Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-02-05
Drift Wood.

Berlin gets $50, 1000 q year dog tax.
Fisk is going to indulge in another
libel suit.
Dcolittle of Wisconsin, can soon do
nothing.
100000 unmarried women in Eng
land.
10000 bearing grape vines in Cali.
fornia.
Gen. Sherman 10 to command at
New Orleans.
Manton Marble owns the whole
World.
Thirty.aix hundred trains run out
of London daily.
A Syracuse chap has taught a bull
TO dance.
Northern capitalists are hunting
for land in Virginia.
The carpet factories Of Philaael-
phia sell nearly million dollars
worth a year.
"Catnip weddings" are the latest
invention-in honor of the first
born.
Andrew Johnson was smuggled
into the White House but Gen. Grant
does not propose to be tiddled in.
u ID. Pratt, Senator elect from Tn.
diana, stands six feet four i'm his
stockings aud turns the scale at
300.
Longfellow says: "The little I've
seen of the world teaches me to look
upon the errors of others in sorrow,
not in anger"
The House of Representatives al
Washington has passed II resolution
to grant no more subsidies TO railroad
or other corporations.
An economical New Hampshire
Benedict curtailpd his yearly house-
hold expenses by letting his wife see
him kiss the servant girl.
Anna Dickinson. in reply to the
remark th"t people call her "man-
hater," demurely says, that lit de-
ponds upon the man.
A down East editor compliments a
brother thusly: Mr.. Brown is q
clear thinker, u ready and vigorous
writer. aud a first-rate fellow to
boot"
The London PdU Mall Gazette says
that "every prediction that we have
ever vet seen on the course of Ameri-
can affairs has turned out to b-
wrong"
There is a question of veracity be-
tween Col. Loomis, of Cothwater.
Michigan, and the papers. He claims
that I've is not dead, while the papers
say that he is.
A man and his wife who have thir-
tv-oue children. claim the champion
ship in New York. That would h-
called Ivy DR.. Collyer respectfully
sized family.
A conscience. stricken Connect
cutter lately inclosed thirty five
cents 10 the Osborne House. Roches-
ter. the worth of dnor-key which
lie had carried Off In 1858.
JEFF Davis is writing up II history
Of the Southern War. We hope he
will give full account OF the starry
ing of Union soldiers at Anderson
willie and Richmond while OH the
subject
A playful husband in Greensboro.
Vt. recently broke his wifr's neck
by shaking her. This should trach
husbands not to shake their help
meets any more than j. absolutely
necessary for family discipline.
One of the most cogcnt reasons ever
given why married man should get
his life insured il, that the money
would prove great help Ia his wife's
second husband, and might he the
means Of starting him up in bust
ness.
The pastor Of the Second Concre-
gaiionnl Church. in Winsted. Conn,
caused several of his erring flock to
Vince 10y recently preaching srath-
ing sermon upon the -in q: visiting
houses of i'll fame, and induIging in
alsusious too personal TO be agreeably
relished.
Mrs. Grant desires her husband To
retain their present house for ii phi.
waite residence and merely Use the
White iiouse for business and rrcep-
lions. This wnnlG avert the haraSs-
ments of constant business calls,
such - worried the lives OF Harrison
and Tyler.
A Boston clergyman. who didn't
want ito make bulletin board of
his pulpit" recently descended the
stairs 10 the ordinary church level.
read Il business notice, ana then as
cenGed To his SACRED desk again L"
proceed with his service. This l. Ivy
no ineans the least sensible of B0s
tom notions.
The latest style of the water veloc-
ipede consists of two floating tubes of
TN. i'm tie shape of cigars. They
are connected by tvs" bars OF iron
which SUPPORT the wheel. This is
moved by pedals like the fore wheel
of an ordinary vplociletie. The ri
der sits on II saddle just behind .he
wheel, and easily drives Ills machine
nj the rate Of six or eight knots an
hour.
A husband at Syracuse, coming
home recently very unexpectedly one
might, WAS detained for SOME time at
the duor. When he got IN his wife