The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-10-04

carolina, then transferred TO Name,
and it is on exhibition in Pennsylvania.
Here is an odd advertisement clipped
from an English paper which contains
a sarcastic moral:
MY HUSBAND is out on o strike
He prefers that to work. He amt any
use to me. must work to keep the
children and self. His ten shillings
a week goes in beer. III swap my
husband while he is on a strike for a
sewing machine.
Il say Mick, what sort of potatoes
are those you're planting!" Raw
ones, to be sure: your honor wouldn't
be thinking I would plant boiled ones?''
A gentleman in cheap restaurant the
other day was heard to give tho fear.
less order, waiter, let that cheese
move this way.!"
The meanest maa yet discovered
lives in Louisville. He borrows half a
gallon Of leo water every day, and
promises to return it next winter
The Grant man in Cincinnati who
murdered boy because the boy shout.
ed for Greeley ought to have shown
more judgment and less brutality. He
would have done his party better ser.
vice if be had killed some one old
enough to vote.-Lou. Cour. Journal.
The Albany Evening Journal says
Grant "goes to bed probably the best
informed man in the United States. -
If SO, how does it happen that he gets
up in the morning certainly the great
est blockhead in the United States.
Henry Wilson authorizes several
Radical newspaper correspondents to
deny that he received from Cakes
Ames an interest in the Credit Mobi-
lier. lie authorizes the same rascals
to deny that he ever was Know Moth
ing, but he was once Know Nothing
The Detroit Free Press says: The
Toledo Blade calls Fitzpatrick cow
ard. This is pretty cool in an editor
who paid $500 for a substitute to pre-
serve his own carcass from bullet holes.
When. Gen. Dix gets through ex-
planning his secession record, we'd
like him to tackle the Pacific Railroad
He was President of that concern when
MIR. Cakes Ames "placed the stock"
80 satisfactorily. What has he got to
say about it?
If the rebels could have known how
much general stealing the secession
would be made to cover in
1872, the unlucky enterprise would
have been strangled at its birth.
Henry Wilson has not yet found out
whether he was Krow-Nothing or
lot, and if he did find out, would deny
t.-Dctroit Free Press.
A New Hampshire dentist killed his
wife by giving her IN overdose of chic
oform, preparatory to pulling
Doth, and an unsophisticated coroner's
ury found q verdict Of accidental
leath.
A burglar robbed young lady's
DOM in New York City, taking,
mong his booty, available watch and
silk dress. The young lady shut
lersclf up in her room and prayed that
he articles might be returned. In
lay or two bundle containing them
vas left on the doorstep. What an
that young lady would be
o the National Treasury.
A New SroRY FROM THE DUrcn. In
he number Of of Littell's Living Age
OF the week ending Sept. 2lst is be-
,un new serial sto1y,-'The Burgo-
masters Family" translated from the
Dutch Of Christine Muller, ba Sir John
shaw Lefeyre. 1t promises to be
tory Of unusual interest. Besides
'eing very favorably noticed by the
Principal Dutch literary periodicals, it
las attracted the attention Of the
English critics, being highly priced by
eading English papers. The transla-
70 says he was induced to translate
he story by the amusement derived
rom the variety Of incidents anl the
minutes delineations Of character which
contains, ---delineations which are
lrawn with the same fidelity that we
ind in carefully executed Dutch
'ainting. Indeed the name Of the
translator is alone sufficient guarantee
# the merits Of the story. The publ
,ation Of the translation---an admirable
'ne---will be continued from week to
week in The Living Age until COM
'letcd, and will prove an additional
to that valuable period
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