The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-01-15


coOpefatite working Of coal mines on q
lafge scale; The 6-opsrative idea has
been spreading for SOME time among the
GOLFERS. Their Organizations are bower
ful, and they have an abundant cotflmand
OF funds. They begin to think that they
can work their own mines. and add the
prott OF trade; or portion of it, to that
OF labor; and, that their desire in this
may take effect, the leading CO.
operators of the metropolis, as we'll as of
the North of England, have volunteered
to work in harmony with them.
Foreign Gossip.
Woman suffrage is declining in En-.
gland.
The Duchess Of Aosta, wife of ex-
King Amadeus of Spain, has the con-
sumption.
The new Sultan of Morocco has
broken up the harem of his father. and
will keep only one wife.
Under the new coin system of the
German Empire, silver is no longer legal.
tender, except for very small amounts.
The monument which Disraeli has
erected to the MEMORY of his wife bears
the simple epitaph, 20 dulcis conjux."
The Marquis of Westminster, with
his London rent-roll of 100000 per an.
mum, has not felt any ill effects from the
late panic.
"A pugilistic Irishman in England,
being bound over to keep the peace on
all British subjects, remarked, "The Lord
help the first foreigner l meet"
I
short duration. His health is failing so
rapidly that in the ordinary course OF
events he can survive but few months.
"A man has been sentenced to forty
lashes and five years. penal servitude in
England, for throwing snuff in the eyes
of jeweler and then stealing three
diamond rings.
The rector of the Glasgow University
Chapel, in recent sermon, said: 30, for
light, more light" The janitor thought
that he really meant it, and turned on the
gas to full head.
The works for the submarine tunnel
under the English channel are to be be-
gun Immediately. Shafts are to be sunk
at Dover and Cape Girls Nez, and tun
nels are to be run for mile in each direc.
ton under the sea.
MIR. Tennyson visited the WOolwich
arsenal lately and witnessed the casting
of a cannon. After the operation was fin.
ished, he remarked: "Vulcan would be
astonished if he saw how the thunderbolts
OF war are forged nowadays"
Roses are precious in Germany. Doc
uments exist to prove that nearly one
thousand years ago the stone roof of Hill.
deshiem Cathedral. in Germany, was
raised, in order to protect and give room
to a growing rosebush. 1t still grows
and flOurishes.
The rat-catchers in Paris are earning,
on an average, eight to ten francs day
The supply is at present fully equal to the
demand, the late war with GERMANY hay.
ing afforded an opportunity for the rats
to multiply, particularly at the time when
their enemies, the dogs and cats, were
being served up as rare dishes on Partisan
tables.
The Montreal firemen are to have q
new kind of respirator, consisting of a
metal case filled with glycerine and pow
dered charcoal. These will not only
preserve the men from sutfocation, bu,
also effectually prevent them from yell
ing, which all tiremen seem to think is
particularly efficacious in extinguishine
fires.
The noxious effects of mercury on the
health of workmen in factories where thi:
metal is used, have often been discussed
with view to remedy. Ammonia neu
tralizes its vapors, and in a looking. glas.
mandatory in France where the work
shops are sprinkled every evening will
ammonia, the health of the workpeopl,
does not suffer.
Mourning in the South Pacific is car
seem very curious. A widow will la,
aside her bonnet and wear the hat of he
late husband; sometimes a widower will
go about in a loose gown Of his departed
wife, worn over his own proper dress
Instead of shawl, a mother will plac,
on her back pair of trousers belonging
to little boy just laid in his grave.
The new French Minister to the Uni
ted States, Jean Francois Charles Barth
oldy, has had long diplomatic career
He is lawyer by profession, bit has serv
ed as translator in the Department of For
eign Affairs, Secretary of the Legation t.
Berlin, Special Agent to Turin, Vienn.
and Mexico, and also as Secretary to til,
French Embassy at St. Petersburg. H,
has been Jealous Bonapartist, but is nov
good enough Republican for McMahon'
purposes.
Sir Henry Thompson, the British
surgeon, feels that it is not proper for him
at present to refute the court charges tina
have been made against him of improper
treatment Of the late Emperor Napoleon
After remarking to this effect at recen
supper Of the Midland Medical Society ir
Birmingham, Sir Henry said that he wa.
ready to rest any reputation he nigh
have upon everything he did in that case
and he might venture to say, in connec
ton Herewith, that he did not look back
with regret upon anything he counselet
or did, and that he should be able tt
prove its propriety when the time came
Germany is acquiring a reputation
for adulterating cigars. A writer in tina
country says all sorts of solid substance.
may be found rolled up in the leaf of thu
fragrant weeG. The following have beer
found: Bristles, hair, wood, bits of liner
and of leather, needles, shirt buttons, ant
teeth. These substances glowing in thu
smokers cigar must astonish him
Through the middle of one goose.
feather was drawn from point to end il
another was a cord, and in third {
match, But far worse and more danger
GUS are those which conceal exploding
materials. These are the so-called Tex
plosive cigars" manufactured as sjokes,'
and not infrequently the cause of sever.
accidents. Cases have been reported
where sight has been totally destroyed.
grr Religious and Educational.
There are ten Baptist churches il
Delaware, with 85S members.
On an average, male school teacher
in Iowa are paid two and a third times a.
much as female teachers.
-Swedenborgianism was introduced il
America about ninety years ago, and nov
numbers about g. 600 adherents.
The Christian Leader complains o
the numerous clerical fiiibusters Wit
somehow drift into the pulpits of Uni
versalist churches. .-
Colorado Baptists propose tt
have Rocky Mountain University a