The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-01-28

Bacon controversy without settling the |
question we don't mind confessing that
we wrote those plays ourself, but we
promise not to do SO any more. Bacon
wanted to write 'em, but when we asked
mum who was running this Shakespeare
business he took the hint and left-andtI
tnus saved his Decentralization Her.
In New York society there are ten
wealthy and prominent bachelors. and
aitnougn some are somewhat aged an
continue to be bones of contention
among mammas with daughters in the
market. These ten may be thus desig-
mated: Wright Sanford, Gov. Tilden,
William F. Douglas, Arthur Leary, Clar-
ence Dinsmore, Alfred Wagstaff, Pierre
Marie, Cunning s. Bedford, w. F. Moller
and MIR. James Gordon Bennett.
Industrial.
The New England cotton and wooden
manufacturers are receiving larger
number of foreign orders for goods than
at any former period in their history.
There is great deal of roseate spec
ulation in Massachusetts about the influ-
ence of the discovery of those Newbury-
port silver mines on the future of New
England.
The New York Tribune, discussing
strikes, concludes that there is only one
way in which any man in this country
| can fix his own wages-and that is by
becoming member Of Congress.
| "A Swede has invented new explo-
sive called the "vigolite," which is said
to embody all the good and none of the
bad qualities of every previously-known
explosive, than which it is also said to be
more powerful.
A gigantic engine on the Pennsyl-
MIA Railroad has made its trial trip sue
cessfully, on which occasion it trundled
along comfortably with 40 loaded cars,
weighing 2,252,000 pounds, making q
train one. third of a mile long. The en-
CINE itself weighs forty four tons.
An extraordinary account has ap.
peared in French agricultural journal,
to the effect that straw forms an ad.
mirable lightning conductor. 1t had
been observed that straw had the prop
erty of discharging Leyden jars without
spark or explosion, and some one in the
neighbOrhoOd of Tarbes had the idea of
constructing straw lightning conductors
which were formed by fastening a wisp
or rope of straw to deal-stick by means
OF brass wire, and Gaping the conductor
with copper point. 1t is asserted that
the experiment has been tried on large
scale around Tarbes, eighteen communes
having been provided with such straw
conductors, only one being erected fol
every six arpents, or $50 acres; and that
the whole nelghbc rhood has thus been
preserved from the effects not only OF
lightning, but of hail also. The state
ment comes from respectable source
Nea6 York Independent.
"A new and beautiful application Of
photography has lately appeared in En-
gland, by the aid of which any lace de
sign can be transferred to silk, SO tina
the latter material appears to he covered
with the delicate and costly fabric. TIL,
lace to be copied is secured in fran,
in contact with sensitive albumerizet
paper, and exposed to the light until
very deep impression is obtained. Thi
is then fixed, and the paper, washed ant
dried, forms perfect negative. An,
the piece of paper is then sensitized will
bicromate of potash and gelatin, and ex
posed under the negative. linking will
photographic transferring follows, and tn
paper is placed in water and light,
sapped with sponge. This throws GU
every detail of the linked spaces, the res
remaining white or free from ink. TIL
impression is lastly transferred to litho
graphic stone, and then printed upon tn
silks by the usual process.