North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-03-31
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five cents pound. in Texas......Nevada
is getting up a horse vclocipedc......An
Ohio an has sent Grant cigar six feet
long. Nevada has singing hen: she
sings her own ''Iays.".. ....Rich Cubans
are sending their money to New York for
safe kccping......A lIindoo gentleman,
lately deceased, has left $4,000 to his
family IDOL. True economy can be as
comfortable with little, as extravaganza
can with much. The Duke of Hamilton,
the drunken and dissipated cousin of
the Empress Eugene, has been ordered to
leave Paris. Nearly every train from
Canada brings large numbers of emigrants
in search Of employment and liveli-
hood. Cincinnati has repealed the
ordinance compelling commercial travellers
to pay a license for selling goods by
samples or observation-disclosures Bay,
Wisconsin, is said to be paradise for
'single young ladies of the military per-
suasion, matrimonially inclined" ......,
Harry O'Neil, the ring leader of the pris.
oners who escaped from Sing Sing and
were recaptured, died on Friday morning.
A Broadway tailor sent his bill to
debtor with this endorsement: at is
over 60 Dias witch you Prommist to Pay
will You Please and tant to il" ......It is
said that there is an officer in the British
army who has drawn half pay for fifty
five years, but has never yet worn his
uniform or Joined his regiment.
Canadian genius has Invented means Of
keeping eggs fresh for any length Of
time. Qulp says the last "fresh eggs he
bought had evidently been kept as long
as that......A jealous creature in New
Orleans corrected the too gallant tendcn-
cies Of her afhanced husband by knocking
him down and pounding him as he sat at
a restaurant table with another fair one...
......A shrewd but unenlightened school
director, away out west, used to say, on
examining candidate for the post OF
teacher: "We all know that a, b, c, is
vowels, but we want to know why they is
yowels. "......C Columbus, Ohio, has bind
cry in which are employed one hundred
and thirty-two girls, and not one of h IN
has ever been known to stop work to
telk. The fact might be different were
they not all deaf and dumb.
The Fayette Journal says an insurance
company is about to be started in that
place. The Pacific mail steamship Her.
mann has been lost north of Yokohama,
with all on board, including large num-
Der of Japanese troops. ...Bccchcr will
probably 50 abroad this coming summer.
His congregation propose giving him
$4,000 to defray the incidental expenses
of the trip..... Some one talks Of starting
a hoop skirt factory in West Union. The
Gazette thinks either that town or Fayettc
will he selected by the parties. 1.-THE St.
Paul Daily Pioneer, of Saturday, the 2Sth
inst, says wild geese were flying over that
city the day before, and that robins and
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vicinity. Only eighty-two miles of the
Pacific Railroad remain to he finished be-
fore the completion of railway communi-
cation between Chicago and San Francis
CO, or, rather, between the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts...... Bishop Ames, of the
Methodist Church, declared in confer
ence held at Alexandria, Va, that
tobacco was doing more harm to the
church than whisky"
A laboring pan of Kansas City found
an iron box, while digging post holes on
his own lot, filled with gold coin and gold
dust. There are 500 churches in New
York city,. Smallpox killed off 5000
of San Franchises sons and daughters.
Much of France, nearly all of Spain, and
large portions Of Italy a,c entirely dcsti-
tute of forests. Connecticut will fast on
the 26th....A one.wheeled velocipedc
twelve feet high is the latest Variety.
Seven per cent. Of the female population
Of Berlin are prostitutes......Nictor Hugo
has the largest head among living French
| authors. ....Dan Rice is or ,anizing new
circus company...... Bandmann, the actor,
made 100000 in his American tour......
The coming orange crop in Florida prom-
Uses to he remarkably large one. An
unprecedented amount Of land will be
planted for the cultivation Of grain and
vegetables this year......The Grand Trunk
Railway lost million dollars in February
by snow interruption. ........ Toronto has
three saloons and 1876 ''taverns," the H.
censc for the latter being chcapcr......
Many Germans and large numbers of
Northern families will settle in Virginia
this season. Maine has new law ap-
pointing milk inspectors in all cities and
Furnishing adulteraters. Give US onc......
There are 10000 miles of railroad in the
United States, giving employment to $50,
| 900 men.
The Senate of Ohio has concurred in
the House resolution establishing Re-
forma.ory Prison; sort of Purgatory.....
A St. Louis physician estimates that forty
per cent. Of the men in this country never
drink spirits. Indians, it is sad,
will not scalp negroes. Philadelphia is
unusually unhealthy......St. Louis is in 6
constant ferment about the championship
Of euchre......1 was lately stated that four
Europeans had become Mohammedans al
Madras. The report is confirmed, and il
is also explained by the further statement
that they are all about to marry Moham