North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-12-22
News and Items.

News and Items.
California wheat is so dry that, in com.
ing East, into a damp atmosphere, it grows
greatly in weight by absorption, which is
quite an element of profit to the shippers.
dakota is growing rapidly. Nearly d
million acres have been taken this year
under the Presumption and Homestead
laws. sailor at the brooklyn Navy
Yard explained to q curious landsman the
other day how prize money is divided.
1T is sifted through ladder" he sad,
What falls through goes to, the officers /;
what sticks, the sailors 1 gesr.......A
Frenchman has devised plan whereby a
human being could live eighty years and
be happy al. the time. The FIRST thirty
years as pretty woman, the next thirty
years as an irremovable office holder on a
fat salary, and the remaining twenty a
bishop. The farmers of Lees Island,
of Bradford, Ct, have raised 1900 bush.
els of onions this year, which they are
selling at seventy-five cents bushel.. ).
Deep tillage and an abundance of manure
are the keys which unlock the gates to
success in agriculture. The city of
Mexico has 5000 inhabitants. :. There
is town in Colorado named Purgatory.
We suppose He'll is just teyond.
Canada can turn out 5000 barrels of
oil every week. Fr
"Jake, lend me ten dollars till sell
my dorg?" Jake replied soothingly, and
sympathetically: 40 jim! wouldn't
sell him." Elf love is blind, how can
there be any love at first sight ?......A
religious paper objects to- choirs, because
the members are SO carried away by the
charm of music, that they close their eyes,
and do not see the collection basket. !. !. !. !.
There is an orange tree in fLo, Angeles,
CAL, on one-half Of which hang 5000
ripe oranges, while the opposite branches
are thickly covered with fresh blossoms,
which load the air with their rich aroma.
The usual time for orange trees to bloom,
in that section, is in February. "A
Southern exchange tells Of a negro who
insisted that his race was mentioned in
the Bible. He said he heard the preacher
read how "Nigger Demus wanted to be
born again. &'
The receipts of lumber at Dubuque the
past year were sl,776,4f9 feet, and the
sales 81, 1880; S4,3ls were expended
in that city the past year for street i'm
provenents. The city tax levied for 1869
will not fall short of $4,000, and the
revenue from licenses, etc, is Sa5, OOO......
A Hottentot got up painting of heaven.
1t was inclosed within a fence made of
sausases, while the counter was occupied
with fountain playing pot pie......Twen'
ty thousand men roam the streets of Chi
cago, out of work.. Eighteen of the
Spanish gunboats have finally left New
York, in company with the Spanish man
of'war, Piazarro. 1t is reported that the
engineers and firemen in charge of the
gunboats are Cuban 6libusters who will
destroy or disable them as soon as they
get fairly to The bill appropriating
$500, 900 to continue the improvement of
the Des Moines Rapids passed the House
of Representatives on Monday, by large
majority.
A New York peanut vender declares
that livery few people eat more nor pint
a day." and it is therefore supposed that
crisis is approaching. THE Ways and
Means Committee, the Banking Committee,
the Judiciary Committee, the three most
important committees Of the Hosse Of
Representatives at Washington, have de,
cided to postpone all their business till
January, consequently there viii be no
important legislation this week. 1890 Nasty
visited a suspendertactory at Waterbury,
Conn.,, and said to the proprietor on leay-
ing: "What misfortune it would be if
pants should 60 out of fashion. "......
Much embarrassment is anticipated in
commercial circles in Paris by the termin'
alton of the postal treaty with the United
States, which expires on the 1st of Jann.
airy, as some time must ecessarily elapse
before new treaty can be consummated.
......A society has been organized in Gosh
octon, Ohio, composed entirely of young
ladies, the members of which cannot mar
ry without unanimous consent. -. "A de-
tachlnent Of 300 Chinese laborers has left
San Francisco for the South, and expects
to arrive in New Orleans on the 10th of
January.
The entire Mexican Republic is full Of
pronunciamentos. The revolution is pro-
crossing in different parts of the country.
......If God takes pains to create an insect,
man may take pains to study it without
lowering his disnity......A merchant es-
Inmates that there are $4,000 drummers
from the North soliciting custom from the
Cotton States 1.-THE United States frig>
ate, Albany, arrived at New York on
Monday, from St. Domingo, having on
board Commissioners Parker, English and
Sackett These gentlemen have succeed.
ed, in the name Of the United States, in
leasing from the Dominican authorities
the bay and peninsula Of SANTANA for a
period of fifty years, at the rate of 81 600
in gold per annum. The first payment
has been made. Twenty thousand per,
sons in New York live in cellars......
There are six hundred army officers draw