The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-12-02
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

named CnOlera-QO!
"A fellow who got drunk on election
day said it was owing to his effort to put
down "party spirit"
! What's in name? Jehoiakim Davis,
of New York, has just failed; and it
isn't safe to Jehoiakim about it.-Cincin-
natl Times.
NO." writes Gen. Hawley from
Philadelphia, to many inquiring ministers,
&C the Centennial Exposition will not be
open on Sundays"
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
has refused to review Westervelt's sentence,
and he will have to serve out his seven
years imprisonment.
"A fool in high station is like man
on the top of high mountain-every-
thing appears small to him, and he ap-
pears small to everybody.
The cholera is no respecter of persons,
keep on living they will come home at
once.-Rochester Democrat.
-" How often do you knead bread?"
asked one housekeeper of another. "How
often? Why, l might say we need it con-
tinually,' the other replied.
The physicians along the Texan
frontier are taking steps to prevent the
army surgeons, who do not have to pay
for license, from practicing among their
patients.
The San Francisco papers are jubi-
liant over the near completion of the first
ship ever built at that port. The vessel
will be 1 900 tons measurement, and con-
structed wholly of fir.
"A Wisconsin man who had aspirations
for the office of Lieutenant-G Governor said
he thought he was fitted for the place, as he
had been lieutenant governor in his own
family for fifteen years.
The Hannibal NIo) Courier says by
judicious system of leyees along certain
portions of the upper Mississippi River
40, 900 acres of land can he reclaimed that
will be worth 81, 100000.
"A goat followed Louisville girl two
miles the other day, and she was finally
Obliged to rush into house to escape the
wrath of the Infatuated animal. The girls
striped stockings caused the trouble.
"A London Custom House officer says
that his experience convinces him that
women as rule would rather smuggle
their gloves and other knickknacks than
receive the same as present free of cost.
-11ClC ID d UAOA Hull 1CdSOu III
ing Gentle: "Why, isn't he handsome
Il wanted every bit of him to myself
Father didn't like it, mother didn't like
it, but did,
The season of navigation ON the Red
River of the North was 1877 days, during
which the freight transported amounted
to IA 900 900 tons, or double what it was
I~oA rk<,1
barges have been employed.
The other day woman in Brooklyn
N. Y, sen: $50 to the Secretary of the
Treasury at Washington with note say.
ing it was conscience money" being
the amount due the Government on some
goods she had Struggled from Europe.
"A business house in Columbus, Ohio
has conspicuously displayed in its SHOW.
window a mans skull, and printed in
large letters across the forehead these
words of warning to the daily swarm oil
travelling statesmen: "This was drum.
mer."
Rev. Mr.. Murray announces that hi
new church is an assured success, 800 gen
uemen having guaranteed fifty dollars {
year for family pews. The music of thu
church will occupy an hour at each serv
ice, and will involve a first-class quartet
and chorus Of 800 voices.
"A monstrous buck, with twelve prongs
to each horn, has been running in the vi
cinity of Reedsville, Mo-, for the last fit:
teen years. He is said to bear a charmed
life and to Re also in league with the devil
He has been shot at twenty-seven times
and hit not once to anybody's knowledge
The poetic sentiment given below viii
find thousands of indOrses among unsuc
cessful lovers:
Be not triumphant, little flower,
When on her naughty heart you lie,
But modestly enjoy your hour;
She'll weary of you by and by.
-Cassimir Sauer, an insane man, ar
rested in Hoboken, N. j., few days ago
had in his pocket paper purporting tc
be his will, bequeathing his body to tho
Emperor of Germany, his soul to the
President of the United States, his dog tt
the Governor of New Jersey and his
clothes to his wife.
I'm 1929 there were about sixty paper
mills in Massachusetts, only six Of which
had machines. They consumed about
1,70O tons of rags, etc, and produced about
500, 900 worth of paper year. Massa
chusetts has now 147 mills in operation
with a capacity for manufacturing 1St
tons of paper every twenty -four hours.
"A conductor of the Metropolitan
horse-railroad at Boston was tried lately
for alleged assault in ejecting from his Cal
passenger who persisted in retaining a
lighted cigar in his possession on and in.
side of the car and was acquitted, the
Judge sustaining the right Of the com.
pany to make and enforce its rule against
smoking.
The freedom with which female pick.
pockets ply their trade in Boston is ex
citing good deal of attention. The mum.
Der of losses and the comparatively few
arrests are a commentary on the careless
ness of lady shoppers and laxity of police
skill. We do not doubt that from twenty
to thirty pockets are picked every day
when the ladies are out shopping in full
force. A few arrests and sentences OF the
Recorder Hackett style might be of some
STANDARDIZATION Commercial Bulletin.
"A travelling magician, during Wednes.
day night, placed the stuffed image of a
man on top of flag staff in Atlantic ave.
nue.. Pedestrians we're Mortified yester.
day morning by what appeared to be a
man standing on his head, hanging by one
foot in mid-air and assuming all sorts Of
dangerous positions at perilous height
At one time he seemed to have lost his
footing, and cry of horror went up from
below. Meanwhile the professor" en-.
joyed the sport immensely as, unobserved,
he pulled the wires from the top of a
neighboring house-Neso York Tribune
California papers are publishing the
docket of Tuolomne County Justice Of
the Peace who held office in 1850. The
following is an extract from his minutes
of the case: IN. B. Barber, the lawyer
for George Work, insolently told me
there were no law for me to roo] so;
told him I didn't care for his book law
but that was the law myself. He con.
tinued to jaw back; I told him to shut up
but he wouldn't; 1 fined him $50 and
committed him to goal for five days for
contempt of court in bringing my roolings
and dissions into disreputableness and as
a warning to unrooly persons not to con-
tradict this court"
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.