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The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-09
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HUMOROUS.

In School-''What is volcanoo" A
hot mountain. "les, but what does it
throw out?" well. dirt, stones and
saliva."-Fact.
-Chollie has just purchased his first
razor. IF your father don't find it just
what he wants." said the cutler. .'of
course we'll change it for him. ."-Har-
per's Bazar
That Settled It.-Young IIankinson
taking his seat in the chairl-"Don't
shave that mole. please. It's tender"
Barber lafter a careful examination of
the rest of the face)-''All right, sir.
Next
She Agreed With Him. = Father
coming in upon them at 11:3O)-'.Jen-
ME. don't you think it's about time to
go to bed?" Daughter-"Why yes. pa
pa.what on earth keeps you up SO late?"
Yankee Blade.
-Yabsley-"Billings has done pretty
well in the west. He writes me that
he has married pretty girl with s5O.-
0OO." Mudge-"That's nothing. With
$4,000 | could marry pretty girl my
self. indianapolis Journal
Your ladyship made quite a con-
quest to-day" said the kitchen maid.
Ibid II And with whoma' asked her
mistress. graciously. with my sweet
heart. He saw you going out, and l
tell you. lady as suits him must be a
lady" "-Fliegende Blatter.
Mr. Rranbrane came to see me
last evening" ''Ah." archly comment
\ S.. 4 IL
had been younger: 1.-The usual result.
suppose?' Yes, he did make an offer,
but" You should have let him go
when he offered to. lie tries it on all
the girls. and I'm sorry to see you
hadn't more pride than to hold him
back They don't speak now.-Phila-
delphia Times.
A farmers son up in the country
conceived desire to shine as member
of the legal profession, and undertook
| clerkship in the office of the village
pettifogger at nothing week. At the
end of the first days study the young
man returned home. We'll. Tobe.
| how dyer like the law" was the first
| paternal inquiry. "'Tain't " what it's
cracked up to be-" replied Tobe. ''Sor-
ry learnt it. brooklyn Life.
Convincing Evidence. - Upem -
"Your appearance is not that of the
| kind of man we wish to employ. We
want an active, alert man, who is
| shrewd. careful. exact, tenacious, and
| who never gets left" Tupem-"Tm
| your man" Upem-''You? Impossi-
BILE. Have you credentials to exhibit?"
Tupem-"Ies, my umbrella. | have
owned and carried it constantly for ten
years. Upem-"Enough. The place is
vOurS"
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-09
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FIRE destroyed the city of Pryzraw,
Germany, and 1000 persons were made
homeless and over 100 perished in the
flames. The fire was believed to be the
work of incendiaries.
HOSTILE tribes attacked camp of
native Indian infantry in the province
of Assam, killing 40 soldiers and seven
British officers.
In the Pacific ocean on the west
coast of Tahati the missionary schooner
Chapman was lost and her crew of
nineteen were drowned.
NATIVES have assassinated 500 people
of the island of Anjouan, one of the
Comoro group.
THE death of Earl Granville, the dis
tinguished English statesman, occurred
in London. He was born in 1915.
THE Mexican congress convened, and
for the first time in the history of the
republic the budget showed no deficit.
In London it was reported that
prominent Italian had warned Ameri-
cans against the danger of touring in
Italy this year in view of the excite
ment and feeling caused in that coun-
try by the New Orleans affair and
Baron Fava's recall.
The total number of lives lost by the
wrecking of the steamer Utopia in
Gibraltar bay was said to be Az.
Chilli dispatches report several bloody
battles between the Balmaceda govern
ment and the insurgents. The latter
had gained control of all the northern
provinces of the country, and had taken
the cities of Iquique and Tarapaca after
the most desperate fighting. Both
towns were entirely destroyed, and
thousands of women, children and de-
fenseless men were shot down by the
successful soldiery.
THE Parnellites admitted they were
beaten in the election at Sligo, in Ire
land, the nationalists claiming a ma
jority of 1000.
The death of Thomas C. Barring, head
of the great firm of London bankers,
occurred in Rome from the effects of a
surgical operation.
ADvIcEs from Rome say that Marquis
di Rudini, the Italian premier, had
transmitted to Marquis Imperiali,
charge d'affairs at Washington, his re-
ply to Secretary Rlaine's letter on the
subject of Baron Fava's withdrawal.
The reply was concession to
the position taken by Mr.. Blaine. The
Italian government says that it does
not ask that the New Orleans rioters
be summarily punished without the
usual form of legal prosecution and
conviction, but that it wants assurances
that justice will be done in accordance
with the usual forms of law.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-09
Use and Abuse of Perfumes.

