The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-05-27
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
"A watch wOrd-Tick.

"A watch word-Tick.
The best material for kites is fly-
paper.
The narrowest striped colored silks
sell at from G5 cents to $l.25 yard.
BE temperate in your diet. Our first
parents ate themselves out of house and
home.
The educational exhibition at the
Centennial Exposition promises to he
comprehensive.
The man who knows all about drains
and such like sanitary contrivances may
fairly be ranked as a COMMISSIONER.
Prof. Tice had better take warning
and desist from his evil prophecies at
once. His latest fling at the country is
an announcement that about the 18th of
June there will be terrific gales.
Some ingenious observer has discov-
cred that there is a remarkable resem-
blancc between a baby and wheat, since
i. is Graded, then thrashed, ana finally
becomes the flower of the family
George H. Price, the messenger who
killed the robber in his car On the Pitts
burgh & Fort Wayne Road, few days
since, has been voted $1,000 in gold by
his company-the Adams Express.
"A stone mortar was recently discov-
cred in California, eighteen feet beneath
the surface. Its appearance leads to the
belief that it was once household uten-
sill of a race long since extinct.
-Signcr Wandarma, a "sword-swal-
lower" died recently from Inflammation
ternally while performing at Calais, Me-,
and "they that take the sword shall per-
ish by the sword"
The gossipy Danburian announces its
dive under the daisies in the announce
ment that "Our next issue will be pub
lished by ear" The little paper has
made fair struggle with destiny, but
Danbury is small and the world is cold.
On May Mr.. Nathaniel Eaton, of
New Hampshire, reached 100 years of
age, but, in celebrating the event, took
cold, and has since died. The curious
thing about Nate was that for all the
first part of his life he was very sickly
lad.
The ladies of St. Louis will hear
with keen satisfaction that Chicago WON
ems feet have attained such an cnor-
nous growth that shoemakers are now
obliged to determine the distance from
heel to toe by triangulation.-Brooklyn
Argus.
Specimen of the value of fame
found in Western paper: "A wealthy
New Yorker, Mr.. David Linton, pro-
poses to give $50: 900 to adorn market
place, relying, apparently, upon the
vegetable dealers to keep his memory
green"
"A reverend gentleman, during So
journ among the hills of New Hamp-
shire, stopping at cottage, inquired of
the occupant if there were any Episco-
palians in the neighborhood: II don't
exactly KNOW" replied the dame. II
believe John shot one in the garden last
week; but he thought it was chip
munk."
"A lady who had been teaching her
little four-year-old boy the elements of
arithmetic was astounded by his run
ming and propounding the following
problem: /" Mamma, if you had three
butterflies, and each butterfly had bug
in his ear, how many butterflies would
you have?" The mother is still at work
on the problem.
-Bald-headed men are only living a
little in advance of their time. Accord
ing to Darwin, we are indebted to our
risky ancestor, the ape, for our hair, and
men with long boards and prolific scalps
have no reason to feel that they are par
ticularly superior to their less lovely fel-
low men. It may be extinction to the
barber business and blow to human
vanity, but the coming man is to be bald.
headed.-LouisuiAe C0usiea-J Journal.
This is the kind of men they raise in
Massachusetts,: Abner Robinson, of
Newburyport, has pointed to gun over
his fireplace for several years and said
each time: "That's the weppin my old
dad carried at Lexington" The other
day OF the celebration the Mayor of the
town went to investigate matters, and
after a while found that the gun was a
breech-load of the present day and that
Abner's dad had died of black measles
in State Prison.
An Ohio paper says: "The man
who carries the mail at Union City from
the trains to the Office is clever fellow,
but absent-minded. The other night the
train was late and he reclined on the
door, pillowing his head on dog, while
he held the mailbag in his hand When
the train came in he awoke, gave the