Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-09-24
Wise and Otherwise.


A lady in Peru, Indiana, gave birth
to elk children at one inning, five OF
which are living. The woman is
living likewise.
"My boy" said a fond mother,
"never defer till tomorrow what
YOU can do to-day !" "Then moth
er," replied the Urchin, let's eat the
rest of that plum pudding tonight
One of the Georgia editors objects
to the proposed editorial convention
in that state. He says that the affair
will only be a big drunk, and ave
can get drunk at home, on whisky
that we are used to-"
When in 1914, the Rev. DR.. Tefft,
in an address at the Indiana Univer-
sity, predicted railroad across the
continent, his hearers, including the
potent, grave and reverend seniors
laughed him to scorn.
James Bosom, a pedestrian, is to,
attempt the feat of walking back
ward from Portland to Boston, a
distance of 40 miles, in eight days,
on wager of $1,000. He proposed
to start on the 26th of September.
A Chicago paper says: The num-
Der of deaths in this city for August
will reach about 800, as we learn
from an official source. There is
much sickness, and an unusual nun
Der of deaths are occurring.
Preliminary steps for founding
colored commercial or business COL
lege in Washington have been taken,
with prospects of final success. 1t is
proposed eventually to extend the
movement all ov er the country.
The total receipts from theatres in
Chicago during July were rs follows:
Woods Museum SG,27l; McVicker
aud Myers s., 1919. 10; Dearborn Thea
tire 50, $780, As. All of these place were
open only part of the month.
A convict in the Maryland Peni-
Tertiary, who has three years to serve,
rs a cattle thief, has fallen heir to
200 by the death of a relative in
Ohio, and some very disinterested
persons are endeavoring to procure
his pardon.
The question whether Barbara
Frietchie was myth or a real wo-
man is to he finally set at rest by the
presentation to Mr.. Whittier of
cane made from beam of the house
she lived in, by the citizens of Fred
erickshurg.
Twenty years ago Pennsylvania
was the largest wheat-producing
state In the Union, Now it is about
twelfth on the list. The people have
turned their attention to the develop
ment of that which is hidden in the
earth-oil, coal and iron.
SAID Rowland Hill once, when a
number Of people had taken refuge
in his chapel from Il heavy shower:
MANY people are greatly blamed for
making religion a cloak; but do
not think they are much better who
make it an umbrella
A man, stopping his paper, wrote
to the editor: ~ think folks offend |
to spend their mummy for papers
my dad didn't, and everybody says
he was the inteliigyntist man in the
country, and had the smartest family
of boys that ever dugged taters."
Beecher compares text to gate
opening in the Lord s garden, and |
says that many ministers, instead of
unlatching tue gate and leading their
hearers i'm to pluck their fruit and
flowers, content themselves by get
ting upon it and swinging to and fro.
A woman who was asked what she
thought of Woman's Rights, replied:
81 believe in Woman's Rights, and
particularly in the right not to be
forever preached to by men on that
subject" That's fair. AS the wo-
men lecturers never preach to the
men, the latter ought to let the wo-
men alone.
Information has been received at
Washington showing that PROPOSE
ton is to be made at the next session
of Congress, to create two new States
out of old ones-one by cutting off
east from middle and west Tennessee,
and another by taking portion of
Arkansas and joining it to the terri
tory occupied by the Choctaw nation.
Many child goes astray, not be-
cause there is want of prayer or
virtue ut home, but simply because
home lacks sunshine. A child needs
smiles as much as a flower needs sun
beams. Children look little beyond
the present moment. If a thing dis
pleases' they are prompt to avoid it.
If home is the place where faces and
words are harsh, and fault-finding is
ever in the ascendent, they will
spend as many hours RS possible else
where. Let every father and moth
er, then, try to be happy. Let them
look happy. Let them talk to their
children, especially little ones, in
such way to make them happy.
SOMETHING LIKE A NEW SHIRT
I say boy, why do you whistle gay
ly?
"Cause Pm happy mister"
what makes you SO happy"
cause G got new shirt; look-a-
here, aint it nice."
1T don't look very new. What is 1
it made of?'
Why, tits new 'cause nam made it ]
yesterday out dads old'un.'
And what was dads old 'un made
of?'
why, out of granny's old sheets,
what hea mann gave her.
To Purity q WeH.-When a well is
cleaned out, if offensive substance is
found in it, have the bottom sprink-
led with two or three quarts Of
quicklime.
To Remove MOrter or Paint from
Wiad0,C GlasS.-Rub morter spots
with stiff brush dipped in sharp,
hot pinanar and naint. Snnts with 4