The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-12-16
SPIRIT OF THE NEWS.

1t IS proposed in South Carolina to
support the Farmers college by the
proceeds Of dog-tax.
Bowersville, Ca, has changed its
name to Grady, in honor of the editor
OF the Atlanta Constitution.
Ex-Ministcr Edwards Picrrepont has
gone for two months visit to the
scenes of his former triumphs i'm Lon
don.
The Campbell divorce case i calcu-
lated to elevate Sir Charles Dixie in
popular esteem NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
journal.
Joe Howard has taken to the
lecture field with talk on ..Cranks.''
He gave his first lecture ut Boston sun
day night.
Florida alone escaped the charge of
on-year apathy in the recent elections.
The vote was larger than in the last
presidential campaign.
A barrel of kerosene oil buried ten
feet underground will contaminate
every well within quarter Of mile
and the oil will be apparent to the taste.
The signal service shoulc be in the
hands Of men of scientific training and
should have at its head not only i man
OF science but man Of scnsc.-NeW
Iork Times.
Dr. Douglass, who lost his health in
caring for General Grant, has gone
South to spend the winter. He will be
at the hot Springs, in Arkansas, first,
and later in Florida.
A farmer Of Malad, Idaho, left three
children. the eldest II years of age, to
guard the vegetable patch against
rabbits. The children were attacked
by wolves and the two Youngest were
killed.
Ben Buffers portrait hangs in the
private gallery of the harem Of the Shah
OF Persia, and the Shah is pretty well
satisfied that none of his wives will
ever run away with Americans. Troy
Times.
A colored State Fair Association has
been organized in Louisiana, at which
will be exhibited the products of negro
labor. North Carolina, South Carolina,
Mississippi, and Arkansas already have
similar associations.
Harry Bcthene. of New Philadelphia,
o., and Fred Rodgers, of Trenton N.
j.. well-knowh sprint runners, have
been matched for dash Of 100 yards
for 4 purse of $500. The race will
take place in Pittsburg Dec. 20.
Natural gas has been discovered in
paying quantities in nineteen States
and territories in the Union. In
Western Pennsylvania alone thirty
six natural gas companies have been
organized, and nearly $21 100000 of
capital invested.
A st. John (New Brunswick) liquor
dealer. who has been amusing himself
by blowing horns and otherwise dis
tnrbing the Salvation army when they
passed his place. was rotten-cggcd re-
Gently by a number Of young men who
were desirous Of teaching him better
sense.
The new Scribner's Monthly is to be
issued Dec. l5, providing the Century
Company do not obtain an ininction
restraining them from using the name
Scribncr on the title page, which is
threatened. When the Century
changed its name it did not give up its
right in the old one.
DIR. X. H. Scott. who died at
Centralia, ILL.,, the 18th instant. often
expressed horror Of being buried
alive, and in order to preclude such
thing he asked that his heart be cut
out after life was extinct. This was
done. the organ being taken out and
replaced in the dead body.
Mile. de MacMahon, daughter Of the
Marshal, will soon be married to NJ. lc
Comte pc Piennes, son of the Marquis
Of Piennes, who had been equerry to her
Majesty the Empress and Deputy from
La Manche during the Empire. Mile.
de MacMahon is % years of age and is
the Marshals only daughter.
A Buffalo lawyer was under examina-
ton as witness and had stated ap.
proximately the time at which some
thing occurred. when he was sharply
requested by the examining attorney to
be more definite. You ought to know.
1t was about the time you collected my
costs in that suit and kept the money!
was the paralyzing reply.
The King Of Cambodia. according to
the CORRESPONDENT of Paris journal.
has 800 wives chosen from the hand
soonest women in the whole country.
The entire population and territory be-
long to the King. All the Cambodians
are the Kings ..earmen' or slaves, and
pay him rents. The King himself be-
longs to the French Resident-(ieneral.
Ex-Empress Eugcnie has had grand
mausolenm built at Marlborough over
the tombs Of her husband and son. The
translation of the remains from ST.
Mary's of Chiselhurst to Marlborough
will take place Jan. 9, the anniversary
Of the death of the Emperor, when the
annual requiem will be celebrated. 1t
is said that all the members of the inn
perial family will be present on the
occasion.
A sharp young man has been swind-
ling the shoe-dealers ofEast Greenwich,
N. Y, by selling them what seemed to
be a remarkably tine article of shoe
polish, for which he asked IS per cent.
more than the price for the ordinary
French polish. After he delivered the
goods and received the money it was
discovered that each bottle contained
about two tablespoonfuls Of the polish
on top Of sawdust and glue.
In New London. Conn, one day recnt-
~ small dog fell into vat of tanning
liquid and came near drowning, rs it
was night and the building was closed.
but in swimming around he found peg
six feet long that stops the hole in the
bottom of the vat, where the aquid is
drawn off, and his endeavors to perch
on the top of this peg loosened it SO
that it popped out Of the hole. Then
the liquid ran out, and the dog was
found next morninp Shiyerinp in the