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

versies of the Christian Church was about
the day on which Easter should be cele.
brated. One party held that, like Christ
mas, it should be en- the exact anniversary
OF the Savior's resurrection. The other,
that it should be on the first day of the
week, and on the first Sunday after the
anniversary. The one party claimed the
authority Of st. John; the other, that of
IS. Peter and Paul. The Church of
England and the church in America and
the whole Western church celebrate on
the hrst Sunday after the first full moon
after the vernal equinox-necessarily on
the Sunday following the exact anniver-
sary of the resurrection.
The Bishop of Minnesota, at his late
visit to the Indian mission at White
Earth, under the Indian clergyman.
Enmegahbowk, confirmed twelve Indians.
The hospital for the Indians is full of
patients. In his address the Bishop said !:
When first came among you, fourteen
years ago, there was not in Gods universe
9 more hopeless race than the Chippewas.
see before me now single Indians who
own more property than the whole band
OF Chippewas then possessed" There
are four candidates for orders among the
Chippewas; one is the son of the Head
Chief, one is the son of the Head Medicine
Man, and third is the son of the Indian
clergyman, the Rev. J. J. Enmegahbowk.
Personal and Literary.
The Pope will be eighty-one years
old on the 18th of May.
Jenny Lind would like to visit Amer.
lea this summer, but her husband OBJ
jects.
Josh Billings informs a San Fran
cisco interviewer that his income from
his "wurx" is about $15, 900 to $4,000 q
year.
st. George Tucker Campbell, who
died recently in Philadelphia, made be-
quests OF $1,000 each to nine charitable
institutions of that city.
The Cincinnati Commercial wanted a
stringent law against lotteries, and got
one, and Halstead was arrested the other
day for infringing the law.
"A Congressman recently apologized
Tor not delivering a speech on the cur.
rency question on the ground that all the
ahead.
None of the obituary anecdotes of
Agassiz mention how he got down on
his hands and knees to survey the Cardiff
Giant and pronounced it the greatest
wonder Of the world.
The American Tract Society having
offered 800 premium for the best tract on
1.-The Race for Wealth." it received $50
manuscripts, not one of which was ad-
judged worthy. The offer has now been
doubled in the hope that ADLER minds and
pens will take hold Of the subject.
Col. Boudinot, the Cherokee, who is
now iecturing in Connecticut, was once
a student in a school for Indians at Corn.
wall, in that State, but the institution was
broken up because Boudinot and another
Indian married white girls of Cornwall,
ana the people got very mad about it.
Some interruptions trif1er lately
copied Walt. Whitman's PRAYER Of
Columbus" and sent it to a Southern
paper for publication. The editor de.
cllned 1t, with the remark: "If the
author will leave whisky alone. he NAV
yet rise to be the chief deck-hand of q
canal boat"
"A Boston letter-writer says that
Nilsson is quite conscious of her own
personal charms, and recently she met q
young lady at the Hub, who remarked !:
Miss Nilsson, am delighted to have
the pleasure of seeing you, have been
told so often by my friends that resem.
Die you," whereupon the singer scanned
her Tor moment, and coOlly replied: 81
prefer my own face"
The Eastern papers have been indus
triously printing statement that Mark
Twain has received and paid bill for
complimentary supper given him by his
friends in Hartford. Twain saws about
the story: II have never been compli.
mented with dinner or q supper, and so
l wondered how that item got its start.
l believe have solved the problem. A
banquet was lately given in an authors
honor in America, and it was said in Jest
that he paid the bill himself. The lest
found its way into print, with the slight
amendment of naming me as the victim
instead of the other man. That compli.
Gates the joke and doubles the humor of
it. This is we'll enough. Life would be
dreary without jokes; jokes must have
victims; so may as we'll be the victim
this time. Where l was born they al
ways hang man that can't take q Joke"
Foreign GOssip.
One of the smallest stations on the
new Russian railroad is named Werckre-