Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-05-20
NUMBER 8.
Minneapolis calls Itself the
Workshop of the Northwest. -

MtHheapolls calis Itself the
Workshop of the Northwest"
Upward of s22s 900, 900 are annu-
ally spent by the British nation for
intoxicating drinks. -.
-APhiladelphia Judge decides that
the name of newspaper is trade
mark as much MS the label stamped
on bale of muslin. 1' .+@@ f".E
In reply to a question how wo-
men with several babies OH hand can
go to congress, Mrs. Stanton asserts
that she intends TO make congress-
men OF old maids. .a.sH. .a..
A young man In Coldwater,
Mich, suddenly ipst his voice on
Christmas. nnd he has been unable
to speak since, except in his sieep,
when he talks as fluently as ever.
"A Hudson marketman nailed tho
following notice under the awning
of his market, last Sunday: "hir
Ioafers will please stand here.r It
was a success. No one stood there.
Two farmers In Montgomcry
have been having law suit about a
/ calf, which was worth fifteen dollars,
The suit cost the county $l0O, aud
| the other expenses amounted to $500
more. ~~a~a.-~r-
"A st. Louis woman thinks her
self entitled TO n divorce because her
husband orders rice dinners from n
restaurant end eats them alone, le..
ting her subsist herself OH crackers
and herring. @..... ...
Susan II. Anthony said, while
there last week, that dayton was n
very handsome little city, and could
lie made the most delightful place TO
live in In the world, with an intclH-
gent woman for Mayor"
WIN. b. Astor had 600 houses Ia.
rent on the lst of May. Imagine
800 tenants growing about one man
regularly once n mouth, with 0,0OO
members Of families throwing In
concerted roar on moving day! .....
Somebody, who writes over tho
signature of "Hoosier Girl" sends "a
letter to n Boston paper warning
Yankee girls not 10 come West for
husbands, as "there are not enough
here to supply the home dcmand.h
Mrs. Mcfarland, in her Tribune
defence, says she thinks adultery one
OF the least causes for divorce Christ
taught that 1t was the only cause for
a righteous divorce. But then, Mira.
Mcfarland aud her tribune friends
hold progressive viewsof the matter.
Dubuque Herald. ......a
-Poiiteness almost invariably ro-
qulres u gentleman To agree with
lady, bat when she speaks of tho
great beauty Of some other lady IL il
always safe for the gentleman To say
there are other styles of female love-
Illness that he admires much more.
A gentleman Of Ncwburgh, whila
working at his boat house, saw the
body of Il child floating In the river
only yard or two from him. To
take 1t out of the water was but
moments work, when to his horror,
he found that it was the body Of his
little daughter.
"A Kentucky mother left her in-
fant in charge of an older child. n
boy of six. The child becoming fret.
iui' re boy, according to his moth~
er's custom, administered q dose Of
laudanum. On the return of ths
mother she found her dead babe, the
lad having prescribed nearly gill Of
the drug.
A German wag advertises tho
| --latest Invention" as follows "To
Let or for Sale--N0w on exhibition,
a Steam Dogma creating Machine of
of 500 priest power, which works
with the greatest precision, aud turDs
out 20 new dogmas per hour. In.
qulfe mt Rome. corner of Bulls
Angle and Jesuit lane" @7
"A German exchange tells the
story Of an enamorcd couple (he CO,
she 49,, who eougluded To get mar
ried. The ardent lover wa, too feeble
20 walk TO church, and was afraid 10
trust himself ius.de a joitiug car
riage, SO the bride put him into a
ptrambularor and wheeled him TO
church, married him. aud wheeled
him home. ...m ... .......
A paper in Missouri Of the rebel
stripe has concocted the following
stapza Oh the Fifteenth Amendment,
which sets "Shoo Fly" iu the
shade: -.E
| Go way white man,
| ..as aaz Don't come anigh. a.
4 Gzzara foot aud shinbones
| Chalk In de eve, t#. 's
Il .. We are all yuti-tp #... a...a s.
/ Ektl fore de law
Ghing-aring-G-cliiAg & s..aH
| Ching -aTlng "a ehaw"
The people Of Richmond, Va,
appeal TO the benevolent people Of
the country for contributions af
money for the relief Of the SURVIVING
victims, and the families Of the K II.
ed by the recent disnster by the fall
ing OF n court room floor. Sixty .iiyB
persons were killed or have since
died, and many Of the families of the
dead and injured are now sutfurinr
for the necessaries of life.
Charles Dickens says there Ia
nothing beautiful and good that dies
and is fOrgottel-. An infant, n prat-
Ting child, a youth well taught, WI.
live again i'm the bettef thoughts o.
those who loged IL, aud will play lts
part, though its body be turned T.
ashes, or drowned in the deepest ssa.
There Is not an angel added to lhe
hosts of heaven but does Its blessed
work on earth In those that lofed i.
here.
"A Sheriff was once asked 10 eye.
cute writ against Quaker. o.
larriving at the house he sew thr
Qnaker's wife, who. In reply to tis
inquiry whether lfer husband was a.
home, said he was. at the same tlrnr
requesting him 10 be seated, and Atr
/ husband would speedily see him.