The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-01

delphia, and, after practicing her profes-
sion four years in SPRINGFIELD. Maeg.
went to Cohsantinopls three years AGO.
Bonner l. worth more than 81 .oO0. 00o
and he has expended more than half that
sum in advertising. He has paid $1,000
for q single advertisement and $4,000
for weeks advertising. He set the fash
ion of using printers ink munificently,
and verify has he had his reward.
Daniel Drew commenced the ladder
by driving cattle at seventy-five cents a
day. Horace B. Claflin, worth twelve
millions, began the world on mere energy.
Vanderbilt began life by carrying garden
stuff to market. A. T. Stewart began life
by prowling around auction rooms for
bargains. Very few of New York's mil
lionaires inherited their cash.
Miss Una Hawthorne, daughter of the
novelist, was very happily named. She is
living in London, and having become in.
terested In the poor orphans Of that me.
tropolis, has opened home for their re.
ception. She Is assisted by her friend,
Miss Hale, q kindred spirit, and has met
with generous aid in England. She now
appeals for help from her American
friends, and doubtless will receive a liber.
al response. Subscriptions may be sent to
Barring Brothers. ''--
Religious and Educational.
| -Athol, Mass, has girl who has moi
been absent or tardy from school for nine
consecutive years. .,s, Fa.
| There is a revival among the Quaker<
in Maine, accompanied with several limo
vations, among them the singing of hymns
| Robert L. Groendyke, of Washington
! County, Iowa, aged nine, has passed an
examination that would entitle him to 9
teachers certificate of second grade if hi
wanted to take it out.
Mrs. w. B. Keeling, of Wenona, Mar
shall County, ILL.,, a minister's wife, is thu
woman who is to have the honor of goine
down to pOsterity as the first incumbent Of
a school Office in Illinois under the new
law. She has just been chosen one of the
school directors for the district in which
she resides.
| The Methodist bishops have beer
holding conferences in the Atlantic States
during the winter; and the whole bench
will hold the Western conferences during
the summer and autumn. Though the las
| General Conference passed law requiring
bishops to reside in different parts of thu
country, their rule is restricted to no local
ity. These facts are given on authority o.
the Examiner.
The school-board of San Francisco
has passed rule "discouraging" but MOI
prohibiting corporal punishment. Mex
to giving teacher the widest discretion
in the matter of preserving wholesome
discipline and holding him to rigid &C
cOuntabilitv for iniustice Or cruelty thu
Louisville regulation, introduced by DR.
effect that parents shall decide at the be
ginning of the term between whipping
and expulsion for certain offences.
Little Charley Warner, Chicago boy
is evidently plucky fellow and bound t.
succeed. One day recently, while engag
ed in play, he fell from fence, fracturin{
the bone of his left forearm. He endured
the operation of setting and splinterin.
the broken bone without groan, but no
SO the surgeons injunction to keep quie
for few days." as the next day there wa
to be an examination at his school, and h
knew that if he should be absent he woult
lose his opportunity of passing to highe
grade. The next day came, and Charlie,
unObserved got out of bed and quietll
proceeded to the schoolhouse, when b.
sustained himself with heroic fortitud
until after the examination was ovel
which having successfully passed, h
tainted away, unable longer to endure til
pain of the broken arm. 1t was then tina
the nature and extent of his injury wa
first learned, and the plucky little fello,
was carried to his home and tenderl
cared for.