The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-05-14

Glen. Schenck says the "wealthy
widow" to whom he has been reported
engaged is q Hoax. Extensive family,
the Hoaxes.
--Valedictory OF His Honor the Mayor
OF Denver: Thank God, it's over with!
wouldn't take it again for a kingdom,
not if knows it,
Congressman Hersey, of Maine, has
been obliged to leave Washington on &C.
count OF an illness which has almost re.
duced him to skeleton.
Gen. Hardee was kicked in the
side by q mule q few days ago and is
dangerously i'll. His tactics never pro-
vided for such rear movement.
.Gen. Francis A. Walker, superin-
tendent of the census, is doubtless the
only officer in the service Of the United
States who refuses to receive any salary.
-Bailey's farewell to Danbury and the
world in general in the Danbury Nescs is,
"Good-by. Owing to the press of adver.
Using matter we have been compelled to
crowd Mr.. Bailey out of this country"
-" was boy at Braddock's defeat in
1885," says Jean Revose, of Bracken
County, Ky. This beats Count Waldeck
and Capt. Lahrbush; in fact, Revose is
thought to be full 1870 years old, and the
oldest man in the civilized world.
Somebody tells rather amusing con-
versation of three men which he heard
on one of the New York ferry. boats just
after Summers death. One inquired why
the flags were at halfmast; one of his
companions didn't know; the third, how
ever, said, "Sumner's dead" "But who
is her" asked the first two. "Oh!' re-
piled the other, "he was a rich man:
believe he was rich editorp'
Miscellaneous.
Baltimore has decided that an Indian
is as good as anybody else as long as he
behaves himself.
The Boston Post strikes close to the
truth when it says: "The Jokes attempted
by some papers are like oysters fried in
An elevated purpose is a good and
ennobling thing, but we cannot begin at
the top of it. We must work up to it by
the often difficult path of daily duty-of
daily duty always carefully performed.
Mrs. Marrowfat says: "When a
woman begins to look around her in the
world, her eye lights with most satisfac.
ton on some other woman's bonnet that
isn't as extensively trimmed as her
own"
Short skirts will be worn during the
coming summer. The fashion of clean
ing the streets with costly or even plain
dresses is 80 disgusting to women of even
ordinary sensibilities that even Paris
cannot resist the opposition. The latest
assurance from abroad is that summer
walking skirts are to clear the ground
freely, and trains are not to be INDUCED
in on sidewalks any more.
A paragraph is travelling the rounds
of our exchanges which gives the follow.
ing popular" explanation of the way in
which the forthcoming transit of Venus
will be used to determine the distance of
the earth from the sun. "The problem is
simply the familiar geometrical process
of constructing two aides of triangle in
order to find the third" That is lucid
enough but unfortunately it is not true.
Practically we only know the length of
one side, which is drawn between two
points of observation on the earth's sur
face; and we are not too sure about the
exact value of that quantity. The transi,
will enable US to find the magnitude of
the angle opposite to that side, and the
other quantities in the triangle may be
found by an extension of the theorem that
the sides are proportional to the sides OF
their opposite angles.-Chicago Tribune.