North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-04-10

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Davenport. There is man in Wintersct,
this state, who measures six feet and seven
inches, and another-lSyears old-27 inch.
es high and weighs 81 pounds......An ex.
change speaks Of company which in.
sures female beauty against accident. e.
A Louisville paper says not only in
Kentucky, but in Tennessee also, the wheat
crop is more extensive than is usually seen,
and promises an abundant yield. Men
delssohn means ''son of an nlmond;''
Rothschild means "rsd shield" Rother-
mel, "red sleeves" Laudenslager, "lute
player Offenbach, ''open brook ......
The deepest note which the human ear
perceives as continuous sound, it is said,
is produced by II vibrations second; the
most acute by $4,000 vibrations. The ex-
tremes of color, it is said, are red and vio-
let, the former being given by 6s,OOO,-
100000 vibrations of light per second, and
the latter by 727,OOO,OOO,OOO vibrations.
1.-THE New York Tribune is to build a
$3.50, 600 Office. queer thing il an in
surance policy. If can't sell it, can
Gel it; and if cancel it, Iscan't sell it......
The locomotives now run four hundred
and fifty miles west of St. Louis......A
submarine cable, uniting the island, of
Ceylon to the main land, has been success
fully laid......The fortune left by ARENAS
Ward amounts to about 100000. :. 1T is
estimated that at least $4,000 Swedes will
come to the United States during the pre-
sent year.
Sec. McCulloch has decided not to retire
the four millions Of grecnbacks for the
month Of March,. 800. Theodore Clay, son
Of Henry Clay, has for over thirty years
been mn inmate Of the lunatic asylum at
Lexington, Ky. He became insane from
disappointed affection. "a Catholic Ca
thedral, four hundred by one hundred and
and fifty feet, is to be built in St. Louis.
......An Irishman was once asked to do
fine an Irish bull; to which he replied,
whenever you see two cows lying
down in field, the one that's standing up
is bull" 80. 1T is said that the Rhode
Island Spragues will erect at Augusta,
Maine, five mills, each running one hund.
red thousand spindles.. The projected
strike Of the spinncrs at Manchester, N.
H., for ten hours a day, has been ADAM
doned, and work proceeds as usual in the
factories. There are, doubtless. says the
Galveston (Texas) Cirilian and Gazette,
more than 100000 head of meat cattle
in Texas. Wel,ster's spelling book sold
last year at the rate of 5,l3l copies for
each working day. The whole number
printed has reached forty millions. 49, The
Italian ministry have resigned and new
cabinet is to be formed. lat conven-
ton held at Dubuque, Wednesday, COM
pany was organized to build a bridge
across the Mississippi river at that place.
The capital stock is be $1,000, O00....
People are leaving New Orleans on ac-
count of the apprehensive heat. The
democracy elected all their city candidates,
with two exceptions, in La Crosse, John
NJ. Levy is the new democratic mayor......
Missouri owes debt of over thirty mill
lions and is not able to pay interest on it.
1.-The Paris washerwomen are charging
a franc shirt, all on account of the expo
sition.. IAN infant with 81 .O(A, note
Aa-saaantlv- falt in a
London railway station......C Chicago has a
New England debating club.-E1. So has
congress- Boston Post.
The farm and dwelling, formerly occu-
pied by Carl Schurz, near Watertown,
Wis, was..sold, recently, at auction for
$4,000. wounded Irishman wrote
home from the military hospital. 'Im
for this country, I've bled for it, and |
shall soon be able to say I've died for it.
......A Mississippi steamer built at Pitts
burg, the Great Republic, cost half mil
lion dollars. ."Mr. Jones, you said you
were connected with. the fine arts, do
you mean that you are sculptor p mo.
sir, don't sculp myself, but l furnish the
stone to the man what does. One
hundred guns were fred in Chicago over
the Connecticut victory......It has been
decided by certain confederate bond-hold-
ers in London to bring suit against the
U. S. for their rights. Why not sue some
body not accountable for ihe value OF
dead horse ?......The amount of capital in.
vested in Rhode Island manufacturing en-.
terprizes is about s33, OOO,OO which yields
an annual product of 100000, OOO.....
Several hundred English sparrows have
been shipped from Belfast to New York
for farmers. .....A land owner in Switzer'
land was condemned to eighteen month.
imprisonment for putting water in his
milk. lit is contemplated to contest the
constitutionality of the reconstruction bill
...... Returns to the treasury shew that the
receipts from customs for March were
SIG, 200, 600 in gold; they were but SILL
OO0, 900 for the same period last year,.
The internal revenue receipts are again
nearly approximating 81 600, 900 per day
IA rumor, said to be without foundation
circulated in Washington limiting at thu
removal of Gen. Sheridan from command
......The great Paris universal exposition
was opened on the LIST. There were owe
100, 600 people present. The cable spe
cial says: When the guests gathered
however, the superiority Of the American
ladies was conceded. They were tn
bellies of tho day. 1.-The exposition will
not be ready till May. One half the spac
is allotted to France, and that is not com
plete. The English are very strong il