Waterloo Courier, The (Newspaper) - January 8, 1890, Waterloo, Iowa I VOLUME 37 WATERLOO IOWA WEDNESDAY JANUARY 8 1800 WHOLE 1593 WATERLOO COURIER The season of Italian opera which closed at the Auditorium Saturday afternoon was the most memorable in the history of amusements in Chicago Since the dedication of the opera house four weeks ago there have been twentyone and the gross receipts of these and the dedication ceremonies amount to ex 5232954 It is believed these fig ures exceed any record in the history of amusements in this country La Grippe to be tightening its grip upon the inhabitants of nearly every city of the country A dispatch from New York City dated Jan 4 says that in that city during the twentyfour hours ending at noon that day there 345 deaths of which Cl were from pneumonia and 11 from influenza complicated with pneumonia bronchi tis and other diseases The total num ber of deaths during the week was 1202 which is the largest number re ported in any oue week except during the extreme summer heat There were 297 deaths from pneumonia There were 363 members of the police force on the sick list including one captain six sergeants thirteen lounds men and 336 patrolmen La grippe took hold of the downtown merchants bankers brokers and speculators with out making any distinction and in the custom house it is felt very severely There is hardly a house in town that the influenza has not visited cians generally believe that the danger point has been passed in that locality In Boston last week there were 327 deaths of which per cent were traceable to the effects of influenza story is going the rounds thai a young man employed by the railroad at Estherville as switchman walked into the office the other day and hand ed over his switch key lantern etc with the remark that his father had just fallen heir to over 81000000 thai he didnt have to work now and as soon as the money arrived he would send up a of beer and would knock both ends of the car in so the boys could help themselves His name is not given with this letter to save the old gentleman the trouble of answering the many begging letters he would undoubtedly receive A Kock Island Wreck MALCOLM Jan of the most disastrous collisions ever known on the Rock Island took place at Saturday night at the west end of the yards at this place result ing in the demolishment of one engine caboose several cars loaded with stock and which is most serious the death of two and probably three persons and the maiming of five others It appears that the third section of train No 18 was pulling in on the side track when it was run into by the fourth section of the same number The engineer and fireman saved themselves by jumping from their en gine after reversing the same The former was badly bruised on one leg while the latter escaped unhurt The engine plowed its way through the ca boose which contained eight stock men all of whom but one are injured They are Two brothers from Plover Iowa by the name of Meyen One of them had one foot cut off and both legs broken and sustained internal injuries from which be died at G oclock Sunday morning The other lost both legs one below the thigh the other below the knee and at this writing it is not thought possible for him to recover C Rhoades from Dallas Center in jury to the spinal column from the ef of which he seems to be paral Brakeman James of the third section lost his right hand at the Four other stock men sustained in juries but nothing serious One man was asleep in the cupola of the car nd without a scratch The other boy injured in the wreck died Monday morning It is reported both the train crews are under arrest Waterloo lu In spite of the cry of hard times and the declarations of those delight in looking only upon the dark side of the picture that the country is going to the dogs Waterloo has made dur ing the past year very noticeable pro gress in the line jf improvements An exhaustive review of these improve ments would undoubtedly be of inter est were the materials at hand from which to compile it A summary however shows figures that our citi zens may well be proud of On the west side the more noticeable improve ments during the past year comprise the extensive paper mill plant at the lower water power which was built the past year and equipped for the manu facture of a superior article of card board the entire output being con for and taken as fast as manu The cost of this plant was not far from 837000 Then comes the handsome station buildings of the B C R N Hy comprising a brick passenger station handsome in archi design and finish and convenient and commodious in all its appointments and a larae brick freight house of ample proportions for the large business of this line These de pots are the best on the line of this road and will cost at least The elegant brick structure of tbe First M E church is also one of the im of the past year and it will compare favorably with any church in this section In addition may be men the large foundry and ware house built by Thomas Cascaden the business blocks erected by the Drs Bickley I C and A Fern bach the extensive improvements made to the new block vmd improvements to a number of business blocks Then too a of new residences