Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-11-17

The Marinette ard Peshtigo |
Eagle says shanties are springing up
on the site of Peshtigo, In various di.
rections. Real estate Ia changing
hands, and incipient life begins To |
show itself In various quarters.
"A Boston woman who has been
reading In the papers that Sunday
marriages are illegal, writes to the
papers to know how IL Is with ha-
by born on Sunday? If so, which
Is to be punished, the father, mother,
or baby?
The Nashua Post says; "An un,
sophisticated Norwegian in north
ern Iowa put pound of powder in
his coat-tail pocket, and after taking
a hearty smoke put his pipe IN his
pocket on top of the powder" It.
did not kill him but his pants had
to be mended.
The Hubbard house erected at
Sioux City, Iowa, at cos of $50, 900
was formerly opened to the public
last week. 1t is beyond doubt the
finest hotel In The city. Invitations
to the grand opening have been ex-
tended to the State officials and other
prominent citizens.
"A Clergyman met bewiIdered
young man out IN Chicago avenue
while the flames were licking up the
North Side, who asked In bewilder-
meut: Where am I?' On being in
formed, he said: "Well. I've been
married three weeks; l don't know
where my wife is-butlif she Is burned
1t is the Lords will, let her go !" and
off he started.
Very intellectual women are sci.
dom beautiful. The formation of
their features, and particularly the
forehead, Is more or less masculine.
Miss Landon was rather pretty and
feminine In the face, but Miss Sedg~
wick, Miss Pardoe, Miss Leslie and
the celebrated Anna Maria and Jane
Porter had forehead as high as that
of an intellectual man.
An Illinois woman made fair
agreement with her husband TO com
init suicide II he would, so they held
their heads under water until the
husband was dead, when the woman
emerged sound as dollar, paid the
funeral expenses, and married again
i'm two weeks. How that poor
drowned man must feel now about
the Inconsistency of the fair SEX
Twas ever thus.
"A letter to the st. Louis Demo.
crat, from Knob Noster, Mo-, men
tions a singular physical phenome.
non occurring there. IL says con-
tinual rain has descended for two
weeks from cloudless sky, aud con.
fined to space Of only twenty feet
in diameter. The phenomenon has
been observed by many persons, and
the writer asks for scientific expla>
nation.
A yoang man in McDonough
county, who had been discarded by
his girl on account of drunkenness,
sent her lot Of candy which had
been soaked, as In supposed from the
effects, in croton oil. The young
lady shared the candy with nuns
ber of friends, and oil of them were
made quite sick by the dose. The
young man could not be found when
he was wanted" for this trick.
The Norwich Bulletin says: IA
well-known Justice of the Peace
subscribed five dollars to the relief
fund yesterday, and, returning to his
office Immediately, received the
amount for marrying a couple. Thus
is virtue rewarded. Another man
was requested to contribute, but de-
clined, and within two hours heard
that his mother-in-law had come to
stay month with him. Can anyone
hesitate which course to pursueP"
"A preacher, whose custom it was
to indulge in very long sermons, ex-
changed with one who preached
short ones. At about the usual time
for dismi-sing, the audience began
to go out, until nearly all had left,
when the sexton, who had stood IL as
long as he could, walked up the
pulpit stairs, and said to the preach.
er In whisper /: "When you have
got through, lock up, will you, and
leave the key at my house near the
church." a.I
Although Anna Dickinson has
travelled over the length and
the breadth of the land alone, she
was never insulted but once. While
travelling West she was asleep in a
car at night, when man pressed
her foot with his; she awakened
instantly, turned around and look
ed him squarsly i'm the eye said,
"Do that again and will call the
conductor aud have you put Off the
train" The contemplate piece OF
mortality skunk off into another
car.