The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1871-12-29
PLAIN DEALER,

Oskaloosa coal has been advance ed
to IS . ton at the plymouth.
There is some excuse for drinkipp
Bohea in Bohemia.
Fashionable young ladies Of a GER
tain class are chi guoncntites.
It is said that "order prevails
throughout Utah." but We half
suspect that it is military order.
Alexis is no longer afflicted with
the Pole evil.
George Wilkes is not in favor of
the snip policy.
Was Nicodemus tho man who
taught Shakespeare to say there is no
born from which the traveller returns?
II Sumner succeeds in proving that
Grant has too much oftbe peoples
money, how much will the Cardiff be
Induced to disgorge?
That Tcnnessean who has. home.
industried to the extent of raising
one pound of tea at \ cost of about
one hundred dollars, will be coming
before Congress with his grounds for
protection"
Like Absalom, some of the young
ladies would rather dye than than
part their hair.
y A poet, interested in the subject
Of dying, sends to the Bureau this:
am dying, Katrin, dying!
What was fading now grows bright;
Change ore all is swectly lying
Angels shall see tonight
l am dying, Katris, dying!
And Ifeel-a heavenly splash
l am dying, Katrin, dying!
I am dyeing my mustache!
The Baptists cure al diseases by
Immersion, yet they cling to the Dip
theory.
II Minister Schenck reads the
American newspapers, be finds Little
Emma more quoted" that he ex-
pect or desire.
The newest style of dressing the
hair is the alexis twist" A puff
is worn very high on the head, sur
rounded by . twist of hair to initiate
. cable-rope, and is ornamente on
one side by large gilt anchor.
The failure of the Ocean Savings
Bank has involved many persons in a
sea of tronbles.
The anti. Grant men don't like the
sway of Grant. Yet be will have bis
way.
The editor ofthe Chicago Tribune,
recently elected Mayor, says be will
not Medill with the conduct of that
paper while he's in the Mayors nest.
The women have discovered that
Alexis has an "ugly hand;" but from
the way in which heputs up his
money, it must be full of trumps.
Calender, the Federal Bank
Supervisor, is accused of getting
money on tine. What is a calendar
without time?
The Eastern Argus alluded to an
eminent citizen, as = noble old burgher
proudly loving bis native Statc;"
which neat little compliment came
from the compositor's hand, reading,
"a nobby old burglar, prowling
around in naked state"
Grant takes pains to tell people
that he never read book, just as if
anybody supposed that be ever had
Sir Charles Dixie is not far wrong
in declaiming against the cost of
royalty in England. Royalty does
cost too mueh over there. But,
then, it doesn't cost as much al 10y
atty does over here.
The New York Independent says Of
one of Grants assertions, in his
message, that it "conspicu ously
lacks vsracity." 1.-THE Indspsnd ent
means that Grant lies like dog, it
ought to say 80.
It is said that the Manassas battle
field has been sold for eight dollars
an acre. A few years ago Mcdowell
and Pope paid q great deal more than
that forit, aud didn't get possession
Of the property either.
The Mobile Registers getting up
a new edition of the Book of Pro-
verbs. Here is . sample: blessed
is the woman wto compoundeth
pudding in silence, for she is more
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