Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-12-22
Generalities.

York, England, Is to have the
largest railway station In that king.
dom, its cost being 81, 200, 900.
AN Indiana butcher claims the
championship" and says he can
kill and dress an OK In seven min.
utes.
1T Is said Horace Greeley was not
put on the committee of reception
for fear he would advise Alexis to
"go west"
"A Poughkeepsie landlady is In
dispair. Her six boarders stow away
two hundred and thirty cakes, ordi-
nary size, every morning.
The total receipts of the state Of
Ohio for the year ending Nov. 10,
amounted to So, 6,04O, 22s, and the dis.
bursements to SIS, o92, ,O48.
SO many of the prosperous oil
regions of Pennsylvania are going to
decay, that the inhabitants Of them
are looked uron as ex-"iles."
Mrs. O'Leary's cow, that either
did, or didn't set Chicago on fire,
has been bought on speculation by
two Louisville, tKy.) boys.
A citizen OF Richmond, blind in
one eye for three years, was lately
kicked In the face by horse, and
the sight of the eye was restored.
"A speaker ut recent public
meeting concluded his appeal by the
remarkable warning. Remember
the eyes of the eo1 popuh are upon
you"
Josh Billings says: "I am vie
olentlently opposed to ardent spirits
as beverage but for manufacturing
purposes I think that little of It
tastes good"
"A farmers wife I'm New Hamp-
shire, says she grew this year 800 lbs.
of potatoes from eight eyes taken
from potato that weighed but five
ounces.
Michigan silver mines this We ar
have yielded about 81, 600, 900 worth
of ore. The estimate Ia that 500, 900
can be taken out month at cost of
only $4,000.
The Chicago Post says that the
bell worn by the cow that kicked
over the lamp that set fire to Chicago,
Is on exhibition In that city in sixty.
one different places.
A resolution has been offered In
the House providing for the abolition
of the law which permits the print.
ing and transporting of public docu-
ments at public expense.
--An@ Oswcgo breakmen went to
sleep In church, and electrified the
deacon who took up the collection,
by remarking drowsily; "That's all
right work on this road"
The Janesville, Wis, Gazette re-
ports that in consequence of the long
continued drouth, many of the praI-
rie farmers are compelled TO deepen
their wells to procure water.
Says the Green Bay Gazette -
Never before, at least not within
the memory of many, has fall pass
ed with so little rain, and winter
opened such scant supply of water
in the swanaps and streams"
During the last year the locomo.
tives of this country have consumed
$56, ,000, 600 worth of wood, and it is
estimated that 10000 acres of the
best timber land in the republic are
annually cut down for railroad ties
alone.
1t is not work that kills men il is
worry. Work Is healthy; you can
hardly put more upon a man than
he can bear. Worry Is rust upon
the blade. It IL not the revolution
that destroys the machinery, but the
friction.
The Moscow Gazette, In an edito
rial article, counsels Russia to de.
mand the naturalization of Dem
mark, and the restoration of Schles
wig to the latter country, as a means
to counteract the power of Prussia
on the Baltic.
James Gordon Bennett, the
founder Of the New York Herald,
has so greatly failed In health and
strength that he now takes almost
no interest In anything, and is glid.
ing gently into helplessness and SEQ
ond childhood. ....
The following Is dedicated to
gentlemen who have a penchant for
for writing their names In public
places:
| "When see q mans name
Scratched upon the glass,
knew he owns a diamond,
| And his master owns an ASST
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