with an eye io tho main
chanc" has male II s.:.:l!ctto Of II has,
ball player. The pitcher is tho PLAYER
represented. #&#
Tho English language has 10000
words-in tho dictionaries. Good talk
crs and writers use but 5000 in all, and
q foreigner can travel Oh 500. .t.
"A drop Of human blood placed un,'er
microscope, nagnilied twenty million
times, would show all kinds of animals
| that now exist or that ever existed Oh
the face Of the earth So says German
Professor.
New England paper says ''tho
marks of modern civilization are, Sun
day schools, newspapers and the liberal
use Of soap"
The platform of an independent can
didate for the Wisconsin Assembly, ~
announced 10y him il, "1'hc UnioN,f wo-
mans rights and the repeal Of theTDog
law siat - H. 5Ta
liayti has been trying tho Pendieton
policy, and docs not like it, The tmprl
dollar of that country Is worth three
cents in silver. r ta@a
4 Milwaukee orator recently remark
ed that there were In that city "ono
hundred young men studying law who
had not brains enough to wIreet a-whecl-
barrow straight, nor common sc,rse
sufficient to know how to cross Il street
without getting into the deepest InH,ldf-
est hole.n ....- ##9 =t
A "lovely girl, - in Wisconsin, recent
~ recovered ;Sll 400 damages ina bicacl
of prnsc suit against II pertdious lover
Her lawyer congratulated her on the
amount, when she cAclaiined,f with u
fcrocions glance at the mulcted defend
ant, and nervously clenching her fin
gers, ed give every penny Of it just to
have one good pull 1T his liairD H
a lady who has IL great horror'of to-
bacco, got into the New Haven cars, the
: other day, and inquired OF a male neigh
bor: 'Do You chew tobacco, sir.p "No,
ma'am, | don't WAS the reply, Shut |
can get you a chew If you want one"
n chap i'll pigua, Ohio, Was married
last week, his father giving invitations
to IA large number 10 attend the bridal
feast. They had scaut allowance of
beer and cheap cake and the old gentle
man charged his guests litty cents each
for the "supper.' ...M .sea
A lad in Auburn, Me, donesticatet
turtle in hogshead of water i'll an Au-
burn door-yard, feeding him and rend-
cring him wei. acquainted with civilized
life. Thinking, after few weeks of
this life, that the turtle would relish
freedom again, the lad carried him half
n mile and put hins in the river. The
next day the turtle reapIearei in his
old headquarters i'll the hogsheaak
They have All unknown athlete i'm
Paris, who comes regularly every night
) to one Of the principal wrestling schools,
throws the best man they have. and re-
tires. He is masked, always wears .
suit Of black, Is silent and there j. .
great deal of curiosity TO know who he
is and where lie comes from go,
A bed of peat containing over three
hundred acres has been discovered and
tested by Dr White, the State Geolo-
gist III kossu,h over seyeaalefn feet
deep. tf t"fg