Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-02-17
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Generalities.
-Depredations by Indians are re-
ported to be of daily occurrence i'm
Arizona.
Prussia wants two thousand mil
Ions of dollars of France as indem-
nifty.
Ducks have decided opinions of
their own they always come out flat
footed.
1t Is stated In the Marshall Times
that 5000, 600 of the local subscription
to the Central Iowa Railroad remains
unpaid.
Lets move. Prof Eaton has
discovered that the earth will sup
port life only 26,OOO,0O0 years more.
"A gent lately caught cold by kis-
sing a lady's snowy brow. Served
him right.
The idiots throughout the coun-
try send one hundred thousand dol
lars per month to the swindling
firms in New York city.
Stages run so slow In some parts
of Vermont, says a Boston journal,
that the chickens make a practice of
roosting on the axles.
New Hampshire had only 3l3 d.
vorces last year, but then she puts
out a good deal of her housework of
that sort In Connecticut.
"A cheerful organist started up
the restive air, "Come ye disconso-
late" at wedding i'm an Indianapo-
lis church, the other day.
"A Cincinnati dispatch says the
Pennsylvania Central Railroad has
decided OH new route to Chicago,
10y way of Lebanon, Dayton and
Richmond. r.-a
Democratic economy, the Iowa
City Republican says the democratic
government Of Johnson connty, has
spent So, l52. 66 for printing alone, for
1870. ...
"A country editor, In speaking of
Il steamboat, says: "She has twelve
berths in the ladies' cabin !" "Oh,
life Of me-" exclaimed an old lady,
on reading the above, "what a squal-
ling there must have been!"
"A young clergyman having bur~
led three wives, was asked by lady
how he happened to be so lucky
Madam" replied he, II knew they
could not live without contradiction,
so let them all have their own
way"
The Legislature of Delaware Is
evidently shutting down on the di~
vorce business. Thus far thirty-one
applications have been made, and
only six granted. Three are still
pending, aud the remainder reject
ed. .............
There are 272 manufacturing es.
tablishments I'm Peoria, H., with O
total capital of 1900, 700, giving en-
ployment to 2,577 hands and who re-
ceived as wages last year, 81 ,497, 730,
and produced sl4,loI,l l52 worth of
manufacture.
Greeley wrote something about
Suburban journalism advancing"
The compositor thought ii was one
IF his agricultural articles, and
launched out wildly on 'Superb Je-
rusalem artichokes."
Under the head of "Rules for
winter, an exchange advises people
TO close their mouths tightly when
going out into the cold. We have
several acquaintances whom we
would advise to keep their mouths
shut at all times.
An Iowa farmer started for town
with load of hay and thought he
would have smoke, so he lit his
pipe. He lost his pants by the fire,
and everything else except the lynch
pins and tire of his wagon. The
team was still on the run.
February, the Des Moines Regis
ter speaks of, as the bob-tailed
month of the year. Josh Billings
mentions its glories In the following
thrilling stanza:
Now gather round the kitchen hrc.
And pile the chunks on hire and hler.
| Git out The old fiddle and pardners choose
And shake her down In your eowhidc shoes.
The Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy Railroad Company, are now
placing upon all their passenger
trains an air brake, which il so con-
structed that the engineer can brake
the entire train I'm one second Of
time, and stop in one trains length,
when running at q rapid rate. Each
car is provided with cylinder and
brakes. applied by the means of at
mospheric pressure.
Paper petticoats having come In
to fashion. the following advertise
ment whereof appears in England
MADAME Percale begs leave to call
the attention of ladies about to visit
the seaside to her new and richly
embroidered paper petticoat, at one
shilling each. Each retticoats con-
tains an installment of new novel
Of great domestic interest, BY Antho-
ny Trollope, entitled 'Tucks and
Frills.' The story will tie complete
In fifty weekly pctticoats."