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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-12-04
THIS AND THAT.

MONKEYS ale coming into demand 81
ladies pets.
MAID $. weighs SIC pounds, She is at
Chester Park, Cincinnati, her old home.
4 JUSTICE OF THE PEACE In Harrison
County. Miss, presid with his coat aud
shoes off
Tar larpest gem ever cut III this country
has been named the Cleveland Gem, after
the President elect.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-12-04

MAJ. GEN. HANCOCK will retire i'm Eel
ruaas. lsse-
Il Denver one household out Of every
i've il without Iiha..
BARTHOLOMEW BIsss, the English
langman. las bsen deposed f"E e.ttlne
drunk.
BENJAMIN H. BKIsToa l. talked II -
the magwnmp representative I'm Cleveland >
Cabinet,
Turar hate is.s-ta hFr IEesiasisii.l
witsawers III the White Lots@-5etisfss saa,
tasksoa. Ssa Eagsa, I!lsf. LID Artaa9.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-12-04

al fApe Age
A saenna dispatch announces the death
If Fanny Elssler in the sd year Of her
azr. ~he VA a native IF that city. and With
her si~ter. Tl4eresa. WAS educated for the
hall.t III saI,les. The sirst grand triumph Of
tie two sisters took place In Berlin in 1859,
aud i'm a t.anr If tn yeats through Europe
Eannss reputation rs aansease Was SO
franis established thai IN lsii tie two SIS
t.-ss visited America. where their tour was
a succession If oAaiaons- Returning 10
Europe. sAe again snade tour of tie psan-
s-agaal e.ties. anil In Is5s rlnaliy gave up the
tag and settled IN slsnna, where she Las
s4nre resided. There sLe became the wife
# Prince Aaelbs1s II Prussia, and aas
eEnolsisd .gs tic King # Prussia.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-12-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

At q copper camp in Sonora, Mexi-
can police attempted 10 disarm number of
merieans. and In the ARRAY six men we're
killed. and many others wounded.
Mrs Boutel. the Quebec murderess.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-12-04

Dk TAILOR, til Bishop a. Africa, pro-
.Hosss instead II teaching has assistant his
sloslasaer Gle native languages, 10 searh tho
natives English as tie sLostsE l.etbod
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-12-04
Democratic plurality


II will BE- Observed that the Republican
GAIN in the city is actually larger in pro-
portion than that If the Democrats, The
Republican vote has risen from 81, .sa to
sa.lsas. an increase If S.s,ss, or snas per
cent. while the Democratic vote has risen
from lsa.uta In iss, las, an iaessase ot
10, IL. ar Sal per cent
The city returns show that the Blaine
electors ran ~, OA sotcs ahead Of the Re
publican ticket for Assemhlsmea ami hi. tNso
ahead II the Republican candidates for
Aldermen. The Cleveland electors, GA the
other hand. fell lA.usa below the neaao-
cratic candidates for Assemhiymen and
III ,uun below the Democratic ticket for
Aldermen. The Republican candidate for
Mayer received A.. 100 fever Votes than the
Blaine electors while the two Democratic
candidates for Mayer pollea together 4s.9'o
more Votes than the Cleveland electors.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-12-04
Republican, plurality

II thus appears that the ne,asvM,lc vote
in New York. exclusive ef the city, has III
creased fsom AL ,iae in i>>a tn ~ ats In
ISL, a gain If is,saa, while tho Republican
vote has fallen feem -, Sill In i>SaA tn isi.-
a,S, decrease of i,sssa, The former, taese.
fare, shows gain If a,is per eent,, While
the latter shows loSs af L rer cent,
In the city the iigoses for iSSa aud for
lsSa aee AS follows
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-12-04
NEW lOkk.


The eemrss,e nturas IT the sase for
Presidential electors IN New Nu.k shaw
that the total Republican vote III the State,
outside of the city, Is actually less ,haa il
VAS in 1854 Hste ass the Exares>
i~>a N~&A
Democratic. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS aass Ni.aaN
Republican ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ct.aN asS>A
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-10-25

