Dr. Farrar has a model of his new door or window fastening, and it promises to be a valuable invention. We trust he may make a fortune out of it.—(Jan. 16,1883.)
The expenditures on the Iowa State capitol up to March 13 have been $2,657,.315.03. It is estimated that $188,184.97 will be required to complete it. There yet remains $61,696.13 of the appropriation for 1885.—(March 27, 1885.)
On Tuesday Geo. Frazier and Tete Kelly tried to reach Chicago with several'cars of cattle. They undoubtedly reached there and will see the L. E. Phant.—(March 27, 1885.)
In the apportionment of the school fund in Story County for April we find the number of pupils to be 6,125, and the amount of money to be appropriated, $4,261.81. The main ones are as follows:
| No. | Am't Apport'd. | |
| Collins | 388 | $269 97 |
| Franklin | 329 | 228 92 |
| Grant | 226 | 157 25 |
| Howard | 365 | 267 88 |
| Indian Creek | 376 | 261 63 |
| La Fayette | 319 | 221 96 |
| Lincoln | 215 | 149 60 |
| Milford | 280 | 194 82 |
| Nevada township | 197 | 137 07 |
| New Albany | 238 | 165 60 |
| Richland | 203 | 141 25 |
| Sherman | 213 | 148 21 |
| Warren | 203 | 141 25 |
| Washington | 297 | 206 65 |
| Ames, Independent | 418 | 290 85 |
| Cambridge Independent | 151 | 105 05 |
| Colo Independent | 117 | 81 41 |
| Iowa Center Independent | 99 | 68 89 |
| Nevada Independent | 437 | 304 07 |
| Story City Independent | 207 | 144 03 |
The ratio of apportionment is a fraction less than seventy cents for each pupil.—(April 24, 1885.)
Theo. Baldus has lost about fifty first-class hogs during the past few months. Oleson Oleson, .Jack Bowen, M. Larson, S. Switzer and others living in the northwestern part of the county have also been having losses by some disease resembling hog cholera. They do not know what the cause is but they know that they have lost the hogs. Quite a number of calves have also been lost in the same neighborhood owing to circumstances which they were unable to control.—(April 24, 1884.)