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

embracing members of all ranks Of socie.
ty, and the depositors are $50 in number. |
The dividend on last years working was
6 per cent, and balance of $3.50 was car
ried forward. Last year, an estate of
forty acres, situated in the Wordsworth
Road, was bought for the purpose of FORM
ing "a workman's city," and the founda-
ton stone was laid in August last; The
estate has since been called the "Shaftes-
bury Park estate" and it is proposed to
erect upon it 1900 houses, suited respect
lively for clerks, artisans and laborers, in
addition to lecture hall, cooperative
| store, schOol-rOoms, baths and wash
| houses. A reservation of three acres is
allotted for recreation and pleasure
grounds.
Miscellaneous.
Patrons of Observation-Disclosures with
manageable daughters.
1t is surprising how quickly men who
dislike red hair will fall in love with
red heiress.
I'm order to be as stylish as her neigh
Dor, a Green Bay woman had all her teeth
pulled and false set put in.
| "A correspondent wants to know if we
can tell him how to keep his glasses on
his nose. We suggest that he sandpaper
his proboscis.
An observant of the world IN. W
remarks that when a young widow re-
sumes tight corsets it is to show her ad-
mirers that she is so-laced
A high-toned hen at Salisbury, Pa,
| recently Matched a brood of chickens in
the top OF sugar-maple, twenty-five feet
from the ground.
The West Point cadets are forbidden
by the authorities to lend their sashes or
other military accouterments, except their
arms, to their young lady friends.
"A young lady who lately gave an
| order to her milliner for bonnet, said:
"You are to make it plain, but at the same
time smart, as l sit in a conspicuous place
in church.
The sprightly Boston transcript asks,
IF miss is as good as a mile, how good
is Mrs. ~ If she is widow, she will
be good for league under almost any
circumstances.
"A woman, called upon to attend the dy-
ing bedside of friend, was deprived of
the melancholy pleasure by the delay
occasioncd in borrowing suitable breast
pin for the occasion.
| "A minister, travelling through the
West in missionary capacity several
years ago, was holding an animated theo-
logical conversation with an old lady
upon whom he had called, in the course
OF which he asked her what idea she had
formed of the doctrine of total depravity.
"Oh," said she, think it is good doc
trine, if people would only live up to it,"
Time wears slippers of list, and
his tread is noiseless. The days come
softly dawning, one after another; they
creep in at the windows; their fresh
morning air is graceful to the lips that
part to it; their music is sweet to the
ears that listen to it; until before we know
it whole life of days has taken posses
sion of the citadel, and time has taken us
for its own.
I'm the woods man casts off his
years, as the snake his slough, and, at
what period soever of life, is always a
child. In the woods is perpetual youth
Within these plantations of God deco
rum and sanctity reign, a perennial festi-
val is dressed, and the guest sees not how
he should tire them in a thousand years.
In the woods we return to reason and
faith.-Emerson.
One of the most touching instances of
gratitude with which we are familiar oc-
Cured the other day. A little boy, the
child OF wealthy mother, tumbled into
the river. He was rescued by a working
man and restored to his parent The
mother gave the rescuer three-cent post
age stamp, and said she would be glad to
have him come to her house and sit in the
entry, and hear her play the piano. He
went away with tears in his eyes. He
said he wasn't used to such kindness.
An internal machine, invented by an
American to destroy over-insured ships,
is thus described by Mr.. Henning, the
Venezuelan Consul in London: The ma
chine looks like block of coal of about
six inches by three, and could be put into
the coal bunkcrs without the slightest
suspicion. Once there, it would, when
thrown into the furnace, explode after a
fixed time. II was subsequently," he
says, "shOwn one Of the machines them
selves, about six by four inches, with the
exact appearance of an ordinary piece of
coal. l was told that some were made
considerably larger, even to the size of a
mans head, but always to resemble Goals,
the reason of which is obvious. Nearly a
month later had another visit from the
same person, who told me that he had re
Gently heard that there were some persons
in the Venezuelan port referred to who
were interested in some merchant steam
ers with goods of no actual value, and
then put some of these machines on
board, and send her to sea, very heavily
insured, in the hope that she might be
lost, and they would gain very large
sum-"
The following is from an Eastern
exchange: A young, good-looking and
unaccompanied country lass, of nineteen
or twenty Junes, drove up to a hitching
post on Main street yesterday afternoon,
and leaping from the wagon tied her
horse by the bride and went her way up
Main street, to do some shopping. Pres
emily the steed began to manifest some
uneasiness for some reason, backing and
dancing around at great rate. Several
bystanders, ignorant of the cause of the
disquietude, were devising various means
horse jocky appeared upon the scene, and
with some "bunkum" announced that a
curb bit caused all the trouble. He then
adjusted rein around the horses neck
and thought that sufficient to quiet him.
but afterwards he was again uneasy, until
finally the young lady herself approach
ed. Observing his restless movements
and their cause at q glance, she walked
| quickly up to him, seized the bride, and
rolling up her sleeves to the elbow, thrust
her hand into the animals mouth, grasp
ed his tongue, and placed it under the bit,
where it belonged, instead of over it, then
turned to the spectators around and quiet
ly remarked that ''she guessed he'd stand
now" Being temperance lecturers and
insurance agents they were not so much
ashamed as they should have been.
An ACT OF JusTIcE.-Doubting Castle
was sad stumbling block in the path of
Bunyan's Christian, though it couldn't bar
his way to Truth. We can sympathize