North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-05-22
The following is the age and the amount
of wealth of 4 number of New York mil.


of wealth of a number of New York mil
lionaries:
VIM. B. Aster is IS years old worth
fifty millions; a round faced, pleasant.
quiet hammered gentleman; owns two
thousand dwellings, and is lenient land
lord. A. L. Stewart is 60, thin, nervous,
dignifed; worth thirty millions, and lib
eral in cases of benevolence which appeal
to his sympathies. Geo. Opdyke, five
millions, fifty, but looks younger; an agree
able gentleman. JAS. Gordon Bennett,
five millions, seventy three years old, dig
nified in manner, broad Scotch accent, be-
nevolent to the poor. Commodore Van
derbilt is white haired, red-cheeked, seven
ty, worth IA millions, drives fast horses,
keeps a fast boat, controls two fast rail-
road companies with fast men, and gives
away his money very lavishly.
A system of telegraphing is now in
operation in France by which exact copies
of the original message are produced at
the terminus of the lines, solely by me-
chanical means. The telegram is written
on paper coated with q lead-colored, nom
conducting surface. The ink employed
changes every point touched by it to the
opposite electrical character; two pendu-
lums at either end Of the circuit swing in
into many points. BY this coutrivance,
the message being passed over these at one
end, q current to correspond with the
writing is sent, and fac simile copy, on
prepared paper, held to the vibrating pen
dulum, is produced at the other end.
The sewing machine is likely to have
an invention recently perfected by which
wearing apparel of all kinds, shirts, pam
falcons, vests, skirts, ladies' mantles, jack
cts, coats, etc., etc., are both woven and
sewed at the same time. The sewing of
the seams is stronger even than hand sew
ing, and perfectly smooth and even, and
the articles are woven and sewed of any
pattern, Of wool, silk, cotton or any other
material.
Robert j. Walker says that Russian
America was offered to the United States
during the administration of Polk for
nothing, and refused. The Russian Consul
at New York says that the failure of the
Fur Company rendered the territory a real
incumbrance to Russia, and that the OPP
portunity of throwing off the burden will
be felt as great relief.
Shoe me the man of sour, morose dis
position, ono who antertains good will
towards none, and will show You 0ys--
| peptic. Dyspepsia is the bluest of all dis
eases. Rev. Mr.. Aiken testifes that Co.'s
DYSPEPSIA cured him after Is years suf-
fering.
Lists of lands amounting to 252,O28
acres, being portion of the 500, 900 acres
apportioned to Minnesota for internal i'm
proyements, have been approved by the
Commissioner Of the General Land Office,
and sent to the local officers.
ATTENTION is called to the advertisement
in an other culumn, of Madam II. A. PER-
RICO, of Buffalo, N. Y, the great Astrolo-
gist and Clairvoyant, Madam p. can be
consulted by letter, on all affairs of life,
past, present and future.
After week of horribly rainy weather,
somebody wrote on the wall at Willard's
hotel, Washington, "What makes tho
clouds so horribly black this week? An
swer-Because Butler has stolen their
silver linings."
The debt of Connecticut (democratic) is
going down at the rate Of nearly half
million year, and that Of Massachusetts
is likely to go the other way good deal
faster before the bountics are equalized or
luc AAOOSdC luuucl uOIcUs
The British Consul at Jerusalem reports
that the population of that city in 1865
was $4,000, of whom about 5000 were
Mohammedans, 5000 Jews, and the re-
mainder Christians of various denomina-
tions.
There is in Pepperell, Mass, child ten
months old, whose mother grandmother,
great-grandmothe and great great grand
mother are all living. The latter is not
yet eighty-one years old.
1t is amusing, says the Boston Post, to
hear FoRNEY talk about bread and butter
while his face shines with Treasury grease
like negro's lips in bacon house.
Australia is sending wheat to England,
and during April, San Francisco shipped
to Europe and the Atlantic states about
half million of bushels Of wheat.
The price of cats has advanced in Paris
Many an American will be eating them for
chickens or rabbits.
The Fenian leader, Roberts, has taken
to delivering popular lectures on universal
freedom, admission fifty cents.''
The editor Of an Ohio country paper
says "last week we received forty new
subscribers and baby"
New Zealand has wonderfully fertile
soil but has no market. One former raised
1000 bushels of wheat last year.
Men are like wagons; they rattle most
when there is nothing in them.
The news now goes over the ocean by
going under it.
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