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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-05-27
The WORLDS Population.

The United States Bureau of Statistics,
getting its information from reliable
sources (mainly from work issued at
Gotha, 1875, by Drs. Benin and Wagner),
furnishes the following interesting facts
and figures on the above subject:
The aggregate population Of the earth
is 1891 ,032 900, Asia being the most pop
ulous section, and containing 79S, 900 900;
while Europe has 800, 500, 900; Africa,
2O3, 100000; America, $4,000, 900, and
Australia and Polynesia, 4.500,OO0. In
Europe the leading nations are credited
with the following numbers: Russia,
II 600, 900; the German Empire, 41,OO0,-
600; France, $4,000, 900; Great Britain
and Ireland, 100000; Italy, nearly
27,O00,O00; Spain, 16500, 900, and Turkey
nearly 100000. The other countries do
not exceed over 5000, 900 each. In Asia,
China, which is by far the most pop
ulous nation of the earth, is credited
with 425, 100000; Hindostan with 240,-
O00, 900; Japan, 80, O0O, 900; the East India
Islands, 30,50O,0O0; Burmah, Siam and
farther India, nearly &c, 600, 900; Turkey,
13,50O,000, and Russia, 100000. The
Australian population is given at 1,674,-
500, and the Polynesian Islands at 2, $685.
500, New Guinea and New Zealand being
included in the latter. In Africa the
chief divisions are West Soudan and the
Central Africa region, 80, 600, 900; South
Africa, 20, 2j0, 900; the Gala country and
the region east of the White Nile, 15,OOO,-
600; Samauli, S,00O,0O0; Egypt, $500, 900,
and Morocco, 100000. In America
two-thirds of the population are north of
the Isthmus, where the United States has
nearly 100000; Mexico over 5000, 900,
and the British Provinces 100000. The
total population of North America is
given at $4,000, 900, and of South Amer
lea 25 500, 900, of which Brazil contains
10000, 900. The West Indies have over
1 100000, and the Central American
States not quite 100000. According to
these tables London, with 1884 $50 in
habitants, is the most populous city in
the world, whilst Philadelphia, 674,O22
inhabitants Tin 1870, is the eli hteenth
eighteen cities, in their order, are the
following: London, 1884 ,26O; sutchan
CHINA, 2,oo o Paris, 1,s51,7ea;
Picking, 100000; Tschantschau-fu,
1000, 900; Hangts-ta-fu, 1000, 600; Slang
tan, 100000; Sangnan-fu, 1000, 900 !;
Canton, 100000; New York, 942, 1888 !;
Tientsin, 100000; Vienna, 1884, 1884; Ber-
lin, S26,341; Hankau, 800, 900; Tschintu-
flu, 100000; Calcutta, 794,645; Toxic
Yeddo, GA, AL, and Philadelphia, 674,-
O22. OF cities smaller than Philadel-
phia the leading ones are: St. Peters
burg, 667,963; Bombay, 44,405; Mos.
COW, Gil, $40; Constantinople, 100000;
Glasgow, 594, 536; Liverpool, 400, 4O5, and
Rio de Janeiro AGO. 900.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-05-27
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Isn't it getting to be about time to
send some one out into Africa to discov-
er Stanley?
-Carruth, the Vineland editor shot by
Lands, is still living, and his physicians
are now growing confident of saving his
life.
-Darwin's inherited income is sc, 900
a year. That's what comes of having
a monkey for your ancestor.-Bostoa
Post.
They are going to centennate CHATS
a new word) Daniel O'Connor, who was
born 900 years ago, come August
next"
Col. John Hay. who perpetrated
Little Breeches," has tried to make
amends by composing religious poem
and naming it "Blind BarLimeus."
The banquet given him by his friends
probably saved the life of Carl Schurz
He was to have sailed by the Schil-
Ter, but had to take the Pomerania in
stead.
The Scottish Figaro, a monthly hu-
morous periodical, is to be started in
Edinburgh, to confute the ancient Joke
about Scotch heads and surgical opera
tons.
Charles Willis, who, a month ago,
weighed over $50 pounds, has died in
Albany, n. Y, of quick consumption
he lost 200 pounds in weight during his
illness.
What will they do hundred years
from now for word to express the kind
of centennial that will be? Webster
forgot to make any such word as obi
centennial"
The Cleveland Plain Dealer has pre-.
sented the chair and table used by
Charles Browne (Artemus Ward), when
connected with that paper, to the Cleve-
land Historical Society.
MIR. Abraham, of Beaver County, Pa,
is man worthy to rank with any of
your old Hebrew celebrities. He has
accumulated through long life more
than $1OO, 900 and never had lawsuit.
-" Kicking Bird" at the head of the
Kiowas, in the Indian Territory, is a
dead bird. He has kicked the bucket.
Those supple legs with which he was
wont to kick the female Bird are still.
DIR. All King, the Chinaman who
lately married o Lansingburgh, N. Y,
belle with such great slamming of
gongs, has been sentenced to the Peni-
Tertiary for two years for having other
wives in this and his own country.
Kate Chase Sprague, upon learning
that the library of her father, the late
Chief Justice Chase, was to be sold at
auction in Washington, has telegraphed
from Europe forbidding the sale. She
intends to purchase and preserve it in
the family.
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An English Growl.

