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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-05-13
g. PERSONAL ANDxL1TERARY,

james Lick is worse than they took
him for. His temper is said to be bad.
1t is said the sapphire ring which
Cardinal McCloskey received from the
Pope as part of his outfit is worth $500.
An edition of the Bible is to be
printed in London with all the proper
names accented to show their pronun-
citation.
-Tennyson's price for lyric is said
to be $500, but thousands of budding
poets on two continents ARE endeavor-
ing to break down his monstrous mo-
nopoly.
The Albany Erpress announced that
William Oerr had died. The next day
he appeared at the Office to argue the
case with the editor.
Brigham Young is seventy-four, hut
can preach for two hours with the
serenest inconsistencies that twenty.
two infants are yelling in the tabernacle
David Craig, of Americas, KY, aged
eighty-six. advertises for wife about
his own age. He is, to use his OWL
words, "as spry as a girl sixteen years
DID," has =" life about him." and does not
want an old lady who is not as gay and
spry as he is"
According to the Hearth and Homt
longevity is the rule among literary
women. Says that journal: "Miss
Martineau, Miss Bremen, Mrs. Hewitt
Mrs. Strickland AID Mrs. Browning
either living or not very long deceased
were born almost at the beginning of the
century. Nine. de Stael lived to be fifty
one, Mrs. Bradstreet fifty-nine, Ida Pfeif.
fer sixty-one, Miss Milford sixty-nine
Lady Wortley Montague seventy-two
Miss Edgeworth eighty-two,. Mrs Opie
eighty-four, Nine. D'Arblay eighty.fve
Mrs. Bonneville ninety.one and Nine. de
Gen1iS ninetv-siY ,,
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gatien of the subject, that hog choler9
and typhoid fever in the human subject
a ro idnnfical 1diSoocoo ~>sg%s"

fatien of the subject, that hog~cholerS
and typhoid fever in the human subject
are identical diseases. ~,s'~~
There was once PENNSYLVANIA leg
islator who laid by $50. 900 in one SEES
sion.. When he was asked how he man
aged this with salary of $1,000, he said
that his wife saved it by doing without a
Patience is always crowned with
success. This rule is without an excep-
ton. 1t may not he a splendid success,
but patience never takes anything in
hand it does not succeed with in some
form.
Susan B. Anthony says that there
are GOO, 900 professional drunkards in the
United States, and that one woman in
seventeen is married to such an artist.
She would never do it herself, though.
Collin Graves, the hero of Mill River,
shoulders bag of rutabagas and starts
for the farm just like any common man,
and there isn't the least bit of sentiment
in his voice as he yells at a COW: $50,
boss-hist around thar, will ye!"-Detroit
Free Press.
Notorious as reader of his sermons
reverend gentleman, in bantering a
mason, one of his Pensioners, on the
superior stability of ancient compared
with modern buildings, put the question
Can you tell me when the masons lost
the art of tempering their mortar?'
"l've heard" says the man, with sly
leer, "that it was about the time minis.
tiers lost the gift of extempore preach
ing"
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Coughs.

The London Lancet says: "Anodyncs,
narcotics, cough mixtures and lozenges
are practically of no good, and but too
often increase the debility and hasten
the fatal end: The best method Of cas-
ing cough is to resist it with all the force
of will possibleuntil the accumulation of
phlegm becomes greater; then there is
something to cough against, and it comes
up very much easier, and with half the
coughing. A great deal Of hacking and
hemming and coughing in invalids is
nervous, purely nervous, or from the
force Of habit, as is shown by the
frequency when thinking about it and
the comparative rarity when the person
is so much engaged that there is no time
to think about it, and the attention is
compelled in another direction"
To these sensible remarks from high
authority every thoughtful observer Will
be ready to grant a considerable degree
of credence. That coughing is in itself
injurious, and promotive of Inflammation
and irritation, is universally admitted.
That it is largely under the control of the
will no one Can doubt who has observed
the phenomena of coughing in large
audiences. We have heard one cougher
start another, until the whole of great
congregation seemed to be in the IRE
sistible grasp of asthma or consumption;
and we have known. the same congrega-
tion, at some particularly interesting
moment of lecture or music or sermon or
spectacle, all intent to see and hear, and
preserving an unbroken stiffness. Evil
IDENTIFY the way to stop coughing is to
stop it!-Chrssttdn Union.
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Learn q Trade.

