The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-08-20

of taste and utility and especially boxes
are made by the French from the mere
dust and filings of tortoise-shell. These
filings are sifted, softened, nodded and
formed into the boxes in question with
singular facility; they are nearly opaque
and often have q thin loop Of perfect
tortoise-shell inserted in the mold to
form the rabate of the box, and in this
way the appearance is greatly improved.
Sometimes, also, the shell shavings
are mixed with mineral cOl0ring
matters, to initiate lapis-lazuli, gran
lite, and other stones. This is a kind of
manufacture almost unknown in En-
gland, where tortoise-shell boxes are
usually made by veneering upon body
OF wood, the plates being reduced to uni.
form thinness, and glued as in other
kinds OF veneered work; but, that the
shell may not lose any of its effect, it is
rubbed at the back, either partially or
entirely, according to taste, with mix
ture of rich colors in fish glue-this serv-
ing to hide the wood on which the We
neer is to he placed, and also enhancing
the brilliancy of the tortoise-shell.
The Columbus (Ga.) Sun reports
that the iron-works of that city have per-
fected machines by which a superior
quality of ice, in quantities limited only
ny the capacity of the apparatus, can be
manufactured at cost ranging from Is
nm tor 0ZkA Z L.
maximum. "The Columbus process
claims to be an improvement upon every
other, in point Of economy and durabil-
slveness, rapidity and simplicity of the
operation. Distilled water is used, and
the ice is, therefore, purer than that cut
from standing ponds. The machines are
being built with capacity of from /, OOC
to 2,OOO pounds per day, and at prices
ranging from 5000 to &C, 900. They
can be used in the winter at less expense
than the cost of cutting and storing ice
by the ordinary process, and are as ad.
vantageOus in Northern as Southern lati.
tudes. When artificial ice was first pro.
duced, in France, it cost $40 per ton, OF
81 cents per pound. The process pat.
ented in Europe in 1850 by Prof. Twin.
ing, of Ohio, manufactured 5000 pounds
OF ice per day, at cost of $40 per ton
or cent per pound.
Miscellaneous.
TO cure dyspepsia: Close all the
outer doors of four-story house, open
the inner doors, and then take a lone
switch and chase a cat up and down
stairs till she sweats.
The best of travelling dresses after
all is black silk. 1t is genteel to begin
with, and when you arrive at your desti
nation you are not necessarily obliged tt
change your costume. There is NO rea
satisfaction in any but black silk.
Scarcely week passes without tn,
record of some wonderful surgical opera
ton. Sally Brown was lately taken i,
hand, had broken knee and dislocatet
rib taken out, and new ones put in, ant
she is now as good as ever. 1t may no
injure the story much to add that Sail,
is canal-boat.
The latest novelty in earrings i
probably the singular pair which wer,
sported by dashing Partisan belle at ,
recent wedding From each ear hung
small gold gridiron on which was laid
heart formed of garnets, the idea to b,
conveyed being that of bleeding hear
upon the fiery Goals of love.
"A Boston lawyer, under the will of
deceased. wife, claimed life interest il
a large estate in Kansas left by her, blu
her friends sought to break the will. AS
pertaining that under the laws of Kan
sas he would have been heir to the estat
if no will had been made, he pcrmitte,
them to break the will, and then, to thei
surprise and disgust, took possession O
the estate.
If view the human body in regar,
to its maladies and the season of tn,
year, says an English observer, we shall
find that summer is divided from white
by line drawn from somewhere BY tn,
third button of the waistcoat. AS tn,
mercury in the thermometer goes up ou
ailments 60 down. In cold weather tn,
respiratory organs, in hot weather tn,
digestive organs, are severally the places
in which we 60 wrong:
1t will probably sometime be founl
that there is nothing utterly useless OF
noxious. The potato fly, which infect.
| the middle tier of States and is found
also in the South, has been experimental
| with, christened cantharis vittata, anG
found to be as excellent for blisterine
purposes as its cousin, the Spanish fl1
(cantharis vesicatoria). And an Indian
apolis firm of manufacturing chemists i.
now filling an order for 1000 pounds fo
an Eastern house.
| One day you will be pleased with
friend, and the next day disappointed il
him. 1t will lie so to the end; and vol
must make up your mind to it, and mo-
quarrel unless for very grave cause
Your friend, you have found out, is mo-
perfect. Nor are you; and you cannO
expect to get much more than you give
You must look for much weakness, fool
ishness, and vanity in human nature; il
is unhappy if you are too sharp in seeinl
them.-Country Parson.
I'm the training of little girl grea
pains should be taken to discover wha
gift or talent she has, if any, and, what
| ever her circumstances, to fit her for it.
use. Even putting the money value o.
such art or accomplishment out of thu
question, its aid as resource an(
strengthened is incalculable. Disap
pointment and grief come more easily t.
women than to men; they abide will
them longer, and sap more of their life
away, simply because they need the tonic
OF hard, enjoyable work-not the mere
drudgery of the bread-winner, but thu
toll Of the artist. Pride, philosophy, ever
religion, cannot give the new vitalit,
which such work bestows on the faithful
votary: 1t repairs bodily and menta
forces like nature itself, slowly, imper
ceptibly, surely. The father and mother
who can find in their daughter sucl
power, and give to her the means Of
using it, may count themselves happy
and her the inheritor of royal heritage
Publishing Marriage Engagements.
When two young German people be.
come engaged, it is their custom, as most
folks know, to announce the important