Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-10-06
Generalities.

tieneralities.
by reason of a convenient hole In
the wall of the Jail, "a Pittshurglar
| named Small Is at large,
---I.iquor II forbidden In Greeley,
Col, but the amount of ''ammonla''
that the druggists sell isenomous.
Gen. Beveridge. Of Chicago, has
been nominated ns the Republican
candidate for Congressman at.large
In Illinois.
--Barnum addressed Rocheste T
lSunday school the other day, and in.
vited the SCHOLARS ts his great
moral circus" }5.si5
A Boston paper says the best way
to improve the lot of woman ia to
put good house on II, and a good
man In the house. Aaa B
"A clergyman was asked whether
the members OF his church were
united. He replied that they were
perfectly united-.trosea together.
Yerger. who murdered Col. Crane
In Mississippi, three years ago, has
transferred his usefulness to Baltl
more, where he intends to start q
Democratic paper.
"A lady In London got the idea
into her head that the devil was In
her, and hung herself. II women go
to hanging themselves for little
thing like that, they're going to bo
scarce, that's oil.
"A love>letter. picked up in
Springfield. Tli., had the following
paragraph: "My best loved one, /
chawed the postage stamp on your
last letter all to thuader, becaused I
knew sou licked It pn..''
A London letter. writer says thai
the Prince of Wales, has not read q
book since he left college, and that he
declares himself unable 10 keep
awake for the .clevcrest novel more
than Ave minutes at time.
--BsInbridge, Ga, with 1900 In.
habltants, will pit itself against any
town of Its ''heft' in the matter OF
raising babies. The records show an
average of five new infants each
week, or more than one for every six
persons each year.
The Rev. Pnmhe Hanaford, OF
New Haven, refused to let Mrs. Isa-
bella Hooker into her church, to
preach woman suffrage. Mrs. Ham
aford does not Fellowship with o wo-
man who halls Victoria Woodruff as
q Queen.
On the outside cover of a Bible
lying on the table &C Hudson river
Steamboat are written the following
lines: As
''Ihis hold book neglected lies,
No soul with II commnner;
While scores OF sonls SIT round abont
With Hsrdids and 7'ribtmes.
some time ago, a fellow in Idaho
married girl OF twelve summers
He was only FIVE feet tall himself and
congratulated himself ON an appro.
pirate match but since then she has
started into an uncommon growth,
already overtops him by n foot, and
Is stlll elongating.
"A Berkshire papa put II thus to
his daughters beau: "Jim! Ii you
want Lu you can have her; but /
don't want you hanging around un.
less you mean business. Tf YOU in.
tend to marry her hurry up, for I
cant be kept awake nights much
longer"
The Cardington, Ohio, Rsp'tbIi-
eau says; al Westfleld, . young
neither gave birth to a male child,
with crossed legs looped over the
bead firmly aud unalterably ems
twined around the neck. Morrow
county is destined 10 compete with
the world for the supremacy In Freaks
Of nature" - . ssH am
Y "A young man who had seen the
fourth OF July was seen by hts moth
er on the fifth, sitting on the wood
In the yard, trying 10 pull off his
boots, His mother held up her
hands In horror at the sight, while
he, endeavoring to stand erect, ex-
claimed, I'm not drunk mother, but
a-sicker chiId you never had.
An Osweso resident found some.
thing offensive in his last dozen CT
eggs, and took the dealer to task. -
What is the matter with them 2"
asked that individual. "They amt
good" was the reply. "well, that
amt to be wondered att was the
apnIogetio rejoinder, "hens are no
drove now they amt expected to be
as particular as usual.''
while Greeley was at Des Moines,
Mr.. J. B. Grinnell picked up the
philosophers old white oyercoat and
said: I'VE are going to stop your
wearing this. We want you to wear
a coat made OF Iowa wool, from the
loom OF our Davenport Shields. -
II guess not said Mr.. Greedy "the
old coat has lasted me twenty years,
and am pretty sure II will last as
long as. or longer than I shall"
Mr.. Morris Phillips writes to the
Home Journal from Paris: Those
who GO TO Paris with the Idea that
they can live cheaply Will be sadly
mistaken. Before the war this may
have been true. But great change
has taken place. To help pay the
Prussisn demand everything has
been taxed. True, . good dinner
table d'hote, 10 served with wine for
Ave francs, and the rate per night for
lodgings ID reasonable, but when the
traveier gets his bill, he 10 amased
with extras and items he nevef