The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-10
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

grin?
-Thiers, the great French statesman,
is worth s., 100000.
Umbrellas can be issued to soldiers
In not weather as ray-shuns.
What is wanted to make man and
wife pull together? Accord.
The gold found in the Black Hills is
said to be one of very Siouxperior quail
ity.
AS the young lady remarked about
the infant, "How sweet! But how bald
for one so young!"
Still the guillotinc falls and the fated
whisky gaugers and storekecpcrs arc be-
ing "axed" to retire.
And now they say that Gen. Putnam
| never entered den after a wolf, as Sec
ond school readers affirm.
The grasshoppers have dcvourcd the
tombstone of the Kansas man whose
memory was ever fresh and green.
I'm the human family wealth covers
| multitude of sins, but in the bovine
| family fat covers a multitude of defOrm-
tiles.
According to Floss the most effect
| i've countcr-irrltant, next to a dry goods
clerk, is the superior bipcd of the jew
elry store.
The Chinese have simple but very
| efectual cure for drunkenness. 1t con
| sists in separating the unfortunate's head
from his body.
from the Marysville (Cal.) office to George
Washington Christopher Columbus Schil-
lenbergannanzi.
| "A hotel landlord who is sadly
| troubled has placed in his wash-room an
inscription from Dante: Who enters
here, leave soap behind"
Now it appears that the Maryland
peach crop is to be SO unusually large that
the steamboat lines arc increasing their
facilities for transportation.
-Caudle says that his wife, at least,
whatever may be the experience of
census-takers with others of her Sex, is
always ready to tell her rage.
"A printer hard of hearing at a spell.
ing. match the other evening asked the
Captain to I" Write the plaguy word down
SO fellow can tell what 'tis.'
There is horse named Billy up in
Rochester, N. Y, that is thirty-six years
old, and doing his part in blowing gar
dens and such work this spring.
-Titusville is excited about new oil
we'll which is yielding 200 barrels daily.
Titusvillc has been much depressed OF
late, but oips we'll that ends well.
The New Bedford (Mass.) Stnnela, d
says it is estimated that 800 scholars of
the public schools in that city are now
absent on account of the measles.
-" Heavens Own" is the name of a
new Nevada town where railroad pas
senger saw woman pinning her hus-
band to the fence with a pitchfork.
Ten Japanese manufacturers have
Philadelphia Exposition, bringing over
goods amounting in value to $1S0,000.
| The Supreme Lodge Knights of
Pythias have refused a dispensation to
organize a lodge of the order ON the
island of Hawaii, composed of natives.
| You may talk all day long to girl
about this beautiful world and its many
sources of happiness; but if her new
spring bonnet doesn't suit her your labor
| will be in vain.
| "A Brooklyn husband named Allen
| discovered that his wife had stolen
his check-book and drawn 1880 in his
name. He sued the bank and got the
full amount restored.
| The Indians out West have regular
mating season in the spring when they
do all their wOOing, emitting such fool
ishncss during the remainder of the
year.
The plan devised by Gen. Mcclellan
to substitute solid masonry wharves for
the present wooden ones at New York
has been abandoned for 4 compromise of
wood and stone.
| In Germany there arc nearly 1,000,-
600 more women than men, and wives do
not lift the hair of husbands so readily
as in countries where the supply of the
sex is more limited.
Red Cloud says he's always ready to
smoke the pipe of peace with his pale
faced brethren if they'll only furnish
him little better tobacco.-NCw York
Commercial Advertsser.
Tobacco raising has proved the
financial ruin of North Hadlcy, Mass.
Recent failures foot up $225,OO0; real
estate has fallen one-third in the town,
and business is almost hopclcssly stag
nant.
| The buckskin mustang, Don Elipha,
is expected to arrive here in few days
from Los Angeles on the steamer OriZa.
ba. This wonderful horse, without a
pedigree, has an interesting history. He
was for long time worked in hauling
stages in Arizona, and has done consid.
cradle cavalry service in that country
One of the feats performed by this halt
breed, while in the cavalry, was the Car.
rying of soldier 100 miles in one day.
He was purchased by Smith & Billings
OF Los Angeles, two years ago, for mere
song, and put in training. He has trottcd
five races in the Orange Grove City, and
when he scored $50 he shut himself out
of future contests in that locality until
the racing stud shall be improved. This
is the best record made on any course in
Southern California. The last race won
by Don was a two-mllc race for $4,000
A brilliant future is predicted for the dun,