Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-02-18

! III look george 1eaOOuy tIlIec
months and four days to find rest in
mother earth after subsistence Of life's
fitful sleep. ~--.~ r.r~--s--
1t was DIR. Holmes, we believe,
who said that easy crying widows
take new husbands soonest, There
is nothing like wet weather for
transplanting. at .r.
"A clergyman who moved from
San Francisco to Philadelphia, on
account of its superior moral tone"
had his overcoat stolen while he was
preaching there.
A dog recently jumped through
a plate glass window in Geneva, New
York, and the owner Of the dog of
fered to settle by giving the store
Keeper the animal. ...~
The Kansas Legislature has be-
fore it resolution declaring "habit-
ual drunkards" to be insane and pro-
viding that they be sent to the State
Lunatic Asylum. That's sensible
move.
Recent cases prove conclusively
to the Boston Post that "it is safer
to steal a million dollars in New
York than to manufacture All India
rubber comb without buying the
right to DO SOL
| A New Jersey lady recently gave
grand afternoon party, but set all
the guests at sewing carpet rags, and
excused supper by saying that the
hired girl had lame back. So says
an exchange.
An elopement was recently pre-
vented i'm Rutland, VT, by the wor-
thy father, who led the young lady
| back to the house, and assisted the
expeetant groom to an undignified
departure. He probably gave him a
stern reprimand. ...
Nathan Cocker, who is a middle.
aged colored man, residing i'm Den
ton, Nd, amuses himself and aston
ishes spectators by walking back
and forth on red hot bar of iron,
with bare feet until it cOols, and
drawing q red hot poker across his
unprotected tongue. This he does
without any apparent pain.
In "a Book About Words, an
explanation Is given of the phrase,
mine tailors make a man, In the
olden time the strokes of the passing
bell were called "tellerS," and as the
nine strokes indicated the death of a
man, while three announced that OF
a child, and six that Of woman, the
words "nine tellers" were easily
perverted into nine tailors.
The Washington Chronicle, OF
the Sth contains the following item
"Mrs. J.. Matilda Fletcher, of toun'
Gil Bluffs, Iowa. distinguished as
lecturer in several of the Western
States, has arrived in this city, ano
has been engaged to lecture before
the Grand Army OF the Republic"
The conductors on the Detroit
and Milwaukee railroad, who were
charged by Superintendent Bel
with embezzling money for fares,
were bound over at the Detroit Po-
lice Court i'm $4,000 each. The pros
ecution was based on the evidence OF
several of Pinkerton's detectives
who went out on the trains.
The XIV amendment will confer
the ballot upon 900, 900 negroes, $780,
600 of whom reside in the old slave
holding States. In three southern
States alone, where the Democratic
party now holds comparative sway
namely, Kentucky, Maryland and
Delaware, about $4,000 negroes will
be sent to the polls fol- the first time
this year through the operation Of
; the amendment.
The Convention at Springfield
ILL.,, after long discussion, adopted
the following provision upon the
subject of sectarianism in public
schools:
"Neither the General Assembly,
nor any county, city, town, town
ship, school district, municipal or
other corporations, shall ever make
any appropriation or pay from any
public fund whatever, anything in
aid of any sectarian purpose, or to
help support or sustain any school,
academy, seminary college universe
ty, or other institution of learning,
controlled by any sectarian denomi-
nation whatever; nor shall any
grant, donation of land or par
sonal property ever be made by any
snch public corporation for any Sec
tartan purpose whatever.