Inever look at my old steel composing
rule that do not bless myself that while
my strength lasts l am not at the mercy
of the world. If my pen is not wanted I
can 60 back to the type case and be sure
to find work; for learned the printers
trade NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. work, Job
work, book work and press work. l am
glad l have good trade 1t is rock
upon Which the possessor can stand firm
ly. There is health and vigor for both
body and mind in an honest trade. 1t is
the strongest and surest part of the self
made man. Go from the academy to the
printing Office or the artisans bench, or,
if you please, to the farm-for, to be sure,
true farming is a trade, and a grand one
at that Lay thus sure foundation, and
after that branch off into what profess
sion you please.
You have heard, perhaps, of the clerk
who had faithfully served Stephen Girard
from boyhood to manhood. On the
twenty-irst anniversary of his birthday
he went to his master and told him his
time was up, and he certainly expected
important promotion in the merchants
service; but Stephen Girard said to him 3:
Very we'll; now go and learn trade"
"What trade. sir?"
"GOod barrels and butts must be in
demand while you live. Go and learn
the cooper's trade and when you have
made a perfect barrel bring it to me-"
The young man went away and learned
the trade and in time brought to his old
master splendid barrel of his own
make.
Girard examined it and gave the
maker s., 600 for it and then said to him
Nov, sir, I want you in my counting
room, but henceforth you will not be de-
pendent upon the whim of Stephen
Girard. Let what will come you have a
good trade always in reserve"
The young man saw the wisdom and
understood.
Years ago, when the middle-aged men
of to-day were boys, Horace Greeley
wrote:
cit is source of consolation to us
that when the public shall be tired of us
as an editor we can make satisfactory
livelihood at setting type or farming; Sc
that, while our strength lasts, O,OOC
blockheads, taking offense at some arti.
Gle they do not understand, could not
drive US into the poor-house."
And so may man become truly indie.
pendent. Baltimore Trade Reviep.
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VIOLENT demonstrations were made at
Gratz, Austria, on the 2Sth against Don Al
phonso, brother of Don Carlos, and the
strongest efforts of the police were necessary
to protect him from an Infatuated mob.
LORD HOBART, Governor of the Madras
Presidency, died on the 28th.
TIE Prince of Wales was installed Grand
Master of the United Grand Lodge of Masons,
in London, on the 2Sth.
A TERRIBLE explosion occurred on the SOth
ult. IN Bunker's Hill colliery, North Stafford.
shire, England, while the miners were al
work. At last accounts twelve dead bodies
had been taken out, and of the twenty three
then remaining in the mine not one was ex
pected to be recovered alive.
JEAN FREDERICK DE WALDEcK, the French
artist and traveller, died at Paris on the 3Oth
ult., at the extraordinary age of no years.
A BILL has been introduced in the German
Parliament abolishing all religious orders in
Prussia.
LoNDoH dispatch of the LIST says French
and English gunboats had been ordered to the
banks of Newfoundland to prevent the threat
ened trouble between the fishermen of eacf
nation this summer.
A MADRID telegram of the LIST announce.
that portion of the Carlist forces on tn,
frontier of Navarro had revolted, demanding
peace and recognition of Alphonso.
A BERLIN special of the I'd says the diplo
matte controversy between Germany and Bel
gium had been concluded to the satisfaction
of the former Government.
ST.. JAMES HALL, in Liverpool, Eng, wa
burned on the I'd. Loss $4,000.
THE blockade around the provinces occu
pied by the Carlists had been re.established
according to Madrid dispatch of the ID
THE Carlist Committee in London, on tn
Sd, received kilograms announcing great victo
ries achieved by Don Carlos forces at Breda
Another victory was also reported in Arragon
The Alphonsists were said to have lost al
their artillery and many prisoners.
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Justices Justice In England.

