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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-14
WOMAN'S ADVANCEMENT.

GEORGE W. CHILDs instructed his as
sistant editors many years ago never to
let any witticism which reflected on
woman creep into the columns of the
Ledger.
Miss RYckMAS has been appointed
English master" to the Collegiate in
stitute, London. Ont. receiving the
same salary man would have filling
the post.
4 HOME for lonely women is about to
be erected at Helsingburg, in Sweden.
The home will provide pleasant and
cheap residence for women. and there
will be common-room with piano, =
library, etc.
INVENTION is just beginning to receive
something like just appreciation at the
hands of intelligent women. 1t has
been the greatest of all helpers in the
| advancement of women, in placing each
successive generation on a higher plane.
Inventive Age.
THE question of the marriageable age
for women is very much to the fore IN
Sweden. \ bill has been introduced
iuto the Swedish parliament that the
lowest age ut which women might be
allowed to marry should be raised to
eighteen, and the matter will now form
the subject of exhaustive inquiries as
to the various points which may bear
upon it.
FRAULEIN NoN CHAUyIN has the most
perfect collection of butterflies in all
Germany, and, although an invalid, has
made valuable discoveries in connec-
tion with plant and animal life, which
have won for her a more than national
reputation as a naturalist. So thor
oughly does she understand the ways
of animals that she keeps large aviary
in which birds and animals of naturally
hostile disposition live together in har-
mony.
A COURTEOUS English editor pays a
graceful compliment to women work.
ers, Of whom he has employed many.
II would rather" he said, deal with
twenty women than one man. Women
| are more reliable, more painstaking,
more accurate. more courteous, and far
! cleverer than men. One young lady
who has just left me to be married has
been with me sixteen years, and during
the whole time only one fault has been
traced to her.
A wELL-ksowN syndicate manager
says of women as literary workers: ut
is an indisputable fact that the best lit
erary work to-day is being done by
| women. and the most conclusive evi-
dence of this lies in the fact that Of the
! fifteen most successful books published
within the past two years eleven were
| written by women. In my experience
of eight years | have found literary
women just, fair. always courteous and
obligng and capable of far better work
than men are generally willing to credit
to them. have found their work more
evenly meritorious than that of men,
while the most successful articles which
have printed in both newspapers and
| magazines, came from the pen Of wons'
e."
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-14

A CORE saw. intended for boring out
barrels from solid logs, was recently
completed at Taunton, Mass. for a
company in Lacrosse, La. The saw is
made of wrought iron, cylindrical in
shape, and steel cutter teeth are dis
tributed about its edge. 1t was expected
that the saw would cut a barrel per
minute; and during trial of the first
machine core 10l4 inches in diameter
and ais inches long was bored out in
thirty seconds A mill for the manu-
facturc of barrels by these machines is
to be built in Louisiana.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-14
LATER.


SAX DlEGo, Cal, May 10.-The Unit
ed States man-of-war Omaha steamed
out of the harbor yesterday and after
passing the heads stood out to sea in a
souteasterly course. Commander Crom-
well received mass of correspondence
in cypher from the navy department
and it is understood that he has iE-
struc tions to cruise around Coronado
island and San Clemente to find out if
possible, where the Robert and Minnie
met the Itata and to pick up the schoon-
ers il sighted.
Marshal Gard, Detective Harry
Morse and Deputy Spaulding put in
the day securing testimony corroborat-
ing Spaulding's statement as to how
the Itata was manned when she left the
harbor
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-14

SOME idea of the size of the milliner
bills which the husbands and fathers of
this country are called upon to pay may
be had from estimates made by the gov
crnment that the amount of money
which must be refunded by Uncle Sam
on account of his having levied excess
sive duties on hat trimmings will aggre-
gate between $40, 900, 600 and $50, 600, 000
This sum represents only the difference
between the legitimate duty on hat
trimmings and that on ribbons during
the period covered by the claims of the
importers. 1t indicates that the female
form divine requires good deal of
trimming.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-14

