Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-11-03
NUMBER 81.


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"A movement 10 on foot In the
city Of New York, TO erect q statute
OF . bust Of Horace Greeley In Gen.
trai Psrk.
"A prominent Fort Wagner has
sustained windfall of $500, 900. He
thinks 1t 10 just as well 10 be borE
lscky ~ rich.
| "A sc. Louis Widow has received
5000 damages because her husband
was thrown from hack ana killed.
She counts u a lucky wind~fall.
| THE whole edition Of the l.st
volume on Iowa Supreme Court re-
ports, was burned In the Chicago
fire. Mr.. stiles loses from $2,ooo to
$500.
The Rev. DR.. Todd 10 writing
against the co-esiuca.io OF the sexes.
and some Of his friends have pre.
sentsd him with alot In the Pittsiield
cemetery.
The losses Of Hon. w. b. Ogden
By the Ares In Chicago, Wisconsin
and Michigan .pineries are estimated
" ee bstwcsu sfbur and ave MILLIONS
OF dollars.
An antonishing phenomenon has
taken place at Apopka, Orange
county. Fidrida. The whole county
disappeared In one night, and Its
site is covered by . great lake.
"A corner lot on Randolph and
Dearborn streets, Chicago, worth be-
fore the fire 100000, sold last week
for $50, 900, or 81 900 per front foot
the first real estate Transaction.
An attempt 10 burn the city OF
San Francisco was happily frustrated
on Friday night. The incendlaries
only succeeded In firing block of
frame houses at Eve different polnta.
The Orphans' Home OF Glen>
wood, Iows, has been damaged by
fire to the extent Of $500. The Su-
perintendent, Mr.. Stevens, was also
seriously burned, In his efforts to save
the building.
1T 10 cheerful to be sitting i'm
railroad car going at the rate Of forty
miles an hour, and have man pass
through the train and leave tract
In your lap entitled. "Prepare to
Meet Your God.n
WIN. M. Evarts, In speech made
at q Republican ratification, In New
York, last night, said that if the
evils Of the city government could
not be rcmedied by the ballot, they
must be by bayonet.
An attempt has recently been
made to burn the city OF Rockford,
ILL.,, by incendiaries, who were dis
covered and fed before they succeed
ed In their hellish work. Three or
four buildings were burned.
THE San Francisco Alta Culifor.
MIA says that the crime OF jerking
the hair out Of your wife's head IL
not 30 sinful ~ IL formerly was. IL
is just ss uugentlemanly as ever,
but 1t doesn't hunt as IL used TO.
"A Hartford editor having twitted
an editor In . neighboring city OF
being bald, subsequently recognized
and explained that, as long as he can
fold his ears over the top Of his head.
he doesn't need any hair anyhow.
"A cynical writer says that II "a
woman knew how much she lost by
forever smiling Ina mans face, she
would quit IL altogether More men
are won by little pretense of quiet
sadness, than by the sunniest smiles
that ever were seen.
Among the pleasant bits OF gos.
sip afloat is the fact that at the recent
Cleveland County Fair, Tennessee,
Mrs. D. I. Patterson, daughter OF ex-
President johnson, formerly first
lady at the White House, took the
first premium for the best butter.
"A Texas paper relates that the
Mayor Of GroesLeck, q town In that
State, was fined $50 the other day,
for carrying concealed weapons, and
adds 10 the information statement
that the Mayor of Calvert, another
lively town, 10 becoming .'sway-
backed" from Juggling about - big
six-shooter.n
-"Grace Green wood, y who is writ
Ing letters from the very far West to
the New York Times, happened to
meet Mr.. and Mn. 8. 8. Cox. She
says that everybody out there seems
10 like everybody, and Mr.. Cox saysit
reminds him of q friendly inn-ksep-
or ut Alcsntara, who, on learning he
was from New Ynek. said, with gen.
sr0us efyusion, "Ah. Senior, feel SC
quaintsd with you'll I have friend
in Brazil"
Potter Palmer is pushing the
work on his hotel, and expects to bs
getting ~. 900 In rents from tenants
Of the frst fioer by January next
Mr.. Palmer has commenced prepar-
ing 70 lay the foundation for . ave
story u1arbls front ON State street,
opposits his hotel. and for the sreo-
tion on Monroe. between Wabash
avenue and State street. Of . magnif.
icent building, to be occupied by
Allen 4 Macksy.
--Dr. McCosh, now Prssldent or
Princeton College, tsils the story Of
. negro who prayed earnestly that
he and his coiors brethren might be
preserved from what he called their
"upssttin' sins. J"
'*Bruddsa,n 2 said one Of his friends
q tAs clos o. the msetins, "you
ain't got de hang Of dat Or word
It's 'bsssttin', not 'upsettin'.'"
"Bruddsr," replied the other, .'if
dat's -, It's 70. Bue Twas praying
do Lord % savs n from do sin OF in-
t0xlcation, and III dat ain't upsettin'
sin, dunno what am,n
Mistake.
Some OF the editors of newspapsn
| IN distant paris Of tie "a try stsri-
hntm f1m pGs>aA ss~~S~xa - 49, at----.