The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-11-05

pie at a cost of 100000. These are but
specimens of the use of gold in idolatry.
The only thing that comes near matching
all that in this country is the new Nor
mon temple at Salt Lake City, which is
expected to cost $lO,OOO,OOO. This build
ing will be 100 by 200 feet, and is
already up one story.-Christian at Work.
Personal and Literary.
"A Mr.. Yell is candidate for the
Legislature in Texas, and he's bound to
be heard.
Twelve acres of ex-Postmastcr-Gcn.
Crcswell's Maryland farm produced
~, 500 worth of peaches this year.
-DOnohue gave up his attempt to
walk LOO miles in LOO hours at Man
chester, n. H., after accomplishing 874
miles. He was completely broken down.
-" Mr.. w. B. Brown, Esq, deceased" is
the announcement of an Alabama paper.
1t didn't make any difference which way
they took hold of him to carry him out
he had handle on both ends Of his
name.-Douer IN. ~ Null.
Commodore McDonough is buried in
little cemetery on the banks OF the
Connecticut River at MiddletOwn, Conn,
out of the way of the railway trains that
run through the place of sculpture.
Miss Susan b. Anthony was recently
Congress at Chicago as the Moses of her
sex, because she had led the women I" for
forty years." This was too much. Susan
arose and reminded the "wOman who
dared" that the time was a little less.
A wealthy inventor, Charles Clifton,
has just died in Jersey City, leaving u
fortune of $25O,OOO. He has furnished
another instance of "thc ruling passion
strong in death" For, though he has II
number of surviving brothers and sisters
in England, he has bequeathed all his
| wealth to an institution for the teaching
| of technical and practical mechanics in
Manchester, the cotton metropolis of
| Great Britain.
Two of the most noted athletes in
Washington are medicos-Dr. W. V.
Marmion and DR.. j. c. Rose. The
former gentleman lifts l 600 pounds with
his hands and puts up dumb-bell of 100
pounds. DR.. Rose is SAID to be the
strongest man in Washington for his
size. He lifts 400 pounds with one hand
and suspends siXty-three pounds at arms
length on his little finger. The finest
| athlete in New York is DR.. Austin Flint,
Jr., professor and author. lie lifts 1000
pounds easily.
Brown, the mind-reader," is Gre
ating a great furore in the East, and cs-
pecially at Yale College, where the pro-
fcssOrs have taken him up. DIR. George
| sician, says that the whole mystery is
/ 1oir hxrt In
or impulse or agitation of the hand or
arm of the subject when he arrives at or
near the hidden article. If the subject
sees to it that the arm resting ON the
forehead of Brown is perfectly melton
| less the mind-reader" will fail.
Industrial.
MIR. John E. Ellis, of Westminster,
VT, has raised 24O bushels of oats on
three acres of hill land the past season.
"A combination ice and freezing house
has just been patented. The freezing
apparatus is on the top of the ice-house
covered only by an awning. 1t consists
mainly of watertank, from which the
water flows in thin stream down two
inclined cooling planes" into canvas
boxes, in which it is left to freeze. The
ice being solid, it is removed from the
boxes by the application of steam and
deposited in the house beneath.
a large number of non-society plas-
tercrs in New York city have united in
| the formation of an anti-union union, the
platform of which denounces secret and
oath bound organizations and strikes, and
provides for the division of the men into
three classes, according TO their efficiency,
whose wages at present shall be, respect
lively, $3.50, 50 and $3.50 per day. No
strikes will be authorized, except in cases
of infringement on the Eight Hour law,
or failure to pay the men.
| Years ago, according to history, We
gave England the turkey, and we know
not what game else has since crossed the
water from our woods and plains. But
it is the prairie hen that goes next !;
British spOrtsmcn, in despair at the OBJ
stinate disease which threatens the ex-
ported cargo of the prairie fowl, which
has been distributed among sportsmen
and landed proprietors for acclimatiza-
ton ON the English moors.
The process of coloring kid gloves
black, as described in Riemann's Journal
| of Dyeing, is u curious and interesting
|
wooden form and washed or brushed
with alcohol, dried, and then brushed
with a decoction of logwood and after
ten minutes the logwood liquid is again
applied, after ten minutes more dipped
into solution of green vitriol and then
brushed off with warm water. If the
color is not as dark as desired some de-
coction of fustic or quercitron is added
to the logwood liquid; nitrate Of iron
may also be substituted with advantage
for the green vitriol. When the glove
begins to dry it is rubbed with some fine
olive oil and French chalk and placed
between flannel, then pressed, again we'll
rubbed with olive oil and the chalk and
drawn upon the wooden form. None of
the coloring solution is allowed to reach
the interior during the operation. By
washing the gloves oft with ammonia
after coloring the favorite blush cast is
impaired to them.
Comforting Sentence.