The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-05-17
ODD OCCURRENCES.

A GANG of tranps found an unoeeupied
house in Minnesota With comfortable beds
cooking utensils, and stove They took
law.e possession, and IL was not until tho
end OF week that they learned that they
were In small-po pest house
A WISCONSIN schoelma am wished to cor
pora!ly lunish hig boy, but douhsed her
he gave the bully Of the school permission
to "a i>fy an old grudgo against him. and the
thrashing was quite Us severe rs she could
have wished
A STRANGER, Of respectable appearance
aud somewhat solemn demeanor entered u
-four dealers store In Oswcgo and said that
h. wished 10 pay for q barrel Of flaur fraud
Gleatiy obtained thirty Yeas aga He
s,alc ulated. that flour was then worth d Q
barrel. and wit out another word he handed
out Sl6 and went his way,
ANNIE GsaSpTER, IL, began several years
aco TO help her father, switch toader On
the CHICAGO, Milwaukee aud 81. Paul rail-
r. al, and for some time has had charge at
sioa month, OF seven important switched
She and her father live a BOX and Cox life,
she working from u III. TO U T. M, when
he relieves her, She is believed to he the
sole railroad switcheress In the country,
A FURNITURE dealer in Bowling Green, Ky
set q lot OF willow chairs out In front Of
his store the other day, TO attract tho at
t,n'ion of those who might be- looking for
goods that line When no went to take
them IA al night h. found them almost
covered with buds and yoang sp,ostS The
WILLOW Mas cat last fail and tue chairs
hu'!J aud vanished during the winter
P:SNsltsANIA is evidently no place II play
IA matrlton About Il year ago Dennis
to.tn AMI Annl Powers OF Altoona, aged
tc 80 tses III nj h, stood u IN q 10 lcly
q AZ. ard pfocla med ITEM elves married
Iaulla sahse ceatss cit acknowledged
SEES i vie. Sh. heeame mother and
&c deserted he, Tho Judge said le must
snrr nh.r In de,atit OF hail. Dennis
welt Jail
4 GENTLEMAN in Hartford who lost mis-
daughter last Christmas will not, in con O.
quclee al her expressed dread OF being nut
mt the ground, suiier her In he buried
lhe body lies IN the narlor, and n 1t an un-
aertaksr frequently applies prasersatsNeS
Every midnight the father dresses himself
and sits with the corpse a addressing To itwords
OF ,ndesfng affection as though his daugh-
ter heard Vt daylight he goes anu finishes
sls T., Acishbor> have tried IN vain TO
mdace am To consent To the burial HIS
wife Las suffered greatly and he has a. last
consented To a vault III his doorSatd, made
easily accessible so that no can stlll hold
gully communion With hls daughters re-
mains
A Suainl.G OF men We're carousng in Can
dclar a, Nv, lately, when doctor named
Mart Il int rrupted the half drunken ievelry
by assuming "a grave tone, and telling his
audi ice how he might become somebody
II he could only con iaer his mania Tor
drink, hut how he hid tried in vain sAh,
he said. "ll leave the world, but
boys as last favor, lot me do
80 to the sound II music His
friends summoned some Italian musicians,
and While they PLAYED the doctor took NOR
llline His friends, who did not believe
Martin WAS Ia earnest, gradually Lent the
saloon, and the saloon keeper, seeing him 70
sound loap, locked up the house and re-
tired In the morning the doctor WAS found
dead