The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-08-07
Tho Consorvafo;re of Music in Paris

The Conservative of Music in Paris
has expelled four pupils who did not reg
ularly attend the classes. This is the first
time that such thing has happened, and
1t has caused the greatest excitement
among the other pupils.
Agricultural laborers are so scarce in
some parts of France that the Minister OF
War has decided that for the approaching
harvest all the soldiers who can be spared
from their regiments shall be placed at
the disposal of the agriculturists.
"A gentleman writing from Venice,
says that if the earth-waves in the recent |
earthquake, in Northern Italy, had fol- |
lowed each other with more rapidity, the |
whole of the Venitian States would have |
been mass of ruins, and the loss of life |
prodigious.
"A writer in the Temps, discussing the |
origin of the word Shah, says: "a last |
remark which dedicate to chess players.
Do they know the origin of the word
'checkmate% 1t is a literal translation of
the Arabic Es-cheikh tnaat-the sheikh
(king) is dying"
Russia beats us in old men. One has
Just passed away at Nivji-Novgorod at the
age of 127, having been born in 1746. He
served as cook to Catharine II, and was in
the ranks of the Russian army all through
the campaign from 1895 to 1914. His
oldest son is 96.
I'm England, recently, trial was made
of what is claimed to be an unsuitable
boat. 1t is made of boiler plate, shaped
somewhat like flask, air being supplied
through tubes The boat upon which the
trial was made is capable of holding six
teen people, and is fitted up with lockers,
seats, and table. The experimental trial
Is said to have been successful.
Personal and Literary.
The Danbury Neus mans wit is said
to have secured for his paper weekly
sale of 10000 copies.
Report will have it that Henry Clews,
the banker, is to marry Miss Worthington,
niece of Secretary Belknap.
Colonel Greene, of the Boston Post,
is the rumored candidate of the Demo
Gratis for Governor of Massachusetts.
| The success of the balloon expert.
ment, now on the carpet, will prove
whether or not it is Wise to cross the
Atlantic.
| George Francis Train, after frequent
voluntary Judgment in Jail, is at length
an unwilling prisoner to chills and fever
in Hamburg.
Among those entering the freshman
class of the University of Vermont this
year, is Miss Lottie E., daughter of L. l.
Durant, of Montpelier.
MIR. Timothy Tilden, of Norwich, vt.
aged 50, has attended Al consecutive com
mencements of Dartmouth College, anC
still preserves his mental powers.
| Robert A. T. s. Lowell, brother O
the poet, has turned novelist. He ha!
long been an academy teacher, though
writing an occasional attractive story.
Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad" wa!
offered to half a dozen publishers withou
takers; but on being published by sub
scription 10000 copies were sold withou
any difficulty.
John Stuart Mills autobiography
which he left unpublished, is said to be
very short work-not comprising NOR,
than his essay ION Liberty" 1t is to b.
published at once.
Another dramatic Rip Van Wrinkle
has, appeared in the person Of Nh
Joseph H. Keane, who is now playin!
|
adelphia theaters.
Miss Theresa Scanlan, an elderly
lady who lives near Bradley's Station
Pa, has never let the fire in her humbl
cottage go out but once inside the las
twenty-seven years.
: 1t is positively announced that Ann
Dickinson will take the stage next fal
She is now under the tuition of Miss Far
ny Morant. 1t is limited that her first al
pearance will he in Boston.
/ The London lady to whom Joaqui
, Miller is to marry is Miss Hardy, the no,
/ elist, and daughter of Sir Thomas
Hardy, long employed in the office of til
Master of the Rolls, and himself learne
, historiographer.
1t is remarked that the late Jesse
Grant was the only man who ever live
to see his son President of the Unite
States. This is not correct. John Quinc
Adams was inaugurated March 4, 1872;
His father, John Adams, died July 1
1926.
MIR. jenkins, the famous author G
"Ginx's Baby" is London barrister an
the son of a popular Montreal preacher
who was for several years settled in Phi
adelphia, where his son, now so wei
known, studied law and imbibcd liber.
ideas of government.
-"Among the lower rank of authors,
says the Saturday Rerie,c, 1.-the defin
! ton of literary man is man who make
!, livelihood by some kind of written con
, position" What might be its definitio
in the higher ranks? They, all of then
, make money by their profession.
I
New York paper, denies the imputatio
+ of being the author of that melanchol
| mush," known as the Beautiful Snow.
, thence Of dramatic writer, and hurls tn
imputation back at the head of the col
respondent who first gave it currency.
Il Industrial.
, 1t is said that we consume about ont
!, fourth of all the silk goods manufacture
in Europe.
"A Georgia poultryman has raised an
sold $1,000 chickens within cightee
months.
Large tracts Of barren land, in Mas
sachusetts, are being covered with pin
forests by simply sowing the seed of til
; tree.
The surveys of the Nashville an
Chicago Railways have been complete
from the Kentucky State line to Mash
vile.
. The american Manufacturer state
: that an Indiana man has invented Goa
cutting machine that is said to mine a to-
of coal in five minutes.
"A Michigan company has turned GU
for Maine mandatory a grind ston
} seven feet two inches in diameter an,
weighing $500 pounds.