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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-17
A Military Dog.

When the "Spankers" were in the
Crimea-they were light dragons in
those days and not hussars, as at pres
ent-a large dog, don't exactly know of
what breed, but universally admired for
beauty and intelligence, attached him.
self to that particular corps. Wherever
the regiment marched he invariably &C
cnmpanied the troopers. Several times
he went into action, and was once seri-
ously wounded with the point of lance.
1t would have been universally regretted
had poor Luffin's wound proved fatal
One OF the farriers undertook to dress it,
so that with little care he soon got we'll
again. Where the dog came from, or who
was his original owner, nobody knew. He
would never follow an individual soldier
beyond the barrack gates, however kindly
he might be invited; but when the men
were in full dress, whether mounted or
on foot, provided they went out in a
body, Luttin insisted on taking up his
proper position. At the beginning of his
military career he had 10 pick up his
living as best he could. He was accus-
toned, at meal times, to 60 from hut to
hut, or among the tents, when the men
were under canvas. In some of these
habitations he met with good treatment
and supply of food; but from others
he was not unfrequently summarily and
ANONYMOUSLY elected. However, Luffin,
in course of time, was allowed regular
rations at the regimental expense, to-
ward which all the members of a corps
contributed a share, from the Colonel
to the drummer. The noble animal
must have been aware of his promotion,
for it was observed that he never went
"a begging" after. One of Luffin's
marks of high intelligence l cannot
personally vouch for, hut have been
assured of its truth. It was said,
and generally believed, that he was in
the constant habit of visiting the SEN
tries during the night, especially in the
Crimea, to see if the men were at their
post and on the alert. The reader must
be told that, during campaign, the
troops are often so much harassed and
fatigued that sentries will occasionally
fall asleep as they stand-an act, how
ever, which is looked upon as one of the
gravest of military offenses. If Luffin
found man asleep he sat before him
in silence; but the slightest sound of
approaching footsteps was sufficient to
make him apprise the sleeper of the
danger to which he was exposed. He
would then trot off to the next post,
where he scarcely halted if convinced
that all was we'll. I am glad to be able
to record the fact that his faithful serv-
ice in due time obtained for Luffin the
respect of every member Of the corps. 1t
would have been high misdemeanor to
offer him any indignity. - Chambers
Journal.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-17
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Tom Thumb is Thirty-second De-
gree Mason.
-Seventytive per cent. of the words
in John Bright's speeches are monosyl-
tables.
The Boston people have decided
that Jesse PomerOy's life should be pre-
served and he will go to prison instead
of the gallows.
DIR. Mary Walker is said to look like
missionary's wife, and to have a sub
dued, melancholy air; which is rough on
the missionary as domestic animal.
Mrs. Dan Bryant will have fund
of 10000 to draw on, and though Daniel
was kind husband, as husbands run,
some folks hint that his absence is her
gain.
- The FlorentiLe version of the Nc
Closkey hat ceremony is best. The
EpocG said: "Gen. Grant will with his
own hands place the beretta on Mok-
loky's head"
Mr.. Smith, of Kentucky, to the num-
Der of about 4 900 of him, is vehemently
protesting that he never thought of mar
rying Miss Greeley and that he is mar
ried already.
As-SAulo AOSIO1, IuC 1dluOuS dStIOu-
omer, is Catholic, and one OF the few
scientists who maintain an orthodox
faith. He refuses, however, a professor
ship in the new Catholic University at
Kensington.
Rev. DR.. Z. NJ Humphrey, formerly
of Chicago, and for several years pastor
of the Calvary Presbyterian Church in
Philadelphia, has been elected Professor
OF Ecclesiastical History in Lane Theo-
logical Seminary, at Cincinnati.
John Wise, Jr., grandson of the
celebrated aeronaut, John Wise, is a
"chip of the old block" He made a
successful balloon ascension at Lancas-
ter, Pa the other day, and came down
all safe and sound. He is only fourteen
years old.
Condolences will happen under the
best regulated governments. Levy and
John Harper, the leading publishers of
France and the United States, died
almost together; Bright and Breckin-
ridge, who presided over the Senate in
order, also died about the same time.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-17
nearly upsetting thin, tall man, Just en-.

