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


October 2, 1873, it appears that American
Sea Island constitutes only about one
third of the long-stapled cotton now con.
sumed in England, Egypt furnishing half
as much again.
Foreign Gossip.
The Duke de Montpensier has Just
lost favorite son.
"A circus rider broke his neck in the
Champs Elysees, Paris, the other day.
-Bazaine has continuous headaches,
paroxysms of feverishness, and cold
sweats.
1t has been ascertained that CASTELAR,
is Jew, and it has also been ascertained
that he is nothing of the sort.
The Royal Museum in Athens, Greece,
IS ABOUT to obtain a manuscript of the
New Testament, which is said to have
been written in the year 48O.
10. Arch, being interviewed since his
return to England, says he "intends to 60
on until he had drained the country of
every agricultural laborer."
The Secretary of the Great Eastern
steamship Company has been sentenced
to ten years. penal servitude for defraud-
ing the Company Of more than $500, 900.
The Austrian Government has decided
not to tear down the exhibition buildine.
OUT 10 Keep 1t for uses similar to those to
which the Sydenham crystal palace is
put.
Prince Leopold, of the English royal
family, is suffering severely from hemor-
image, arising from extreme thinness of
the veins and skin, through which the
blood forces its way.
,-Sainte Marguerite, where Marshal
bazalne will end his days, lie a small isl.
and of the southern coast of France. 1t
was at Cannes, the point of embarkation
TOR this island, that Napoleon landed on
his return from Elba.
"A Moscow beauty shot herself at the
ball given to celebrate her birthday, be-
cause her betrothed got beastly drunk and
cut up badly. She requested the band to
play a tavorite air, went to the balcony
and committed the fatal act.
-Woerlau, a bookseller of Nuremberg,
at recent public meeting, spoke of the
Emperor of Germany and his Chancellor
as Herr Wilhelm Hohenzollern and his
dragon, Bismarck" He is now serving
out term of three months in prison.
I'm the Prussian Parliament the Ultra.
montanes have introduced motion in
favor OF direct and uniform suffrage. The
Government party regards this as unsea-
sonable, and will vote indirectly against
it. The Radicals will probably sustain it.
The great clock of the House of Par
Lament, London, has been misbehaving
itself: 1t lost nearly one second last
month, and consequently has been STOP
ped tor cleaning. The average variation
OF this clock does not amount to quarter
of a second in year.
The sap of the papaya (pawpaw) tree
is used in India to make meat tender, and
even the exhalations from the tree have
the same effect. Assistant Surgeon Gopal
Chandler Roy compares the action to that
OF terment, and suggests the administra-
ton OF few grains of the dried juice
after meals in cases Of Indigestion, caused
by deficient secretion of gastric juice.
Thomas Baring's principal heir is
Lord NorthbrOok, Governor General O;
India, who comes st once into fortune
Of 81 ESQ, 900, or $3.50, 600 of our money
The deceased banker has left, altogether
over $4,000, 900 ($l0, OOO, OOOl to say moth.
ing of a collection of pictures and objects
of art. The legacy duty on Lord North.
brooks share alone will amount to a trifle
over 100000.
"A New York merchant, writing from
Honolulu, says: 1.-TWO weeks ago we had
ball at the palace of our King, Lunalilu
l. He is our friend. When he was still
merely Crown Prince l loaned him g.
only for day. he said. When l met
him year after I reminded him of the
loan, but he told me to wait till he should
have become King, of which the pros.
poets were then very slight. But now he
is King, and have silently made him
a present of the 50. Cheap friendship,
considering he is King"
"A man in HindOstan was accused of
stealing sheep and was confronted with
the reputed owner in presence of the
Judge. Not being able to decide the
ownership, and knowing the custom OF
the shepherds and the habits of the sheep
the Judge sent one of the men into an.
other room, ordered in the sheep, and
asked the accuser to call it to him; the
animal would not go, but the man in the
other room gave a peculiar "cluck," al
which the sheep bounded to him at once
and the ownership was decided.
Miscellaneous.
The largest room in the world-the
room for improvement.
Troubles are like dogs; the smalle,
they are the more they annoy you.
Douglas Jerrold, on being asked wha,
was meant by dogmatism, answered, pup
pyism come to maturity"
Fer the first time since the war fash.
ionable ladies now wear cleaned kid
gloves, one result of the panic.
The last instance of originality in q
marriage announcement is the following
mo cards, no cakes, no fuss"
"A lady says she always feels we'll
dressed when she has on handsome fitting
gloves and shoes, no matter how plain the
rest of her dress.
The New York Tribune says that mil.
lionaires, so plentiful year ago, are now
as scarce as hens teeth, and about as or.
namental to society.
"A Normal College professor holds
that 1.-THE State must not 60 back to the
psychological, ethical genesis of mega.
tive deed" Who shall dispute him!
-"Matrimony is rather risky business
in these later days." according to q New
York paper, land parties should careful.
" calculate the chances before commit
ting it."
If the only way of getting wife were
by stealing woman and running away
with her, it is donhtfnl uhatlasr shoro
would be an old maid left in the country
in twelve.month.
-Bergh claims for the rat higher
place, so far as utility is concerned, than
the gambler or thief holds, and says that
the principle on which we exterminate
rats requires us also to exterminate gamb.
lers and sporting men. Is he far wrong
"A meeting of the proprietors of news
papers in England has been called to con.
slider the subject Of the protection of pub
lie journals from vexatious suits under
the libel laws, and to reform the statutes
in renard To lihela 1rhich ora a r0lic Of