The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-10-23

The debt of New York City and
County, which are practically the same,
is 1885,, 206, 961.55, on which $6,354 OO9.17
is payable in interest.
st. Charles, Mimi, has produced q
two-legged cat, which is healthy and
| active. 1t has no bones back of the ribs
except the spinal process.
"A citron vine in Brook Ign, Mich, has
| alength of ITO feet in the main stem
| and branches, and has borne fifty three
citrons, weighing 354 pounds.
"A postal card, with dollar bill sewed
| on the back side, was received recently at
the Portland, Me-, Post-office. It had
been safely transmitted from Kittery, in
that State.
-" Mother, you mustn't whip me for
running away from school any more. {"
"Why not?" "'Cos my school-book says
that ants are the most industrious beings
in the world; and amt a truant?"
"A pensioner of the war of 1912, who
has since received an annual government
allowance Of $24O, and has never spent q
cent of it, is now said to be the richest
man in Rockingham, Co., New Hamp-
shire.
1t is estimated that the surplus wheat
crop of Minnesota for 1873, in its trans
portation to market at Chicago, Milwau-
kee, and Duluth, will fill 100, 600 cars, con-
| shutting more than six thousand five hun
dred trains of fifteen cars each.
Old Lady-When does the next train
stop here?" Porter (explaining)-
IN, you see the next train as stops ERE
don't go no farther, and the next train is q
through express The old lady is much
better. for the explanation.
The power of love receives a fresh
and striking illustration in the case of the
Milwaukee girl who knocked her lover
heels over head down fight of stairs be-
cause he wanted to stop kissing long
enough to get good long breath.
"A novel application of ice was made
at St. Louis the other day. when forty five
| tons were used to cool and thus contract
the iron tubes of the mammoth suspension
bridge across the Mississippi, to allow the
insertion of the connecting tubes.
About 1000 acres are cleared of tim
Der each week day in this country. Of
the annual crop So, 100000 worth goes to
fuel and twice as much to fencing. The
locomotives in this country consume no
less than 100000 cords, or 500 acres q
year.
The Indians of the Umatilla Agency,
Washington Territory, have horse which
they offer to run against any horse in the
world in six-mile race for from 81 600
to half of what the tribe is worth. 1t is
said that they would put up $4,000 in
money and property to back their favorite.
1t is a remarkable fact that the use of
instrumental music has only lately OBJ
tanned footing among the Presbyterians
of Scotland. 1t is, however, confined still
to the Established Church. In the Free
Church of Scotland and the Irish Presby-
| terrain Church the organo controversy is
not yet settled.
Scene in a Jacksonville, Fla, court
The Court called: "Mr. Sheriff, light the
gas!' Deputy Murray replied: I'VE have
no metre" The Court: "Why no me.
tre?" The deputy: "The Gas Company
will not trust the county," The court
adjourned.
During the month of September the
cash sales at the Traverse City, Mich,
land Office amounted to $31 ,631.55, cover
ing 16,7351S acres, being the largest cash
sales ever made in one month at this
Office. There was Al homestead entries,
covering 4,299Z acres; 46 final proofs,
covering 5,O6s115 acres.
| "A Brooklyn, N. Y, man has invented
a life preserver, which consists simply of
two sleeves of India rubber, to be drawn
on over the arms and then inflated by
blowing in them. In this position they
will sustain the body in any position the
wearer may choose to assume on the sur.
face of the water. They can be fastened
on the arms and adjusted in fifteen min.
utes.
You want nothing but dish kettle, "
said an old housewife in the back-woods
to her daughter, who had just got mar.
ried. "Why, when your father and I
kettle. 1 used to boil my coffee in it, and
pour it into pitcher; then boiled nv
potatoes in it and set them on a warm
plate, while stewed up the meat in it;
used to milk in it-and always, after a
meal. I fed the pigs out Of the dish.
kettle"
There is no moral difference between
"white" and "black" lies. We think a
great lie great sin, and great shame to
a man; but, after all, little lies are much
more dangerous, because there are Sc
many of them, and because each one Of
them is diamond pointed. And these
little, petty untruths, which are so small
that we do not notice them, and so numer.
GUS that we cannot estimate them, are the
ones that take off the very enamel of the
moral sense-cut away its entire surface
-Ani!ine is one of the products oil
coal tar. This is the great source of the
new colors of every shade, SURPRISING in
number and beauty the hues of the rain
bow. Lately new color superior to the
aniline has been obtained from anthacene
another of the coal tar products. 1t with.
stands the action of the light better than
aniline blue, and the strongest acid only
heightens its tone. Unfortunately, how.
ever, it is very expensive. A pound OF
the powder would at present cost about
three thousand dollars. A cheap meth cd
of making it is now a desideratum.
"A negro man of Monroe Co., Mo-, by
the name of Smith, certainly is one of the
most remarkable of all the living curiosi-
ties we have ever met with. His entire
body is covered with white spots, from
the size of pin.head up; his arms from
the wrist to the shoulder are of alabaster
whiteness, as also are his legs from his
ankles to above the knees, while his en-
tire breast and neck, and portion of his
back, is as white as any white mans.
His face, however, is of ebony blackness.
This phenomenon was born and raised in
Monroe County, and during his child.
hood he was unhealthy until arriving at
the age of fourteen, when the strange
Transformation now taking place on his
body first made its appearance. He says
that small white spots are continually ap-
pearing on different portions of his body,
which gradually spread in size. With
his shirt removed he looks as spotted as a
leopard, and was most curious sight to
witness. He is now thirty-five years old,
and if this change continues he will in
time come forth white man, so far as
color is concerned.
Religious and Educational.
| College classes were never 80 full as
they are this year.
The Maryland Bible Society will fur
| nish the cars of the Baltimore & Ohio