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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-02-26
THE DEAD PLANET.
The Difference in Size Between tho Sun
and the Moon.

The Difference In Size Between tho Sum
and the Moon.
Do you know that the moon, which
looks so bright and beautiful on a clear
evening, is the only dead object You see
authorities all agree that the moon has
passed through all the stages that our
earth has reached and, furthermore, that
its internal fire is all burned out, its
water and air gone, and that it is now
really a ghost of what it once was.
Whether animal life ever existed on the
moon or not is something that we shall
probably never know. But there is no
apparent reason why men may not have
lived there. Astronomers see mountains,
extinct volcanoes, valleys, and what
seem to be the beds of seas or oceans.
Thousands Of years ago, long before man
appeared upon the earth, the Man in
the Moon may have been a living be-
ing, and possibly he may have leveled
his telescope at the earth, just as as
tronomers now gaze at our ghostly
satellite You have noticed that the
moon and the sun are apparently near
" the same size, but there is mighty
difference. 1t would take more than JO0,-
900. 900 moons to make a body as large
as the sun. Here is an illustration: The
moon is about 24o.Oo0 miles from the
earth-so far away that it would take
q railroad train, running thirty miles an
hour, nearly year to get that far.
Now suppose you take the sun in your
hand as YOU would an orange, and cut
it into three parts of equal size dia-
metrically. Well, if you should then
attempt to put one of these thirds of the
sun between the moon and the earth.
there would not be room. The diameter
of the sun is about $50, 900 miles-more
than three times the distance of the
moon from the carth.-Chicago Jour-
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-02-26
WOMAN AND HER WAYS.

or the fifty-three members Of the re-
Gently formed Water-Color Club, in New
York, over half are women.
A FEMININE inspector of primary
schools has been appointed in France,
and there are more to follow.
ANOTHER medical school for women
has been opened in connection with
Queen Margaret College, Glasgow. II
is said that the demand for highly COM
petent women is continually increasing,
as India and the East become more en-
lightened and unprejudiced.
THOSE who have studied the subject
assert that it is absolutely impossible
for the Paris working girl to live upon
her earnings. The terrible condition OF
the working women in Paris has at last
attracted the attention of the French
government, and inquiries are being
made with view Of allieyating their
sufferings.
The first gymnasium or college for
women in Rome is to be opened April /,
1891. This is in accordance with the
order of the Cultus Minister Boselli.
The grade and character of the new in
stitution is to be that of the technical
schools, and the object Is to enable
young women to prepare themselves tc
enter the universities.
LAST ,,a- 3,l74 girl apprentices
opened accounts with the Librarian Of
the Society of Mechanics and Trades
| men. In the three years OF its existence
the night school connected with the So
ciety graduated lis young women
These industrious students are engaged
during the day in various pursuits, a.
saleswomen, dressmakers, milliners
telegraph and machine operators, clerks
domestics and factory hands. With th'
instruction received all have been placet
IN more desirable and profitable posi-
tionss
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-02-26
WEST AND SOUTH

MRS. NJ. IRoLLINGER, of Leesville,
Mo-, was watching her son cut down q
tree when it fell on her, killing her in
stantly.
In Salt Lake City seven members of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints pleaded guilty to living in
polygamy and were fined in sums rang
ing from 500 and upwards.
FLAMES at Akron. O., destroyed the
paper mill of the Thomas Phillips Com
pany, causing loss of 500, 900, and the
works of the Enterprise Manufacturing
Company; loss, $4,000. Nettie Cruza
was burned to death.
AT Jasper, Tenn, the Etna Coal
Company made an assignment, with
liabilities of 800, 200 and assets of $780,
600.
The late flood at Pittsburgh and vicin-
ity did damage estimated at y, ,OO0, 900.
On the 18th General H. H. Sibley, the
first Governor of Minnesota, died in St
Paul, aged 50 years.
A MOB took a white man and a negro
from the county Jail in Gainesville,
Fla, and hanged them for completely
in numerous assaults.
AT Kansas City the Union Invest
ment Company assigned, with liabili-
ties and assets each 81, 900, 900.
Tom KENDALL, Billy Kohler and
William Kerns We're killed by snow
slide at the Old Lout mine in Colorado.
FIRE destroyed the Missouri Pacific
round-house at Kansas City, Kan, with
eighteen engines, causing loss of
Sl75,00
THE firm OF John %. Knox & Co., pri-
vate bankers at Topeka, Kan, assigned
with liabilities Of $40, 600 and assets of
shout $3.50, 900.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-02-26
MAKING THE MEN GOOD.
Women Have 1t In Their Power to Bring
the Men Up to . Higher Standard Of

