The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-02
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

| An easy taSk-Taking the sense of the
house.
"A lazy cook-Onc who "frittcrs'
away her time.
He is a poor landlord who is not
host in himself.
| -kindcrgartcns are being established
in many of our Western towns and cities.
The Kcely motor can be so applied
that a hand-sled will draw itself uphill
again.
The next thing, probably, will be a
scare about the frost killing the corn
crop.
! True economy does not consist in
stinting and pinchiny ourselves and every
body about us.
When you get bill changed have an
eye on the tifty-ccnt pieces. Countcrfcits
4 about, you know.
And now, picnicking and excursions
having about had their day, preparations
are making for the annual fairs.
Some child of genius has been paint
ing mustachc on the Greek Slave in the
Corcoran Gallery at Washington.
A Boston man spent $4,000 in lot
terry tickets and drew about 5000 in prlzcs
This is sufficient encouragement for begin
ncrs.
Those Georgia ladies who agreed to
wear no dresses costing over twenty five
cents per yard make up for it by wearing
$500 diamond pins.
This isn't good season for " catches"
at the watering places, and many NICE
girls are willing to take up with frccklcd-
faced, impoverished men.
The ladies of Troy have organized a
| hna C1u1, hn I, it1,
waist and broad-brimmcdh hat The club
is known as "Wally-Wally."
The notes of preparation for the re-
opening of the public schools and col
legcs are rcverbcrating throughout the
land and the boys don't like it a bit.
Talk about hot weather. Think of
100 degrees in the shade for week at u
time! Ycddon't know anything about it
till you've passed summer i'll Japan.
"A North Carolina editor will dress
his paper in mourning for ten dollars if
anyone dies, and his liberal terms have
endeared him to the hearts of whole
county.
There is a time when boy has an
idea Of reforming and becoming good,
and that is when he is freed among the
. cherries by lank farmer and couple of
mastitts.
Young Williamson, of San Francisco
showed he was not afraid by touching his
tongue to strychnine. His courage was
duly accredited to him ON neat and mex
pcnsivc tombstone.
In the agricultural convention at Dali
, ton, Ga, Mr.. johnson called upon all
present who owned sheep and no dogs to
rise, and thirteen rose up, and called upon
!; all who owned dogs and no sheep to rise,
and sixty Or seventy responded.
Lottery agencies flourish in Yankee
dom. The police of Boston few days
since made descent and arrested num-
Der of dealers. The business had been
!. carried on in sly way, so that half the
newspapers were astonishcd to hear of its
existence.
AS illustrating the working of Gus
toms regulations between the United
States and Canada the Boston Globe says
. that it recently cost Boston lady 4.25 to
) transfer trunk from Montreal to Boston,
only seventy-fivc cents being for transpor-
tation charges.
A "grass widow at Holyoke, Mass,
. who often went, ostensibly, to strcw flow
, crs upon the grave of the dear departed,
was surprised the other day by the de-
parted ones returning from a siX-years'
absence at sea; and now the gossips are
conjecturing where the widow put the
flowers.
-Danbury has the champion patient
boy. He comes from a chronically-bor-
rowing family. The other day he went
to neighbours for a cup Of sour milk.
81 haven't got anything but sweet milk"
, said the woman, pcttishly. "I'll wait
, till it sours," said the obliging youth,
sinking into chair.
"A shrewd man in New York escaped
judgment in Il brcachofpromise suit by
, alleging that he had been entrapped into
offering marriage by false pretenses. The
next step will be to plead "married by
: mistake' in proceedings for divorce.
| How many aforementioned men, each
, bearing his burden of sorrow, will file
: into chancery then.
One who has seen a good deal of the
weather for the past nine months lets
himself out thus:
Dirty days hath September,
: April, June and November,
!, And from February until May
l The rain it raneth every day;
e All the rest have thirty one,
; With scarce single CLEAN of sun;
D And if any should have thirty-two
: They'd be dull and dirty too.
: -McParis had prepared himself for a
l home dinner to his liking. He sat down
E in his dining room at peace with all the
v world and said: "Now, Hannah, bring
e the cold mutton No hot meat for me
y this weather." Hannah hesitated tor
minute and said: "But l done give it
away, sir" "Give it away! Give my din
ncr awav?' eyes, sir. You said if any
|. tramps called was to give them the cold
= shoulder" McParis took some of his
:. wife's chops instead, but he believes Prov
+ idence has mysterious way Of caring fos
tho poor,