The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-10-15

living, especially in linguist,cal litera-
ture, the Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic
and Semitic tongues generally.
MIR. Repworth Dixon has arranged
to turn an honest penny during his visit
to the United States. He has contracted
to write weekly letter from America,
which is to be manifolded and sent to
some twenty-five provincial journals,
each OF which is to nay two guineas for
the manuscript. Thus Mr.. Dixon will
get about fifty guineas week for per-
haps an hours labor. His second son is
with him, to act as his secretary and to
do the manifolding.
Miscellaneous.
Jones calls the chapter in a new novel
over which his wife wept profusely, a
watering-place.
The Rev. Mr.. Place, down Fast, an
nounces that the Lord will hold every
man responsible for each insect that he
kills.
1T has been truly said that silence is
a thing which is often difficult to keep
in the exact proportion as it is dangerous
not to keep it.
The Woman's Journal holds that it is
not lying for a woman of forty to swear
that her age is twenty-eight, providing
that she is looking for a husband.
Always acknowledge all courtesies
in kindly spirit. Throw a bouquet and
card of thanks to serenading party,
If not prepared to invite them in. II you
haven't a bouquet or card at hand,
throw bootjack, or IL brick, or anything
| of that sort.
Gambling was invented by the Lydi-
| ans when under the pressure of a great
famine. To divert themselves from
dwelling on their sufferings they invent.
ed dice, balls, tables, etc. 1t is added
that, to bear their calamity the better,
they used to play a whole day without
intermission, that they might not feel the
| effects of the want of food. The inven-
ton intended as remedy for hunger is
now very common cause for that evil
An interesting paper on the relations
between human mortality and the sea-
sons of the year, which was read before
the Scottish Meteorological Society by
DIR. Arthur Mitchell and Mr.. Alexander
that the death-rate from bronchitis, pneu.
monia, asthma and kindred diseases is
highest in cold weather; from brain dis
.oooI eoA' uiSioAS uAu NAOOPluS-COuSH
| it is highest in cold and dry weather
from suicides and smallpox in warn,
and dry weather; from diarrhea, dyson
EMERY and cholera in warm and moist
weather, and from rheumatism, heart
disease, diphtheria, scarlatina, measles
and Group in cold and moist weather.
There is a class of persons in this
world, by no means small, whose promi.
nent popularity is whining. They whine
because they are poor, or, if rich, be.
cause they have no health to enjoy their
| riches; they whine because it is too
sunny; they whine because they shave
no luck, and others prosperity exceeds
theirs; they whine because some friends
have died and they are still living; they
whine because they have aches and
pains, and they have aches and pains he.
cause they whine; and they whine, no
one can tell why. Now q word to these
whining persons First, stop whining
it is OF no use complaining, fretting,
fault-fnding and whining Why, you
are the most deluded set of creatures
that ever lived! Do you not know that
it is a well-settled principle Of physiology
and common sense that these habits are
more eXhausting to nervous vitality than
almost any other violation of physiology.
cal law? And do you not know that life
| is pretty much as you make it? You
can make it bright and sunshiny, or you
can make it dark and shadowy. This
life is meant only to discipline us-to fiji
us for higher and purer state of being
Then stop whining and fretting, and e
on your way NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..