Let fair women beware of using per-
fumes of pronounced and aggressive
odor, lest they offend and ALLEVIATE the
regard of her friends. One of the chief
causes Of the separation of the king of
Holland from his first wife was the
penchant of Queen Sophia for the scent
of musk, which odor was intensly dis
agreeable to her royal consort. So
did she indulge her passion
for this perfume that not only were her
own apartments permeated with it, her
clothes. hair and belongings offensive
with it. but any room through which
she passed would smell for days after
of her favorite perfume. The secret of
the fascinating fragrance which seems
to surround and emanate from dainty
women lies ever in the constant use of
most delicate and faint perfumes whose
odor is intangible and suggestive
rather than the liberal use of permeat-
ing and intense odors which are sure
to offend some sensitive olfactory or
rauiSm
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-09
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

There are nineteen Roman Catholic
churches in Newark. n. j.
"A party of five recently sailed for
Eccunderabad, India, to join the self
supporting mission work Of Rev. e. Il.
Ward.
The kindergarten ASSOCIATION OF
San Francisco has received fully fifty
two thousand dollars from Mrs. Leland
Stanford.
There is still one isolated land from
which Christian teachers are entirely
excluded. This is Thibet. the home OF
the high-priest OF buddhism.
Prof. Bell. of Bell telephone fame,
has given twenty-five thousand dollars
to the association for the teaching Of
speech to the dumb of New York.
According to an official report re-
Gently published the number of stu
dents at the twenty universities of Ger
many amounts to 2s.1i1: Berlin came
first with 5.527.
Twenty-six lcpers were recently bap-
tized at Purulia lChota Nagpore). India,
making in all one hundred and eighteen
the commencement Of the asylum there
two years ago.
Vienna has CO.,. 900 Roman Catho-
| lies. There are 49, priests and 967 nuns
in her cloisters. The Vienna university
contains 1916 Roman Catholic and a,O24
Jewish students. In the twenty-six
hospitals. with their 5.2Ss BEDS o6. 0i9
persOnsNyere treated in 1890.
The government of Irkutsk. the
capital of Siberia, contains only sss.55a
persons of whom three-fourths are of
the orthodox religion. There are in the
government 4s7 schools Of different
kinds, where Christian children are
taught alongside Of pagans, Moham-
medans, Buddhists and the worshippers
of stones and talismans.
DR.. Tucker. the evangelical bishop
who has succeeded to the dangerous
diocese of equatorial Africa. rendered
vacant by the murder Of the heroic
Bishop Harrington. has arrived at
Uganda, after terrible and prolonged
snfferings. 4 hundred miles of the
long journey were through dense,
foodless forest, infested by savage rob-
bers. who murdered stragglers and stole
loads at every opportunity.
One of the peculiar features of
school life in New York is the reading
of the list of contagious diseases in the
city. The list is furnished to teachers
by the health board, and when it is
read the pupils are asked If any of
them live in that vicinity. When a boy
or girl stands up, he or she is taken
aside and cross-questioned. II danger
Is suspected the youngster is sent
home.
Nine bright young irishwomen
took the degree of b. \. at the Royal
university Of Dublin, at the last COM
mencement. Miss Maud Joynt at
tanned the highest honors in modern
literature. and was awarded the title
NJ. A.. while another pretty girl, Miss
Francis Helena Gray, won the LII. ID.
The examination papers Of the women
received higher marks than those of
their brother students.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-09

ONE of the electrical appliances which
will presently come into as general re-
quisition as that now enjoyed by the
electric motor is the electrical heater.
1t dispenses with all dirt in the house,
and can be turned off and on just when
it is wanted. A large percentage of
the heat from stove goes up the Chin
ney and is wasted, but as the electrical
heater is light and handy, and can be
moved from place with ease, the full
advantage of its heat can always be
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-09
LATER
The American Hog.