have erected and the extensive additions to the water works system including the new water tower have been com A careful estimate of the cost of these improvements which are already completed shows an outlay on the west side for this purpose during the past year if not less than 3100000 On tbe east side it is estimated that an equal amount has been spent in im during the year They in clude two brick blocks of 40 and 00 feet frontage the large plant of the Tank Line Co the Cedar Valley Manu Gos establishment the creamery the new church and a number of handsome new resi dences This makes a total of 000 expended in the entire city for per manent improvements during the year Though this is nothing phenomenal and does not indicate what might be called a boom yet it proves what THE has all along claimed that Waterloo enjoys a continued and healthy growth year by year which is far more beneficial to the city than a boom which would inflate the figures for a year or two and then let go bring about a general smash The promises for the coming year are bright aud TUB trusts that the same steady growth and continued prosperi ty may be the portion of Waterloo in future J W Richards the city editor of Tun yesterday for lies to report for Hie Chicago Tri bune during the lobbying and other pre liminary work previous to the session of the Legislature Ho also expects to remain until Senatorial and other important matters to come before the Legislature are settled Mrs A W Partridge of Lo Mars Iowa is visiting her parents Mr and Mrs O Evans of Kist Waterloo A O Rose and wife returned last week from a months visit lo relatives in Minnesota They report having a very enjoyable time Mr F L Childs and his sister Nel lie are in the city visiting their uncle Hon K S Childs C 11 Kellogg who is engaged in the Robinson Moan omnibus and street car factory near Minneapolis was down to spend the holidays in this city Mrs Dr D W Dickinson of Des was in the city during the hoi days visiting her parents Gov and Mrs B R Sherman Those of our educators who attended the session of the Iowa Teachers Asso at Des Moines last week re port a very interesting session The attendance was large and the papers aud discussions especially instructive Miss Lydia Hinman of the east side schools was elected Second Vice Pres ident of the association and Prof O J of Cedar Falls member of the Educational Council Wallace M Young formerly of who has large interests in Hammond Louisiana was in the last week He says that the weather at Hammond is warm and dry in fact rather too dry OF GENERAL INTEREST Racket Negroes Avoid Trouble by Not Voting NEW ORLEANS Jan special to the Associated Press from Jackson Miss says Voting is progressing slowly and quietly Thus far no negroes have made application to vote The carpenters have finished work on the new B C R N depot and the painting is also finished The seats had not been received yesterday but when they come and the plumbing is finished the depot will be ready for oc Agent Huff expects to be ready to do business at tbe new stand in a days and is justly proud of the new depot which will be tue finest on the Moss went to Chicago Tuesday to take a course of lessons in music He expects to be gone two weeks Mrs Moss accompanied him as far as Dubuque Drayman Joe Skilling lost a hen about the first week in December and thought it had been stolen when it came out from under bis porch Mon day morning with ten little chicks Joe expects to have some spring chickens this year sure It has been the habit of a lot of beys to catch on cars and ride up and down tbe yards and belt line After near running over one or two of them it was decided that it would have to be stopped Saturday policeman Parsons took two lads up before the mayor but on promise to stop it they were let off If any one else is caught jumping on or off cars while in they will have to suffer the consequences R F Sulzer of Albert Lea came down New Years and shook hands with old friends The latest thing you got the grip About onehalf of the employes of the I CR Rare laying off with la grippe and the officials can hardly get men enough to run the reg ular trains The Railroad Chapel had a crowded house New Years night to witness the entertainment given by the little folks After some good speaking and good Happenings One of our rather too fast young men was married to a certain young lady recently The marriage cere mony took place on the the fol lowing day being New Years the bride elect presented her husband with a third member of the family Mr and Mrs Odell of Waterloo spent New Years day visiting at Can lield Albert Denniston went to Grundy county last week to visit his sister Mrs M Hunter New Years day here was an ex tremely quiet day here The Stewart brothers sold their hogs a few days go A number of our young people went down to Mr Fullers in Fox township and participated in a social dance on the evening of the 3d John Baker sold a number of veal calves 1 The students of Prof Keck and Miss Gertie Bunnell will give a musical in Prof Keeks studio next Monday evening An interesting programme has been arranged and a pleasing entertainment may be ex This section has had quite a touch of winter the past week and the ice deal ers