The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-05-20
SPIRIT OF THE DAY.

patient innocnlatad by Pasteur, and
the first American lady.
Illinois will have but one candidate
in the next Republican National con-
yention, Gen. Logan
Agnes Carroll. stepdanghter Of Gen.
r. f. Lee. has been betrothed to Court
Antony Haussenstamm Of Vienna.
Lord Tennyson has joined the Loyal
Irish Patriotic Union, the object Of
which is TO resist the granting Of home
rule IN Ireland.
Poor ..Clara Belle" like Hugh Con-
way continues work after death.
Neither Of them does as well as when
with the minority.
The amount paid for the white paper
on which The N. r World is printed.
for the first three months Of 1886, was
s130. 1870.
Mckinley, Of Ohio. says the Wash
iDgton Republican. lis in personal ap-
pearance the counterfeit presentimcnt
of the first Napoleon
Mary Anderson. having finished her
Boston season, is the guest of Mrs.
Lawrence Barrett, at her charming cot
tage at Cohassett.
Mrs. j. /. Buckingham. of Sonoma.
is the richest fruit-farmcr III California.
owning mile-long orchard Of pear,
peach, cherry and apricot trees.
Prang, the man of artistic cards. has
caught the war fever now, and is aboutto
send out lot of pictures, showing bat
ties scenes from Bull Run to AppOmat-
tOx.
Ex-minister Foster, now in Washing
ton, offers the opinion that the cholera
will not visit this country the present
year, however much it may prevail in
Europe.
India silks, China grapes and pom
gees are shown in great variety. in
cluding almost every Imaginable floral
pattern in mOderate-siZed and small
figures.
Mayor Harrison Of Chicago is said
to have made the statement that $780,
900 Of the saloon licenses are advanced
by the brewers to enable saloon men to
continue in business.
New York policemen who are worn out
with the extra duty imposed upon them
by the Third Avenue strike are OF the
opinion that the Eight-Hour movement
is barren idcality.
A regular temperance campaign has
been conducted in Wilmington. Del.
resulting m 1000 signatures to the
pledge and q rcd-ribbon temperance
association Of 800 members.
The birthday anniversaries OF the
Princess Amelia of Orleans and her fu-
ture husband, the Duke of Braganon.
occur on the same date September %.
lie is just two years her senior.
Mr. George w. Childs. has been yis-
iting the Pratt Free Library in Balti-
more, and Philadelphians are reasona-
bly, under the impression that the visit
is Of Importance to their own city.
The story runs IN il Paris that when
the Comtc de Chambord died certain
noble dame carried her ostentatieus sor
row SO far as to have her lawn-tennis
net and raquettes dyed black.
In Great Britain the revenue from
liquor has fallen of Sl5.OOO,OOO in the
last year. This decrease is acknowl-
edged by every one to be due to the
agitation Of the temperance question.
General Lew Wallace says that dur
ing the four wears he was at Constanti-
| nople he saw the American flag in port
| only twice, once on man-of-War and
once on James Gordon Bennett S
yacht.
Johnny Walsh. widely known
throughout the South and West as IN
| old-time negro minstrel. has naturally
evoluted into captain in the Saliva
tion Army and has taken his banjo
| with him.
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie proposes to
| increase his donation to the pittsburg
free library fund to S50O,OGO, provided
the city will raise IN equal amount and
maintain the institution by public tax
alton.
Il. II. Warder, formerly of Spring
field, Ohio. but now of Washington,
has offered to give $4,000 to the town
Of Springfield for public library. pro-
vided the citizens Of that town will take
hold Of the enterprise aud erect a suit
able building.
A Presidential ticket composed com.
posed Of John Sherman of Ohio and
Levi p. Morton Of New York, has been
put into the field, ostensible by coun.
try journalist at Piqua, Ohio, butt real
ity by politicians at Washington.
| The four boy babies born to Mrs
Lars Grindahl of Ghetto. Eau Claire
county, Wis, are in good health and
growing rapidly. They have. been
given the names Of Lincoln, Grant
Garfield, and Hancock.
| Miss Rose Voorhees,, daughter of the
Hoosier Senator, has an enthusiastic
admirer in the person of A. p. Dodge
ct New York, and all her efforts t,
dodge him have been unsuccessful
though she went to Florida and Other
points in the South for that purpose.
Friends OF the late Wendell Phillips
wanted to put up statue of him il
Boston, but Mrs. Phillips objected
aud now that Mrs. Phillips is dead ii i
discovered that her objections wcr,
net sufficiently strong to prevent tn,
memorial, and subscriptions for III,
statue will soon be started.
BY decree of Parliament the will 0
Prince Albert has never been publish
Nas Out ~ - hioNu OIilCllll CiIGlG
that his estate at his death was of th
value Of $3.5OO.UOO, though he was
poor man when he became the hus
band of Queen Victoria.
In Paris just now the ladies indulg
in sporting brooches with such sui
jects as a tiny gold horse and cavalie
jumping 4 five-barred gate, cor Il
chasse and hunting-knife supporting
.. an cnamellcd fox or hounds head,
jockey with whip up. going ut ma
speed, the cap and jacket powders
!. with diamonds.
S. B. Knight. while digging a pos,
hole near Winchester. KY, recently
struck copper box about nine inche
! square, with an iron lock. Breaking
of tho lid, he found it filled with gol
and silver coin to the amount of 81,
233.75, which it is thought. was pn
there by miser who died in neigh
boring hut long ago.
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