North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-04-28

The latest style is said to be sowing wild
oats on velocipede.
A Cincinnati lady Endorsed on her tax
return taxation without representation is
tyranny"
Savannah, Ga, is going to have baby
show on the LIST of May, the judges to be
young unmarried men.
Sarah Bramwcll, Of England, has thrown
triplets, and won the f3 offered by Queen
Victoria for such exploits.
Texas has now within her borders more
than 100000 head of cattle, and can tz-
port annually 1000, coo beeves.
It is said that the trees planted by one
Iowa farmer have raised the value of ad-
joining lands from FIVE to ten dollars per
acre.
A farmer reports to the Mt, Pleasant
(Iowa) Press that during the recent warm
weather myriads Of grasshoppers were
Matched out.
As there are no ofhceDin Vicksburg,
Miss, authorized to solemnize the rites OF
matrimony, persons inclined that way
have to cross into Louisiana.
In New York, private equirpages can
now be hired by the month-gilded har.
ness, monogram doors, brass-buttoned and
cockaded coach and footmen included.
Fishes can live under water upon which
is pressure of four hundred atmospheres,
thus rendering it probable that the great
est depths of the sea may be inhabitable.
A man in New York, despairing, prob
ably, of discovering any new weapon for
suicide, resorted to an aboriginal one and
stabbed himself with q stone arrowhead.
ONLY millionaires inhabit White Pine,
but their wealth is so far from being avail
able that they are apt to beg of each new
conner the wherewithal to purchase loaf.
New Zealand is not the uncivilized por-
ton of the globe that many people think
it is. 1t has over 100000 European in
habitants, of whom just about one>half are
women.
1t is stated that Walter j. Overton and
others have purchased from the Louisville
Comier-Jom,sal Company the Democrat,
which they intend to republish as morn
ing paper.
Among those who desire to show their
patriotism by serving in public Office is
one of the ladies from the Revolution Office
in New York, who is an aspirant for po-
elton as Indian agent.
The New Workers are counting upon at
least 1850, 1882 as the population of that
State in 1870; and they are looking for q
report in the ninth census of l,llS,767 as
the population of the city.
A great many business men have adopted
rule never to give complimentary titles,
such as "Hon.,'' ESQ.," "Mr.,"-be>
lieving that they are useless, meaningless,
and in all respects played out.
Queen Victoria will probably visit Tho
mas Carlisle, at his residence in Scotland,
this summer.
Whisky Pike has concluded to resume
his project of draining tho Newark, N. j..
marshes. If successful, he will make more
than million dollars by the speculation.
NJ. Rouhier, the right hand man Of Louis
Napoleon, is very rich, and has salary o.
one hundred and twenty thousand dollars
for his services to the Empire.
Eber D. Howe, of gainesville, O., who
fifty years ago this spring, founded the
Cleveland Herald, is going to Kansas te
live the balance Of his life.
The schoolmate of Alexander Dumas
who was pronounced by his teacher fa
more gifted young man than Dumas, il
now proof reader at Clary's printing
Office, in Paris, at salary Of ,50Of. Du
mas visits him occasionally.
The name of Napoleon's present mistres
is Marguerite Bellanger. Marguerite j
an old fame of the imperial sphinx. |
was at tender tete-0-tete with her tina
the jealous empress surprised her faithles
liege lord one fine evening in the yea
1865, when nice little scene occurred, il
which the frail Marguerite saucily refuse
to comply with the demand of the empires
that she should Immediately leave Paris.
Ross and Pomeroy had trial of strengt
in the senate the other day, the questio
being whether Pomeroy should dispens
all the post Offices in the state, or Civ
Ross one. The bone of contention wa
the Lawrence post-ofice, which Pomero
had given to friend named Warden, turu
ing out q good republican. Tho nomine
was rejected, leaving Ross's man in til
place.
Granier de Cassagnac has fought s
duels since 1874. His son Paul, the chan
pion duellist of France, boasts Of even
larger number of duels. He has, in add
ton, been called over 500 times liar an
slanderer, been spit upon in the stree
seven times, been horsewhipped in publ
four times, and been once badly beaten
his editorial sanctum. He has now 81,
teen challenges outstanding.
We know of no one who we esteel