The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-15
Miscellaneous.

The Utica Herald says it is some con-
ISOLATION to see a bald-headed insurance
man. You don't know that justice has
been dealt out to him, but you think per-
haps it has.
An eccentric old fellow, who lives
alongside of a graveyard, was asked if it
was not an unpleasant location. no."
said he, II never jined places in all my
life with set of nelghbors who minded
their business so stiddy as they do"
There are experts on all manner of
subjects in these days of litigation. A
woman testified at Norwich, the other day,
in turkey case, and declared she knew
these turkeys "by their walk, their coun-
tenancc, and their manner of roOsting.'-
Danbury Ne,cs.
"A letter from New York City to De-
troit was very explicitly directed as fol-
lows: "Mr. Neuman Livy, No. s Bacon
street, Detrouth, Mischigen. moi body
open dis letter till Neuman Livy imself-
wen Mr.. Livy muff from dis plas, so plus
was so keind and send Diet letter to his
place wer I lief naw.'' And it has been
necessary to send that letter to the Dead
Letter Office in Washington.
The Hartford Comunt, having thor
oughly collated the facts, concludes that
no engine can run more than sixty miles
an hour. 1t adds that some of the fastest
runs have been twenty-six miles in thirty
minutes, from Springfield to Hartford ;
eighteen miles in twenty minutes, from
Meriden to New Haven; tifty-four miles
in fifty-eight minutes, on the Boston Il
Albany road. One, at least, of these trips
was made solely against time.
One of the solid men of Boston kind
ly promised to comply with the request Of
friend, who was impatient to leave the
church, to deposit dollar bill for him in
the cOntributiOn-box, but he quietly re-
turned his own pocketbook to his pocket
without lessening the amount of money
contained therein, and when the collector
came along Ostentatiously dropped his
friends bank-note in it and sank back on
his cushioned seat as if conscious of a
good act we'll performed.
The Municipal Council of Paris
adopted resolution recently proposing
to change the names of many of the boule-
wards, quays, and streets, in Paris, cspe-
cially those given by the second Empire
and many with the prefix of "Saint," and
to substitute the names of Republican
celebrities and of those connected with
the late war. NJ. Theirs, however, has
given orders to the Project of the Seine
not to ratify the proposed changes, which
he characterizes as useless, puerile, and
prejudicial to the interests Of the CONNER
cial population.
The Church of England has lately re-
vived system of penances ofthe most use
full and disagreeable sort. At abominably
early hours gorgeous carriages deposit at
the doors of sacred edifices in fashionable
quarters ladies carefully gloved in large,
yellow, ugly housemaid's gauntlets.
Equipped in this fashion they go through
the unusual and therefore exceedingly
tiresome tasks of busting hassocks, sweep
ing floors and cleaning stoves. To black
lead very large and very cold stove on
chilly spring morning is not calculated to
be charming exercise for white-hand-
cd, dainty lady of society; neither the
humping of a quantity Of fat and dusty
hassocks an agreeable thing to do. The
ecclesiastical authorities who led these
fashionable souls to repentance-and got
their churches cleaned at the same time
deserve no end of praise.-Ne'o York Tri-
bUNt,