BERLIN, April 4.-Negotiations have
been resumed between William Walter
Phelps, the United States minister, and
Chancellor Won Caprivi, on the question
of the withdrawal of the prohibition
against American pork products, and
there are more hopeful prospects of an
early and successful issue than recent
reports have led the public to believe.
Under present laws the President can
by proclamation put a duty upon Ger
man sugar that would practically drive
it out of American markets. As this
country imports large quantities of
beet sugar from Germany the latter
country is inclined to be less prohibi-
tory of American pork.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-09
EpitOme of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
FROM WASHINGTON.

eHOM WNSnlN0I On
In the United States the visible sup
ply OF grain on the 30th ult. was:
Wheat. 22,745, 269 bushels; corn, 1885,
042 bushels; oats, 2,s0s, ,921 bushels.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN CARTER, Of Mon
tana, has been appointed land commits
sioner by the president, vice Lewis A.
Croft, resigned.
In the United States and Canada the
total number of business failures for
the first quarter of the current year, as
reported to Bradstreet's, was 3,4O1,
against 1895 for the first quarter Of
1890.
THE Italian minister to this country,
Baron Fava, has been recalled by the
Italian government. The recall grew
ont of the New Orleans lynching and
indicated open hostilities.
LOWER rates Of duty on sugar have
gone into effect, and the price to con-
sumers will be considerably reduced.
THE statement of the public debt is
sued on the 1st showed the total debt to
be Sl,544.47l, ,2s7; cash in the treasury,
1894, AL 1856; debt less cash in the treas
ury, $3.50, ,O29, ,92O Increase during
March, S44O,255. Decrease since June
80, 1890, S55, 5,107,9l1.
SECRETARY BLAINE in his reply to the
note of Fava, the Italian minister, an
nouncing his withdrawal from Wash
ington by order of his government said
this government was proceeding with
an investigation of the New Orleans af-'
fair, and that its action in the matter
could not be hurried by the course in
dicated by Italy.
THE following telegram was sent to
Secretary Blaine from Fort Scott: "A
hundred thousand Kansas cowboys
would like to spend the summer in
Rome. Can you furnish transporta-
tion?"
THE mints in the United States dur
ing March coined s,2e6, 322 pieces Of
money, valued at S7,11s,17O. The total
of gold coined was 81. 9os. 900 and of sill
yer 50, 1O7, ,526, the balance being in
nickels and cents
GEN. ALBERT PIKE, aged 72 years,
grand commander Of the Scottish Rite
of Free Masonry and chief of the Royal
Order of Scotland for this country,
lied ut his home in Washington.
FIGtREs from the treasury depart
ment show that there was net in
crease of Sl1.G14.4l5 in the circulation
during the month of March, principally
in silver certificates.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-09
THE EAST.

AT New Haven, Conn, Gen. Charles
A. johnson. retired army officer, who
served in the Mexican and civil wars,
committed suicide.
STRIKING miners attacked Tricks
coke works at Morewood, Pa, de-
molishing several coke ovens and de-
stroying other property.
In New York the grand jury found
indictments against the directors of the
New York, New II aven & Hartford rail-
ro ad for causing the death of the six
trainmen in the recent tunnel disaster
in that city.
clothing cutters passed resolutions re-
pudiating the Knights of Labor, and the
lockout was declared at an end.
AT Media. Pa, Mrs. Caroline Schmidt,
on trial for the murder of her sister. has
been acquitted.
In March 1894 Italian immigrants
landed at New York, nearly double the
number that landed in February.
RoBBERs entered the jewelry store Of
Adolph Walter at Jersey City, N. j..
and secured diamonds and other jewelry
valued at $4,000.
THE death of Mrs. Phoebe Campbell,
who was l02 years old October last, oc-
Cured at Baxter. Me.
The eminent tragedian, Edwin Booth,
announces his retirement from the
stage after this season.
SEVENTY labor leaders and strikers
were arrested in the Pennsylvania coke
regions charged with rioting.
RHODE ISLAND republicans carried a
sufficient number of towns at the state
election to give them the necessary IS
votes on joint ballot to elect state Off
GERS. The total vote for governor was:
Burton (nationalist), 3S4; Davis (den. J,
22.249; Ladd (rep. }, 2l,s95; Larry (pro.) },
1920. The next general assembly
stands: Senate, 81 republicans, Q dem
ocrats, 6 to be chosen; house, "a repub-
licans, as democrats, 10 to be chosen.
AT Somerset, Pa, Joe and Dave
Nicely lbrothers) were executed for
the murder of Farmer Umberger Feb
ruary %, 1889.
FREIGHT trains collided near Hornells-
vile, n. Y, and Fireman Morris and
Brakemen Moon and Conroy were
killed.
A FIRE destroyed Whiteman & Keith's
shoe factory at Brockton, Mass, caus-
ing loss of $500, 900.
A MOB of 500 riotous strikers attacked
the Morewood coke works of Fricke Il
Co. at Mount Pleasant, Pa, and nine
were killed by deputy sheriffs and from
thirty to forty others were wounded,
some of them fatally. Only few dep
uties were hurt.
NEAR Ashland, Pa, fourteen coal
mines operated by the Reading COM
pany were closed for an indefinite
period.
FLAMES destroyed the Waverly oil re-
finery at Pittsburgh, Pa, the loss being
S115, 600.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-09

