The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-04-10

PLAIN DRALKR.
- PUBLISHED THUssDAYs. At
CRESCO.
fH COUNTY SEAT OF HOWARD c1uIfY,
w. r. & +. J. MEAD,
puBLsnsas AID rsoPsrsroas.
once In Plain Dealer Buiiaing, south -
Court House.
TERMS or SUBSCRIPTION,
~ copy, one year. strictly in advance. %
The United States has expended &c..
GOO. 0OO, 900 for railroads, and the aver
age cost price has been $50, 900 per mile.
IT il stated that two million orange
trees have been planted in San Ber-
nardino County, CAL. since January l,
1890.
THE new German Chancellor, General
Caprivi, is an inveterate smoker and :
moderate drinker. He manifests 1
marked preference for wine over beer.
which he touches very rarely and spar.
ingly.
NATURE is very good. Eighty thou
sand years ago. in anticipation OF tho
past mild winter, she deposited thick
layers of ice in the Stevens mine on
Mount Mcclellan in California. They
have just been found.
HERE is the name OF . Western Ten
nessee colored girl. It is pronounced
IN sing-song way: Cary-Ann Happy
Ann Ann Eliza-Scales Blow the Bellows
Potterfield Rosa-Ann-Thomas. There
Is much in such name as that.
DURING tho late snow blockade six
hundred passengers at Reno, New, to
amuse themselves, issued handsome
little paper entitled ''The Snowbound,
q Souvenir of the Sierra" 1t contains
very handsome illustrations of the place,
and recites the efforts made to pass the
two weeks Of waiting.
THERE are to-day royal and imperial
orders in the world, with . prodigious
assortment of collars, crosses, stars and
other fancy insignia, laid up for the
tickling Of human ambition. The old
est is St Andrews Order, first insti-
tuted in England in 7s7. disused after
ward and re-established in 1910.
THE plan Is favored by some Of the
papers and likely to be adopted by the
Board OF Education in Boston to give
teachers who have served nine years
continuously years vacation on hall
pay. 1t Is claimed that constant service
in the schools skaters the nerves and q
period OF recuperation is needed. The
usual Western expedient of matrimony
for the lady teachers is not available in
the East on account of the surplus.
A REPORT says that within the past
four weeks two hundred icebergs have
been seen floating in the Atlantic ocean.
No one but . mariner can realize the
menace which these monsters are to
navigation. Every winter vessels sail
from port and no tidings are ever heard
OF them again. Until the sea will have
yielded up its final secrets, no one can
estimate how large a proportion ol
catastrophes has been due to collisions
with these pitiless floaters.
one Of the industries OF New York IL
tho insurance of babies. The sum
paid is usually five cents . week or
each child. Tho system is productive
of good in 80 far that it assures very
poor people against being put to ex
tremes in the event Of q death in the
family. On the other hand, the pos
sible and even probable abuses are OBJ
vious, for it gives heartless parents Z
direct personal interest in the death o.
one who is entirely At their mercy.
CHARLES E Cross. formerly presiden,
Of a bank at Raleigh, N. c.. has beer
convicted of forgery and embezzlemen,
and sentenced to seven years. pena
servitude. An old slave. who belonged
to the young mans father. made . per
sistent appeal to serve out the sentence
in his "young massys" place Instance,
Of the fidelity and devotion of the negro
are not rare, but seldom has there beer
q more affecting case than this Til.
old slaves request could not be granted
ACCORDING to q recent official return
the length of the telegraph lines on thu
globe is at present about 100000 miles
or twenty-six times its circumference .
the equator. The length Of wire /.
1,sSs,SS0 miles, or eighty times tn,
length Of the equator. Europe ha
telegraph lines measuring 2ss, go miles
America, 1864; Asia, 50, 375; Australia
81. O53, and Africa 12,973. These are tn,
land lines There are. besides, $50 sub
marine cables of tota. length Of liz,
70l nautical miles
THE widow of jefferson Davis, sinc'
his death, signs her name ". jefferson
Davis" Many persons doubtless sup
poses he has added the name jefferson t.
her Christian name, Varina. But this i
not the proper explanation. v. is th'
abbreyiation of veuve, the French TO
widow, and it is the custom of Louisiana
and perhaps in other parts OF the South
for widows to place that letter befor
the Christian names of their husbands
v. Jefferson Davis simply means tn
widow of Jefferson Davis
OHIO and one or two other State
have tried the parole or ticket-of-leav
plan to some extent with results tha
are in the main very encouraging. Ne,
Jersey is about to experiment in tha
direction. The prisons in that Stat
are overflowing and this plan will fur
nish relief 1t is claimed that under it
operation much larger per cent Of tn
convicts become good citizens and
much better opportunity is afforde'
them TO get out Of the bad rut
and become useful members of SC
ciety. Besides, the State is relieves
OF good deal Of expense by thi
method.
REV. DIR. PARKHURsT, of New Yorh