The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-03-04
ITEMS oPsrArB NEWS.
There is man in Polk oounty il
for stealing bibles.

to let it freeze that thick.
| Mr.. Fredrick Sanxay, an old ~
tier Of johnson county, died ct his
residence, in Iowa City, Srsdsy
night, at the age Of eighty-ss1s
years.
Sioux City Journal: A man re-
siding north Of Carroll Citv killed
SIX skunks the other day. After kiIl-
ing the FIRST ono he got reckless, and
kept on.
Des Moines is getting up relief
fund for the benefit of Major Rankin
aud his family, who have been board
ing l60 acres Of grasshoppes, and
lost money by il.
\ Dubuque glazier makes trade
lively by paying the abandoned young
street Arabs 4 small commission cn
all the windows they snow ball out
Of entirety.
The State, which for the past two
or three days has been terribly brok-
en- out with masquerade balls, is
SLOWLY recovering, and settling down
to Lenten diet, in spots.
Carries Benshoof and Edward
Tracy, Of Harden county, had little
wresfle last Friday, in which Bens-
hoof got . square hold flop that
twisted his neck and broke his srm.
4 Muscatine man ate two quarts
OF raw oysters in two minutes, on
wager. and then cried for more. But
he don't cry any now, for they don't
eat oysters where he's gone.
The Sioux City Journal is respon.
sible for the statement that Plymouth
county boasts Of school marin who
allows her best behaved scholars to
chew her gom little while.
A Bremen county maa bought his
ink by the Jug full because he could
ge. it cheaper, but his wife went to
fill the inlstand one morning and
found it wasn't ink, by Jug full.
Seventy-six foreign insurance COM
panies doing business in this State
represent, . paid up capital Of ets.-
2O2, ,446. This does not include four
European companies which have no
capital in the United States.
The Muscatine Journal spoils Miss
Stedman's claim to being the only
Notaryess Publicess in the State, BY
stating that Mrs. c. Il. Jones, of Grand
View. Louisa county, has held sim
liar commission for some time.
The Cherokee Times comes up to
the scratch with another tall man:
"Ida county has a homesteader 50 tall
that he has to 60 down cellar to put
his hat on, and up stairs to draw
on his boots. More than ons-hslf Of
him is q widower."
On the third inst, during the ter
rible Storm, a young girl seventeen
years old. in German township,
Grundy county, started for neigh
boring house not more than twenty
rods away, and perished in the storm
Her body was not discovered fo'
several days.
Mr.. Hissom, Of Dutch Creek,
Washington county, thinks Hissom-
body because his COW had . six leg
ged calf. 1t 10 enough Of . vexatiou
and vanity Of spirit to look after q
four-leggcd cali; heaven help ths
man who has to chase one with siz
legs ont Of the garden.
Wednesday evening, Mr.. Georgs
FARLEY, OF Dubuque, son Of J. s. Far
ley, formerly Superintendent of the
Iowa Division Of the Illinois Central
Railroad, slipped and fell on the
sidewalk, breaking his leg The
mos, important part Of this item, On
glancing over it, appears to he the
title his father use to enjoy.
Professor Darling, = phrenological
lecturer examined all the heads and
bumps in Knoxville last week, and
then slid out without paying his no.
tel bill. The landlord thinks if he
could light upon Professor Darling,
| he would raise lump on him that ID
not down in the chart.
II Joe Jefferson is still inquiring il
"you have seen my little dog, Sni.
der?" we can assure him that Snides
has not, but he wants too. The dog,
with several friends, went down tc
Peter Snider's farm near Knoxville,
few nights since, and killed more
mutton than all the dogs in Iowa ~
worth.
The keokuk Constitution
During the late storm, . boy(
frozen to death while driving .
from Iowa City to his house [ :
bleak prarie. When the team re-.
home they turned into the barnyaro,
where tho boy was found in q sitting
posture frozen stiff, with the lines in
his hands.
A Cedar Rapids young man in at
tenda .ce at wedding, the Other
night, asked permission to kiss The
bride. This was granted, and wher
he put up his beak tho great, big
rough-bearded husband met the os
culatory advance with ; smack tha,
could be heard all over the house,
saying, that as he and his wife were
one, he didn't suppose it made any
difference which one was kissed.
Des Moines Register:: "a funny
story is told of two farmers who arr
not Grangers. They induced theil
wives to join and report before the J
would commit themselves. Nov. while
they would, they cannot join; tive
black balls greet every application
Meanwhile, the wives 60 regularly
to every Grange meeting, and tt.
men stay at home, tend the babies
and wonder what they do 1t th,
Grange, anyhow"
The man who, in weather like thi,
will stand, holding an outside doc
| o,ar and tslk ao1 telL ..l All