Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-06-10
GencraIities.

Between 1000 and 900 dwellings
are said to be vacant In Montreal.
Eighty-seven French families left
the city last week for the States.
The time Is fast coming when
landed proprietors will be esteemed
for the condition of their acres rather
than for their extent of territory.
IF you should hear a man say that
the world owes him living; guard
your personal property carefully, for
the probability is that he Is is q thief.
An Iowa man advertises his wife
as "leaving his bed and board" aud
then applied to her for loan of
dollar and half to pay for the adj
vertiscment.
"A talented youth at Key West
charms rattlesnakes cute of their holes
and about his neck, and makes a
practice OF carrying scorpions and
wasps In his sleeves.
"a Norwich hen has hatched n
chicken with one head, two bodies.
and four legs. The head has got all
1t can do to pick up food sufficient
for the two bodies.
Man must have occupation or be
miserable-toil Is the price of sleep
and appetite--of health and enjoy
ment. The very necessity that over.
comes our natural sloth is blessing.
The Clinton Age says: ain this
section of Iowa, the wheat fields give
signs prospectively of immense
yields. Never In the history of tn,
State has wheat looked so well at thil
season of the year."
"A remark that Mr.. Beecher drop.
ped I'm conversation the other day
comprises the whole system of moral
ethics. Itis "keeping within certain
generic bounds while allowing fol
certain specific variations"
"A venerable minister of tn,
Church Of England, long since de
ceased, used to say, with az mucl
justice as precision LET me pro
portion my giving to my income. ol
God will proportion my income t,
my giving" a..#.
The Indianapolis Journal of Ma,
81 says: complaints of the prevail
ing drouth reach us from many
parts OF the State. Garden vegetation
is suffering most, ard must be seri
ously damaged unless tie gratefu
rain soon descends.n
Young men should never settl,
down for life I'm the place of theij
nativity. They rarely get to be mel
If they do, but are always known a.
"Bill," Tommy" "Johny," anc
with ever Sc much merit will find Il
difficult to rise above the dolly status
Miss Susan B. Anthony ask,
"what the consequences would he, 4
all the women were In one country
and all the men Ia. another, and o
big river between ?'' One of tive
things-a great many women would
be drowned or great many women
would learn to swim.
OF classic fable what's the user
Read Hero and Leander;
The girl would swim like any goose,
The lad like any gander. ..
-"Why," said Miss Anna Dickin-
son, on one occasion, stepping for
ward to the foot.lights and commence
ing lecture with lofty flight of
eloquence, "Why was born?" She
paused, and thrill ran through the
audience. Again the rich tones of
the winsome woman rolled over the
expectant people, As she repeated the
question, "Why was / born?n And
again she paused, that the due i'm.
preston might he made upon hel
hearers, before she answered her owr n
question. "Why was I born P" she
asked once more, In touching and
almost painful accents, when wick.
ed boy In the gallery shouted, II give
1t up" ...F# .