The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-10-25
PLAIN DEALER,

1ne DoyleStOWH DeuOcrat says:
when autumn marries winter the
wedding cakes are frosted" how sweet!
Said backwoods orator in reply
to a sophomorical graduate: MY OPP
poncnt has roamed with Romulus,
ripped with Euripides and rocked with
Socrates, but what does he know of the
laws of Indiana?"- .....
An editor says his ancestors have
been in the habit of living a hundred
years. His opponent responded by
saving that that was before the intro
duction of cap ital punishment"
Mrs Brigham Young( about sixty Of
herr was recently frightened into hys-
terics by an earthquake.
r, An Iowa patriarch, past eighty, is
the proud papa Of three-year old
baby, the last of series Of thirty.
1t seems to be the prevailing opinion
that red-haired women ought to dye.
When the rain falls, does it ever
rise again? Yes, in dew time.
Frugality is founded on the principle
that all riches have limits.
The great singers want gold for their
notes. Fs
Autumn leaves when winter comes in.
An INSCRIPTIONS paragraphist &C.
counts for the fact that Peter was
cheerful while Paul was sad, by quoting
Paul's assertion that "Peter's wife &
mother lay sick Of fever Courier
Journal. .ur.> ~. ..
The Rochester Chronicle tells us
that CHARLES SUMNER fred his last
barrel of noise at the Administration,
and then ran away" II he expected
the Administrator to smell as infer
nally as such rotten things usually do
when stirred up he is not to blame for
running away. t5|
The Chicago Times is unwilling to
Greeley over Sc electoral
votes, but this is very accommodating,
the politics Of that paper.
Washington, the Philadelphia Press
tells us, is turning its attention to man
afactures. It has long been engaged
II the manufacture of political thieves
md public plunderers, and, under . the
'ostering care Of the present Admins
ration, it has increased it's facilities
to supply all the markets
# the world. -...
According to Radical paper, Brick
Pomeroy says the Greeley managers
'ffered him $500 to support their
icket. Brick may have said it, but
Who in theworld believes it?
The New York Tribune nf the 18th
publishes the names of one hundred
nj sixty-four men. as "a few" Of the
federal Office holders of,ethat city, who.
ave boon apf.ai..4sa Supervisors # the
orth-c coming election.
Parvin, Cassidy and Case have de-
lined the straight out nominations.
lr. Parrot, Of Clark county, will also
0 50, and the simon pures will be with,
ut State as they arc without nation
ticket.
The Storey party must be in funds.
full straight-out ticket has been
omiuated in Michigan, headed by Col
mel William NJ. Ferry for Governor
may scrape up five hundred votes
a the entire State; but this is doubt
Il. The men whe arc paid to organize
ne movement will vote for Grant, by
ontract.
TLo 1.stan Traveller says that Gen.
RANT, in the Virginia Campaign,
met the chief Southern commander,
ne Of the greatest Of soldiers" Very
rue. In that campaign he did meet
he chief Southern commander; but.
for the Norththern cause,
c didn t meet much IF anybody else.
"Hurrah for Grant, cries the trooly
oil poor devil who herds his wife and
en- children in thirty-dollar log-cabin
Or want Of something better in which
0 herd them. Grant has just finished
thirty thousand-dollar stable in the
ear Of the White House, and that
rooly loil poor devil must help to pay
pr it.
A MUSICAL PRAYER-BooK.--
\ young lady in country town in
Worcestershire Was recently presented
y the curate with a handsome gilt
;hurch Service. Taking it with her
nc Sunday morning, she proceeded
owards the church, but looked in at a
riend's house in passing, laying her
,ook down on the table while she re-
named. When she arrived at the
hurch and stood up to open her book
nd Join in the service, she was startled
0 hear soft strains of music proceeding
rom it. The rector paused and looked
tern, the curate very sorrowful, the
congregation all turned their eyes on
he fair offender, who in her confusion
lropped the book and sank into her seat