Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-02-12

Baltimore contains 353 600 souls.

Sar0ine cluoS are DSlpg stafteu
in the east.
1t costs a man SIS in San Francis
! co to call his neighbor thief.
JEFF Davis and wife are both i'll i'm
Paris.
Hon. Mat. II. Carpenter has de.
clnred i'm favor of female suffrage.
There is Blind man I'm New York
who can detect counterfeit money.
Henry Ward Beecher says women
make the best prayers in his congre
CATION. &c.,.
The New York Tribune is reported
to have made SlsO,OOo profits last
year.
Two octogenarians were married in
Clark County, Indiana, on Sun
day. a.
The lady editor Of the New York
Revolution wants Grant to have
woman i'm his Cabinet.
Rev. Henry Ward Beeelter last
year made $40, 000-Sl0, 900 or $4,000
of which came from his church.
A bankrupt Boston merchant has
lately received 81 900 from former
clerk whom he had befriended.
A New York newspaper has a car.
rier who is worth 100000. and still
tramps his daily rounds.
The Richmond headlight is q news
paper which is published on Mis-
sissippi river steamboat three times
week.
4 man in Indiana got divorce |
from his wife because she went ska.
ting against his wishes. He conclu.
ded 10 let her slide.
A little girl, whose pet eat was ex-
pressing Its rage ut the dog, Ivy an ell
evated spine said, "Oh, ma, my kit
ten 5 got Grecian bend"
The Chicago Post is keeping a rec
ord of Andy's days I'm the White
House that he may know when to
start for Greenvile.
An old tobacco chewer finds that |
the Bible sustains his favori:e habit. |
He quotes "He that is filthy let !
him be filthy STILL"
Dou Piatt went to call on Senator
Sherman New Years day, and Ind |
the honor of hearing the servant
announce him as Damned Pirate.r
The Central Pacific Railroad is
now completed $40 miles east of Sar-
ramcpto, leaving only II gap of $40
miles between The Central and Union
Pacific.
An Irish bachelor, seeing the
words families supplied" over the
door of shop, stepped i'm and said
he would Take wife and two chill.
dren.
An lrishman recently soliloquized:
WHAT Il waste o. money to be huyiu
mate when you know the half of it. |
ia bone, while you can spend it for
rum that hasn't a bone in it,"
A Troy clergyman says! "a wash
erwonan il an evidence Of civiliZa.
ton, and the flag that fiutters every
Monday ulon the clothes line is a
symbol of progress and liberty"
Miss Mary Harris, who was tried
and acquitted for the murder Of Bur.
roughs, at the Treasury Department.,
Il few years since, is now an inmate
of the Insane Asylum near Wash
ington.
The noted "puG, ""Kanawha Boy"
who is only 10 years old, stands six
feet and ten inches i'm his stocking
feet, and weighs over three hundred
pounds, is in Cincinnati, spelling for
II fight.
A cigar seven feet long, one foot in
circumference and weighing thirty
pounds, has been twisted out of leaf
tobacco in q New Haven, CO.. fac
tory.
j. would be rich treat for Grant.
A man tried on pair of panta
looms, IN New Orleans clothing
store, and while the proprie,or's at
tenti"n was distracted, he slipped
out, leaving his old garments and a
forgotten portmenaie containing 500
in one of the pockets.
For $50, 600 the Baptists OF Orange,
n. j. have purchased a choice site,
on Main Street, wltereon they pur-
pose erecting 100000 church edi
flee. The Preshyterians and Sweden
borgians also project the building of
less costly structures.
an
Young's son Joe smokes good cigars,
drinks good liquor, gets drunk, plays
poker, licks his wives and breaches
the gospel.
That's about as much rs any ordi-
nary man can attend TO and do it ,
we'll.
The Nation makes q good point,
when it says that 1.-THE reason. why
The whiskey ring is so powerful
among us Is, that they have applied
Draius to the business of stealing and
swindling, and good people have
opposed to them nothing but rheto- !
ric."
A rude fellow, at Richmond, Ind.
who was brought before the mayor
'or some nocturnal spree, was fined
"A. 80 for nine Oaths uttered in def {