A SINGULAR incident is related of two
Georgia brothers who were devotedly
attached to each other and who had
often expressed the desire that they
might die together. At Gainesville,
TIA. Walter Wood, in attempting to
cross the Tonbigbee river in a slsiff,
was drowned by his boat capsizing. On
the same day and about the same time
his brother, Julian Wood, who was
working in a glass factory at Birming-
ham, Ala, was overcome by gas and
died in few minutes.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-09

PRESIDENT DEPEw, of the New York
Central railroad, gets salary of S75. 900;
President McCurdy, of the Mutual Life
Insurance Company, $50. 200; President
Hyde, of the Equitable, 500, Presi-
dent Beers, Of the New York life, $780,
900; President Olcott, of the Central
Trust Company, $4,000; President
Stewart. of the United States Trust
Company, $4,000; President King, of
the Union Trust Company, $1,000
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-09

IT is currently asserted that the rela-
tive heights of men and women in Eng
land are undergoing change. OBJ
servation extending over a series of
years has shown. it is declared, that the
women are apparently growing taller
and the men shorter. The cause was
long considered a mystery, but at a re-
cent London dinner it was unanimously
agreed that the men only were chang
ing, the apparent elongation of women
being the result of comparison. And it
was further settled that tobacco did it.
Englishmen are incessant smokers, and
begin the practice at so early an age
that their growth is much retarded.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-09

BosToN numismatist says that the
finest coin collection in that city is that
of Mr. Parlnelee, a baker up In East
Chester Park. He bakes nothing but
beans-Boston baked beans-and all
the money he makes he puts into old
coins His collection is worth between
$4,000 and $4,000. He had complete
set of American silver dcllars-the only
set in Boston. Next to Parmelee's col
lection, the finest one in Boston is that
OF Nathan Appleton, of Beacon street.
There are hundreds of collectors there,
and the aggregate value of their coins
is probably greater than in any city in
this country outside of New York.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-09

EVA BRANNocK, a faith curist and in
cidentally teacher of music in the
Bethany home at Pittsburgh, is said to
have finished successful forty days
fast. Her..fast differed from all others
in that she attended to her regular
duties as teacher and keeper of rooms
in the home.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-09

THE people of st. Petersburg seem to
get good deal of fun out of the long.
cold winters. At recent aristocratic
balls ice statues of celebrities have been
the fashionable decorations. Famous
sculptors did not disdain to try their
skill in this line, and the figures were
most effective when placed among
shrubs and plants and lighted up by
many colored lamps.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-09

THE new queen of the Sandwich
Islands is Lila Kamakaeha Lilinoka-
lani, a sister Of the late king. She is
So years old, was educated in a mis-
sionary school and is married to an
American, Mr.. John @. Dominis, who
has held many important positions in
Hawaii
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-09
CALIFORNIA; POPULATION.
The Result of = Special Count by Races
Made Public.

1he Result OF . SpeCtAI Count by RN"ea
Made Public.
WASHINGTON, April 4.-Superintend-
ent Porter has made public the result
of a special count by races of the state
of California as follows: White, ILL.,
$50; colored, ll,4s7; Chinese, 71,6si;
Japanese, 1909: Indians. 1855; total,
l,a0s, $50. The statement further shows
that while the Chinese population of
the state as whole has decrease by
5, l5l since 1850. there has been an in
crease in the Chinese population of the
county of San Francisco since that
time of 4,1a5,
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-09

RABBI SOLOMON SCHNEIDER, of Bos-
ton, has taken strong ground against
the proposition to colonize Palestine
with Hebrews. He says that the coun-
try cannot support more than three
million people, and the Russian exiles
alone, numbering five million, would
largely oyerpopulate it.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-09

