The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-08-08


killed of SO fast that twelve moro
years will SEQ the last one wiped out
CAPTAIN FRANK NJ. DrrFY. the CON-
poser Of the ..Mocking Bird" is living
At Guthrie, Ky, where he is we'll
known newspaper man.
IwENTY-FOUR lives are said to have
been lost by the recent food in West
Virginia. which swept away the most
Of the village OF Norristown and sew
sral adjacent farm-houses Such ca
lamities are SO sadly current this year
that they fail to occasion surprise any
moro.
The manufacture Of postage stamps,
which for twenty-eignt years has been
carried on ut New York. is to be- trans
ferred to Philadelphia. Charles F.
Steel, OF that city. having put in the
lowest bid. The business is a large
one. Two hundred hands will be en-
ployed and the annual output will be
about lao, 600. 900 sheets.
MRs. CYRus w. FIELD is said to
guard as the chief among her treas
ures a small silver box presented to
her husband by the municipality of
New York, and containing the free
dom Of the city. This was given to
Mr.. Field after the successful laying
Of the Atlantic cable, and was the last
iVna heat
AT meeting in Chicago recently OF
the executive committee Of the knights
OF Labor charter was issued tc the
first assembly Of the order ever or
ganized in Australia. The new dis
trict Is composed of FIVE local as
semblies, with total membership of
over five hundred. all Of whom have
Joined the order within the past year.
J. II. PUTNAM. OF Tioga. Pa, has
been at work ever since the food in
the Conemaugh valley drying out
about one thousand two hundred legal
papers. He hung them up to dry on
lines, just as washcrwoman would.
The writing is as good as ever on
most Of them. and in some very old
and almost faded manuscripts the ink
has been brought out again by the
water.
The most valuable book in the
world is said 10 be the Hebrew Bible
Mt the vatican in Rome. In 1912 Pope
Julius. then in great financial straits,
refused to sell it to syndicate OF rich
Venetian Jews for its weight in gold.
The Bible weighs more than 325
pounds and Is never carried by less
than three men. The price refused by
Pope Julian was therefore about &125.-
900. and that, too, when gold was
worth at least thrice what It is now
worth.
NINE. ETELKA GERsTER still cherish
cs tho hope. in which she is encour.
aged by experts, that she will recover
the full use of her voice. and she
works and practices as methodically
as in the starring days when she used
to star in tho United States. Her
famous baby has grown into chubby
little girl. who has already shown
signs Of possessing voice worth
training. The whole family are liv-
ing quiet, happy life in villa near
Bologna
OwING to declining health Queen
Victoria is making arrangements by
which the Prince of Wales will relieve
her of much labor on state documents.
The Prince. in case he assumes these
new responsibilities, wishes, it is said,
to take the title of Prince Regent and
to have the use OF Buckingham Palace
and Windsor Castle, the Queen retir-
ing to the palaces at Osborne and Bal
moral. In the event of this arrange
ment being carried out Prince Albert
Victor will obtain the Marlborough
house.
WE are not yet through with GEN.
tennlals in this country. One hundred
years ago. in August, the first pe,ro-
leum well was sunk in Pennsylvania,
and it is proposed to celebrate the oc-
currencc by rousing demonstration
in the oil regions of the State. New
York and Ohio. There is poetic and
ethical symmetry in the fact that about
the same time when America started
out to illustrate liberty enlightening
the world it also furnished the globe
with the greatest illuminator it ever
possessed.
For the fiscal year ended May !.
1889. there were sold in Illinois 2,OO2,.
S58 barrels of malt liquors. New York
sold 3. l39, eS2, Pennsylvania 2.364. 924
and Ohio 2,1l3, 722. In Iowa the sales
were but 10000. The grand total
was 5000. 600 barrels. nearly u third
Of q barrel for each inhabitant OF the
United States. In sales by cities Chi
cago was outdone only by New York
and St. Louis, the figures being 4.253,-.
$50, l,496,527 aud 1,49O. $50. The in,
crease in Chicago over the previous
year was Ia, 08l barrels. much larger
than in any other place.
SECRETARY RUsK receives some
queer requests, but his latest has set
him thinking. A Wyoming Territory.
farmer writes that he is thankful for
the packages of seeds which were for
warded to him, and then quantity adds
that it is pretty hard work to build up
new country without wives. He
says the prevailing sentiment OF the
Territory is in favor Of women who
would like TO marry honest settlers.
and concludes with the remark that
good homes await the lonesome
spius,crs OF tho East. and equal politi-
cal privileges with the men.
STATISTICS show that in the State of