The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-11-20

NJ. Ernest Renan. He was recentlv in
search OF apartments in Paris, and having
found suite to his taste, and being told
by the concierge that references were re-
quired, he gave the names of some of his
friends and took his departure, Upon
calling the following day he was told that
he could not have the rooms. "Why p
he demanded in surprise. "Oh, this Is a
very quiet house, and We are told that
your works make great deal of noiser'
"A recent number of the japan Maty
says: "Those curious in the reeling of
silk might be interested by a visit to q
silk-reeling establishment in Tsukiii,
Eighty women are employed, each woman
experimenting three reels, every set of
twelve reels receiving the necessary rotary
motion from a large tiy-wheel turned by
a coolie. The arrangement of the ma.
chinery is extremely ingenious, the cross
ing of the silk as reeled being obtained by
a horizontal movement of the reels"
The peculiar methods of French Judi.
cial proceedings are strikingly illustrated
in the trial Of Marshal Bazaine. The
president of the court (the Due d'Aumale)
conducts the examination of the accused,
and cross-questions him with all the ap-
parent bias Of a prosecuting attorney,
criticizing his answers, commenting on
his statements, and using all the arts of
an acute lawyer to entrap him if possible
into q contradiction. 1t is said that
French justice seldom miscarries, but, to
one accustomed to the procedure of our
own courts, the examination of Marshal
Bazaine, which has been filing the for
eign dispatches for some weeks past, at.
fords some curious reading.
Personal and Literary.
Cough has lectured Boston $40
times.
-Beecher begins to wear "the look of a
tired worker"
"A daughter of General Rosecrans has
become nun.
"A. T. Stewart will employ no one
that smokes or carries matches in his
pocket.
joaquin A1iller's matrimonial en-.
gagement in England, is said to be brok-
en- off.
Mrs. Sinclair, wife of the tragedian
Forrest, is living at Staten Island, N. Y,
in good style.
An Iowa exchange suggests that
Stokes Dug hit to apply for new trial and
get clear altogether.
The Rev. Mr.. Toothacre has been ex-
tracted from the pastorate of Congrega-
tional church in Maine.
Lydia Sherman, the female poisoner,
is the only woman occupant of the Con-
necticut State Prison at Wethersfield.
The latest important information con-
corning Bradlaugh, is that before lee
turing he invariably charges his stockings
with birthstone.
Laura Fair read a poem on selfcul.
ture, in San Francisco, the other evening.
She is we'll qualified to teach the young
idea how to shoot.
M. Loyson has been Father long
time, but now Mrs. Loyson is mother,
and the young Hyacinthe is charming
little bud of promise.
An American aeronaut, named Wells,
is announced for balloon trip from vi.
emma to the United States by way of Asia
and the Pacific Ocean.
John Hays prospective father.
in-law is worth four millions, and it is
feared Johns fate will tempt other men
to perpetrate dialect poetry.
David Styles got through being the
oldest man in the Northwest at Dubuque
the otner day, aged one hundred and
seven years and four months.
Senator Sprague is broken down in
health as we'll as in fortune. For some
time past the responsibility of providing
for the Indebtedness of the firm has de
volved solely upon his brother.
Prof. James Allen, of Providence, i.
under an engagement to make balloon as
tensions in California from the first O
December to the first of May. After tina
he will attempt a trip across the contin
ent.
Ida Isaacs Menken does not seem t.
have been the only wife of Heenan, tn,
pugilist. Since his death a Mrs. Sar.
Stephens Heenan, who was an actress q
Wallack's fifteen years ago, has turned W
at London, and is on her way to this coun
try to claim his estate.
Mast having been running a tilt q
the Herald, that paper has satiricall,
started penny subscription for an appro
pirate reward of merit for him, and nov
the papers gravely announce that "Nast
the artist, is in destitute circumstances
and relief fund for him has been opened
in New York"
The richest man in Maine is ex-Gov
ernor Coburn, of Augusta, who has severa
eral million dollars "salted down." mos
of which he has made in the numbering
business. He is now over seventy, and
bachelor, and rumor says that he viii
leave million of his property to Cobb
University, which has already received
several requests from him.
DIR. Strauss, author of the Life of Je
sus," writes to the editor of the Gegewar
of Berlin: "Since last spring have sui
fered from a disease for which hav
sought cure at Carlsbad in vain-a dis
ease which physicians have declared in
cdrable, and which has compelled me thi
long time to cease my literary labors
without the hope of ever being able to re
sumo them"
The Saturday Recie,o pronounces it
critical judgment Of Mr.. Stewards posthu
NOUS book, travels Round the World,
thus: "If we had expected less from tn
book we should probably have considered
it a favorable specimen of American
books of travel. Neither himself nor hi
companions appear to have made any
effective use Of their peculiar opportuni
ties of observation. They journeyed, a
Americans mostly do, in hurry"
Miss Anna Dickinson has found 1
new way of stimulating applause. Here
tofore tears, the genuine saline produc
ton, have been very effective in her dis
courses, but even these lose their virtu,
after a while, and so Anna has taken to ,
new method. She misses a train on tn,
evening of her lecture. Does she sit dowl
and weep over her misfortunes? Not .
bit of it. She charters special train,
steamer, and a fast horse" and at littl.
before 9 O'Clock appears upon the stag,
with quick, tragic stride, flushed face
disheveled hair, rubber boots, and lool
which seems to say, Il stand upon mi
throne!"-WdshSngt0' Star.
Religious and Educational.
The Rev. DR.. Thayer, of Newport
R. l., has declined the offer of pension
of 81, 600 year from his parish.
Many clergymen throughout tn
country are devoting earnest efforts to tn