With Goals at their present price poor
people who live near forest are ex-
posed to great temptation. They must,
however, keep their hands from "pick-
ing and stealing" or rather from stick
ing and stealing, for justice in this coun-
try is administered very indiferently,
and Its mlll-wheels occasionally grind
exceedingly small" A case heard a few
days ago at the St. Martins (Stamford)
Petty Sessions ought to be warning to
"stickcrs." -Four women were sum
moned for sticking in Cliffc Forest on
the 10Th of February and doing damage
to the underwood to the extent of six
pence. 1t appears that the forest is the
property OF Lord Exeter, and heavy
penalty was pressed for, as considerable
damage, it was stated, had been done 10
the underwood by stlckers The Magis-
trates thereupon fined all the defendants
81 9s Cd, including damages and costs,
or a months hard labor. This judgment,
according to the report of the Stamford
Mercury, appeared to stagger the poor
women, who pleaded piteously for a
mitigation of the sentence, declaring
that they had been compelled to go out
sticking to get firing, as they were I'M
able to buy coal at Is Cd a hundred
weight. After while the Magistrates
relented so far as to allow fortnight
for payment, This act of mercy did
not, however, satisfy the offenders, who
urged that they should never be able TO
pay the sum demanded, and would have
to 60 to prison, and two of the defend
ants, an old woman and young girl,
actually surrendered themselves in Gus
| tody on this absurd plea. Another old
woman, who said she had only los in the
world, that her husband was i'll in bed
and had been So for three months, and
that she only went to get few sticks to
make fire to warm him, got her penalty
at last reduced to 81, but her money
was exhausted. So evenly are the scales
of justice balanced in this country that
All old woman who picks up stick and
a ruftian who knocks an old woman
down with bludgeon are mulcted in
about the same penalty.-PaH Mall Ga
! zette.
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A Convict Prison in Tasmania.

A correspondent with the transit of
Venus expedition writes from Hobart
Town, Tasmania, to the New York
Tribune:
1.-THE ship has just returned from a
beautiful harbor forty miles from Hobart
Town, where the convict station is stu
ated. No cOnvicts have been sent to
Tasmania from the mother country for
twelve or fourteen years, and there are
only about 200 at Port Arthur now, who
were sentenced for life or long terms Of
years. 1t is the custom for the members
of the Ministry to go to Port Arthur
once year, inspect the prisons, and
listen to such of the prisoners as wish to
appeal to them or have any grievances, or
petition for remission of sentence
The buildings are substantially con-
structed, with room enough for 1000
prisoners, and several hundred acres of
land reserved for prison purposes. "A
heat cottage, nesting among thick shade
trees and with a porch on three sides,
was the prison governors abode; but
that official having taken another cottage
near the prison this one has been kept
furnished for the use of the Ministry on
their annual visits. Near by is hand
some chapel with surrounding grounds
neatly laid cut and kept in order, and
one side of the chapel is nearly covered
with English ivy creeping to the very
roof, and reminding one of home. In
fact, the whole establishment is kept in
perfect order; but the number of prison.
ers is yearly growing less, so in a few
years the convicts of Tasmania will
have entirely disappeared, and the
prisons that held them gradually sink in
ruins. The model prison, where refrac-
tory prisoners are kept, appears linger-
ing death. For weeks and months the in
mates see nobody, hear nobody, save the
chaplain on Sundays. Food is passed in
through a small trap-door, and when they
are marshaled into chapel tight mask is
first put on by themselves. A small eye
hole through which the keepers satisfy
themselves that these men are hooded is
just over the trap, and when the prison
ers reach the chapel they 60 into boxes
shut in one by one, not being able to see
either the right or left neighbor. When
all are in, an unseen keeper gives the
Under the circumstances it is a question
whether devotion fills the soul, or
whether malice toward mankind and
hatred to all created things take it's
place. The return to the cells is con-
Quoted in the same way as is the entrance
to the chapel. 1t was also an amusing
thing to hear those convicts tell their
own story to the Ministry and appeal for
remission of their sentences. To look
at them and hear their soft voices one
would think them saints descended,
possessing holy horror of knife or
bludgeon, yet nearly all had blood of
victims upon their hands, and some the
life blood of several"
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Mrs. Darlington.

