The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1877-07-19
PASSING EVENTS.

echoes all along the line.
Owners of moving machines report /
the usual crop of several limbs.
TWENTY-FIVE cadets who failed at /
West Point have been dismissed.
The calls for the per cent. bonds /
are very numerous and gratifying.
The Russian law forhids the mar
riare of two brothers to two sisters.
The oldest co.fshers say that this /
is the best year for these fish since |
1885.
Downward goes our public debt.
Over three million wiped out last
month.
A New Jersey paper think of that
says Mexico makes more revolutions
than IL circular saw.
Mr.. Blaine has given 500 tn the =.
John sufferers. and Mrs Blaine l. man
aging the Lrlic-' Relief coni:nittee
OF Augusta.
| General Burnside has been present
ed with an escutcheoa representing
/ his military service. II come. from
his old soldiers.
Public opinion in West Virginia i,
| in .avor ~ the "Moonshiner-"- hence
| these tears OF the revenue official,
| who 20 for them.
The Silver Commission. in its re-
port just completed, argues that the
bonds must be paid in coin Of the
standard value Of 1870.
A soft. sad rumpr comes that the
"Mntuaa Friends, Frank Monlton
and Theodore Triton are now not only
e,trang,d, but hostile 10 each other.
Senator Morton left college IL get
married Smart man Morton: knew
there was nothing like mother-in-
law to bring him out. tone him M. a-
it were.
The Augusta C,.roaicie, Democratic.
sneerS ~ the idea of calling Mr.. Til
den martyr, because, II sagely oh
serves You can't burn an icicie III
the stake
MacMahon, ia his address. asked
the soldiers 10 help him keep order
The trouble with France in all her
history has been too much help from
that quarter.
Mr.. Tilden has returned his ticket
for the ocean voyage, and the cry Of
Fraud that was To have resounded
through Europe this summer Is in
definitely postponed,
An Atlanta man has invented "a
machine horse, and promises that If
| il win not carry man faster than
any ordinary horse he will eat it. cog
| wheels and all.
Alphabetically New Hampshire
paper says that ii it deyotes more |
space to the potato bugs than 10 the |
Legislature, il is because the bugs are !
doing the most work.
Dir. :. w. Williams is to be the Chi
nese Professor AT Yale, which, in add
ing TO its Faculty an endowed profess |
-orship Of the Chinese language and
literature, takes one more step in ri
valry with Oxford. The department
thus becomes permanent in Yale.
Mr.. Alexander II. Stephens is look
ing well; he presides at his table
punctuslly, and takes plenty of exer-
else in his new rolling chair. For the
| war in Europe he appears to care
| nothing. Il hate all wars" lie says,
"and will be satisfied if dogs who will
tight will keep away from my door. =
A Poughkeep9ie youth, with the as
sistaDce Of an elderly lady, has fitted
| out rooster with needed wooden
leg. At first the bird made frantic
efforts to kick it off. but this only
made him fall down, and 50 he ao-
copied the situation, and now uses the
leg with evident satisfaction. And
the boy is delighted.
4 venerable clergyman putt these
words into the mouth Of the typical
Bostonian: wv bat do you nIeau"Why,
! was born in Boston. sir;I was educat-
ell at the Latin School, sir: gradual
ed at Harvard University, sir Do you
mean TO say that such man as am
must be born again in order To see
+ the King lom ofGod"' Why the idea
Is prosposterou-.'
Look here, if this cyclone aud har-
ricane business il going 10 be carried
on a. a regular timing every week
somebody will begin to AK what adj
vantage there Is in living under a free
government. The -imnoni- OF the eff
fete monarchits of the Old World
couldn't do much more mischief 10
the houses and barns, the orchards
and "craps,n than these Western
blows are doing here under the broad
folds OF the Stars and Stripes. Gin
ci.noH Enqujrtr.
Old Field Marshal Wrangel il with
In few days Of his death. He j. the
senior of the German army and its
second Marshal, Prince Frederick
Charles, createi ia 1854, ranking him.
he Il now past ninety-four, and has
for eighty-two year. been on the army
roll At Waterloo. In 1915. he was
made Colonel. Buriag the Au-tro-
Prnssian campaign in 1856 the old
Marshal Wore for hi sole decoration
golden horseshoe given him for
good luck by the then Crown Prin-
cess. In 1879 he sent the most urgent
; OF appeals to the King to he allowed
70 take the field and die with hi. arm
or on, but the King, while heaping
honor upon him, refused this wish
: 30 dear To the old warriors heart.
i Washington has an aristocratie beer
man in Count Worch, German, ho
10 building magnificent turr.ted
house there, in which he Proposes Ia
sell the Teutonic beverage. He j. a
man of superb presence, over six fee,
high. With marked German features
light hair and full blend. wliskers,