North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-08-18

is on exhibition in the United States. His
name in full is Chang-W oo~Gow, meaning
1--WE suppose) the tallest Te,.-pcker. He
is % in age, s feet in. height, speaks
French and English, and is altogether
most amiable specimen of our celestial"
friends on the other side of Terra. A
travel of years in Europe, in the exhibi-
ting line, renders him quite an intellectual
as well as physical lion. Mr.. Chang is
$50 pounds avordupois, and is quite gall
liant. Kingfoo, his wife is pleasant
looking lady, of ordinary size. Let us
see him......We are in receipt of the Corr
inne (Utah) Reporter, an able Anti Nor.
mon sheet. Success to its efforts to root
out an animal fanaticism which levels de-
cency to the grade Of beastliness......
Swedish brakemen are now instructed
in surgery and bandaging. Some such
course is necessary in America. A grave
yard every few miles would be convenient.
1.-THE King of Greece has become
drunkard and the Prince Of Wales has re-
formed. A stand-off between Princes.
......Philadelphia is ovcr-run with rowdy-
ism. What city is not, we ask.
The Russian government has issued a
ukase for universal exhibition, tc be held
in St. Petersburg, next year, to open on
May l5.......The railways of France,
which run at low rates, under restricted
tariffs, have, for the last six years, aver
aged dividends of | per cent. ..Forney's
travelling toady reports Gen. Grants bow
els regular at present. He smokes only
80 cis ars from dinner till ted-time. We
suppose this was dispatched to Europe on
both cable lines. How does l.. Napoleon
take his Bourbon? in bitters or in the
raw? Perhaps his family may not like
Bourbon, historically. The new Wen
ma Opera House cost three million dollars.
$3.50. tenth of the population of New
York are upers......Arkansas values her
this years cotton crop at thirty million
dollars Two counties Of Wisconsin
have received 1000 emigrants since New
Yem s......A school of 80 whales are res
ported to be summering.of Bellport, Long
| Island. There are many whales and some
smaller sea-admirers out east, doing a
summering......Only eleven murders in
San Francisco last year. ...Rhode Island
has 60 Baptist churches, with 40 pastors
and a membership of $780,. 1.-THE White
House was placarded day or two ago,
"To let, to permanent tenant
This was very appropriate, though, come
to think Of it there is not much Of any
body at home when the Proprietor is there.
So the N. Y. Sun and other friendly pa.
! pers say.
Douglas county, Mimi, is the centre Of
a rapidly increasing Scandinavian Soci-
ETY. Of the Northwest. ....At one time
there were l,l75 worshipers in the syna
gogue at Newport; now not resident il
found there. Poor place for trade at New
port. The Jews are fond of pleasure, bu
they want business to back it up.....
The Peruvian Government, it is said,
offers to help the Cubans.. Hon. j. NJ
Cavanaugh has been reelected Delegate
to Congress from Montana by majority
of 1000. railway conductor on the
Grand Trunk, Coleby by name, has con
Quoted sixteen years, and travelled $780,
600 miles ...B. S. Kendall, of Bondvile
VT, caught an old bear, weighing Al lbs.
in trap last week......A man in Bridge
port, formerly soldier, has walkin:
cane composed of 4G3 pieces of leather
and made from pair of old boots owned
and worn by President Lincoln previou
to his assassination...... Milwaukee export
ed to Canada, during July, Isl goo bush
els of wheat, and 2S5 barrels of flour
valued at $500, $780,. Omaha has pop
ulation of 100000 and but three churcl
buildings-Romanist, Lutheran and Epis
copaiian.
The longest train at the seventh regi
ment ball at Saratoga, measured twelv
feet...... Loyal English ladies scramble 70
the cherry stones left on the Prince Q
Wales plate after dessert.......A joke
has been ruled off the Saratoga course 70
fraudulent riding" This is the superla
tive Of honesty ......A colored woman Q
. the town was crowned as the goddess @
liberty, at radical barbecue, in Alabam
last week.. ReY. II. II. Fairall, G
Monticello, writes us tina. Mr.. and Mrs
Palmer, of New York, the great revival
> lists of America, will be present at tn
Anamosa District Camp Meeting, to b
t held at Maquoketa, commencing Tuesday
, Aug. 24th..... BY terrible mistake of
t drug clerk, in Red Rock, Marion Co., i
. giving boy belladonna who was sent 70
t physic, two women near that place,
t Mrs. DR.. Schroeder and her mother, wer
, poisoned and died in two hours. shin
, giles are exempt from tax as manufact
{ ures.
/; The wheat exports from San Francisc
: for July amounted to $50, 600 sacks, value
at $500, 000.. The. amount Of marbl
/, shipped from East Dorset. Vermont, wi
!, average twenty car loads per week..
0 A Woman's Suffrage Convention is to met
; at Chicago on the 10th Of September.
There are.now 1893 convicts in the Iii
, nos State Penitentiary at Joliet.....
The Presbyterian church at Des Moline
has ordered a $4,000 organ......C ounc
Bluffs is IS havea driving park of 40 acre
y area.
Davenport, the largest city in the STATE