The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-07-22
7 1879 1II77
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MlSCELLANEOUS lIEMSs
The London Lancet says that doctor
who would administer choral to aipatient
ought to be hung, lot was easy enough
for doctor to swear that = he died of tod
much poor health" HID :.
Thick glass ishereafter to be cemented
to the walls of the London hospitals, thus
making non-absorbent surface which
can at all times be kept clean with case,
adding much to the sanitary condition of
the apartments.
The young man who offers to stop
drinking and chewing if his girl will
marry him will in less than a wear after
marriage tell her that he sold himself for
fifty cents on the dollar, and she will reply
that she paid % per cent. too high for him.
Free Press.
Henry Morrison, the OrOville stage
driver, informs the Lassen (Cal.) Adrocate
that thousands of pelicans are hanging
around the waters Of Big Meadows. They
are very destructive to fish, and the peo-
pie over there are turning out en- masse to
slaughter them. A,o =
The benevolent societies of Madrid
raise money by getting up bull-ights and
charging exorbitant admisson fees, just as
our churches do when they get up festi-
walls. of course nobody wants to be con
sldered uncharitable, and so all grin and
60 to the bul-fghts as we to the festivals.
The Nevada ninnyhammer who has
just buried his wife in a silver coffin has
done good deal of harm. Other women
will now feel that nobody cares farthing
for them if they are not laid away in the
same style, and they won't put up with
any Of your GermanAilver collins, either.
"A citizen of Didequash, N. B., rose
from his bed just tW0gfy minutes previous
to his death, took q bah, dressed himself
in his grave clothes, md went to bed again
Just in time to exclaim - Welcome, Death,
Ihave long waited for thee, "and die. He
wastoo good to live in a town like Dide-.
;quash.
s5sg,-A New. York newspaper finds an an
.niyersary occasion suggested by the fact
that next season will bring about the
250th year since Gov. Minuct, in 1926.
purchased from the savages the entire
island of Manhattan for sixty guilders, "a
peaceful treaty never afterward marred by
blood" . '..:.
=" What wealthy old fellows these
4AhAShSI UOtnClS AluSb AdNC UCCu, Sd1u u
stranger, walking through one of our
his companion. Because, answered
the first. II see DiedriclH inscribed on
so many of the to1nbstons.'-Ne,v Fork
>Gonausereial. =. gssEas 80.
"A young man who was quite dog
fancier before his liiafrias1 now has "a boy
a year and half old, and is quite cnthusi-
astic over its training. He says he be-
lleves the blamed little thing has got as
much sense as ratterricr, and with
proper training can be taught as many
Gtr;cks.-Brunsvicker
1T was at the house of a well-known
doctor of divinity, and the little toddling
girl, who did not like to see her aunt trim
a lighted kerosene lamp had come hon
estly by somewhat modified theory of
predestination. Take .cafet take care!
or we'll get blown up into the sky; and
then God'll say: Girls, what are you in
such hurry for?'"
The Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle states
that the fifteen-n flume of the Pacific
Wood, Lumber and Flume. Company has
been completed and the first stick of tim
Der has been fioated from the summit of
the Sierra and landed at Huffaker's Sta
ton. This is one of the most colossal
fluming enterprises ever undertaken on
the Pacific coast, involving great engi-
neering difficulties and the outlay of a
quarter of a million of dollars.
"A presiding elder from Maine-a
keen, humorous, somewhat waggish man
was approached by q travelling compan-
ion as he seemed to be sound asleep in
the railway car. "Brothcr d." said the
friend, awake up, wake up! Do you
know where you arc?" Eyes, I know
where I am,'' answered the elder.
"Where are yous'' /" Not far from New
York. How do you knowy'' "Bc-
cause l have for the last hour felt like
stealing something''
The Philadelphia Inquirer says: "Mr.
Christian K. Ross was on Thursday in
consultation with the, police authorities.
1t is stated that the entire mystery of the
abduction of his son has been cleared IN
by statement made by Wcstervelt, BROTH
er-in-law of Mosicr, except the where
abouts of the missing child, and it is un-
dcrstood that it is with view to securing
this knowledge, of which Westcrvelt is
supposed to be possessed, that his trial is
not proceeded WITH
-A>CAC ldIA, says LUZ. 1 lCC, VI o. LOUIS,
there will be unusual atmospheric disturb
ances, and our little mundane sphere will
be very earth-quaky. Won't somebody go
and put stop to this prophet of evil =:
The ills of life and the calamities of the
world are bad enough when they actually
happen. In other words, sufficient unto
the day are the evils thereof" This filling
us with trepidation and suspense months
n advance IF tho Of Iicocfa. =.
too much like being sentenced to be
hanged. - l. u :
-" Eat, Amanda" said New Orleans
husband to his wife one, nnorning recently
Amanda wasn't disposed to partake of food,
and said she wouldn't Mr.. James Madi.
son-that is the husbands name-insisted
Upon being obeysd She declared she
would not, again. Then he said she must
or eSd he would d blow her krsin out Still
word and put aGb,aiet through her head
And even then she, wouldn't eat. James
is in Jail now, and amanda is in the hos
pital-hut while he is langisAingi she is
sustained by the supreme, satisfaction that
She carried her point. Il =
"A story is told of an accident on the
New London Railroads.. An. intoxicated
irishman was sitting %, the track when
p4enta The conductor backed his train to
pick up his dead body. The victim was
found alive Asweyer, only somewhat
bruised, and taken to Norwich. Here the
conductor kindly offered to send the man
To llk home, g few iahes fGay, in hack,
But he Insisted on his ability to walk, and
refused. to be sent home The, conductor
pressed the matter, when the Milesian,
|1aAhh&N stsSuo the battling of the COW.
catcher SO well, blistltaad9p with: "Go
away with your kirridgc. I'll go home by
myself; and if I've done any damage to
your old engine, bedad, ~ pay it on the
EsWP}! - -. u, (
Origin of the Express Business.
EgA .&taA&f .rl3T III -
Travellers on. the Long Island Sound Of
about thirty seven years ago might have
observed on board the steamer then rum
ming between Providence and New York