Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-05-28

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c. III. Merry, of Dubuque, owns
the veritable black horse that carried
Gen. Phil. Sheridan from Winches-
ter Unto the fight twenty miles
away"
Women in Russia owning property
have the right to vote by proxy
Women In this country owning hus-
bands enjoy the same right.-Daven-
port Gasotte.
A waterfall 200 feet high has just
been found in the vicinity of the
Natural Bridge" In Virginia. The
facetious inquiry at once suggested
is, "Who lost it?"
Grants father (Jesse) occupies a
seat in the reception room daily at
the White House, smoking content
eddy and chatting with visitors he is
acquainted with.
One afternoon last week the tele-
graphic wires between Philadelphia
and Pittsburg were worked without
batteries, the atmosphere being so
charged with electricity.
A Western paper says: "Waated,
at this office, an editor who can
please every body. Also, foreman
who can so arrange the paper as to
allow every mans advertisement to
head the column"
Nearly twenty of the Chicago
wholesale boot and shoe establish
ments-the leading ones included
have agreed to close their houses at
o'clock Saturday afternoons, from
now until the middle of August.
An exchange says: ain the vii
lage of Upton, Ind, all the liquor
saloons are closed, and have Grape on
their doors, the combined effect of a
revival and of raid by the ladies'"
Its their turn to wear Grape for they
have caused many others to wear it..
The former editor and proprietor OF
the Albany Gentry county, Me-
Ledger takes leave of the patrons OF
that sheet in the following unique
style:
"Valedictory. -Farewell! No tears
no signs, no money. Let US have
peace
II. s. X"
A Nashville druggist has invented
a rat paint made of preparation of
phosphorus. You first catch the rat,
then you paint him. After dark he
looks like ball Of fire, and going
among his fellow rats, they vacate
the premises, the bright particular"
rat following and hurrying up the
rear.
Henry Ward Beecher says on the
hair dying question: "If man will
be the happier for 1t let him ds it,
Ii his wife will love him better, or If
she will be made any happier, in the
name of love let him dye. Family
happiness is q great blessing to pur-
chase ut so small cost as q bottle OF
hair dye.
The following is said to have been
the direction of a letter left at the
TT. Wayne post office:
Postmaster, blease to send him strait,
| Pennsylvania is der staight;
Oft yenago, dats der county,
We're oil bour out NIT Heavens pounty,
| Franklin, She der COUNTY seat,
| Der post Office on Liberty Street,
| Sharley Taylor, he's der man,
Send der yust 80 quick you can.
A gentleman from Nevada, being
asked by an old lady in relation to
the welfare of a favorite scapegrace
of a nephew who had gone to that
State, informed her that "the young
man had died from early rising"
This puzzled the old lady very much,
until, by dint OF inquiry, she learned
that "early rising" is the Nevada
phrase for hanging.
Near Dubuque. last week, a man
from the East, name unknown, who
had come west to buy land, was row.
ing down the river in a skiff, when
two men hailed him and requested to
be ferried across the river. He took
them into the boat. On reaching the
middle of the stream, they seized him
took his money (about 500, stabbed
him two or three times in the breast,
and then threw him overheard. and
made their escape. The victim
clung to piece of plank, and was
picked up after having been in the
water for over twelve hours. He is
now in an encouraging condition.
Don Piatt, in one of his letters to
the Cincinnati Commercial says:
"When senator gets drunk, the
state he represents is disgraced. II
is the state that is intoxicated"
To this the Plaindedier adds:
"If this be true, Michigan and ILL
nois may soon be expected to have
an attack of delirium tremens."
The Detroit Free Press thus re-
spends:
"There is no immediate danger o
this, however, for senators, like othel
men, must abstain for few hours
! before they become subject to tina
terrible disorder"