Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-09-22

days ago.
"A doghter OF Mr.. MsaQn, In Bu-
chanan county, was drowned In a
swill barrel last week. ...f t.
"A woman who marries a man
simply because he IL a good match.
must not be surprised II he turns out
u Lucifer.
A Titusville genius has just In
vented q machine called the Great
American Rotary Hydraulic Hen
Regulator" So I'D
"A country girl applied.a quack
lotion to her face to remove freckles.
A new skin IL forming, but 1t isn't
very smooth. a4Ho #r sod /.
The winter wheat In the vicinity
Of Manitowie, Wis, Is reported ~
very fine. Spring wheat, on the
contrary. is very poor crop. aa
An Indiana girl undertook to
break colt the other day. AZ last
accounts her head was two sizes too
large for her bonnet. and she has or
dered set of false teeth. 3E..g
"A lady In Mobile Is now confined
to her bed from the effects of poison,
msnifesting itself In sores about the
mouth, caused by biting green sew
ing silk, while working with it.g.
A Boston lady declares that she
Is guilty of a downright falsehood q
dozen times day by saying to peo.
pie she meets. II am glad to see you"
and cannot free herself from the
habit Of 40 lying. slifa g5s a3 mal
Z AT Elmwood, H., recently, q
threshing machine, while In opera
tiou, caught fire from the machinery
and burned up. communicating with
aud destroying two stacks Of grain.
The entire loss was about 81 900. at 5a
stAbisa N& #.HE ia h.HEa.F#s| IL
1t Is said that potato bug. hav-
ing gone through the State of Rhode
Island, was last seen mounted on a
wind mill by the seaside, wiping his
eyes on the sails and weeping be-
cause there were no more worlds to
conquer. ia E.....f.- s.5,
% The Sheriff of New York, the
prying open of Tammany-i -iniquities
shows. Is luxuriating on an income
of near hundred thousand dollars
per annum. Is 1t any wonder Che
snaky thieves sqnirm; and pay the
smart lawyers big sums to help them
squirm :? '...,# @a tttae f
The New York turtles refuse to
believe the report that Goldsmith
Maid" trotted a mile In 2:l7 on the
Milwaukee course recently. This In
hest trotting time ever made. II IL
has been made, and the New York.
ers want her to go and do It there, II
she can. guE atug aE'a #@ a..
~ The three fond periods OF life are
the first consciousness of love re-
turned, the summer last before mar
riage, when all the course Ii smooth,
and next, the early months of the
first baby, when the man feels a lit
tie queer and the woman Is perfectly
self. Possessed again. rarrr .#. sr.#
The Revolution says women can
not secure their political rights as
citizens by taking advantage of q
mere technicslity. 1t would be an
nnspeakable misfortune to the sex
were she to rush into the arena thro'
some unguarded loop.hole In the law
before she Is properly prepared,
--Napoleon's pensioners have re-
ceived terrific blow. The French
Assembly has brought In bin abol-
lshing the late imperial pension list,
and suppressing NIL further pay ments
from the Treasury under this head
excepting In cases of extreme power.
ty, or where the grant has been made
for distinguished services. .
The Janesville, Wis.,, Gasette re-
ports that a boy was play ing circus
In that city, one day last week, when
he turned his head 30 far backw ward
that IL refused to return TO It's natural
position. The uncomfortable condi.
tion was somewhat improved by the
united efforts Of two surgeons. The
boy now delights in straps and ban
dages to hold his head In place.
AT . meeting Of . Ladies' Soci-
ety. held recently In Baraboo, Wis,
there we're present seventeen babies,
and towards the close of the even
ing's entertainment some fool Of
man set all the women by the ears
by offering premium to the hand-
soonest child. After lively fist fight
OF ten minutes duration the society
dispersed, never to meet again In this
world. I'd etat % adu sas HaaI
"A heroic women In Mrs. William
Bartlett, who lives near Pilot Grove,
In Lee county. A few days ago . lit
tie son Of hers fell head foremost In.
to well. The well contained sever
al feet Of water. A younger brother
gave the alarm, and his mother ran
to the well clsmbered down its wall.
seized the drowning boy when he
came to the surface, put him on her
shoulder, and. unaided, climbed out
OF the well.
"A man by the name Of McCor~
mick was found dead. on the 14th
inst. In the corner Of corn6eld, .
few rods frsm the depot. at Waterloo.
He was employed In the State Re-
porter book bindery. st that place.
but he had been on big spree for
the last three or four weeks. An In,
quest was held and verdict returned
Of death from excessive drinking.--
He was about twenty-five years Of
age, and unmarried.
The Denison ReviesO says that
the Western lows Baptist Associa-
tion hes passed . resolution favorable
TO the erection Of an Academy some
where on the Western Slope at no
very distant day. No particulsr