The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-10-22
establishment of at least two additional

eStaOllSnueAt VI ~ IcdSt TWO aOQltlOnal
schools.
-Protestapts and Catholics are build,
ing church A6gether in Colima, Mexico,
to be occupied, alternate Sundays, by
priest and preacher. In this it's thought
Mexico leads the world.
The Sunday. schools of the European
Continent contain at least 100000 chill
dren. This cause has gained foothOld
in Germany, France, Switzerland, Hol-
land and Sweden, and is gaining in
Russia.
"A parents Prayer Union" has
been formed in London for the purpose
of arranging for parents ayermeetings,
the delivery of sermons and addresses to
parents, and the issue of books and
Tracts on parental duties.
Z The minutes of the Congregational
General Association in Indiana show
twenty-nine churches, twenty ministers,
and ,466 members, which makes a gain
of $50 in the last five years, instead of a
falling of, as was recently stated.
During the past year 131 out of the
entire number of students in attendance
at Amherst College received aid each to
the amount of 800. Next year some
notifications in the mode of distribution
will be introduced. Students who ask
for aid will be put on probation of six
weeks first to ascertain whether they are
worthy, and an effort is to be made to
give students, as far as possible, an OPP
portunity to earn the money thus be-
slowed.
The compulsory school law of Con-
necticut is said to have had the effect of
diminishing juvenile truancy in q very
marked degree. According to the sta
tistics of attendance as compared with
previous years $500 children have been
compelled to attend school who would
otherwise, in all probability, have grown
up in ignorance. Only 1900 children in
the entire commonwealth, it is said, are
now unaccounted for either in the
schools or workshops.
Personal and Literary.
John Mitchell, according to a Phila-
delphia paper, hates two tRings-consti-
tuted authority and hard work.
Talking of Goldsmith Maid, it may be
we'll to state that she is seventeen years
of age, is owned by Henry N. Smith, of
New York, who says he won't sell her for
100000.
"A recent writer says man with his
first book has an exaggerated idea of its
Importance and of his own. "He is like
a man with boil on the end of his nose.
The affair fills large space in his con-
sciOusness."
On Andy Johnson's place at Green
vile, Tenn, are two magnificent weeping
WILLOWS that have been grown from sprigs
taken by traveller from the tree that
formerly overshadowed the grave of Ma
poleon l. at st. Helena.
ALBERT F. Webster saws that Boston
expression is marked by a serene and
marble, yet gracious, repose of the feat
ures. 1t is generated by consciousness
Of the possession of actual knowledge of
roots and primal causes.
DIR. l. 1. Hayes in letter to the Tri1-
ssa1e declares his conviction that an open
Polar Sea can be reached by steam YES
sci through Smiths Sound, and announces
his readiness to start on another voyage
of exploration when the means are forth
coming.
Mark Twain to Redpath: "Your
offer OF $50, 600 to lecture fifty nights
does not tempt me. have run about
the world long enough. l mean to live
and die ut home, now, if l starve at it.
l love you, but l cannot lecture any
more"
Rev. w. H. Cudworth, who has sal.
airy of $4,000 in Boston, declines a call
to the Church of the Messiah at New
York, though $4,000 year is offered him,
because he believes "that the opportuni-
ties for Christian usefulness are more
promising in Boston than New York"
MIR. Fitch, the husband of the period,
is thirty-one years old, and has served in
the navy nine years. :. Mrs. Fitch, the
brida 81. the period, is fair yOang girl,
SAout- twenty-three years Of age, by no
means hafdsume, but possessed of most
lovely and amiable traits of character.
Bailey, in one of his London letters,
says that one English dinner in the mex
perienced American stomach will pro-
duce, that night, eight bears with calico
tails, eleven giants with illuminated
heads, one awful dog with twelve legs
and fourteen bow-legged rufflans chased
by q host of piratical cauliflowers,
mounted on saddles of beef roasted.