The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-12-30
SPIRIT OF THE NEWS.

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Near Chico. Col, one day last week
was seen coal-black deer, the first one
in that region.
4 young lady, at Dcscronto, Canada.
attracts attention by promenading the
streets with A cigarette between her
teeth.
Lincoln County, Minnesota, supports
a single pauper. and the County Board
recently allowed him $O.55 to pay his
barber bill.
England has decided to reduce the
standing army Of Egypt to 10000 men
and the army Of occupation to half
that number.
The highest State and county tax
paid in California is 81 OH the 800
The lowest lin San Joaqnin) is $40
on the 800.
A great religious revival is sweeping
over northern New Brunswick. It is
said to be unequaled in the history Of
the provinces.
The revenue officers captured $1,000
worth Of smuggled opium that was
thrown overheard from steamer off
San Francisco harbor one day last
week.
An artesian well at Portland. Ore
gone is down eighteen hundred feet and
has cost SO far $4,000. with no pros
poets yet Of securing . good flow Of
water.
A carload Of hops, twenty five
thousand pounds, arrived at Salt Lake.
Utah, from Germany. one day last
week. They are to be used in making
German beer.
Social circles Mt Portland, Oregon,
have been racked recently over = suit
brought by a florist for the price Of a
bouquet which young man presented
to bridesmaid and then refused TO pay
for.
At Greenvilic. Pa, last week, the
domestic servants struck for 50 cents
more week. They propose to boy
colt any girl who refuses to join the
movement and any man who refuses to
pay the advance.
o. A. Linden. who was employed
last summer rs clerk in steamship
Office at Chicago stole $500 and went
round the world. On reaching San
Francisco he surrendered and was
brought back for trial.
A Boston party put large terrapin
in box and kept it there three months
without food or drink. Last week he
took it out, and found that it weighed
an ounce more than it did three months
ago. So says The Journal.
Near Santuck, S. c., last week a
sportsman is said to have killed fifteen
partridges at one shot. The birds were
standing with their heads close in line,
and he sent his rifie-ball along the line,
taking off the heads Of the fifteen.
The high license system has proved
successful and satisfactory in every
State in which it has been tried, and
the Legislature of Alabama is on the
right track when it seeks to increase
the license in this State" says the
Selma Gala. Times.
Frank Grcve, hunting deer on Blue
mountain. California, saw one pass
over ridge. He hurried up, andlook
ing down the slope. and seeing what
he thought was the deer fired. and put
4 bullet through the leg Of man who
was STOPPING over shoyeling.
A man whom he had married the
night before went to 4 clergyman At
Greenfield, Mass, not long ago. and,
saying that the cost of the wedding re-
ception had exceeded his calculations.
requested loan OF the IS paid as a
wedding fec. The money was returned,
but has never been repaid.
The other night. duringa disastrous
fire at Buffalo,N. Y. became necessary
to use an extension ladder, and almost
fifteen minutes were lost before it
could be got to the roof. the firemen on
the ladder being engaged all that time
in clipping with shears, piece by piece,
the almost endless network OF wires.
Last week the snow-sheds built east
of Rogers Pass, on the Canadian
Pacific, were visited by an immense
avalanche. which struck the sheds and
shot one hundred feet into the air and
into the valley below without having
the least effect on the work. Thousands
Of tons Of snow, ice, and rock were in
the slide.
The recent snow in the south was 4
sad occasion for the rabbits. Untold
thousands of the little animals we're
slaughtered. They were shipped into
Atlanta by the thousand, in many
cases several hundred being packed ina
single box. The commission-house
were blocked with rabbits. and they
were not fast sale.
Boston Record: The oldest oil
maid in the world. woman named
Benoite, has been discovered at Auch
in France. She is lO9 years old, borl
the year before our Declaration O
independence. She was grown NJ
when Napoleon passed through hel
native village, and the hundred year.
seem only little while ago to her.
The champion toboggan slideis bein,
constructed at Kingston. N. Y. TIL,
toboggans will 60 a long distance dowl
one steep incline and, paradoxical as j,
may appear onthe return trip they viii
descend nearly as great a distance n
the end Of which. on ascending lonj
flight OF stairs. the toboggahers vii
find themselves at the point where the,
started from.
| Ehe celebrated shop called the Bol
Marche, in Paris, has ..bantl'' or or
chcstra composed of $50 of the men an,
women connected with tho establish
ment. The other evening writes cor