North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-01-20
News and Items.


Is knows more at Is, than t,co men at 81.
Wont the times be gay when tho young
ladies require their beaux to vote this or
that ticket on pain of love forfeiture. Glad
we are old and hard hearted st. Louis
had $50 boats in trade, last season.. go.
The Chinese Emperor is l4-his afianced
only ll..... Short coats are called the
soul Of wit-Brevity. "a popular ex-
preston is Goods mill grinds slowly, but
WE'LL" We don't believe lie ever had
mill. What use is there in such trashy
illustration. Gabriel, Michael, Peter,
Paul ct al would look nice taking toll!......
A lady visitor asked little girl-the only
person at home-"Why don't you ask ME
how am p II don't care about knowing
was the reply......When you are dead,
people will praise you. Pork is much
more attractive when slaughtered and
cooked than it is in the BRUISED. No COM
parison, of course between porcine and
hams, but the eulogy in either, seems
generally to imply that post morton on
the character of either develops more at
tachment than pre- norton.
Congress has one hundred and ten bills
befor it, and in the hands of it's commit
tees, asking aid to the Pacific Railroad
schemes. ...A misery human moster, liv-
ing ut Westport, Mo-, the other day Of
fered to sell his little boy for s;x dollars.
."...There is gentleman living in Chilli
cothe who was member of the jury im>
punneled to try Aaron Burr for high trea-
son......A gentleman dining the other day
in Montgomery, Ala, put fried oyster in
his mouth, and, after biting it, found his
mouth full Of pearls. .....A Portland, 4e.,
mechanic has made fine. cambria needle
which can be unscrcwed, and which con-
tains, in hollow within, another small
needle. ....A New Orleans girl tried to
discover her thread Of life by banging
herself with cord attached to hook in
the ceiling. The cord was just too long,
and in her struggles her heels ratified so
loudly on the floor, that people came up
and cut her DOWN. man and wife
who have thirty-one children, claim'the
championship in New York. The
Newport Ne,cs puts its announcements of
births under the head of "New Music"
The receipts of tolls at the Rock Island
bridges during the year 1868 amounted to
s., 49l.Sl......The State debt of kentucky
is 81 ,905,s94, and the cash in the treasu-
~ 81, l92, 425.9S. The governor recon-
mends that the civil rights bill be tested
in the supreme court. The valuation of
Louisville is 500 ,343, O74.. The N. Y.
Tribune now admits that the expenditures
for the army during 1868 will be at least
Sl23,0OO,O00. Before the election all the
radical newspapers in the country declared
that it would not amount to one-half that
sum-. lew ork- horses, when in the stable,
are better off without blanket than with
it. When driven hard and standing out,
the blanket should be used......A method
of sewing boots and shoes with copper
wire instead Of the common thread has
been patented, the advantage being that
at very small increase in expense the
strength and durability of the work are
much improved. IAN Alabama editor, in
putting grocery kept by a woman, says
"Her tomatoes are as red as her own
checks; her indigo as blue as her OVID
eyes; and her pepper as hot as her own
temper"
1t is said that the best strawberry plants
come from the third or fourth set of run.
ners, and that the first and second sets
should be cut of......A Virginia farmer
says that, with sheep and clover, he can
make any land productive, unless it has
the barrenness Of the sands of Sahara. ..
A foolish man in New Haven, having bet
on the election, complied with the terms
of the wager by roosting all day at the
top of high tree......P arsnips fifty-six
inches long have been grown in Concord,
| N. H......A homeopathic horse-doctor has
thrown out his single in Baltimore.
''Do you keep accounts, Dick?'' "Yes, l
reckon" 1.-The largest steel-per factory
in the world, on the French coast, uses
sixty tons of steel month in this manu-
facture, and there are dozen other houses
whose product is not very much smaller.
......According to the statement of the
public debt just made by Secretary Nc
Culloch, the amount Of the debt, less cash
in the Treasury, is s., $40, POI, POI. O3.... :.
Burglars made heavy haul at St. Cathar-
ines, Canada, on the night of the 18th.
| They entered the Bank of Montreal at
that place, and robbed it of $4,000.
Since the prohibitory liquor law has
been in force in Maine, opium eating il
said to have increased an alarming extent.
49," Why, Hans, you have the most fe-
minnie cast of countenance have ever
SEEM" "Oh, YAH" replied Hans; "the
reason Of dat is because my mothers was
a voomans. "......A New Hampshire editor
who has been keeping . record ofabia
beets, announces at last that "the bee
that beat TIE beet that beat the other beet
is now beaten by beet that beats all fl
beets, whether the original beet the bee
that beat the beet, or the beet rthatsbea
the beet that beat the beet.". 49,. .Olived,o
gan thinks that any woman who can pEo
tect herself in horse car is qualiGedatt
vote, and exclaims, Snow, girls, be men! 7
When the women in the Madrid ciga