nearly upsetting thin, tall man, just en-
tering. That man was the proprietor,
figure of skin and bone, perfect spec
linen of the true apothecary. He asked
what it meant. The boy told him. Said
he: Call him back at once. This may
ruin me-" The clerk hurried to the door
and called to the boy to come back. The
boy SAID he wouldn't "Then," said the
apothecary, "Tll CO." He went, and
cried out: "Now, my good boy, come
back, I have something nice for you"
No, yer DON'T" responded the urchin !;
81 know yer, if yer have got your
clothes on.'
Last evening dapper young gent,
with educated mustache and patronlzing
smile, entered an up-bound car on St..
Charles avenue, and having deposited
his fare with the tips of his gloved fin
ger took seat and drew imaginary maps
of Africa on shining pair of boots
with delicate malacca cane. The only
other occupant of the car, excepting the
Jehu, our informant, was modest young
lady who sat next to the lion. Soon a
tlower-boy entered the car and proffered
his wares for sale. The self satisfied
young man gallantly directed the boy to
present the basket to the young lady with
his compliments, with instructions to
help herself as she pleased. The young
lady slowly and deliberately proceeded
to relieve the fower-boy of his entire
burden, which so pleased the young man
that he smiled most approving smile
and promptly paid down the whole
amount to the boy. When the lady saw
that boy had been paid she slowly pro-
ceeded to pile the flowers together, after
which, with an expression Of scorn that
added immeasurably to her loveliness,
she threw the whole of them out into
the street. Tableau!-N. O. Picayuae.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-17
A Remarkable Escape.

Last Saturday afternoon while several
of Mr.. Kemper's school-boys were bath
ing in the river, just above the bridge,
one of them came near being drowned.
Mr.. johnson is his name, quite q young
man and brother of Mr.. T. A. johnson.
Mr.. Kemper's assistant teacher. He had
been out in the stream considerable
distance, and while returning to shore
became very much exhausted and proba-
bly, cramped besides the current is rapid
and treacherous. The young gentlemen,
we understand, gave the alarm, but no
aid could reach him ere he sank. This
he did entirely out of sight, and ap-
parently never to rise again. Fortunate
" negro man who was fishing had sew
cral lines thrown out around the bath
ng-place. Young johnson sank close to
one of these, and most miraculously was
enabled to clutch it with death-grasp.
The fisherman, who was away some dis
lance, had not seen johnson 60 under.
Noticing heavy pull at the line he rea-
sonably supposed he had bite and big
[Ash. Hauling it in, what do you wonder
was his surprise to find the half-dead,
drenched young man clinging to his line!
He must have thought the sea was giving
up its dead for the judgment day.
Johnson's comrades Immediately gath.
cred around Medical assistance was
sent for. The young man was thoroughly
rolled, and once more the life came to
him. A few hours after he was able to
walk about, and is now fully recovered
Boonville No. Aduegtiser. -.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-17
A Bellies Ammunition for the Cadets.

The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette writes: The graduating
hop at West Point will call from near and
far the pretty girls arrayed in their most
enchanting wearing apparel, who will
make havoc enough in the hearts of the
youthful followers of Mars. One young
lady from tour town." tall, graceful
and most "divinely fair" has an
outfit prepared which looks very suggest
i've of aspirations toward trousscau!
White embroidered muslins, every tlounce
edged with Valenciennes, white pinas with
white and colored embroidery, lovely
white lace dress made with daintiest of
plisse rutfles and various colorcd silks,
with overdress of black or ecru guipure,
and dozen different chapeaus Think
of it, girls-tweive hats for visit of four
or five weeks! Doesn't it make you a
trifie envious? One hat is a broad
brimmed black chip, turned up on one
side and faced with a cream -colored silk,
daintily shirrcd and cluster of ripe scar
let cherries nesting tcmptingly in its
midst; while cream colored Turquoise silk
made into crushed, soft bows, with the
same tantalizing cherries peeping out
from their folds, ornament the outside
Another is an unbleached chip Qar pref
tier and more becoming than the staring,
deadwhite ones), is trimmed with pale
blue and white silk and feathers and
wreath of forget-mc-nots and white lilacs
on the inside. Another still is Leghorn
turned jauntily up in the back and droop-
ing over the face. 1t is trimmed with an
exquisite plume and Turquoise silk of deli
cate corn-color, while spray of pale
straw-colored wild roses in full bloom and
two or three buds fall from one side, and
a pale pink wild rose, looking as if too
fragile to touch, looks at the world and
things from the front of the hat. A Pan
ANA hat is faced with gray and enlivened
by dash of cardinal red" in bows and
flowers. A dainty chip is encircled by
wreath of apple blossoms and silk and
plume of the same dainty hue, and drab,
fine straw, turned up at one side, has gray
feathers and long ends, with crimson
knot on one side, over which nod graceful
fuchsias of the same rich shade. These
are some of the many head-coverings to
be carried with the effects of a young lady
richly endowed by the kindly immortals
with many charms and destinations.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-17
Learning to Speak.

