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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-23
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Sir August Paget receives $4,000
year as British minister to Austria
This salary enables him to keep on good
terms with the imperial family and tho
aristocracy, and his duties do not ex-
tend much beyond this.
Miss Sara Jeanette Duncan, the
author Of "A Social Departure. and
the correspondent for newspapers in
Canada. Washington, New York and
New Orleans, is going from her homo
in Ontario to India. where She will be
married.
Jason Brown, second son of the old
abolitionists whose soul is marching
on" recently came east from California,
where he has lived for the last six years,
and is visiting at York. Pa, not very far
from Harper's Ferry. He is now sixty
eight years old, and lectures a good deal
on temperance.
Mr.. Gladstone is moving into his
new house in Park lane. The old gen
tleman is not, however, getting his i'm
pedimenta in order for removing from
the ''cold shades of opposition" to the
sunny side Of the treasury bench. The
old tenants are very reluctant about
giving up possession.
The Crown Princess Stephanie Of
Austria appears to have abandoned all
idea of contracting second marriage,
as she has just purchased beautiful
property at Abazzia, on the Adriatic,
where she is going to build a large villa,
which is to be surrounded by elaborate
ly laid out Italian gardens.
The young Niscount Eelgrave,
grandson of the duke of Westminster,
will. on his twenty-fifth birthday, be
the richest man in the world. At that
auspicious time his income will be not
far from twenty thousand dollars day,
reasonably good start in life, as
money goes. one would say.
The queen of Roumania has writ
ten a melo-drama which should have
been produced at the Burg theater at
Vienna. but it turned it out to be so
wildly and weirdly absurd in plot and
SO bombastic in language that the man.
ayers insisted that if it was produced
there would not only be riot in the
audience, but Il strike among the en-
ployes, and SO it was withdrawn. Even
queen is not free from dramatic fail
ures.
Thirty years ago NJ. Worth, the
great man-milliner of Paris. was a sales
man in the employ of large London
firm. He went to Paris at the age Of
twentyfonr. taking but few pounds
in money, but an excellent capital in the
way of brains, energy. taste and ambi-
ton. lie now employees twelve hum
dred workers. and during the famine
days of the Commune. he generously
denied himself in order to care for sew
enty poor people. lie is man of cul-
tivated taste, and has rare collection
of old china.
Thomas Nelson Page, the southern
author, explains how portion of the
Pages in America came to write the
name Paige. as is the case with many
in the north. Those branches of the
family in England and Scotland which
a.poused the Cromwellian cause were
anxious not to be connected with their
cousins. who were royalists. and SO the
roundhead Pages put in the IL which
has been kept in ever since. 1t was
worn as badge of religious loyalty,
just rs the cavaliers wore their flowing
locks
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-23