Women Have 1t In Their Power to Bring
the Men Cp to Higher standard Of
Living.
Bless the girls, how love them! To
me they are the sweetest things in the
world, with their fresh young cheeks
and bright eyes, laughing and chatting
simply because their hearts are SO full
of fun and talk that it just bubbles over.
They can do more with those merry
smiles and winning looks than we old
women ever can, though blessed with
the wisdom of female Solomons. or the
guile Of serpents, and it is to them that
we look for opposition to the evil in the
world, and the encouragement of the
good and falling. II only the girls
would band together and frown upon
the wrong-doers, and persistently refuse
to smile upon their misdeeds, what q
reformation all over the country there
would be.
II the pretty sweetheartswould refuse
to laugh at the mocking words younf
men of our day think SO clever, whends
rected against religion and the good old
ways our grandparents delighted in,
there would soon be an end OF such
scoffing. If our youths knew that the
bright eyes would look coldly on them
when the rnmor gathered ground that
they were gay" would they not guard
their reputation as . jewel Of great
price?
Let the girls regard drinking man
as . pcst-infected one, and no more
think of receiving such into their homes,
and we will have no marriages in oppo-
sition to parents, no broken-hearted
women shielding drunken husbands
from the worlds ccnsure, no going back
to father with sad-eyed little children to
care for when shame is open and it is
no longer possible to hope for reforma-
ton.
All the girls have to do is to set up .
standard, with determination to live
and die by it, and men will come up to
it, never fear.
II you are content with low type,
then shut your eyes and be as compla-
cent as you please; but if you want
good husband, and, by and by, good
sons. set your face firmly against the
weak and vicious.
You are afraid you will frighten the
men away by such severity and prud-
ishness? No, you will not-at least. it
will frighten away only such as You are
better off without their admiration and
love. and men whose opinion is worth
having, and whom you would really
care to marry, if you are the wise, we'll
regulated young woman take you for,
will honor you for your common
sense and prudence, and know you for
the very wife they want.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-02-26
A WOMAN JOURNALIST.
The Success That Has Crowned = Brigh
Gifted WOman's Efforts.

Tho Success That Has Crowned brlGnt,
Gifted Woman's Efforts.
There is no buster woman among
those who write for the press than Mrs.
Emily Crawford, and it might be added
that none of them has the news instinct
more fully developed. She is of Scotch
Irish descent. Her father, a Mr.. John
stone, died when she was sixteen years
Of aye, lcasills. his ifc but srnnn IN
come upon which to bring up . family
Of eleven children. The widow re-
moved TO Paris, where her daughter
Emily began writing for the London
newspapers, subsequently extending
her journalistic connection to the
United States. In 1864 she married Mr.
Crawford, who was at the time cores
pondent OF the Daily News. Mr.. and
Mrs. Crawford worked together, each
supplementing the others faculties.
She was at Tours, Orleans and Bor-
deaux, and a good deal in the am
balances there during the war and in
Paris during the commune.
An extraordinary instance of physical
endurance and that Of power of memory
which is one of her characteristics was
shown by Mrs. Crawford on the occa-
sion Of the historic debate Of May
35 at Versailles. All that day,
from early morning until midnight,
she sat in the place In the loge
grille which NJ. Theirs friendship had
procured for her. Without taking a
single note she was yet able to carry
away the important points Of the ex-
traordinary sitting, which ended in the
defeat Of the Government. She re-
turned to Paris and sat up till o'clock
next morning writing description OF
the scenes, giving abstracts of the
speeches made during that sitting. AT
ter her husbands death the Daily News
offered the post of Paris correspondent
to his widow. She also writes the Paris
letter of the London Truth, and every
week she sends to the New York Tri-
bune a letter on Partisan life and man
ners. She was the intimate friend OF
Gambetta; she knew well Theirs and
Louis Blanc; she is the friend of Bar
thelemy St. Hilaire. of the Carnots, OF
Clemenceau, etc. She has brought UP
four children, the eldest of whom took
his degree ss thirteenth wrangler
at Cambridge, and is now an
| examination coach at Clifton
her second son was sent as special cor
respondent by the Daily News during
the crisis ut Lisbon last spring.
i ox. u,C pnSf
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-02-26
A FATAL CRASH.
Trains Collide In Tunnel q New York
SIX Lives IOat1