BY order of Secretary Blaine the
United States marshal at San Diego,
Cal. seized the steamer italia which was
receiving contraband of war for the
use of Chilian insurgents.
AT Port Townsend, Wash. John
Turnbull. a attorney was arrested on
the charge Of helping to smuggle
Cinnamon into the United States.
A LARGE portion of FL Paso, Tex,
v as flooded by rise in the Rio Grande
river. and over fifty families were
driven from their homes.
In Nebraska John NJ. Thayer has re-
sumed the Office of governor and has
rcappointed all the republican Office
holders deposed by Mr.. Boyd.
A BREAK in the levec in Concordia
parish, La. flooded the country for
miles around.
In Illinois, Iowa. Indiana, Michigan
and parts Of Ohio frost was said to have
greatly damaged fruit Of all kinds.
c. PARDEE's four children who left
East Tawas, Mich, in an open boat
and who were supposed to be drowned
reached Port Austin in safety.
AN explosion of gas in the Ocean
mine at Clarkesburg. w. Va. killed four
miners and several others were badly
hurt.
WILLIAM WRIGHTMAN, while remov-
ing wheat from his barn for market
near Middletown, Ind, found in the
grain an old pocketbook containing
$11, 500 in gold coin and paper curren-
cy. How the money came there was
mystery.
At Marinette, Wis, the safe of the
iron works was broken open by burg
lars and robbed of $1,000.
PASSENGER trains on the Pan Handle
collided at Tuscarawas, O., and d.
Longenecler was killed and c. d.
Rogers, c. +. Marvin and Otto Miller
were fatally injured.
w. c. WooDFoRD went l5S hours and
IS minutes without closing his eyes in
sleep-fasting contest in San Francis
co, breaking the previous record of LA
hours and 20 minutes.
AN Indian woman living in Door
county, Wis, Mrs. Angelica Bear, is
said to be 1s4 years old.
THE Chilian insurgents vessel Itata
when she sailed from San Diego tCal.l
harbor carried away Deputy Marshal
Spaulding, who was put off ut ballast
point and returned to that city. He re-
ported that the vessel was well-armcd
privateer.
In the northern portions of Michigan
forest fires were creating heavy losses.
FLAMES destroyed the planning mills.
warehouses and lumber yard Of
Schroth 4 Ahrens at Winona. Mimi.
,oSS C1OO 00O
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-14
A Reasonable Explsnation.

A man without an overcoat who was
trying to warm his back against the
post Office building was asked il he had
managed to pass the winter without
other protection than his thin and scedy
under coat.
Certainly" was the prompt reply.
but you must have been cold al
times"
"Yes, sir, at all times"
"But you regard an overcoat as .
luxury?"
''Oh, no, could easily nzre pur.
chased one last fall, but my pride pre-
vented"
"How?"
"Why, did not want to be seen 60
ing into pawnshop in the spring to
spout it. a man in this town who
hasn't got influential friends can't be
too careful Of his reputation IN. I
Sun
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-14
The Woman who Pieases.

.'She knows Just how to talk to all
kinds and conditions Of men," was the
recommendation given for bright
woman who makes her living as much
by her ability to please as by her actual
labors
Seeing that woman afterward, and
observing her closely, one could not but
be impressed with the truth of
what had been said. She was gay with
the gay, silent when anyone else wanted
to talk, talkative with the shy. always
good tempered, never too animated, and
never, never, visibly in pain nor in
tears. She was always charming,
bright. sympathetic and sweet She
was witty, too. but not terribly SO. She
kept her wit to illumine conversation
and to tighten dull spirits. not to burn
hearts nor scorch sensitive feeling.
Everybody went from her presence
feeling comfortable in spirit and with
reasonably satisfied hearts.
She was a peacemaker and courage
strengthened There are two or three
dozen of such women in the world, and
when you find one she will tell you that
it is almost impossible for her to get an
evening to herself, because so many
dear. kind friends are apt to drop in Of
an evening And she will add: I'm
glad it's So, for should not be able to
get through the day without the pros
pect of these pleasant evenings. ] wish
the days might be all evenings with a
time table that never crept beyond the
limits of s to / / r. m'-N. Y. World.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-14

AN idea of the enormous amount of
type used in the government printing
office may be gained when it is stated
that the public printer has asked for
bids for $4,000 pounds of English, 5000
pounds of plea, $4,000 pounds of long
primer, 5000 pounds of BREWER and 4s,-
600 pounds of nonpareil-ao3, 600 pounds,
or about nine carloads.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-14
IN WOMAN'S BEHALF.
THE HOUSEWIVES PLANT.

