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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-11-04
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

1t requires as much good common
sense and industry to save crop as to
raise it.
Fifty cents worth of lumber and an
hours labor will sometimes save many dol
lars in fuel.
"A P ennsylvania court has decided
that will written with a slate-pencil is
worthless.
"A youth called at the West Alaban,ian
Office one day and after watching them
set type while he said to one of the typos :
You use heap o. four: penny nails!''
AN old man in Georgia claims to have
pair of suspender- buckles which he has
worn constantly for fifty years, his father
previous.
-" Why is it," asks an exchange, "that
crlpples are such bad -natured people?"
we don't know, but they certainly are not
to blame for being little crutchetty.
The colored walters who were recently
taken from the East to minister to the
wants of the guests at the San Francisco
Palace Hotel were given a reception and
ball by the leading members of the ton in
colored society.
The innumerable suggestions made
to the Army Signal Service are proof of
the keenness with which the lack of OBJ
servers is felt in almost every field of sci
ence. The latest is that the observers
should note the flight of birds.
When lovely woman, once so jolly,
Finds late in life that hair grows gray,
How make her case less melancholy,
How hide Times step that none can stay?
The only way his track to cover,
To mask her age from every eye,
And If she have spoon for lover,
To keep him still "spoons" is-to dye!
Always be courteous. The maxim
was uppermost in the mind of the lady
who, wishing to say lively thing, ex-
claimed: "What a lovely boy! Just the
image of his father!" kneeling in simu-
lated enthusiasm beside the cradle where
she supposed the babe was sleeping, when,
to her confusion, the cat sprang from the
cot and cut short her eulogium.
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SchrO eder's BallOOn.Ship,

A NUMBER of persons yesterday visited
the intersection Of Boundary and Madi-
sion avenues to see Prof. Schroeder's
Siderable air-ship, with which he proposes
to visit different portions of the United
States and the old world, and he explained
to all the various sections and workings of
the machine. The ladies seemed to be
particularly interested, and told the pro-
fessor They would 80 love to take q trip
beyond the clouds in his air-ship." He
said to them that he never invited anyone
to make an ascension for the reason that
when they made one trip they always
wished to 60 again.
A number of applications have been re-
ceived to take passage in the airship, and
among them the application of Prot. Wise,
the aeronaut, who, with Prof. Schroeder,
is sanguine of the success of the enter
prise, and safe voyage across the At
lantic. Schroeder says he has expended
years of study and large sums of money
upon the invention and its final compile.
ton, and that many prominent scientists,
and especially those Of Europe, believe
that all that is expected Of the ship will be
realized. t@5
In 1879 Schroeder states that he made
an ascension with . similar machine,
similarly constructed, from Brazil.
Yesterday was the first day that an ex-
hibition was given Of the ship portion of
the balloon, the propellers, etc. It is
constructed of wire about thres.sixteenths
Of an inch in diameter, is eighty-five feet
In length, nine feet high and eight feet
wide. It's hitting capacity will be for ten
tons. ss''. a.
The balloon portion, of the air-ship,
which has not yet been adjusted, will lie
IS feet high, IS feet in circumference, and
65 feet in diameter. 1t is constructed of
I 800 yards e cases) Of cambria, from
which 1, 400 ropes win depend and hold
the ship. The pushing and pulling pro-
pellers to be attached to the bow and stern
Of the ship are 10 feet long and 81 feet in
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Business FalIures.

