North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-02-27


to visit Europe in December, 1869, and re-
main abroad for at least five years, part of
which time he will spend in consulting the
continental libraries preparatory to writ
ing work of his own, semi-political and
semi-literary, on the history of slavery,
from the earliest times down to Its suppress
sion in the United States.
Sparrowgrass says that he prefers quiet
Hamlet to noisy Othelo.. LAS long asa
miser lives, his money-chest is sure to be
heir-tight......Our most intimate friend is
not he to whom we show the worst, but
the best Of our nature. The course of
love is race-course where there is often
false NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. style of life
dwelling in other peoples memory.
Here's to internal improvements" as
Dobbs said when he swallowed dose of
salts. The Household Words" in
many households were better unspoken.
......" Short visits are the BEST as the fly
said when he alighted on hot stovs......
Jones thinks that instead of giving credit
to whom credit is due, the cash had better
be paid. .....An exchange says there is not
a single M. f. minister who is member
of the democratic party; to which another
says their sermonizing would not be suf-
fciently orthodox to receive one vote in an
electoral conference. Gen. N. B. Baker
accepts the nomination at large, for Gov
ernor Of this state. Smith asked Jones
what the high price of butter was owing
to. "a considerable part of it is owing
to my grocer" said Jones " for it is two
months since have paid him." The
Muscatine Journal (radicaD says:
| The keokuk Gate City and the Dubuque
Times have taken to writing articles in IA
vor oil. high tariffs. Those of the latter
journal are like the reconstructed old
toper's opinion Of bottled soda-''powerful
weak"
We confess a sufficient weakness to en-
JOY seeing fight among the radical car
riers over dish of swill of their own mix
ing.
a cotemporary, in closing the obituary
Of Il young lady. says: f" She had an amia-
bic temper and other delicacies. ......A
man of fifty-eight, in Napoleon, Arkansas,
said he would drink gallon of liquor in a
day or die. He did both. LAT the last
presidential levee Of the season the attend
ance was so large that one time it was i'm
possible to get out or in the executive man
sion. The president, for nearly four hours,
shook hands with the throng that passed
him.. Gen. Mcclellan is at Nilleneuve,
on Lake Geneva, and well. Nevada pro-
duced Sl6,OOO,OOO in gold last year,.
A man in fredericksburg, Virginia, was
knocked down by lightning, and cured of
the rheumatism. The Chronicle insists
that Horace Greeley has been rendered a
position in the cabinet The Princess of
Wales has given birth to little princess.
..... Losses by fires in Philadelphia, during
the last year, amount to So, 100000, OF
this s., OO5, 900 was covered by in insurance,
leaving loss borne by individuals of
Sl,lS7 100. The total number of fires was
597, SO that the average loss every time
amounted to 1922. ..Thackery says !:
"Only women thoroughly know the inso-
lence of women toward one another. .....
- have not loved lightly" as the man
said when he married arwidow weighing
three hundred pounds..... boy who
was caught looking into the future, has
| been arrested for trying to see the show
without payment. IAN editor, when in
durance for libeling Justice of the Peace
was requested by the jailor to give the
prison favorable notice. What is the
use Of signing and weeping as we float
down the stream? Why make the voyage
of life wailing voyage ?......If the world
were crumbled to the finest dust, and seat
tered through the universe, there would
not be an atom of the dust for each star. -.
Mount Baldo, in the Italian Tyrol, is show
ing signs of an eruption. The Spring
field Republican says the New York hide
pendent has fallen away to mere sensation,
political, and advertising sheet, and is ed
tied by intidels.
A cemetery near Pittsburg is advertised
as a I" beautiful summer resort. "......A
| Providence washerwoman is heir to 800
| 600. Providential.. The f" Sisters of
| Charity in the United States number at
the present time 95l 1.-two of Brigham
Young's daughters are actresses in the
Salt Lake theatre. ....The English govern
ment announces that it will treat aliens
caught in the act of rebellion, as pirates.
......Bismarck is very i'll and doubts are
entertained of his recovery. 1t is stated
that Stephens is not and has not been in
Ireland. 1t is also reported that he has re-
Gently been seen in Paris. National
| troops are said to be so posted at various
points in Ireland as to be able to success
fully prevent any further Fenian outbreak
1.-The repairs on the Great Eastern have
been completed. She was successfully
launched from the gridron at Birkenhead
ON the 2lst..... Massachusetts, - " has
three negroes in her legislature, and three
hundred and fifty -four in her state prison."
......Daniel Webster, now in bronze dress
coat and pantaloons in front Of the state
house in Boston, is in great danger, and
there is every prospect that before long,
his pedestal will be vacated and the statue
be sold or rafled for the benefit of the
freedmen's bureau, and Charles Sumner or
Ben amin +. Butler put in his stead.-Ea.
1.-The United States has more miles of
railroad and twice as many newspapers as