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

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that the average sale per week, of eyes in.
tended for the human head amounts to
four hundred. One of the leading deal
ers in this article carries on the business
in saloon of great magnifcence. His
servant has but one eye, and this peculi-
arity is turned to good account, for the
effect of any of the eyes wanted by Gus
toners is conveniently tried in the unfor.
tunate servitor's head. The charge is
stated to be about SO per eye. For the
which have been worn for time and ex.
changed for new ones. They are sold at
reduced prices, and quantities are sent off
to India and the Sandwich Islands. The
manufacture has been successfully intro.
troduced into England, and forms one OF
the curiosities of Birmingham industry.
Personal and Literary.
-Lucca is twenty eight years old.
Young Bennett doesn't see the New
York Herald once q month.
Pat Ragland, the Secretary of the
State of Alabama, died recently.
The Emperor of Brazil says he will
attend the Philadelphia Centennial.
Richard Proctor comes to America to
popularize the study of astronomy.
Sir Samuel Baker is seriously ill ut
London with Inflammation of the lungs.
General John Tyler, son of President
Tyler, has Joined Florida Baptist
Church.
Nelson Dingley, Jr., Governor-elect of
Maine, is threatened with congestion of
the lungs.
Rev. DR.. John Lord has been deliver
ing his course of historical lectures in San
Francisco.
Vice President Wilson hasn't been in
better health than now for the past twen-
ty-five years.
"A member of the Oregon Legislature
writes his name "Percival Raynor Siglin
Southwestern
Miss Maggie Anderson, of Salina,
Kansas, aged eight years, can read any
music at sight.
Justin Mccarthy has a boy who is
said to be great American. The "great
American" what?"
Gin, of La Crosse, petitions to have
his name changed, because if he don't his
adored one will sling Gin.
Samuel Calvis, of Dubuque, Iowa, has
been appointed Professor of Natural Sci
ence in the Iowa State University.
The Library Association of South.
Murray's horse book place on its
shelves.
George w. Smith, formerly one of the
Judges Of the Supreme Court of Texas,
was few days ago one of the victims of
yellow fever at Columbus, in that State.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stoves face
seems to Chicago writer like "a glimpse
of the last century," The reporters
"cheek" seems to Mrs Stowe essentially
of the present epoch.
General John Eaton, of the Bureau of
Education in Washington, has been cor
daily received by the Italian Minister of
Instruction, who promised him every
facility for visiting the schools of Italy.
Rev. s. V. Lee, of the Christian
Church, a veteran of seventy-three years
is still vigorously at work in Kentucky,
He has been preaching fifty:three years.
and has added to the Church of Christ,
4,7O7 by baptism, and organized seventy.
five congregations in Kentucky and one
in Missouri.
Some time ago the Amherst students
hOnOred Daniel Pratt, the Great American
Traveller, witb,the title Of G. o. D. That
illustriOus man has now been still further
complimented by the Dartmouth boys,
who last week nominated him for the
honorary degree of 8. T.-1S60-X.
When Gounod, the French composer,
is at work writing music, he keeps a tub
of very cold water under his desk to put
his feet in. After working an hour his
head grows extremely hot, and then he
plunges his feet in the water and obtains
relief It is a dangerous remedy. He
works from twelve to fourteen hours q
day.
An excellent specimen of the crack
jaw tongue is found in the English) Char.
ter-house examinations for 1873, under the
head of botany, where the scholar is told to
explain the following terms: "Malva has
a gamosepalous calyx, polypetalous n.y.
gogynous corrolla, polyandrous monadel-
phous epipetalOus stamens, and q supe-
rior syncarpous pistil."
"A careful census of St. Paul, in order
to discover how many critics there are in
that city capable of deciding what should
and what should not be published in the
newspapers issued there, has resulted in
establishing the fact that all are capabel
of running q newspaper-accordin to
their own opinions. This condition of
things seems to exist everywhere.
Horace F. Clark's estate, at his death,
which took place few months since in
New York, owing to over-work in pursuit
of wealth, was estimated to yield an in
come of thousand dollars day, and
to be worth seven millions. The New
York Times says that now the estate Is
believed to be worth absolutely nothing,
owing to the panic. "Riches take unto, .
etc.
-Washington Irving once, when pick
ing up an apple under q tree in his own
orchard, was accosted by an urchin of the
neighborhood, who, not recognizing him
as the proprietor, offered to show him q
tree where he could get some better ap-
pies than those. "But, said the boy, tive
must take care the old man doesn't see
u.s." II went with him." said Irving, land
we stole dozen of my own apples"
Religious and Educational.
The new Congregational Church has
Just been dedicated at Reno, Nevada.
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ton in this young State.
The Agricultural College at Amherst
proposes to graduate no student who shall
not be qualified to organize, clothe, equip,
drill and command regiment Of in.
fantry.
There are three distinctive Episcopal
Ritualistic Churches in the city Of New
York. The average attendance at St.
Adams is about 100; at 81. Ignatius' and
st. Mary the Virgins, about $50.
During his recent journey through
Wyoming, the late Bishop Randall had q
variety OF experiences. In some places
he baptized Indians, and At other points
narrowly escaped losing his scalp.
The subject Of foreign missions IL
beginning Intensely TO occupy the atten-
ton of the Quakers, and they have recent
" sent . number Of missionaries into the
6eld. Madagascar has been their princi-
pal objective point 90 FIR.
The persecution Of the Catholics has