he never drank coffee, and rarely tasted
tea. Milk was his favorite beverage
when he could get it, and pure water
when he could not.
His personal appearance was impress
sive, but without the slightest sugges-
ton of the pompous and overdressed
military man; he was plain as an old
stick, and looked more like an honest
country squire than the commander of
q warlike expedition. He had blue-gray
eyes, quick and penetrating in glance,
q finely chiseled Roman nose, firm and
yet kindly mouth, well-arched head, a
good brow, and a general expression Of
indomitable resolution, honest purpose.
sagacity. and good intentions. He had
an aversion to wearing uniform and to
the glitter and fligree of the military
profession. He was essentially man
Of action and spoke but little and to
the point, but was fond OF listening to
the conversation of others. He was At
all times accessible to the humblest
soldier or the poorest ''prospcctor,"
without ever losing certain dignity
which repellcd familiarity but had no
bCululdHSC VI AAC uCSC1
used profanity and indulged in no equivo-
cal language.
Probably no officer of equal rank in
our army issued fewer orders or letters
of instructions. Example is always
the best general order," he said to me
once when we were seated side by side
on fallen log in the lower Powder
valley, Montana, in most exasperat-
ing drizzle of rain in the summer Of
1876. 1t certainly was true of campaign
ing in Arizona, and no officer or soldier
hesitated to endure any hardship when
he saw the commanding general at the
head of the column, eating the same ra-
tions as himself, and not carrying
enough extra clothing to wad shot
gun. There is one character in Ameri-
can history whom Crook, saving his bet
ter education and broader experience,
very strongly resembled-and that is
Daniel Boone.
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LATER
SIX Were Killed.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 1s.-The
Toledo express, west-bound ON the
Lake Shore railroad, collided with the
fast mail, east-bound, at Kipton, Ohio,
small station some thirty miles west
of Cleveland, to-day.
The force of the collision was such
that the cars reared on end as high as
the little depot, and the building was
completely shattered and crushed by
the heavy mass falling against it. No
passengers on the fast mail, which car
seriously injured, although the seats
were all torn loose from the bottom of
the coach and the passengers and chairs
piled in a mass at the end.
The postal clerks did not escape. and
six of Uncle Sans faithful servants
were killed. They are:
Sames Mckinley of Conneaut, Ohio.
+. j. Nugent, Toledo, Ohio.
Charles Hamill, Elyria, Ohio.
L. +. Clemens, Cleveland, Ohio.
John J. Bowerfne, Elyria, Ohio.
C. II. Mcdowell, Elyria, Ohio.
The engineer of the express, Ed
Bacon of Toledo, was killed, as was
also the engineer of the mail, Charles
Topliff, also of Toledo.
A boy named Dantzig, son of sec
tion boss, sitting on the depot platform
was struck by the cars and fatally in
jured.
The fireman of the express, named
Staley, residing at Toledo, was fatally
injured, dying shortly afterward.
A near as can be ascertained there
was a conflict in orders. A dispatch
was first sent that the train should
meet at Oberlin, seven miles east, and
almost immediately after it was fol-
lowed by another announcing kipton
as the meeting place, but the latter was
too late. The express had come almost
to standstill when the collision oc-
Cured, while the other train was run
ming at the rate of forty miles an hour.
EIGHTEEN immigrants arrived at New
York on the 10th and are ordered to be
returned by Col. Weber on the ground
that they were to become public
charges.
AT recent wedding near Louisville,
KY, over sixty persons were poisoned
by arsenic being placed in spring
which furnished water for the house
where the ceremony occurred.
AT Cleveland. O.. on the 18th, three
hundred coal beavers struck for ;n in
crease of pay.
AT Washington, ID. C., on the 10th,
Rear Admiral Taylor. U. :. N. died
from rueumoniA.
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THE EAST.

FLAMES destroyed the post Office, First
national bank and other buildings in
Elizabethport, N. j., causing a loss of
S400. 200.
A DEAL combining the strongest Aack
and wire-nail concerns in the country
was consummated at Taunton, Mass.
FLAMES destroyed three acres of
sheds and 1877 head of cattle at the
Pittsburgh pa stock yards.
THE death of Mrs. Anna Walsh, who
was 100 years old last fall, occurred at
Plainfield. n. j.
A CONVENTION of all honorably dis
charged soldiers and sailors of the reg
ular army and navy has been called for
July next in New York, at which time
the plan is to organize as a national
body of the union.
AN order was issued by Archbishop
Ryan, of Philadelphia, that in future
Catholics will not be permitted to bury
any of their relatives or friends on Sun
days.
NEAR Worcester, n. Y, a freight
crashed into a gravel train and five
Italians who were in box car were
killed, three of them being burned to
death in the wreck.
In Boston the twenty-sixth anniver-
sary of the death of Abraham Lincoln
and the thirty-seventh anniversary of
the formation and naming of the re-
publican party was observed on the
18th.
THE Massachusetts legislature has
provided for state worlds fair COM
mission and appropriated $4,000.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY, accompanied by
his wife, sailed from New York for
Europe. The report that Mr.. Stanley
had been made governor Of the Congo
was officially denied.
LIEUT.. SCHwATKA started on his third
expedition to Alaska to explore the
country from the Yukon river west.
FIRE destroyed the Ross building, in
which Station {, New York post office,
was located, involving loss of $500,
600. The mails were saved.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-23
NOTES FOR WOMEN READERS.

