The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-01-07
the sea- must look to us for the all-im-
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the sea must look to us for the all i'm
pertant commodity"
The New York Times makes an elsb-
crate review of the labor market, its
conditions and prospects, and concludes
therefrom that trades are not 50 Ian
gushing as at this time in several past
years. The number of unskilled labor
ers is large, as is always the CASE Work
ing women are found to have as dull
prospects before them as any class, and
Tor these the consideration Of the chari-
tabIy disposed is bespoken. Altogether
the situation is considered far from dis
couraging.
Here is an important fact in chcmis-
try: Dealers in kirschwasser test its
purity with gum guaiacum, and this test
Is accepted as absolute in the whole
trade. If it is kirschwasser made from
cherries it turns the powdered guaiac
blue; but if it is counterfeit made of
favored alcohol it does not have this
effect. Recently, however, one of the
best distillers has made known that his
kirschwasser made from cherries, with
every attention to details, does not give
the required reaction. Upon inquiry he
nnds that the ordinary kirschwasser
made on small scale is made in copper
kettles, takes up copper from the vessel,
and that it is this copper in kirsch which
turns guaiacum blue. But the prejudice
has SO firm hold of the trade that he
has to poison his liquor in order to sell it.
Personal and Literary.
Waite is the only Chief Justice not
bald. Just Waite.
-Kalakaua is getting sassy. He says
our folks act as though they never saw a
king before.
An Ashfield MASS. y widower of nine
ty-one has just welded blushing widow
of seventy-one.
e. W. Tullidgc, prominent news
paper man OF Salt Lake City, who has
been engaged in preparing biography
OF Brigham Young, has become insane.
-Hamlin, of Maine, is certainly an old
stager. If he is reelected and serves
out his next term in the Senate he will
have filled out the measure of three and
thirty years.
The Cincinnati Enquirer thinks the
matter with Kate Field is that she can
not vault to the empyrean heights of
genius. Such probably is the distressful
fix OF most women who have neglected
learning to jump the rope in childhood.
-Brooklyn Argus.
Hon. Chester w. Chaplin, elected to
Congress from Massachusetts, is seventy.
six years Of age and now makes his debut
in politics. For a quarter of century
past he has been one of the railway mag
| mates of the country, especially that frac-
ton of it denominated New England.
One day last week son and daugh-
l nj nnt r1~
tural College at Amherst, passed through
town on foot on their way from Amherst
to Easthampton. When the first Willis
ton seminary building was erected their
father, then a lad of fourteen or fifteen
years, was given a job by Mr.. Williston
at washing the windows for a shilling
each. He worked at it faithfully until
the school was opened, when he entered
as one of the first pupils and fitted for
college. Why should his children hest
tate to walk twelve or thirteen miles,
when he at their age worked all day for
couple of lings?-Hampshire ca.
eette.
| The Methodist Bishop Haven is an
exasperated individual. A little while
| to order for him new suit of clothes
from his tailor, and to forward them to
his address at the South through the
agency of an ever-obliging book agent
The clothes were ordered, but failed tc
reach the worthy Bishop, and, after per.
sistent inquiries, it was learned that the
package was delivered to the ever-oblig
ing agent just at the time that Rev. Mr.
Abbott, of South Carolina, was calling
for secondhand clothing for his suffer
ing colored brethren in the Southern
ministry and membership. Into his bar
rel, without examination, went the
Bishops bundle. And now, probably
some particularly stout colored dominic
is preaching with apostolic vigor, the
mantle, coat, breeches, vest and all of 9
very Bishop having literally fallen upon
him.