NEW YORK, Oct. ".
has issued statement Of business failures
thus far in 1875. Total failures in the
United States for the past nine months.
1884 total liabilities, $131, 172, 500. The
greatest number have occurred within the
last three months, involving liabilities
estimated at $54, 328, 2S7. Failures in New
York State, except New York city during
the past nine months, 476; liabilities, g..
474, 1857. Failures in New York city SIS ;
liabilities $31, 696 $50; California 1855 :;
liabilities S., 14, i'll; Connecticut 146:
liabilities 81, 1896, 500; Georgia 1923: liabili.
ties $4,3l8, 4S0; Illinois 277; liabilities
Sc, 1881 $40; Indiana 1856; liabilities 49,.
654 ,O12; Iowa 1871; liabilities $1,O14,8O5:
Kentucky 108; liabilities $2,5S2, 800:
Maryland IS; liabilities IS, 1924, 666; Mas.
sachusetts 564; liabilities SIS, SIS, 1871 ;
Michigan 172; liabilities 81, 400, 652; Min.
nesota 100; liabilities $1,368, 200; Missis-
sippi 145; liabilities $2,272,973; New
jersey n; liabilities 81 1874, 1903; Ohio 26O !:
liabilities $4,686, 1884; Pennsylvania 419 i;
liabilities 81, O19 1893; South Carolina 11S !;
liabilities 81 SIG, 235; Virginia and West
Virginia 80; liabilities 81 ,48O,37O; Wis
consin 1893; liabilities 81 ,523,O28.
The remaining States show a much
smaller proportion of failures. In Canada
for the same period there have been 1869
failures; liabilities $21 PISA.
A comparison of failures in the United
States for the past nine months with the
same period in former years gives the fol-
lowing result: 1872, failures $3.50, lia-
bilities SEQ, 0QQ, 600; 1873, failures 1857,
liabilities $17f, 900 600; 1874, failures ,371,
liabilities sic, OOO, 900, 1875, failures S 1884,
liabilities $131 ,000, 600; showing an ex-
cess over the average of the first nine
months during the past four years of ia
failures and an excess of s., 730, 600.
The number of failures in New York
city during the past nine months ex-
coed the same period last year by sixty
three, with an excess in liabilities. The
result in New York city is not considered
startling, taking an average of failures
during the past four years. There were
several heavy failures this year in this city,
which account for the increase in liabili-
ties.
The proportion of failures in Canada
has been 80 per cent. per $1,000, while in
the United States it has only been 8 per
cent per 81 900.
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height. These propellers will be covered
with canvas, as also the sides and top Of
the ship.
The ship, with the balloon portion and
steering apparatus, will be completed about
the LIST Of November, when Prof. Schroe-
der will undertake daily ascensions from
the hippodrome-lot. The ship is to be
worked by crew OF eight men, and
Schroeder says he can readily steer it
through the changing currents Of the air as
we'll as mariner does his vessel upon the
ocean.
About the 9Th of November he expects to
start upon his first trip, which will be from
Baltimore to New York, distance of 200
miles, which he thinks he will make in
three hours. He has, he says, made sew
enty- -four miles an hour In a balloon. The
venture across the Atlantic will not be
made until the spring of 1876. The ship
was christened few evenings since, at q
meeting OF the stockholders, the " City Of
Baltimore. "-Baltsnsore Gazette, Oct. 10.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-11-04

A Mr.. HoYT, of Lewiston, Me-, is posi-
tive that he has discovered perpetual mo-
ton after fifteen years Of work upon q
machine which is now completed. The
machine consists of large wheel with
four large iron tubes running from center
to circumference Of such peculiar curve
that two cannon balls, which run inside
them, can run back and forth as the wheel
turns, and which, by an ingenious system
Of levers, are so disposed that the weight
of the wheel is always at the circumfer-
ence at . point where the action Of grav-
itation will act upon them and always at
the center when the action of gravita-
ton would naturally cause the wheel to
stop. 81.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-11-04

A FARMER had some business to trans
act in the Merrill Block the other day, and
on leaving the Office he, by mistake, en-.
tered another, which has no less than four
doors opening into halls. He apologized
and backed out, and the next moment en-
} tered by the second door. Recognizing
the man before him, the farmer backed
out again, . puzzled look on his face. He
struck the third door, backed out and
when he entered the fourth and still saw
the same man, sitting at the same table, he
blurted out: Wall, blast my buttons!
I'm either fool or else you occupy this
whole block!"-Detrojt Frss Press.
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Comfort vs.. Style.

