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

Prentice Milford thus writes of his
experience at the Vienna Exposition :
"Of course I got lost. I couldn't find the
'Ausgang.' This, in German, means the
git out place. l must have walked seven
miles in that maze of building before the
:Ausgang' presented itself. knew that
it would come sooner or later. I knew
that if I simply stood still 'Ausgang'
would come round where I stood. I
think about five hundred other people
were similarly lost for they kept coming
up to me and inquiring in all sorts Of
languages where the .Ausgang' was. I
said to them, I am simply fellow-worm
of the dust like yourselves. Yesterday,
or the day before yesterday, or last week,
or maybe last year, I managed with a
great deal of difficulty to get In here, and
I've been wandering around ever since
trying to get out Some said 'Yaw,' and
some said 'So.'"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-09-11
That Plaguy Hen.

Mr.. CoBLEIGH, of Nelson street, bought
three hens, Saturday night, and put them
under box until he could build coop.
Sunday morning he saw one of them in
the street, and bestowing a brief curse on
the somebody who had overturned the
box, and jeopardized his property, he
started out after it, to drive it back into
the yard. 1t took fifteen minutes to con-
vince him that that hen could not be
driven into that yard, and then he attempt.
ed to catch it Three times he rose up
with his hands full of feathers, and his
chin full of sand, but still that hen eluded
him. Once he got it cornered, and thought
sure he had it, but it flew straight up over
his head, and tapped its wings in his
face, and filled his eyes with dust. o,
how mad Mr.. Cobleigh was! 1t was Sum-
day morning. The bells were ringing,
people we're starting to church, and there
he was in the street, with no coat or hat
on, and with nothing but slippers on his
feet, and every once in a while one of
them would come off and fly through the
air, and his naked foot would come in
contact with the cruel gravel before he
could stop himself Then he would have
to hop back on one foot after that slipper,
while the hen stood on the walk and elo-
Cutcu, duu tuc l1tIlc Ouutldy SCllUOl CulA-
dren stopped and laughed, and their
parents reproved them and laughed,
too. Finally the hen got away from
him and started down street at a
wonderful speed for hen, and he started
after her, his face redder than ever, and
every time he cleared a rod, he would stop
and hop back two after one of those slip
pers. When he reached the corner of Es-
sex-street, he jumped out of both slippers
at once, but instead of stopping to 60 back,
he picked up stick of wood, and kept
on. Then as the hen lodged into gate
way he hurled the stick, and broke the leg
of a strange dog, which added its piercing
"ki-yi," to the entertainment. But Cob
leigh didn't stop. He tore into the yard
after his property, in his bare feet, and
chased the hen into wood-pil and caught
it, just as the owner of the premises came
out and wanted to know what Cobleigh
was going to do with his hen, and what
he meant, anyway, by getting drunk and
kicking up such a hullabaloO in peace
full neighborhood. Cobleigh first thought
he would knock the man down with an
axe, and what he could not eat of him
bury under a barn, but the new conner
succeeded in proving to Cobleigh that the
hen was his, and then the miserable man
burst into tears and limped back home,
where he found the three hens under the
box.-Danbury Neacs
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-09-11
Success OF Americans at Vienna.

The goods on exhibition in the Ameri-
can department continue to command as
much, if not more, attention than those of
any other country in the Exposition.
They have the merit of their being all
novelties, and the only articles of their
kind to be found in the Exposition. There
are no fancy goods, and not much of the
ornamental, but they partake rather of the
necessary and the useful. The apprecia-
ton Of visitors is shown by the fact that,
comparatively small as the display is,
in the departments of any other country.
It is, in fact, the only department in the
main building where visitors closely ex-
anime everything, for the reason that they
are mostly articles never before seen in
Europe, and have been brought here for the
reason that they are new. The halls of
the American division are poorly deco
rated, the display of flags being small, and
most of theuf of a very inferior quality,
while every other country is brilliant
with silk flags, arranged in the most
artistic manner. The exhibitors COM
plain also that they receive no attention
from our Minister or the Commissioners,
most of whom have long since left
Vienna, and are spending the
summer in Switzerland. They say
that the Emperor has been more attentive
to them than any one else.
The American division Of the machine
ry department continued to attract great
attention, and nearly every piece of
machinery has upon it a card with the
word ''so1d" printed in large letters. This
of itself is a mark of appreciation that is
unmistakable. So, also, in the American
Agricultural Building, nearly all the
as we'll as many of the drills, horse-rakes
and plows. Indeed, it is evident that
there will he very little of what has been
brought here from the United States to be
taken back again, and, when at Trieste
last week, our Consul told us that one of
the vessels that brought the goods over
was about to be sent home. The Ameri
can machinery for the manufacture of
shoes, of which there is good display,
attracts great attention. 1t was in motion
to-day, and so great was the throng of
spectators that we could not get within
ten feet of the rail that surrounds it. 1t is
also marked "sold," and many orders
have been received for similar machines.
In photography, the American display
not only exceeds that of every other coun-
try in the way of execution, but the ladies
whose likenesses are presented are regard
ed as wonderful specimens of female
beauty. Many of them are Of lifesize,
and are represented in rich and tasteful
attire.-C0r. Baltimore american.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-09-11
A Stupendous Scheme.