hopes for a plentiful supply of ice for the corning season promise to be realized d Snow Fall Cal Jan graph reports to the officers of the Southern Pacific state that the fall of snow on the Sierra Nevada mountains is unprecedented At the summits there is sixteen feet on the level and as long as such is the case trouble is not to occur it is intimated that an attempt will be made to vote them en masse at least in the South ward where the McGill candidate for mayor has a fair chance of election If such should be the case difficulty can hardly be avoided Many negroes favor the Henry ticket or are neutral The Jackson Miss special says The municipal election passed off quietly Gen Henry dem candidate for mayor and all of the Democratic aldermen were elected Fifteen or twenty negroes presented themselves at the polls but on being told that there was a peaceable election and that their voting might cause trouble they quietly withdrew A Blizzard Kas Jan worst blizzard of the season struck this place yesterday afternoon and has been in progress ever since with a fierce north west wind accompanying the snow The thermometer fell in a few hours and this morning was freezing The storm continues this evening and it is feared railroad travel will be delayed KANSAS Jan from Kansas and Missouri say a bliz zard of considerable severity prevails throughout these two states the temperature generally is near the zero point and the snow drifting badly singing old Santa Glaus stopped on his way home and left his packs to be dis among the children of which al were justly treated All report a good time CA Beck acting Gen Manager of the I C was appointed General Man ager A W Sullivan was appointed Asst Gen Manager and M Gilleas ap pointed Sup West Lines appointed to take effect Jan l 1890 Div Supt was in town Tuesday on business Trainmaster Westfall has resigned his position and is succeeded by Joe Turner trainmaster from the C D at Cherokee Frank Harriman of Dubuque roadmaster succeeds Turner at Cherokee white Barney Gilleas of is roadmaster between and Dubuque in place of Frank Hughes of Cherokee brought conductor run from City Sunday Richard Mullan night at he Central has taken a lay off for a ew days and pone to Dubuque The oys say Dick means business this irne sure Jim Galyean has charge of ho yard while he is off ROCK ISLAND 111 Jan government guage records the lowest state of the Mississippi that has ever been known here registering a foot below the low water mark the river men assert that the stream could be waded here at almost any point The ferry is still running though most of her time is spent on bars in the river The suction pipes of the water works are exposed to view and while exten sions have been made to deeper water there is the gravest apprehension that with the continuation of this decline the source of supply will cease and a water famine ensue In fact should a heavy fire occur even now it would be difficult to foretell what would be the consequence of the unusual strain upon the water works pumps In Moline as in Davenport the same situation ex ists and in the latter city standing they have a reservoir system much anxiety is felt Wm E Curtis Washington corre of the Chicago in speaking of Allison in that paper says If the Democratic senators had any thing to say about Senator Allisons lection the question not long remain in doubt Senator Beck of was talking over the Iowa and was in his advocacy of Mr Allis ons election The State of Iowa said he would never be so foolish as Lo put uny man in Allisons place save Allison himself At present Iowa is the most prominent Stale in the sen ate for Allison is not only chairman of the committee on appropriations but he is the second member of the number of persons in Atlanta recently responded to a parrots cry of tiro discovered that u house across the way was in flames Kentucky man who WHS dying alone left his will in pencil on honu of a whisky barrel and it IB held to bo valid The only thin he loft however WHS a gallon ot whisky in the banel shoots of cork a little less than half an inch thick nro used in bathrooms because it is said they nro than any other material upon which to stand in wot biro foot directly coming from tho tub Lewiston Pu is called a was found in a trco which had been shattered by H is eggshaped three and onehalf inches long and of a motal ao nard that a ilo docs not it t man in stole a horse for the purpose of jetting a term in the penitentiary Ho gave us his reason for BO doing that ho might reform as had boon running about tho country for throo years and had grown very wild sharp fakir makes a good income by advertising a method of killing all insects When you scud him fifty cents you will receive a printed card on which are these words Get your insects to smoke and they will dio within mi hour So long one block on Main street ia Battle Greek tbe other day a reporter saw three men four one armed men and two other men who wore so lame they couldnt walk with out canes Tho reporter went home and wrote up the item stating that Battle Crook is ono of the greatest railroad towns in tho United States engineers visiting En gland iwo with tho superior solidity and finish of En glish engineering work and tho