A company is getting ready to build
a pneumatic tube for carrying letters
and small packages from Chicago to
New York. The idea at first seems i'm
practicable, but on examination it turns
out to he feasible. Two tubes are to
be made of brass, which will run side
by side, although it is said one tube
will he tried first. A powerful engine
with an exhaust wheel is to be stationed
at one end. 1t is SAID that If the tube
is properly made and planted no all
will escape, The right of way it il
believed can be secured for nothing, OF
at nominal expense, and the maiI
cost will be the tubes, the engines and
stations A letter, sample of grain
or package OF any kind which is to b'
sent, Is enclosed in a leather ball. A
ball presents the least friction as a roll
ing object, and the leather is to b,
stiff and heavy. A continuous cur
rent of air is passing through the tub,
constantly. With one pipe the plan i
to reverse the engine every hour-th
first hour forcing the air into it at Chi
cago and sending packages to NeN
York, the next hour exhausting the al
at Chicago and drawing the package
as quickly back. The men who hay
it in charge do not say how long it wi
take to send a package this way, bu
claim to be able to do it in less than
minute. Stations will be establishe
at the important cities on the route. l
is expected to pay large profit, and t
do the business Of the telegraph com
panies, express companies and the mai
They say the scheme of sending crud
petroleum by pipe for long distance
as is now done, Was laughed at 1t frs
and that this one is more practicable
! if pos ible, and not nearly so costly, (
the pipes are to be small and can Z
around curves and over hills as well 1
on level.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-10-25

Twenty years ago the SWISS monster
hotel was justly considered the best of
its kind. Nowhere else were the
accommodation and the attendance so
god, There was sort Of Arcadian
such as is yet found in old
inns of the Overland about the people.
They were cordial and polite, and the
bill--that snake in the grass which
often embitters the feeling between
host and guest-was reasonably moder-
ate. All that has been changed. A
young generation OF hotel keepers has
grown up to inherit the paternal keys;
and it has occurred to Young Switzer-
land that the best way to squeeze a
profit out of travellers is to bully them.
All individuality is to be strictly re-
pressed as it was in German hotels
when Erasmus was young student.
Pilgrims may scramble fer rooms, be
thankful when they get what they
want and meek and mute when they do
not, or it will be the worse for them.
There is food In plenty at the gigantic
table d'hOte; otherwise let the laggar /
wait for the next meal. Vim ordinaire,
called by eight different names, and at
various prices on the wine list, should
content the thirstiest. There must be
no complaints, no whims and fancies.
Not every Swiss landlord has the spirit
to summon his retainers and hurl recall
citrant visitors down a flight of stone
steps, as happened two or three year.
since at the Right. But it is not fol
nothing that the innkeeper is a Magis
trate, Judge and landamman, perhaps
the grandest parsonage in his commun
perhaps IN his canton. He is NOR
secure IN his hotel than was Front-de
Bpuf In his robber castle. 1t woul'
take u combined crusade to get at him
and it ia fortunate that he is merciful
if morose, for he is virtually above tn
law.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-10-25

very interesting addition has re-
ceutly been made to the Z0oogical
Gardens, London, in the shape of an
electric eel--gymsotttselectr Ii rs
SAID TO be nearly six feet In length, and
must therefore I've one of the very largest
specimens OF Its kind. Those who re-
member the palmy days Of the old Poly
technic msy recollect 8 diminutive cleo
rical eel which used to deal out very
decided shocks TO visitors who had the
temerlty TO touch II and which used to
kill, or at any rate TO stun, the live fish
which were put into its tank for food.
aree- newcomer is altogether more for
midable fellow, and when he has had
time to recruit after the long voyage
from South America, during which he
was rather cruelty coiled IN vessel in
which he could not move without chatting
himself raw IN several places, 1t will be
anything but wise 10 venture on any lib
critics with him.
humboldt, when in the native home OF
his fish in and about the RIO Colorado,
measured some that were five feet five
inches ia length, but, though the indians
said there were larger, he himself saw
none. The captive in Regents Park is
no doubt therefore, a very big specimen,
aud there can be llttle doubt of its power.
Humboldt thought that the Indians of
the locality referred to had exa ggerated
idess On this subj but they no doubt
had had pra 'tical experience, while the
lllustrious traveller seems to have pru.
IDENTIFY RETAINED from testing the matter,
except In the case OF an eel in some.
what exhausted condition. He admits
that 1t would be tementy to expose one'i
self to the first shock Of large anc
strongly initiated gymnotus, and though
he does not mention any case within hi
knowledge u any human life beng los
by a shock from the fish, the mode o.
catching them adopted by the Indians
seems 10 render 1t by 40 means incredible
that, as some have asserted, thus fish il
capable of killing man.
The Indians, 1t seems, are accustomed
when they want TO catch gynnoti, u
scour the country round for wild horse
and mules, which they drive into pond
where the tish arc known to be, and 81
violent are the discharges of the pent-ul
lightnlngs to which these ANIMALS are ex
posed that, though they are not actually
killed by electricity, they are so stunDe,
and disabled that usually several of then
are drowned. Humboldt once impru
IDENTIFY put both his feet on an electric &c
just taken out Of the water; and, thousl
he does not speak of it as large one, h,
says he never experienced from a larg
Leyden jar more dreadful discharge thai
he felt on that occasion. He was affecte,
all day with a violent paIn IN every ioin
Of his body. 1t seems 10 be general,
agreed that the electric force of this fish |
closely dependent upon its general vitality
and as the new arrival Is as yet only in
comparatively poor condition, perhaps n
great harm would result from bodily con
tact with it.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-10-25

