The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-04-08
Foreign Gossip.

count of a donkey belonging TO Thomas
Newton, which was attacked by rats and
nearly devoured. Think of an American
mule being injured by rats, or even light
ming.
Employees in factories in England
have to pay for carelessness. A man
employed in some iron works at Wake
field was recently sent to prison for
three months for criminal negligence
which resulted in injury to some ma
chinery.
"A Bavarian recently shot an apple
from his boys head, a Ia William Tell, at
a distance of 21O feet, hitting the apple
in the middle. He was about to repeat
the experiment when the police, instigat-
ed by the lads mother, intcricrcd and
stopped the dangerous sport.
Every year pastry-cook in Dresden
| cooks up a lot of pancakes, in one of
which a ducat is placed, and advertiscs
| the same, whcreupOn all the good peo-
pie of that city rush to invest five pfen-
nings in one of the cakes, in the hope Ct
being the lucky winner OF the prize.
An inch on mans nose is proven
bially of some account, and NJ. Derrisart,
of Paris, is likely to know of exactly
what account. His nose has taken to
growing lately, and grew half an inch in
eight days. He is at the Hotel Dieu, in
Paris, and all the surgeons of France are
rushing thither to see HIM.
1t is given out from Berlin that the
Prussian authorities, always looking
ahead, intend Germanizing the English
language and rendering it's study obliga-
tory in the Fathcrland, with view to the
future when England and the New World
will be provinces of the German Empire
and, as such, occupied by Mantcutfel.
Frederick Stiebman, matchmaker in
Paris, said his soul had passed into a
watch at which he had been working for
twenty years. One day this watch lost
many minutes, the next day it gained
many; thereupon Frederick went to bed
and said he was very ill. The watch
stopped, and Frederick, when he saw
the hands mOtiOnless, sprang up from
his recumbent posture and fell back
dead.
The great Bessemer steamship, which
was to abolish the horrors of the English
Channel, has been tried and is only a
partial success. The ship steamed from
Hall to Gravesend in a gale of wind and
proved an excellent seaboat and fast.
Her two faults appear to be an excess of
draught and the unsteadiness of her
movable saloon. The former is partly
accounted for bya extra supply of coal,
and may be got rid of in one way or an
other-must be got rid of before she can
enter Calais on an ordinary tide AS to
the saloon it appears that the machinery
intended to control it, and to neutralize,
so far as it is concerned, the movement
of the ship, is in some way defective
The saloon can be handled with ease,
but cannot be kept still; in other words,
shares the motion of the ship. These
facts are gathered from a letter written
to the London Times by Lord Henry
Lennox, who came IN the ship, and who
explains that the present trouble arises
partly from some wrong arrangement of
the levers and partly from the inexperi-
ence of the man who works them.
| Industrial.
The amount of coal shipped from
Northumberland County, Pa, in 1874
was l, 221 $50 tons, by thirty three coll
iers, of which the Cameron and Big
Mountain shipped the heaviest amounts,
each over 100000 tons. The total shows
Will 1910,
when l ,234 ,O69 tons were shipped.
The Indianapolis Journal notes that
the standing walnut trees on half Sec
ton of land in Miami County, Ind, were
sold recently for $4,000. There is
large amount of other timber on the
tract which is not included, only the wal
nut timber being sold. Walnut lumber
is coming more and more into use
throughout this country and Europe, and
at present very large business is done
in preparing and shipping it from In
diana. Indiana has more of this timber
than any other State.
-Adulterated Cayenne Pepper.-The
London Lancet gives the following result
of an analysis of twenty-eight samples
of cayenne pepper: Out Of the above
number only four were genuine. Out of
twenty-four adulterated samples twenty.
two contained mineral coloring matter.
Red-lead, often in large and poisonous
quantities, was present in thirteen sam
pies. Venetian red, red ochre, brick
dust, or some, other analogous ferrugi-
nous earths were contained in seven sam
pies. Cinnabar, vermilion, or sulphuret
of mercury was detected in one sample.
Six samples consisted of ground rice,
turmeric and cayenne, colored with red
lead or red ferruginous earth. Six con.
tanned salt, frequently combined with
rice and red ferruginous earth of red
lead. One of the samples was adulter-
ated with quantity of the husk of white
mustard-seed. Two contained rice only,
colored with red-lead or ferruginous
earth.
"A favorite subject of speculation