The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-03-19

MiscellanoOus.
"A new name for tight boots "a corn
crib.
An effort is being made to introduce
again the Irish bogwood jewelry.
Another prize-dghter has been pum-
meled into insensibility In New York.
"A sprightly young man says he is
not OF the stay-athome nor stay-atthe-
homely sort.
American ladies in Paris write home
that the ladies there are wearing boots
made of Russian leather.
1t is now understood that all de-
mands upon bank, to be needed, must
be made through its cash.ear.
Judge Stevens has orderedt he arrest
of every man who is heard swearing on
the streets of Lawrence, Mass.
When Smithers came home from the
club, the other night, his wife quietly re.
marked that he had evidently been badly
treated.
"A Connecticut husband lately sought
for divorce on the ground that his wife
ibid throw cucumbers in his face because
he helped himself too plentifully."
There is a time at which lamb be.
comes mutton; there is time at which
the mint sauce of Irritation has to be dis.
carded for the currant jelly of serious in
tentions.
"A circle of jokers was recently enter
tanned at Saginaw City by another on
boiled cat. The joke was we'll carried
out, but they thought the "rabbit" was
just little tough.
The people near Farmersville, Living
ston County, Mo-, were scared nearly out
OF their wits few days ago by the fall of
an immense aerolite. 1t now lies i'm
bedded in the ground, and is said to be
thirty five feet in diameter.
"A Hallowell clergyman incorporated
in prayer before the Maine Legislature
"a lobby speech" in favor of locating the
Girls Reform School in his town. And
he was fifty rebuked afterward BY the
passage of q resolution of censure.
The Philadelphia Ledger thinks that
the fuse of good, plain English is the
best for real strength and clearness of
speech; yet, if this be carried to the point
of forbidding the proper use of words
that represent foreign ideas, customs, or
even phrases, which have become EN-.
bodied in our literature, 1t would be as
injurious as going to the other extreme
Newspaper English may be made to
serve good purpose, for the haste and
facility of news and newspaper compost
ton may often give word q trial and
test that it could get nowhere else"
The Burlington Hasok. Ere SAYS the
young ladies of Alton have organized q
secret society, one of their strictest laws
being that not one of its members shall
with Qnv vn,1nr mon 0uho
smokes, chews, takes snuff, or uses pro-
fame language, or drives fast horses. II
the young ladies live up to their rules,
they will be the loneliest set of girls in
America. In retaliation the young men
should refuse to go with any young lady
who puts her hair in a box at bedtime,
and then things would "Flow gently,
sweet Alton"
"A novel dining table is now in use in
one of the palaces of the Emperor Of
Russia. The table is circular, and is
placed on weighted platform. At the
lamp, down goes the table through the
floor, and a new table loaded with fresh
dishes and supplies rises in its place
But this is not ali each plate stands on q
weighted disk, the table-cloth being cut
with circular openings, one for each plate
If a guest desires a change of plate, he
touches signal at his side, when, presto
his plate disappears and another rises
These mechanical dining tables render
the presence of servants quite superfluous
In this country, at the Oneida Community
they employ dining tables having til.
central part made to revolve. Here thu
goblets, spoons, tea and coffee, casters
pitchers, and other necessary articles o.
table furniture are placed revolving tn,
center piece, the sitter brings before him
whatever article may be desired without
the Intervention of special waiter.