The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-10-16

"A countryman who came into Brad
ford, Mass, some days ago, attempted to
set his watch by steam gauge indicating
sixty pounds of steam.
1.-THE strongest propensity in wo-
mans nature" says surly editor, lis q
desire to know what's going on, and the
next is to boss the job"
Six Indian skeletons have been re-
Gently exhumed in Pennington, Me. One
was of gigantic size, and is to be sent to
the Smithsonian Institute.
-" Boy, what's become of the hole I
saw in your pants the other day!' Young
America carefully examining his unmen-
tionables-" It's worn out, sir"
The hours of labor in the car shops
of the Chicago & Rock Island Railway,
at Davenport, Iowa, have been reduced
to eight, in preference to discharging any
hands.
One Of the buildings burned in Paw
tucket. r. l., recently, was the one in
which Samuel Slater opened-in the year
1799-the first Sunday school in Rhode
Island, if not in the United States.
The Icelanders are beginning to emf.
AuAS~ SAtOAoAVCAy w SAO OAAeON
States. They are are said to resemble the
Scotch in appearance, and are a; bright,
clean and healthy-looking class of people.
An amusing epitaph.-
Dear paeser-by, it is here I lie,
died with a cancer in my right eye;
To all my friends bid alden.
A more shocking death you never knew.
In the southwestern portion of Reno,
Kansas, considerable bands of wild horses
are said to roam. They are matchless in
speed and beauty. Hunters not unfre-
quently attempt to crease them, with a
view to capture, by well-directed shots
through the upper part Of the neck.
One of the Berlin (Prussia) hotels is
kept by man who was once servant in
the same establishment. While "kell-
ner," wealthy woman asked him to
marry her. He did, and with her money
bought out his employer, and to-day is
one of the greatest swells "Unter den Lin
den." This is fact.
Temperature of the Ocean.-It ap.
pears from the official report of the Brit.
ish Challenger exploring expedition that
in the Atlantic the summer heat penetrates
to the depth of about 60 feet, below which
the temperature is uniform all the year
round. The experiments made also de-
monstrate that at depth of from one to
two miles the temperature of the water is
everywhere $50 or 4 . below the freezing
point.
One of the latest additions to the mu-
scum of the State University Medical De-
partment, at Iowa City, is live rattle
snake sent to Prof. Clapp by express. 1t
measures ten feet in length, and is said to
be as big around as a churn, and has a set
of rattles as big as an ear of corn. The
serpent was confined in box which had
gim!et-holes bored in it to give him air.
If the box were touched, he would make
his rattles play with roar like train
crossing bridge.
The Power of the Heart.-The me-
chanical power exerted by the heart in its
pnlsations is something wonderful. 1t
has been shown that the hearts action
evolves force equal to that of raising its
own weight 2O,250 feet, or nearly four
miles in an hour. A locomotive can only
raise its weight 1900 feet in the same
time. The heart is therefore, proportion
ately, nearly eight times as powerful as a
locomotive. More than this, it repairs
its own waste from wear an tear. Other
calculations by different physicists double
this estimated power of the heart. Con-
sidering what it has to undergo, the
heart bowed down with weight of VICE.
is to be commiserated.
Among the princely Americans
should be mentioned Mr.. Samuel A
Hitchcock, of Brimfeld, Mass, who has
recently given $4,000 to complete the
library building Of the Congregational
Association in Boston. This gentleman
who is now eighty years of age, and has
devoted most Of his life to active business
bestowed on Amherst College $3.50, 900
Andover Theological Seminary, $4,000
| first and last; the High School at Brim
field, $85,O00; Knox College, $4,000
Tabor College, $1,000; besides the $25, OO(
now given to finish the capacious fire
proof room designed for the Congrega
tional Library. Very properly, the direc
tors of the assOciat- ON have determined
that the library-room shall be known
hereafter as Hitchcock Hall.
Religious and Educational.
The Congregationalists have organ
lied church in Salt Lake City. Their
to 100000.
The natural-history department o.
Brown University, Rhode Island, has
taken new start this fall under the in
element of new $4,000 building in
prospect.
The famous "Little Church Around
the Corner" on Goth street, New York, is
being renovated and enlarged to accom-
modate Rev. MIR. Houghton's rapidly in
creasing congregation.
The Preston endowment fund of $50,
600 for Albion (AIichigan) College has a,
last been raised, and with it comes $5O, OOC
more, which was subscribed conditional
upon raising this sum-.
Rev. Green Clay Smith, Ex-Governor
of Montana, ex-General of the Fed.
eral forces, ex.member of Congress,
and now Baptist minister, has &C.
cepted the chair of political economy in
the High School at Frankfort, Kentucky
- The Tennessee State Superintendent
of Public Instruction states that the
scholastic census, now about completed
will give Tennessee over 100000 between
the ages of 6 and IS years.
The Boston University, the new insti
tuition of the Methodists, comprises a
preparatory school at East Greenwich
X. l., and two colleges and four postcol
legiate professional schools in different
parts of Boston. The whole number Of
professors, teachers and instructors Is 81
Fifty years ago the entire member
ship of the Presbyterian Church in Cleve
land, Ohio, consisted of three men and
ten women. In the autumn of 1923, Rev
Stephen J. Bradstreet became q stated
supply, and commenced regular services
on Euclid street.
The Methodists have sent thirty men
most of them accompanied by theil
wives, to foreign fields within thirteen
months. The Woman's Missionary So
ciety, connected with the denomination,
has sent out nearly as many women.
Between two and three hundred
Japanese youth are still in this country in
the pursuit of education, Notwithstanding
SO many have been recalled. These men
will be agents of civilization and many OF
them of Christianity when they 60 home
The Shakers originated in England
about the year ITO, though now confined
solely to the United States. They number
between five and six thousand, and call