The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-02-05

neighbor, the speaker VIGOROUSLY con-
tinued to advance over the ground from
which the other had retreated, until he
reached the second obstacle, another Sen.
ator, whom he usually put to flight In the
same manner"
Industrial.
Pittsburgh rolling mills are running
on double time.
The Bridgeport (Conn.) Cartridge
Company is working sixteen hours a
day.
The Canadians export four times
as much beef as they do lumber to En-.
gland.
I'm Michigan wheat is reported to
have yielded twenty bushels to the acre
the past year.
-Napa Zeal. still continues to send to
market grapes fresh from the vines, pick
ed in December.
San Francisco is doing a great bust
ness in the manufacture Of cast-iron cot
inns. Orders are received from all parts
of the world.
"A Vermont farmer has a COW tina,
made 1541< pounds of butter in 100 days
besides all the cream and milk wanted in
his family of four or five persons.
The Sacramento beet sugar factory
has suspended operations, for want Of
materials. The farmers failed to raise the
beets; they all went in for wheat.
In Portland, Oregon, they have estab
lished and in full operation, match fac
tory that turns out the best kind Of
matches. BY the advice of wholesale
merchants the prOprietors stamp them q.
| manufactured in Califol mia to insure {
ready sale.
"A company of British capitalists l av,
recently invested 100000 in waite
power at Augusta, Ga, for the purpos,
of manufacturing cotton. A fine cotto,
mill is on the property, and it has beer
proved that cotton can be spun there con
siderably cheaper than in Old or New
England.
The system of associated dairyins
has become we'll established in Maine
There are twenty cheese factories alread,
in operation, most of them having beer
put In operation for the first time las
season, and eight others are preparing t.
begin work in the spring. The success O
the factories has been very encouraging
The Homestead says: civilian B
King, of Sufield, Conn, has a breeding
sow, six years ole, which he is now fatten
ing, that has had lis pigs which sold fol-
| over five hundred dollars. He has now
three sows which have one litter three
weeks, one two weeks, and one one week
old; in all thirty-one. These four sows
have raised since this year came in, seven
ty-eight pigs"
The Wichita (Kansas) Eagle says thai
the large herds of Texas cattle being win
tered over in Sedgwick and adjoining
counties, upon contract, are doing splea
didly. The percentage of loss this win
ter will be very light, unless we should
have a severe and backward spring. The
herds out upon the buffalo range appear
to be thriving equally we'll. From all
accounts large per cent. of these cattle
will be shipped in the early summer
which will make better times.
Miscellaneous.
Somebody, who has taken the trouble
to compile the statistics of violent deaths
in 1873 gratuitously, finds that more PEG
pie died by drowning than any othel
means.
"A new stove has been invented for tn,
comfort of travellers; it is to be put unde
the feet, with o mustard plaster to tn,
head, which draws the heat through tn,
whole system.
The New York Euening Nail is re
sponsible for the statement that there i
one member of Congress who has not .
plan for the resumption of specie pay
ments, but it withhOlds his name.
| Spanish proverbs are at discoun
just now; but this one is at par: "A
eighteen marry your daughter to her 81
perior; at twenty, to her equal; but q
thirty, to anybody who will have her."
Two Pittsburgh penny surveyor
have found a tract of land in that city OF
which derots, foundries, etc., are built
and which is valued at $4,000, OO0
and have laid claim to it. The case is il
court, and has not yet been decided.
| "A writer in the Medical Times and Ga
sette argues that fatigue in long railwa,
journey arises from the constant tremblini
motion of the floor under the feet, ane
that the use of an air cushion or a foot
stool relieves all sense of WEAKNESS.
The day when boy begins to feel un
easy at being dependent upon somebod,
else is the day when his boyhood begin
to give way to manhood. The day whel
girl finds somebody on whom she i
willing to depend is that in which sh
passes from girlhood to womanhood.
"A never-yielding problem to a newly
married man is how to carry groceries *
that the people will not suspect that he il
just married. One man looks so sheep
ish that the fact is publicly advertised
while another, in trying to avoid this ex
treme, becomes so preternaturally solemn
that he is betrayed at once.
"A paper was recently read befor,
the French Academy extolling the viz
tues of buttermilk. It claims for thi,
article . good share of the acid which de
stroys the lncrustati0ns which form or
the arteries, cartilagcs and valves of tn,
heart, and believes constant use of but
termilk will free the system from trouble!
which inevitably cause death between thu
seventy-fifth aid hundredth years ofman'.
life.
Bright sunshine; a blue firmamen
with masses Of fieecy clouds tumblin&
through it; dry walks and lounginl
clerks; light breeze tossing the moisteneC
air and tanning the cheeks of the people
cackling hens, winking cats and stretch
ing dogs. And this mid-winter day il
the north.-Erchange
"A residence on Buchanan street, In
dianapolis, has the following conspicu
ously posted upon its front:
mo YouNaE man ALLOWED
To come and COURTE my
DARTER UNLESS
he has $4,000 to PAY DOWN
on HOUSE and Lot
balance in IL q yeares
for sail by me. WITHIN
Two neighbors had long and enven
omed litigation about small spring