The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-11-06
"A mournfni story il told nv a Maine

"A mournfui story is told by Maine
editor -" The winds of Autumn will soon
whistle shrilly; the goose flies southwark;
the air speaks of snow and ice; everything
betokens that in q few weeks more the
Fall season will have ended, and circuses
and snake shows Will be no more!''
M. Bechamp states In the Medtcal Ga
setts of B Bordeaux, that he believes alcohol
is physiological product of the liver. In
the course of his experiments he obtained
sufficient alcohol from the excreta of q
person whose diet was free from alcohol
to Determine 1t by the alcoholmeter.
"A little boy about ten years of age ar
rived In Stockton, CAL, the other day from
New York, having travelled the entire dis
lance without the aid of money. When
asked if he had any father he replied he
had, but added "The old man and I
couldn'! agree, and concluded to dissolve
partnership, and thought I'd come to
California and 60 it alone"
"A Detroit business man found coun-
terfeit fifty cent scrip among his currency
the other day, ana he put it In his vest
and that afternoon gave it to a little girl
begging on the streets When he came
back from tea he found the same piece OF
scrip in the drawer again, and questioning
his clerk he learned that little girl had
brought it in, bought stick Of gum and
gone away with forty.nihe CENTS good
money.
OF surface waters Professor Newberry
observes: There is much apprehension in
the public mind in regard to the purity OF
the water of streams which drain the sur.
face of our own and other countries
Water is in itself disinfectant, and large
volume of water, when exposed to the air
SO rapidly "fnes' itself by the oxidation
of its organic impurities, that when cool
ed and settled, or filtered to remove it
suspended ingredients, the water of mos
OF our streams is even more palatable and
wholesome than that taken from wells.
"A London writer thus records his i'm
pressions of the ways of living in America
He says we are the largest meat eaters ir
the world; that our meat, if baked, is in
variably burnt, and if boiled is always re
duced to rags. That to have pork in per
lection one must 90 to that paradise o
pigs-Cincinnati. Tomatoes are eaten a
every meal with almost everything, ant
that our fruits must be enjoyed to be ap
preciated. "Why," he sums up, 1.-THE,
actually feed the pigs on peaches anee
strawberries, they arc so plentiful. Jus
think of that"
During the examination of witnesses
in the recent liquor prosecutions at Mont
pelier, before the grand jury, Colone
Boutwell,, the former well-known landlord
of the Pavilion Hotel, was called to til,
stand and Intercepted as follows: I'D,
you know Of any liquor being sold il
Montpelier, of your own personal know
ledger" YES" bluff,y responded tn
Colonel, IT have sold liquor to eight o
that jury that sit before you'll" The pros
ecution considered him "too-willin|
Witness" and told him he could go, al
though he was ready to answer further o.
the subject.
| An instance as singular, perhap
more singular, than Irving's renowne,
creation of Rip Van Wrinkle, was devel
oped in this city recently. A gentleman
who was born and reared iii this place
removed hence to New York at the termi
nation of the late war, where he RENAME,
until last week, when he returned to visi
the home of his childhood. At every col
ner familiar scenes and faces greeted him
and everything seemed to him as of yort
But over himself the brief period of hi
absence had wrought a change so pre-
found and radical that his nearest reis
tions did not recognize him. In vain h
recited instances fresh in the memory c
every one, and of the accuracy of whic
no doubt could exists, yet relations, forme
playmates, and even comparatively recer
companions, could not reproduce in thei
minds the slightest impress of his men
DRY. The poor fellow wandered aroun
in condition as forlorn as another Ri
Van Wrinkle, to which character he ha
an indubitable claim, in view of his p
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