The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-12-04

London.
The Swiss are said to be beating both
the French and English manufacturers In
the silk ribbon trade. ~
1t is proposed to erect at Dover, En-.
gland, sea-wall which, with the works
already constructed, would enclose har-
Dor of refuge $50 acres in extent at low
water.
The manner of advertising for hus-
band In Java is by placing an empty
dower-pot on the portico roof, which is as
much as to say: Young lady here-hus.
band wanted.
Out of sixty-nine samples of milk
examined by DR.. Stevenson, food analyst,
of the st. Pancras district, in London,
during the past three months, only twenty
two were genuine.
The Director of the Imperial Russian
Telegraph has given his consent to the
free transmission, within the boundaries
of the Russian Empire, of messages an
nouncing astronomical discoveries.
I'm these days of retrenchment it is
wonderful to hear of the extravagant dress
Of an African Chief on the Gold Coast.
His wives had annointed him with palm
oil and powdered him with gold dust.
The Roman correspondent of the
Journal de Bruralles states that the italian
Government has purchased from Nine.
Rattazzi the papers left by her late hus-
band, in order to prevent their publica-
ton.
Postal cards are shortly to be issued
conditions. If the contents appear to the
Postoff1ce official to be of an insulting
nature, the card will be sent under cover
to its address.
Some young snobs abroad say one of
the greatest pleasures in life is purchasing
gloves in Paris. There, it will be recol-
lected, the pretty shop women fit the glove
to the hand, while the purchaser, seated
by the counter, rests his elbow on a velvet
cushion.
-Seraphinnis is a Russian monk who
latterly founded society to which women
were admitted ON condition that they
cut off their hair. The beautiful appro-
priateness of this will be perceived when
it is stated that his brother was an enter
prising hair dresser.
"A recent traveller in Japan tells what
he calls "a few wholesome truths" about
that country, and declares that the popu-
lation has been greatly over-estimated,
that it is poverty stricken, and that the
tremendous and ruinOus expenses of the
Government are borne by a treasury
which is rich chiefly in very pretty paper
money.
MIR. Verc oe, an English commercial
traveller, was married to Miss Hawke at
St. Columb, Cornwall, on October ~. The
same afternoon he brought his wife home
to Plymouth. Soon alter reaching his
home he was attacked with an alarming
illness, and in spite Of prompt medical at
tendance he died on the following after:
noon of acute bronchitis.
AT Cairo, Egypt, a model school for
girls has been opened, the first establish
ment Of the kind. Two hundred board.
ers can be accommodated, and one hun
dred additional day-scholars. The course
of study is simple, but includes instruc-
ton in the science of health, and the
school buildings are conspicuous for
cleanliness and freshness of appearance.
Few people have any adequate idea
of the extent to which tie inhabitants OF
Holland have an interest in American
railroads. In proportion to its popula.
ton, not over 100000, that country owns
more railroad stock than any other coun.
try in Europe, amounting to nearly $160,
00O, 900, besides large amounts of United
States bonds, State bonds, and Other
American securities.
Industrial.
AT the Soldiers Home, DAYTON, O.
they have hog which weighs 1,10(
pounds.
The OIL City Derrick states that thu
day production of the Modoc oil distric
is $40 barrels, and ninety-two wells art
being drilled.
Some Cinnamon last winter rented 16(
acres of land short distance from New
Orleans, and now they are gathering 8
splendid rice crop. They used q syphon
to flood their fields, from the river.
The aggregate loss to the South by
the burning Of gin houses every season
must amount to large percentage OF the
value of the entire crop. In Georgia alone
nearly twenty houses with their entire
contents have been destroyed.
The New York World says:-A gen
teman who recently returned from Con
necticut represents the manufacturing dis
tricts of that State as in an unfortunat,
condition. From 5000 to 10000 opera
tives and factory hands have been thrown
out of employment.
= Phosphate of barytha, formed within
the fiber of wood, is good preventive Of
decay. The wood is to be first stepped in
a solution containing seven per cent. o.
the phosphate of soda. When dry it il
again treated with solution containing
thirteen per cent, of chloride of barium
The american Chemist says that wooG
thus prepared resists damp well.
The hard times do not seem to have
affected manufactures in Seymour, Conn.
very disastrously. The United States Pr
Company, Fowler Nail Company, Days
Rubber Works, and the Paper Works ar
all running full time. The Douglas.
Manufacturing Company and the New
Haven Copper Company are running nine
hours with full complement of hands.
AT st. Louis recently was exhibited
some specimens of barrels-for flour
fruit and liquids-that are of novel con
struction. They are double-staved-liter
ally barrel within q barrel; and all tn,
joints being broken renders this new bar
rel perfectly water-tight. This marvel il
cooperage Is manufactured by st. Loui.
institution, too, and the cost is to be M
more than that Of the common barrel.
"A new street pavement has been triet
in San Francisco. 1t is called "hydro
carbolized BRICK" and is made of bricks
of soft, porous nature, which are boileG
in coal tar, which renders them tough and
nearly as hard as granite. A road-bed i,
made by lcveling the sand and packing i
with water. A layer Of prepared brick i.
then laid fatwise, each brick being dipped
in boiling tar as it is put down. This II
overlaid by second course o
prepared brick placed close togeth
er edgewise, each brick dipped
a. before. The interstices are then filled
with boiling tar, and the whole covered
with thin layer of screened gravel. Thu
cost is about thirty-six or thirty-sever
cents per square foot.
Personal and Literary.
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