Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-07-29

HPHtIhittfeS.
Use Jones bottled ale il YOU
would keep out of here Is painted
on the fences Of tho Pennsylvania
graveyards.
"A Cincinnati census taAer found
woman 33 years of age, who mar
ried at Is, and has had thirteen chill
dren, nine of whom are living. "
IL cotemporary advises such as
wear cabbage leaves I'm their hats not
to take any other preeantion against
sun stroke, as il is useless work.
The census of Kansas City in
about completed, aud the population
Is ascertained TO be about Il 900. 4o,-
600, was the population claimed.
The Corinnc Reporter Of July sth
says that the closest estimate that
can be made Of the present Gentle
population of Utah Territory, fixes
the maximum at 2,3I2. ...r..
Anna nickcnson received a letter
recently, expressing the sorrow ex
perienced by the writer on learning
OF the sudden death OF cher brother
Charles, who wrote 80 many nice
Stories"
The New York World estimates
that the population of that city and
its environs will be In 1870, 2,37l ,8sS
in 1880, over four millions; in 1890.
eight and one-half millions; 1900,
over seventeen millions.
Here is an cpltaph from Burling.
ton, N. j.:
Here lies the body of Mary Ann Lnwdrr.
She uurst while drinking n seidleitz powder.
Called from this world to her heavenly rect
She should have waited till 1t ciFervssced."
"A member of the Pennsylvania
Legislature in defending mothers in
law, said, II know 'cln, Mr.. Speaker,
Have had several. They're good
and useful class, and yet--and yet
with the best OF them there may be
trouble"
A receipt is suggested for making
clearinghouse chicken soup, which
is to hang q hen i'm the sun so hat
her shadow falls into the pot of salt
and water intended as the basis of
the deco5tion. The method seems 10
have this objection that OIL cloudy
day the soup would be liable TO be
weak.
"A gentleman asked clergyman
the use Of his pulpit for a young di-
vine, a relative. III really do not
know" said the clergyman, chow to
refuse you; but il the young man
can preach better than I can, my
congregation would be dissatisfied
with me afterwards, aud II he should
preach worse, | don't think he's fit
to preach at ALL"
-~"Compositors in the y, Y. Tri.
buac Office" says New Brunswick
periodical, "are fined ton cents for
each profane word uttered on the
premises, the money so gathered be.
ing given to the poor. A new hand
lost nearly n weeks wages one night,
over bit of Greeley's manuscript"
OF course, "A great deal Of swearing
Ia done In the Tribune office from
pure charity. Hundreds Of dollars
have been bestowed in this way Ivy
its foreman to help the poor. j.
Russell Young.
I'm Boston, early on the morning
Of Independence day, the neighbors
heard terrible noise in a house
occupied 10y n childless old couple.
and, on going to see, found the old
man threshing his wife terrificaIly.-~
He explained as follows: Look
here I've been living with this
tormented old woman nigh onto for
ty years, and she has been henpeck-
en- of me all the time aud now,
this being the Fourth of July, by
the Lord, have declared my inde-
pcndencc.
Dogs have often been made use-
full ia turning churu or some such
light machinery; but in intellectual
Massachusetts they nre made TO run
libraries. The way they do IL in Low
ell, for instance, il this: After the
value Of sheep or other animals kill.
cd by dogs has been deducted from
the proceeds Of n dog tax, the resi-
due Is used for the city library
Last year the net result thus devoted
was 81 $50. The CANNES must feel
sort of dogged pride in being thusin
timately connected with the dissem-
ination of literature.