The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1879-12-05
IslsEylTlES.
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HanAfio SEYMOUR il in his 10Th year.
Cornrsnir il draw game marriage
il a tie.
Anna DICKINSON is working on sew
eral plays.
TnE Whic House a. Washington II
10 years old.
Tnr shah has established tho decimal
system of coinage.
TWENTY. sweet potatoes
are raised III California.
THE number III CLristianixcd Jews In
England Is set nj 1000.
TM.nr are said 10 he 300 American
art students now IN Paris.
MARTIN LUTHER was tho hero Of
play lately produced In Paris.
A MONUMENT on the top Of Lookout
Mountain % Fighting Joe Hooker In
talked oil.
TmEy have killed rattlcsnakc In
Kern county, California, that had forty
two rAttles,
DrniSa her six years soionrn abroad.
Carlotta Patti appeared IN over 1000
concerts.
Az clopcment, followed by mar
rage in England, IL not regarded M u
legal marriage in France.
FLoRlpA reports that some time II will
literally supply the North with straw.
berries in miawinter.
The weather has hecn so favorable in
Oglethorpe county, ua., that tho third
crop 81 tgs for 1879 IL nearly ripe.
A wALNrr.TlMnEn boom IL going on
in Tennessee. Every saw.mill il saving
u fast. There IL u great demand for it
| Ia London.
| scissors, which are still made in
Sheffield, England, by 4 tedious hand
| process. arc made Ut one stroke oil die
N Connecticut.
Tnf matter Of making straw hats was
started BY 4 little girl in Dedham, Mass.
and from this hua grown widely-cx-
tended business.
Tux law passed. ut tile late session oil
the Alabama Legislature prohibiting the
purchase Ut cotton in seed has been de-
/ cided unconstitutional.
TME bulk 81 prnssian prisoners are
employed nj cignr-making. because the
wok takes little space md II 10 readily
learned by young and old alike.
A SINGLE hair from the head ri 4
pretty woman brought $50 ut rattle fol
the benefit Of ten. Hoods children IN
I,owndes county, Ala., the othci day.
/ QUEEN vicTonlA's Kitchen II regularly
supplied with u ~ a.barrcl iloui--rcd
winter wheat from Americas great
Weat by order Of the lady Of the house
/ Miss KosE MkEkEE. one OF tho sur
vivors of the Ute massacre, will lecture
IN the Eastern States this season. Sh.
will cndcavor 70 enlighten the peace
policy people.
II Ii understood In railroad circles in
Texas that the leading roads IN the State
are forming combination for m or
ganixcd and systematic effort 10 indn I
European immigration.
A WHITE swan, measuring 5Gl inchc,
from the tip Of the toes 10 the end of th.
bcak, and ID inches across the wings
and weighing | | pounds, was shot neal
Washington, Pr. Last week.
JunS BRlanT declares that ii he MAS
teacher In ! school hc would make il :,
very important part of his business 4
impress every hoy and girl with the dnt,
0f being kind 10 All ANIMALS.
/ TmEnE are stretches OF country il
Arizona where, for distances of lift,
miles, water cannot be procured 70
travellers without paying prices rangin.
| from W 10 II per barrel.
OvER $l,5nO.OOO has already bcc,
spent by The Government III tho pnr
cllasc Of the lot and erection of th,
! Philadelphia postoilicc. and anotllc
/ sl,5OO0O0 will completeit.
EldmTEES months since twenty wi,
carp we've placed In spring IN Bono
mn county. Cal. They have multiplied
until now there over 1000. tho largcs
about nine inches long.
THE biggest area III oil lands over din
posed oi In Pennsylvania Ut once WI
tho recent sale u the TOO Arres con
priscd In the Moody tract, near Brad
ford, 70 three companies, for elO5. QUO.
Il SUNDAY in Newark. n. j.. where r.
Gently there WAS 70 Mnrh excitement
about the Liquor law, has settled dowl
into : quiet acceptance of Tho situation
aud the Germans get all tho beer the,
want.
il TmkEk kittens hav. died oil diplthe
ria in Ogden>bnrg. They contracte.
the disease from children affected will
II. Tho post-mortem examination
.howsd plainly The diphthssetic mem