The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-09-17
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents and Accidents.

Incidents and Accidents.
"A Nashua IN. H.) girl recently lost
her life by eating plums which grew near
dogwood bushes.
AT Sharon, VT, the other day, a
child only thirty-four days old died from
of the lungs.
John McNulty, of Detroit, died a
few days ago from the effects of poison
taken under the supposition that it was
quininc-the result of u druggists mis-
take.
Lindsey Carr, an old resident of
Dcs Moines, Iowa, died very suddenly
lately, throu gh taking the wrong medi-
cine left by his physicians. The mistake
was discovered by himself and physi-
clans sent for but they could not save
him.
"A little son of Geo. w. Boulware, of
Franklin, Ill.,, and another boy, each
about twelve years old, recently got into
a boyish quarrel. Young Boufware ac-
cused the other of stealing apples from
him when fight occurred, terminating
in Boulware being stabbed in the heart
with a pocket knife, killing him in
stantly.
"A year or two ago New Hampshire
farmer sued a railroad corporation for
damages. He pleaded his own case, that
he was Il hopeless cripple, with both legs
broken and dependent upon his daily
labor for bread. He got $4,000. Recent
ly he was seen chasing refractory COW
through his fields and apparently having
no use for his clutch except possibly to
beat her Herewith.
Mrs. Sheldon, living near Alabastcr,
Mich, the other day left four of her
alone in the house while she
went to town, and on her return in the
evening she discovered that the buildin.
had burned to the ground and the crispcd
bodies of two of the children were found
in the ruins. The other two were found
the next morning in the woods half a
mile from the ruins. They confessed to
having kindlcd fire in the stove and
the house took fire from it.
On a recent Sunday night, while
Rev. Mr.. Day was preaching in the Holy
Trinity Church, Toronto, his eldest
daughter, Mary, about twenty years of
age, and young son ten years of age
were at home. The young boy picked
up a gun which had been carclessly left
loaded in bedroom, and, pointing it at
his sister, said, "Do you want me to
shoot you:' at the same time pulling the
trigger. lie literally blew the side of
the young lady's head off.
"A man named Mcnamara died at
Fort kcarncy recently very suddenly.
An examination of his person showed
that he had been bitten on his back by !,
large poisonous insect-a black spider,
tarantula, or something of that sort. His
friends then examined the place where
he lay and they found that the insect had
been crushed into a sllapelcss mass I'M
der the weight of the mans body. The
man was inscnsible from the time he
was found until his dcath.-On.thu (Neb.)
Foreign Gossip.
The Bible is said to have been trans
lated into Persian verse by native of
that country.
The Marquis of Ripon, England, has
resigned the position of Grand Master of
the Free MasOns, and will be succeeded
"d interim by the Prince of Wales.
France is the paradise of artists, and
1t is estimated that there are no less than
forty painters in Paris who earn at least
$50, 900 year each. The richest authors,
also, in the world are of France
Iceland contra mundum! That Arc.
tic little continent beats the world, by
being the first of all to celebrate the
Its millennium" was ccle-
DRAFTED with great UccIu the first of
August.
The Egyptian Government has begun
full details respecting its
finances. Its annual revenue is $50, OOO,-
OOO, and its expenses $45,OOO,OOO. More
than half its revenue is raised from taxes
On land.
The ruby mines of Upper Burmah
are worked solely by the King, who picks
out the best stones and sells the rest
lie is said to possess 100 of the finest
water. No foreigner is allowed to visit
the mines.
1t is not often that anybody makes a
pithier remark in the British Parliament
than the member did the other day who
said philanthrophy is SO energetic that
. it requires a good deal of influence
to get hanged"
Some one in London is in the cxpcn-
sive habit of making anonymous gifts of
FL 600 to national and metropolitan char
tiles. The Central Necs believes the
donor "wlo docs good by stealth and
bushes to find it fame" to be no less a
parsonage than Queen Victoria, who
will have given away upward of $780,
600 in this manner.
French ladies are, it seems, deter
mined to rival their English and Ameri-
can sisters in quest of woman's rights
One of them, Mile. Andrelinc Dou-
has stormcd the Montpelier
Hall, winning honorable
admission after a searching examination,
her diploma of reception into the faculty
being marked satisfactory"
Jersey, the little island in the En-
glish Channel, sent to the London mar
kets in two months, this spring, 81 ,OOO, 900
worth of new potatoes. The seasons crop
of this vegetable gives for the total area
of the island $35 an acre. 1t is believed
that an equal success could lie had in
the southern counties of Ireland if there
were energy and enterprise to try it.
bismarck recently showed some Wis
itors over his house, and pointing to a
desk in the Princess room told them his
wife, as they might observe, kept the
cash. He had from the beginning in
her with the charge of his money
affairs while he attended to politics, and
he would advise every married man to
do the same, taking no more than his
wife gave him.
M. Theirs, before starting for the
Pyrcnees, is reported to have said: IL
only gained single thing by the Presi-
dency of the Rcpublic-a bronchitis,
which has not since left me. But that
enabled me to resist the en-
treaties of those who for two months
have been pressing ME to speak. fore
saw everything that has happened, and
should have been powerless to prevent
it,"
Religious and Educational.
Archbishop McCloskey, of New York,
during the last year administered the
site OF confirmation to $1,000 people.
1t is said that there is no supervision
of educational matters in Delaware, and
no authorized reports in regard to it. In
1870 there were %, 100 persons over ten
years of are who cO,lld not write