Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-12-08
Generalities.

Generalities.
Horace Greeley Is talking abou
erecting q new Tribune office at
cost Of $500, 900.
/ Thieves who chloroform passen,
gers are prevalent on trains between
Washington and New York,
A Missouri musician sat dow,
upon ksg of powder and began II
smoke. They found one button.
Clara Louisa Kellogg has closet
a contract to sing twenty nights In
San Francisco for $40, 900 in gold.
"A brilliant young married lad,
wants to know il it is bigamy for
wife to become married to his wife,
opinions.
| - An affectionste but impulsiv,
couple in Mexico, Missouri, hav,
been married three times and twic,
divorced.
The Delhi Recorder records tn,
marriage Of couple near Earlville--
doth mutes. No trouble about tn,
last word.
The cost of taking and printing
the notes Of evidence in the Itch
borne case, now on trial In London
is SIS, 900 per week.
An Ohio man offered the govern
ment $50, 900 for tho privilege of ad
vertising on the backs of the postag,
stamps for one year. ......
An exchange remarks: "celd
nights have put stop to gate spark,
ing. If she dosn't ask you to com,
in now, you had better quit.
A $l.25 suit between two DIR,
goods dealers In Norwich has beer
appealed to the Superior Court
Principle Is said to be at stake.
A man in Oneida county, N. Y.
has invented a brick machine, by
which four men and boy can make
sixteen thousand brick per day.
"A grief-stricken Connecticut wild.
ow telegraphed to the friends of hel
late husband: Dear John is dead.
Loss fully covered by insurance"
"A New York young man gets one
hundred dollars from his father every
time he breaks off an Objectionable
engagement. He is doing a thriving
business.
-Tilton says Victorial Woodruff Il
ia green leaf, and her legion of rel
tions are caterpillars who devour
her." The: caterpillars should be
encouraged.
The Chicago Post laments tha,
the bullet of young Treat did no,
stop at the body of poor Grosvenor,
but that, sad to say, Il killed first
class Governor at the same time.
- One of our exchanges predicts
that the action of the State Suffrage
Convention. in voting down the
resolution denouncing free love,
will put suffrage back five years I'm
Iowa.
The Stockton (Col.) mdepend.
e'at of November %, says there Is on
exhibition. in the showcase al
Barnes store, corn stalk bearing
thirty.one ears Of pop corn. 1t was
raised on the farm of G.. r.. Mont.
gomery, near Mokelumne river.
After the great fire In London In
1866, Parliament enacted that every
house should be built with party
walls, and all In front raised of equal
height, and those walls should be of
stone or brick, and no man should
delay building beyond seven years.
The Connersville Ind.) Times
tells Of an old rail-splitter In that
county who put quietus upon a
young man who chaaFed him about
bis bald head, In these words -
"Young man, when my head gets as
soft as yours, / can raise hair to sell. !"
There is q young lady living near
Albion, Mich, whose grandmother's
grandmother is still living-a hale
active old lady-and the young lady
herself IS old enough to be married
and have children, In which case
there would be six generations In one
family. ...
There Is pathetic illustration OF
the constancy of love, in one Of our
Western States, In the shape of an
aged couple who have been engaged
to bs married thirty years. and dur.
ing that time had never been out OF
jail together long enough to have the
ceremony sslomnized.
An Indiana Clergyman has
within six months, been made q wid-
over once, engaged three times, re-
married twice, divorced once, sued
for breech of promise once, suspend
from the ministry once, and has
changed his religious denomination
once and a half, being nothing par
ticular at present.
One Of the New York boys
bound ont to farmer rsar Charles
City, made his appearance on the
street the other day on his way back
to Gotham. He said shed be cuss-
ed 1t he was gwine to get up at S
o'clock In the mornin', am husk
corn all day, for nobody" He was
''gwins back to New York, surs's q
gum"
- Miss Sarah Hughes was found
dead In her bed, at Hamilton, Ohio,
Wednesday morning. She had re-
tired the night before with hand
kerchief saturated with chIoroform
laid upon her face for an aching tooth,
and, falling asleep, inhaled the an@s-
thetic to such an extent to cause her
death. Several years ago Miss
Hughes won quite reputs tion with
her pen.