Six Lives Lost.
New York, Feb. 2i.-A shop train
consisting of empty cars was moving
through the Fourth avenue railroad
tunnel ut ITO a. m, Friday when il
stopped at Eighty fifth street. Behind II
came train No. 10, the New Haven To-
cal that left the Grand Central depot at
7:o2 a. m. The New Haven train ran
into the standing "shop train," wreck
ing itself and the rear cars of the train
with which it had come into collision.
In q few moments flames broke
out, and while every thing was in
terror and confusion a third engine,
running light" that is, without cars,
crashed into the wreck. The fire was
soon extinguished and the work of res
cue began.
Engineer Fowler, Of the New Haven
train, said that when at Seventy.
second street he got the white signal.
which was signal to go ahead, there
was no ringing Of the bell,
either, as is customary when the
danger signal is up. He was
running at the rate Of about twenty
miles an hour on the north bound
track. He was SO close to the
shop train before he was aware Of
it that he telescoped it before he
was hardly able to put on the air
brakes.
On the telescoped shop train there
were probably dozen or more en-
ployes, both of the road and Of the
Wagner Company. Six killed and
seven wounded is the complete list.
The bodies were burned beyond recog-
milton. Parts of some Of the bodies
We're completely burned away.
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HAS COST MILLIONS.
rhs Damage by the Floods In Pittsburgh
And Vicinity Estimated ut 1000, ,OOO-
The Danger Over.

AHS DNmn80 " tho rEUuuS n I1ISsUUHBU
And Vicinity Estimated ut o2.OOO.OO0-
The Danger Over.
PITTSBURGH. Pa. Feb. 19.-The riv.
ers reached their highest point at 10
o'clock Wednesday morning, when the
gauge showed thirty-one feet ten inch
es. At 10 o'clock p. m. they had fallen
twenty-nine feet. The rain has
ceased at up-rivcr points. A
cold wave has set in. and both
the Monongahela and Allegheny are
falling rapidly up around the head
waters. As far as known there has
been no loss of life. It is estimated
that the experience since Monday will
cost the two cities $500, 900, to say
nothing of the suffering and incon-
venienca, and many people claim
that sa,OO0,0OO will be nearer
the correct figures. II is claimed
that from $4,000 to $4,000 men
will lose on an average three days from
their lrbors because of the suspension
of work In the mills. Figuring the
average wages at $3.50 q day, q fair
total would be $3O0,OOO The loss Of
business to railroads, the damage to
freight and the cost of repairs it is
thought will reach $4,000
The big downtown merchants calcu.
late that 100000 will hardly make
good the damage to goods and the cost
Of placing all the flooded business es-
Establishments back in the former condi-
tion. This includes the expense of TAX
ing property out and into Easements
again, pumping cellars out, and making
necessary repairs of damages.
II will probably require 100000 to
make good the mills and manufacture
ing plants that have been submerged.
In dozens of instances machinery has
been badly damaged, stocks destroyed
and buildings considerably wrecked.
The loss to families can only be guessed
at. 1t is conceded on all hands that
fully 1000 homes have been flooded,
some of them badly. The cost Of
moving twice in hundreds of instances,
loss and damage TO household effects,
epairs to buildings, many Of which
nave been considerably wrecked, re-
placing Of fences and outbuildings car
ried away, pumping out cellars, ETC.,
will certainly reach s3OO,O
YOUNGSTOWN. Pa, Feb. 19.-lt is found
that the foundations OF many houses
are undermined and loosened, thus en-
failing great loss. The bones Of flood
victim were found at the point Wednes-
day, having been washed up by the
waters. They were taken to the morgue
and then inferred in the unknown
plot at the cemetery. Street-cars are
running again, and it is expected the
Cambria works will resume to-day.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-02-26
SCHOOL AND cHUHcii.