A GENTLEMAN whose enthusiasm for
the American centennial is evidently
boundless has written to high govern
ment official to suggest that at precisely
twelve O'Clock, M, Washington time, Of
the Fourth Of July, 1876, all the guns,
bells, steam-whistles, trumpets, drums,
organs and other musical instruments in
the country, with the millions of human
voices, "burst forth into sounds ofj0y and
praise" He would have an electric signal
from the nations capital flashed through
all the telegraph wires in the country to
every city, town and hamlet, and by the
cable to Europe, Asia and Affica- and,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-09-11
General News Summary.
Washington News.


The Secretary Of the Senate at Washington
has received letter dated August 10, from
Senator Morton, instructing him to return to
the United States Treasury the Senator's in
creased compensation known as shack pay"
The Treasury Department In Washington
recently received from the Syndicate in Lon
don a, OOO, 600 in five-twenty bonds and can
celed coupons.
A townsman and personal friend Of the
vice-Prcsident, who was lately in Washington,
Gays that Mr.. Wilson fully expects to be pres
ent at the opening of the session in December,
and to attend to his duties as President of the
Senate.
A Washington special of the 29th says the
Postofice Department was extremely dissatis-
fled with the postal cards issued by the con.
tractors. They are not equal to the contract
requirements, either as regards paper or print
ing, and the contractors had been notified
that, unless they Immediately conform to their
agreement, the contract would be annulled.
The Secretary of the Treasury has directed
the Assistant Treasurer at New York that dur
ing the month Of September he may sell 81
$4,000 of gold on each Thursday, and buy
$500, 200 in bonds on the third Wednesday.
A Washington dispatch of the 3lst says that,
with one exception, such of the members OF
the House Of Representatives whose terms
commenced on the 4th of March last had
drawn their monthly pay, taking the full rate
under the new compensation law. The one
excepted had drawn at the old rate.
The public debt statement for September is
as follows:
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-09-11
Personal and Literary.

Personal and Literary.
Henry Watterson will return to this
country in September.
Rev. J. N. Lee has resigned the Presi.
dency of Bethany College, at Topeka,
Kan.
1T is said that United Senator John p.
Jones, of Nevada, has an income from his
mining property of $500 900 u year.
Miss White Cloud, daughter of the
Indian chief, has confided her hopes of
earthly bliss to a native of Ireland named
Pat Mcclure.
Deacon Davis, of Springfield, ILL.,, has
been brought before his church for hab.
itual profanity in making use of the ex.
preston "by gum"
The Atlantic Monthly talks about PEG.
pie being "scienced" out of their relig-
ious faith. Perhaps they might be
"ignoranced" back again.
William Cullen Bryant, it is said.
contemplates q voyage around the world,
either during the coming autumn or next
spring.
] American newspapers and magazines
published in German have been definitely
forbidden by the German government to
be sold in that country. @
-Nilsson's real name was Tornernjeim,
but she couldn't risk the ruination Of her
voice every time she had to tell who she
was.
Frederick Douglass will deliver the
address at the dedication of the Soldiers
Monument, at Lynn, Massachusetts,, in
September.
Emma Black, of Mississippi, since
she lowed drowning man ashore by
means of her abundant hair, acknowl-
edges herself tow-head.
"A Miss Wheeler, of Milwaukee, has
published book entitled "Poems on the
HalfShell." The title would indicate
that the contents are of rather b-oyster-
GUS nature.
Joseph P. Police, poor machinist of
Atlanta, Ga, by the death of q bachelor in
Charleston, s. C., fell heir to $52, 900 worth
Of property and 81 600 in gold.
Miss Eliza s. Buchanan, who has
been nominated for Superintendent Of
Schools in Jefferson County, Iowa, has
much weight with the public. The scales
balance only at three hundred pounds,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-09-11
Balance Of interest paid by United

