Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-09-29
Generalities.

Generalities. II 1o
--Woman's rights women may, yet
aspire to positions In the navy. Lots
wife was an old salt. . fs
A Californis editor having
bought mule, contemporary
speaks of II as remarkable self~pos-
session.
A serious deficiency In the wheat
crop of Great Britain is reported
Our western grain men will not shed
tears at this. a.
--"Whither are we drifting?" ner-
vously asks q Democratic cotempora-
ry. The Greek name for IL Is Hddes I
-Chioago Journal.
There are many newspapers that
make little noise In the world; but
the ladies will testify that they can
make great "bustle."
Mary had little corn
That grew upon her toe,
And every where that Mary went
al That corn was sure to go
The Office of the Wynesboro, Pa.
Republican, was robbed by burglars
of SO last week, and the public wants
to know If the editor came honestly
by all that money. a ..
The Waterloo Reporter has seen
a beet S3 inches long. and rs inches
in circumference. The Cedar Rapids
Observer has seen "dead beats" con>
siderably larger than that.
The Sheriff of Van lBuren coun.
ty refused to let a prisoners wife go
In to see him, telling her that che"
said Sheriff, didn't allow such lux
uries to his prisoners" ..s.
Iowa took the premium against
the United States for the best display
of fruit at the exhibition Of the
American Pomological Society at
Richmond, Virginia, this season.
"A. T. Stewards new house, cost
Ing So, O0O, 900, Is ready for occupancy.
The rent of this house ut the ordina.
ry rate of interest, 10 $1,000 year
which does very well for ple-
bian.
A suggestion made at congress
In Cincinnati, to hold an interna~
tional congress to discuss the ques-
tion of prison management in Eu-
rope and Amerca, has been adopted
In Europe. .4.#-reE
A young man, destitute Of sgri-
cultural knowledge. who has been
attending country fairs, reports the
vegetable known as the prize pack
age to be the great American staple
product this fall.
A correspondent wants to know
the best way to become literary
man. Well, the quickest way Is for
HIM to take short voyage to sea-
He will then very likely become
contributor to the Atlantic.--Ne
York Leader.
A citizen of Montreal has been
sentenced to pay six dollars and
costs, or go to Jail for thirty five days
for refusing to tell the census enu>
merator the age of his unmarried
daughters. The girls advised the
old gentleman to go to Jail.
The editor of the London Satur-
day Revieto says he well remembers
the answer he received from an
American of whom he inquired
what were the "war powers enjoyed
by President Lincoln 2" It was
"Jes what he d----n pleases.n
The Springfield, Mass, RepubH-
can tells Of young woman In that
city who does washing for two cents
o "piece, /" and derives an average in
come therefrom of $l20 q month
Last month she washed 6,597 peices,
and received $l39.14. Her husband
meanwhile tolls on for the miserable
pittance of $l2 per week, less than
one-haif what she earns.
--"I love to look upon young
man. There is a hidden potency
concealed within his breast which
charms and pains me I" The daught-
er Of clergyman happening to find
the above sentence at the close of a
piece of her fathers manuscript, as
he had left IL In his study, sat down
and added: "Them's my sentiments
exactly, papa-all but the pains"
The Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, OF
Maine, was In Sioux City last week,
and delivered q short speech after
Gov. Kirkwood, In that city recently.
He paid a handsome compliment to
the Republican party OF Iowa. He
referred to Maine and California as
lifting the flag from ocean to ocean,
WIN Sniihuk loWato Subbhlu Nv III tuc
middle. ~ .....a
Some queer scenes occur In Wy
oming, where the women vote, serve
on juries, etc., like their lords and
masters. Recently six married ladies'
and az many gentlemen were Inn pan.
neled upon q murder case there, and
1t became necessary to lock them up
all night. Three of the husbands
stormed and raved at the Judge, and
. half dozen children made the court
house ring with their cries, but the
Judge was inexorable, and put them
under lock and key.
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Sowing Wheat After Oats.
This Ia very common rotation,
but unless care Is taken to thorough.
ly eradicate the oats self sown dur
ing the harvest, there is great danger
of serious injury to the wheat. One