The supply of lady teachers in
Paris is as 1l9 to 1.
"A dozen church organs in New York
are now supplied with wind by electric
motors.
The Ruddhists Of Japan propose to
establish bank in order to obtain
funds for the propagation Of their re-
ligion.
Letters from missionaries in Uganda
show that affairs there are now under
complete control Of the two Christian
parties.
President Thwing, of the Western
Reserve College, has declared himself
earnestly opposed to any step that even
looks like giving up Greek in the col
leges
The widow of the late Chas. r. Al
len, Of Glendale, near Cincinnati, has
left by will $4,000 for the establish
ment of school in which the tenets Of
Swedenborgianism shall be taught.
The Westminster Presbyterian
Church Of Greensboro n. c., which was
organized three years ago, has resolved
to support missionary in the foreign
field. and has raised nearly 81, 400 to be-
gin the work.
There were this year 500 graduates
In the gymnasiums of Kiev. ninety-two
of whom were Jews. Of all those gradu-
ates, 400 received certificates of matricu-
lation in higher institutions of learn
ing, and among these were ninety Jews.
The Catholic magistrates of Ghent,
Belgium, have recognized the Salvation
Army as sect. and have fined num-
ber of persons who We're brought be-
fore them charged with having created
q disturbance at meetings held by the
army.-Christian at Work.
The expense of the public schools
of the United States during the past
fiscal year has reached the enormous
aggregate of over 1892. 100000, and it
cost, on an average, to educate child,
1873 cents per school day, of which So
cents were paid for salaries.
Miss Kate Drexel. now Sister Cath
erine, is to found and cndow the
order Of THE Sisters of the Holy Sacra-
ment," which will have for its special
object the amelioration and improve
kuCut Vi tAC SoAultioA oA AA0idho ahu
colored people. A convent and school
are to be erected at Arundel, near Wash
ington.
Since 1879, it is stated, 345 Indians
have received instruction at the Hamp-
ton Institute, and the Judgment of the
principal is that only twenty-five of the
entire lot have been disappointing.
"For people not compelled to work for
their food" the principal says, their
conduct is most encouraging. All cx-
cept the twenty-five bad ones have
done from fairly we'll to excelently well
as teachers, catechists. farmers. me-
chanics, teamsters, herders, laborers,
clerks" etc.
AT the last examination Of the gym
nasiums and other ins titutions of learn
inr in Russia it was noticed that the
scholars read Greek and Latin with the
German and not with the ancient clas-
aicoi accent. This was reported to the
Minister of Education as contrary to
the spirit of the Russian language, hence
as retarding the progress of the stu,
dents in properly understanding and
translating the ancient classics. Orders
have, therefore, been issued to dispense
with the services of foreigners as teach
ers and superintendents of classical
schools.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-02-26

ANOTHER of the peculiar incidents of
the war has cropped out. At the battle
of Stone river Constable Walter Lacey,
OF Cincinnati, saw, as he supposed, his
brother killed by his side, and has al
ways mourned him as dead. Recently,
however, he saw a notice of the death
OF John Lacey, at Chattanooga,
Tenn, and upon investigation found it
was his long lost brother.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-02-26
EpitOme of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
FlFTY-FiRST CONGRESS.
Second Session.

