Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-07-28
Generalities.
There are 913,16 more women
than men i'm Great Britain. s E# 3

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There are 913,162 more women
than men i'm Great Britain. ..s Es &
The papers say the wife of Sena'
tor Sprague lately paid $4,000 for 81
yards of lace In Paris. - 3d."
The editor of the London Spec
tator declares that no toll fatigue.
like reading manuscript.
Houston county, Ga, has a regu.
lar Ku.klux hen. She kills all black
chickens as soon as Matched.
The best guardian Of a woman's
happiness Is her husbands love, and
for her honor her own affection. F
The female population of Edin.
burgh exceeds the mails by nearly
$4,000. In GLASGOW the excess Il
10000. ,.,r a..a. ...........
: Greeley says that In order to
raise base balls of the average diane.
ter and density, subsoiling is abso.
lutely necessary.
An indianapolis merchant has
been in business thirty two years and
never advertised. He runs q peanut
warehouse on q curbstone table.
A Buffalo girl responds to the
California cry of "come and marry
u.s." says: "Send along your tickets
If you mean what you say"
Our Iowa Clear Lake is getting
to be place Of great resort. The
visitors since the middle Of June
have averaged about two hundred per
day.
"A young man in Indiana lately
became so alarmed ut a widows per.
sistent attempts to marry him that
he turned over to her all his property
and ran away.
One single pigeon, a favorite bird
with the pigeon fanciers of Paris,
brought into that city during the
siege, 500 pages of official dispatches
and l5, 900 private dispatches.
Summer Fashions-Large checks
are in demand for summer toilets. A
check for $4,000, presented to Miss
Gunnybags by her father, has been
much admired. Commercial Bulie-
tin.
The first narrow-gauge passenger
engine ever built In America, the
Montazuma, was shipped from Phil
adelphia on the 18th inst, to "its
place of labor beneath the shadows
Of Pixies Peak"
1T Is said that the Hon. A. III.
Stephens has gained nine pounds In
weight since he became an editor
The Louisville Courier fears that
when he weighed himself last he
had one of his editorials in his pock-
ct.
A Connecticut ruralist drank his
FIRST glass OF soda very solemnly the
other day, and then eyeing the clerk
intently, anxiously remarked, 1T Is
all right, 1 'spose ?" "Why, the
iarned thing won't go Off in a fellow,
will 1t.
John w. Henderson, of Cedar
has discovered that fitting
back i'm one's chair is not only impo-
lite but dangerous. He was doing
so last Sunday night, when he lost
his balance and went over back ward i,
breaking one of his arms.
"A Georgia man, after an absence
from his family of about thirty eight
years duration, quietly dropped In
upon them the other day, just as If
nothing had happened. The wife,
strange to say, had INDUCED in no
Enoch Arden foolishness.
"A country newspaper, which re-
Gently spoke of "buttered thunder"
and was asked by a cotemporary II
that had any affinity to CREASED
lightghtning," manifested some an,
ger In explaining that muttored
thunder was what was inten ded.
An Indiana clerk the othe- -say
took In a silver coin five h"ndred and
sixteen years oiS, which an old
farmer pjcagned up In his corn field,
and passed for ten cent piece. The
present owner is 80 jealous Of his
prize that he refuses to exhibit IL.
The State Regaster's advice to all
young men in Iowa looking toward
the profession OF the law as vocs-
ton, Is that they avail themselves OF
the Iowa State University. 1t is, we
can safely say, superior to any other
School to which an Iowa student can
go. ."s.,...
An ambitious Vermonter thinks
that the voters of Rutland are the
most uncertain people extant. He
ran on the rum ticket at the town
meeting and on the temperance tick
ct at the village election, but some-
how or another he got beaten both
times. .#4a...# a..s .sa.. g
Bald heads ahead The Con.
nersville Times tells of an old rail.
splitter In that county who put q
quietus upon young man who
chaffed him about his bald head, In
these words: "Young man, when
my head gets as soft as yours, / can
raise hair to SELL" #ff 81. q.
"A druggist friend says a better
cure for cat concerts under your win
dow than all the bcot-j jacks and slop.
buckets you can throw, Is to toss out
a bunch Of dry catnip. The felines
will cluster around 1t, oblivious ol
everything else, and their melodious
voices will be stilled. an,TE
Nora Springs Is Offering induce.
ments to secure the b., c. r. & NJ
road, instead Of letting 1t pass to the
west Of that place, through M Jason
City, as the line was originally run,
Other towns along the limo are alive
and busy. seeking the accomplish.
ment of the same end.
The editor Of the Boston Post
one Of the most fascinating of men
quotes AZ follows "The latest charm
Ia in the form of a com pasa. and