Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-03-17
NUMBER 81.
Generalitics.

Peach trees are In bloom, In Tex
as. ... ....
--Judiclous advertising always
pays.
Bancroft is to be ar pointed Min.
lister to Germany.
Iowa has an area OF 1000 square
miles OF coal fields.
Charles Allen was elected Mayor
OF Decorah.
-London only supports a fraction
over 10000 lawyers.
Virginia expects to have 1000
public schools open by April lst.
The telegraph lines In Russia are
are almost entirely worked by female
operators.
A bill prohibiting trains from
running on Sunday was defeated in
the Mississippi Legislature.
The Iowa State Register says
isn't Ii a little ungallant in Will
helm taking Nancy from France, aud
Nancy not willing?
The Chattanooga Times asks
"Whither are we drifting P'' To
which the Knoxville Wing replies,
ut would be profane In us to say"
The Roroiution Is "willing to
compare the women suffragists, OH
the score of personal attractions,
with any body of women in the land
The Blue Earth City Post says
Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Min
nesota railway will be extended to
Blue Earth City by the lst January
1872.
It's It wrong to cheat lawyer"
was recently very ably discussed by
debating society. The conclusion
arrived at was that IL was not wrong
but impossible.
The largest valley In the world
is the valley Of the Mississippi. 1t
contains 500,0 900 square miles, aud IL
one of the most fertile aud profitable
regions on the globe.
A distinguished Southern law.
yer states that the practice Of duel
ing owed IFS continued existence at
the South to the sustaining of public
sentiment among the women.
A Boston paper expresses the de-
liberate conviction that "a man who
will not do anything, by way of pub
lie improvement, ought to keep tav-
ern after everybody else Is dead"
The President has nominated
Asa o. Adds, of Vermont; James II.
Howell, of Iowa, and Orange Ferris
of New York, as Commissioners on
Southern Claims under the new law.
A Missouri newspaper claims
that the hogs Of that State are so fat
that I'm order to find out where their
heads are, 1t Is necessary 10 make
them squeal, and then judge by the
sound.
"A good parody was that involved
In tho story of young English
nobleman, with large number Of
titles and very small amount OF
brains-Lord this. and viscount that,
and so on al infnitunl. my fair
friends, said the witty N, tone
of his titles you appear to have for
gotten" "Ohp' was the universal
exclamation, "what is tbat7' HE
Is Barren Of Intellect" was the re-
joinder.
"A poor soldier In New Hamp-
shire, who, after three applications,
succeeded In getting 500 bounty,
sent at once $40 to an uncle who had
loaned him that amount, when he
was I'm desperate need. A few days
ago the uncle died, and by his will
left the almost penniless soldier all
his estate, valued at 500, 900, giving
as his reason for doing 40 that he hah
many times lent money 10 his rela-
tivcs. and lie alone had repaid him.
An Indiana pedagogue, going to
school on cold morning lately,
found himself locked out by mum
ber Of SCHOLARS who were inside. He
got n ladder, ascended to the roof,
and laid board over the top of the
chimney to smoke them out. They
took away his ladder and left HIM
sitting on the ridge pole till ne froze
his ears and fingers, and agreed to
yield to their demands. They then
let him down. School discipline IL
imperfect out that way. ....