Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-07-30
Wise and Otherwise.


Straw hats, with wide black bands,
are the corr ect style for young gen
tlemen at present.
Brigham Young has recently mar
ried again. His new bride is Miss
Follausbee, of Boston.
Carlyle says, with witty ambigui-
ty: "ff you are in doubt whether
t" kiss pre- ty girl, give her the ben
eff of the doabt."
A premium Of $500 is TO be given
at the st. Louis fair this fall for the
cow that will give the largest and
richest yield Of milk.
An eminent artist lately painted a
SNOW storm so naturally that he
caught cold by setting too near it
with his coat off.
EX-PTesident Johnson was success
fully operated on, at Fayetteville,
Tenn. on the 18th inst, for cancer
on the temple.
A young lady attending school at
Blendon College consumes four dol
Ears worth of candies and peanuts q
week. Superlatively sweet gal, that.
A young lady studying French,
and finding that "belle' meant
"fne," told som ebody in a letter that
we had q great deal of belle weather
lately.
The bridal parties which predOmi-
mated early in the season of Saratoga
and Niagara Falls have fed to the
White Mountains, looking for cool
err atmosphere.
"Bob," said a young fellow at a
fancy fair you are missing all the
sights on This side.n Never mind,
BILL retorted Bob, II am sighting
all the Misses on The other.'
A clock having struck. the hour of
one, a tender hearted woman eX-
CLAIMED: "Ob! what a cruel clockH'
"Why 500" asked friend. Be
cause 1t struck lis little one!h
A lady, speaking of a gathering of
lawyers VINO had assembled to look
at the new court house at Rutland,
VT, said she supposed they hh come
to view the ground where they
must shortly lie.n
An Irishman dropped letter into
the post Office the other day, with
the following memorandum on the
corner, Tor the benefit of all indolent
post masters into whose hands it
might fall: please hasten the delay
of this.n
The landady of a hotel said to n
boarder: Look o'here! want you
to pay your bill, and you must! l
have asked you often enough for it,
and tell you now that you don't
leave the house until you have paid
it," "Guod.' said the ledger, IN
stay with you as long as / live"
Tn a printing Office at Gosport,
Ind, is n blind compositor. His
average days work is 5000 ems, and
on several occasions he has set from
1000 to 5000. His letter is disturb
ated for him, and his copy is read by
his partner. his memory being so per-
feet that he can retain from four to
six lines.
A kind physician, living near Bos-
ton, wishing to sooth the last hours
of poor woman whom he was at
tending, asked her if there was any
thing that he could do for her before
she died. The poor soul, looking up,
replied: Doctor, have always
thought that / should like to have a
glass butter dish before l died!"
WOULDN'T RISK IT.-The Will
mington UlI.) Independent, edited by
Mr.. Steele says: "a printer last week
proposed to go into partnership with
us. His name Is DoolttIe. The firm
name would sound very bad, either
way you put it-'Steal & Do-lIttle, or
'Do-little and Steal We can't jine.
One of Us would soon be in the poor
house, and the other in the penitenti-
ary."
"Olivia," the Washington CORES
pendent of the Philadelphia Press
who, by the way, is one of our Iowa
women-asks the public to Judge
gently of Miss Susan B. Anthony's
strong mindedness. LET u.s." she
says, "visit her faults tenderly. Ba.
by lips have never pressed her hard
cold cheek. She las never tasted
the subIimity of motherhood. She
has never bathed in that immeasura.
bic sea of glory whose waves touch
the gates Of paradise" And the
prospect that she ever will don't get
better bit.-Registcr.