The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-07-10

Church South, wishes SIX or seven preach
ers for the Pacific coast to accompany
him thither in August; two for Oregon,
whose travelling expenses will be paid:
two for the Pacific Conference, and three
for the Los Angeles. He desires they
should be single men, or ''men with small
families" and says the prospect of their
support after their arrival out is "encour-
aging" He closes his call with the state.
ment that none need apply who do not In
tend to devote themselves wholly to the
itinerant work.
Miscellaneous.
Two Of the zebras travelling with q
Western circus are painted mules.
The citizens of Georgia town were
surprised to read in their local journal,
the other day, that perhaps it was not
worth while for them to attempt to raise
boys. The afflicted editor insists that he
wrote hogs.
The true Christian gentleman may
be known in these days BY the alacrity
with which he leaves his seat on the
sunny side of car when lady enters,
and goes and stands on the platform in
the shade.
.-Pickpockets do not enjoy life in CAL
ifornia. An old "bull-whacker" felt a
strange hand in his pocket there recently,
and, pulling his penknife, with blade
that weighed pound, cut off the mans
hand at the wrist and threw it after him,
with the advice to put it in whisky,
where 1t would keep"
The Cleveland girl who declared she
never would be married by a man, sent all
the way to Terre Haute for Rev. Miss Bal
lou to perform the ceremony. Women
have more skill and taste in tying love-
knots than men possess, but it remains to
be seen whether the knot is any stronger,
or less likely to chafe. But it is strange
the Cleveland girl did not 60 one step
further, and declare she would never
marry q man.
The Decatur Qll) Republican says:
On Wednesday Mr.. W. c. Pitner, on North
Main street, took from her nest a hen
with brood of chickens, leaving in the
nest three eggs, which he supposed were
rotten and would never hatch. These eggs
lay where they were exposed to the sun,
and with the assistance of the suns rays
another little biped burst his prison-house
and came out chipping as if he felt par
ticularly gratified at coming into the
world on his own hook.
Says the Detroit Free Press: A boy
about ten years old came laundering into
the Central Station yesterday noon, and
when asked what the matter was, he re-
piled: "You see, said my dog Sam could
lick Billy O'Grady's dog Bose, and I'd bet
stamps on it. Sam went in for to do it,
and he'd shook that pup, sure, only
Billy he put snuff on his dog, and Sam
got to coughing and sneezins, and Bose
f1OOred him and chcwed him till he
couldn't holler-gimme warrant for
him"
An alligator is rather smart about
some things. He knows as much about
strategy as a major-general of militia.
He will pose himself on a log, open his
mouth wide by elevating his upper jaw,
and remain perfectly quiet. In short
time his mouth will fill with mosquitoes
and flies, when down will come his jaw,
taking every mosquito and fly prisoner
He swallows them, ticks his chop, and
elevates his jaw to catch another floor
full. This dish is regarded by the alli-
gator as the most delicious that the coun-
try affords.
Lake Ontario is becoming quite noted
for its wonderful phenomena. The latest
is midnight mirage, an acco0t of which
a steamboat captain has kindly furnished
to an exchange. He says, when he was
standing on the deck of his vessel the
other night, while on his way up the lake
the city of Oswego, thirty-one miles dis
tant, suddesly appeared in view, with the
gas lighted in the streets, and all the ap
pearances that town would present
from hill in its immediate vicinity, at
night. The lighthouse at Oswego, as
below, as far as Sackett's HarbOr, were
distinctly seen by this skipper.
The largest cactus in this town be.
longs to the Merrills, on Pine street
Saturday Mrs. Merrill had set it out in
the yard, and that night a cat got up on
the back roof to sing or die, or something
of that sort, and Mr.. Merrill stepped out
on the roof in night shirt to kick it off,
hut kicked about eight feet too high,
through q miscalculation, and the awful
disappointment threw him off his feet,
and eventually off the roof and into the
yard, to the intense regret of Mrs. Merrill,
who valued that cactus above all herbs of
| lAC ACIu, ouO WIZ HUI SAT up tnEcC
evenings to make that night shirt-Man
Adeler.
1t is said there is a very simple way
of neutralizing the effect of tobacco when
too much has been taken, or when tried
by debutant-it is to drink strong cup
Of coffee. The tanin which is contained
in the coffee is the antidote to nicotine.
Those who are obliged to try the cigars,
and smoke beyond all reason, when their
taste is spoiled take. coffee and recover
Immediately that sureness of appreciation
which permits them to continue their
work. In this the Turks are our teachers /;
they have discovered the means of smok-
ing continually with pleasure, and with
out WEAKNESS, by drinking cup of coffee
after each pipe.
They tell about man out in the oil
regions who disapproved of the proposed
marriage of his daughter to a certain
youth. In order to prevent IN elopement,
the old man purchased a ferocious bull
dog, and turned him loose in the yard
every night. But love cannot be baffled
by dogs; so the girl stole the dogs dinner
for three days, and upon the night Of the
fourth day the young man called at the
house with piece of meat upon a cod.
fish hook, which was tied to strong rope
He caught one of the stern fathers colts
fixed the rope to its hindermost leg, and
threw the tempting bait at the raging dog
The dog snapped at it, and swallowed it.
hook and all, without blinking. The
lover then affixed pack of fire-crackers
to the colts tail, and touched off the
works. In One.quarter of minute by
the clock horse might have been seen
tearing down the road at terrific
rate, with disleartened and mortified
bull dog following him with singular
velocity. When last heard from, the two
horse and dog-were passing through
Indiana, bound due west, with the old
man in pursuit. As soon as he was gone,
his child put on her best hair, and her
Sunday suit, and her supplementary frills,
and passed down the street with her lover,