Second Session.
TUESDAY. Feb. II. The plomatic
and consular appropriation bill was
passed in the Senate and the Gre
dentials Of William A. PETER as Sena-
tor from Kansas and d. w. Voorhees,
from Indiana were presented and placed
on file. In the House the general de-
fclehcy bill (s36, ,574, ,3Os) was reported
and the Indian appropriation bill was
discussed.
WEDNESDAY. Feb IS. The copy
right bill, with amendments to admi.
copyrighted books, ETC., printed in for
eign countries, on payment of tariff du-
ties, and requiring charts, photographs,
ETC., to be printed on plates executed
in the United States, was passed in the
Senate by vote Of SO to IA. Other
bills were passed increasing the pen
sions OF the widows of Generals Custer
and Ullman and Admiral Wilkes
to 500 per month, and House bill
dividing the State of Iowa into two
judicial districts. In the House the
Indian appropriation bill was passed
and resolutions were discussed to in-
vestigate the condition of the Indian
tribes in the United States and to amend
the constitution SO as to provide that
the terms OF Representatives shall be-
gin January l, and that the President
shall be inaugurated April 80.
THURSDAY, Feb. 10. Bills were
passed in the Senate for the erection
of a bridge across Portage lake Michi-
gan. between Houghton and Hancock,
and for the adjudication Of claims aris-
ing from Indian depredations Sem
ator ingalls, resigned as President pro-
tenn. A bill was introduced to give a
pension OF S2,50 year to the widow
of Admiral Porter. In the House bills
were passed for the relief of settlers on
lands in Southern Iowa, and for the re-
lief of the Stockbridge tribe of Indians
in Wisconsin. A bill was introduced to
repeal that part Of the National bank
act that compels National banks to pur-
chase United States bonds.
FRIDAY, Feb 20. - In the Senate
130 pension bills were passed. The
measure to give aid to the construction
OF the Nicaragua canal was discussed,
but no action was taken. In the House
the bill for the relief of the Supreme
Court and the bill to fix the salaries of
United States Judges were considered.
At the evening session 1ls pension bills
We're passed.
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A FIRE at Hoosierville, a mixing vii
lage In Clay County, Ind, almost en-
tirely destroyed the town.
Ex-TREAsURER WOODRUFF paid into
the State Treasury of Arkansas s63, ,740.-
SO, the full amount of his shortage.
A FLOOD swept away Riverside, d
suburb Of Parkersburg, w. Va No
lives were lost.
MARTHA MOORE and Sarah Mules
(colored) were killed at Lake Station,
Md, by train.
An explosion of natural gas in the
house of William Kuntz at Martins
Ferry, O., burned nine persons, two OF
them, Mrs. Kuntz and Miss Graves, "a
tally.
THE Industrial party Of Michigan in
State convention at Lansing nominated
O'Brien Jameson, of Port Huron, for
Supreme Court Justice.
The population Of Tennessee by
races Is announced by the Census
Bureau as follows: White, 1882, ,971;
colored, 800; Indians, 173; Chinese,
81; japanese, 10; total, 1,767,51s. The
population of West Virginia was given
as follows: White, 729, 262; colorcd, 49,.
sos; Indians, g.; Chinese, Is; total 762,.
794.
A MOB hanged John Bull, an Indian,
at Battlefield, Miss, for the murder OF
Ben Pierce. farmer.
In the Northwest storm of sleet
and snow did great damage to the tele-
graph service.
THE worlds fair directory has aban
doned the Lake Front. There will not
be building placed upon it and the
Worlds Columbian Exposition will be
held at jackson Park. 1t was said the
expenses Of the fair would be Sl7,625,-
453 and the receipts were estimated at
So, ZOO, 900.
WILLIAM McCUBBIN, a wealthy citi-
zen of Leigh, Neb., shot and killed his
wife and his hired man and then cut his
own throat. Jealousy prompted the
crime.
In the Northwest the total production
of white pine lumber during the past
season was 4,06s, 2s5, ,5s4 feet, an in
crease over the previous season of $685..
TOO. 148 feet.
THE death was announced of Mrs.
Elizabeth Winchester, of Floyd County,
Ind, aged 81 years, who was thought to
be the only person in Indiana drawing
a pension on account of the revolution
airy war.
MICHAEL ZELLERs found alive in the
bottom of a forty-foot dry well at Craw-
| fordsville, Ind, hog which had been
there for forty-one days without food
or water.
IN an interview in New York ex-
President Cleveland emphatically de-
MED a statement by Washington pa
per to the effect that he had decided
not to be Presidential candidate in
| 1900
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i THE marriage of Morton Mitchell,
cousin OF Vice-President Morton, to the
lovely widow, Mrs. George S. Ladd,
has been the seasons sensation in
Washington, and all the bachelors are
envying Morton's good fortune in win
ming pronounced blonde of delicate
beauty and high social station, who has
no membranes except million dol
lars in good hard cash.