The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-11-13

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"A lady writes that she wants music
with sentimental words that almost D.
lently flow from q depth of concealed sor-
row, revealing sad hearts tenderest emo
lion in tone that would melt an iceberg
and crumble adamant to dust"
1t was saying of Aristotle, that VIZ.
tue is necessary to the young, comfortable
to the aged, serviceable to the poor, orna.
mental to the rich, honorable to the for
to the slave, and elevating
to the noble.
-Hartz has produced q new trick in
New York. He Washes his hands in q
basin of water, throws the contents of
the vessel over the audience, and to the
of the spectators they are
smothered with flowers, instead Of being
deluged with water.
"A muddy stream, flowing into one
clear and sparkling, for time rolls along
by itself. A little further down they
unite, and the whole is impure. So
youth, untouched by sin, may, for time,
keep its purity in foul company; but .
little later, and they mingle.
Grim care, anxiety, moroseness, all
this rust of life, ought to be secured off
by the oil of mirth. 1t is better than
emery. Every man ought to rub himself
with 1t. A man without mirth is like q
wagon without springs, in which every
one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every
pebble over which it runs.
Gail Eamilton knows a woman who
"can speak Greek as naturally as pigs
squeak; to whom Latin is no more diff
cult than to blackbird it's to whistle
who dreams in German and thinks in
French; who yet embroiders her own
capes and gowns, and those of her
friends" A good many other people
would like to know her.
Home is not a name, nor q form, nor
routine. 1t is spirit, presence, a prin-
ciple. Material and method will not, and
cannot, make it. 1t must get its light
and sweetness from those who inhabit il,
from flowers and sunshine, from the SYM
pathetic natures which, in their exercise
of sympathy, can lay aside the tyranny
of the broom and the awful duty of end
less scrubbing.-Dr. Holland.
When q man comes home and tries
to bolt his door with q sweet potato,
pokes the fire with the spout of coffee
pot, attempts to wind up the clock with
his boOt,jack, tries to cut kindling-woo
for the morning with paper. knife, takes
q cold potato in his hand to light him to
bed, and prefers sleeping in his hat and
boots, you may reasonably infer that he
has been making the acquaintance Of
some very friendly people.
Industrial.
"A good article of black tea is grown
successfully at Jacksonville, Florida.
The Danville, ILL.,, stocking factory
makes rs dozen pair of hose weekly.
I'm Arkansas the crops are encourag.
be larger than for years.
The working forces on many of the
Lake Superior mines are being reduced
on account of the prevailing hard times.
The acreage of hemp in Western Ken.
lucky and Missouri was about two-thirds
that of the previous year. Old stock is
getting scarce.
"A Hudson, Michigan, gardener has
this season raised five tons of matured
Hubbard squash on three-fourths of an
acre of ground.
The Directors of the Des Moines and
Minnesota Narrow, Gauge Road have or
dered the immediate purchase of iron and
material for the first ten miles of thai
road.
Ben Randall raised 1900 cabbages or
one-half acre, near Ottumwa, Iowa, which
averaged about ten pounds each, or at the
rate Of 1000 pounds of saur-kraut to the
acre.
"A South Carolina genius has made 9
wooden watch, chain and seal that, fol
delicacy of workmanship, is said to sur:
pass anything of the kind ever made in
this country.
Flint ofthe very finest quality for the
manufacture of glass has been found al
Mohawk Valley, Ohio. Works for the
manufacture of glassware will be erected
Immediately.
The Troy Press says that by the &C.
ton of the iron works in that city in sus-
pending work 5000 men will be thrown
out of employment, who are paid $174, 600
per month.
kansas farmers do not seem to have
lost all faith in the future of
agriculture, since they have sown seven
acres of wheat this year where they had
one sown last year.
On French Prairie, near st. Paul, Ore.
gon, farmer by the name of Smith has
this year raised from eight and one-fourth
acres Of land the enormous amount of $50
bushels of oats. Who can beat it?
Owing to the stagnation in the iron bu-
siness the Fishback Puddle and Rail Mills
in Schuylkill County, Pa, have suspend
ed work for the present, throwing six
hundred hands out of employment.
The buckwheat crop in Eastern Penn
sylvania was never more productive than
that just harvested. It was not injured
by the hot suns of August or the early
frosts of the latter part of September.
Within the last year book.sewing ma
chimes have been successfully introduced
in America, which effect an average saw
ing of one-half the cost of hand.sewing,
and are simple and perfect in their opera
ton.
Suspension of labor and the recalling
of lumber gangs have prevailed through
out the Saginaw region of Michigan, and
those employers who have not suspended
have reduced wages 12H per cent. The
woods are full Of unemployed men.
The Boston Globe predicts that 100000
tons will be added to the tonnage of the
country in wooden vessels, this year, in
addition to heavy increase in iron and
composite vessels. It says that all the
New England ship;yards are crowded
with business. Many large ships are also
building in New England on foreign or
ders for foreign owners.
Habits Of the Oyster.
In q conversation with q prominent
oyster packer, says the Baltimore Ameri.