Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-08-25
Generalities.

In Indiana, a girl OF eleven pre-.
cociousIy seeks divorce.
Jim Fisk has scrap book con,
tanning seventeen thousand personal
notices.
"A Burlington young lady says
the armless woman OF Barnum's
show writes very good foot
Robert Kensey. of Pittsburgh,
complained that his wife broke bot
tie of sarsaparilla, over his head the
other night. He thinks her blood is
bad.
"A western paper tells of man
who earned barrel of -four by car
lying IL a mile on his back, taking
only one rest of ten minutes on the
way" ~ 4
A private In the army recently
sent letter to his sweetheart, clos.
ing with, MAY Heaven cherish and
keep you from ysurs truly John
Smith,"
"A woman in Taina county, lying
sick with fever, thought cucumbers
would cure her. She was highly es.
teemed, snd her funeral was largely
attended.
MIR. G. w. Keith yesterday
showed us q spear OF grass from the
bottoms of the Arkansas river, sent
him by his brother, which measures
t,ceaty.seuen feet I'm length. We
pass. - Manchester Union.
The Charles City mte,igencey
says "that within five miles of VIM.
B. Howlnnd's residence, In Cedar
tow nship, there are fourteen school
houses-and not a drunkard in the
neighborhood.
A bare>headed, bare>footed little
boy astonished worshipping con-
gregation In Massachusetts, town, on q
recent Sunday, by rushing into
church aud exclaiming: where's
my papa? The pigs are out.
--Horatlo Ward, a rich American.
died In London lately, bequeathed
several hundred thousand dollars to
the various soldiers orphans homes
in the United States, and a quarter
Of million of the money has ar.
rived.
An undertaken, who was brsikly
finishing up coffiu, being ask ed
who 1t was for, replied. Il can't tell
which, but two women have started
out on talkirg match next door,
and It'll be sure to end in the death
OF one Of 'em.'
A poultry fancier In 'FItusville
has an old hen that raises chick ems
on the Chicago plan. She never sets
but waits until some other fowl
comes off with a fine brood of chick
ems, then whips the mother out and
brings up the little ones herself.
Add one to the list of Iowa Office.
holding women. The Republicans
of Wapello county, I'm Convention nj
Ottumwa, last Saturday, nominated
Mrs. Martha A. Peck as their candi-
date for Superintendent. She had
five voting competitors, including
one preacher and one doctor, but ON
the third ballot she laid them all Ia
the shade, and took the nomination
State Register.
The Baptists are proposing To
raise 100000, without interfeiing al
oil with their ordinary collections for
missions, to found a higher school OF
college at Rangoon, for the education
OF youth Of both sexes. This Is de,
signed especially for the Kerens O
Bnrmah, among whom the Baptist,
have labored so successfully during
the last forty years, and indicates de.
cided advance.
"A New Jersey editor has annonuc.
ed the death of his uncle I'm Austria.
liza, leaving him gold mine and
$4oO, ZOO. His village contemporary
processes TO regard the matter as .
plan cunningly devised to obtain
credit for a box of paper collars and
straw hat. The editors columns o.
the next Issue Of the legatee's weekly
will 1t Is expected. contain some Wig,
orous Greeleyisms.
"A Kansas editor, who has enlarg
ed his paper, salutes his readers with
this observation Having now In
bored at our post for the full numbe
Of years that Jacob served for Leai
and for Rachel, shall we not begin b
gather In the fat cattle, ringed
streaked and speckled I? the ring
figuratively represented by 10. 10(
and 100 the streaks Of green..specklet
with the signature of Treasure
| Spinner.