The first thing which the child has to
learn, before speech is possible, is to OBJ
serve and distinguish; to recognize the
persons and things about him in their
concrete individuality, and to notice as
belonging to them some of their charac-
teristic qualities and acts. This is very
brief description of very intricate psy-
Geological process-which, however, it
does not belong to the student of Ian
guage to draw out in greater detail.
There is involved in it, we may further
remark in passing, nothing which some
of the lower animals may not achieve.
At the same time, the child is exercising
his organs of utterance and gaining con.
scious command of them, partly by a
mere native impulse to the exertion of
all his native powers, partly by imitation
of the sound-making persons about him !;
the child brought up in solitude would
be comparatively silent. This physical
process is quite analogous with the train
ing of the hands; for some Six months
the child losses them about, he knows
not how or why; then he begins to notice
them and work them under command,
till at length he can do by conscious
volition whatever is within their power.
Control and management of the organs
of utterance come much more slowly,
but the time arrives when the child Can
initiate at least some of the audible as
well as the visible acts of others; can
reproduce a given sound as q given
gesture. But before this he has learned
to associate with some of the objects
familiar to him the names by which they
are called; result of much putting of
the two together on the part of his in
structOrs.
There is obviously mental training and
shaping, as well as mental equipment, in
the process of learning to speak. The
mental action of the individual is
schooled into certain habits consonant
with those of his community he acquires
the current classifications and abstrac-
lions and ways of looking at things.
To take an example: the quality of color
is so conspicuous, and eur apprehension
of it so urged by the inflnity OF its
manifested differences which are ever
before our eyes, that the conception OF
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-17
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Memphis, Tenn, is death to lawyers.
Twenty-seven have died in that city
since 1870.
Two parties in Leavenworth, Kan,
claim that they have seen serpents flying
through the air.
"A patent-medicine agent recently
stuck hand bills on all the gravestones
in the cemetery of Melrosc, Mass.
"Drimtaidhvrickhil is the
name of town in the Isle of Null. 1t
ought to be railway station somewhere.
How the brakemen would chew that
word up!
The State House at Annapolis, Nd,
is becoming unsafe, and it is proposed to
enlarge and wholly renovate the build
ing. Its total demolition to make room
for an entirely new structure is objected
to on the ground of the associations con-
nected with the present building.
The inventor of the Baxter steam
canal boat says the average cost of the
boats is about $4,000 now, but when
they are exempted from carrying life
boats and preservers for the safety of
the chambermaid and cook, and other
useless appendages, they can be built for
Sc, 500!
"A beautiful young lady got aboard
the Nashville bound train at Decatur,
Ala. recently, and insisted on going into
the locomotive and running the machine.
The engineer willingly surrendered his
position to the fair amateur. She started
the engine off and kept her going at
forty miles per hour till Pulaski was
reached, when she went back into the
coach and took a seat.
"A pure white salt is now being pro.
duced at Alma, Waubansee Co., Kan, at
the rate of about five barrels day. The
brine is pumped from a spring 700 feet
below the surface, and so strong that the
salt crystallizes by simple exposure to
the air. 1t has been analysed and found
to compare favorably with Michigan
salt, and to contain no impurity except a
small trace of lime.
The huntsville correspondent of the
Bowling Green (Ky) Paragraph says:
Yesterday girl thirteen years of age
filed her petition for divorce a usnculo
natrsm0nag This is somewhat unparal-
leled in the history of divorces. The
pair. owing to the tender years of the
girl and the consequent objections of her
parents, went to Tennessee, where there
are no restrictions, to procure the tying
of the Gordian knot. They were mar
ried in April, 1874, the bride consequent
ly being only twelve years of age. In one
month after their marriage the husband
abandoned his child-wife and went to
Tennessee, and abandonment for one
years duration was the cause of d.
vorce." a
AT the hour of twilight boy etterS
Maine drug store with prescription
which the clerk, the only other person
present, prepares and hands to him.
Then suddenly he says: "Come with me
to the back part of the shop and I will
show you something" So he takes the
boy to the back part and opens the door
of a small, back office, where hung the
bones of . ghastly skeleton, glaring upon
him from its eyeless sockets. The boy
shriekeQ and rushed from the shop,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-17
Spelling Matches-Keep Them Going.