How unsatisfactory is the possession O.
q meerschaum pipe! Surprising you to
have secured fine pipe-the best pipe
in the universe, say-you would not be
more happy than miserable. The whole
universe seems leagued to destroy it. You
fear to put it away lest harm should come
to it in your absence; equally do you
dread taking it up, for there is the risk of
dropping, scratching, breaking. While
smoking it you cautiously keep on the
morocco case; handling it would soil the
bowl, and you have heard that the color
ing oil evaporates if the pipe he exposed
to the air. The longer and more CON-
pletely your precautions are successful
the greater your anxiety and nervous ap-
prehension; and If, after all tit generally
ends so), the cherished, the inimita-
BILE, the invaluable meerschaum is broken
all to pieces, your agonizing sense of loss
pays dear for your season Of uneasy
ecstacy.
This ever-present excitement and un-
rest is destructive to the peace and COM
fort which should attend thoughts of pipe
smoking. Our pipe should be our refuge
and solace rather than our care and tor
ment. You will seldom find smoker of
age and experience indulging his habit
through costly and fragile medium; pos
sibly, if he be rich, he will take you to
his cabinet and parade before you choice
specimen of "real Vienna" but you will
notice that the clay is still virgin; and,
having carefully locked it back in the
cabinet, your experienced friend picks up
some battered, disreputable- looking old
corn-cob or other, which he loads and fires
with sigh of relief and satisfaction; and
when he is through smoking he throws
the corn-cob carelessly on the table, nor
careth he should 1t fall thence to the
floor; bless you! the cora-cob can stand
it. Be not deceived by the seeming
neglect, however; trust me, your wise
friend loves corn-cob from his heart, and
would feel its loss there, while the " choice
Vienna's' evanishment would chiefly har-
row MISREPRESENTATION Hasottorne, in
the GALAXY for Nouember.
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A Drink OF Blood.

A reporter of the Cincinnati Commercial
went around among the Hebrew slaughter
houses of that city the other day, and at
one place he drank a glass of bullock's
blood-a beverage that is often INDUCED
in by consumptives-and then he went
home and wrote about its effects in this
way:
And how did it taste? Fancy the
richest cream, warm, with tart sweetness
and the healthy strength of the pure wine
g. that gladdeneth the heart of man." 1t
was draught simply delicious, sweeter
than any connection of the chemist, the
confectioner, the wine was the
very elixir of life itself. The popular idea
that blood is difficult to drink is an utter
fallacy, and the most timid, with the warm
glass in his hand, must be treasured by
one glance ct its clear contents. He will
forget all the familiar feelings of sickness
conjured up by that terrible word,
BLOOD" it is not blood" any longer, in
his eyes, but rosy life, warm and palpita-
ting with the impulse Of the warm hearts
last palpitation; it is ruddy, vigorous,
healthful life-not the essence, but the
protoplasmic fluid itself-turned in an in
slant from its natural channel. No other
earthly draught can rival such crimson
cream, and its strength spreads through
veins with the very rapidity of wine Per
haps the knowledge Of its invigorating
properties originated that terrible express
sion, "drunk with blood" That the first
draught will create desire for second;
that second may create an actual blood
thirstiness, in the literal sense of the word !;
that such thirst might lead to the worst
consequences in coarse and brutal ma
ture, we are rather inclined to believe is
not only possible, but probable. The
healthy and vigorous should respect the
law Of Moses in this regard. Perhaps it
was through occasional indulgence in a
draught Of human blood before mems
veins were poisoned with tobacco and bad
liquor that provoked the monstrous cruel
ties of certain Augustine Emperors. Per-
haps it was such passion that, as De
Quincy has 1t, left Caligula. while toying
with the polished throat of his wife C9so-
mia, half distracted between the pleasure
of caressing (which he might do fire.
quently-and Of cutting it, which could
be enjoyed but once.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-11-04

A MADRID telegram Of the e5th says the
Carlist leader, Mendiri, had recognized the
Government of King Alphonso.
A MONTREAL (Canada) dispatch of the 25th
announces the failure Of the Moisic Iron
Works Company, of that city; liabilities esti-
mated at $3.50 600
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The United States Econonist says: ut
Is q significant fact that all the failures
which occurred from the commencement
of the panic of 1873 to the present time
were caused by excessive speculation; en-
gagement in enterprises outside the proper
business of the parties concerned, and r
the waste of capital consequent on these
injudicious operations. To this statement
there appears to be absolutely NO excep
ton" s :,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-11-04

WHAT we want now Is to exchange pho
tographs with the boy who put porous
plaster in his school teacher's boot.-Daa-
bury Nssas.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

