Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-11-17
Generalities.

Generalities.
Milwaukee has one saloon to
every one hundred and twenty in
habitants. ...
The debt for each inhabitant of
New Haven il $l4, while In Hart.
ford IL is S42.
The national debt was reduced
during the month of October about
one million of dollars.
Twelve wives sought divorces
from their husbands in one day, at
Louisville, Ky.
Boston consumes seventy gallons
of water per day for every man, wo.
man and child In the city.
Five women, more than eighty
years old. are living in Nantucket,
who are widows of five brothers.
A correspondent describes Winnie
Ream in her studio with her arms
bare to the shoulders and her ankles
likewise.n
Senator Carpenter estimates the
number of lives lost by the Wiscon-
sin fires at from twelve to eighteen
bundled.
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pa
cific Railroad Company have just
declared semi.annual dividend OF
four per cent.
The Vermont Central Railroad
has library Of two thousand vol.
umns at st. Albans, for the use of its
workmen.
Valparaiso has Rev. Mr., Beer
Ii Is not stated whether he gets al
lager-heads with his congregation. -
Indianapolis Sentinel.
Miss Kellogg has started for a
season of fifty nights In California
for which she gets $4,000 and hel
bread and butter.
There Is great rush to the
Brigham canon, Utah, In conse'
quence of the discovery of exceed
ingly rich gold quartz.
"A writer in the Womda's Jovr
nal, "hopes we may never get ovel
the feeling that woman is made L
be gentler than man."
In Sirria county. California, tn,
fruit trees are breaking beneath tht
weight of fruit. The yield is large
than ever known before.
An i'll natured cotemporary says
that Rhode Island goes for narrow
gague railroads because she wants
both rails to lie within her territory
The latest obituary notice il that
in Savannah paper, who record:
the death of four men, who wer,
'soothed with the left hand of 4
mule"
The receipts of b. +. Taylor's
Lecture at Sioux City on the Isl
inst. were S68,25; and the expenses
were $lll. Loss to the Library AS
sociation $44,75.
AT Akron, Ohio, a canal driver
twisted a mules tail to make is go
The clergyman paid a fitting tribute
to his many excclientqualities at the
funeral.
-Seventy-five newspapers of vari
Gus kinds were burned out during
the great fire. 1t is safe to say tha
not more than one.half of these will
resume publication.
Gen. Sherman owing TO tn,
death of his father-in-law, Hon
Thomas Ewing, has abandoned fo
the present bis intended military
inspection trip to Europe.
A fish store In Somerville, Mass.
has sign on which Is printed: lie
viticus XII; 9th and 10th verses" A
reference to that part Of the Scrip,
lures will show the application.
A boy of five summers, in New
England, recently, while at his de
yotions, surprised the family 10y
praying that he might have sixty
brothers and one hundred sisters.
The lyceum OF Alden, Hardin
county, has appointed a debate or
the following lively question: "Re
sotred, That fun should be an obiec
in this Lyceum equally with intel.
lectual Improvement.
christianity is reaping a ricl
harvest of souls in Appleton. Up
ward OF two hundred have been con
verted, and revival meetings still
continue with wonderful success
under the auspices of Mr.. Van Cott.
IA girl of the period" comments
thus upon Mormonism "How alb
surd-four or five wives for one man
when the fact is each woman Ia
these times ought To have four o
five husbands. 1t would take tina
number to support her decently."
"A story is told Of lecture befor,
the Agricultural College student In
Amherst, on grape culture, In which
the lecturer presented bottle o
wine made from his own grapes, ant
requested tile class to sip IL to test IL
quality. The bottle only lasted /,
the third man.
The value of the entire churcl
property of New York city, includ
ing all denominations, is computed
at something like $500, 900, 900. Trim
| ity corporation alone is put down a
$50, 900, 900. The richest sect on tn
whole Is, as may be supposed, tn
Roman Catholic.
In Chicago n man can thrash hi
mother.ih-law, under recent de
cision,. for serenty-fiye dollarst Mas
week a young man in Rockport
Maine, undertook to do IL for moth
ing. She was very health
woman. When he RECEIVERS suffl
ciently he Will tell how il was.
The Chicago Post says that tn
Episcopal convention has decide