Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-05-27
NUMBER 8.


General Items.
Potato bugs are swarming in all
parts Of Michigan.
Silk dresses are now very much
worn. We know young lady who
has worn one threadbare.
"A rural editor in Indiana thinks
the "ptebiscit.nf' is new kind of
French biscuit" something like q
Boston cracker. ......
j. M. Marshall, the man who dis
covered gold In California, Is trying
to rescue himself from poverty by
telling the story In a lecture.
Twenty families of Jesophits
Mermons, numbering in all one
hundred souls have left Utah for
their old homes In the States. ..
A married woman In Alton, Me-,
who is in her nth year, lately gave
birth to her fourth child. That's
getting family pretty early in life.
The Big Horn expedition, which
IL was supposed Blair would com.
mand on account of bibulous ability
has been abandoned. Blair was
abandoned before. Chicago Post.
Troy young ladies carry little
bottles of cayenne In their pockets,
aud when rude fellows of the haser
sort. being strangers, accost them on
the streets, make their eyes smart for
1t.
AT the Woman Suffrage Conven-
ton In New York, the other day,
Mrs Hazlitt, of Michigan, said that
but few wives married their husbands
because they loved them. What do
they marry for? ...
Senator Brownlow Is so weak
that he has to be broughtlto the Seu-
ate by attendants. His voice IL gone,
and he votes by proxy, sending his
vote to the Secretary by page. Yet
he is In his seat every day. .4
Anna Dickinson says that "there
is 10 work q man can do, but that
will be done better by having n
woman at his side" How about
making love To her rival. Exchange.
Anna would get out of that by
saying that's no work, its fun.
Eastern papers say, that "the
first Sunday of open grogshops In
New York city, under the new DEM
ocratic law, produced eighty.nine
pretty tolerable fights aud four cases
of murder" That's pretty fair to
commence with, for the "new law.p
1T is fixed fact that certain pro-
pensities run In families, like red
hair. A man who was hung In Ohio
for murder some years ago, left six
sons, and every one Of these children
| IL n"w n medical practitioner. It's Of
no use trying to suppress these streng
hereditary instincts.-DctroH 7ri-
bane.
A loving parent in Colum bus,
Ohio. resolved the other day, to chas-
tise teacher who had been In turn
chastising the son Of the loving par
ent. He did SO, and the reaction
was 80 great that the loving parent
hasn't been out since that day. The
teacher went on with his work.
An eminent divine once remarks
ed In lecture: "In selecting your
partners for life, choose persons Of
naturally good dispositions--those
who are by nature cheerful and gen.
tie. 1t may surprise you to hear me
place these before piety; but am Of
Baxter's opinion who said that tho
grace of God could live with persons
that he could not" ....
DIR. Franklin describes the far
mer's condition In 1870 as follows:
Farmer nj the plough,
Vile milking COW
Daughters spinning yarn,
Sons threrhng I'm the barn
| All happy to charm"
Another writer gives the account
of 1870. Ms follows:
.'rhe farmer gone to see show,
| His daughter ut the piano;
| Madame gaily dressed IN satin
All the boys learning Latin.
| With mortgage on tbs farm! ~
Two girls at New York board
ing-school, finding that at the close
of the term they were 10 be separated,
concluded to take poison and die to-
gether, rather than live apart. Tho
resolution was carried into effect, but
a timely discovery by one OF the
teachers, and powerful emetics, saved
the lives of the romantic pair. Each
accused the other Of treaehery, how
ever, and after dreadful quarrel,
they separated the most deadly and
bitter enemies.
--Tucretia Mott and Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, In retiring from pub
lie life, say ave decline all Offices
for the future, and the younger hands
and brave hearts shall consummate
the work that i'm hope and faith we
so long ago began. The strongest
mark of respect and affection which
our friends can give IL To leave Us free
to pursue our individual work with
out the honors or trammels of official
, position in future organizations" ~
Exchange.
Farewell, Lucretia; Goodbye,
Elizabeth.
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