The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-30

your songs whom you will never see until
you meet them beyond the river,' safe
in the arms Of Jesus,' where the prodigals
have found the way-house' by hearing
| the old, old story Of Jesus and His
love-" Mr.. Doane very promptly re-
turned the token, with the asseverat;on
that he felt richly repaid by having his
compositions become as familiar as house
hold words to all classes of British society.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
An over-sea-er-A sailor.
Charity invariably speaks volumes,
which explains why it always begins a
tome.
| Those lightning mail-cars are light
colored, and when in rapid motion look
like a flying snow bank.
When printers are taken into custody
they are reported as having their " forms"
prematurely "]ocked up"
"A Kentucky editor tells another that
if his head wss as red as his nose he would
remind one Ct bow-legged carrot sur
mounted by cockade.
DO yc4 know that if you spoil a
stamped .lvelope when addressing it you
can gettthe value in stamps by presenting
| it at the Postoffice? You can.
Always save the earliest and best seeds
for your own use; by so doing for years
the quality may be greatly improved and
early ripening will be FASTENED.
An attempt is to be made to remove
the celebrated large grapevine of Monte
cito Santa Barbara County, Cal, to Phil
adelphia for the Centennial Exposition.
The ordinary husband never could
tell which end of a bonnet was which,
and now he does not need to. Fashion
so trims them this fall that they may be
worn reversed.
All the varieties of the maple, hand.
some and desirable as they are, are very
much subject to The sun-scald and the at
tacks of the borcr. The same may he
said of the elms.
The Detroit Free Press has hit it
about right:
OF all sad words of tongue or pen
The saddest are these:
/" I wish hadn't done it.'
"A charity patient III Baltimore hos
pital was recently searched, and more
than 1000 in money was found in the
two farms near the city, and had been
| ~ oSSS"y'
-" My son. said stern father to !,
seven-year-old hopeful, 81 must disci
plne you. Your teacher says you are the
worst boy in the school, "Wcll, papa,'
Was the reply, "only yesterday she told
me ! was just like my father
Speaking of Mrs. Scott da's fire
escape ladder and the recent fatal dsas-
tiers on its account, wicked New York
men are led to affirm that the inventive
genius of woman must now be &C.
knowledged.-in constructing machines to
kill Off men.
II. S. Mathis, of Ste. Gencyieyc, Mo-
was milking a COW. The animal became
restless and suddenly dropped dead. Mr.
Mathis took a rope from her horns and
dropped dead also. He might have taken
some better example than a COW to follow
in such serious matter as life and death
When you meet small youth playing
the drum at the head of lot Of two-foot
soldiers, with a stick and brass kettle
you may know that his mother has the
preserving fever, and has sat down tC
wiring her hands and wonder what or
earth has become of that boy" she sem
after Mrs. Jones kettle two hours ago.
Eastom Free Press.
According to the Houston TEX.
Telegraph fully 100000 head of cattle be
ing driven to market have crossed tho
Colorado River at or near Austin the
present season. Average these cattle, says
the telegraph, at twenty dollars per heac
and it will give the neat sum of s., DOC, 600
very near all of which will come back in
to the State as profits to the drovers.
Probably the worst error that evel
passed through the hands of proot-read
er uncorrected occurred in the Racine
Journal. A correspondent at Burlington
wrote: "The Peoples State Bank has dc
clared dividcnd' 1t appeared in the
paper, to the horror of the bank directors
and the terror of depositors: "The PEG
pies State Bank has declared its door
closed. '-Miluaukee Sentinel.
Providence never forsakes the editor
Monday afternoon, one NJ. II. King, 0
Des Moines, assaulted the editor of tn,
State Journal with bludgeon. The Zero
cious assailant was scalped with a chat
leg; a policeman dubbed him for resist
ing an arrest the bugs in the calaboos'
bit him in 600 places before he was baile(
out; his baby fell downstairs while 1t
was in durance vile; man kicked hi
dog right in sight of the cell window;
woman school-teacher whipped his boy
the wood-sawyer cut all his wood tw,
inches too long for the stove; his cistcrl
sprung leak; a rat died under hi
kitchen floor; his COW choked on potato
and the grocer she stole it from stabbed
her with pitchfork, and his mother in
law landed at his house with six trunks
Brethren, it is adangerous, presumptuous
daring thing to strike an editor.-Bu,
lington (Io,ca) Houk-Eye.
Extract from Florida letter pub
lished in the Covington (Ky.) Common
acealth:: You remember the large agave
a species ofcentury plant, which stood of
to your left as you entered the garden
the most superb plant, venture to say
that either of us ever saw Ithas finlshet
its course, doomed and died., Here ar
its figures: The disk of the plant wa
twelve feet in diameter and more tina,
thirty feet in circumference. 1t threw VI
stalk forty-fve feet high, being at th'
base say nine or ten inches in diamete
and looking for all the world like
gigantic asparagus plant. At a distance
of fifteen feet from the top it began t.
sway in regularly diminishing half curves
throwing out branches at each. 1t bor
} from 1000 to 10000 flowers, $500 o
which were actually counted. When a
its greatest height IA gust Of wind brok'
fifteen feet off. l never saw so grand :
plant as it was and only regret that yo,
did not see it." 81
"A case is now on trial in the Circui
Court at Des Moines, Iowa, which il
based on one of the most remarkable oc
currences on record. 1t is suit brough
by a man named Couch vs The Watson
Coal Company, for damages for injuries
sustained in coal mine. Mr.. Couch wa
standing at the bottom of the shaft, which
is 135 feet deep. A cage, or elevator, wa
descending, on which were men and tools
When about thirty feet down an iror
blasting drill three feet long and one ant