Mrs. Darlington is considered myth
ical person evolved" from the brain of
MIR. Shillaber, but her counterparts are
often found in real life. One of these
ladies was overheard at an evening as
sembly speaking in high praise of pref
ty girl just passing.
why, she is perfect paragram of a
young lady!'
Il think you mean parallelogram, do
you not'" suggested the waggish gentle
man addressed.
II said parallelogram, Mr. -" ex-
claimed the lady, with a combination of
dignity and indignation impossible to de-
scribe.
do you intend to mnsticste your
house?" inquired Western lady of
friend of mine who was building. He
was critical, cultured New Highlander,
as exact as witty. What droll look
came over his face as he answered:
My wife says eat like an anaconda,
and am blessed with the digestion of an
ostrich: but, really, madam, I don't
think I could manage my three-story
biick.'
This makes me think of Leigh
Hunts reply mot at all malapropy) to a
lady who said to him at dinner:
WI. NUM-, "ou you VtuIuIc Ou al
orange:"
IL would mot gladly, dear madam,
! only Pm afraid should tumble OFT"
But to keep to our theme. A lady
visiting Washington for the first time
sent word to friends at home that she
was dreadfully disappointed; she meant
| to have got an Indian Bureau tor Jennie's
room, but there weren't any to be had;
and that she was so busy shampoo;ng {:
young lady from one place to another
that she had no timeSto write letters.
a rather old girl (who had been lured
to California by the cheering information
that she was sure to marry there) laid
siege to a wealthy widower, who at first
showed signs of succumbing, but finally
resisted the attack AS usual with
women who are feeling intensely disap-
pointed, she didn't care; no, nor one
Bit" And she exclaimed, half sobbing,
to bosom friend:
"Why, wouldn't be hired to marry
him, hateful old thing! wouldn't take
him, not if he Vas a perfect Venus" AS
money was his chief charm we suppose
she meant Cresus.-" Bric-a Brac," an
Scri6ner for Hay.
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INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

"A year.old child of Mr.. Parady, of Bur-
lington, VT, was choked to death few
days ago by swallowing screw, which
lodged~in his throat.
"A young lady of Lawrence, Mass,
rose from her bed the other night in a
fit of somnambulism, and walked to
Lowell, the residence of her betrothed, a
distance of ten miles, clad only in her
night-dress and waterproof.
-Enoch Avery, of Pennington, Me-,
was attacked by his half-crazy son, who
fired at him with a shotgun, and at
tempted to fire pistol, brit was pre-
vented by Mr.. Avery. The lad then
went to the barn, set it on fire, and per-
ished in the flames.
"A young divinity student was re-
Gently married in St. Louis, and imme-
diately at the conclusion of the cere-
mony started for Germany to complete
his education. The bride will pass the
time two years. in an Illinois seminary.
"A tragic sequence of the election IN
Connecticut took place at New Haven.
James T. Furlong, hat merchant of the
City of Elms, had lost heavily in betting,
which appears to have upset his mind.
Furlong discharged the contents of two
OF the chambers of revolver into his
right ear. The force of the bullets dis
severed the jugular vein, from the eff
fects of which he died instantly.
During recent thunderstorm the
residence of Mr.. William Leonard, of
Chelsea, Mass, was struck by lightning,
which knocked off the Gaping and part
of the top of the chimney. Mr.. Richard
son, one of party in the house, who
had been deaf from his birth, seized a
lamp and ran into the yard to ascertain
the cause of the tumult, and Immediately
returning announced that he had gained
his sense of hearing, and he has since
been able to hear perfectly.
While buying her ticket recently the
train left Utica woman, carrying away
her twin babies, whom she had slowed
away in seat. Appealing to the sympa-
thies of the railroad Superintendent, the
anxious mother was soon flying down the
track behind switch engine at news
paper train speed, and, thanks to the
courteous - though bachelor official,
overlook her cherubs before they
reached Trenton.
"A Rutland (Vt.) liquor-dealer having
gone out of business, has explained the
means by which he was often enabled to
evade the officers of the law. 1t con.
sists of tin case, holding about three
quarts, about two feet wide and an inch
thick, and curved to fit the body. This
was fastened by belt around the waist
and worn beneath the clothes in front,
where it was entirely unnoticeable. To
a small opening at the bottom was at
Tackled rubber tube coming out through
hole in the pocket, and the vender
could, at any time, draw a glass of whis-
ky from that receptacle. 1t was first
made for use on the Playground, and was
found very convenient afterward. The
owner says he has sat at his door and sold
liquor while the officers were searching
his premises within,
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The Man With the Fleas.

