The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-08-06

latest book is that of DR.. Leo Reinisch,
who, following the unscientific method
of the origin Of mankind at definite
place, brings the human race out of the
heart of Africa.
The Cunard Line of ocean steam
ers has fleet of forty-nine steamers.
whose tonnage is $4,000. They en-
ploy 1000 men on these vessels. As q
contrast it may lie stated that the entire
German navy numbers forty -one steam
ers, of $1,000 tons, manned by $500.
The city of London was recently
thrown into a state of great excitement
by the report that the Bri ish Museum
was on fire. Some person entered the
Holborn fire brigade station and tele-
graphed to all the metropolitan districts
the words: "All help to the British
Museum" Fourteen steam engines and
four hand machines were Immediately on
the ground, but it was soon discovered
that the alarm was a hoax.
Industrial.
1T is reported that the genuine rub
Der tree is found on the st. Johns River,
in Florida.
The Bowling Green (Ky.) Democrat
comes to the front with head of wheat
containing lib grains.
Fifty gallons of live cells for the
river at Buffalo, N. Y, are Seth Green's
last contribution to pisciculture.
The proposed tunnel beneath the
bed of the Mersey, between Liverpool
and Cheshire coast, will shortly be COM
menced by the sinking of the shaft on
the Liverpool side, and the work will be
completed in three or four years.
The steamer Dacotah, Capt. Sam
Painter, made in the latter part of May
| q trip from Fort Garry, in Manitoba, up
the Assinlboine River to Portage La
Prairie, $50 miles west of Garry. This
is the first steamer that ever went up the
Assiniboine.
Manufactures are making rapid
progress in Georgia. Thirty-four cotton
and wooden mills are now working in
that State, and they are said to be mod
els in all respects, as we'll in the per-
lection of their machinery and their i'm
| mense water-power as in the admirable
manner in which they are managed.
They are also said to be owned almost
exclusively by Southern men and worked
by Southern capital.
The growth of cities is due to the
number and variety of their industries,
and it is to this cause that Northern AMI
western cities owe their great popula-
tions. 1t would he well that Southern
cities should profit by this fact and be-
come centers of manufactures. Phiiadel-
phia, for instance, has II, 900 manufac-
tories which turn out 100000, 900 manu-
featured goods per annum, and popula-
ton OF three-quarters of million, living
in 126, 900 houses, of which 40, 600 are the
residences of working people.
An article of original manufacture,
called cane-fiber felt, is made by q Vir-
ginia company. It is the only felt made
from cane in the world. 1t is used as a
lining under tin, slate and single roofs,
and for deafening floors; ii also forms a
cheap carpet lining and is substitute
for plaster; in fact serves any use for
which felt can be employed in buildings,
1t is non-conductor of heat and cold,
and impervious to water or moisture
This felt is plain or resin sized, the latter
as we'll as the former being inodorous
1t is cheap, durably and free from objec-
tons which characterize other felts.
Machine for Asserting Potatoes
This machine consists of long rollers, q
hopper, asserting board and grading
chutes, SO combined and arranged that,
the potatoes being shoveled into the hop
per at one end and caused to run along
the assorting-board and the rollers, the
smaller potatoes will escape between the
roller and assorting-board, while the
larger ones will he discharged at the
end. The distance between the roller or
rollers and the assortingboard increases
from the head toward the tail, and the
potatoes escape through the space, vary
ing in size in the same measure, SO that
they can be separated into two or more
grades by suitable partitions in recepta-
cles below. The asserting aboard is ad-
Unstable toward and from the roller. SO
as to change the grade at will.
Religious and Educational.
There are only twenty-eight Ritual
lists in the English House of Lords.
The several Methodist churches of
Canada have agreed upon basis of
union.
"A Boston clergyman expresses the
belief that every member of the last Con-
gress lis destitute of experimental re-
ligion."
Mr.. White, Catholic curate of the
town of Enais, Ireland, recently spoke
from the altar against the Ballycoolie
races.
South Carolina Baptists have
pledged during the past two years $780,
600 or 100000 for the endowment of
Furman University.
The Baptist University at Des
Moines, Iowa, has had very prosperous
year. The attendance, male and female,
has amounted to 100.
California has seventy-seven Bap-
fist churches, Oregon fifty-three, Wash
ingtOn Territory five, and Nevada one,
making q total of 1876 ON the Pacific
| coast
a number of candidates for Drew
Theological Seminary have been
turned away for want of room, as the
utmost capacity of the buildings has
been reached.
The union of the different Presby-
terrain bodies in Canada is now virtually
accomplished. The synods will meet in
october to act on the reports of presby-
terles and to consummate the union.
The total income of the Irish Pres
byterian Church last year was e136, 149,
being an increase of $40, 729. There has
been decrease, however, in the number
Of members of 10000, the total being
109, 1896.
For seventeen years DR.. Samuel
Adler has led and instructed the Jewish
congregation, Temple Emanuel, of New
York city, and now the congregation
has retired him on competency and
presented him with handsome set of
silver.
The secession of clergymen from the
Established Church is causing alarm,
and statistics are published showing that
while the clergy have doubled in num-
Der since 1928 the clerical students at
colleges fifty years ago numbered $50
against $50 now.
Quincy College, Illinois, is to be re-
opened this fall with favorable pros
poets. Arrangements have been made
for suspending johnson College, of Ma
con City, Mo-, and transferring its pro
ceeds, together with all its subscriptions,
which will amount to nearly $4,000, to
Quincy.