The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-01-14

Temperature in the coal mines increases
generally one degree for every sixty
feet OF depth. It is regarded as ques-
tionable, however, whether after great
depth the rate of increase does not prove
more rapid than before. Thus it is found
that at the deepest coal pit in England,
where the shaft now marks 2,376 feet,
and is still descending, there is ratio of
heat increase in accordance with the,
ordinary rate down to a depth Of 800
feet, after which it becomes considerably
more rapid. At the lowest point of the
sinking the thermometer indicated nine
ty-two degrees.
In his "Treatise on Watch Work"
Mr.. Neltbropp states that more watches
are spoilt by irregular and hasty wind
ing up than by most other causes; the
operation should, if possible, be per-
formed regularly, and always with a
steady and uniform motion. not moving
both hands, and nearly as practicable at
the same hour daily. A watch should
also be kept at the same temperature;
left over night on a stone surface it is
sure to gain, or, if the oil gets thickened
it may stop, to DC started again by the
warmth of the pocket. The requisites of
a good watch are that the case, whether
of gold or silver, should be correctly
made and of fair thickness, the hinges
close and smooth, the glass wei. fitted,
the dial of clear, bright enamel, the sec
when held in the hand. When, too, the
dome is opened-for it is better, says
Nelthropp, that watch case should be
so made, though more expensive-the
brass work should look well finished,
the edges smoothed of, the steel of
diamond-like polish and the jewels pale
in color, but of fine, clear luster.
Miscellaneous.
"A Lancaster pa lass set her three
lovers to playing a game of cards to de-
termine which should marry her.
An effort is being made to revive the
fashion of small curls at the back of the
feminine head where the chignon used to
be.
Philadelphia asserts that she has
more houses than New York by $4,000,
than Brooklyn by $4,000, and than Boston
by 81 200.
Butterflies, flies and birds, of gold,
tortoise or steel, vibrating on the ex-
tremity of flexible wire, are among The
hair ornaments.
-" The most promising young actress
in America to-day commenced by being
nursemaid." That accounts for her
being such spanking actress.
Quilted silk or cloth skirts succeed
white for the winter Of all disgusting
street sights is a lady's muddy white
skirts. Hence the revival of the black.
The women have succeeded in revo-
lutionizing the world by wearing mems
hats, and now (says a cynic) they are
mad because they haven't got mems
heads to cover with them.
The Rochester Chronicle man ex-
pected a watch; he arose early; there
was lump in the toe of his stocking;
it looked like watch; he dove down;
he smiled; he carefully unrolled the
paper; it was watch-no, a box OF
blacking.
There's nothing that will try mans
patience more than timber tooth pick
Many q soul that sets out for the better
land loses all self-control and goes to
pieces for want of the proper apparatus
to extricate bit of apple-core from his
molar interstices.-Detroit Free Press.
An observant but not very rich old
lady always bought her tea by the
quarter of a pound, because she thus
| got what she termed the "turn of the
scale' four times in every pound of tea
instead of once, as would have been the
case if she had purchased single
pound.
A female lecturer in California,
speaking in behalf of her sex, says:
MANS pleasures would never suit us,
and his profits we have. We allow him
to dress respectfully, and to take US to
lectures and other intellectual circuses;
but the bulk Of his income we appro-
pirate"
| Walking the streets of Cleveland the
other day young lady met a gentleman
whose offer of marriage she had some
months previously rejected. She had
repented her hastily-formed decision,
and informed him Of the fact in this
shrewd style: "You have no tact in
matters of love. You should have asked
me again."
Prof. Baird, United States Commits
sioner of Fish and Fisheries, states that
he is now perfecting arrangements by
which he expects next season to hatch
out an immense number of shad in all
the principal streams flowing into the
Atlantic, beginning on the coast of Flor
ida early in March and winding up with
the Connecticut River in August
Among the streams it is proposed to
operate in are the Potomac, Rappahan-
mock, James and Roanoke Rivers. Prof.
Baird also announces his purpose of in
Producing large number of California
salmon into the waters of Virginia, for
which he thinks they are we'll adapted,
and prophesies an important industry as
the result of the experiment.