The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-07-10

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m ~ imprisonment In Belfast, Ireland,
1or seoiuous language In the street. and
s sae TOT attempting to rescue her, has
Ar Engiishman has offered to sub.
s g NIFTY or one hundred pounds toward
sae completion Of telescope that shall
pc powerful enough to discover human
oeings.if existing-in any Of the spheres.
according to the good old Jewish
custom, on the late Passover, Baron de
Eothschild, of Paris, opened his doors to
al corners, and the table was served for
tne mendicant as well 40 for the man Of
wealth.
-Hymen Is enjoying a vacation In
Nova Scotia. All marriage licenses in
that province must receive the Signature
Of the Governor before the ceremony can
be legally performed; and as Governor
Howe Is dead, and his successor, Judge
Johnston, is still in Europe, the lovers Of
Nova Scotia must wait for his return.
The finest looking class of men in
Vienna, says letter from there, are the
Hungarians. There are a great many
Hungarian regiments here, and the men
average fully five inches more in height
than the Austrians. The Hungarian Off.
GERS are proud of their personal appear
ance, and walk the streets, or stroll
through the gardens with the air of those
who know that they are the objects of
personal admiration. Their uniforms are
also gay and attractive.
Every Good Friday, in one of the old
est churches in London, a sermon is
preached, after which twenty lone sixpenny
coins (121s cents) are gravely laid down
upon grave-stone by the preacher, and
twenty-one rheumatic old women pick up
each one, one of these coins. ANY old
woman who is too stiff to stoop forfeits
her privilege. The custom originated
many years ago through bequest of an
old lady who left sum of money to be
expended in this manner at her grave.
stone.
Ninety thousand factories of various
kinds in Russia employ abont a million
of operatives. The mortality among this
class is enormous, the average dura
tion of life being only twenty years
while fifty-seven per cent. of the chill
dren die before they are five years Of
age. The Russian government is now
attempting to improve the condition oil
these wretched work.people by attend
ing to the sanitary arrangements of the
factories, regulating hours of labor, and
prohibiting the employment of very young
children.
Correspondence from Jerusalem states
that the geological plate just completed
by the Oriental Typographical Corps
now engaged in making SURVEYS and
sketches of Bible Lands, shows that thu
exposed and skull-shaped line of the up
per strata of the hill outside of Damascu!
gate, and near the. north wall of Jerusa
lem, is strongly suggestive of Golgotha
the place of Skulls. This supports thu
theory of this hill being Calvary. The
Oriental Typographical Corps have ar
ranged, by means of telegraph from Japps
to Jerusalem, for the accurate barometrie
notification OF attitudes on the coast be
tween the Mediterranean and the Dead
Sea.
A novel kind of "bath" is described
in foreign paper, which is said to be re
freshing, but which seems to us rather g
grace proceeding. The patient is intro
.duced into warm room, in which is 9
curtained bath, filled with sand heated tc
about 100 or 120 degrees. A Longitudinal
groove is scooped to receive the patient
who is wrapped in sheet to protect him
from contact with the sand, and there is 8
comfortable pillow for the head. Thu
operator then covers the body and limb:
with warm sand, adjusting the tempera
ture with the greatest nicely. The feeling
of warmth is very agreeable, and tn
weight of the sand is just enough to caus,
pleasant sense of compression and sup
port After an hours delightful repos,
the patient rises, receives a sluicing o
hot water, and goes away refreshed. TIL,
effect is very different from that of no
water, and still more unlike that of no
air or steam.
Industrial.
Nickel ore is found in Madison. Iror
and Wayne Counties, Missouri, although
no workable veins have yet been devcl
oped.
The Wine Growers and Wine anC
Brandy Manufacturers Association Of
California offer upward of 5000 in pre-
miums this year.
I'm several localities in Missouri, as
we'll as in Arkansas, there is considerable
excitement over discoveries of mineral
thought to be silver ore.
There are one hundred and thirty.foul
paper mills in Massachusetts,, and several
others are in process of erection. Last
year GO, 900 tons of paper were made. The
value was $16,542, 425.
The female operatives in the Worces.
ter (Mass) envelope mandatory have
struck for a one-thousandth of cent more
pay on each envelope, and the proprietors
declare that such an exorbitant increase
would ruin their business.
"A mammoth tin ledge has been dis.
covered in California. It is near Los An.
geles, is one mile long and sixty feet wide
This enormous deposit finishes off Corn.
wall, region of England that has long
prospered on its tin mines.
Christian love and charity have pene.
tratcd the Lowell mills, where some Of the
young female operatives, out of their slen.
der earnings, have provided q home fol
worthy girls out of work, where also the
children of mothers engaged in the mills
are cared for during the hours of labor
1T must be gratifying to Americans to
learn that after many tests our domestic
iron has proved itself to be superior to
foreign material for shipbuilding and gen
eral uses; also that our skilled mechanics
are equal to any in the world, and it has
become fixed fact that better and in
every respect more satisfactory vessels
can be made at home than abroad.
There Is many city and town thai
will appreciate the following: One manu-
factory employing a hundred men will
support an additional 500 people. Three
hundred families will disburse annually
on the average, $500, or $75, 900 in the az
gregate. This money will be drawn into
the town from the outside, where the
manufactured goods are consumed, and
the interest of this So, 900 at ten per cent
would be S., 500. These hundred families
too, would require hundred houses
thousands of pounds Of agricultural pro
duce, and thousands of yards of cotton
and wooden goods, thus giving health and
impetus to every branch of industry.
Religious and Educational.
Lafayette College, at Easton, Pa.
prints the programme of its commence
ment exercises upon postal cards for trans
mission through the mails.