Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-01-13
Gcneralities.

-Plant IL the name OF Washing
ton undertaken.
Gail Hamilton on Long Skirts
Exchange.
If that's the case, she had better
get Off of them.
- An elderly Indiana pair, aged
respectively rs and rs, want divorce
on account OF accumulated incom-
patibility.
Josh Billings says: ~ have al
ways notised when an individual
haint got the ability tew criticize
judiciously, he dams indiskriminats-
ly." .s..
AT recent wedding In certain
town I'm Wisconsin, the organist,
upon the entrance of the bridal party
to the church, played "Put NE In My
Little Bed.n
Somebody has taken tho pains to
announce to the word the important
fact that nearly all the leading edit.
ors of the New York Ciy papers are
bald headed.
Anna Dickinson says she will
give those editors who have been
abusing her "tit for tat" One OF
our editorial friends says, "We'll
trade; here's our tat"
A female suffrage act has bstn
lost In the Dakota legislature by .
vote Of 4 to 2; which is u 4 2-itous
calamity quite unexpected by the
ladies of the territory.
"A gentleman rode up to public
house and asked, "Who is the mas
ter of this house ?' II am, SIR" r0-
piled the landlord; "my wife has
been dead about three wesks.n
If you watch the conversation Of
others and yourself also, you will
find the habit Of in'erjecting tile
words "you know" into nearly every
remark made. IL Ii q foolish prac-
tice, aud ought to be broken up.
School Superintendent Duane
Coty, of Detroit, says that when he
first took charge of the city schools
there were thirfy.two thousand cases
Of tardiness per aGum, while last
year there were but four thousand.
"A farmer In New Hampshire re-
Gently forwarded a letter to a neigh-
boring town, requesting the post.
ter to deliver 1t ITO any respectable
Attorney After ten days II was
returned with the significant en-
dorsement: "None heis.n
The KotAcrs' Friend says:--
"Never reprove child harshly for
chewing, or smoking, or swearing"
No, never reproye harshly. The
only way TO cure him IL to thrash
him within an inch Of his life.
A young man In Bloomfield, who
couldn't waltz, was In attendance at
ball last week. lie told young
woman Of his acqusintance of his
inability, and asked her II 1t would
be all the same to her II he would
hug her without waltzing?
A serious accident happened on tho
grounds of the Union Schoolhouse,
ut Epworth, on Wednesday last
George, the youngest SON of the late
Rev. Mr.. Carson, while riding down
hill on handsled, was thrown vio~
lently against stump, the sled strlk.
his leg, mashing itand splitting the
bone In terrible manner.
--"Widows are estimated by tho
square mile In New Hampshire.--
Twenty To the mile Is thought great
ratio" The Boston Advertiser says
that; but IL seems to be hardly do
ing justice to the widows. 1t has
usually been admitted that miss 10
,,s good as q mile, aud the widows
may well object to be counted TWEEN.
W for one.
"A Georgia editor is In luck.
Twenty-four heathen Chinese walk
ed Into his sanctum the other day,
and, through the medium Of an in
terpreter, paid cash down for twenty
four subscriptions TO his paper. The
editor wondered greatly what they
wanted OF an English paper, not be-
Ing able to read, and was informed
that they took 1t for the pictures"
In it, the paper having catarrh cut.
u guano trademark, aud all umbrella
"picture."
A clergyman who enjoys the sub.
stantial benefits Of fine farm was
slightly taken down, few days ago,
by his plowman, who was sitting ON
Ills plow In corn field, resting his
horse. The reverend gentleman, boz
ing an economist, said, with q great
seriousness. John. wouldn't IL be
a good plan for you to have good
stub scythe here. and be cutting q
few bushes along the fence while tho
horse Is resting n short time "-s
"wouldn't 1t be well SIR" said Jotia,
with quite as serious q counteDance
as the divine wore himeeis. for you
to have tub Of potatoes in the pull
pit, and when they are singing to ha
peeiing 'emawhile TO be ready for the
pot =" The reverend gentleman
laughed heartily aud went sn his
way,