The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-04-30

New potatoes in Texas. "Old Prob
abilities" in Maine.
-"Tropical fruit trains" from New Or.
leans will roll up the Illinois Central.
- The cut of logs on the upper Missis-
slppi River is "boomingly" large this
The maple sugar yield in New Hamp.
shlre this year Is reported to he unusually
large.
"A Rochester man has invented a kern.
sene lamp which gives as bright lieht "A
gas, and uses no glass chimney.
The strike in the English cotton mills
continues. and If the spinners persist in
their demands the association of master
spinners declare they will close their
mills, thereby locking out some $4,000
operatives.
Some 1900 glass-blowers recently
struck at Camden, N. j., on account OF
the practice OF the managers of the works
in paying their wages in store orders, en-
titling them to merchandise at the COM
pany's store.
Making butter cut of beef suet is evil
oently profitable to the stockholders,
however 1t may be tor those who use the
product. The New Haven COMPANY en-.
gagged In that business have lust declared
. 90 per cent. dividend.
Tho Eoonomise Francatse reports an
almost complete stsgnation of business in
France, and particularly in Paris. There
10 but little demand for goods, and but for
the export trade the situation would be
desperate. The industrial establishments
are Diminishing their hands or greatly re-
ducing their number. The misery among
the working classes is such AZ It was in
Normandy when the cotton manufacturer
were suffering from the closing of the
cotton markets during the late war in the
United States.
xiscellaneOus.
The gait of fast age: Investigate.
People who own bay windows
shouldn't throw stones.
-Widows who cry most are easiest con.
soled; there is nothing like wet weather
for transplanring.
1t is wonder scarf.pins don't get
sea.sick-they often ride on the bosom of
such heavy swells.
-Oh, bother cremation! We have to
earn our living-and We don't want to be
compelled to urn our dead.
-Undressed kid gloves are verv FASH
ionable. One objection to them is that
they soil very easily, especially on the
knuckles.
80 never knew it so difficult to make
collections" said an old merchant, as it
Is nowadays; find 1t almost impossible
even to collect my thoughts"
There are two reasons why some peo-
pie don't mind their own business. One
is that they haven't any business, and the
other is they haven't any mind.
An Illinois Judge has decided that
the marriage of man subsequent to max.
ing his will acts as q revocation of that
instrument. The wife's "will" remains
intact.-BOstoas Post.
-Parasols for walking are small um-
brellas of twilled silk on paragon frames
with a malacca stick and fancy handle of
ivory, comedian, oxidized silver, gilt or
ebony. They are an important addition to
the costume.
Tho Scientific american predicts that
the time will soon come when ice will be
manufactured in all our great cities at q
dollar ton. Manufactured ice at g q
ton has for some time been in the market
of New Orleans.
~ fear" said country minister to
his flock, when explained to you in
my last charity sermon that philanthropy
was the love of our species you must
have understood me to say specie which
may account for the smallness of the col.
lection"
An exchange recommends that when
you buy new lamp chimney you nut it
in vessel of cold water, set it On the
stove and boil. You can never break that
chimney unless you throw flatiron ct it,
and it won't break even then-if YOU
miss it.
An exchange has the following fu-
nera! notice: "a long funeral corteke
wended Its solemn way TO the cemetery
yesterday. The deceased was man who
neglected to buy q nice warm suit of
underwear at the Emporium Bazaar. Be
wise in time. The store is crowded with
lovely ladies, and the spruce clerks are
hopping round like flea on q hot grid.
die. Call before it is too late"
On cambridge Island, Washington
Territory, recently, logger accidentally
discovered the outcroppines of a coal
mine. He mentioned the fact in CONVEX.
sation, and some of his hearers at once
proceeded to the locality, and finding that
there was coal vein there they chartered
steamer to Olympia and pre.empted
the land, thus snatching q fortune from
the logger.