states. AVOSs)sct4
1t is asserted at the War Department that
the President has expressed his determination
not to revoke his approval of the death war
rants of the Modocs on any consideration.
A Washington special of the LIST says that
it had been discovered that the late Confeder-
ate General Mosby, whose success in securing
offices for his friends in the South had been
noted, had been engaged in the office-broker-
age business,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-09-11

An apple tree in Blackstone, Mass, at
tracts much local attention from the fact
that two good-sized apples, touching each
other, have grown directly nom the
trunk. few feet above the ground, and
20 close to the bark that 1t Ia dimcult tn
distinguish any stem.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-09-11

1T is said that glycerine mixed with
the water in steam-engine boilers pre-
vents the deposition Of lime-salts, and
consequently protects the boiler from in
crustation. About one pound of glyce-
rine to every three hundred or four hun
dred pounds of coal burned is sufficient
for this purpose,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-09-11

The worst kind of robbers-India
robbers.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-09-11
The South.

The Supreme Court of Georgia has recent.
ly decided that the law forbidding the validity
Of judgments for notes whose consideration
was slaves, is unconstitutional, and that, un.
less bound by the statute of limitation, such
judgments can be made operative. The Cour,
was divided, Judge Mccoy dissenting.
The Mississippi Republican State Conven.
ton has nominated Senator Adelbert Ames fol
Governor.
News was brought to Waco, Texas, on the
2Sth, by the stage driver, that large body Of
Indians had surprised and captured Fort Sill,
in the Indian Territory, massacring the women
and children, and nearly half Of the Fourth
United States Cavalry. The report was dis
credited in Washington.
Judge Elisha Mears, of the Thirteenth Ar
kansas Judicial Circuit who resides at Carks-
vile, johnson County, while recently going to
his home, about three-fourths Of mile from
town, was shot and MORALLY wounded by
some unknown person.
The official report Of the Wawasset investi.
cation was made public on the LIST. The con-
clusion is reached that the officers were guilty
of gross negligence and misconduct; the
license of the engineer to be revoked, and suits
against the owners recommended.
The cholera is raging violently in Millers-
burgh, KY, thirty deaths having occurred
within the forty Eight hours preceding Sep
tember LIST The disease is prevalent Also ID
Paris md Stanford, KY, and Wheeling, West
Virginia.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-09-11

The Mennonites of the north 81.
Europe have taken q fancy to this ceun-
Try, and in the spring will be Russian
over here In great numbers.
Mrs. Darlington says she hears that
Wise, the balloonist, is any airy naught,
and she supposes he must be, for the
papers are blowing about him.
The age of trees is computed in exo-
genous plants by the number of circles of
wood in the trunk when cut across.
The American department of the vi
emma Exhibition seems to have been
chiefly celebrated for its bargains.
"A Massachusetts barber uses razor
said to be over a hundred years old, show
ing that it has reached a good old edge.
"A correspondent of the New York
Maj says that kissing lady with an
Elizabethan ruff on is about as much fun
as embracing a circular saw in full mo-
tion."
An exchange says that "woman is
like tar; only melt her, and she will take
any form you please" She is not unfre-
quently Tartar, also; only get her, and
you will take any form she pleases.
An agreeable little parasite has been
discovered in the beef and mutton, and is
said to be more dangerous than the famed
trschina spiralis.
For more than hundred years coffee
has been denounced by medical writers as
poison. Yet the consumption of the arti-
Gle has constantly increased.
The temperance people will be re-
loiced at the report from the seat of the
Dutch-Atchenecse war. that the Sultan of
Atcheen refused to treat.
An eminent journalist defines editori.
ais to be ''shavings from the well-worn
mind, to be blown for one brief minute
before the wind Of public opinion, and
then forgotten for all eternity"
No wonder that probabilities" mis-.
takes occasionally, since he has such a
large territory to look over. and must
make his predictions daily, weather OF
no."
| 1t is true, as a recent writer has said
that we get as we give. 1t is the law OF
life. As we dispense we receive, both in
quantity and kind. Shutting ourselves
within ourselves, we find all else shut out
Opening our life to other life, we find that
other opening to us.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-09-11
Miscellaneous.