Yes. sprinz Is coming fair and sweet,
heard his morn, robin singing,
And meath the tliatch OF .ang.ed grass,
A host OF tny shoots src springing.
The suns bright rays illumc each spot
Which winter SHOWS have kindly hidden:
Quaint piles Of cans-o.d boots and shoes
And shattered wares come forth, unbidden.
The skv bends low, SO bright blue,
An just 10 float its sea OF azure
Asoft white cloudiet for a boat.
On fairy isles to land ut pleasure.
but Oh, there hangs the garden lake,
And there that debris so appalling,
Iview them DER in dire dismay.
To Garth, M acria! visions falling.
long to roam the tangled wool
In search Of dainty hidden treasure,
And gather pink arDutus sprays
And waxen berries without measure
But John has put the leach to run;
know It's time the soap was making.
With broods OF chicks and geese TO pick.
The mere thought sets my back TO aching,
The southern breezes gently blow
And sway the alder tassels slender;
long TO stroke the silyery fur
OF pussy willows, soft and tender.
But there's Johns summer shirts to make
And all the rooms to scrub and scoug,
And gnrniSh up in spring array.
No time TO loitcr-not an hour.
hear the ripple OF the brook.
As DER Its pebbly bed It's flowing;
Jtsecms to WOO me with song
TO follow whereso'er It's going.
but just beyond, 4 little way.
l see my m!schicf-loying Teddy:
He calls with many merry shout:
I'm hungry, Ma Amt dinner ready"
In all o busy housewives life
There seems to be no time to iinRer.
To dream sweet dreams in sunny spots.
Though dreaming lift times heavy finger
All. we'll we'll turn TO memorys hoard.
Where slowed away are scenes Of beauty
We've CLEANED in old time rambles sweet;
New strength they'll bring to follow duty.
-Marah Kocke, in Household.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-14
WEST AND SOUTH.

In a livery stable fire ut FL Paso, Tex,
sixteen horses perished
A GREATER acreage of wheat In the
northwest territory this season than
ever before was reported.
On the Chattanooga road the kitchen
car of construction train was burned
near Duck creek, Tenn, and four
negroes perishcd in the flames.
In portions of Michigan, Illinois,
Iowa, Minnesota and the Dakotas ice
formed on the 5th.
The Beloit (Wis.) saloon keepers
have all closed up their places of busi-
ness and many were leaving town.
The city voted mo license at the re-
cent election.
FIRE destroyed the Hayes county
(Neb. courthouse at Hayes Center, with
all the county records.
THE Nebraska supreme court has
rendereda decision in the Boyd-Thayer
quo warranto case ousting Boyd and
declaring Thayer the legal governor of
the state. Boyd is disqualified on ac-
count of non-citizenship.
By the laundering of the schooner
Atlanta in Lake Superior off Whitetish
Point three of the crew were drowned
d. r. CALDER & Co., commission mer-
chants at New Orleans, failed for $685.
600.
In New Orleans the grand jury re-
ported the result of their investigations
in regard to the Hennessy murder and
the Malta lynching. No indictments
were returned against persons connect
ed with the lynching, but several were
found against the alleged jury bribers
In the vicinity of Davis, w. Va,
thousands of acres of valuable timber
have been burned by forest fires
T. SMITH, of Lincoln county, Tenn,
killed John Brooks three years ago in
quarrel about girl. On the 5th he
killed James Wakefield, who had mar
ried the girl q few weeks ago.
THE failure of Schnieaewend & Lee,
a printing! press firm of twenty years
standing in Chicago, for 800, 900 was
reported.
THIRrY-ElGHT years ago Lee Barton,
a young negro, was sold from his home
and wife and children in Virginia and
carried away by the slave traders and
resold in Mississippi lie has just been
reunited with his family ut Houston,
Miss.
FIRE destroyed the shops of the
American Wheel Company at Sidney,
o., causing loss of SlOO,0Oo.
THE Iowa republicans will hold their
state convention at Cedar Rapids July /.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-14
An Anti-Can.t Houscholder.

