North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-03-24
News md Items.

! .Brougham denies that MS puilesIuo
is u hit at Stewart. ....." 1t is settled that
Edwin Booth and Mary NcNicker are to
be married. >. Gould, sculptor in Bos>
ton, has been trying to pcrsonily the
"Wcst Wind" in marble. .Schenck will
not buy the Revolution because cit is
democratic organ" Heightened Schcnck.
.Wickedest Man Allen, of New York,
has sold lis refreshment saloon and invest
ed the proceeds in railway cks......Ths
batler Of Prince Metternich, in Paris, en-
Joys the income Of general of division
and has moro than 80 servants under him
Queen Victoria has recently engaged,
as reader, the daughter OF the preacher
who confirmed the late Prince Albert at
Coburg. ........An innocent youth has been
arrested in New York for illustrating Al
clergyman's reference to Gabriel by an
imitation Of the "last trump on a tin
whistle.
Maximilian's library was recently sold
at Leipzig. The highest price paid was
SSO5 for book of only 81 leaves, printed
at Mexico in ,543 There is rumor in
Partisan musical circles that Strakosch is
DESTROYS of cancel!ing his contract with
Minnie Hauck, and that lawsuit will
arise from their disagreement. .Bagier,
the manager Of the Italian opera Of Paris,
proposed, two years ago, to Adelina Patti,
and received from her, with many express
sions Of regrct-a mitten.. en-. Howard
is to succeed Gen. Sheridan in command
of the department of the Missouri. .......
Paris bellies now paint their ears. Texas
offers to pay 500 apiece for emigrants......
1t is queer that General Grant, with his
we'll known dislike OF bores, promoted
General Auser.....Tbc people generally
seem to be taking great deal of stock in
woman suffrage. 1t is chiefly laughing
stock. ........New way to make fortune
Joir the Albany lobby, and find a railroad
agent to hire you to so home.-N. !. Gil.
A curious coincidence of names and cir
cumstances once took place in the town of
Unity, n. Ii. The census canvossers re-
ported exactly $50 males and 45O females.
......There are lots Of American girls now
! in Europe to learn singing. Among them
} Miss Mackey, Miss Sterling, Miss Gibbs,
!, Miss Lajeunesse, and Miss carman. And
all are pretty......Some adroit confidence
man in England has been personatine
Professor James Bryant Smith, Of Yale
College, and has succeeded in victimizins
Professor Wilson Of the University OF
Edinburgh. ..Sky-blue plush jackets are
now very much in favor with fair promen-
adcrs, who set them of in the rear with
great lunches of ',luc ribbon. TO slim fig
ures they are becoming enough, but the
dumpics would do well to discard them
n. y. World. .....At recent naval court
martial the following dialogue is said to
have taken place between one Of the wit
nesses and the court: "Are you Cath
olic?" "No Sir" ''Are you Protestant
"No Sir" "What arc you, then?' Soap
tain of the fore top. Orange trees are
in bloom in Louisiana. key West is
overrun with Spaniards.. Philadelphia
claims a population of 69,3S0......Ncw
York uses 100000 eggs wcek......A
court at Willimantic, CT, charges 10 cents
head admission fecs......s, railroad was
sold in Texas the other day for S50O......A
large bear promenading Broadway SUR
prised New York recently.
English newspapers tell Of girl in
Wales who has not eaten anything since
October, 1867. Never offend butler.
The wretch has too many chances of re-
taliation. -. The ti;lc-deeds to lot If
ground in Glasgow have been discovered
in an old clock, in New lIampshire......A
week ago, in Manchester, N. H., man
worth 100000 earned % cents by carry
ing home a fowl for another man. lie
said he thought himself lucky to get pay
for taking needed exercise. ...Wild horses
are sold in New South Wales at two cents
a head, aud find reluctant purchasers at
, that price. The skins are the parts OF
. them that yield money. Why not utilize
! their flesh? 1t would make as good
. Bologna sausagcs as asses flesh, from
which the Bolognas are chiefly manufac-
turcd in Europe. warm springs
+ near Carson City, Nevada, have sunk two
: feet in a very sudden and mysterious
manner, and the prisoners confined in the
penitentiary, which is Immediately over
! the springs, are in constant state oil
e terror, expecting to be blown up by a
] natural convulsion. ....".....R Running a
velocipede is said to lie too warm work
for summer.
t Minnesota has law absolutely prohib-
ting the destruction Of quais until the
year 1875. The birds were introduced in
) 1915, and great pains have been taken
: since to preserve and propagate them, and
they arc now quite numerous......Th f.
male population Of the Bermudas, as at
many other maritiine places, far exceeds
the male. there being about four times as
, many of the former as tue latter. AS a
natural consequence, young gentlemen are
in almost comical favor and demand, and
of new arrival the first and universal
. question asked is: SIS he married 20.
Nearly two-thirds Of the persons chat arc
! nowadays presented to Plus TX. are
Americans. Russians Who visit Rome
,, carefully avoid coming into contact with
, the pOpe or any OF his dionitaries Ncyi