In a Chinese smuggling case at Utica,
N. ". it was argued that Cinnamon
may come from Canada to this country
in rowboats, such crafts not being
vessels within the meaning of the
statute. United States District Judge
Cox held that 1.-The law was broad
enough to cover coming to this country
by whatever means," but promised to
give the question further considera-
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-09

aged 10, because she refused to marry
him. and then blew out his own brains
BUSINESS has been resumed by the
American national bank of Kansas City,
which failed January 10.
THE bill making train wrecking pu.l-
ishable by death has been signed by
Gov. Markham. Of California.
THE residence of Robin Hood in Mon.
roe county, Ind. was burned by in
cendiaries and Hood was suffocated.
In factional fight among the Nor.
mons Of Independence, Mo-, the church
building Of the sect was wrecked.
In Kansas the wheat acreage is IS
per cent. greater than last year, and
the prospects for crop were unusually
good.
AFTER a years illness J. Il. Grinne:,
founder of the town of Grinnell, Ia,
died at the age of 70 years He was a
member Of congress from 1864 to 1868
THE death of Mrs. Ellen Gray oc-
Cured in Milwaukee at the advanced
age of 90 years and months.
AT Elwood, Kan, the rapid rising of
the Missouri river caused several blocks
of lots to fall into the stream.
MARGARET DENTON, of Seymour,
Ind. died at the age of 100 years. She
was the mother Of fourteen children.
THREE Mexicans were killed in a
street fight at Ranger, Tex.
q. w. PORTER, of Kansas City, Mo-,
high ranger Of the Independent Order
of Foresters, who had absconded, had
four living wives.
THE laboring people, principally farm
and timber workers, were said to be
suffering for food in Monroe county, w.
Va.
CHIcKAsAw Indians have ratified the
sale of the land owned jointly by them
and the Choctaws. They will receive
over 500, 1000.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-09
HORROR IN A MINE.
Ten Men Killed by an Explosion In u
English COlliery.

Ehglish COlltery.
LONDON, April "A disastrous explo-
sion in q coal mine took place at Ape
dale, Staffordshire. Ten persons were
killed outright and several others were
severely injured. The bodies of the dead
miners have been extracted from the
portion of the mine where the explo-
sion took place. The cause Of the dis
aster is supposed to be the presence Of
air-damp in the mines, and the fool
hardness of one of the miners after the
presence of the dangerous uss wss arss
discovered,
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-09

AN official survey shows that Rhode
Islands nearest approach to noun
tain is an eminence in Glocester, which
rises sos feet above sea level, and to
which the name Durfee hill has been
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-09

HELEN P. CLARK, an Indian girl and
teacher in the Carlisle pa Indian
school. has been appointed special
allotment agent by the United States
government and has gone to Montana
to assume the duties of her Office.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-09

THE round-top building between
canajoharie and Spraker's Basin, N.
y. recently destroyed by fire, was an
old colonial structure, probably the
oldest in the Mohawk valley, and is
said to have been built in 173o.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-09

INFANT mortality in England and
Wales during the year 1890 was notice.
ably large. The deaths were regis
tered Of over 100, 900 children under 10
months of age.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-09
THE Rothschilds are believed to have

THE Rothschilds are believed to have
$50, 600, 900 invested in American securi-
ties. Only the Rothschilds themselves
know what they are worth. and they
never tell family secrets. One OF their
notices is: Gold never repeats what
it Sees" and another: "A man will not
tell what he has not heard" but some
idea of their riches can be had from the
fact that since 1915 they have raised for
Great Britain alone more than 81 ,000,-
900. 900; for Austria, $3.50, ,O00,00 for
Prussia, $500. 600, 600; for France, $780,
600, 900; for Italy, nearly $500, 900, 600: for
Russia, SIPS. 600, 900; for Brazil, S70,000,-
600: for smaller states, $500, ,O00, 900 more.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-09

A NEW departure in cremation is re-
ported. a patent has been taken out in
France for an electric furnace for the
rapid incineration of human remains.
The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-09

JAMES GAULT. "A stock dealer of West
Middlesex. Pa, received an order some
time ago for Il carload of savage bulls
for the New York market. lie was
somewhat surprised to learn since that
they were intended for shipment to
Spain 10 I've used in bull fights