DR. EDITH PEACHY PHIPsoN has been
appointed member of tha senate of the
university Of Bombay.
Miss NANCY CORNELIUS. who gradu-
ated in 1883 from the Indian industrial
school at Carlisle, has received her di-
ploma from the Hartford training
school. She is the first Indian woman
to prepare herself scientifically for
nursing.
ONE of the most valuable workers for
the Harvard Peabody museum of
archaeology and ethnology is Miss Alice
c. Fletcher, who has recently been
specified as the first holder of fellow
ship for women--that having been pre-
sented by Mrs. Mary Copley Shaw.
MRS. JOHN SHERWOOD answers Mrs.
Kate Gannett Wells question: why
more girls do not marry?" She thinks
it is mainly because they do not get a
good chance. Meanwhile, as the Bos-
ton Transcript has already proved Ivy
statistics of matrimony, the real answer
to the question why more girls do not
marry" is simply this: ''They do"
Miss CYNTHIA nj. MISSIONER is Com
HioSlouCl pVuttiO . uVPuNy III IAS sliSSS-
cleaning department Of New York city.
She is thoroughly capable and posted in
the work Of the office, and, though u
frail-looking, pretty and polished lady.
can boss thousand laborers SO cleverly
that the ordinary ganger forgets how to
swear and the politician who wants
pay without work finds that he has a
hard road To travel
MRS. G. p. HUNTINGTON is having a
| wealth Of beautiful embroideries made
| for the Turkish bath, that is to be a
feature of her Fifth avenue castle.
Among other things there will be trail.
ing. bath robes of bulgarian work,
towels of Turkish loom as big as sheets,
embroidered with silver; mules embel.
lished with Oriental needlework, and
high-heeled clogs made of hard wood
and bejeweled, after those in the baths
about Constantinople.
SUSAN HELEN HOLMAN, of New York
who is woman of vim and enterprise
is learning to be locksmith. She
amuses herself picking the locks of he1
neighbors' front doors, trunks ant
chests, and one of these days expects t.
hire an uptown basement and make
fortune in the business. She wears
suit of brown homespun copiously pock
eted for the reception Of her tools, ans
from an old Dutch girtlle of wrought
iron studded with green stones hanUs I
chatelain and keys OF all sizes
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-23
Twist AND PASS"
A Trick That Will Give the Novice More
Than Little Trouble.

A Trick That Will Give the Novice More
Than . Little Trouble.
In performing this trick the novice
will, according to the New York Her.
aid, meet with trouble. II is called
Twist and Pass" and requires but
two picks. One is placed next
to the left-hand thumb and held
by pressing it against the hand,
and the other is simply secured by the
right-hand thumb. The trick is to
transfer them from one hand to the
other and return them to their original
positions. First with the right fore
finger and thumb seize the ends of the
other pick, the forefinger being upper.
most: then with the left forefnger and
thumb seize the other pick, the thumb
being at the lower end.
1t is absolutely essential that the lat
ter point should be observed, because il
is the key of the situation. In order to
place the thumb in that position give
the hand sharp upward half turn and
then thrust the thumb forward and
downward until it meets the end OF the
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-23
HUMOROUS.

A Tender Heart. -IIe-"May see
you homc?' She-''No. but you may
watch me start. Epoch.
Castles in the air are walled in by
fancy. remarked the poet. Faith. Id
Siftings.
Departed -Mistress-.Is the fire
going, Bridget?" bridget tan amateur)
Faith, mum, an it's just gone
American Grocer.
A Martyr for Others.-.Plodder is
looking pale: he's just killing himself
with hard work" Whats he engaged
att" '.Inycnting labor-saving ma
chine. Judge.
Since st. Louis justice decide d
that young woman must return the
gifts made by rejected lover, an epi-
demic of kissing is said to have struck
the youth of that town.-St. Joseph
News.
A Great Fall in Spoons. Oker-
''There is a great fall in spoons" jew
eler deeply Interested Mop ]. Oker
Yes; they're now decorated with
Niagara in the bowls.
Weekly.
One At Time Sufiicient.-"Say,
Jack, old boy, do You approve of having
bells with You when you go out with
your sleigh on the boulevard:" no,
do not, Billy. A single belle is enough
for me. brooklyn Eagle.
-She-'I don't know how true it is,
but they say your friend Johnson has a
fiendish temper. l understand he threw
trunk at his wife on their bridal tour"
He-''There never was a grosser SLAM
der, assure you. happen to know it
was only valisc. Smith. Gray < Co. s
Monthly.
Wouldn't Raise the Price.-Real
Estate Agent here, Uncle Abe.
i find that house and lot you put into
my hands to sell has an incumbrance
on it." Uncle Abe-"What dat? Didn't
know dat sure, sab. Well. nebber mind,
if it's got er gold mine on it, let it go at
de price. Epoch.
Explaining the Item m.--Client-"You
have an item in your bill: Advice, Jam
uary s, five dollars That was the day
before | retained you" Lawyer-.I
/ y
| the sth told you you'd better let me
| take the case for you"" Client-"Yes." +"
Lawyer-"Wcll, that's advice. N. Y.
| Sun.
Where the Profits Were. Bond
How do you manage to sell out at cost,
and still make "A living?" Einstein-
"Oh, dere wash projects Bond-''But
! how, when you sell the goods for what
they cost you?" Einstein-"Forv vat dey
/ COST me? Nein. nein-for vat dey gost
| de customer; den dere wash profeets.'-
/ n. Y. Sun.
! Say, VIII, how do You pronounce
t-o-m-a-t-o-e-s?" why, Tomatoes.
Why do you ask?" "Dr. Ketchum pro-
nounced it SO peculiarly this morning in
| speaking of old Mrs. Sickellys condi-
ton" How did he pronounce tips
"Why, he said she had been lying in a
tommy-toes condition since yesterday"'
Light
Real Economy. What condit ions
do you set for the lady?' "A beautiful
face, two thousand marks property, q
thorough knowledge of housekeeping,
and she must wear six and one-fourth
| gloves" And may | venture to in.
quire why you make this last condi.
tion?" Certainly; several years ago
drew in rattle six pairs of ladies'
gloves of that number, and you could
not expect me to throw them away
Fliegends Batter.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-23
WEST AND SOUTH.


