The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-02-18
ITEMS OF STATE NEWS.
From thu Burlington Hawkeye.I

hree marriage licenses issued IN
Linn county during the year 1874.
Large numbers Of quails were
frozen IN Guthrie and other parts OF
the State during the late cold snap.
Delmar rejoices in the prospect OF
a Good Temp!ar lodge and Touring
mill. Both concerns will be run by
water.
In Cedar Rapids, the other day, an
aged man starved to death. Strange,
wayward man! Why didn't he eat
something.
The seedsmen are advising the
Changers and amateur town gardeners
to ret their hot beds ready for early
spring sowing.
Iowa City has soup house and
the students are deserving their board
ing houses in grasshopper numbers.
The soup is thin, but there is lots oil
it.
It costs Two dollars to whip Il
school teacher in Winterset. This
discovery was recently made by three
bows, who dubbed their teacher SIX
dollars worth in the aggregate.
An emigrant passed through Win
terset last Friday with fifteen chill
dren. The most extraordinary IN
ducements are being held out 70 him
to settle 10 this State.
The man who predicted mild
winter because the corn husks were
thin, froze to death in Creston the
other night, and they buried him
close by the ground hog.
Iowa railroads have distributed
over 100000 in cash and freigh's 10
suffering grangers in the grasshop'
per districts. Does this come under
the head of "uninst discrimination"
and grinding cxtortion?
A man out at Humboldt, the other
day, brought in clod of dirt from his
field and thawed 1888. ,2o3, l.,2i6
grassLopper eggs out OF ii. 1t took
him nearly all the morning 10 count
them. and then he was afraid he had
missed some.
Detroit Fire. Press, \ clergy
man in Iowa stood in his door and
warned donation part, that the first
one who entered bis gate would be
dead man. He said it was bad
enough to take half his pay in beans,
without having his house destroyed.
Theodore Tilton testified that he
used to own $500 Iowa farm.
How much happier he would he to-
day had he settled on that farm and
worn old clothes and fought grass
hoppers and traded cord wood to
folks for greenbacks, cord for cord.
Mr.. Sunderln. an old gentleman Of
Knoxville. fell the other day while
carving buckle. Of coal, and broke
his leg. When, oh when will men
learn not to interfere with womans
sphere of work? Let this be warn
ing to all married men.
VIM. NJ. Evans. ons Of the most
prominent farmers of Maliaska county,
with 81 800 worth of cows. has. du-
ring the past season, furnished ). g..
Castor's cheese factory with 1880
worth of milk, sold s2J5 worth Of
calves, had all the milk and butter
the family could use. and has the
cows besides.
\ boy named Bellows was killed
near West Union by the accidental
discharge Of pis' oil he carried in his
pocket. There is a moral to this item.
but it won't do sny good to apply it.
A pocket pistol seems to be essential
to boys happiness AS Struggling
mous'ache is few years later.
\ Cedar Rapids man VA, kind
enough the other day to lend gen
,!eman on the train $50 to pay the
charges on lot OF goo Is lie
had on board. Now ii The { t. man
could fluid some fool who would lebd
him $50 on the train. he would be iusi
even. As II i, he is out a little.
A Council Bluffs divinity slipped
and fell on the sidewalk The other
day, raising lump on her forehead
as big as the tariff bill. and Young
drug clerk rushed ont with what
he thought was bottle OF camphor.
and smesrcd mucilage all over her
face. She has been TOO stuck up ever
since to speak to her own parents.
a Sioux City young man was out
calling the other evening, and when
he started home he left the room
bv the wrong door. aud bowed him
self down the cellar staits, reaching
the bottom in chaos Of pickle jars,
cracked plates. mackerel kits aud an
empty elder barrel. He saws he'll
never go out Of room backwards
again, he don't care how polite it is.
John \ Brlsall. Of Freeporf, has
a geod-sawing machine
which can saw three cords of wood a
dav. His little girl, only eigh, wears
old, has sawed wood with il all win
ter to keep two fires running. What
a boon is this to young men whose
mothers are getting SO old they can
not handle the old fashioned saw live
IL enough to keep all the fires going.
The other day al bttum~a lady
attempted to commit arsenic by swai-
lowing a dose Of suicide. but the doc.
tor brought pomaeh stump and three
kinds Of emetics, and by the time she
was turned inside oat she thought
she had been just as near dying as
she cared about. No reason is assign.
ed for her rash attempt, unless it be
that her Oldest son had joined a glcc
club.
The Iowa City PREF, has lady
newsboy,' and the Ottumwa Courier
thinks that on these rough wintry
days ''her rosy face charms the rough
wind into gentlensss. and its rude
shifting into the tenderness Of a
kiss" All. well, but our brother OF
the Courier should hear her open
her valve and sing out, q" Ere YOU
are. All about the great Beecher
trial Red hot and still a haatin'