Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1861-09-27

months old and weighs 1000. These ami
mails have superior points, and vii! be likely
to take their share Of premiums in coming
years. The exhibition of blooded cows and
calves was tip-top. Paulina," one Of DR..
Sprague's cows, weighs upwards Of 400 lbs.
The show Of horses was admirable. Judge
Converse and - Taylor of Butler county !;
John Martin and G. Kenney, of Bremen; j.
B. Severance and o. p. lockwood, of Black
Hawk, and other gentlemen, had splendid
stations. DR.. Spraguc had beautiful span
Of carriage horses, four years old, and there
were score of fine geldings and fillies in the
small ring at sundry times.
About four years ago. Peter Melendy, Pres
ident of the Society, imported Suffolk boar
and three sows, and since then this breed of
swine has multiplied rapidly in that part of
the Cedar Valley H. +. Williams, ID. W.
Jordan, w. p. Oyerman, and others, entered
some excellent stock of this kind. Dr. Sprague
and others had some of the Yorkshire and
Leicester breeds, and j. Dobsor some of the
Moss. We noticed also few Chester W hite
swine.
We would like to make lengthy extracts
from the Dubuque Union, but we have only
space for the following:
The Fine Arts hall presented fine appear
ance. AS usual, the ladies had their share
of needle work, crochet work, etc. Suffice it
to say, it was equal to any have seen at any
fair this year Several paintings in water
colors, crayon, sketches, and hair wTeaths,
done by Miss Dunbar, were superior. Miss
Dunbar has been engaged in teaching in the
South, but found it advantageous to come
North when the war broke out. A pencil
sketch by Miss Mathews is worthy Of notice.
Miss Waterbury Rad beautiful oil painting
on exhibition. Perkins of the Gazette Office
had his Ruggles' card press in operation and
struck off several thousand cards, to the
amusement of ALL In this hall was a bcauti
full evergreen monument, surmounted with
the American flag draped in mourning
Above this was canopy of the "red, white,
and blue" On the four sides of the monu-
ment were the following Inscriptions:
In Memory of the Dead Of the Iowa Vol
nnteers.
In Memory of Ellsworth.
In Memory of the Fallen.
In Memory of Lyon.
This monument speaks we'll for the taste
of those who designed it.
But the wonder of the faithfully
wonder, for it has been declared an impossi
bility, is proverbially an mpossibility-was
a aehistle mad. from a pigs tail. One of the
citizens of Cedar Falls, Mr. Bragg, assembled
the judges stand, and to the wondering
crowd made the announcement, that whistle
had been made from porcine's caudal APP
pcndage, and in proof thereof, inserted said
caudal appendage in his mouth, blew, and
10! there was a mellow whistle. Kerbum sat.
The inventor and maker of this wonderful
whistle, am informed, is the President of
the Cedar Valley Fair. Verify, think a
perpetual motion machine would not be an
impossiblity to him.
In relation to the pig.tail invention, the
Local of the Union will please allow us to
correct him in two particulars. First, The
BRAGG spoken of is, without doubt, the BAGG
of Waterloo, who, we know, played with a
pigs tail on that occasion. Second, It is not
true that the President of the Society is pro-
genitor of said pigs tail, and it is discredt
to Cedar Falls to mpute it to him.