The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-07-19
PLAIN DEALER,

Mount Vernon, Ohio, and who took the
stump for Vallandigham in 1868, was
delegrate to the recent Philadelphia
convention, and is Republican canli-
date at large for congress from the State
of Texas.
A baseball club has been incorpor-
ated at Kcokuk with a capital of one
thousand dollars. If the treasurer Of the
club is the Christian gentleman he ought
to be he will at once suppress the thing
by running away with the money.
eve wake up, look about US, and
6nl,' says the London Times, "that
we are hereafter to be governed by the
ballot" The Times ought to congrat-
ulatc the peoplc.of England that they
are not to be governel,as many of the
people of this country have been, by the
bayonet instead of the ballot.
An intelligent graduate of Massa-
chusetts school told the examiner that
"Esop was the author of Latin fables
covered with hair, and sold his birth.
right for a mess of potash" There is
something to provoke pride in the al
most universal dissemination of obtruse
knowledge through our glorious free
schools
The largest tax levy ever authorized
in the State of New York was the work
Of the late "reform' legislature.
Somebody who attended the examination
of the Cincinnati high school, proved
a critic whom most of the girls will
scarcely admire. He writes: "A simple
school girl, modestly and beeom-
ingly clad seems to be an obsolete thing
in these days of furbelows and toggery
Indeed there were only five or SIN
young ladies among the graduating elias
that were dressed with taste-consider-
ing they were school girls and not act
resses-and those few were truley refresh
ing, and as might be expected among
the bri ghtest and most interesting Of
the Glass;
The World thinks Mr.. Geo. w.
Curtis should resign; since "to retain
the position of an official civil service
reformer under President who turns
out the postmaster at Galveston merely
to give his place to scoundrel elected
for dishonesty from Congress is to adj
vertisc ones self an accomplice in a
miserable political imposture.
The Grant papers turn their atten-
ton to serious defense of their candi-
dates. It's too late, gentlemen. while
you should have beeu setting your
house in order you were laughing at
that great Cincinnati joke.
When a Grant and Wilson NEE ting
failed in Boston, the failure was ascrib-
ed to the excitement oocasioned by the
Jubilee and the band of the Grcnadicrs
Good. When Grant and Wilson meet
ing failed in Washington, the rain
caused the result. Good again. Before
the campaign closes, the breeze from
a lady's fan will disperse one of these
valetudiparin gatherings, to say nothing
of the apparition of an old white hat.
The pretended correspondence be-
tween Miss Nellie Grant and Queen
Victoria which is having quite rln
through the press, is a fraud. 1t was III
vented in San Francisco.
The Gate City man longs for an ice
cream bath. Salad oil would better suit,
as that is the usual method Of packing
sardines.
The spirit Of true religion breaths
gentlencss and affability 4; it is social,
kind and cheerful far removed from
that gloomy, illiberal' superstition and
bigotry which cloud the brow, sour the
temper, defect the spirit, and impress
moroseness on the manners.
The modest man will not parade his
own excellence lest he should offend.
Value the friendship of him who
stands by you in the storm F.; swarms Of
insects will surround YOU in the SUN
shine.
A wit once asked a peasant what
part he performed in the great drama
of life. II mind my own business" was
the reply.
One of the saddest things about hu-
man nture is, that a man may guide
others in the path of life without walk
ing in it himself that he may be a
pilot and yet cast-a-way
When you want friends is the time
to find out if you have any.
IT, ;s aupo,,ncad that tho Radical M.