A BERLIN telegram to the London Morning
Post of the 10th says it had been decided to
send Prince Frederick Of Prussia to the Phil
adelphia Centennial, and that German fleet
would accom- .cany him.
A LONDON telegram of the Goth says ex-
tensive and disastrous floods had occurred
throughout Lancashire and Warwickshire.
Traffic by rail in that section had been great
ly interrupted and for many miles absolutely
stopped.
THE Supreme Court of Germany on the 2Oth
Endorsed the verdict of the Kammergericht in
the case of Count Won krnim.
PROF. WHEATsToNE, the distinguished En-
glish scientist and electrician, died at Paris on
the Goth.
A RECENT st. Petersburg dispatch reports
the burning of 200 dwellings, q synagogue
and five schools in Widsy, Russian Poland
Several persons persisted, and more than 3 ZOO
people were rendered homeless.
The London Morning Echo of the ed
gives additional particulars of the food. It
says the valley Of the River Don had formed
lake half mile wide and fifteen miles long;
that many collieries and iron-works had been
flooded and thousands of operatives thrown
out of employment At Darlington the flood
was particularly severe, the gas-works,
among other establishments, being drowned
out. At Rutherham, in Yorkshire, over 1,O00
people were out of work.
A PARIS dispatch Of the 21st says the work
Of sinking shaft 100 meters deep will short.
ly be begun near Calais, preliminary to the
crffSr ~ ~ fhn Enrl;sh 0boo <,,n~.1
The King of Bavaria on the 2lst issued a
royal decree adjourning the Bavarian Diet
until further notice. The King refused to
accept the resignation of his Ministers.
The town of Iquique, q seaport of some
importance in Peru, South America, has been
almost entirely wiped out by conhagration.
SEVERAL important failures occurred in
London and Manchester, England, on the 20d
THE London Times of the 2sd says London
merchants had been able to import American
ealicoes at profit
On the 21st and 22d . severe gale passed
over the Scottish coast. Up to the morning
of the 23d five vessels had been reported lost
with all on board, within distance Of
forty miles.
AMADRID telegram Of the 29d announces
the arrival at Santander of the New York
murderer, Sharkey. -..
ACCORDING to rumors which prevailed In
Berlin on the oath Bismarck was about ia
tender his resignation Of the Chancellorshir
Of the German Empire in consequence of the
precarious condition Of his health.
MADRID dispatches Of the e4th say that the
Government had refused permission to the
Republicans to hold electoral meetings
Senior Marfori, formerly Minister Of the Col
onies, had been arrested and would be ex
| patriated.
A LONDON special Of the 26th says disas
trous noods had occurred 1t Gainsborough
Lincoln County, England. The river Tren,
| had overlooked its banks, washing away tn,
railroad and causing the loss Of severa
lives. Thirteen persons had perished by tn,
inundation at nottingham and six at Burton
on-Trent. Between tho 18th and 2od nfty
I'VE persons had lost their lives ON the Scot
tsh coast by shipwreck.
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i" All Run DOWN.

This is an expression that we hear from
doctors when they are in doubt about
the nature of the disease of their patients.
The country seems to be filed with such
cases, and they are trying first one remedy
and then another, hoping in vain to find
relief. They generally have the following
symptoms: Ageneral depression of spirits,
in the head when rising up suddenly, foul
breath, with a bad taste in the mouth,
especially in the morning, psin in the sides
and back, urine scanty and high colored,
frequently voided with difficulty, frequent
headaches, q distressed feeling at the pit Of
the stomach, food affording no nourishment.
The patient feels tired ali the while, and
sleep affords but little rest. After time
dry, hacking cough sets in, followed after :
time with expectoration, hands and feet cold
and clammy at times, q general wasting Of
the body. In such cases we need remedy
that will act upon the liver, kidneys, stomach
and blood at the same time, and when We
use such a remedy it affords relief. The
best article for this purpose is the sHAK1R
EXTRACT OF RooTs, sold by A. J. White, SO
Pearl street, n. 7. Agents wanted.
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WEST AND SOUTH.

