The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-06-11


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The state of Pennsylvania is to erect
monuments at Gettysburg to Meade,
Reynolds and Hancock.
The venerable Bishop Gro wther. one
OF the best known missionaries in
Africa, was born a savage in Guinea. .
AMHERST college will spend 500, 900
OF tho gift recently made her in build
ing physical and chemical laboratories.
TwESTY-oSE Italian immigrants who
arrived in New York on board the
steamer Massalia were debarred from
landing on the ground that they were
ex-convicts.
NEWS comes from San Francisco that
cargo of 100, 900 pounds of opium has
just been smuggled in from China. As
the duty on the drug is Sl2 per pound
the opium ring makes 81, zoo, 600 on the
deal.
THERE seems to be no question about
the aging effect OF her many sorrows
upon the Princess Clotilda, widow OF
the late Prince Napoleon. Though only
4s years old, her once blonde hair is
white.
WALTER HAYNES has lived upon
Haynes hill, Brimfeld, Mass, since he
was eighteen months old. He is 1O1
years now, has wife of 90 ard sister
OF SO, and the horse he yet drives about
confesses to 20 years.
; DEATHS of octogenarians and those
still older appear to multiply at this
season OF the year. 4 New York paper
recently recorded the death of twenty
two people who varied from eighty to
ninety-nine years of age.
THERE is no danger OF the Japs over
sleeping themselves. The reports show
that they have been shaken up by six
ty-four earthquakes during twenty four
days in March. That is q little less
than three earthquakes day, or one in !
about every ten hours
THERE was q confusing scene in a |
justice court in Chicago caused through
the arrest of two John Smiths for the
same offcnse. BY some mistake the |
wrong one was fined, but the court |
fortunately rectified the mistake be- |
fore mass meeting could be convened |
Tor protest by the innocent owners Of |
that name, |
THE old method of the art preserve
tive has been discovered by German in |
gcnuity. The means by which the head |
bands OF Egyptian mummies was pre-
served is to be adapted to fabrics, and |
they are expected to possess the prop
erty OF never wearing out. The dress
makers need not be alarmed; the fash. |
ions will change twice year just the
tame.
By a recent Colorado law a man who
Is caught carrying concealed weapons
anywhere in the state is liable to I've
be fined $50 or ''jugged" for thirty days,
and what is more il an officer, when
notified, fails to search a person carry
ing such forbidden arms, the officer is |
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which shall 60 to the informant, and !
one-half to the school fund Of the dis.
trict.
The fact has just come out that Ten
ny.on adds pretty penny to his in
come by selling milk from the cows
on his Isle of Wight estate. More than
this, he actually has the name Of
Alfred Lord Tennyson painted on the
side of his milk carts. This will give
finical aristocratic admirers of Eng
lands laureate a shock. Sensible folks
will be unable to see any harm in IT.
Milk is good deal more necessary to
human existence than poetry.
A CURIOUS fact noted in connection
with the epidemic of grip still preva-
lent in London is that it has almost
wholly spared members of the dramatic
and musical profession. masmuch as
such persons do not enjoy any advan-
tage over the rest of the community in
the matter of hygienic surroundings,
the most likely explanation of their
exemption is that the constant use of |
the vocal organs tends to fortify them
against the lodgment of the grip germs.
A BULLETIN issued by the census bu-
reau regarding the production of blue
stone shows that in the census year
5.l26,340 cubic feet were produced in
New York, New Jersey and Pennsyl-
vania, which were the only states pro-
ducing this particular variety of stone |
in the United States, the value Of which |
was $l,6s9,eO7. The expenditures by
the systematically operated quarries in
the production OF biuestone aggregated
:60S, $50. of which S527, 1884 was the
wages OF the !, 793 persons to whom the
industry gave employment.
THE Pittsburgh Times thinks ut is
only question of time as to whether
or not women will monopolize thework
of teaching in the public schools. In
forty cities having population each of
10000 and above in states east and west,
north and south, they outnumber the
men in the schools by more than five to
one-3,779 to 655, according to a census
bulletin just issued. In smaller COM
munities and in the rural districts the
proportion is still greater, perhaps be-
cause the men who want to teach as a
profession or while preparing for pro-
fession, crowd into the cities, there the
salaries being highest"
THE FIRE losses for the present year
nre OF extraordinary magnitude, and
ths president of one of the largest in
surance companies in Massachusetts
says he never knew anything like it.
The losses for the present year to date
foot up S67 1859, 2Os, as compared with
Sal, ,a97 for the same time last year.
The losses this year are: January. sl2,-
CAS-. $40; February, Slo,264,010; March,
$l2, 500, i0s; April, Sll ,64a,675; May, ssl,-
O49,475 The great increase of losses
in May was partly occasioned by forest
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