The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-08-30
PLAIN DEALER,

fOpular deluslon-lhat 'DOys Will
be boys" for, if they live long enough,
they will be men.
Truth sometimes tastes like medicine,
but that is an evidence that we are
i'll.
A modern Solomon says he would
not give two cents for boy who did
not prefer a kite to concor-
dance.
Men are born with two eyes, but
with one tongue, in order that they
may see twice as much as they
say.
Small but active bootblack to a
wcarsr Of thirteens: "say, boss, lie,
me black your boots; do it for five cents
an acre, and warrant done before sun.
down"
There are over hundred girls in The
St. Louis normal school, and they arr
all required to dispense with false hail
and wear calico dresses.
A Chinaman in Weatherville, Cal.
whose life was insured for large
amount, was seriously hurt by falling
from q wagon. There was some doubt
Of his ever getting bet ter, and al
length one of his friends wrote to the
insurance company, "Charley hall
dead, likee half money"
Luck lies in bed biding his time,
while Labor turns out to vigorous work
and makes his fortune.
Practice does not always make per.
feet. Curran, when told by his physi.
clan that he seemed to cough with more
difficulty, replied, "That is odd enough
for l have been practicing all night.
A little boy three years old gave q
reason for his infant brothers good be.
havior as follows: "Baby doesn't cry
tears because he doesn't drink any
water, and he can't cry milk"
Longstreet was an office-holder under
Grants Administration, and Alderman
was member of his Cabinet. Yet the
collarites are Mortified at the idea that
Greeley may select rebel for his Cabi.
net.
The Louisville Courier-J ournal does
not join in the complaints that General
Grant has been absent from Washing.
ton one-third of the time since inaugu.
ration, and is impious enough to think
it would have been better for the pub.
lie business if he had been absent the
other two-thirds, too.
The Duluth people won't allow small
pox patients to be inferred
in their cemetery, because there are
several unvaccinated corpses buried
there.
A Chicago court has decided that ii
is imperative upon insuran compa-
ny to give notice when policy ex-
pires. A lawyer has just recovered
the loss of his library under this de-
cision.
One Missouri editor says of aDther,
that ''his ears would do for awnings to
ten-story wholesale hog packing es-
tablishment."
Minnesota farmers, in view of the
frequent destruction Of their crops by
hail storms, propose to form "Hail
Insurance Company"
The postmaster at Wilton Iowa is
'sout" for Grant--to the extent Of
some $4,000 in his official &C.
counts.
A careful estimate Of the majorities
in the recent county elections in Ken.
lucky places the total majority in
the States at between 60, 900 to TO-.
900.
The Mozart Democrats of New York
have fallen into line for Greeley and
Brown. This leaves but one Dem
ocratic organization in New York op-
posed to Greeley, that of Boss Tweed's
Apollo Hall, Democracy, which is for
Grant.
The rejoicing of the GRANTEES over
tho result in North Carolina is a good
deal like the fellow who went into a
rough and tumble fight fully dressed
and came out minus every thing but
his shirt collar, and then called his
family together to jubilate over the fact
that he had not lost all.
The Philadelphia Bulletin says
italics and all-that president Grant
has accepted no gifts since he assumed
his high Office We don't think that
the Presidents rejection of the Cleye-
land pup fully justities the Bulletin in
making such statement as that
As so many articles, in every day
use are manufactured of paper, it is
asked if paper beef-steak cannot be
invented to take the place of the leath-