North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-02-03
News and Items.

Vows anu AtomD.
"Veloeipede candy" is out. The maker
says that it is not worked with the feet. ....
The demand for registered bonds is in
creasing, owing to frequent bond rob-
berries, and many holders are sending
coupon bonds to Washington to be
changed. bill for an Underground
Railroad for New York city, was intro
duced into the New York Legislature yes
terday also bill for the abolition of the
death penalty. Three persons have been
arrested in New York for participation in
q series of frauds, amounting to $4,000,
perpetrated in connection with the Custom
House Of that city.........Eight American
artists now reside in Paris. Their studios
are always crowded on reception days......
It takes ten thousand acres Of growing
pines each year to supply the English rail-
ways with sleepers.. San Francisco's
latest invention is a two-edged dirk, with
the handle at right angles to the blade,
like chopping- knife. ....A man applied
for license at Columbus, and when asked
the woman's name, said, he'd be "dog-
goned if he hadn't forgot it." 1.-TWO Of
ficers of the English Engineer Corps, with
a staff of assistants, are engaged in max
ing scientific survey of Mt. Sinai.
A female notary public has just been
re. appointed by the Michigan Senate, latter
enjoying the privileges of the Office for
four years. .. Don Piatt went to call on
Senator Sherman New Years day, and
had the honor of hearing the servant an
nounce him as Damned Pirate. .......
Nearly 100000 acres Of grape vines are
cultivated in France. The average an
nual value of the wine exceeds 500, O00,-
O00.. Madame Ronals, nee Miss Carter,
Of Boston, has won her divorce case, in
Paris, and is to have $4,000 livres per
year and the custody of her childrcn......
Captain Brown, of the Japanese ram
Stonewall, writes home that the "Japan-
csc are the slowest people to think and act
in the world. The seat of war is only
about hundred miles from here, and any
news in regard to fights is always month
old when we get Within a territory
embraced in circuit of so miles of Keo-
kuk is planted not less than 5000 acres in
grapes, and nearly all for wine-making
purposes. One man in Keokuk has plant
I'd IS acres, and is prepared to plant %
more in the spring, and all for wine-mak>
ing. Some are making from 81 900 to
$1,000 per year.
A correspondent of the Dubuque Times
communicates the intelligence that resi-
dent of that city, Mr.. John Plumbe. is en-
titled to the honor Of being the originator
of the project for Pacific railroad.
Notwithstanding all the stories told about
the vices and debauchery of the prince Of
Wales, says friendly editor, he lives
happier with his wife than 10 out of 20 Of
English husbands live with theirs.........
Henry Ward Beecher says that when he
was student he frequently walked sc
miles a day. On one occasion, to see q
certain family, he walked 80 miles. 1t is
to be presumed that he finally became a
member of that family......A Boston pa
per says Boston boy 81 years of age
Paul West-has, within the year, pur-
chased at Calcutta two cargoes of mer-
chandise; at Rspgoon two cargoes, and in
China two cargoes of teas, and shipped
them to Boston, without the aid of any
resident merchants--exceptional in the case
q Calcutta, but at Rangoon and China,
the first time it has ever been accomplished
by one of any nation.
The city marshal Of Burlington had to
pay fine Of s. for Shaping q hoy that
pinned something to his coat......A little
mu!atto in Toledo was sent to the reform
school for burglary. In reply to the ques
ton why he was sent there, he said, $50,
stealing hog from hen roost." The
average cost of funerals in Chicago is five
hundred and forty-seven dollars. "A
saving woman is the very best saving,
bank a man can have, AMI such should b.
most respectfully invited to change theil
names and become wives. .Workmer
cutting ice in Chicago the other day
were Mortified to find that they had com.
pletely severed the head from the body o.
human being, whose remains were i'm
bedded in the ice..... civilian, if you &C
out in the street I'll whip YOU" "But
mother, if I'll let you whip me now, may
60 afterward." Why should the ses
make better house-keeper than the EARTH
Because the earth is exceedingly dirty
and the sea is very tidy......An Irishmar
recently soliloquized: "What a waste o
money to be buyin m1e when you know
the half of it is bone, while you can spind
II for rum that hasn't bone in it."
Some one has calculated that it viii
take fifty men, working twelve hours
DAY, seven years, four months and thirteen
days to read through all the public docu-
ments issued in the United States ever,
three months. IAN ambitious politician
recently made love to poor girl in Mis-
souri,, the reputed heiress to $4,000 il
gold, only discovering after he had mar
ried her that the whole thing was mis-
take.........The twenty-one paper mills o
3, Lee, Mass, managed to use $4,000, OO(
pounds of rags last year, and the thirty
five paper mills of Berkshire county con
sumcd not less than 2S,OOO, 900 pounds il
the aQme time "A life insurance aven