Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-05-12
NUMBER 7.
Gencralitles.

er weddings, movable feasts In honor
of the first Kill,
I The New York Democrat nr-
cuses Greeley of advancing ideas"
QUITO gooseberry bushes.
"A Connecticut schoul boy has
written Il composition on the horse,
in which he says IL IL an animal hay
ing four legs--one on each corner.
! "A Milwaukee maglstra'e sports
! ten inch nose. He Is easy on minor
Offenders because he nose how 1t is
! himself. .... .........
"A tornado swept over Baton
Rouge and vicinity recently, causing
great destruction of property. Losses
will probably reach sl00, 900.
The Union of West Union, says
there IL n board in their cemetery
hearing the inscription: "Hcr sole
lles here" She probably pcgged out.
Exchange.
--Thirteeu mail bags full of books
and parcels left Washington for Ken
lucky. directed to ex-senator Me-
Creery-.froe If postage tho other
day.
Mrs. Rev Dr. Newman isac,lve-
~ engaged in ohtaininE n chime Of
bells for the Metropolitan NJ. II.
Church, Washington. She has al
ready secured $4,000.
The Chicago Past says the story
that Brigham was dead, was started
Ivy twenty five or thirty men who
wanted 10 marry the Widow Young.
"A Judge la Texas told murder
er the other day: "You have been
convicted OF killing your wifs
with au axe, aud you ought to
have been ashamed Of yourself"
A DuhUquer wrote 10 Henry
Ward Beecher, aud, among other
things, desired his opinion as to the
greatest naturalist we have any rec
ord of. Mr.. Beecher replied that he
alwas considered Father Noah was
entitled to that position.
A Western editor, In announc-
ing the demise of his paper, says:
"The brilIianCy of our career has
only been equnled by its brevity, aud
the lack Of business management,
has only been excelled by the lack
OF business itself.n
Henry Ward Beeeher had poor
opinion of innate benevolence when
he said, In recent sermon, that
most men. If they had hundred
magnolias blooming In their gardens
wsuld pray for the wind TO blow so
that the perfume would he waited
straight into their own housea.
"A Fermonter has had 50 dama-
ges awarded him for beihg butted
over fence by his neighbor's bull.
! The smallness of the sum Is due To-
the plaintiffs avowal that he was try.
ing TO get over the fence az quickly
as possible, 80 that the bull only
helped him in carrying out an intcn-
tiCn of'hls own free will.
"A member Of the Legislature, not
Iowa, from n remote anu isolated
district sat listening toappropriations
for repairing breaches In the canal.
finally sprung up and said. See
here, Mr.. Speaker, who Is this fellow
Canal, who wears out so many bree'
ches? I've counted ten of Them al
ready, and Que pair lasts me year"
"A Kansas City editor who em-
ploys Chinese laundryman, is In IL
panlc. lie says: "They sent houe
with our washing yesterday, IA thing
that branches off In two ways lit
tie below the top like railway juLe-
ton, and has puckered frills edged
with "tettlng" ON each end of the
divida. We don't know what ii IL,
and we're poor, friendless man,
with only our virtue, and none but
Williams would seek to injure that"
In New Hampshire town, In
which the respective political par
; ties were going To have ball aud
festival, to glorify over the Connect
lcut election, To be conducted 10y the
party that won the day, the question
was so knotty after the election, that
J ID could not lie decided which party
should engineer the nffdr, and alter
waiting considerable time, and fear
! ing the ball season would be over,
the citizens clubbcd their furds, and
danced In behalf OF general princi-
pies. ..' ...-
"A good old lady down In Maine
hesitated, the other day, to attend
tire funeral Of All old friend, because
size doubted the propriety Of listen
ing to preacher, who, she had
heard, was not quite orthodox In his
views. However she conquered her
scruples aud went. As II happened,
another minister, also personally un-
known To her, but quite sound In his
views, ofiiclated, and when at the
close of the services, friend asked
her haw she liked the minister, she
replied, "What tie said was well
enough--but saw the devil IN his
eyew
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