The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-03-05

militiaman enticed the boy into his house
in Dingw1ll, and with caustic or iodine |
marked the word dogn upon his fore
head. Afterward ) he deity sketched
whiske rs and mt1staches upon the
youths face, and finally held him before
fire until the caustic had sunk into his
skin. A truly casastic revenge: ~
Industrial.
1T is proposed to cultivate figs for
fattening hogs in Southern California.
I'm area, If not in depth and quality,
the coal fields of Iowa exceed those of
Pennsylvania .....-. .s-.-..s.--
| The Farris steel works at Windsor
Locks, Conn.,. which suspended during
the panic, have commenced operations
again.
| MIR. Haight, q boatbuilder of Buffalo,
proposes that the locks of the Erie Canal
be SO Heightened that number of boats
lowed by steamer may be passed through
in ten minutes. A steamer, with three
boats, would now take from forty.f to
ninety minutes to pass lock.
According to the Greensburg (Pa.)
Argus, John Keller, of Unity, has discov-
cred where the potato bug lives in the
winter. Grabbing on piece of land the
other day, he unearthed countless thou
sands. very fat and equally lively, and all
ready for the summer campaign.
-Galveston is evidently enjoying con-
| siderable prosperity. "Our wliarves," a
local paper says, "are lined with vessels,
our presses OVERLOOKING with the fleecy
staple. Even the streets are whitened with
cotton, for which it is impossible to find
shelter, and yet every train and every
boat brings forward accessions to the
already overstocked yards and ware.
houses"
| i'm French industrial establishment
employing $50 men, chiefly vegetarians,
the sick fund was constantly in debt.
The director of the establishment took
| measures for the introduction of butch
ers' meat into the food of the men, and
the effect was such that the average loss
OF time per man, on account of illness or
fatigue, was reduced from fifteen to three
saved twelve days. work year per man.
1T is now thought probable that the
ordinary wood nettle will in due time
prove not unimportant addition to the
sources of textile materials. This plant,
which is found in profusion on the ALE
| gheny Mountains, and often at level of
more than 5000 feet above the sea, has
recently been introduced in Europe, M.
Rozel having succeeded in transporting
to the Government of Prussia some living
specimens in order that the value of the
weed, if any it had, might be determined.
been obtained in using the plant for
textile purposes, and for such employ
ment it is now attracting considerable
attention In Germany. On account of its
being perennial, it is of course unneces-
sary to SOW the seed each year, the plant
having in this respect an advantage over
hemp and fax, while it is also stated to
necessitate less labor and expense in pre-.
pairing the fiber. In wild state the
nettle attains height of two or three feet.
Thus far, in Germany, its growth has ex-
ceeded this limit.
Personal and Literary.
Gen. Banks is said to have prophe-
sled that within the life of living people
there will be men worth $500, 1000, 600.
They will have to hurry along pretty rap
idly.
| IN. s. Dodge, who has just died in
writer's in the Republic. Wherever he
could find column to fill he filled it, and
he had continued the enterprising habit
for nearly forty years.
MIR. Robert Dale Owen does not join
in the traditional admiration for "Italy's
dark-eyed daughters" He says: II
think l have seen more handsome girls
in New York or Boston in five weeks
than l saw in Italy throughout five
years."
| Letters from Rome state that fine
progress is being made with the statue of
Mr.. Seward, which is under construction
in the hands of Mr.. Randolph Rogers.
The statue, which is in sitting posture,
will reach full height of 161S feet, and
will cost $25, 900, which has been almost
all subscribed.
-AuthOresses sometimes drive a good
bargain when they exchange sentiment
for sauces and chivalry for chicken broth.
Marion Harland is an instance. Her re-
cent cook book has Melted her more
money than "Alone'' or "The Hidden
Path" Her Common Sense in the
Household is more popular than her
romance anywhere else.
The late s. A. Hitchcock, of Boston,
was man Of very frugal habits. He
preserved al! his life the blue cotton
handkerchief in which was wrapped all
his worldly possessions when he started
out to earn his living. The first $50 he
earned was deposited in the savings bank,
and it remained there until his death.
During his life he gave away more than
$650,O6O.
| The precedent set by the young man
out in Missouri some time ago, when he
sold the body Of his grandfather to the
agent Of u medical college for forty dol
lars, seems to have encouraged Mrs.
much the Philadelphia doctors paid them
for the bodies Of their twin husbands is
not yet publicly known; but the sum is
no doubt large enough to make the
widows very sad-very sad, we mean, to
think they didn't have a chance to make
the trade many years ago.-Courser
Journal : q t1 rG'r ''
John G. Potts, the oldest Odd Fellow
in good standing in the world, died at
Galena, ILL.,, recently. He was initiated
t fs H sod T at Phm3a dsa Na Sept
Master Of the Grand Lodge 'e Of the State
Of Pennsylvania in 1929. In 1886 he and
George NJ Dallas were arrested by order
of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, for
being connected with secret societies.
He moved to Galena in 1888, and was
in 1889 and for four years after. District
Deputy Grand Sire Of the Grand Lodge
of the United States for the Territory of
Iowa, which included Wisconsin and all
the country known as the Territory of
Iowa. After 1871 he was District Deputy
Grand Sire for the Grand Lodge Of the
United States for the Northwestern States
north of forty degrees of north latitude.
He instituted the Grand Lodge, six en-
campments and eight lodges in Iowa; six
lodges in Wisconsin; the Grand Lodge,
one encampment and three lodges in
Minnesota; aud two encampments and
six lodges in Illinois.
Religious and Educational. 's'
"A creedless church has generally too
much religion to suit one class and not