The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-05-07
Personal and Literary,

Grandma Victoria toddles twenty.one
grand.chicks.
DIR. Mary Walker has had to sell her
watch to pay her board bill, but she's
going to stand right by until that PEN
sion comes.
MACK" is going to lecture next win.
ter ON "The Mysteries and Miseries of
Journalism" and thus add one more to
the miseries of the public.
1t is claimed for Mr.. s. O. TAYLOR. of
Brooklyn, that he is the oldest living or.
ganist. Mr.. Taylor is ninety-five years
of age, and is blind, and more than sixty
years ago conducted the same choruses
as now.
Senator Boutwell's illness, according
to the Boston Gazette, causes serious anx-
iety to his friends. The trouble is main.
ly with his head, which is in such q con-
dition as to render reading or writing to
any extent impossible.
The Oldest railroad conductor in New
York, and probably in the United States,
Is James Marshall, conductor on the Hud-
son River Railroad. He commenced on
the Harlem Road in the year 1885.
The following ansgram is among the
curiosities of the Tichborne case: The
letters forming the words, "Sir Roger
Charles Doughty Tichborne, Baronet,"
may be transposed, without addition or
omission, into the sentence, Yon horrid
butcher, Orion, biggest rascal here"
Prof J. Laurence Smith, of Louis.
vile, is said to have been the first person
to bring the subject of cremation before
the American people. He delivered q
lecture in New Orleans twenty wears ago.
in which he favored cremation, and de-
scribed plan for furnaces in which to
burn the dead.
Ann Eliza Young is playfully stated
BY washington reporter to wear large
!ocket suspended from her neck contain.
ing scraps of hair cut from Brigham's
scalp, but whether obtained in moments
OF peaceful submission or snatched in fits
of indignation at his treatment of his
nineteenth mother.in-law is not revealed.
The original band of Jubilee singers
from Fiske University, Nashville, Tenn,
now on professional visit to Great
Britain, have nearly finished their tour in
that country, and will embark in the early
part of May for home. Their success has
been fiattering, and they have realized as
the net result of their efforts 10000 to-
ward the funds of their institution.
-Vasquez, the California bandit, whose
head is worth $4,000 in gold, recently
paid poll tax on the precious article. He
met the Assessor, Mike Madigan, on the
highway in Los Angeles County, and rode
along with him for q whole day, chatting
good humoredly. On parting he handed
over his poll tax, which has been officially
returned as that of Tiburcio VasQuez.
The "Gilded Age" which bears the
names Of Mark Twain and Charles Dud-
ley Warner, is confidently asserted. to be
gigantic practical joke. It is said tha.,
wishing to test the credulity of the pub.
lie, these two authors had the book pre-
pared by several obscure newspaper local
reporters. The covenant was solemnly
made that the joke was to be kept pro.
found secret till 100000 copies Of the
work were sold.-N. T. Graphie.
"A Baltimore daily announces that
I" Halstead, of the Cincinnati Comsssrcial,
10 soon to marry an heiress Of Columbus,
Ohio" As there has been for years q
Mrs. Murat Halstead, not 10 speak of
nearly . bakers dozen of juvenile Hal.
steads, this information may be interest
ing, to her ct least A man who hath .
wife and children, - Lord Verulam puts
it. may have given hostages to fortune,
but the fact IL no security against his con-
Segment to paragraphic Mormonism any
day in the year.