A man has just died here who had his
hours of glory and whose fame has
reached the uttermost parts of the earth
breaks paving stones with his fist and OF
tsaabanQue, or juggler, known as the man
amr palces, was decided character. For
1eas throughout France, making them do
number of astounding feats. Among
other things he marshaled them into
companies, massing them much like SOL
diers, then turned them into horses, and
table. It was really wonderful to see
One day phoname 0ur puces was going
through his performance at the Clishy
Fair, when big dog rushed up and
Lesillia had ordered his fleas into their
the dog at his leg made him turn in
box of fleas. Their natural instincts
made them jump upon the dog for safety,
and at the same moment their master
gave CuC uOS NASOAOuS MIN, "AACA SCuI
him bowling away twas not until he
saw the dog running that he compre-
hended the loss of his pets. The crowd
began to laugh in the heartiest manner
but it was no laughing matter to Jean
Lesillia. His occupation was gone; he
had been despoiled in moment OF his
means of earning his daily bread for
himself and children, and the poor fel-
low sank down upon the ground weeping
like child. A crowd is always touched
by such exhibitions of feeling, and a
subscription was taken up, which, after
all, amounted to only one days receipts
What was he, then, to do? 1t required a
years hard labor to train a new lot of
fleas, and Jean Lesillia had not the
means. When he had first done SO he
was single man; now he was married
and the father Of several young children.
He turned rag-picker, and during the
past winter worked as q chifonier to
support his family. But the life did not
suit him, and chagrin and the severit1
of the season soon brought him to his
grave. He died in his modest garrett,
No. 10 Passage Sainte Marie, and the
children he had 50 handsomely supported
before the loss of his learned fleas are
now objects Of charity.-Parts Cor. Ne,O
York Times.
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The Boston Ifaue1ler proposes this
title for five-cent savings bank: est.
Nickle-us"
ALBANY and Troy are suffering coal
famine.
Germany is cultivating the Florida
| cedar to obtain wood for lead pencils.
Mrs. Smith says she celebrates her
wooden wedding every day. She mar
ried stick, and that's how it is.
The latest advices contradict the re-
port that Mr.. Frost chewed up all the
young tobacco plants in Kentucky.
SO far as yet reported large ma.
jority of the towns in Massachusetts
have decided to grant licenses under the
new Liquor law.
"A wealthy Chinese firm in San Fran.
cisco has just been caught smuggling
opium in large quantities, packed in cases
marked toll"
-" Silks and satins put out the kitchen
fire" but they get the best seat in the
church, while calico stands waiting in
the aisle at the door.
-Poe's proposed monument is to be
surmounted by marble raven. Moth
ing could have been more appropriate,
as his poetry was craven" mad.
"A contemporary says that "a child
was run over in the street by a wagon
three years old and cross-eyed, with pant
alets on, which never spoke afterward."
1t has been discovered that the New
England lady who spelled $50 words out
of the word "Congregationalist" has
never learned to make loaf of bread
out OF flour, yeast and water.
Here is a caseEfor relief: The young
grasshoPpers in Kansas are starving.
They came out before vegetation, and
are actually persishing for lack of the
commonest necessaries of life.
Il clasped her tiny hand in mine, 1
vowed to shield her from the wind, and
from the worlds cold storms. She set
her beauteous eye on me, and with her
little lips SAID she, Gan umbrella will
do as WELL" -
1t is quite easy to perform our duties
when they are pleasant, and imply no
self sacrifice; the test of principle is to
perform them with equal readiness when
they are onerous and disagreeable.
Up to 1926, on the Sabbath, there
were chains across the streets of all the
churches below the City Hall, in New
York, to prevent the passage of carria res
during the hours of worship.
"A Baltimore actress who wished to
change the color of her hair tried the dive
on cOnfiding younger brother. When
he goes out the boys cry fire, and an ex-
cited policeman turns in an alarm from
the nearest box. IS 3d.,
-" Idiot" exclaimed q lady, coming
out of the theater one evening as gem
tleman accidentally stepped on her trail
ing skirt. (Which one of u.s." blandly
responded the man. q"
ANY Concord or Lexington woman
who doesn't carry her broom at right
shoulder shift is immediately put down
by her neighbors as q descendant of the
Tories: and unfit to associate with.
The increase in the cultivation of
beet root in Europe, for the manufacture
Of sugar, is said to be causing enor-
nous losses to the canesugar planters in
Cuba. -
"A Chicago physician has arrived at
the conclusion, from extensive invests