Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-01-07

Young lady physicians are mul.
tipiying throughout the country, aud
consequently, the young men are
decidedly more sickly than they
used to be.
"A committee has been appointed
to obtain subscriptions for Mrs. Stan
ton, and expect to raise, 500, 900. A..
T. Stewart will head the list with q
handsome sum.
How could God make woman
out of rib, papa?" ~ don't know,
my child; II was miracle" "An
questions you can't answer you call
miracles, don't you, papa?"
"A man up In New Hampshire
says: "The most wicked thing'' he
ever did In bis life was when he put
snow in his sap, and boiled 1t down,
and sold 1t for sugar.
"A correspondent, writing to Zion's
Herald, Boston, says that quiet is SO
far restored In Georgia that he be-
lieves the time for killing Methodist
preachers has gone by forever.
"A family at Sugar town near
Augusta, Wis, bought arsenic to
poison mice. They got it into their
food and were taken with severe
spasms. The mice consider 1t good
joke.
The Memphis Ardlanche has In
formation from Mississippi, that Gen.
Alcorn, governor elect, positively re-
fuses to accept the provisional gov>
ernorship rendered him by Gen.
Ames.
"A man in Concord, N. H., on be-
Ing told last week by his council that
his wife would probably succeed in
her application for diverse, became
insane, and he Is now an inmate of
the State Asylum.
"A California couple lately cele-
brated their golden wedding by
fight, In which the woman was vic
torious. The old man was so cha
grined at the result that he immedi-
ately drowned himself.
"A little girl on being asked by
her teacher, why God did not want
Adam and Eve to eat the fruit on
that particular tree i'm Eden, replied
that she did not know, unless. 1t was
because he wanted to "can it."
BY new treaty between the
United States and Great Britain,
rates of postage on letters to and
from England, Ireland, Scotland and
Wales, have been reduced to six
cents. The change TO begin with the
new year. ..... ....
Morgan, who was recently hung
at Terre Haute, Indiana, made the
following reasonable remark i'm his
"valedictory:" "WelI, / don't know
that have much to say, except that
/ had better be going" lie went.
An Indiana man writes concern
ing the divorce privileges of the
State, that they "are convenient, but
not available to discontented foreign
ers without the aid of little perjury
and a good deal of shenanigan."
An old lady in Connecticut, who
pretends to "know all about it,n says
the only way to prevent steamboat
explosions is to make the engineers
"bile their water on shore" In her
opinion "all the Dustin is done by
cooking the steam on board the boat. -
The Richmond Wig urges the
Virginians to abstain from all often
sive pnrticipations In politics, seek
kindly relations with all. take help
from any quarter, and push their for
tunes to the utmost.--Er.
They have had their fortunes
pushed to the utmost too much
now.
How would you like to be wo.
man i'm China? The law OF that
land orders that: 1. Before marrying,
the daughter must obey her parents.
2. After marriage she must obey her
husband. 3. After the death of her
husband she must obey her oldest
son.
"A correspondent Of the Philldel.
phia Press states that John Hickman,
vino was once acquitted on the charge
Of numbering his wife on the plea of
insanity, and has just killed another
wife In Illinois, formerly resided In
Chester county, Pa, and killed two
women there before going West. II
he keeps on he'll deserve to be hung
some of these days.
-On the night of the 18th ult.,
Thomas j. Cunning, man of In
temperate habits, residing in Holt
county, Mo-, aroused his wife, cay.
ing: ~ don't look like dying man,
and yet / am dying" He had his
sons called in, directed them to pay
a debt, and telling his wife to do the
best she could with the remainder OF
hfa prnporfv Iafd .1ou,p a,,I aI,,,ort
Immediately expired.
Gen. John q. Fremont has sued
the Kansas Pacific railroad company
to recover for alledged breach of con-
tract. Gen. Fremont claims that
when he settled with the company,
i'm 1866, they agreed to give him
500, 900 Of the u. 8. bonds first is
sued Tn the eoun MANY undar tha act ~