The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-14
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

"A plug hat under the soothing in
tluences Of the climate of Georgia lasts a
man thirteen years.
1t may be hard times, as the croakers
say, but the number of weddings appears
to be about as usual for the season..
Nantucket, Mass, has decreased 900
in population within the past five years,
and blubberingly bewhales her loss.
A square of ground which was held
for $780, 600 in Galveston q month ago is
now sand heap without house on It.
: The New Orleans Republican is around
inquiring how the news that comes
through the ocean cable can be so dry.
New York has reduced the salaries
of female school-teachers about $500 per
year, while their labors have increased.
of the entire population of London
| it IS estimated that over one-fourth. or
100000 of people, never attend church.
Russia is going to indulge in street
railways, bell punches and all that sort of
thing. A Yankee, of course, has the con-
tract.
Flush times convert fools into gas
bags and spendthrifts, who, when suddenly
struck by hard times, become beggars and
thieves.
Rhode Island would have had whirl.
wind the other day, but just az it got to
going it crossed the State line to find room
to spread ITSELF
"A French philosopher says: "Maid-
ems in love have but one eyes," but it is
two to one he. never said that to the girl he
was after individually. -,
Mrs. Croft attended Troy funeral
and wept so loudly and so bitterly that,a
policeman searched her and found five
stolen tides in her pockets.
| Franklin used to urge men to adver-
tise, but if merchant prefers playing
checkers and sitting with his feet on the
counter it's his own business.
| The oil-springs of Pennsylvania were
known to the whites as early as 1929, but
the full uses and value of petroleum were
not known for 200 years afterward.
China is reported arming rapidly and
is getting impertinent to the British.
There'll be bull in that China shop pres
emily, which his other name is John.
The best way is not to make viii at
all. If you do make one the lawyers will
prove you an idiot or lunatic and take
the property for proving it.-Detroit Free
Press.
The Danbury Neacs holds up its right
hand and swears that DanhurY hen, de-
string to 60 away the next day on visit,
laid two perfect eggs, one within the
| other. -.-.-
The decision of an English court
makes the aeronaut responsible for dam
ages to crops, fences, ETC., occasioned by
his balloon, or by the crowd, when it
alights. II
"A model will, duly executed and wit
messed, was recently presented for probate
at Plymouth, Mass, of which the follow
ing is verbatim copy: July 10, 1875.
I give all my property to my wife. -
"A Michigan engineer describes the
sensation of jumping from his locomotive
to avoid smash-up as follows: "You tie
up into fourteen hard knots, strike a
stump, unite and find yourself on the other
side of the fence" ~ c.a-,
"A Buffalo boy aged fourteen recently
passed himself off as Daniel Drew's
nephew, in that city, and purchased q
steam yacht for $4,000, after inducing
the owner to make numerous trial trips
and several Important changes in the
machinery. .--,s -. 80
Wont you cut open q penny for
Inc, fathers" said little girl, when she
came home from school one day. "Cut
open penny! What do you want me to
do that for?" asked her father. =" Cause, !"
said the little girl, "'our teacher says that
in every penny there are four tarthings,
and want to see them .
.. "A medical journal published in Cleve-
land addresses the following queer query
to the profession: i'll .agitg s:sf h5Y
Has any physician ever seen or treated a
bald headed consumptive?
We should say that there must be, and
that there must have beens -baldsheaded
consumptives; yet the fact that doubt is
thrown over the existence Of such per-
sons by a medical journal would seem to
show that they are notso common as to be
within the knowledge Of every physician.
We ourselves have mot ofcourse, seen as
many sufferers from the malady in ques-
ton as have come under the observation
of some doctors; but we cannot at this
moment think Of any one, of those We have
seea~wAo was bald-headed. J CONSUMPTION
is disease that preys upon old people as
well as young and ,middlersged people;
and we suppose its victims are subject 70
the ordinary laws that regulate the growth
Of talt. i not, why not r gsn.