The "spelling mania'' has been very
contagious during two or three months
past. One can hardly take up newspa.
per, printed anywhere from Maine to
Nebraska, without finding in it an account
Of one or more spelling matches. Prob.
ably not less than 10000 such contests
have peen held this year, in which an
average of fifty persons have been directly
engaged, and all of these million people,
young and old, have performed deal of
studying over the right photography of
very large number of words. Then an
average of over 100 persons have attended
these matches as spectators, and carefully
watched the spelling of every word "put
out" so that at least 5000, 900 to 4, 900 600
people have improved their spelling abil-
ity to considerable extent We know
that in single locality at least 100 fami-
lies were actively engaged, parents and
children, morning, noon and night, in 60
ing over and over the spelling-books and
lists of "test words, while in the shops,
stores and manufactures the right spell
ing of this and that word has been the
main topic of conversation. Even in a
barbcr-shop the retailing of scandal and
unimportant news has given place to
spelling discussions; and had not tho
Beecher trial. come in to claim extraor-
binary attention, perhaps three-fourths
OF our whole population would have had
"spelling on the BRAIN
We look with good deal of favor upon
all this. Even if it stop right here the in
fluence will continue many years. Every
body will be more careful about sending
out letters and other written documents
detaced with badly-spelled words, which
always give the impression of illiteracy.
These matches have afforded much amuse-
ment and that of far more useful char
actcr than majority of the entertain
ments commonly supplied. For example,
take two benevolent societies we know of.
One of them held i" fair" for which a
lot CT fancy articles of nearly useless
character were got up with much time and
expense, and the attendants were dra-
gooned into buying what they did not
want. and had no earthly use for-all for
the good of the cause" The ending and
chief attraction of the affair was a sort of
" kissing bee." The net proceeds were
sixty-tive dollars, including the income Of
lottery ring-cakc and lottery grabbag.
The other society had spelling match, to
which few leading citizens lent their in
fiuence as participants, and were followed
by the young people generally. The only
preparation was the useful spelling study
in families. The net result of the quiet
but amusing entertainment was over
seventy-five dollars taken at the door.
This last is only one of several thousand
Similar doubly useful enterprises of the
present year. We sincerely hope the
spelling campaign will reopen next
autumn with increased energy, and also
that the good old plan of choosing sides
and spelling matches in all our public
schools will be the order. They will
furnish legitimate entertainment, having
no unhealthful moral tone, and we shall,
as nation, become far better "spellers."
american A0r5cu1tu7.lst
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The Dangerous Drummer.

