The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-01-08

Slantlnople. IL Is characterized by frOth-
ing at the mouth, running from the eyes
and nose, total loss of appetite, great
heat, and thirst so unsupportable that
some of the beasts attacked by the illness
cast themselves headlong into adjacent
rivers and streams, and are drowned.
The disease has been in existence for up-
ward of month in several villages on
the Bosphorus and Scutari. 1t attacks
bullOcks and cows exclusively.
Personal and Literary.
Mast has drawn $4,000 as the re-
suit of his lecture season.
Meal Dow is delivering temperance
lectures in Scotland.
General Heintzelman has been con-
nected with the army forty. seven years.
John Ruskin declares that Pope is
the most perfect representative we have of
the true English mind.
Vice President Wilson is testing the
virtues of water-cure establishment in
Western New York.
Ex-Governor Hoffman is accompa.
MED in his visit to Egypt by Generals In.
gals and Kiddoo. His family remain in
Paris.
When Boss Tweed took his seat in
the Senate, in 1868, he weighed 3O4
pounds; when weighed at Blackwell's
Island the figure was 1858.
jay Cooke and family are intending
to give up their residence at German
town, and propose boarding in Philadel-
phia during the winter.
The secret of John G. Saxe's poetry
has been detected. He draws his in
SEPARATION from the pure, pearly onion
He has already laid in forty bushels for
the winter.
Edmund Yates, when asked what ma
terials he wanted to write the account of
the inauguration for the Herald, replied:
Nothing but brandy and water and a
Girls, learn to swim, all of you. The
Misses Mixter, of Boston, who were saved
from the Vile du Havre, were excellent
swimmers. They went down with the
ship, and then struck out'
1t is said that Professor Proctor, the
English astronomer, is so pleased with
the educational advantages to be obtained
in the United States, that he proposes to
educate his children in this country.
james T. Fields we'll says of Agassiz:
"a grander soul never came to us from
the Old World, but never can America
sufficiently honor the memory of one of
the greatest benefactors of his race"
DIR. Van Buren,, an eminent physician
OF New York, died recently, and it was
publicly stated that his death was hast
ened by chagrin at the treatment to which
his son, Gen. Van Buren,, was subjected
in the matter of the Vienna Exhibition.
The London Bookseller records the
fact that what it naively terms 1.-THE
nuisance of street newsboys" was intro
duced into London in 1912 by an Amer
lean, Mr.. Isaac G. Pray, who started a
cheap newspaper Crhe Ecsniag STAR in
that year.
The charge that A. T. Stewart, the
Observation-Disclosures, never gives away
anything, even the utmost malevolence
can no longer report. He has given away
"a poor niece in marriage, and she is
now no longer dependent upon him for
support.-Erchange
The Boston Adrertissr remarks that
Professor Agassiz died on the seventy
fourth anniversary Of the death of Wash
lngton, aud almost at the same hour of
the day, Washington dying between
eleven and twelve O'Clock on the night of
the 14th of December, and Professor
Agassiz between ten and eleven o'clock
on the night OF December II, 1873.
Professor Agassiz's illness was of so
obscure q nature and SO puzzling to his
physicians, Drs. Brown-Sequard and
Wyman, that his friends readily consent
ed to post-mortem examination, and
one was held, seven of the most eminent
physicians of Boston and Cambridge
being present. All the organs were mi
nutely examined. The stomach and liver
were free from disease, but the heart
showed traces of the trouble with which
the professor suffered, few years ago.
Special attention was paid to the brain,
which was very large and heavy. 1t was
not unusually full Of blood, but careful
examination of the base of the organ led
to the belief that there was the seat of the
disease. The physicians determined to
submit the brain to close microscopic
dict some time, but will give it much
greater value.
Hugh Miller, whose fame is world
wide, was first brought to the notice of
scientific men by Prot. Agassiz. At
meeting of the British Scientific Society,
Miller, who was then a common day Ia.
borer, approached Agassiz with a speci-
men of rock in his land, and began to
make certain inquiries concerning it.
During the conversation that ensued,
Agassiz discovered that this common day
laborer was possessed of large fund Of
geological information, which he had &C.
quired by personal Investigations, induced
solely by his innate love for the science.
Agassiz was delighted at meeting him,
and introduced Miller to the members of
the Society, explaining the manner in
which he had become acquainted with
him. The friendships thus formed con.
tinued through their lives, and Agassiz
wrote the Introduction to Hugh Miller's
first published work.
Religious and Educational.
"A minister in the Disciples Church
recently immersed one hundred and forty.
three persons in the Mississippi river In
less than one hour.
The Rev. j. II. Wilbur, who has for
the last twelve years labored among the
Yokima Indians, in Oregon, says that
there are about 400 converted Indians un.
der his care, and in every case there has