The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-09-11

Bailey, the Dua6ssry Nous man, b not
going to sacrifice his selfrespect and repu-
tation by lecturing around the country.
-Eighty-eig young ladies' are on the
lists Of the Michigan University st Ann
Arbor. Forty-two of them are for the
literary course, thirty-seven for the medi.
cal, and four in the law school.
Brigham Young is described as cool
and unruffled about his wife's divorce
suit. He will, however, soon get ano-
ther that will suit, and will have an op-
portunity to get ruffled again.
John j. Snider, az ID 1O6 years, who
served in the British army in our own
war Of the revolution, and was subse.
quently under Butcher in the battle of
Waterloo, died recently in the poorhouse
at Statesville, N. G.
Elijah Newton restless in Clermont
county, Ohio, and is 10 years old. 1t is
said that he once refused to exchange
forty yards of Kentucky Jeans for the lot
on which the Cincinnati Post Office now
stands.
| Prof. T. F. Peckham has resigned the
Chair of Natural Sciences in Buchtel
College, Akron, to accept the appoint
ment of Professor of Chemistry in the
University of Minnesota and of Chemist
to the Geological Survey of that State.
| AT the Scientists Convention, in Port
land, paper was read the other day on
"Calvert's Supposed Relic of Man in the
Miocene of the Dardanelles." While it
was being read you could have heard
man drop postage stamp. Most of the
members were asleep.
The Dunkirk IN. W Journal says
that Joseph Warren, of the Buffalo
Courier, was recently challenged to fight
duel by Israel T. Hatch, of Buffalo.
Warren accepted the challenge and chose
broad swords for weapons; distance, thirty
PAGES.
The Paris U'sicers (Ultramontane) an
Qounces with great joy that Mr.. Darwin
was rejected by twenty-six against six
votes as corresponding member of the
French Academy of Science. The six
votes were given him, it says, by the
friends of the Apes"
Foreign Gossip.
| Since 1849 the Pope has received
17O, OOO,O 600 francs in the way of Peters
pence.
| The ordinary cost of procuring pat
ent in England is about seven hundred
dollars.
! The Tribunal of Justice at Seville
has condemned three more petroleum in
cendiaries to death.
| 1t costs an Englishman of sixty-three
years $4,000 to trifie with the affected
affections of maid of fifty-five winters.
| Mr.. James Baird, Scotch iron-mas-
ter, has given $4,000, 900 to the Scotch
Kirk, to be used solely for religious pur-
poses.
| Statistics prepared by the italian
Minister of Commerce show that trade
between Italy and America has greatly
increased since the Franco-German war.
Lady Peterborough is not dead as re-
ported, but is still living in felicity with
her Arab husband.
Few nations, says the London Times,
could have emerged from the ordeal of
public disaster with such unbrokcn cour-
age as the French have done.
| The Duke of Edinburgh is described
by Miss Kate Field in the Tribune as q
bullying London swell, selfish, surly, un-
generous and mean, but with the best of
cooks, the best of wines, and the best of
tailors. His complexion is very red.
! Poor little Denmark has its internal
troubles too. Pho, Brix and Leloff have
each been sentenced to penal servitude
for attempting to create revolution by
organizing the laboring classes in order
to overthrow the existing constitution
The whistle is to be substituted in
the French army for the bugle when the
troops are engaged in skirmishing. Dur
/ t1,ou sc&1o
to act very well in the free companies,
whilst tlfse calls on the bugle revealed too
much to the enemy.
I The Italians are said to exhibit speci-
mems of dead human bodies-preserved
according to the Brunetti method-which
are as hard as stone, retaining the natural
shape perfectly, and being equal to the
best wax models.
The treasures of the Sultan of Tur-
key, ON exhibition in the Weltaussetel-
of dollars. The principal piece is the
throne of Nadir-Shah. 1t is of gilded
wood, covered all over with garlands and
flowers and tracery in pearls, rubies and
emeralds.
The London Spectator thinks that, if
the present majority twill only rule
France for another year, and debate as
they do once week, monarchy will have
become impossible, and the Due de
Broglie will be in London, representing
with great fidelity and dignity-M. Gam
BETA"
The spirit of conquest is once more
aroused in Holland, and the war against
Atcheen is to be resumed with vigor.
General Van Swieten, the Dutch COM
mander, has force of 10000 men in the
East Indies, and drafts are leaving AM
stcrdam every week. Unless the Atcheen
ruler succeeds in obtaining aid from some
powerful quarter, his fate will soon be
that of Khiva.
There is movement on foot in Paris
to do away with the wearing of gloves.
1t is argued that as small hand, like a
small foot, is generally the sign of aristo-
cratic descent, there is no reason why it
should be concealed within a vulgar in
tegument, where the fingers of the Eau
bourg are on equal terms with the horny
ones of Belleville and NOMINATE.
The Shah was astonished when told
that the honor of the Knighthood of the
Garter was expected to cost him E2OO,
and he left England without paying. He
seems to think, as the Emperor Napoleon
declared, that to ask money as part re-
turn for suppositious honor is peculiarly
English and extremely shabby.
During the performance of a woman
gymnast and velocipede rider, on tight
wire, at a theater in Leeds, England, q
man in the gallery was detected in an at.
tempt to unfasten the guy ropes by which
the wire was strained up. The slacken-
ing of the wire would have thrown of
the woman and killed her. The man was
heartily thrashed by about dozen in the
gallery, and then kicked out.
MioNoJlanoOuo.