A GENTLEMAN who owns a hne tract
of cedar land not far from Austin, Tex
as, few days ago was told that some
negroes were cutting down the timber;
so he rode out to see about it. To his
establishment he found wealthy white
neIghbor, with team and wagon, haul
ing off the timber. why, L am as
tonished, Colonel, said the owner OF
the land; 81 heard that lot of negroes
were stealing my timber, and here j
find you, white man, cutting my tim
Der. You ought to be ashamed of your.
sell" swell, to tell the TRUTH" re
sponded the other party, II do hate tc
steal timber like darkey, but these
cedar trees make such bully fence rail-
that concluded to drop all pride o
race"
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-10-25
Eu-Empress eugene Dying.

According to the European gossips
the life of the ex-Empress Eugene is
drawing very nearly to a close. Were
it otherwise there would be still greater
grounds for surprise. If the ex-Em.
press life has not been long one, at
least it has been crowded with events
exciting and sorrowful after manner
unparalleled in modern history. Sdch
writers as Irving and Merimee have
presented to us the llttle child in frocks.
avid of buns, and as we'll the graceful
girl in her teens, unconscious of the
fate which the future held in store Tor
her--grand and gloomy. Splendid as
was her career during the Second En-
pire-so fair and so familiar in all its
features that the sewing-girls of Paris
put aside their braziers of charcoal and
resolved to live and become Expresses
lit was by no means one of unalloyed
enjoyment. Her life was spent under
the aim of the assassin, or she was
made the target of foes still more mer-
ciless-of photographers and of polemics,
who did not shrink from libeling with
impalt ial malignity the sovereign, the
wife and the mother. Even about the
days when the Second Empire was
crumbling into the abyss history has
twined a garland of dishonoring mven-
tion, and we have the Empress eeclar-
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-10-25
1000 Worth of liam.

A well-known hard card-player fell
up against the well-developed faro
game in Chicago during the recent
races in that city, and during an uIl-
usually fierce and sanguiuary argument
with the tiger, quit loser about 1000,
winch amount represented every cent
he owned in the world. AS he rose to
leave the gilded arena, specializing the
while Oh the condition of the walking
between Chicago and PIttsburg, the
dealer remarked, in a very cheerful
manner, "Hold on minute we're
going to have a little lunch Of cold
ham, etc., in a few minutes. Won't
you Join us ?" "Join you, be-"
roared the victim of the combat, as he
turned on his heel with an air of dis
dain and quit the place; "Do 20
think can cot 81, 800 worth OF ham
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-10-25

The agitation for arming the police
in England is represented by an agita'
ton in France for disarming them.
Both movements are in their places
natural enough. London has police
men shot by burglars, and in Paris
they have innocent wayfarers stabbed
and cut down by gendarmes. Another
case occurred only a few days ago, in
which a policeman aroused a sleeping
man, and "lest he should call fol
accomplices," cut him over the heat
with his sword and nearly killed him
The MAJ, as it turned out, was per
fectly innocenl Of any criminal inten
| ions.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-10-25

