The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1876-01-27
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Nearly all the coal mines In wy.
oming Territory are worked by China
men.
A bill to establish the whipping
post for wife beaters has been intro
duced in the California Legislature.
Dishonesty In Eureka, Nevada, runs
In strange directions. The best
hearse in town was recently stolen.
A premium h annually given In
Oregon to the person who kills the
largest number Of squirrels during
the season.
Lord DufYerin wants the Dominion
TO erect yice-reRal palace or sum-
mer residence for him at Quebec, at .
cost Of 100000.
New instruments have been ap-
piled In the tunnelling Of Mount st.
Gothard, and the work is proceeding
more rapidly than heretofore.
A bill providing for the abolition Of
the death penalty and the substitution
OF Imprisonment for life has passed
two readings In the Mexican Senate.
An effort Is to be made to transplant
soles and turbot To the waters OF the
United States These fish are very
valuable, and rank high among table
delicacies OF England
The largest polished plate ever e.
hibited was the work of the Thames
Plate Glass Company OF England,
measuring nineteen feet five inches
long, and ten feet three inches wide.
The Rev. Mr.. Noble, a Free Metho-
dist preacher of Portage, Wis, has
purchased a steamboat. in which he
travels up and down the Wisconsin
river holding revival meetings at every
landing.
-Four artists are forever at work In
the Uffilzi Palace at Florence, copying
q picture Of Fra Angelica, a 'try-
pitch" with a border Of heavenly mu-
sicians. 1t takes eight days to make
copy, which sells for sixty to eighty
francs.
In France the average salary OF
workmen without board or lodging)
Is sixty eight cents; in Germany,
Italy and Switzerland. thirty-eight
cents, in England. eighty-three cents,
living being thirty per cent dearer
than In France.
The Rev. DR.. Cuyler, reckless OF
accuracy, says: This nation is
spending more money for intoxicating
drink than for all the bread it eats,
and all the clothes it wears, and all
the books IT reads, and all the
churches 1t has ever built"
During last summer 100 persons,
mostly tourists from the East and
from Europe, visited the petrified
forest In Santa Rosa township, Cali.
fornia. The forest contains about
three hundred trees, the largest OF
which is eleven feet in diameter at the
butt.
The plan finally adapted for rect-
flying the course Of the Tiber contem-
plates shifting the he'd OF the river, re-
moving the bridges which impede Its
downward flow. and strengthening IT.
winding course below the city. The
approximate expense is ten millions.
Charles Francis Adams says. In a
letter to the Quincy tMass.) Patriot,
that three-fourths Of the books In
brisk demand Mt the public libraries
are 'vapid aud sensational" He
thinks that parents ought to guide
the children's tase in the choice Of
reading more than they do.
In the reconstruction Of the Hotel
de Vile. Paris. a machine is used for
cutting stone which does in one day
the work OF fifteen men. 1t IL COM
posed OF two revolving cylinders fur
nished with marble hammers, by
means Of which the stone Is separated
with great raridity and precision.
The French town OF Nerrac is about
10 be lighted by gas made from cork
waste and cuttings. These are dis
titled In close vessel or retort, and
the gas obtained Is said to be brighter
and whittier than that Of coal. The
blue or non-luminous zone is smaller,
and the gas itself has greater densi-
ty than that from the ordinary coal.
A horticulturist sells Baldwin ap.
pies at SO IA barrel. He takes a slip
Of paper and cuts children's names !:
then places the paper around the ap-
pies when they begin to color, and In
week or two Mamie, jamie, Johnny,
Minnie or Susie appear on the apples
In large red letters. These picked
and barrelled by themselves bring
fancy prices.
The Emperor Of Russia Is quite
young in comparison with his most
important contemporaries. He Is In
his fifty-eighth year. His uncle, Kai.
ser Wilhelm, is twenty-one years
older. While Alexander Is much at
tached to his uncle Of Germany his
son and heir hates Germany and the
Germans. Hence the Cars CON-
parative youth is good thing for
Europe.
The suit Of prominent gentleman
and his wife, OF Chicago, each seeking
for divorce from the other, Is novel
In the character OF the witnesses. The
husbands own daughter, by a pre-
vious marriage, testified against him,
and against the wife appeared her
mother, sister and brother. A clergy
man is introduced as the writer Of i'm
proper letters to the wife.
NJ. Lavally, President OF the French
Society Of Civil Engineers, and inven-
tor Of the dredging machines for the
Suez isthmus, announces that the fif-
teen scientific soundings taken be-
tween Dover aud Calais conclusively
prove that a tunnel uniting England
and France is feasible. The matter
now is only one Of time and money.
The eruptions OF Mount Vesuvius,
which is again active, amounted ac-
cording to the historians, to nineteen
from the first to the seventeenth GEN.
tury, when twenty-three were recorded.
In the eighteenth century twenty
three took place, and in the present
century there have already been
twenty-five or one every three years.
GERMAN WAVES.
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