Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-12-15
GanarnlltiaS.

Generalities.
"A suit is now pending before the
Circuit Court at Onawa involving
sixty-one cents.
Hard wood now sells in Council
Bluffs at sl2 per cord. and just across
the river, In Omaha, ut $l4.
"A fire at Lincoln, ILL.,, last week
destroyed twenty frame dwellings,
used as stores. Loss $4,000.
A young man In Mass, robbed q
bank of $4,000, and after travelling
across the continent was arrested.
"A Vermont man amused con
gregation by exclaiming In his
sermon nap, "Come, come, Susan
don't crowd So" .s.". ..r.
In Marion, q church Is being
built by Independent Methodists,
the finest structure, as is alleged, In
the county Of Linn.
Chicago is lively packing, hav-
Ing "stuok" SO far this season 284,-
$50 hogs against les, ,499 for the same
period last year.
Six million six hundred and
ninety.nine thousand five hundred
dollars are annually expended for
beer In Cincinnati. ...
-Of the Michigan Agricultural
College farm, although 1t contains
over 600 acres, but about $50 acres are
under cultivation.
Russia has only 10000 doctors
which is one to 1882 people. In
some districts there Is no physician
within less than days journey.
There Is great agitation In
Maine on the subject of manu- factur-
ing. Several towns have voted to
exempt new enterprises from taxa.
tion. ...
Joe Jefferson and other eminent
actors advanced the money to Mr..
McVicker, Of Chicago, to rebuild his
theatre. The stars made the raise
for him. ~...- .a
The Meehanicsville Press warns
women of sewing machine agent
who courts young girls, insults wo.
men, and has a wife and family In
Dewitt. "# e.. "' a -.... "a.
The New York Eoeniag Post
comes to the conclusion that ex-
controller Connolly must be too full
for utterance, as he has not been
bailed cut. .r ...
The New York World accounts
for the inequality OF the sexes by
saying that In early life the boy mas.
ters his opportunities, while the girl
commonly misses hers.
Joseph Medlll the new mayor of
Chicago, has withdrawn editorially
from his connection with the Trio.
une, which will continue as long as
he remains Mayor.
"A wood famine is now pinchinp
some people in st. Paul, the unprec-
edented cold snap having found the
dealers short, while the demand is
necessarily large.
-Aman In Leavenworth attempted
to bride woman's tongue by plac-
ing his thumb In her mouth. It was
amputated, and the Commercial re.
ports the attack of the victim as hy-
drophobia.
Comptroller Green Is delayed In
paying off the city employees, by rea.
son of the fact that he finds that men
who do nothing have their names
inserted on the rolls between those
of actual workers. ....
"A young man advertises i'm a
country paper for a place as sales
man, and says he has had great
deal of experience, having been dis
charged from seven different situa-
tions within the year.
"A Down-east paper alluded to an
eminent citizen as a noble old burgh.
er. proudly loving his native State =
which neat little compliment came
from the compositor's hand reading
"a nobby old burglar, prowl;ng
around In his naked state.' w
"A boy stealing chestnuts In a
town not far from New York, was
caught by the irate owner of the
trees. "What is your name, you lit
tie scamp? ?" be asked. "Tweed, ~
blubbered the boy, whereupon the
frightened farmer loosed his hold and
fed. .....
The following Ii the latest sere-
made for young men studying astron-
omy, and making q speciality Of
Venus: ~ "
''Oh, Polly poke yonr night cap out,
And listen TO my sighses, ...
My heart II beats rub-a-dub, s..
And my eyes-oh, how they cryses
Then haste, dear Polly, haste away
Day dawns, and time it dieses: ..a
The stars are going out, my love, -.
And the sun--oh, see ii rises ~
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps tells us