Twixt mountain and sea- on q strip
of sandy waste, and hanked by gloomy
pinewoods, is hot bald piazza, sur
rounded at intervals by poor, painted,
houses. A sandy track leads to the
beach, on which lie huge black boats
OF quaint rig and stacks OF marble
slabs. Towards the rugged marble
hills the land softens into olive-gardens
and little vineyards, where corn grows
up amidst shelterlng vines. Brown
men and women, bright with colored
scarfs, toll in the fields, whilst patient,
mild-eyed oxen drag the wooden plough
or draw down white marble slabs to-
wards the sea. Wild, haggard valleys,
wrecked into stones, lie behind those
first olive-clad swells of land, and high
up, the mountain peaks seem to bleed
red and white, CALLED by the insect man.
And ever and anon there are puffs of
white smoke and light reports in tha
distance as the miners srsneals he
again. In-tbe onk-s,'fu, SPEAKS ~,
valleys --ftfinase englneer-l55 at worl
of with + q, railrpis below. in thos'
-, wasted with fallen rocks, crowd
% Ml6ge-hmbed, shaggy men await thu
rough-hewn blocks which roll and LEAF
In the horr1d race down from the woun
ded mountain side. And one may see
swarm of such men armed with ponder
GUS iron bars leap, Lilliput like, upol
some fallen monster, the which the,
will push and pull, amid rythmic cries
on to low wheeled wagons. Hug
wooden wagon these, such as som
hundreds OF Israeps poor nuditie
might have dragged, charged witt
granite rocks, for some Egyptlal
PhRraoh's burial
And now come the ten yoke of oxel
with a driver balanced athwart eac
yoke, goad armed TO prick the haltin
ones. A block OF rough stope drag
behind as the noisy train descends th
deeply track, and the shadow
are dark in the bright sunlight an til
load is left to be hewn into new whit
slabs by the many awed saws Of th
water-mill below. Hence come thos
piles, those heaps OF marble on eltht
side of the low jetty, on the sand-ridg
by the sea, sorted right and left, gray,
yard-like in utter nakedness as
against some Judgment day. And whe
the white moon wanders up at nigh
they stand like gentle ghosts, bngl
shining path over the sea lying all b.
fore them. No need then there seem
Of those black prison-houses, tho
great boats that lie like cast-of shell
of huge leviathans-no need, the
seems, OF these to wing the white sou
on their way.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-10-25

Young people should acquire the habit
OF correct speaking and writing, and aban'
don as early as possible any use of slang
words and phrases. The longer you put
this of the more difficult the acquiremen,
of correct language will be; and if the
golden age of youth, the proper season fol
the acquisition OF language, be passed in
lis use, the unfortunate victim will mos
probably be doomed to talk slang for life
You have merely to use the Language
which you read instead of the slang whlcl
you hear TO form taste IN agreenen
with the best speakers and poets in tb
country.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-10-25

1t is one of those strange inconsist-
cies of human nature that men prefer
TO do good through that Of Justice.
Be not penny-wise; riches sometimes
fly away of themselves; sometimes they
must be sent flying to bring in more.
Every man is not so much work
man in the world as he is a suggestion
of what he should be. Men walk as
prophecies of the next age.
A kind voice is lark's song to a
hearth and home, and the sweetest
music in all the world to one who Loves
you. 1t is to the heart what light is tc
lie eye.
What is defeatp Nothing but eduea
n, nothing but the first step to some
ng better,
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-10-25

The reign of James l of England
was an era of colonization. The East
India CompaHy's charter was renewed
and its first factory planted at Surat in
1912. Two associations, known re-
spectively as the Plymouth and the
London company, were chartered in
1905 for planting and tilllng New Eng
land in America, The kings name was
given to jamestown in Virginia, the
first English town within the present
limits of the United States.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-10-25

The water power Of the Falls of
Niagara is being utilized in Buffalo,
twenty-five miles distant from the
great cataract. For the last ten days
says the Buffalo Commercial, the cleo
tricity by which all the telephones in
this city have been run after dark has
been generated at Niagara Falls by
water power and the magnetic current
transmitted over a telephone wire.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-10-25

]. s. WOODWARD, OF LockpOrt, N.
Y. says that he has grown early lambs
Tor market for years, but never succeed.
ed in making any money from them until
he began growing supply of roots for
feeding the ewes 30 as to make free
flow of milk. He prefers mangel wur-
zels to either turnips or sugar beets in
part, because the mangels will keepItn
good condition for feeding until late.in
winter
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-10-25
"HAs - rs q

''HAs y = -
asks. nat baby got the iaundice?"
He'd cranky old bachelor of a young
mother
"of course it hasn't. Why do you
think SOP"
"Because 1t is such an ugly yeller."
"YoU are splendid risk, assure
you, said the insurance agent. 'tPerfect
physical condition. long-liyed ancestry,
never took a more satisfactory risk.
Let's see, your business.
"Baseball umpire"
"Whewl Well, that makes a differ
ence. Our company never handles ex-
ira hazardous risks.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-10-25