1A1SC0XkUUCVuSe
Game fruit-the checkerberry.
"A good summer resort-Home.
AN imaginary quantity-Alady's age.
"A thorough washerwoman-SalS Soda.
"A Midsummer Nights Dream-Mos.
quitoes. a..z.
The next thing to white blackbird
is Spanish republican.
"A marriage on q railroad train may
properly be termed railroad tie.
1t is said that time never stays, which
may possibly account for its great waist.
"A pretty hard cruise for anybody
Santa Cruz. It is worse than the widows
cruise.
The descendants of Ham are found in
great numbers among the pork packers of
Cincinnati.
The Californians are drying grapes
into raisins, and raising q fortune out of
them.
"A man may as we'll expect to grow
stronger by always eating, as wiser by
always reading.-Couier.
The little boy with his first cigar and
the truckman with his gentle mule both
tried to back her and couldn't.
-Chloroform will remove paint from q
garment or elsewhere, when benzole or
bisulphide of carbon fails.
"A French writer suggests that the red
color of the continents Of the planet Mars
may be due to red heritage and vegeta-
ton. at
Over 2, 900 hogs arrived in New York,
recently. Imagine how many, of one
T. hn fh0rn
now!
A coquette loves her glass as much as
she can love her beau, and on the same
condition-that both keep telling her she
is pretty.
Another treaty has been made with
the Crow Indians, but 1t will be strange
If they don't crow over it before long
discovering that they have caws,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-09-11

0eOrHe Smltn, the IrelgnI engineer con-
cerned in the recent collision on the Marietta
& Cincinnati Railway, was under arrest in
Cincinnati on the 26th. He admits that he
and the conductor had some trouble at Love-
land, but denies that he made any threats. He
says that he and the conductor both made the
same mistake in looking at the time-card.
The extensive lager-beer brewery of V.
Blatz, at Milwaukee-one of the largest estab.
lishments Of the kind in the country-was, In
great part, destroyed by fire few nights ago.
Loss, about $500, 900; insurance, $15O,0O
AtIndianola, Iowa, the other day, Ida Barrick,
aged sixteen, was using kerosene to start q
fire, when the oil in the can exploded, and she
was 90 badly burned that death ensued in q
short time. A little daughter Of Mr.. Better,
of Dalton, ILL.,, also recently tried the sumo ex.
pertinent, with like result.
The Wisconsin Republican State Convention
met at Madison on the 9th. Hon. ]. Nazro,
of Milwaukee, was chosen permanent Chair
man. Governor c. G. Washburn was renom-
mated by reclamation. The balance Of the
ticket is as follows: For Lieutenant Governor,
Robert H. Baker, of Racine; for Secretary Of
State, E. W. Young, Of Sank; for State Treas
urer, Colonel o. C. johnson; for Attorney
General, Judge L. 8. Frisbie, OF Washington;
For State Superintendent of Public Schools,
Robert Graham, Of Oshkosh; Emigration
Commissioner, George p. Lincoln. The State
Central COMMITTEE is Is follows: Z. w. Keyes,
Chairman, Dane County; Frank Leland,
Walworth; j. T. Moak, Jefferson; 1.
M. Bean, milwaukee,; Elihu Colman, Fond du
Lac; Robert McCurdy, Oshkosh; II. B. Cole,
Jackson; John T. Kingston, juneau. The
platform denounces official frauds and cor
rupt legislation; condemns the additional SAL
ary law recently passed by Congress, and de-
mands its unconditional repeal; fav0rs an
amendment to the National Constitution pro-
hibiting Congress from increasing its own
compensation; advocates the speedy adoption
Of proper Legislative measures to secure relief
and protection against the greed and oppres.
sion Of grasping monopolies; claims the right
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-03-28
High Prices.

