Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-03-24
Generalities.
--Jo. Eibeck and some others have
organized an anti.treating society In
Elkader. ".'

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] Elkader.
Nine hundred and seventeen
miles of railroad track were put
down in Iowa last year. ......
"A Michigan pedagogue has been
fined $40 for whaling boy who
chewed tobacco In school.
In Toronto, recently, man had
his wife's coffin carried through the
back window, for fear of scratching
paint Off the front door.
1T is said that Frank Hatton, ed
itor OF the Mt. Pleasant Journal,
will be one of the Representatives
from Henry county, in the next Leg
islature.
An Irishman eating his first
green corn. handed the cob back to
the waiter and asked: "Will yez
plaze put some more banes upon me
stick ?"
| The sorosis of Crawforiville,
Ind, has finally gone the way of all
flesh. 1t dwindled down to the
membership OF one, and that one
went last week and got married.
The biggest cow yarn Is told by an
Indiana paper: IA cow belonging to
a farmer near Elizabeth, ILL.,, recent
ly gave birth to Ave calves, each of
which weighed "a pounds.
--"Tom and jerry" that soothing
drink of the beer saloon, derives its
name from the fact that when man
drinks it awhile he can't tell you
whether his name is Tom or Jerry.
There is man in Ohio fifty-three
years of age, illiterate and nearly
blind, who remembers the occur
rences of every day since January !,
1927, when he was nine years old.
"A Georgia editor who has just
been married, relates in his paper
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performed in an eloquently, impres.
sive and captivating manner, by the
minister"
The grand total indebtedness o.
Kansas City, I'm round numbers, is
nine hundred and eighty thousand
dollars. OF this colossal sum one
hundred and eightysfive thousand
dollars are due and payable this
year.
The Chicago Post says: IA
healthy but hungry wolf was recent
ly shot while prowling around the
Presbyterian church, in Duluth. II
was doing its best to justify Knott's
speech, to whom, we understand, its
tail has been sent to wear In his cap.
For fifty cents we will send you
n correct likeness of yourself. This
is no humbug." A young man in
town seeing that advertisement sent
fifty cents and received small mir.
ror-there he found "a correct Likes
ness Of himself-no humbug."--Er
The Newton merchants are q
shrewd set of fellows. The RepubH-
can says: ut Ia currently reported,
and to some extent believed, that
when merchants get bad debt upon
their books they file bill of il before
the Board as goods furnished to the
poor"
Some Bohemian, writing of Ben.
Wade's profanity, says that he owes
his appointment to the Presidents
confidence that he can take "cur-
sorry" view of the island in shorter
time than any other distinguished
man in the country. ....
The earnings of the Union Pa
cific railroad for the year 1870, were
ST. 26S, ,953'72, and the expenses ST.
67G, 7S0. 20, or 64l per cent. of the re-
ceipts. leaving balance of $2,502, :
O73.96, as the net earnings. This
shows receipts Of $7,O43 per mile,
and net earnings of $2.5l2 per mile.
The census returns of st. Louis
county, just finished at the census
bureau, show total population of
3l0,864, of which 0S, 615 are natives of
the United States, and 49, are
foreign born. OF the latter "a, ,269 are
Prussians. The total German popu.
lation is 60,000. The total colored
22,09S.
| "A brakeman on the Ohio railroad !,
who, while in the discharge OF his
duties on the top of freight car,
was caught under the chin by tele-
graph wire that passed across the
track, and thrown beneath the cars,
sustaining thereby the loss OF leg,
brought suit for damages against the
telegraph company and has recover
ed $4,000.
"A celebrated professor, thinking
to perplex an unfortunate pupil one
day, put to.him the following quos-
ton: pray, cir, can you tell me
how long mani can live without
brains ?" To which the pupil, look
ing up in the face of the interroga-
tor. promptly but unexpectedly re-
piled: How old may you be your
self, professor ~
/ AN Atlanta paper Of late date
says: "a lady of this city tied her
hubby's hands and feet, the other
day, just for fun, and went through
his pockets for certain billet doux,
and found 1t. His physician tells
him that his face won't be badly
SCARED, though he may remain per.
fectly bald"
The cleanest city in the world
is Broch, Holland, where no horse or
carriage has ever been permitted to
enter, and where everything is kept
with most scrupulous neatness. Be-
fore entering many of the houses
you are obliged to remove your shoes.
II is said that even the Emperor of
Russia was obliged to comply with
the custum, on his recent visit to
that place.
/ "A poor fellow. whose name was
George King, lying In prison under
sentence Of death, In King Georges
reign, sent his Majesty the following