Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-04-07
NUMBER 9.
Generalities.

New england had heavy snow
storm on the 9th of March.
Dirt, ignorance, and miscegena-
tion are the prevailing features of so
eial life In San Domingo.
-Forney has entered the lecture
field, his subject being, "The Gen.
tennial Fourth of July, 1867
"A Cincinnati poet calls the lips of
the girls of that burg" glowing gate
ways OF pork and potatoes"
"A woman in Clay county, Indi-
ana, has born triplets five times In
fourteen years.
jones' and his wife agree on one
point; she thinks more of him than
anybody else In the world and so does
he.
Greeley advises, farmers not to
raise Foxglove. They can buy the
Buckskin much cheaper. Itmaturcs
early and don't require polling.
A careless printer made dance.
ing masters card read: II offer my
respectful snanks to all who have
honored me with their patronage"
An Indiana bride was thrown In
to commissions by the excitement OF
the marriage ceremony, and died be-
fore the restorative Of divorce could
be applied.
II Is estimated that there are 5000
600 cows In the country, the diary
product of which annually Is 5000
900 600 pounds of cheese, and 575, ,oO0-
900 pounds of butter.
A Michigan woman has written
IA letter to the legislature. advocating
the restoration OF capital punishment
In that State, and asking to be ap-
pointed State executioner.
Gail Hamilton says one can
be daughter, sister, friend. without
impeachment of ones sagacity or In
tegrity, but its dreadful indorso.
ment of a man to marry him.
"A new cattle disease has appear
ed in Mercer county, Illinois. The
animals live but a few hours after the
attack. and so far every attack has
been fatal. one man lost twenty
three head i'm three or four days.
A young man Of bloomington,
ILL.,, while practicing in his gymna-
sium the other day, became entangled
In the ropes, and, falling, broke his
neck. His name was John Under
nical.
j. r.. Casey, editor of the Blair.
Nebraska Register, claims to have
for sale the seed of pumpkin that
will keep good for seven years. We
guess the seed of that pumpkin ia
generally gathered with fine tooth
comb. Courier.
A local paper becomes ecstatic
over the beauties of Bennington, VT,
In the following touching manner:
| For there schools and potteries,
Where they mould minds and jugs,
| And also finer porcclaln--
| Bright girls and fancy mugs,
A lady teacher I'm one orour pub
lie schools Of town in Wisconsin
has laid aside her ferule, and adopted
the method Of kissing her pupils into
obedience. The larger boys are par
ticularly unruly, and require almost
daily correction.
In the North German Confedra-
ton there were 1880, 900 Protestants
and s, s,175, 900 Catholics, In the new
Empire there are "a $40 900 Protes-
tants and l3,3SO,O0O Catholics; the
relative proportion being raised from
three TO eight, to two to three.
An absent.minded Indianlan
started out after his COW, founda COW
bell In the middle of the road, and
pockcting it, followed its tinkling
for over twenty miles, before he re-
membered that 1t was not on the
cows neck.
There were twenty-three battles
during the late France German war;
besides, there were forty-nine enga-
gements and combats, which had al.
most the proportions OF battles
There were twenty sieges, compris-
ing the three immense strongholds OF
Strasbeurg, Metz and Paris.
An Illinois woman committed
suicide by hanging herself to an ap-
pie tree. At this funeral neighbor
noticing the sad appearance of the
husband, consoled him bp saying
that he had met with terrible loss.
"Yes." said the husband heaving n
terrible sigh, "she must have kicked
like thunder to shake off six bushels
of green apples that would have been
worth dollar when they got ripe"
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