Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-08-11
Generalities.
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| "A Maine man took Barnum's
posters for q pictorial representation
OF the New York riots. .E.p 40. .al
| The editor of the Boston Trans
cript complains that this weather
makes him feel 'mucilaginous."
Two Mississippiaus foolishly
tried to persuade mule in the way
he should go. One leaves a large
family. .sr '.a .E'" .
The Paris Communists got so
used to horse-meat during the seige
that they object to the rebuilding of
the Hotel de Veal. "..'-d rt.t.'ns|
The latest venture In New York
journalism is called the Sandy HUI
Sao Min., The editor expects to get.
his board out of it. .s...... .......s.
"A belle at Newport has q ward
robe which fills seven large trunks.
No less than eight lace sacks are in
cluded In the extraordinary list. .a.
| IN. Eldred, manager of the Iowa
Falls cheese factory, manufactured
81 900 pounds of choose last year,
and 5000 this year, from the milk
of 150 Eydora Tribune. ...,...
Young men nowadays have a
shocking regard for the Scriptures
Solomon said, "Go to the ant, thou
sluggards irreverently persist in 60
ing to their uncles! ..H g.,
An Indiana paper refused lately
to publish eulogies gratis, but added,
1--WE will publish the simple an
nouneement of the death Of our
friends with pleasure"
"A cooper of some note said that
he had received the most difficult
order he ever had. A neighbor
brought him bung, hole, and or>
dered a barrel made to fit it.
The pastor Of the Baptist Church
in Cambridge, Mo-, baptized two
young ladies, the other day and then
married one of them right there IN
the church. before she had time to get
dry, +Ht'' ."'.
A remarkable family lives in
Dallas county, Ark. The father is
los years old, the mother LOG, and the
two are the parents of twenty-nine
children fifteen boys and fourteen
girls. ..,,..t-
A Memphis man never would
take a "dare," aud when belle
challenged him to marry her, he
made her his wife inside of twenty
minutes. In twenty days they were
happily divorced. # r" ." '.'
/ "A young lady, recently married
to d farmer, enc day visited the cow
houses, when she thus interrog ated
her milk.maid, "By-the-by, Mary,
which or these cows is 1t that gives
the buttermilk ?" .......
The Lowell Courier says the most
humiliating domestic use q full grown
man can be put to is to be sent to the
bakers for a cents worth of yeast"
Evidently the Courier man knows
how. 1t is himself" ..i. ..-s ...
/ The other day Montreal tailor
sent his bill to a magazine editor
He was startled few hours after
ward by its being returned with the
note appended: Your manuscript
lis respectfully declined" .... rFs
-Leavenworth. Kansas, is said to
boast Of a man who Is so tall that his
likeness cannot be got into one pic
ture. A local artist has painted his
head and shoulders, and announces
that he will be continued next week.
The Chicago Common Council
are going to Salt Lake City, and an
exchange says IL il understood that
their purpose Is to strike decisive
blow at polygamy by distributing
Chicago divorces among the Nor
mons. aa tsaat.T .aa ..a.fst.... ..
"A young lady died In Nashville
recently, leaving pet mocking-bird.
While the bird was singing, few
days before she died, the lady said !:
Hush, birdie, you annoy me."--
From that time the bird has not ut
tered single note. .'.r.. .t..
An old lady who lost her purse a
short time since at New Haven, de-
clared, on its being restored to her,
that she would not attempt to inter-
fere with the reward which was
stored up in heaven for the finder by
offering him money. ,.e a..s....us
--Ex-Senator Richard Yates has
received and accepted an offer of The
American Literary Bureau, Of New
York, for fifty lectures, for $4,000 to
be delivered by him In the principal
cities of the United States, during
fthe next fall and winter. "a t#
Mr.. Sheldon, OF New York, was
Offered by Mr.. King. of Minnesota,
the princely sum of $50, 900 for three
heifers. And on the same day Mr..
Sheldon was offered for five cows, the
choicest of his herd, over sos, 900, or
500, 900 for eight animals. a- a~ aale
-"You have considerable floating
population in this village havn't
you," asked stranger Of one of the
citizens of a village on the Mississippi
well. yes, rather" was the reply,
"about half the year the water is up
TO the second story window" ~
Kansas City, Mo-. has black
smith who has wicked son. The
blacksmith, when spoken to about
the tremendous muscle of his right
arm, points to his boy and says -
"More muscle was developed on this
arm correcting that internal boy then
ever plying the hammer brought
forth.v 81 tfa-.rE e4a- gssf st,i
Abigail and Mary Butler daught-
ers of O thriving Mahaska county
| farmer, drove reaper team for their
father this harvest. and managed his
/ agatherinp inn for him. But farmer