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

| Generaiities.
In one day last week 10000 buff
alo robes were shipped from Leaven-
worth East.
"A Michigan man thinks that
eternal vigilance will be the price OF
potatoes, this year. a gu.
"A down east editor says that
since the recent rain, the farmers are
smiling like new shingleson patch
ed roof b.
| The Western Union Telegraph
Company have completed line OF
telegraph to thes Yosemite Valley,
/ California. '..'
The lightning struck q house In
Alexandria, the other day, and set
agoing an old clock which had been
out of repair for twenty years.
Forty persons were drowned re-
Gently, by the driving of schooner
en- toa shore near Conception Bay
They were going from st. Johns,
The London undertakers are ag-
itating the abolition Of Sunday flu
nerals. Some of the cemetefies
agreeing with them have closed their
yards on that day.
Tho Travellers Record, of Hart
ford. advises newspaper publishers to
increase their circulation by taking
a cold bath and rubbing briskly with
a coarse towel. Some of them need
it. "f I2 a3"'Ft# ...##
A farmer Of Michigan Is said to
have trained his hens to eat potato
bugs, and to follow each her own
row, picking them clean, with no
desultory skirmishing on either
side. .r.
There are published I'm the Uni
ted Kingdom ITO newspapers, dis
tributed as follows: London, 26l !;
English provinces, lll2; Wales, So !;
Scotland. l31; Ireland, 1888; British
Isles, Is. ls ssor T.. auE tf'
A citizen In Connecticut, recent-
ly introduced to newly married
man, congratulated him warmly and
said: "Ah, those Litchfield country
girls make clever wives; I've had
three of 'em."
An acre of land In London, was
recently sold for SO, 200, 900. On the
other hand Scotchman lately
bought 10000 acres of land in the
Fegee Islands, for twelve cents an
acre.
The mother of President Lin.
coin Is buried near Centerville, Ind, ,
and as a railroad is projected near the
spot, the surveyors elubbed together
recently, to erect suitable monu-
ment over the remains. h. at
"A Salt Lake correspondent by
way Of showing how strongly the fe-
male population of Mormondon OBJ
jects 10 polygamy, relates that nu-
merous young ladies have simultane
ously offered to elope with him.
E-I never patronize a business that
don't advertise, for the reason that I
invariably get cheated IL I do. The
penurious principle that prevents a
man from keeping his business be-
fore the public will prevent him
from selling cheap.-P. T. Baraun,.
"A school committee In frontier
district, Is reported to have summed
up their opinion of an examination
which they had attended, by max
ing to the pupils this address: "You
have spelled well, and you have
ciphered good, but you hain't sot
still.
"A gentleman who lately accom-
panied JEFF Davis to his old planta-
tion near Memphis, which Is now
owned and managed by Ben. Mont
gomery, who was formerly a slave,
says that Montgomery gave them
breakfast and dinner. waiting on the
table himself, but not offering to take
a seat. A .-.
The Fat Mems Society, of New
York City, with headquarters at the
Revere House. has elected its officers
for the year. The President, Mr..
Coe, of the Revere House, weigh
272. with three Vice Presidents oi
265, 277, 2s1 avoirdupois. respectively
President Coe, 1t will be noticed Ina.
no small Vices. @ttsHe1#
!, The Revoi1tion prints state.
ment TO the effect that nine-tenths
Of the young men that are given te
prostitution. go from the presence o.
their sweethearts or lady friends
where their passions have been excit
ed by silly smiles and loving non
sense, aided many times by spicet
food aud wine, to the embraces oi
courtesan.
AT Maury, Tenn, a few night,
ago, a young man went to bed leav
ing burning candle and pistol on
his table. The dripping sperm ig
nited the table, the table ignited the
pistol. the barrels began to explode
and when the young man awoks
he was nearly burned, smothered
and shot to death. His pillow re
ceived the balls and saved his head