extreme backwardness in the speed of elevators and in tho adoption ot tho electric light But England is ahead of Amer ica they think in keeping clear of overhead wires respectable looking white wom an has been about Louisville lor the last eight years tolling people that her husband had just died and that if she had a sewing machine she could snake a living She would then borrow ten dollars to pay on one return the money as soon as she had earned it She has taken in a good deal of money in this way from kindhearted people P E I tho other day a man came into town and bought a complete funeral plate gloves etc when the clerk engraving tho plato he asked date should bo put upon it Oh ho is not dead yet was tho reply Tho death of the person for whom the out fit was intended was daily expected and the idea was to have every thing in readiness when required is an error to suppose that the Johnstown disaster is the greatest of its kind in modern times Tho great flood in the Yellow river of China in 1887 destroyed three thousand villages and the best informed European in Pekin calculated tho destruction of life at seven millions The lowest estimate was one million In 1876 a tidal wave overflowed the island of in the Bay of Bengal drowning three hundred thousand people s that Is u of pri vate taste and but to loch women is simply fatal But her presence in a boat on a loch is ft great lesson In tho art of grin md bearing It aro now warned Angling is difficult enough to weather and the wariness of lish to add the perplex caused by woman Is merely wan ton On tho other side ho who has u woman him on tho loch him u u beautiful and charming substitute for all tho excuses lu which fail ure und incompetence find London News OF EST FISHING An English AND FLIRTING Sioux CITY Jan a littl over represents the amount o our tolls said E C Palmer in an swering an inquiry as to the amount o traffic over the pontoon bridge Bus iness commenced May JS 1889 an was suspended nearly thirty days alto gether committee on finance If they send a new man here he will have to go down lo the lower end of it may be and probably would be on some of the mi nor committees William B Allison is a statesman and if the Iowa ture hus not completely lost its sense i will send him back to the senate as often as he can be persuaded to come Rates to Local Points on the Line of Uic Illinois Central K R The dedicatory in the new church in progress his week The first services were lick last Sunday morning and were largely attended The pastor Rev Mr Porte officiated and the services were very interesting The new church is a beau and very convenient edifice per feet in acoustic properties and with ample room for a good sized audience We expect next week to be able to give an extended report of the dedica tory services when completed and something in regard to the handsome edifice Commencing Nov 1st round tri tickets will be sold to followin named at rates quoted good return until June 1st Jackson Aberdeen 3270 Jackson 3270 McComb City Miss 3700 Hammond La 3700 New Orleans La 3700 Stopover privileges south of Cairo good for ten days in each direction will be granted on tickets to all points named except Means On the latter tickets no stopover privileges will be allowed J W EXTRACT OF TAK and WILD CHERUY and DAY LIGHT LIVER are sold by all druggists Du is the best for general ailments of children Sold by all druggists Writers Sarcastic View of A favorite delusion of mankind in youth or even in middle age is that there is pleasure in fishing with a lady About this let there be no error II you do not care about catching trout and if the lady if young and conveniently handsome as our Father Walton says go fishing with her by all means In exactly ten min utes the will happen First she will entangle your lines and flies with hers Next she will wind her own cast all round her and in her dress and in her hair caught in the coils of the casting line like Salammbo in those of her serpent You will ex her and hand her your rod but long before you have disentangled ler flies she will have hooked yours in he bottom of the boat You snap the ine with a jerk and make a new cast he boat meanwhile drifting on shore You push off again and begin casting and by some accident you hook a trout Then the fair one perhaps screams averts her face and calls you jy a number of names expressive of a feeling but indignant heart or she gets wildly excited and twists the oar into your line If the trout la firmly hooked she goes for him with tho landing net and if ono thing more than another trios the human temper it ia to see a woman with a landing net hacking at his lino She frightens the fish away several times and then catches the net in tho hits tho half dead trout on tho nose breaks tho cast and permits him to join his relations with a piece of gut ind an artificial fly in his mouth The horror of trying to troll with womenkind the extent to which all tho many hooks of a phantom min now get inextricably intertwined with her garments ought not to be de scribed by persona of feeling If any one likes these recreations let him be assured that bo is no fisher but a lover If any ono who does want to fish can keep his temper in the midst of these