The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-09-17
Miscellaneous.

"A little girl said of her ill-tcmpered
uncle: =" He hasn't got single laugh in
his face"
There is much point in a remark
some one made recently to the effect that
the wisest being who ever walked on
earth never wrote but once, and then
wrote in the sand.
1T has recently been asccrtaincd that
the temperature of the upper strata of
the earth's atmosphere is warmer than
the lower strata, which is quite the re-
verse of the previous hypothesis.
of all the arts for ministering to hu-
man vanity, says c. ID. Warner, the pho
geographic is the most useful, but it is a
poor aid in the revelation of character
You shall learn more of mans real ma
ture by seeing him walk once up the
broad aisle of his church to his pew on
Sunday than by studying his photograph
for Il month.
AT Toledo, Ohio, a few evenings
since, an old gentleman with defective
vision was a passenger in railway car,
and ut one of the stations was attracted
by the cry of "Pcachcs." lie at once
put his head out of the window to make
purchase, and found out too late that
the window was closed. He paid for the
glass and didn't get his peaches.
Nitrous oxide causes people to laugh
who inhale it, because it Introduces into
the body more oxygen than can he con-
sumcd. 1t therefore dcrangcs the ncrv-
GUS system, and, being powerful slim.
ulant, gives an unnatural activity to the
nervous centers and brain. This dc
rangcment usually exhibits itself in a
plcasurable excitement to those who in
hale it-causing them to be merry, al.
most to insanity. 1t has therefore been
called laughing gas.-7ne Druggist.
The world is waiting for the discOv
ercr who will explode water. The diff
Guilty is that water when heated goes of
in steam. If it would only explode it
would be far more powerful than gun
powder. The nearest anyone has vet
come TO accomplishing the fcat-and the
experiments have been numtrOus-is by
putting quantity, not more than Il drop
of water into Il ladlc, partly filled with
lead, and giving a gentle tap to the sur.
face of the melted lead The explosion
is said to have shown il tremendous
force, and to have scattered che lead be
yond recovery.
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Nearly every season paragraph
goes the round OF the newspapers assert.
ing that the movements of IL tide have
been noticed in the great lakes. 1t is
we'll known, however, that such is not
the case. In order to establish the fact
however, one way or the other, one of the
ablcst officers connected with the United
States lake survey, ut Detroit, Mich, fol
several seasons carried out Il series OF
observations ut several points upon tho
lakes, the effect of which would be tC
show that there was Il tide, providing
such flow of water existed. The re
suit, however, was established without :
doubt that no tide was perccptible ut an,
OF the points, or il so not to exceed ont
or two inches, which was practically ne
tide at all