The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-12-03

fleet has dwindlcd to two vessels-a brig
and schooner, and the former is the
only squarc-rigged craft owned in the
port at the present time.
The apple crop of California this
year is said to be the largest ever known.
santa Cruz County fruit-grower made
shipment to San Francisco, and the re-
turns brought him Sc in debt
Mr.: e. A. Kcene, of Appleton, Me-,
last spring received business letter in
which there happened to be a single
squash seed. He planted the seed, and
the result was Il squash measuring six
feet and seven inches in circumference,
weighing 1874 pounds.
An appendix to recent report on
Papcr-making as conducted in Western
Massachusetts" contains list of 1l2 ma
terials for making paper, and from all of
which fair quality of paper has been
produced. The Significance of these
facts becomes the more apparent when
it is remembered that the uses of paper
are increasing very rapidly, it being sub
stituted for both wood and metal in sew
erai departments of manufacture. Paper
vessels for the holding of water are now
OF very general use then we have paper
boats, billiard balls, car-whccls and even
houses are built entirely of it, as in the
instance OF paper church upon the
Continent.
- The usual method for manufacturing
parchment paper by immersion in dilute
sulphuric acid, is an operation recurring
extreme dclicacy of manipulation. \
German chemist announces the discovery
of less hazardous process, by which the
same result may be obtained and a paper
impervlOus to moisture secured. The
sheets of paper to be acted upon are inn
mcrsed in an ammoniacal solution of
copper and then carefully dried. The
paper thus obtained is said to be so thor
ougAly waterproof as not to lose its con-
sistency even after continued boiling
The ammoniacal solution is made by
treating plates of copper with Il conccn-
posed to the atmosphere
An improved kind of steam car or
carriage, adapted to street loconotion,
has been brought forward in England, the
advantages claimed for it being that it is
tree from the objections urged against
steam carriages in general 1t is fifteen
feet IN length, and consists of the three
necessary divisions, namely, the drivers
rear, with a compartment for passengers
in the center. 1t is carried on four
wheels, two at each end. When filled
with passengers, and provided with
water, etc, for Il journey, its weight is
only about four and a half tons, and it
will travel at the rate of about cight
miles an hour, on an average, the opera
ton and movement being in all respects
satisfactory.
Foreign Gossip.
The right to gather all the dead
leaves that fall in the public squares of
Paris sells for 81, 900 per annum
crease in the sale of imported OK tongues
is afforded by the trade done at Paysandu,
in Uruguay. At this little town during
were packed in Theoretically sealed tins
and shipped to England.
According to the ErioM Of Indin, IL
number OF Negapatam youths have been
arrested on the charge of hanging a boy
for fun" Deceased had murdered Ii
lizard, and the novel court decided that
he was worthy of death, all the proceed
ings being carried out in the most regular
order.
AS an illustration of the kind of
reasoning often heard from the lips of
! men when the interests of women are
under discussion, Mrs. Fawcett mentions
the case of an Englishman who opposed
the education of women because he had
tried it on his own daughter, "and it
was all wasted, for, after all, she was
married at nlnctccn"'
have for some time past been in the
habit of giving horses in their charge
choral, SO as to make them easier to
rule or drive. The drug acted like Il
charm, for horses which had previously
been so spirited as to give much trouble
to their drivers became as quiet as lambs
after few days of this treatment.
Berlin seems very DESTROYS to know
to what extent Belgium and Switzerland
are capable of defending respectively the
neutrality OF their territory. France can
invade Germany through either of these
countries if she chooses to disregard their
neutrality. Hence their neutrality is
Gcrmany's only guarantee on their from
tiers, and she wishes to know the exact
strength of that guarantee.
Recently telegraph clerk in France
refused to transmit q message in these
words: Third cpistlc of John, verses
IL and A. under the law which forbids
the transmission of dispatches not writ
ten in plain language. Reference to the
text indicates that the dispatch was
merely an economy of words. The text
is as follows: Il have many things to
write, but will not with ink and pen
write unto thee; but l trust shall
shortly see thee, and we shall speak face
to face"
The Paris police recently issued this
funny advertisement: There was found
yesterday at midday a bride, eighteen
years old, blue eyes, black hair. Can be
obtained on application to police head.
quarters" She was country girl who
came to Paris with her bctrothcd to get
married. They took cab at the sta
tion. On the way to the church the
man got out to make some purchase
The driver was tipsy, and, instead of
waiting, drove on, so they were separated
in the wilderness, and the police found
| the bride weeping in the cab.
Peru is just and gracious to its
women. n young lady DESTROYS of en-
tcring the law school at CuZco, an insti-
tuition supported by the State, wrote to
the Government to inquire if her Sex
, were bar to her admission. The Minis
ter of Justice promptly replied that all
Peruvian citiZ"ns should enjoy equal
rights; that women were considered by
the law as on the same footing with men,
as far as the privileges to be accorded by
the Republic were concerned, adding that
it was matter of peculiar pleasure to
the administration to improve the oppor-
tunity of giving publicity to such decla-
ration.
Certain French iaborcrs having oc-
casion to enter field infested with a
vigorous growth of prickly-nettles the
day following severe wind storm, were
surprised to find that the nettles which
shortly before produced severe stings
could now be handled with impunity.
NJ. Naudin states by way of an explana-
ton of this strange change in the char
acter of the nettle-sting that its poison
had a certain volatility and that II strong
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