N Cincinnati Frank Sierk, music
teacher, was found in his room dead
from starvation.
in the Henry Ames Packing Com
pany's works at Springfield, Mo-, fire
did damage to the extent of 100000.
FIVE women over 80 years of age
have died from the grip at Wheeling,
w. Va.
THE sudden death of Count Lewen-
haupt, who married the youngest
daughter of ex-Secretary of State
Bayard, on April 2, occurred at his
home in Wilmington. Del.
FIRE destroyed all but three of the
business buildings at Latham, Ill.
WHILE crossing the Mississippi river
at st. Louis boat containing twelve
boys was capsized and five of the young
men were drowned.
w. j. EDBRooKE, of Chicago, has
been appointed supervising architect of
the United States treasury.
WILLIAM NELSON and William Deary,
young men who lived at Prairie du
Chen, Wis. were drowned by the cap
sizing of a sail boat
THE death of Rt. Rev. Bishop Richard
Gilmour, of the Cleveland (O.) diocese,
occurred at st. Augustine, Fla.
BURGLARS killed Granville Richards
and his wife, of Cecil county, Md.
OPPOSITE New Orleans the country
was almost entirely under water owing
to break in the Ames crevasse, and
three persons had been drowned.
In the vicinity of Rolla and St John,
N. d., white settlers sent a petition to
the Indian bureau for fort and a de-
tail of soldiers ut St John. The set.
tiers say their stock has been run off
and n general sense of insecurity spread
throughout that region by band of
1000 Indians and half breeds camped in
the Turtle mountains.
A SHOCK of earthquake was felt at
Healdsburg and Visalia. Cal.
NEAR Melrose, N. c., Ave negro rail-
road laborers were killed in a train
collision on the Spartanburg railway.
AT the opening of the great western
states congress in Kansas City, Mo-,
twenty-four states were represented by
delegations.
EMMA PETERSON and Cora Murray,
both aged IL years. were thrown from
buggy and killed in a runaway while
driving to school near Hartford City,
Ind.
w. Il. BAKER, of Chicago, has been
elected president Of the worlds fair
directory.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-23

THE astronomers tell us in their stel-
lar predictions for April that Venus is
making her way toward the sun and
rises less than two hours before the
sun appears above the eastern horizon.
As she travels toward superior con-
junction, she at the same time recedes
from the earth, her semi-diameter nat
urally decreases, and with it her bril-
liancy. She has been fair to see for
many weeks. and although she will not
lay aside her starry crown for some lit
tie time to come her rival. Jupiter. is
gaining rapidly upon her, and will fair
ly outshine her before her course as
= morning star has been fully run.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-23

century, to enjoy the tranquil air Of de-
lightfnl studies, amid pastoral, noun.
tain and moorland scenery, with ''the
peace that is among the lonely hills"
The little village of Grasmere, named
after its lake, near the high road from
Windermere to Keswick, has plain,
massive, old parish church, with quiet
churchyard beside the mulmuring
stream of the Rothay, containing the
grave with simple tombstone Of slate,
inscribed "William Wordsworth, died
1851" Dove cottage, the modest, lime.
washed building in which he liz ed from
1899 to 1908, with it's garden where he
brooded over genial thoughts Of man
and nature, is shown in the illustra-
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-23
THE TWIST AND PASS.