distractions he is no husband but a saint All hopes abandon yo who fish with ladies might bo writ ten over all Highland The one thing to do is to abandon hope of sport and set the time care lessly not toying with the tangles of fly hooks in hair Land on an island lunch smoke touch tho light banjo exchange sentimental con but do not think to fish with a woman in a boat And then after all when you come home she will mock you for not having caught any trout As if Mr Francis Francis or Mr Thomas Tod Stoddard or Maul who invented barbs for hooka could have caught trout with a lady in tho boat Her presence may York Stuto has in aud almshouses Now York City alono baa to help provide tho 1 years ago whon tho postage on a letter over 500 miles was cents for each picco of paper so that ono shoot in an would cents there woro not many let ters written loss would Esq bo Americans discarded It Tt ia without meaning in Its current use find dooa nothing to compensate for tho timo it takes to write Rochester Union London not long ago received a letter to Monsieur Pall Ale Brasserie Lon dres It was from Algiers Try Bass said tho head postal clerk and euro enough it was a letter to Bass Co ordering boor man of science in Vienna has published statistics showing that ono smoker contracts diphtheria to nonsmokers His theory that to bacco smoke protects tho throat against microbes very much as it destroys par on rose bushes highest pressure a waterwheel is claimed by a valley near Grenoble Franco where a tur bine ton foot in diameter has boon op since 1875 with a head of 1638 foot A flow of about gallons ot water per second a force of 1600 horsepower tree in Washington to which tied his and then en tered tho Capitol to bo inaugurated as President ia still living It stands close to the fence juat tho Botanical Gardens u tree but greatly prized in Washing ton as a relic of the days of simplicity Georgia woman sums up an ar gument for the higher education of woman in this way Look then to your own interests gentlemen Fill a girls brain with knowledge she is happier as woll as moro She is less frivolous more reliable and therefore a more worthy helpmeet for mon intelligence funds certainly are some times well applied Thus a fund of bequeathed in 1800 by Jona than to tho city of Boston tho income of which is to be annually expended to adorn and tho streets and public places in said city has given to the city fine statues of Josiah Quincy John Winthrop and Samuel Adams and otherwise has boon used for the adornment of the city has becu recommended as a means of relief from sorrow by a writer who mentions a woman whose sorrows seemed piled mountain high through the loss by death within a few months of her husband and child and of property as well Trained to no work as a girl she seemed helpless But her little garden demanded atten tion and her very losses compelled her to work with her hands Here too tho soothing balm of pure air ex and occupation worked its mar vels in recovering health contentment and a spirit of gentleman living in Cheshire England having discovered proofs that some ono made a nocturnal practice of scaling the wall dividing his garden from tho next devised an arrange ment of strong iron wires with a view to catch the culprit The very next night he heard an uproar in tho gar den and found hia neighbor a most respectable elderly gentleman snared in the noose Odd to say the intruder could not say how ho got there but believed that ho must have done it in his sleep He was released on prom ising to give up sleepwalking in the future an Ulster County N Y farmer cut an acre or two of trees on an elevated portion of his farm with tho following result My first loss was the drying up of a beautiful brook which had its source in my grove and which ran through a number of fields furnishing water for cattle while graz ing Five times the value of the wood I sold would have been refused for this stream In the vicinity of the place where the timber stood tho ground be came dry during the summer When rain fell it did not seem to be absorbed tho water ran down the hillsides mak gullies and doing much dam age while tho fields through which tho brook flowed did not yield as good crops ind rathor surprised thorn with her pretty ways llor was o soft her HO tender sho talked 0 woll anil knew how to a boy 001 at homo It waa not to for hur and Buy sho was BO busy Tho boys themselves her wo felt sorry for honi wo know they must eel how much and prettier uho than mother could bo It ia for a mother lo tuko timo to dross ami be fullin her childrens eyes to roud for saka to learn to talk wolt and to livo in today Tho tho mother draws around bur is more wholesome for tho child than tho ono ho has to mako for him self and she in rtisponHiblo for his so cial It is not easy to bo tho childs most interesting companion and lo muko homo magnot but tho who dono this havo boon tho mothers of good Golden STARTLING SHOWING ur Our Country u S L published tho result of tho census of 1880 within 18000 of the actual figures Ho estimates that the population of tho country in 1890 will an increase during the last of moro than 80 per cent To allow a reasonable margin for possible error wo may place tho to tal at 67000000 