The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1874-11-05
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we're written by citizen Of Detruif.
Hon. Schulcr Colfax will write and
deliver lecture upon Abraham Lin
coin. . task for which he is cminently
fitted.
Peter II. Of Brazil, Is said to be the
richest monarch in the world, and
there are many who would ike to Be
Peter two.
There is big gold bar On the
counter of Denver bank, weighing
l,346 ounces, and valued, in ooin, q
22,69494.
Ii is curious and significant fact
that to-day old Babylon and Nineveh
are lighted with American petroleum.
When widow in any neighbor-
hood sets her cap for . young man.
there isn't one chance in million for
any young woman to win.
Mrs. Nye, Of Iowa, can get supper,
split kindlings, wash the dishes, milk
two cows, and feed the hogs while
her FIVE boys and two girls are play
ing q game of csoquet.
Senator Wright has been invited
to deliver the annual address at the
commencement Of the State Asricul-
tural College-the 5th Of November
and has accepted the invitation.
The belief is becoming stronger
every day in the East, that if John
Morrissey should give Harvard or
Yale College t25O,00O the Lord
would commence an entire new &C.
count with him.
The announcement 10 made in
Washington that Professor Henry iu.
tends shortly to open the Smithsonian
Institute on Sundays. II this is done
it will be the only public institution
thus far opened.
Miss Anthony denies that she ever
sat on any mans lap since the days
when John Bunyan used to hold her
then mere child-on his knee,
when she went to visit him in Bed
ford Jail.
The sensitive boy, it is said, lives
in Delaware. He arose At midnight,
footed it half mile and awoke .
store clerk and bought fine comb.
He didn't want any one to hear him
ask for it.
The highest premium ever offered
for single race will be contended
for in California on the l4th Of Nov.
The entries close the Goth Of the pres
ent month. The race is to be four
miles, and the premium is $25,OOO.
Somebody Of = calculating turn Of
mind says that it takes forty-cight
thousand house flies to weigh pound.
A forty-eight thousandth part of
pound is too much for . man when he
wants to take an afternoon nap.
Ex-Governor Harris Flanagan died
at his home in Arkadrlphia, Ark, on
the Gath. He was Governor Of Ar
kansas during the war, and one of the
most prominent members Of the Con-
s,itut,onal Convention.
Matilda Fletcher, Of Iowa, has, dur
ing the past year, written book on
Practical Ethics" prepared lecture
for the coming season entitled, "The
Ethics Of Marriage" and has inven.
led new carriage with combined
and complicated trunk attachments.
AT an anii-monopoly convention at
Iowa, recently, some fellow bawled
at the door: candidates are re-
quested to step down stairs y few
minutes Then everybody went
down stairs except deaf old fellow
who wanted to run for jailer.
1t is not our fault that we are red
headed and small, and the next time
one of those overgrown rural roosters
in ballroom reaches down for our
head, and suggests that some fellow
has lost rose bud out Of his button
hole, there will be trouble. 4Mil.onu-
kee Sentinel.
While the clergy of the United
States annually cost s12,OOO,OO0, in
toxicating drinks, it is said, cost H.
4s7 200, 600; and there are four hun.
dred thousand more persons engaged
in the liquor business than in preach.
ing the Gospel and teaching school.
Infinite toll would not enable you
to sweep away . mist, but by ascend
ing little you may overlook it alto
gether. So it is with our moral i'm
provement; We wrestle fiercely with
vicious habit, which would have no
hold upon us if we ascended into
higher moral atmosphere.
Rev. John Cowan, ex-Chaplain Of
the Sixth New York artillery, has
been convicted in the United States
Circuit Court, at New York, of at
tempting to defraud the Government
by palming off on the Treasury fIag-
ment of bond on the South Ameri-
can Republic as a portion Of de-
stroyed United States bond.
A fool and lazy man stand .
worse chance to success rs farmers,
than in any other department of life.
To be good farmer, man must
have good common sense, and he
must reduce the facts that nature re-
veals to him to practice. He must
follow nature, not force her. He
must be obedient to her mandates.
"Fond Of buttermilk, old fellow"
old Bilderback said to Stubbs, who
had dropped in about lunch time
"Try that, if you are" Stubbs tast-
ed. "Why," he said, "that's goats
milk" Course said old Bilderback,
"where can you get any butter milk
than goat miIk?" And he chuckled
gloomily over his wild and sordid
joke.