pick. Grasp it firmly, separate the
hands, and you will of course see that
you have transferred the picks.
In order to return them to their for
mer positions you must reverse the pro-
cess just described. If the directions
are not implicitly followed the picks
cannot be transferred, for they will
catch upon each other in transit.
If the trick is done with dexterity the
picks are made to exchange places al
most as if by magic. 1t also heightens
the illusion somewhat to blacken one Of
the picks in order to convince your
friends that there is no deception about
the work.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-23

ABOUT two miles above Parkersburg.
w. Va, the site of a large prehistoric
village has been found and many relics
unearthed. The village covers four
acres bordering on the Ohio river. The
entire area presents the appearance of
having been at one time closely packed
with people. The earth is furrowcd in
many places, and is intermixed with
fragments of pottery, bones of animals.
such as deer, bear, etc. with many
utensils and ornaments of stone, bone
and shells
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-23

John Robinson, says that on one occa.
sion his father, his brother Gilbert and
himself paid a visit to Barnum at his
home in Bridgeport. After some rem.
iniscences Mr.. Barnum asked them il
they would take q drink with him.
They assented, and as Mr.. Barnum
himself stepped to the sideboard to
produce the tipple they expected some.
thing particularly fine. Judge of our
SURPRISE" said Mr. Robinson, ''when
the old Snowman passed around the
iced water" Mr.. Barnum could not
perhaps have done anything else that
would have SO impressed his visitors.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-23

/ THE formation of the commonwealth
of Australia is an event in the history
of the world the significance of which
is Just being realized. There is no sep
aration from England. The common
wealth will have igure-head gov
ernor general, just as has Canada, but
new and great Anglo-Saxon nation
has just been christened, q nation
which among all those of the world
will most resemble the United States.
The question of absolute independence
is, of course, only a matter of time, or
rather of option.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-23

WILLIAM NJ. ROBERTS, of Liberty,
Mo-, entertained an angel unawares
last December, when Edward Williams
stopped at his house, asked for shelter
and was given home. He died the
other night without relatives, leaving
Roberts block of brick buildings in
Kansas City, Mo-, and large bank de-
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-23

HENRY NJ. STANLEY intimates that
circumstances may arise which will
make necessary his return to Africa.
For his one hundred lectures Stanley
received $4,000, and Maj. Pond says
the average gross receipts were S2,7sO.
He is endeaving to arrange with the
explorer for another course of one hun
dred lectures in America, beginning in
lefn
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-23

HEBREW is again becoming a living
language in Palestine. The thousands
of Jews who are going there from diff
ferent countries, being unable to COM
municate with each other in their ordi-
nary languages. resort to the lnowl-
edge which they have of Hebrew in
their religious services for a means of
communication.
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THE centennial cale ehrafio

THE centennial celebration of the
patent system in Washington recently
was an event of great interest. I'm
fortunately many of the men, says the
Inter Ocean, who devised the plans
that brought millions to 1.-The moneyed
backer," have passed into obscurity, or
death, or had too little money to at
tempt the luxury of being present.
When the true history of patents is
written some large names will appear
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-23

THE Pail Mall Gazette tells of doc
tor on a man-of-war who had a very
simple method of treatment. lie would
tie piece Of tape around the waist of
the complaining mariner. and command
him to state whether the pain existed
above or below the tape. If above, an
emetic, and if below, dose of salts
followed as matter of course.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-23

A NOVELTY in the washing machine
line has just been invented. It is con-
nected with child's swing. and after
the soiled garments, with the proper
quantity of soap shavings, have been
put in the tub. child is placed in the
swing, which is set in motion, and
moves automatically, and turns the
washing machine
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THE FLYING FROG.

flying frog, which is about ten
inches long and Of glitter
ing green color, has been repeatedly OBJ
served by scientific travellers, and it
has been found that it can fly down
ward by means of its abnormally devel-
oped webs, but not upward.
1t lives on the Sunda islands in bushes
and trees, and devours insects which it
catches in its flight.