North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-11-18
Philadelphia has put up $4,000: 900
worth of buildings this year.

Philadelphia has put up $40, 00O; 600
worth of buildings this year.
Chicago manufacturers are estimated to
have yearly value of SIS, 100000.
Soup societies are already organizing
for the winter, in Philadelphia, for the re-
Lief of the poor.
The search for DR.. Livingston has al
ready been the excuse for half dozen or
more works.
After the LIST of November the rate Of
postage to Prince Edwards Island will be
= reduced to six cents,
Deep linnen collars, trimmed with VAL
enciennes lace are now the "genteel thing
among the ladies.
In New York, last week, Mary Bushel
:. undertook to get rid of her husband by
giving him a peck with knife.
More than 100000 life policies are in
force in the State of New York, represen
ting upward Of $1,000, 900 in risks
The Oregon crops are very large.
Wheat is selling in Portland at from IS to
zoe per bushel, and oats at from As to SOC.
Why is it important for physician to
keep his temper7" Because if he did
not he would he apt to Close his patients"
(patience).
The Brazilian Government has offered a
reward Of 1000, in gold, to the inventor
of any practicable mode of preserving
beef for expectation.
:, In the states of Nebraska and Kansas,
within the past few weeks, some 10000
acres of public lands have been taken up
for actual settlement.
Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, George
Washington, John Milton, and Thomas
Paine are among the registered colored
voters of Augusta, Ga. $50
Paw-Paw, Michigan, hopes to rival
Saratoga. A mineral spring, possessing
the qualities of Congress water, has been
discovered, and its medicinal qualities
have been "proved to be excellent
The aggregate weight of the seven bells
in the chime of Cornell University, is
1858 pounds. They were moulded, cast.
transported $50 miles, and set up within
aperiod Of eighteen days.
Brigandage in Italy is growing worse
than ever. The bandits have excited such
fear of their vengeance that no witness
ses can be found against them. The sons
Of one of their victims dared not recognize
the assassins in court.
The family of the Swedish regicide
Aukarstorm still preserves in lar, filled
with. alcohol, the right hand of that re-
markable man, which was cut off by the
exscutioner previous to Aukarstorm's
death on the scaffold. The executioner
received avery large sum Of money for
. delivering it to the family, instead Of
burning it in accordance with the sentence
passed upon the regicide. 1850
The great steamer America, when afloat
is the largest steamer in the world, except
the. Great Eastern, and intended for the
hag-ship Of the Japan and China trade
from San Francisco, will be completed in
New York, it is stated, by the LIST of
March, 1859. This ship is built on the
model of the famous yaeht America. and
il Ii anticipated that ehe will be one &c
the fastest vessels ever constructed.
81 A novel principle Is to be applied in
naval warfare. Experiments are beinc
made at Antwerp Is -fortify the river
Schsldt BY limo Of toTpedoes to be ex.
sploded by an electrical current. The time
kr exploding them Il to be determined by
! Aaoanera obscure. Whom the ship arrive,
.sooSef' the line of the torpedoes il will cas-
an inverted image, and the electrical cur
rent VIII then be applied.