Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-12-31
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--"Brick" Pomeroy publishes q
penny paper in New York city.
Love" in the Indian language
is Observation-Disclosures"
--One hundred million francs have
been contributed to the Holy See ns
Peters pence.
"A man was before the New York
courts, last week, on the charge OF
skinning dog alive.
Digging potatoes with crowbars
was one of the hilarious incidents OF
fall farmingin Canada.
An Oregon farmer has raised a
potato Of the Prince Albert variety,
that Is 2li inches In length.
"A train arrived at Knoxville,
Tenn, from Virginia, the other day,
with forty-seven babies on board.
"A young woman of Paterson. N.
j., has gone out to India TO marry a
young missionary, whom she never
saw.
Vienna has ''society for the en-
dowment of marriageable daught-
ers;' the ugliest ones get the largest
dowries.
When stranger refuses to enter
a Chicago hack, at the request of the
driver, he Is knocked down and
taught lesson.
"A little girl who had never seen
any kittens was shown litter lately,
when she expressed her opinion that
somebody had broken pussy all to
pieces"
Olive Logan says she never saw
a pretty girl but she wanted TO take
her In her arms and kiss her.
There are millions more In tie
same boat Olive!
The members of the California
Moderation Society" bind them
selyes to drink wine, beer, and cider,
except when discouraged, when
whisky is to be allowed.
An exchange says: "You might
as well attempt to shampoo the head
of an elephant with a thimbleful of
soap suds as to attempt to do business
and ignore printers ink"
"A Western editor speaking OF
the battle of Bull Run said: "The
Federals ran so fast that the hard
tack ratified In their -stomachs like
beans In sheet iron pot"
Lucy Stone likcns boys to vine-
gar the more mother In them the
sharper they are. Yes and Lucy
might have said, no one ever knew q
smart man who had dull mother.
Tie Detroit Rirl who wesrsAa
beaver and carries cane tried TO kiss
q hotel-waiter the other day. The
insulted youth complained to the
landlord, whe informed the offender
that she must respect the men about
the house, or. leave.
An Iowa woman helped her hus-
band to raise seventy acres of wheat
last year. She bossed the job from
the parlor and he did the work.
That, we suppose, will be reversed
when women's rights prevail. 30,
that will be joyful"
"A Boston letter says Sylvanus
Cobb, jr., the celebrated story writer
has become an inmate OF the Bostor
IneLriate Asylum.
We don't wonder. His stories ar,
enough to produce snakes In Tia,
boots of the author and reader too.
The Eddyville Advertiser says
"An effort is being made to Undue,
the coming Legislature to allow th,
people to vote upon the offices o
State Printer and Binder. We be
lieve the Des Moines bulletin wal
the first to suggest this matter"
"A young man went into the
chamber Of frail girl and said, an
going to shoot you.n The girl calm.
cd his Ire, coaxed him to lay dowr
the pistol, then seized it herself and
shot him dangerously In the head
She is In Jail In Baltimore, on q
charge of cleverness.
Judge Fowler addressed the New
York Democracy the other night
saying he had voted with the party
twenty-eight times in his life, wher
he was interrupted by disguised
copperhead who said that was moth.
ing--he had himself voted thirty
times ut one election.
"A story is told of dog whicl
was greatly Interested i'm music
He attended singing school anc
was subsequently found IN the back
yard with music-bo Ina front D
him, beating time with his tail on
tin pan and bowling "Old Hund
red" There Is some doubt whether
he sang "Old Hundred" but h,
might have howled ''likc Sixty
-On the night of the 18th inst.
Thos. j. Cunning, man OF intem
perate habits, residing in Holt coun
ty Mo-, aroused his wife, saying, 81
don't look like dying man, and We
] am dying" He had his sons callot
in, directed them to sell his hogs
pay debt, and telling his wife to q.
the best she could with the re
mainder of the property, laid dowi
aud almost Immediately expired.
"A committee OF ladies, prominen
In the woman's movement In favo
Of suffrage, will attend In Springfield,
during the sessions Of the Constitu
tionai Convention, seeking TO hav,
their ideas embodied In the new Con
stitution. A resolution is before til.
Tennessee Legislature asking Tia.
Convention about to assemble to con
fer the right Of suffrage on women. a
bill giving women tho franchise hal
already passed one branch or th,
Wyoming Territorial Leg slatur
and, II Is thought, will pass the other