The Portland (Me.) Press Of a recent
date says: "Some time ago runner for a
Boston firm met one OF Portland's fair
daughters on the train coming from Ban
gor. The lady was alone and the young
man he was lonely, so, being seated near
together, they soon fell into pleasant con-
versation. The runner was very much
pleased with the lady, and was bound to
keep up the acquaintance which he had
formed by chance. When the couple ar
rived in this city, instead of taking orders
to the Hub the young man fingered
here. The young lady was very pleasant
when he called at her residence on Brack
EFT street, and the poor, deluded young
man thought she was good and true; but
alas for human expectations! After stop
ping here several days he proceeded on
his way rejoicing in his new-found love.
He wrote kind and loving letters which
were answered in such an ambiguous man
ner that the young man was confused.
But, determined not to lie beaten, he Wis
tied the Natural Seaport and offered
himself to the charlner. She was some
surprised, but accepted, and the wedding
was arranged for early summer. Not
many weeks after his return to Boston he
received letter from his intended saying
she had reconsidered her acceptance and
begged to be released from the engage
mcnt. The young man was shocked on
receipt of the above, but lost no time in
answering it. He didn't say much, but
gave her to understand that he couldn't
release her, and that the wedding must
take place per arrangement. She thought
but little Of the letter, thinking he was
trying to brighten her, but yesterday she
was assured that he meant what he said.
A letter was received by the young lady
from prominent lawyer in Boston stating
that her was-to-be husband had retained
him as counsel, and that unless the mar
riage took place at the time set suit will
be begun against her for breach of prom
Use. As the young lady is worth hand
some property the result is anxiously
looked for y
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-17

The City of Shirks' is the heading of
an editorial upon our delinquent tax-list.
The writer evidently supposes the true
name Of the Garden City to be Shirkago.
Chicago Tribune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-17

THE word "put," meaning the right Of
delivery OF stock in the future at a price
named, is generally supposed to have orig
mated in Wall street, but it was in use in
London in the same sense during the
"South Sea" excitement. = philadelphia
Press. 5.a!, Aaa a@~
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-17

Gen. Sherman is the third Command.
erin Chief of the United States army,
out of the thirteen who. have served the
country, who has written memoirs of his
service. The other two were Lieut.. Gen.
Scott and Ma. Gen. Wilkinson.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-17

color is only quickened and rendered
which denote it. But in the classifica-
ton OF the shades of hue the phraseolo-
gy OF the language acquired bears de.
termining in part; they fall into order nm
der and about the leading names, as whste.
otoc6, red, blue, green; and each hue is
tested in the mind by aid of these, and
referred to the one or the other class.
And different languages make different
classiications; some of them so unlike
ours, so much less elaborate and com.
plete, that their acquisition gives the eve
and mind very inferior training in dis
tinguishing colors. This is still more
strikingly the case as regards number.
There are dialects which are in state
of infantile bewilderment before the
problem OF Enumeration; they have
words for" one,"" two," and "three >" but
all beyond is an undivided "many" None
OF US it is certain would have gone farther
IMAM That by his own absolutely Lnassist-
ca EFFORTS; but by words-and only by
words; for such is the abstractness of
the relations Of number that they, more
than any others, are dependent for their
realization and manageableness on ex-
pression-more and more intricate nu-
merical relations have been mastered by
us, until finally we are provided with a
system which IS extensible to everything
short of infinity-the decimal system,
namely, or that which proceeds by con-
slant additions of ten individuals of any
given denomination to form the next
higher. And what is the foundation of
this system? Why, as everyone knows,
the simple fact that we have ten fingers
w digits'') on our two hands, and that
fingers are the handiest substitute for
figures, the most ready and natural of
aids to an unready reckoner. A fact as
external and physical as this, and SEEM
ingly so trivial, has shaped the whole
science of mathematics and, altogether
without his being aware of it, gives form
to all the numerical conceptions of each
new learner. 1t is suggestion of gen.
eral human experience in the past, trans
mitted through language into law for
the government of thought in the future
LIFE and Groaoth Of Language, By VIM.
D. Whitney.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-17

As RED CLOUD and Spotted Tail, fol-
lowed by the usual crowd that they at
tract, passed along one of the streets adj
jacent to their "lodge'' one day this week,
one of the fair residents was vigorously
combing her "store hair" having it fas-
tened close to the side of the window. See.
ing the operation from the other side of
the street, Red Cloud suddenly, stopped,
giving out several of those pleasant grunts
expressive of admiration, and said:
white squaw take big scalp; me want
white squaw" The fair scalper seeing
the attention of the crowd directed to her
window dropped the curtain, and the scene
closed Washington Tribune.