The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-12-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS
There Is no experience more heavily
fraught with deep CHASTITY lonesomeness
than that Of being shaved by deaf-and.
dumb Observation-Disclosures Capital.
Now. really, what was the most -.
tonishing thing you saw in Paris, Mr..
Spicer,' asked Miss Gusher, and without
moments hesitation Seth answered,
my hotel bill. Boston Bulletin.
"A lady drove lately to the front Of >
drug store and vigorously waved her
hand for clerk. When he appeared
she asked for bottle Of anti-fat. While
paying for it she said she had heard It
would grow leanness" on . person, and
as she weighed $50 pounds she thought
she would reduce"
The Animals Institute at Knights
bridge, England, founded in 1857
chiefly by ladies, undertakes that ami
mails shall be killed or cured In tho
most painless manner. The only differ
ence in the treatment Of the donkey Of
the costermonger and that Of the count
css Is that the coster pays nothing and
the lady pays the ordinary fees.
During recent thunderstorm near
Memphis, Tenn, . negro was severely
kicked by vicious mule; and, just .
he was picking himself up, stroke Of
lightning hit the mule and killed him
dead on the spot. ''Well, dar," ex-
claimed the negro, ''ef dis chile haint
got pow'ful frens to 'venge his insults.
den der's no use trying to hab faith In
anyt'ing!'
Akron has . "powwow DOCTOR" II
is . woman and she practices her pro-
fcssion only at night, going out stealth
lily and digging up roots. Then she goes
into the house, goes through some cere-
mony, comes out and digs hole in tho
ground, where she buries the mysteri-
Gus medicine tied up in , white rag.
This is supposed to effect cure. It Is
said that lot Of people have great faith
in her treatment.
The pet Of family in New York is
| venerable parrot Of surprising intelli-
gcnce and loquacity. The parrot was
presented to the family twenty-five years
ago by q sea captain. It can call the
members of the family BY their first
names, and can repeat the habitual eK-
pressions used by these persons. Many
Of the family are now dead, but the bird
continues to reproduce the words and
| phrases 1t picked up from tiIem in their
1 lifetime.
Elephants have been known to 1.-Two
| to the great age of four hundred years.
When Alexander the Great had con-
| qucred Phorus, King Of India. he took
a great elephant. which had fought
valiantly for the King. and named him
| Ajax, dedicated him to the sun, and let
him 60. with this inscriptions: "Aiex-
ander, tho son Of Jupiter, hath dedi-
Gated Ajax to tho SUM-" This elephant
was found with this inscription three
hundred and fifty years afterward.
The brave action of woman is re-
corded by the Philadelphia Press: Mrs.
Hutchinson, the wife Of Captain Hutch
inson, Of tho schooner Jennie Howard,
is heroine. The schooner sprang .
leak while at sea, and for week the
men wero unable to leave the pumps.
During all this time Mrs. Hutchinson
stood at the wheel steering the vessel,
not going below long enough to eat or
change her clothes. A boy brought her
the soaked biscuit which was her only
food. When overcome she lashed her
self to the wheel and slept beside It on
the open deck"
Come on" called = bridesmaid to
1 the bride, who was standing before
a mirror, touching and retouchins:
they're waiting for you." "All right.
responded the maiden, without moving.
! Don't say all right but como on.
| What do you want to SEQ yourself Tor?
You look beautiful" 20, yes. know
that; brides always do" Well, then.
what arc You standing before the glass
for, when every thing is waiting?" BE
cause, dear" .he answered, with proyoa-
ing patience, 1T is well for one to in
dulge in some reflection before one gets
married. you KNOWN. Y. Ledger.
1t is quite possible that one Of these
days the European railway passen.e-
may hear tho cry: Change hero for
Siberia. China and Japan" 1t may DO
that in time one will be able to step into
the train at Paris or Berlin and travel
by tho overland route right into the
heart Of Japan. The Transsiberian Rail-
way from Europe is being cut to tho
Russian town of Viadivostock, directly
opposite portion Of the Japanese coast.
The Japs are projecting line to Maiznru,
the harbor on their side of the water.
and special line Of Japanese steamers
will convey passengers from one ter
minus to the other. Japan Is to be tho
new pleasure ground for tourists.
"A singular circumstance recently
occurred at Biddeford, Me-, which re-
minds one of the days when people bar
tered in beads and wampnm. Two men.
one . small, slender person and the
other of proportions in the neighborhood
of 500 pounds, were employed by one Of
the women in that locality to dig grave
on her family lot. They worked rapidly,
and ere they were aware, the excavation
was SO large and deep that the fat man
was unable to get out Of the hole. A
machine was constructed, and after quite
struggle tho big man was once moro on
top. In payment for their services the
woman q short time after gave each OF
the two men five quarts of gray beans
enough to keep them out Of the ground
for quite while il It came to the worst.
TYPEWRITER GIRLS.
They Arc Getting to BE - Numerous ..
tho Sands BY tho Sea shore.
An attache Of business college tells
me that the number OF young wome II
studying stenography at the present
time with view Of getting living out
sf it is something enormous. There j.
small room for wonder In this. The posi-
fion of :. shorthand amannansis ia II pl