The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-08-14

"A civil service committee in Wash. |
ington asked an applicant for clerk
ship what was the distance of the planet
Saturn from the earth. The candidate
answered that he was unable TO state the
distance in miles, hut did not think 1t sui.
fciently near to interfere with the per-
Torrance Of his duties As clerk, nor to
beget In him desire to NEEDLE with the
rings.
"A farmer in Illinois last fall packed
some apples in plaster, filling up the in
terstices with this material. Opening the
barrel on the 14th of June, he found the
fruit In wonderful state of preservation:
There was not an eighth as many decayed
ones q In barrels put up in the ordinary
way, while the fruit was almost as fresh
as when 1t was gathered.
My experience as medical man."
says . New York physician, ''shows that
bald headed men are seldom or never
drunkards; and that moreover a bald.
headed man is seldom found in a lunatic
asylum" To which an irreverent GUS
toner replies: "Bald-headed men, it may
be explained, seldom drink at their own
expense, and there are public institutions
beside lunatic asylums."
If Mont Blanc were solid lump OF
gold, and if in order to become the owner
OF it we had nothing to do but go over in
Prof Wise's balloon and take possession
| OF 1t, We would thousand times rather
sit down on the shore of Massachusetts
Bay and starve to death. For we should
then have at least the stern satisfaction OF
knowing where we were and what we
were doing.-LoufsuiNe Courier. Journal.
| The rural editor of the st. Louis
Democrat has discovered an insect tina,
will destroy the potato bug. The new
bug bores into the potato and strategically
lays in wait for the other bug. The dis
coverer's attention has been directed tc
this, as the potato still suffers, but he ha:
yet made no response. He is supposed tc
be chasing after another bug that will de
stroy the bug that destroys the potato
bug.
The Baptists have a National Educa
tional Commission, charged with the du.
ties of supervising and encouraging the
work of education, within the bounds Of
the denomination, throughout the whole
country. OF this organization, the Rev
able Secretary. Under his editorial di
rection publication has been commenced
under the name ofthe Centennial, designed
| " AOO0 w Ill oil CllOIt W TdlSc, UCtWCcl
this time and the national anniversary O
1876, as large sums as possible in the vari
Gus sections of the country for endowinl
institutions of learning.
DIR. T. s. Bell, of Louisville, KY, ha'
given to the public, through the Courier
Journal, several instructive articles on tn,
origin, nature and distribution of the chol
era, in which particular attention is callet
to the fact that the disease generally al
lacks persons in the nighttime or early il
the morning. He regards cholera as ma
larial in its origin. In the Courier-J on,
nal of recent date he says: "But tn
main force of my statement is untouched
1t is an important one. I repeat it. n
case of cholera has ever yet occurred, eS
cept as the result of sleeping at nigh
where the cause is, and no amount of ca
posure in the daytime, without the slee1
at night in the locality, ever gave the dis
ease. No mere sojourner during the pas
800 years has ever slept at MI ht in tn
malarious season, in the Pontine marshe
(near Rome) without dying. The Abruzz
mountaineers, who put in such crops a
are raised there, sleep in daytime, bu
never at night. All testimony that ha
spoken on this point in reference to yellow
fever testities that no amount of cxposur
in day time Is perilous, but that the onl,
danger is in sleeping in the locality a
night"