und the decennial in crease ut ISO per cent Should this ratio of increase continue our popula tion at tho ond of each decade during tho 100 years will be by tho following figures tho pro Immensity of which will sur prise most people and perhaps causo them lu wonder coming to what this country 1 1030 present estimated population of tho United Slates is G 1000000 Tho annual growth by natural and immigration placed lit about 1000000 Tho estimated foreign pou is not far below 11000000 IN INDIA ao TO FRANKS OLD DEALING CLOTHING REMEMBER MOTHER Sensible Advice For aj Woll Children When Lydia old Quake uncle saw that had fastened he pretty little Newport ties with poppy red ribbons he frowned and told her it was not seemly But Lydia laughed I dont care for them myself she said but I want my littlo boy to re member that his mother wore red bows on her shoes Who does not remember tho pretty things that mother wore Her dainty laces the palo lilac dressea the rose tucked under the lace on her breast seem half divine when they become but memories to us Mother is mother be she gon tle or rough but what n difference there is between the mother who has no timo tor foolishness and the mother who tries to please her What an Ideal we have whon we re call how proud wo were when we laay in ino our home from school have other I Amounts of Money Hidden Auny Jly In tho courts of tho native princes of India hoarding takes place on a vast scale Maharajah of lately anil left u largo hoard It proves thai anterior to there wus much hoarding whon It ia that hnd withdrawn from his store of silver which was in tho form of Sikka rupees none of which have been coined since A letter wus submitted to tho royal com on tho of tho Mahara jahs hoard A description was given of tho several treasure houses in tho estate their dimensions and con tents Olio large room measuring about US fuot in length 11 tout G inches in and 1 feet i inches in height whore gold anil silver orna ments and ornaments sot with precious aro kept articles nro in til mi rah s and of all tions aud Homo gold plates and and us well us jugs etc Two other rooms contain silver domestic utensils forks spoons etc und strange to say English dinner and breakfast sots all of Oliver Two ot theao rooms were under lock and the doors bricked up There arc four other rooms ono containing ornaments of gold silver and precious stones gold ornaments and throne two others containing the reserve treasury which included tho estate collections and Government se and debentures while tho other is thus described Tho fourth room measures about 22 feet 6 inches in length 15 feet in breadth and 12 feet 3 inches In height where thoro aro two largo sized vaults prepared for hoarding tho current silver coin and since tho year B C some money was from timo to time pul in and taken out by tho Maharajah Chund for the expenses of an emergent and extraordinary such ns the late Maharajah Aftab Chund marriage Lain Bun Behari marriage and buying landed proper ties When he died ono lac was left in ono of the vaults In another de tho ornaments belonging to different gods of tho family were kept and silver sapalas etc for the religious purposes the ioom being locked and sealed It was the custom of the Kaj family to confide tho custody of those valuables to tho Maharanee for the boing but the vaults were never inspected save in the presence of tho Maharajah When sums wero withdrawn only relations and trustworthy servants were admit ted into the room and vault ers and used to be present out side the room or apartment where tho sum drawn was sent out female guards being placed in tho passage for the purpose of weighing counting and bagging it before it was sent to tho mint Other instances of hoarding by nn of the Indian post office in who stated that a native rince was then hoarding gold at the rate of to u year and on the death of two native princes re cently it was believed that they had oft each One of these princes took i loan of from the Government of India in 1887 when hi must have beon in possession of a large hoard himself for it is a point of honor with a family not to break into a hoard which is treated with the of a family picture When tho prince in question had to make a payment to the Government of India for a purpose in which he was inter ested and asked when he could make tho payment of said At any moment Hoards are only drawn on in cases and it is such calamities as war or tho great famine in Madras or Bom bay out During these famines bullion or ornaments wero taken out of the hoards and sent to the Bombay mint to England or pledged with the native banker or But unless under special circumstances tho gold and silver of which tho hoards arc com posed are drawn in without any inten tion of returning to circulation again Journal of n speculative turn of mind may woll aslc what is to bo dono with so enormous u popula tion how aro they to bo supported and many questions Unit though purely speculative now may assume a vital importance before the close of tho century Tho total area of Iho United Sialos including Alaska is 8680242 square miles or 2291 354880 acres This ara necessarily includes the lakes rivers and unin habitable mountains and deserts yet wo