The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-09
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

derful endurance of the conoueror of the
| British Channel.-Ne,c York GraDhic.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
The Prince of Wales is not coming
to our Centennial, and yet we must not
grieve.
-" Ah!' says the farmer, wiping the per-
spiration from his brow, "this is the
weather for corn.''
Edmond About calls France a sick
soldier of God needing to be cured
through the lapse of time.
MIR. Armijo, of Mexico, owns 2,OOO,-
600 sheep. Counting them morning
and evening is getting monotonous.
-Tlce says thirteen days of rain are
coming in October, but nobody seems to
have bought umbrellas out of St. Louis.
1t has beer ascertained by the anthro-
biologists that, as a rule, women nowadays
become gray earlier than men. Why IS it :?
Herzegovina, the scene of the present
revolt against the Turks, means the nlchy,
from the German Herzog, and hence it is
commonly known as "the Herzegovina"
Hersek is the name of the country.
The Prince of Wales will distribute
large number of souvenirs in the course
of his tour through India. Several hun
dred gold and silver medals and gold
rings have been ordered for the purpose
The tenacity of life on the part of
Anthony of Leavenworth and Carruth O
Vineland has taught people one thing
the uselesness of attacking editors with
pistols. Nothing but artillery should be
used in bombarding their heads.
An enraged woman with knife in
her hand pursued her lover, of whom she
was jealous, through the Paris streets.
People jeered at his flight, and, ashamed
he turned and waited for her to come up,
when she plunged the knife in his throat
and he died in three minutes.
medium" told Fayette Greeley,
of Auburn, n. Y, that he would die in
August, 1875. The fellow increased the
insurance on his life to $4,000. The
other day he accidentally swallowed dose
Of nitric acid and died in an hour. His
heirs should remember the medium.
1t is stated that the exclusive privilege
of making and selling all the Photographic
pictures of articles exhibited, views and
portraits at the great International Exhibi-
ton of 1876 is in the hands of company
having for its President William hoffman,
of Montreal, and Manager John A. Fra.
ser, of Toronto.
The report that Chicago Alderman
received letter from a constituent begin
ming Dear and honest sir" was erroneous.
An examination of the envelope con-
WINGED the Alderman that he had opened
another mans letter, and relieved him of
the anxiety he felt as to his constituents
sanity.-Detroit Free Press.
The last new Partisan note paper is a
single page of letter twice the size usually
used for writing notes, and the border is
exactly like fancy pocket-handkerchief,
having broad band of color, and small
dots and devices beyond; the envelopes
match, and the sheet is folded in manner
that recalls the rundown collar.
Martin A. Brown, mineralogist of
Mortified, Mass, has bought for 800 a
beryl mine at South Royalston, in that
State, and is digging for specimens for
Amherst and Yale Colleges The seam is
about eighteen inches wide, and he has
uncovered it for five or six rods. Some
very fine specimens have already been
taken out.
The editor of the Elmira Gazette says !:
owe always did like girl with blue
veil, and we rejoice to see that this becOm-
ing article of female gearing is coming
into style again. They are twisted into
the most bewitching shapes, and so tan
talizingly tied around and about as to
make the wearers more winsome than
ever. If there is anything nicer than a
pre- pretty girl in blue veil we never found it
The other day Detroit policeman
was approached bv a lad who carried in
his hand an old wallet tied ur with a
string, but appearing to be full of money
The boy stated that he had picked it up
on the street and wished the officer to take
charge of it. "YOu are an honest bow
my son." said the admiring blue-coat, and
he slipped shinplaster to the lad Ten
minutes afterward it was discovered that
the wallet was stuffed with waste paper
Detrvst Free Press.
"A philanthropic Frenchman has
| achieved a great success over the medical
profession. He has discovered a new and
| highly scientific method of administering
medicine without the knowledge of the
patient. He keeps medical dairy of
goats and the animals take the medicine
instead of the patients. Then the sick
person requiring any special medicine
drinks the milk of the goat which has
used that medicine. Thus there is a
qulnine goat camphor goat, buchu
goat, etc, and every disease can be &C.
curately treated exactly as a druggist
would fill out prescription. The goat
which imbibes its regular dose of fluid
extract of corn is most patronized by the
American patients.
The London Times of Aug. 5 says
that an unfortunate and unprecedented &C.
cident occurred recently at the Geological
Gardens in the Regents Park to one of
the elephants. The female African ele-
plant, being very fidgety and restless, is
usually tethered by ring round one of
| her fore feet to the corner of her stall
while the elephant-house is being cleaned
out in the morning. On the day in ques-
ton, about half-past eight a. M, the Keep
ers were alarmed by this elephant calling
out suddenly, as if in great pain, and on
running to the spot found that she had
actually torn off the top of her trunk. 1t
| seems that she had thrust the end of her
trunk underneath the ring by which her
foot was confined, and then by pulling
against the ring with her foot hurt her
trunk. This caused her to exert such
force in the attempt to withdraw her
trunk thst the end of the organ was torn
of in the effort. For some time after this
extraordinary event the elephant was in
great pain and very uneasy. She has
now begun to feed again and seems likely
to recover the use of her trunk as the
wound is not intlamed much and is
gradually healing over.
"A correspondent writes to Nature of a
strange case of what he considers heredi-
tary affection among brutes which has
come under his notice. He says: have
reared fine mastiff. He is now three
and half years old. While he was a
puppy he and kitten evinced a strong
liking for each other. The kitten, when
able to leave her mother, fixed her resi-
dence in the dogs kennel, and never
seemed happy when away from her large
friend. She ate her breakfast out of the
dogs bowl and slept in his kennel, with
his paws around her. She used to catch
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