The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-08-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

Sixty thousand blue gum trees have
been planted this year on one ranch In
Los Angeles County, California.
"A prisoner who escaped from tho
Tattnall County, Fla. Jail recently. left
note for the sheriff, saying he was
Innocent, but that he would be back in
October to stand trial, and hoped to be
acquitted.
New Orleans brokers have ten-dollar
gold pieces frozen into cakes Of artificial
Ice and then brought around to the Ex-
change by boy. The cakes are placed
In the sun, and the last gold piece to
melt out takes all the others. It's not
quito as exciting as horse race, but 1t
beats penny-ante way into the back
woods. .-Detroit FREQ Press.
The Hartford Times says that :
piece Of pine woods, In an unfrequented
part Of the rocky eastern hill town Of
Union, on the northern border Of the
State. in Tolland County, is just - the
Indians left 1t; but that single acre or
two Is said to be the only piece Of orig
inal woods now left in Connecticut.
The unique barometer improvised
BY : Belfast ssa captAln-and held by
him to be as accurate as the most expen-
sive instrument-consists of thin strip
Of white pine with . number OF cross
pieces upon it. This IL hung against
tho wall Of . building, and the center Of
the strip bulges out when damp weather
Is approaching and sinks in during dry
weather.
According to the Cologne Gazette,
the German doctor Alanus. notorious for
bis advocacy Of vegetarian diet. has be-
come pervert and has returned to :
mixed diet OF flesh and vegetable food
He owns that one fact overturned all
hs theoretical preaching, that after
having been vegetarian for number
Of years he suddenly observed that his
arteries began TO show signs Of degener-
alton.
While one trapeze performer was
holding another with his teeth fastened
into belt at San Antonia his molars
gave way at the roots and his com.
panion fell distance OF twenty-five
feet to the floor and was badly injured.
Hereafter councils will not permit such
exhibitions unless the roots OF the ira
pezist's teeth protrude rough the back
Of his neck and are securely clinched.
Norristown Herald.
-Gentlemen whose wives are out Of
town should carefully inspect the ''per-
sonal" columns Of newspapers they send
to their better halves. The Washington
%1~v tat
stating that gentleman whose wife
was away for the summer wished to
meet . discreet lively young lady to
accompany him to places Of amusement.
The result was the sudden return & at
least i've Washington ladies whose LIS
bands had been left behind.
Talk about men not being bargain
fiends, said bright woman in . down.
town Office. "Why, man started shoe
store in Nassau street last year, and
business was SO poor the first few
months that he got discouraged. But he
filed his windows with signs saying
that he was selling cut at any price on
account Of going out Of business, and
his doors with placards, This store to
let and then he put the prices OF al
his stock up ten per cent. higher than
they had been before and waited. In
side Of two weeks he was doing the big
gest business OF any man in his line on
the street. and ut the end of three
months, when he took down the signs,
he had made enough extra profit to put
his goods down. too, to regular prices
again. He IS there yet, and has . per-
manently established business All his
customers were men. You couldn't catch
women that way."-N. Y. Sun.
The West Chester, Pa, News tells
OF . fierce battle between two black
blooded stations at Milford Mills,
owned by Michael Murphy. They got
loose from their attendant and ct once
beean fight They kicked, tore each
other with their teeth and paved one
n other at terrible rate. Mr.. Murphy,
with the assistance OF several men, was
unable to part them. They were driven
from the rice course into the fields and
from there into the public roads, and
went ip the direction Of Glen Moore and
continued fighting each other like .
couple OF bulldogs. They were followed
by several men with whips, forks, etc.
but with all their efforts they could not
part them. Finally one got the better
of the other by paving him down and
they we're parted. but not until they
were nearly exhausted and had inflicted
serious wounds in their flesh. They
fought for distance OF three miles, and
hundreds Of people turned out to wit
ness the bloody encounter.