The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-05-16

by electricity, walk along the. cor
ridors OF the present with srins.
claspcd.
PRoF. WILEY, Of the Agricultural
Department, has laid plans for cxten-'
sive experiments on the Maryland ex-
pcrnental farm in growing and mann-'
featuring sorghum. Similar expert
ments will be made i'm Louisiana, Iowa.
and Kansas.
The rock on which the proposed
salt trust will split is rock OF salt re-.
Gently discovered in Kansas. 1t is.
three hundred miles long, twenty-five,
miles wide and four hundred feet.
thick. A trust i'm seashore sand is.
about IL practicable as trust in salt.
SUPERINTENDENT PORTER expects in
short time 10 have hundred clerks
engaged on the preliminary work Of
the eleventh census. He will have,
sixteen hundred ut work next year,
but the smaller number will serve.
until the actual work of enumeration
is nearer at hand.
IHE State of Nebraska first inaueu-,
rated Arbor Day in 1877. Since that.
date il is estimated that six hundred
and fifty million trees have been plant
I'd in Nebraska and twenty-four other
States have adopted the custom. The
man who plants trees and preserves
them is the friend Of the generation To
come after him.
A FRENCH scientist has found nine
forms of microbes in the juices of II
healthy stomach and concludes that
they play an important part in digcs-
,ion. Every stomach seems TO be n
little inhabited world in itself. and
sometimes the population appear to
indulge in Il revolution which may be-
fun TO them, but plays the mischief
with the owner OF the organ.
MEs. ISABELLA T. BARRows. OF Bos-
ton. recently accomplished one of the
most remarkable fcats in modern
journalism. She wrote verbatim re-
port Of speech made in German by
Carl Schurz, which she turned into
English while her pen was flying
ecross her paper in stcnographic char
aciers. 10 write estenographically and
translate from German to English
simultaneously was II remarkable
piece OF shorthand reporting.
MRs. MARGARET ARNOLD. the Oldest
person in Ohio, was born near Rich
mond, Va. on July 1, 1777. Her
father was Robert kiscr. four of whose
twelve ehi'drcn are still living. Mrs.
Arnold spends all her time now in bed
and is totally blind. She has re.
ma,kahle appetite and weighs one
hundred and ten pounds. Her hcigh,
is five feet two inches. Since the year
1919 She has been addicted 10 the to.
bacco habit. and even now lights hen
uipc now and then.
RED CLOUD, the Sioux chieftain who
recently called on President Harrison,
is sixty y-four years old but looks mucl
younger His hair has slight sprink
ling of gray. but his form is erect, hi.
step firm and his eye bright. He il
not handsome man. but he is an i'm
posing Indian and looks like what h.
is--a great chief. He speaks yer,
little English. He owns big farm
raises corn for sale and is rich enough
TO live without doing work with hi
own hands He hires younger Indian
to work his farm.
SPEAKING Of Parnell in the witnes
box the London correspondent Of tn
New York Times says: His Iienta
alertncss was wonderful. Heb had t
carry in his head all the variou
minuti;e Of the last ten years Of poll
tics, from unimportant events in coun
Gil meetings to actions in the House G
Commons: He had to watch for
trap in every question. 1t was tn
most wonderful conversational gam
of chess have ever seen. 1t was a
occasion on which to tell the truth
1t Was sufficiently difficult to tell an
thing else.
The Washington bureau of Anims
Industry has issued i report on no
chol4 4ra as result Of numerous il
quir1es and close investigation by Dl
salmon. The point Of greatest intere.
In the document is the statement ths
hog cholera is a bacterial diseast
WHICH is contagious and infectiou'
and may produce in the hog fat;
form of the disease after having bee
transmitted through other animals
This is contrary to the opinion Ion
ente tanned by observers and by me
who make it II business to handle hog
for the market.
A CRANK walked into the Office ,
the Secretary of War at Washingto
the other day. and taking the Secr'
tary's chair opposite to General Bene
who is. acting rs Secretary. declare
that he was Secretary Of War. hayin
been appointed by Mr.. Cleveland. Th
officials humored the man, who busie
himself in giving orders and dischar.
ing the appointment clerk until poll.
officers arrived and took charge OF hin
He was identified rs q man name
Baker, who had taken charge OF I'll
police headquarters few days befol
in d similarly informal way.
The next census ought to give
complete enumeration of the Geore
Washingtons living In this countr.
and show how many hundred thousau
Of them are surnamsd Smith, Brow
and Jones.