The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-23
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
.Boston's population is 541,919.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
-Boston's population is 1,919
"A drop too much-The drop of the
gallows.
The Reading Pa.) Times is crusading
against merry making at funerals"
The threshing season has been re-
moved from the farm to the schoolroom.
Eli, boys?
"A St. Louis woman knows TWENTY-FIVE
fashionable ladies who have become bald
from wearing masses of false hair
The man whose presence will most
give weight to the North Carolina consti-
pounds.
"A Chinese woman at Portland, Ore.
has just taken the veil. 1t belonged to
some one else, so that she will be secluded
for the space of four years.
On brick-pilc in New Orleans boy
was found tied up in sack. He had been
put there by his father, who had left him
without food for three days.
The salt trade of New Mexico is be-
coming very large. The salt is gathered
from the shores of the lakes near the Tu-
lerosa and Guadalupe plains
"A fatal cattle disease has broken ont
among several droves of cattle near the
Aneram lead mines, in the vicinity Of
Rhincbeck, N. Y, and nearly all have
died.
There arc two times in a mans life
when he eagerly scans the ncwspapcr-
once when he has been in an awful mean
scrapc and again when he is looking for q
puff.
According to the Chicago Tribune the
Superintendent of the Illinois Deaf and
Dumb Asylum twill be glad to hear from
those desiring to enter the institution"
especially from dumb candidates.
According to the Tamaoua PA. y Item.
mosquitoes, which have never before in.
vadcd that retreat in the mountains, have
this year made their appearance, and are
tasting OF adult and infant Tamaquans
"A sad case of mental alteration is rc.
ported from the insane asylum in Kings
County, New York, where one of the in
mates, "a handsome, dark-eycd beauty. ~
insisted on claiming Herald reporter for
her husband.
"A Chicago man who has cot astrav in
the wilds OF New York city saws: ''The
only relaxation Western man has here is
to visit the rooms of advertising agents
and read the Chicago papers in order to
know that the world still moves. ''-Bo,t0u
Globe
A certain learned man, being CO
graduated on his talent for small talk.
said cit has cost me more effort ani
study to achieve small talk than to con.
qucr the higher mathematics, but felt the
desperate want Of it, and went at it as Il
study
Jesse Pomeroy owes his life thus far
to deadlock. The Governor urges com
mutation, but the council refuses to COM
mute, and the Governor refuses to sign
the death warrant. So Jesse can neither
DC hanged nor let off till they get new
adm inistration.
The London Times, in recent lead
ing article commenting on the reception
in New York of the American rifle team
on its return home, gives them high
praise tor their bearing and achievements
during their European trip. 1t thinks
their visit there and consequent rivalrcs
will be beneficial in many ways.
The "man in Ohio' who was roinr
to rcvolutlonize his chcese-makinc by cur,
ing his cheese in two or three DAYS by
steam, rises to- explain at last that it is
mo go.' Although the steam promotes
the chcesclng OF the curd, it extracts the
flavor, which is as serious drawback as
Tor salt to lose its SAVIOR. The steam drives
out all f1avors, good and bad, and is death
on "skippers.'
II was acquainted once with a gallant
soldier who assured me that his only
method of courage was this: Upon the
first fire in an engagement he Immediate
~ looked upon himself as a dead man.
lie then fought out the remainder of the
day perfectly regardless of all manner of
danger, as becomes dead man to be. So
that all the life or limbs he carried back
to his tent he reckoncd as clear gain, or,
us he h imself expressed it, 80 much out
Of tie fire. "-.Gerus.
This good little boy was sitting on the
front steps whiting up his sisters en-
broiCery-trames, and muttering to him.
self: This amt no good world to live
in unless IA fcllcr is his fathers and moth.
cr's only orphan boy. What makes me
git so mad is to have my sister 20 and
take all my ripe peaches to give to that
big loatcr of Il sweetheart Of hers that
comes round here seven nights in a week
to git square meal and make out us if he
wanted to talk politics with the old man.
! wish they'd marry and 60 to Texas, l
do!' And then he threw the remnants Of
the frames into the street and seemed
! Observation-Disclosures Constitution.
"A few weeks ago NC gave some space
to an account of the termites, or "whitc
ants Since then the following wonder
full incident illustrating the extent and
method of their ravaycs has come under
our notice. 1t is related by Forbes in his
Oriental Mcmoirs.' On opening an
apartment that had been some weeks I'M
used, the author discovered number of
the well-known covered galleries of the
tcrmites leading to some engravings hang
ing on the wall. On inspecting the pict-
ures closely they looked peculiarly dull,
while the frames were covered with dust.
Ion attempting" says Mr.. Forbes, "to
wipe it off, [ was astonished to find the
glasses fixed to the wall, not suspended
in frames as left them, but completely
surrounded by an incrustation cemented
by the white ants, who had actually eaten
up the deal frames and backboards and
the greater part of the paper, and left the
glasses upheld by the incrustation or
covered way which they had formed dur
ing their depredation.'-CHicugo Tribune.
She was languishing upon sofa,
watching him atlectionately as he skipped
briskly about the room putting things in
order. Finally she said, in a low, sweet
tone of voice: George, darling, l don't
believe you will ever he great man. -
"Why so, love?' he asked, wheeling a
chair round on one of its legs and grace
fully stroking it with the duster. :" Be-
cause great men always have such lazy,
good for nothing wives"