The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-07-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The first thing the magnet ever at
tracted- attention.
"A society for ameliorating the condi-
ton Of jurymen has been organized in
New York.
When will the sanitary authorities
wake up to the most terrible of evils, and
pass a law prohibiting BARRIERS from eating
onions?
in a nest of robins found on the
farm of Oscar Wordell, North Dartmouth,
Mass, are three white and one cream col
ored. The old birds are of the common
hue.
George Kent, Of Amherst, Mass, a
deaf and dumb man, who is also almost
helplessly lame, has caught with hook
$50 trout for the Boston market this sea-
son, besides !, 76O fish of other varieties.
Two young girls Of Reading, Pa, who
INDUCED in the sport of stealing flowers
from the gardens in that city, have been
held in the sum of $500 each by the Mayor
to answer the charge of malicious mis-
chief.
They say that baby was born bald
headed and that it seems old in voice
though young otherwise. But it has such
a SartoristOcratic way about it that its
mother don't feel like blaming it for those
defects.
I'm an editorial article in its issue Of
the 18th inst. the New York World de-
bated the desirability of ruling the city by
vigilance committee, in view of the in
sufficiency and corruption of the police
department.
The Milwaukee News celebrated the
national holiday by declaring that George
Mo- ,svn <o1l E,,n 81, <0,1,scf hof
the mosquitoes on Lake Champlain could
patriotism!
-" Team!" "Team!' "Teamw Yes,
keep right on, you blasted noodle-heads,
speaking of half dozen riflemen as
team. It doesn't hurt anybody out this
way, and perhaps it makes you feel good.
Detroit Free Press.
"A Boston gentleman, while making a
speech, inadvertently stepped forward and
off the platform. In response to the peals
of laughter that greeted his unlucky fall,
he claimed that any speaker had a right
to come down to the level of his audi
ence."
Having frequently appealed to his
father to buy him jack-knife, and receiv-
ing for final answer: IF you speak to
me again on that subject I'll whale you,"
he went straightway to his mother, crying
as if his heart would break, and said: 81
can't never be good like George Washing
ton, with such dad as I've got.''
-Four of Chicago's morning newspaper
reporters went up among the clouds in
balloon with Prof. Donaldson yesterday.
They were terribly frightened when they
were going up-and no wonder. The
morning paper reporters are SO used to
diving down among Chicago's hells at
night, that going upward into pure atmos--
phere and toward heaven was new and
startling sensation.-Journal.
The Superintendent of Schools in the
Cherokee Nation says that the greatest
want of the Indian schools is supply of
competent teachers. The Creeks and
Seminoles have mixed schools; but the
Cherokees have separate schools for freed
men, which number about ten, and are on
the increase. The interest on the part of
the Indian freedmen to secure the benefits
of education it is said amounts to enthu-
siasm.
"A funny controversy has been going on
between the Boston and New York agents of
the Associated Press. Boston telegraphed
several days ago that Mrs. Atocha, wife Of
Judge Atocha, of New Orleans, had died
in that city. New York responds that it
is all cherry tree;" the lady is living in
that city; Boston replies the next day that
New York has got things " mixed" and,
as clincher, announces that the funeral
services take place to-day" A days 81
lence and then New, York again responds
that there is evidently something wrong.
with the man at the Hub, for Mrs. Ato-
cha is living at 96 West Twenty:
street, in this city (New York;, and was
there at breakfast this morning." This
funny controversy must be exceedingly re-
freshing to Mrs. Atocha, the living, and
her relations.
The New Ysrk Sun says that Aaron
Shute, of Brooklyn, who was thought to
have been fatally shot by burglar nearly
. month ago, is recovering. One Of the
bullets entered three inches under the left
ear, another on the right side of the neck,
and third close to the lobe of the left ear.
Soon after the burglars escaped from the
house Mr.. 6hute vomited large quantities