Salvation Tramp-Dear sir, unless
get bite Of something at onco l shall
soon be dead.
Pater Familias-Poor man. you are
homeless, are you?
Salvation Tramp-Oh, no; Heaven is
my home.
Pater Familias-Hcrc is Eve cents for
some bread and butterfly to reach
home as soon as possible.-Life.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-14

WYOMING man has settled the ques-
zion OF how the prairie dogs obtain the
water they drink. He says they dig
their wells, each village having one
with a concealed opening lie says he
knows of several of these wells from
fifty to two hundred feet deep, each
having circular stairway leading down
to the water
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-14

Mrs. ALAIRA LOCKE, mother of David
X. Locke petroleum v. Nasby). who
has been living in poverty and misery
In small house in Wheeling, w. Va.
has been granted pension on account
OF her late husband, Nathaniel Locke,
having served i'm the war Of 1919
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-14

! IT has just been discovered that the
delicious looking blood orange which
hlinks SO bewitchingly at the small
boy from the stands of the Italian
man is delusion and a snare. There
is no blood" orange, speaking from
the standpoint of the naturalist. All
globules of luscious fruit which assume
this alluring hue are doctored by means
of hypodermic injections of analine and
other poisonous or deleterious Alyes.
Hence the blood orange is luxury
TO be let severely alone.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-14
A MAN OF ENERGY.
Brief Sketch Of the Carecr Of
George L. Shoup.
A Pcnnaylvanian Who Made Life In idaho
Sncccsa- War Record One Of
Which lie May Well Bo Proud
Governor and Senator.

George L. Shoup. who has recently
been chosen by the Legislature Of the
new State of Idaho to serve in the
United States Senate. was born in Kit
tanning. Armstrong County. June -.
1885.
At the age Of fifteen years he moved
with his fathers family to Illinois, and
settled upon farm near Galesburg.
Here he engaged in stock-raising with
his father until the fall Of 1858. when
the marvellous tales that came from the
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-14

SEVENTEEN patents were issued re-
Gently to George +. Simonds, of Fitch
burg, Mass, who, it is claimed, has
solved the problem of applying ball
bearings to every shaft that turns, be
1t big or little, vertical or horizontal
Ball-bearings, AS everyone knows, are
in universal use in bicycles. A perfect
ball-bearing has long been the dream
of inventors, since by its use friction
may be reduced to a minimum, and
power, heat, wear, oil, etc. be greatly
economical. If MIR. Simonds' expecta-
tions shall BIC realized the result will
be most complete revolution in me-
char mics
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-14

STATISTICS are said to show that from
1907 to 1881 $1,000 Russians were ex-
lied to Siueria--10o,O 900 at their own in
stance, in order that they might accom-
pany condemned friends. With the
advance OF the century the practice of
banishment to Siberia has assumed in
creasing proportions. In 1so7-'1l the
number OF cxiles was 10, l75; in ls57-6l,
G6, S3l; in 1s17-'s9, Sc. 1856.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-14

THE longest bridge in the world is the
Lion bridge near Sangang, in China. 1t
extends five and quarter miles over
an area of the Yellow sea and is sup
ported by three hundred huge stone
arches. The roadway is seventy feet
above the water and is inclosed in an
iron network. A marble lion twenty
one feet long rests on the crown of
every pillar. The bridge was built at
the command of Emperor Kieng Long.
who abdicated in 1896 on account of old
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-14
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND NAIL.
FROM WASHINGTON.

FROM WASHINGTON.
A DISPATCH has been sent by Secre.
.ary Blaine to Minister Porter at Rome
,mphatically denying that he had made
public a confidential message, a.
charged by Premier Rudini in the
italian green book on the New Orlean,
affair.
In the United States the visible sup.
ply Of grain on the 4th was: Wheat,
II. .083, 34S bushels: corn, 3.124, 700 bush.
els; oats, 2,s3s, ,so2 bushels.
In April last there were issued from
the pension Office Sl,973 certificates oi
Ill classes, against IA, ,56a during the
same month of last year.
A WARRANT was signed by Secretary
Foster for sl,654,7ll in favor of the
governor of the state of Pennsylvania
this amount being that states share o1
the direct tax fund.
THE treaty between Spain and the
United States stipulates that coal
petroleum and machinery shall be ad,
mitted free into Cuba and Porto Rico
and that the present duty on -four b.
reduced one-half in exchange for the
free admission into the United States
Of sugar, coffee and cocoa.
THE vice president of Peru has ar
rived in Washington to negotiate fol
closer trade relations between the
United States and his country.
THE pension Office statement show.
that during the month of April there
were issued 51,4l5 pension certificates
the first payments on which aggre
gated 81, 3,s74,sl5.
ANOTHER letter on the Behring sea
question has been written to Sir Juliar
Pauncefote by Secretary Blaine IL
which the claims of England are re
uted, and Mr.. Blaine wants to know i
England can exercise exclusive contro
in an open sea why the United States
cannot do the same.
AT the annual meeting of the Ameri
can Medical association in Washington
DR.. o. II. Mary, Of Boston, wasflectet
president. The association petitionet
congress to create a new cabinet officer
to be called the secretary of public
health.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-14
A silly Question.

