Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-03-26
wise and Otherwise.

Deaf mutes are taught 10 taih III
Boston schools.
During the last year 5000 school
houses have been erected in West
Virginia.
The New York Board of Health
advertise free vaccination, and order
1t promptly attended to.
An Iowa editor dislikes young
married couples "because they are SO
apt to give themselves heirs.n
A cat with six coal black and seven
white kittens is the latest wonder in
Bourbon county, Kentucky.
Equality means" says French
writer, "a desire to be equal to your
superiors and superior to yourequals.'
The Hartford Times wrote that Dir.
Stewart was the greatest "importer"
i'm the country, and printed that he
was the greatest "imposter."
Andy, who is on his triumphal
progress TO Tennessee, sent one Of
his Office holders ahead to arrange
enthusiastic receptions.
On Clark street, Chicago, may be
seen a sign. curiously worded as fol.
lows. Basement for rent, ZIP stairs"
The writer was probably flighty.
The New York Tribune in a recent
article favors the plan of learning
women to set type, but don't think
it exactly the thing for them to lay
bricks.
\ Western paper, having announced
the shooting of wild cat bya little
boy five feet eight inches long," an
exchange queries "what they call big
boys there2"
The new town of Schuyler, in Col
fax county, Neb., bids fair to grow
rapidly; one night last week fourteen
persons got of there to search for
homesteads.
A correspondent asks the Philadel-
phia Press, "What is the browning
glory of Andy Johnson's official
career?" and answers, "In getting
Nucld out of the Dry Tortugas."
An English savant complains Bit
terly that astronomers and meteorol-
ogists have been 'shamefully indif-
ferent to earthquakes" He thinks
every observatory should have a
seismometer.
The young men of Chicago are
said to be classified according to their
skill as yelocipedists into the "timid
toddlers," the "wary wabblcrs," the
"go-it-gracefuls'' and the fancy
few"
A waggish schoolmaster, after fog
ging o pupil for fibbing, addressed
the lad as follows: Harvey, wish
you to understand that 1 haven't
whipped you for lying, but because
you didn't keep probability in view."
M. Marinoni has put up i'm the
new printing Office of the Petit Jour
nuk q marvellous machine of his in
vcntion, which prints GOO copies o
minute. Four of these machines
turn out la 600 copies an hour; the
whole impression being 4fe, 900 daily.
Paris Correspondence
The public will be gratified to learn
that Mr.. Greely's old white coat and
hat, which mysteriously disappeared
ut the Inauguration ball, have been
returned to him, the individual who
appropriated these historical habili-
ments uavfuy no fartner use for
them.
There was curious incident at the
Baltimore banquet. Immediately
after Mr.. Johnson, with n sharp hit
at his successor, had said, 1T would
rather be free man than President
and slave" the second toast, ITO the
President of the United States" was
given, and warmly appfauded and
drank standing"
A Yankee editor lately closed an
editorial in the following unhappy
strain: "The Sheriff's officer is wait
ing for US in the other room, so we
have no opportunity to he pathetic;
we are wanted and must go. Delin-
quent subscribers, you have much to
answer for! Heaven May forgive
you but we never can"
General Grant received the other
day by express, stout, new, three
stringed broom, with red, white and
blue handle. Several persons were
present in the Generals room when
it was handed to him, and numerous
jokes passed as to its being an init
nation that he should ''sweep clean J"
but the General himself expressed no
opinion.