1t has long been evident that many who
desired to purchase q Lock-Stitch Sewing
Machine for domestic use, or often, perhaps
as an aid toward procuring q livelihood,
were deferred from doing so by the high
price of Lock Stitch Machine, with the
various appliances necessary, costing more
than many felt willing to pay.
Various cheap machines were put in the
market, making curious and fancy stitches;
but in the end on account of repairs con
stantly needed, time lost when they would
not work, and garments spoiled when they
would work, they proved more expensive
than the Lock Stitch Machines; and the
seams that were warranted to take out cas-
ily-if you knew how had way of taking
themselves out at time and in manner
never anticipated by the wcarcr.
In view Of these facts, ELIAS HOWE, the
original inventor of Sewing Machines, re-
solved to give the world Lock-Stitch
Family Sewing Machine that should COM
bine all the best points of his precious ma
chimes, with such improvements as his long
experience and ripe judgment should sug-
gest; in a word, the best possible machine,
to be sold at the minimum ofproiit, relying
upon the large sales sure to follow the in
PRODUCTION of strictly first class machine
at moderate price.
The Howe Machine can be obtained of
w. II. Howard, Agent, at Mrs. Ashton's,
opposite tho Court House, Bel Air, at New
York prices and on easy terms. The pub
lie will please bear in mind that some 9th
err Machines are sold at fifteen dollars ad-
rance orer Ne'r York prices
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-03-28
Pc g L ic al.
SWORD ARD PLOW.


FROM THE GERMAN OF woLrGANG MULLER.
There was once Count, so Pvc heard it said, -
Who felt that his end drew near;
And he called his SOILS before his bed
To part them his goods and gear.
He called for his plow, he called for his sword,
That gallant, good and brave;
They brought them both at their fathers word,
Aud thus his blessings gave:
"My first born son, my pride and might;
DO thou my sword retain:
My castle on the lordy height,
And all my broad domain.
''On thee, my well-lovcd younger boy,
My pillow here bestow,
A peaceful life shalt thou enjoy,
In the quiet vale below"
Contendcd sank the sire to rest,
Now all was given away;
The sons held true his last behest,
Fen on their dying day.
"Now tell us what came of the steel of flame,
or the castle and its knight
And tell us what came of the vale so tame
And the humble peasant wight? 2"
o ask not of me what the end may be!
Ask of the country round
The castle is dust, thesword is rust,
The height is but desert ground.
But the valcsprcads wide in the golden pride
Or the autumn sunlight now;
1t teens and it ripcns far and wide,
And the honor abdcs with the plow
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-03-28

Is EARTH MANS ONLY ABIDING PLACE
Those who admire the writings of Mr.. Geo.
ID. Prentice will be pleased to read the fol-
lowing extract again: ut cannot be that
earth is mans only abiding place. 1t can
not be that our life is bubble cast up bv
the OCEAN of eternity to foata moment up-
on its waves and sink into nothingness.-
ELSE why is it that the high and glorious
aspirations which leap like angels, from
the temple of our hearts, are forever unsat-
isfed Why is it that the rainbow and
clouds come over us with a beauty that is
not OF earth, and then pass off to leave us to
muse ON their loveliness? Why is it that
the stars which hold their festival around
the midnight thrones are set above the
grasp OF our limited faculties, forever mock
ing us with their unapproachable glory ?
And finally, why is it that bright forms of
human beauty are presented to our view
and taken from us, leaving the thousand
streams of our affection to flow back
like Alpine torrents upon the hearth We
are born to higher destiny than of earth.
There is realm where the rainbow never
fades, where the stars will spread out before
us like the islands that slumber on the
ocean, and where the beautiful beings
which pass before us like shadows will stay
IN our presence forever"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1873-03-28
VARIETIES.

Whenever you buy or sell, let or hire
make clear bargain, and never trust to
1--WE shan't disagree about trifes."
Young lady (who is tired of his com
pany0 "You amt bit nervous, are you,
MIR. Poet All my gentlemen acquaintance
start when it strikes twelve
Mark Twain, in speaking ofcannibal-
ism, grows serious for once, and solemnly
declares that, for his own part, he would
rather go hungry for two days than eat an
old personal friend"
What is time "a fragment of eternity
cut off at both ends" To us it has been reck-
oned by years, but soon it will be by
months, then by minutes, and finally by
seconds, and then shall come the closing
scene, and time to us shall be no more for
ever.
"A Detroit negroes allowed q gentle
man of that city to name her baby the
other day, in consideration ola two dollar
bill, and the poor little thing was christen-
ed William Henry Washington ColfaX
Grant Scipio Brutus Halifax Weed Joshua
Lone Jack Madison Buffalo Bill Saunders.