The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1870-02-18

IL k1Ak 1850
In the scarcity of currency at Salt ,
Lake, chickens are taken at tho box
office of Brigham Toungs theatre.
Change is made with boiled eggs.
AS compliment to Buffers non.
onlba,ivc character. the French Uni
versnl Peace League has elected him
an honorary member.
Tho y. Y Tribune think. the dc.
cision Of the Suprcme Court abou,
legal tenders means a speedy re-
sumption Of specie payments.
Policemen have to interfere to pre-
vent Chicago Schooma ANS from
whipping their scholars to death.
4 Mr.. Moore. who derived his
pedigree from Noah explained it in
this manner: Noah had three sons,
Shem, Ham, and one more.
Mack" says Yates. "vamc into
the Senate the other day, looking for
all the world as if he had been fight
lug tom-cats all nigh, and got the
worst Of it,
Hevcls is now f urd TO be immor-
tai. 1t il singular to observe how
these negroes are found to be objec-
tionable SO soon as they get places in
legislatures which white Radicals
want for themselves.
1t now looks as if upon Mrs. Cor
bins head was to DC laid the sins Of
the Presidential geld "Ring.'' and
she was to bc~driven into the wilder
ness. This is neither manly, nor
fair. Bearded, mailed men, should
not hide beneath hoop skirts.
! A bill passed by the Alabama Leg
islature makes drunkenness reni-
Tertiary offence, except GA the part
of the members of that body. Self
preservation is nature first law.
Almost incredible. That Prcsi.
dent Grant declined a present of a
"dorg' lately. But there were $40
express charges on tho animal. AMI
he was labelled G. 0. d. That
what's tho matter.
An Iowa widow argues in favor OF
life assurances Her first husband
vas insured for $50, 900, and the
money thus obtained will set her sec.
ond husband up in the grocery bust
ness
Barnum is after that Cleveland
dog. He says the present that Grant
would not accept must be a curiosity.
a member Of the Alabama Legis.
latare recently arose and moved tina,
MARS Rylan Randolph be brough,
before dis House Oh de telegram
wire.
| Dr.. BARD, Recently named by the
President for Governor of Idaho. was
rewarded for advocating General
Grant fer the Presidency ut an early
date. Thus bread cast upon the
waters has returned after many days
Money, houses or newspaper puff:
are alike avsila BILE happening thehcar1
Of tic "epauletted sphinx"
A Pennsylvania iron firm has rolled
out sheet of that metal nearly al
thin as their argument for protection.
I 1t is three feet by twelve inches, anc
weighs only three and enc-half ounces
One of the won,ans' rightis;s AM
female suffragists says of her sist
ers. that they would take mar
who had money, if be was cross-cyeo
and parrot socd.' Of course they
would.
An Exchange says the uses to whicl
white men put negroes ale tiliing TIT
ground. The uses to which negroes pu
each other-judging from Hsyti-art
filing the ground. 1t is not certain
that the latter is not tht more bcne
fetal method, considered with refer
ence to the best interests Of tho Who'll
human race.
Alaska wants to be Tcrritor'
J with large 7, instead Of territor,
with a small t.
The negroes who so clum silly butch
cred the negro Salnavc, refused hi
body to his friends. Undoubtcdl,
they based their whole proceeding
upon their determination to imitat
the late Mr.. Stanton. "a.
J, A Poughkeepsie school-tcache
Furnishes his pupils by compelling then
! to run 400 times around the school
. house. That is the way they pursu
, knowledge.
The Internal Revenue officers u
. Mobile are sharp. They arrested
man the other day for giving a per
fo,mancc without license, because b.
passed around his hat after doing
few sleight- of hand tricks in hote
bar-room. srs e.. .
: Mr.. GRANTS private secretar
! swears he don't know anything abou
: the valuable presents Of paintings
statuary. &c, which tho president
received from the Wall street gol,
: gamblers, because he was absent frou
Washintcn when they arrived! Ifh'
had not been absent, doubtless BIZ
back would have been turned.
Topeka. Kansas. has blocks 0
sandstone with human footprints e.
gigantic that they can be referred
only to the Cardiff giaat, who, likel,
enough, used to jayhawk in that re
: gion.
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