Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-08-19

4 VVhVt ~ ANb0tS&
The railroad from st. Paul to Du-
luth is completed.
Census returns indicate that the
J population of New York city will be
less than $4,000.
BY the census completed August
ist. Chicago is shown 20 have a pop
ulation OF 800, GOT.
"A Maine man has given his wife
81 800 worth Of morphine In fourteen
years, and she likes Il.
"A Cincinnati gentleman offers to
contribute 500 in gold to Prussia
every week during the continuance
OF the war.
The fortifications of Paris are
stated TO have cost $40. .O00, 900, and up
to 1868 there had been expended OH
Cherbourg S34 .0cO, 900.
--'rhey profess to have discovered,
out In Nevada. a spring, the water Of
which cannot be distinguished In
taste from chicken soup.
Cornelius Vanderbilt had fifteen
.lii.GrsD by his first wife, eleven of
.,4e.a jeashters. 'Tis well that his
= 3c-.d a',ae is young woman.
= =, "A - ,a .,,,Ll n, frr,,t <f /. r., rv,,
house near Indianapolis, Is sign
which says, ono life insurance nor
sewing machines wanted here"
Gov. Seward thinks the European
war will be all over In sixty days.
The New York Globe thinks II will
that, In point Of fact, IL will be all
over Europe. ... Ills
A Syracuse waiter attended
church, on recent evening, and fell
asleep. He wakened himself by
bawling "ham and eggs fer .wo."
and soon left the sacred edlfiee.
-Helmbold, the most successful
advertiser Of the day. hes an entire
page Ia the New York Tribune. Two
lines are repeated 5as times, The
cost is about 5000 day, in one paper
alone. ..s.... ...as.-s... &. ..-
A young lawyer at st. Louis re,
Gently offered resolution In n SUM-
day Sehool--''That a committee of
ladies' and gentlemen be appointed
TO raise children for the Sabbath
School"
"A woman of Troy was lately
brought before q Justice, charged
with stealing sum Of money from
her husband. She was dismissed ON
the ground that wife could not steal
from her husband. ".." aa
Miss Phelps, whose success began
with GATES Ajar," is said to be max
ing more money that any American
female writer; and yet during her
school days she was considered the
most stupid In her class.
Some bad boys at Oshkosh, Wiz,
put hornets nest under the cushion
Of the sofa In church pulpit last
Sunday morning, and when the min
lister sat down after reading the
hymn. he got right up without being
told.
Several Chicago merchants have
engaged handsome young ladies to
collect their outstanding accounts.
al pay them promptly except the
Old bachelors. They say 1t 10 SO
pleasant TO be dunned by such beauti-
full creatures that they invariably tell
them TO call again.
AT the Grand Army Fair, In
Lewiston, Me-, veteran was relat-
Ing his exploits TO some friends, and,
in the hearing of some boys, re-
marked that he had been In five en-
gagements. "That's nothing" broke
In a little fellow; "my sister Sary
has been engaged eleyen times"
The war between Prussia and
France has proved q severe blow to
the trade I'm petroleum, which has
grown TO be one Of the most import
ant branches Of our foreign COM
merce. Germany afforded the best
market for our product, and IL was
Lefty In German ships that the oil
as .=aasported.
/ L-sfa ,s the Columbus Journals
...+1 -. saiv.ag the cody problem :
"---st :.s GrEs sEt up all the rats,
:--sa tie co-..es eat up all the
aoss, .len let the Democracy swal-
low the coolies. What the duce Ia
do with the Democracy stumps Us,
but that Ii not our conumdrum. The
coolies are disposed Of"
The National Con vention 10 agi.
tate for the removal Of the National
capital to the West In TO be- held q
Cincinnati, Oct. 18th. The Conven.
tion will be composed Of three dele
gates from each Congressional dis.
trict, six from each State at large
three from each Territory, and thres
from the District of Columbia, to bt
appointed by the Governors of ths
States and Territories respectively
and by the Mayor of the city o
Washington.
"A Western editor recently re
ceived note. enclosing an <, ant
the following:
"pear Air:-You published m,
marriage notice without fee or re
ward. Herein find ten dollars.
have discovered the value of my wifi
she Is jewel; and I cannot res
. urtil the printer Is paid for bis servi
ces.n
We endorse the good sense 0f th
gentleman, and recommend his ex
ample TO future young benedicts.
FIFTY MILLION MoRE LoGs.-Th
La Crosse Dc1aocrGt Of August 81
says THAT the late rise la Rlacl
River has had the glorious effect b
run about SO ,0OQ, 900 more feet of log
into the boom near 0nalaska, whicl
are being RATED for the market be
low Tbis Ia good luck our Iuuh r,