The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-07-31

followed by one for the President of the
United States, custom which serves to
form an additional bond between the rep
resentatives of the two nations.
IN. Buffet, the President of the French
Assembly, is 90 short-sighted that, in one
ofthe last sittings of that body, he seized
decanter instead of his bell, and threw
the whole of its contents upon the heads
OF the House Secretaries, seated just be-
fore and below the Presidential chair. A
general laugh ensued, and for q short
while good humor prevailed throughout
the Assembly.
The city of London for more than thirty
years has had its public baths, where
only one penny is charged. These swim
ming baths are built in the most densely
occupied portions of the city, and are
from 200 to 800 feet in length, from forty
to sixty feet in width, and the depth varies
from four to ten feet. Thousands of men
and boys avail themselves of these neces-
sary institutions.
The Shah Of Persia has a live fowl
killed in his bedroom every morning, be-
cause he is not allowed to sleep in any
room where animal blood has not been
shed. He wanted to have sheep thus
slain in his apartments while at Berlin, as
a sacrifice, but was induced to let the
operation be performed in the kitchen
The magnificent apartments provided for
him at Berlin will have to be completely
RENTED, owing to the oriental practices
INDUCED in by him.
Personal and Literary.
I'm sixteen years of practical Joking
Sothern has made $765, 900.
Miss Edmonia Lewis has completed a
bust of Horace Greeley which has been
much admired.
-Islay Walden, a colored student of
Howard University, Washington, and re-
siding at New Brunswick, proposes to is
sue volume of poems.
1T is rumored that Miss Nellie Grant,
daughter of the President, is at work on
summer book to be called "Sketches
from Life at Long Branch"
Mr.. J. w. Forney has accepted the in
vitation of the State Agricultural Society
of Texas to deliver their annual address
at Marshall, in that State, on the Both of
September.
-Recently Governor Sockalexis, of the
Penobscot (Me) tribe of Indians, was SOL
EMMY united in the bonds of matrimony
with Miss MOddin, an Indian maiden Of
great beauty, daughter of DIR. Sockalexis
Glossian.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, in a little
speech made the other day at Boston
school festival, advised the young people
to read SCOTS novels, Miss Edgeworth's
stories, Plutarch and the Life of Sir Philip
Sidney.
Amanda Smith, the wonderful colored
exhorter from Philadelphia, who is now
preaching at the Round Lake camp-meet-
ing, is described as a tall, ble-looking
colored woman, with white, superb teeth,
and great, clear black eyes-a figure that
arrests one without knowing who she is,
in that strangest costume for her race. the
Quaker bonnet and dress.
Kate Field, being what the world
would call an old maid, has had her ideas
OF matrlmony. Of course she knows all
about it, just as Miss Abigail Dodge, and
Miss Helen Hunt, and Miss Catharine
Beecher know exactly how children
should he brought up, since they never
had one and never expect to.-Wonan's
Journal.
1t is reported that several wealthy ad
mirers of Horace Greeley contemplate
contributing money enough to insure the
building of splendid monument to the
deceased Journalist. They have been in
duced to this by learning that the general
subscription fund to that end has beer
very slow in accommodating, and that thu
amount so raised is not likely to be suffi
cient.
The wealth of Aston is now computed
at two hundred millions. The property
of old John Jacob Astor, the father Of
William b. Astor, was left by him in trus,
for the benefit of his heirs. After the ex
piration of the trusteeship, which will &C.
cur at the end of the third generation
that is, after the grandchildren have pass.
ed await will then be divided among
all the descendants of the old man, the
law not allowing trusteeship of that
kind to extend for longer period of
time