The new City Hall of Vienna is one
of the most magnificent buildings in
Europe, the area being one-third larger
than the Hotel de Vile of Paris. 1t is
in the style of the thirteenth and
fourteenth centuries. About sixteen
years have been occupied in completing
the great structure.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-10-25

Too DEEP FOR HIS Crowd. An es.
capped inmate OF the Concord Summer
School Of Philosophy, finding himself
at large, fed to the West, and lectured
in Cheyenne on the Exceeding Thing
ness OF the Here"
Simple psychological phenomena,
he SAID, "the intellectual activities Of
mental faculties, as distinguished from
inanimate forces of nature, or the ira
tionsl impulse Oh"
And here the audience arose and
drove him forth. They were plain, sim
pie folk, they said, but no man coult
come down from Boston and use sucl
language as that in room full of ladies'
"AoTIvE shears gather no rust, as tn,
western editor said Ahen he sat dow
to his daily work.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-10-25

In ground-iloor room In one of tn
large public buildings of London man
sat writing at a table covered with pa
pers. He was short, strongly built
figure, with prominent nose and face
hard and massive as granite statue,
wearing the set look peculiar to men
who have surmounted great difficulties
and confronted great perils. Few, in
deed, had had more practice in both
than this man, for he was no other than
the Duke of Wellington, and his crown
ing victory at Waterloo was still but a
few years old. There was the tinkle of
a bell outside, and then a murmur Of
voices in the anteroom; but the Duke
never raised his head from his writing,
even when his secretary entered and
said. eff 1t please your Grace, that
man with the bulIet-proof breastplate
has called again, and wishes very much
to see your Grace for moment" The
Duke'sface darkened, as well 1t might,
for the man in question was the most
pertinacious bore whom he had ever
encountered. The bullet-proof cuirass
was his own invention, and he never
lost a chanca az doclorino Tho, tho
safety of the whole British army de.
pended upon its instant adoption of this
ried about With him ard avh,hitad q,
all timas and In ali n,ooas Uod th,o
been all he uonId' Co., hnvo 49, S;a,
nosad Of. hut unlncl,Iv no hod oon
ont,jvod a. ;,to.oa. - ~ ,.a.4ie..
one or two Of ,ho DnLa,s nouso,ai
fr;ends and 70 not f.on, IT,, ,a,.as. ~
recommeulation which avon waI,;nO
ton could NOT oas,,,, disrooond Sc
thing m,st o,oar1,, ha - hn,o',a,,
for a,thouoh Tho se,,o,r h.d p;thorto
hoar ,,o,,t 90 hos, 10 80 a,';s.o.,.', -, -, "
termined 70 rive ,ha nh ~ -.
I'M tho roatta, had No., ell, ~ - -.
For r,ou,o,t IUo,,,,.a. 49,, ~
gr;m that tho soorotorv honan 30 80
for the order which he Gladly would
have obevad viz IN kicr Inc ;nvantor
into the street forthwith Rrt tbo nevt
instant the iron face cleared again and
over If pIaved tbe very oboat az smile
like CLEAN of winter Sunshine nnon .
precinice sShow hin, i'm ,, .oid no
briefly Tho ohservant socroto rv
noted both the tome and fine smile that
accommodated -. a,d ha ;,,,,,a,5I,' -;
ded that Il ,ro,,IS ha,o hno, - uV 90
aed that IL would nave been better for
that inventor if he had not insisted on
seeing the Duke. In came the great
dlscoVerer-a tall, slouchmg, shabby,
slightly red nosed man, with would be
jaunty air, which gave way little,
however, before the ''Iron Duke's' PEN
etratlng glance. II am glad TO think
that your Grace appreciates the merits
OF my INVENTION" said he, in a patron
izlng tone They are, indeed, too
Important to be undervalued by any
great commander. Your Grace cannot
fail to remember The havoc made by
your gallant troops at Waterloo among
the French cuirassiers, whose breast
plates were not bullot-proof; whereas,
If" 'Have you got the thing with
your" interrupted Wellington. The
inventor unwrapped very snowy look.
ing cuirass Of polished steel, and was
just beginning long lecture upon ite
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-10-25

A new volcanic island has appeared
off Cage Reykjanes, at the southwest
point of Iceland. 1t was first noticed
at the end of July, after several earth
quake shocks, but no one has yet Ian
ded on its shores, and part of the cone
already appears to have given way.
Such islands have repeatedly appeared
in the same district since Iceland was
first colonized, and at the end of last
century similar temporary formation
was occupied by the Danes as New
Island" but it disappeared in less than
a month