Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-01
Iowa vs.. Nebraska.

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western Iowa this spring has assumed
proportions by 10 means inconsidera-
bic. More than in former years people
are becoming impressed with the fact
that Iowa is III many more senses than
one far better State for the farmer,
mechanic and laborer, than either
Kansas or Nebraska. The disadvan-
tAges incident to a beginning on the
frontier IRE rot experienced in Iowa as
in Kansas and Nebraska. Iowa has no
waste. arid lands, such as constitute
about two-thirds o: the area of Nebras.
ka. She seldom experiences anything
like even partial failure of crops as do
Kansas and Nebraska, on an average OF
two ont of every four years, either by
drouth, by ravages by grasshopper. or
both at once. Either one of the Eighth
or Ninth Congressional Districts Of
Iowa contains greater agricultural re-
source than the entire State of Nebraska,
and to say nothing of the advantage of
proximity to market, and better railroad
facilities, superiority of schools, church
associations, etc. The very face of the
country must recommend itself to the
careful and disinterested observer as
fur more inviting than the flat and
dresry mouotonous landscape of Ne
braska. With now nearly million
and three-quarters of people covering
So 900 square miles of land in her limits
unsurpassed in the great northwest for
richness, she welcomes the immigrants
who will help to swell her population
to two and half millions in 1890, and
bids them welcome with the assurance
that she can we'll find room for more
than ten millions of happy, prosperous
people, Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
POINTED PRAyING.- The chaplain
who opened the Springfield, ILL.,, House
of Representatives with prayer recent
ly, made Il very important innovation
ou tho usual method of performing that
ceremony. He begged that 1.-The
Omnipotent would give the members
more wisdom and greater promptitude. :"
This was very good, but it was tame
compared with that portion Of prayer
offered in the Pennsylvania House one
morning when the clergyman raised
his voice and said: 20 Lord, give
these law makers more brains more
brainsl! more brains! ~ AS he
uttered this pious petition the third
time the word "amen" was heard at the
reporters table. A Maine paper re-
ports an incident of similar character.
She Senate of that State was in dead
lock and the preacher who opened with
prayer used the following appropriate
language: 80 Lord, have compassion
on oar bewildered representatives and
senators. They have been sitting and
sitting, and have hatched nothing. 0
Lord, let them arise from their nest
and so home, and all the praise shall
be Thine"
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two Decoration Day speeches, one fo,
Southern and the other for Northern
use, and lie gets them in the wrong
envelopes, it is very embarrassing tt
tho orators when they get about one
third through with the orations. to find
what they are coming to and that the
crowd is beginning to pick up stones
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