MAY have the honor to conduct
your daughter to the supper table?"
asked society gentleman Of . lady
from the country. who is staying with
some friends whom she is visiting.
MAY you take her to supper" was
the response. why, of course, and
you may take me. too. That's what we
came here for.n-Iexas Siftings.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-14
FOUND WATERY GRAVES.

Many Workmen Drowned In n Quarry by
the Sudden Flood Of q River and the
Water Rushing Over Its Banks.
ROME, May 9.-Friday while quar-
ry train on which were workmen was
at Allerona sudden food occurred in
the river, and the rushing water sweep
:ng over its banks engulfed the train,
and before any of its occupants could
escape the cars were lifted from the
tracks and swept away on the foaming
current. The train was carried con-
siderable distance and most of the T. en-
on board were drowned before amy AS
kintanee could be rendegxl them.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-14
Easy to Obey.

II can command my salary" said the
Thespian in reply to the remarks Of an
envious rival.
''No doubt" was the reply. "It's SO
small 1t would be afraid to disobey you"
Washington Post.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-14
In the Cloak Iloon,.

Representative Bustem lin the course
Of argument)-If we are not sent hers
to represent the ideas of our constitu.
cnts, what are we here for?
Representative Wircgrass-Wa-al. 50
far as kin see, was sent here to rep
resent the views Of my wife and the
gals.-PuclS.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-14

1T is little things of life that tax
ones nerves mcst, as a stalwart youth
OF Leavenworth, Kan, found when he
accepted wager that he could not
stand quart of water dropped into his
open hand drop by drop from height
Of three feet. Before five hundred drops
had fallen into his hand he almost cried
with pain and said he had enough.
After little water had fallen each
drop seemed to crush his hand, and IL
blister in the center of it was the re-
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-14
The scrap. Jury.
Rough on (;randua.

The Old Lady (deaf)-Has your grand
father quit smoking yet? The last
time saw him he told me he was go-
ing to do SO soon.
Her Young Visitor-My grandfather
died last week.
The Old Lady (still deaf)-Yes? Has
he quit smoking yet?-Jury.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-14
LAUGHING Gas.

Aunty-Did the dentist give you
!eughing gas?
Little Girl-Ycs'm.
Didn't it make you feel like laugh
ing?"
"Yes'm-after tn tooth was OUT
Good News.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-14
litter with tho sweet.

Anxious Mother lat = baN)-My dear,
ron look tired.
Sweet Girl-I'm most dead. Every
bone in my body aches. I've danced
every dance SO far, and I'm engaged for
ten more.
Anxious Mothcr-No doubt the gen.
tlcman will let you of.
Sweet Girl don't want to be let of.
Anxious Mother-You say you are
tired dancing.
Sweet Girl am not tired being
huCged.-N. Y. Weekly.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-14
A MOnstr0us Hog.

One Of the largest hogs In America.
If not, in fact, the largest in the world,
was reared by junction City (Kan.)
man. The length was 8 feet and >
inches; girth Of neck, 6l>4 feet; girth of
center Of body, feet; width across the
hips, so inches: weight, 1889 pounds.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-14
sIent,.l Photographs.

lie latter marriagc)-What: Yon
have no fortune? You said over and
over again that you were afraid somc-
ono would marry you for your money.
Shc-Yes, AMI, you said over and over
again that you would be happy with me
II l hadn't = cent. Well, I haven't a
cent.-N. Y. Weekly.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-14

DONNA IsIDoRA CousrSo in Chilli is
supposed to DE the richest woman in
the world. Her monthly income is $780,
600. She is stately widow of thirty
i've years and famous horsewoman.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-05-14
A Suitable llOU.

LADY, wish to select a pet dog.
Dealer-Live in the city, suppose,
mum?
'.Yes; live in flat."
"Then would advise an Italian grey
hound, mum. No matter how much
you feeds q greyhound he always stays
narrer."-N. Y. Weekly.