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

lutely necessary for family discipline.
The Philadelphia and Erie Railway has
organized surgical boardho use in case of
collisions, etc. 1t is to be hoped the cor
poration will not work them too hard......
Authorizations and deficiencies of weight
of groceries in New York are believed to
cost the citizens Of that place $54, 100000
q year.. According to the Department
of Agriculture there where produced last
year in the United States, 9O5, 900
bushels of corn and 2,3sO,OOO bales of
cotton.
The committe on pensions rejected Mrs.
Lincoln's claim for a pension, as there is
no existing law for such action. .Frac-
tional currency issued for the week end.
ing Jan. 80, was s943, 900; shipments ST.
O54, 377; amount destroyed, Sal 600; Ma
tional Bank currency issued, $2ol, 100;
actual circulation 5000, 745, 766.. Official
dispatches from Caleb Cushing at Bogota,
Columbia, have been received by the Sec
rotary of State. His mission, which is
believed to be to negotiate realtive to
ship canal through the isthmus of Panama,
is said to be complete ccess......Slight
shocks Of earthquake in San Francisco, on
the 30th ult......A mother reproved her
three-year oldster for eating icicles. The
analytical infant replied: II didn't eat
'em, m, m ma; only tucked. he Juice of EN-
...... "There now" said o little girl, while
rummaginga drawer in bureau, "grandpa
has gone to Heaven without his specta>
cles.". IAN Irishman, on hearing of a
friend having stone coffin made for him
self, exclaimed: ''By me sowl, and that's
q good idee. Sure an stone coffin 'ud
last a man lifetime" cocoa clerk in a
mercantile establishment writes to his
friends at home: Plagued easy times
now-a-days-very little work to do-our
firm don't advertise. The New York
Herald states the total loss by fire in this
country during the year 1868, at S34,757-
600; during the last thirteen yearse
$3.50, Cos, 000.. During the past decad,
in England, 100000 gold sovereigns
and 100000 half sovereigns were
coined, which piled enc on the other
would make column thirty-fve miles
high.
The area of public land asked from
Congress by the numerous Pacific Rail-
roads down to June, 1868, amounted in
the aggregate to only 1856, 1907 900 acres
...... Chicago, Jan. 80. To-day, during the
absence Of the Representatives Of this
county, bill was introduced in the lower
House of the Illinois Legislature, aud
passed by vote of IS to 9, separating
the city of Chicago from the State of Hi
nois, and ceding it to Indiana The
number of children and young people in
Iowa, between the ages Of five and twenty
one, entitled to the beniit of public in
struction, is 493,344. The number re-
ported one year ago was $4,000, showing
an increase within the last year of l20,>
375...... Brigham Young wants to build a
ST 100000 hotel on the joint stock plan.
.........A married man in New Hamshire
has adopted an original method of econo-
my. One morning recently, when he
knew his wife would see him, he kissed
the servant girl. The household expenses
were instantly reduced 5000 per year......
There are 272 orphans in the home at
Cedar Falls. The youngest is three years
old. The average age of the children is
eleven. 49,. ...
One of the most remarkable snow
storms ever known in The South, visited
Alabama and Mississippi last week. In
the region of Huntsville, Alabama, the
snow fell to the depth of ten inches, with
drifts in some places five feet deep, seri-
ously impeding railroad trains. At Vicks-
burg, where magnolias and orange trees
bloom in mid-winter, the snow was over a
foot Deep. Virtue is it's own, and, it
may be added, its only reward. ....If the
world were crumbled to the finest dust,
and scattered through the universe, there
would not be AN atom of the dust for each
star......If you would relish your food,
labor for it; if you would enjoy your raj
ment, pay for it, before you wear it if you
would sleep soundly, take clear con-
science to bed with you......The Commit.
tee on Commerce have reported to the
House Of Representatives at Washington
q bill authorizing company to lay a
telegraph cable across the Pacific to China,
and connect our system of telegraph lines
with Ash and Europe. "IIow do you
get that lovely perfume?" asked one lady
of another. "It's scent to me-" was the
reply.
The famous artesian we'll at St. Louis,
Mo-, the deepest in the world, is soon ex-
pected to reach water. The drills have
lately penetrated thirty-fve feet into a
stratum of sand stone, which is expected
to CONT nue. about forty feet further, when,
if water is not struck, the enterprise will
be abandoned. 81 love ewe," as the dog
said to the Sheep. Committing two-i-
cide'' is new name for matrimony. ........
"Now, young people," said professor Of
natural history to his class, "now, then, as
to hens. A ben has the capacity of lay
ing just GOO eggs, and no more, and she
finishes the job in just about FIVE years.
Now, what is to be done with her after
that ?'' "Cut off her head and sell her to