The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-07-01

charged Win electrlc1ty. The paper being
a non-conductor, and the musical charae..
tiers being printed with a metallic surface,
a current is carried along the "feelers' to
the performing part of the machine,
which consists Of drums, cymbals, flutes,
hautboys, etc., with an organ accompani-
ment, and the sounds produced are in ac--
cordance with the written score. The in
vention is said to be very ingenious one
and the work of two young Philadelphi-
ans, who have devoted four consecutive
years to its perfection. 1t will be exhib-
tied at the Centennial Worlds Fair next
summer.-Erctange
Recorder Hackett, of New York, has
congratulated the members of promi-
ncnt municipal reform association on the
decrease of crime in that city, and told
this story in illustration of the new diff.
cultles in the way of successful prose-
cution of criminal pursuits. A man was
under cross-examination, with the follow
ing results: "What is your business ?"
~, III am q. Obliged to work" Don't you
was your business?' "A craftsman"
frank answer). "Well, then, you have
given up that businessg' "Yes. You
see, counselor, what with the burglar
alarms in houses and stores, and the dis
trict telegraphs, and people growing Geo.
nomical and careful, and the newspapers
bounding US, burglary, garroting and
highway robberies and such things are
actually hazardous, and amt so easy to
be did,
"A lazy mans advocate has appeared
in New York. He has been counting and
figuring and rummaging generally among
the dry bones Of mortality, and in an adj.
dress before the New York Liberal Club
the other evening he gave some of the re-
suits, in connection with his treatment of
the labor question. He said that as MANY
persons die every year of consumption
alone among the poor as die of all other
diseases among the wealthy. He had
figured out that the annual death rate
among the laboring classes is IS to the
| 1000, while among the wealthy and we'll
TODD population it is only Is to the 1000.
| Who contends now that work is healthy?
Figures don't, certainly. Let this indus
! trious labor statistician invent some way
for the world to get along without work
| and transform it into a paradise of lazy
old men and wrinkled women. His cal
culations suggest that sloth is life-let
him teach us how to live.
"A gentleman of this city gives an in
teresting account Of recent attempt bv
an eagle to carry off cat, which occurred
at farm on the bay shore of Kent Coun-
ty, Maryland. A young, medium sized
cat was treading leisurely along in a po-
tato patch, when large, full-grown agile
swooped down, and catching her in his
talons bore her up. Pussy wriggled and
mewed pitcously for some moments, but,
suddenly seeming imbued with courage,
she began determined effort to obtain a
hold on her oppressor. So great were her
struggles that the eagle was unable to fly
longer and kept up a continuous Tapping
OF its wings to keep aloft. After much
exertion the cat succeeded in its object
and obtained firm grasp with her claws
on the breast of the eagle, which made
every possible endeavor to free itself, in
vain. 1t tapped its wings, shook its
body and appeared to heartily regret hav-
ing meddled with pussy in her peaceful
ways. Finally, as if in despair and ex-
haustion, it spread its broad wings and
fell slowly to the bay, over which the
struggle had been going on. Immediately
upon touching the water the cat loosed
her hold and swan boldly ashore, while
the eagle upon being freed of its trouble
oOlAC OuiNClA SlOG uDNdIU dll(t SpcU rap
idly away.-Baltamore american.
"A Newfoundland correspondent OF
the New York World writes Il am in
possession of a young harp seal brought
in this year by the steamship Leopard, OF
most extraordinary appearance, nothing
like it having ever before been seen. Il
may be described as two perfectly formed
seals united together in the same way as
the Siamese twins, but more closely.
has two heads, two mouths and four eyes
all complete. In fact, two seals have
grown together, back to back, the bodie:
and heads being united, the hind fippers
and also the fore flippers being separate
When placed in the natural position, on
the ground, the one carries the other on
its back, the fore flippers of the latter
pointing upward. They are not united
by membrane or ligature, but from one
double-headed, double bodied seal. Had
they lived and kept on at as good terms
with one another as the Siamese twins
they might have got along comfortably
by alternately carrying each other. But
the bat of Newfoundland seal-huntcl
ended their troubles, and now they are
preserved for an admiring posterity
What a prize Mr.. Barnum would have
considered living seal of this descrip
| ton! AS it is have had the skin carefully
stuffed so as to preserve the features OF
this extraordinary specimen, which
lwakens a lively interest hara