, 1873-12-25

The Capitol building ut SC. Paul las eoen re-
paired aud renovated at an oxpense of about
$4,000.
The Iowa Legislature will convene at Dea
MoineB on Monday, Jan. 12. Tho pay OF each
mombor IL $3.50 for tho session, with mileage.
Among tho curiosities at Fort Yuma Ayizo-
pounds capacity. It is drawn by fourteen mutes.
tho smallest Of which Ia 1t hnnlB high and
weighs 1850 pounds,
Somebody has put upon the market prep.
aration for co1oring the guma delicate aud
says tho 1abel-a bit Of superauona information,
re think.
An 1nfant recently found on Father Hughes
door stop at Alorrieania, N. Y, was carried to q
fair q. st. 11ary's Church and ranled at 10 cents
Enthusiastically, and departed In high glee to a'r'
rio caso Of Weir Va. Crane, from Jone.
County, recently decided by tho Iowa Supreme
Court, possessed two pecularitiss: First Il de-
cidea the constitutionahty OF tho Iowa Stock
law in the atirmative) i; second. 1t was the anal
decision Of a case TINT originally involved tha
priucely sum Of fifty cents.
- Our lighthouse system is more extensive
than my in tho world the lights and beacona
aud shore. We have 621 lighthouses, IS power"
ful signals operated by engines driven by steam
or hot air, s54 day or unliglted bcacons, and
2,838 buoys.
D. Waite, one Of tie survivors Of tho VILE du
Havre disaster, says: 'Wllerover any OF us
went In London the shopkoepors wished to give
us everything We wanted to buy; but OF course
NO could not accept. We had a calm night On
the Channel, but foggy, which n1ado tho ladse8
very nervous, 81 NO had just missed sal1ug-
vessel, frightening ua all very much"
Henry G. Bates, last October, filed with ths
Recorder of Floyd County, Town, dood convey
ing to him 500 acres Of land from ono L; A. Cot.
AL ~ f1txsr 1nra $k1r 3nHf31 1$nfh
tho land for $4,000 cash, to two brothers named
JOHNSON, Of 0Bago. Aud now it turns out TINS
tho decd waa u forgery, aud tlat BateB noSor
owned the land. And BateB is missing.
Tho Dubuque Herald HaYs TINT q gentleman
Maine. which arrived in duo time. The freight
on tho cutter from Portland to Chicago vas
$40; from Chicago to Dubuque II was S5.55:; ":
The distance from Portland to Chicago Is ], ,leo
miles; tho distance from Chicago to Dubuque Ii
quo milos.
Tho Il Mates in the United States Navy,
who arc obliged to pay for their own mess, pur-
CHASE uniforms, and keep up their position o.
becomos American officers. out OF salary o. OF
crease to 81, 900. aentlon,en, It cant 10 done:
There are q lot Of fellows in Washington, no"
tamisling on $4,000 q year md travelling o.
penses, who arc ahead Of you. We must ra-
trOncli.- Pittsburgh Conln,erciak
Tho Raw. =. =. Halo gnys: 4 ;a,,as man mny
send from Lands Eud, In England, to klrkTa!i,
in Scotland tic longest distance IN Glehs
britain, from a Wilderness to the oage OF tho
icebergs, oyor distance Of 70u ualloa, se1o'
graphic moBsago ut cont word.
Tho Cincinnati Gazelle facotlous'y LelnafAa
that wbateyer tic Ohio Constitutional CohVen-
ton may do to the Constitution, IT ought not ~
corrupt tho American tongue BY such eompoaniann =
M q Ni,riEaJiers- onoral," "11aJoEa-Gapetal
HDr1mB-Ala3or," - Vicos-Prcsident, etc., Tor It
would DO difficult to enforce auch 1a1gon among
au Intelligent peopio
-iroiaild is proliting BY tho large increase IN
tho prico OF coal in England. Tho island "a
known to contain many rlch coal fields, which
have been Lithorto worked on Il very small scale.
Capitalists are now beginning to look to those
as profitable Investments, md preparations are
henc nlalo to work tho coal on large Hcalo.
john Henry Yatos, formerly Secretary Of the
Great Eastern Steamship Company, has been
seusoncol Ut tho Central Crim.nal Court. Lon-
don, to ton years ponal aeryitulo tor having
forged dividend warrants aud thareby defrauded
tho Company of moro than .E40, 900.
-Luugato Hill. London. IL now paved with
wood. The streets hayo beon laid With BLOCKS
OF fir, each about the size of a brick, which aro
placed OH gravel aud boltoM together. Moltea
tar is thon poured into tho lntersticos. and tho
whole ia covered with fiu1 sand.
David III. Hall, hung at Belmont, Nev., the kas
28th ulti,no, when on tho Roaffol. asked Tor
three choora cigar, 4 nlniBtor, and copy OF
tho Now York Day- Book. Ills modest requests
wcro complied with, excepting tue frat.
The grain fleet Wluterlng At MllwAuko9 haa
carrying capacity OF ,0D0, 900 bushels. Whena
navigation opens In tho spring theso voaaols WILL
mako m impression on the stock os grain N
ato1s when they take out their oAfRosss