The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-07-06

peanut famine.
A Norfolk lady has copy Of the Bi.
bic which was printed in 1912.
Burlington VT, can boast of the l1rg-
est planning mill in the world. ..se.. j..
An electrical pen is a contribution OF
English genius to tighten literary la
hors.
There is man in New York now
who owns d Il, 900 acre dairy farm in
California.
A mine of antimony used for making
type, has been discovered in Cedar Co.,
| Nssouria.
A quaint old Scotch proverb runs
thus: "An ounce Of mother wit is
worth pound of clergy"
| The wheat. growing district of the Red
River Valley, in the Dominion, covers
$1,000 square miles.
The American B,es. H ouse, on Fourth
avenue. has $50 employee, engaged in
the manufacture Of Bibles.
Seventeen decorations from various
European countries await DR.. Livings-
tone upon his return from Afric2.
A wealthy New Yorker has invested
$3.50, 900 in a mill at Augusta, Me-, for
making paper pulp of poplar.
Last year Pennsylvania farmers raised
6S, ,OO0, 900 bushels Of oats, the largest
quantity of any State in the Union.
Somebody has written book called,
"What shall my son be?" We should
suppose it would be boy.
A Southern "departure"-A Bair'-
bridge, Ga, Treasurer of the Lee Mon
ument Fund has decamped.
A Cincinnati negro had his nose
neatly shaved off with razor during a
quarrel.-There was lady in the case.
Mr.. Beckley, an ingenious Evans.
william, poured nitric acid in Miss
NoelPs ear, and Is now restrained Of his
liberty.
A woman was cut by man in New
Orleans, and he was arrested. Men are
cut by woman every day and no fuss
made about 1t.
Spring trade is reviving in Chicago
there were one hundred and twenty
nine applications for divorce on last
week.
A New York editor says "Fashiona-
ble garters are of blue velvet, gold
mounted" How does the fellow know
that?
Since the editor Of the Montgomery
Mail bit off a mans ear in sanctum
fight, the circulation has wonderfully
increased.
: Since 1886, in New York city, over
sixty daily papers have started and died,
after losing at lease twenty millions of
dollars.
a wag lent a clergyman horse, which
; ran away and threw him, and then
claimed credit for laid in spreading the
| gospel"
, 1t is predicted that the fruit crop of
California will this year be unpreceden-
ted. Ten million gallons of grape wine
will be made during the coming sea-
sou.
A school girl was recently asked at an
examination by the clergyman to tell
him what Adam lost by his fall, and
when pressed she replied, 81 suppose'it
o was his hat"'
A Columbia County man has recently
=, built an excellent office entirely of ma
, nilla paper, manufactured in his own
, mill. Everything is made of paper but
, the floor, doors and windows.
A contemporary gravely remarks that
! "the place a sexton fills is not an easy
q one to fill" Most people fill it easily
enough, some time or other.
During the recent innundation at
New Orleans, three hundred swine
were run down steep place into the
the river, but were unromantical!y re-
, scued.
The inhabitants of Horn Lake, Miss.
are fevently grateful for the phenome-
non of gray-haired three~year old
colored girl, who has wonderful mem.
ory and spells "phonetica."
- A highwayman in the Western Wilds
>, asked his victim whether he would
:, perfer to give up his money or life.
- The reply that neither was preferred,
!, the gentlemanly but abrupt robber said
- "But, my dear sir, you are wandering
from the subject" and took both.
4 "Mother,' said little shaver, the
l. other day, IL know what I could do If
@ | was at sea and the On were all starv.
# ing, and they should draw lots to see
II who should be killed and eaten, and it
,, should be me-Id jump into the water"
,. "But," said the mother, "they would
IS fish you up" "No they wouldn't" said
!, he, ~ wouldn't bite"
e DIR. F. was the President of South
a ern College, and professed to be very
q grammatical in the use of his language
e and therefore expected bis pupils to be
:. likewise. Playing cards was strictly
J. forbidden on the school remises; but, as
J. is always the case, this law is often
s. violated by the students without being
j.. detected. A number Of freshmen col.
lected together in one of theil
numbers room, and were engaged in &
good game Of euchre when knock was
heard at the door. "Who's there?" one
'e exclaimed. 'Me!" was the laconit
I'd reply "Who's me?" professor F.
"a You lie! Ha, ha, ha!-Professor +