A coLoRED man named Isaac NcAfee has
been recently convicted and sentenced to
twenty years imprisonment for having abou,
a year ago caused terrible accident on the
Selma (Ala.) & Dalton Railroad by placing
distractions on the track. Two white men
are to be tried for the same ofiense.
GEN. Sol MBREDITH, Of Indiana, died at
his home In Cambridge City on the 2lst Of .
cancer in his stomach.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-11-04

CALIFORNIA expects to put up 10000
boxes of dried grapes Of her own raisin'
this year.
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WHEN you 70 to Chicago stop at the
/ Barnes House," corner Of Randolph and
Canal streets. The fare Is excellent and cv-
erything in the house 10 new. Only $l.5O to
90 uer day for transient.
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The United States Supreme Court has re-
versed decision rendered by the New York
Court Of Appeals to the effect that the agree
ment for the discount of a note above the
legal interest in New York was corrupt and
illegal and that under the law Of that State
the whole debt was forfeited. The Supreme
Court decides that, under the National Bank
ing law, the plaintiff in the case appealed
forfeited only the excess Of the legal rate of
interest
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-11-04

A MISSIONARY, Just returned, says he re-
CARDS Johnson's Anodyns Linimert % beyond
al price, and emcacious beyond any other
medicine. It IL adapted to . great variety Of
special cases, and e the best pain curer in
the world.
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PxRsonA1.-C. Aastersos, SAerY ~ Di04
Co.-"I have used SIMMONS LIVER REG.
ULATOR with successful effect in Bilious
Cholic and Dyspepsia II 10 An excellent
remedy and . public blessing"
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TIE POULTRY ARGUs-Improved and
enlarged by the consolidation of the No'threstsrn
Poultry Journal and the american Fanciers' Co.
zette This gives TIE ARGUS the largest circuls-
ton of any poultry journal published in the great
West. The publishers announce their determine
ton to make it the best journal Of its class in tho
country. 1t numbers among its contributors many
of the best breeders in the United States. Every
farmer, mechanic and laboring man should sub
scribe now for TIE ARGUS. II you only raise one
dozen fowls it will pay you in the practical advice
and suggestions given. The October number 10
full Of good reading matter for the breeder and
fancier and is alone worth the subscription price,
It is profusely illustrated with the finest cuts OF
poultry, and is in every way hrst-class journal.
The balance ofthis year free to all ne'" ebscroers.
This will give you The ARGUS fifteen months for
only $780, Send ten cents for sample copy. Ad-
dress MuLrR d CLINTON Polo, Ill.
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F1vEBs seldom make IN attack without
warning, and may often be thrown OF BY
soaking the feet In warm water, wrapping
PaTsons Pxrqativs Pills.
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WILHoFT's FEVER AND AGuH ToNIc.-This
medicine is used by construction companies
for the benefit of their employees when en-
gagged In malarial districts. The highest tes-
tmonials have been given by contractors
ing railroads in the South and West. When
men are congregated in large numbers in
the ncighborhood Of swamps and rivers
Wilhoft's Tonic will prove valuable addi-
ton to the stock of medicines, and will am.
ply reward the company in the saving Of
to ali. WHEELocK, FlNLAr 4 Co., Proprie-
tors, New Orleans.
FOE SALE By ALL DRUGGIeTS.
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The TUBULAR LAMP 10 . wonderful thjns.
Read the advertisement, sure.
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$500 per cent. profit was realized upon Q
"put' on 500 shares Mo. Pacific R. r. stock
during the first week in October; then why 60
to the silver mines Of Colorado or the gold
mines of California, when you have mine Of
greenbacks ut home? Explanatory circular,
how it is done" sent free by Buckwalter q
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Total net expenditures.
pY-nyy0 nrur
'$T4,63,392 "A

Total net expenditures. ........ $274, 6s3 1872 "a
PUBLIC DEBT.
Redemption of bonds. ...... -. .s104, 55o,saO 90
redemption OF nited States notes 40, 1901 90
Redemption of national currency. 4O 1854 ST. 4s
Redemption Of gold certificates. 7l27S9 90
Redemption of certificates of de-
post, United States notes.. 100000 90
Total, including items on &C.
count of public debt ...... $3.50, OCO,SS5 80
Balance of covered money, June 80,
1875. .................. 1447C24 16 al