find that thoro will bo an average of moro than two and onehalf persons to each of our total area whon tho enumerators enter upon du tios ono hundred yours Tho exact figure aro 2504 According to Air tho ratio of increase of population by births over deaths although much less than It was a century since is nt 201 pur con t pur annum or 201 each ton yours for onco thi ratio of decennial increase as twenty per cent and casting aside all accretion from immigration wo find that in the year 1090 our total population will bo more than 610000 000 Whether figures iiro accepted us reasonably trustworthy or rejected as gross exaggeration the fact still remains that tho natural and ble increase of tho population not alone of our own country but of tho whole world presents a problem that may well engage the thoughtful mind Star Notice of the of Adminis trator STATE OF IOWA I County f Notice e hereby thit the undersigned has been duly appointed und qualified as Ad ministrator of tho estate of John Clasey deceased Into oC township In said county All persona Indebted to said estate uro requested to mako Immediate payment and having claims against tho same will present them duly authenticated to tho un foe allowance GEO W Dated Dec 1880 W B DEALER IN FURNITURE m mm IMPERSONAL PERSONAL von has at his home ono of tho llower gardens in the world Hin flower is tho rose Sarah Burnett of Viu took to her bed forty years ago and has not loft it since llor appe tite is good us woll ws her general health but she suffers from an injury of the spine mother of Clara Louisa Kel logg who always appears in a box when her daughter warbles on tho stage is nearly as youthful in her face and us she was at tho time of tho birth ot tho fortysix years ago is said Gounod tho com poser who is a man of intense re ligious convictions onco spent an hour upon his praying for the conver sion of Sarah in that ladys Sarahs was short but not very and at last she had to turn him out of her house the first man to successfully can oysters and the owner of the largest corn canning factory in the world died recently at Frederick City Md IIo began business in 1851 in a modest way and before his death employed moro than 2000 hands in a single establishment He loft behind a large fortune Harriot Prescott Spofford is Chamber Suites Upholstered Goods and Rockers No 234 WEST FOURTH STREET WATERLOO IOWA C F BENSETT M p 101 WEST STREET ESTABLISHED IN The Waterloo Courier arc not booming your State very much at the present time are you Kansas we are not advertising at all now bat wait till the cyclone period arrives and youll sec the name of our glorious commonwealth in every paper you pick World in its a foine Americky is Biddie be there at not have to work there tho same as here dado me brother writes that he is a policeman has do but on a corner and assist ladies the strata and nto oranges an nuts an Y Weekly an enthusiastic advocate of daily exer cise for girls She does not care BO much about its nature so long as it is taken She believed that it is as much the duty of parents to insist upon a certain amount of exercise for their girls as it is for them to insist upon proper diet and clothing Strong is often referred to as the most sensible man in Wash ington He served ten years on the Supreme Bench and then retired on full pay In 1880 ho resigned and has since lived quietly in Washington lecturing occasionally and performing faithfully the one duty that the law requires of him Whenever the Su preme Court is required to tako part In any public ceremony Judge Strong puts on his robe and walks with them in the procession In consideration of this and his past services he receives annually from Undo Sams treasury Kate H Pierson of Rich mond Mass who died recently aged ninetytwo was one of the best known residents of Berkshire County Her father Captain Nathan Pierson left her a which she increased by investment Samuel J Tilden was her legal adviser She was generous and used her money wisely One of her proteges was Frederick Bridgman the artist and she had on her walls many of his first paintings It is said that she waa en gaged to be married when a young woman but the match was broken off and she remained single the rest of her long life is of the late Leonard H Swett of Chicago that he strongly resembled Abraham Lincoln his old and intimate friend in feature and manner He nominated Mr Lincoln for the Presidency in aud formed a like service for Judge Gresham at the last Republican Na tional convention in Chicago He was PRINTING EST ABLIS WATERLOO IOWA No Better Equipped Printing Dice TWO CAMPBELL CYLINDER PRESSES ALL RUN BY STEAM POWER I The Courier Job Department IS NEW COMPLETE And wt sue prepared to execute M Ms iff Mil From a Visiting Card to a mammoth Poster in the Style of tOae born and educated in Maine but drift ed to Indiana ia Then he went to the Mexican war and when he waa discharged on account of illness set tled in Bloomington 111 and began the law practice which brought him into intimate association with Mr Lincoln waa married twice the last time abou two years ago to secre tary 4 OUR ASSORTMENT Of POSTER TYPE is Urst and in we CM do alt NEAT QUICK AND CHEAP AS ANY CITY OFFICE WEEK HOMES 1 1 cur Work and VT H
