North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-04-17
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, The largest paper mill In the world Is
about to 20 into operation at Greenville,
Conn. 1t will turn out $4,000 pounds OF
printing paper per day and is expected to
produce decline in price,. ....John, the
Doctors servant, said he thought Mrs.
Green must TUX the medicine sent her by
his master for he saw Grape on
the door ~. The extent of fashionable
crinoline in Paris is now only three feet
across. :. Mrs. Jefferson Davis is in Balti-
more...... The Queen of Great Britain op-
poses capital punishment. top has
been invented in Paris, called the prolific
top; it is set spinning by means of a
thread and needle. As soon as it is fairly
in motion, half dozen small tops come
out of it-how? that is the inventors Sc
cret-and begin to spin round it like the
satellites of Jupiter, and after sometime
the top re-absorbs them. Miss Violet
Blair is said to be the most beautiful girl
in Washington. Why not send her to
Paris? The American interest in the
Great Exposition seems to be represented
only by pretty women: at least the foreign
correspondents of American papers are
reduced to the alternative of Dragging on
the style and looks of our ladies or not
brag at all. Oh pshaw!
Cats milk is reported to have extraor-
binary curative powers. We presume our
dentists will shortly insert hens teeth in
the mouths of those who want to pick up
grain and other ,corms. We know the
Swiss make lovely -smelling cheese out of
goats milk it is as aromatic as-as-as
anything you can imagine, and as Sleepier
says, Every healthy" Cats cheese is not
yet in the market, but its manufacture is
only question of time. Progress and
Reconstruction are the pass-words........
Artemus Ward had large seal ring which
he used to quantity say he wore only in
the forenoon, as it fatigued him to carry it
all day....The New York Common Council
have voted to buy complete volume of
the Herald, at a cost of $1,000. A good
observation-disclosures one says the key note
to business is B sharp lee. Prentice says
lady uses fan to give herself air.. 100.
The Albany Rep. State Central Committee,
at late meeting, laid Negro Suffrage on
the shelf by vote of ten to eight. Negroes,
of course, are grateful.
Many of the negroes of the south are
joining the conservatives,and take part in
meetings presided over by such men as
Orr, Hampton, and others equally damned,
politically..... annual production of
diamonds is estimated at 81, 400, OOO......
The legislature of Wisconsin finally ad-
journed on the llth.. The election "for'
and against calling new State Consti-
tutional Convention in Maryland resulted
in favor of the Conventionists. .. Gen S.
A. Hurlbut is Practicing law in Belvidere,
Ill......Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe is in
Macon, Georgia. Indiana legisla-
ture has placed strict embargo on fishing
in any of the waters of that state for two
years, and for the season between May and
September thereafter. There are 365
Sunday Schools in New York. Protestant
-3l2; Roman Catholic, Jewish, ETC., SO.
Protestant scholars, II ,4jO; Catholic, etc.,
3S,S75...... Miss Parker, an American lady,
wore dress at one of the balls in Paris,
trimmed with laces valued at over SIC, 900.
......Fill your lamp half full of common
salt and then fill it up with oil and the
light will be greatly improved and Is per
cent saved. ....A Toronto (Canada) dis
patch says six British gunboats are ready
for service on the lakes. The New Jer-
sey legislature has rejected the Eight-Hour
bill by a large majority, and also refused
to strike the word "white' ~ from it's Con-
stitution, so as to allow negroes in that
state to vote......The damage by the recent
floods in Tennessee, between Chattanooga
and Bristol, is estimated at Sl5,OOO,OOO.
1.-THE Spanish Government refuses to
yield to the demands made by England for
indemnity and satisfaction in the case of the
steamer Tornado, captured and destroyed
by the Spaniards.
The Sultan of Turkey threatens to de-
clare war against Greece on account of the
insurrectionary troubles on the Turkish
frontier. "A large quantity of bonds of the
United States, thrown upon the market in
London from Germany, cause a downward
tendency in prices. 1.-The store of A. 7.
Stewart, on Broadway, corner of Tenth
Street, is to be enlarged during the sum-
mer. The present structure is to be null
tiplied six times in size, and the new build
ing will cover no less than an acre and
quarter Of ground. 80. The trial Of the Fen
ian prisoners in Ireland has been postpon-
ed to the I'D. Massey has turned Queens
evidence. -. The city authorities of New
York have executed the deed conveying the
City Hall Park to the United States as a
site for the new post fice......Alexander
II. Stephens has determined to avoid poll
tics entirely, and devote himself to writing
history Of the late war, its causes, etc.
......Since Jan. I'd there has been a fall
of $40, 237 900 in the value of eleven of
the fashionable stocks dealt in at the New
York stock trade There were l2l in
cendiary fires reported in New York for
last year.. Gov. Throckmorton says Texas
will Immediately re-organize under the
reconstruction act. ..Dredges are at work
deepening the Dismal Swamp canal. Iii
also intended to make the canal sixty feet
wide instead of forty, and to extend the
locks twenty-five feet........The national
debt WAS reduced the last month in the