The Americans have been celebrating
the hundredth anniversary of the battle
OF Lexington. 1t was not a very big bat
tie, but it was undeniably q very i'm
portant one; and it would be absurd to
grudge them any satisfaction which they
may derive from firing the usual salvoes
OF congratulatory orations, poems and
festivities. 1t is melancholy to think,
however, that we are probably entering
upon round OF such celebrations. Next
year will, of course, see the biggest of all
possible celebrations of the Inevitable
Fourth OF July. We pity the unfortunate
orators who are perhaps even now cud-
Ceiling their brains for something new to
say upon an event which has already been
the pretext for an unparalleled quantity
OF nonsense; but we admit that the per-
Torrance is inevitable. The
Americans are going to make all man.
ner OF fine speeches about the great DAYS
OF 1776. Why should not we have some.
thing TO say upon tie subject? Let us
have a dinner of herbs and water instead
OF turtle soup and champagne. Let the
Lord Mayor and the Prime Minister and
the popular speakers of the day walk in
procession through the streets, ap-
pareled in their shabbiest clothes,
and drink in solemn silence to the
memory of departed empire. And
let speaker arise, not to pour out floods
Of gushing sentiment and declare that
everything is for the best in the best of
all possible worlds, but in lugubrious
and depressed spirits endeavor to pro-
woke tears rather than bursts of repeated
applause. Let him think upon the short
sightedness which lost a great empire,
or upon the folly which, if the empire
had to dissolve, caused the dissolution to
be attended with a bitterness that has
not yet died out. Let him dwell upon
the stupidity which threw away British
armies upon hopeless enterprises, the
want of unity which paralyzed ali our
plans and the stupidity of Parliament
which ridiculed Burke and Chatham,
and believed in the wisdom of North
Let him point out that we have no right
to shift the blame off our own shoulders
upon those of poor George ILL.,, inasmuch
as the people were quite as stupid as
their rulers. And then let him ask
whether we are so much better now !;
whether we have the true spirit for
ruling a great empire; whether Parlia-
ment is more given to action and less to
talk; whether our military efficiency has
improved in proportion to it's costliness,
and whether, if our ancestors had q
Wilkes to represent them, we have not a
kenealy.-London Saturday Reuie,o.
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not believe in wasting material in such

not believe In wasting material in such a
reckless way; but this hindered the COM
pletion of the domicile, for when the
fair partner arrived she was obliged to
lay down her stick and try to arrange
his in some sort of shape failing in this,
down it went to the ground, when, turn
ing to her own, it was soon arranged to
her satisfaction.
Several times the mate attempted to
shirk, flew to tree, and commenced his
song, but this the energetic housewife
would not allow; she always brought
him back and set him to work, even if
he did hinder more than help. His part
ner was probably an experienced- archi-
tectress, and the mate may have been an
apprentice, for certainly some of the
males of this species seem to be as good
architects as the females.
The nest was completed during the
day, and on the following morning an
egg was left in it. The mate, now re-
lieved from work, resumed his joyous
song, but he always ceased the moment
entered the shrubbery, and gave quick
note of alarm, when she would fly from
the nest; but in few days she became
so tame that she would allow me to cut
roses from the bush without leaving her
place. Of course great care was neces-
sary; always drew my hat down SO that
she could not catch my eye, and appar-
emily paid no attention to her.
A few years ago was acquainted with
a pair of brown thrushes, much more
tbriftless than the pair above mentioned,
who did not even attempt to build dom
icile in the usual way, but simply
scratched up a kind of nest on the
ground, in strawberry bed, much after
the fashion of domestic hen, where they
reared their young without any accident.
When nearly full fedged they sprawled
about on the ground, all semblance of a
nest having disappeared.
Only few rods from this careless, i'm
provident family resided another family
of thrushes in quite an deliberately de-
signed structure. A peck measure would
hardly have contained the sticks used in
the construction of this domicile. 1t was
built upon rail fence adjoining gate,
through which cows were driven every
morning and evening to and from past
ure. Horses were also kept in this field,
so that the gate was used more or less
during every day, yet the family were
reared in perfect safety, and became
quite tame.
Were these poor, hastily-constructcd
domiciles the work of inexperienced
architects, or the work of thriflless, i'm
provident individuals? In either case it
looks as if birds were capable of improv-
ing in architecture, or the nests Of the
same species would all be of one pattern.
Hire. HAIRY Treat, IN Harper's MdQazine
for Jane.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-05-27

"A Brooklyn bibliopole has q book
published in London in 1870, in the ap-
pendix of which is letter on the social
condition of women, signed rs. B. A.
The fact is interesting, as going to show
that Miss Anthony had probably made
her mark as early as the reign of Queen
Elizabeth.-B0st0n Adueytissr.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-05-27

The library of Congress at Washing
ton has q copy of the first book ever
printed in the United States. 1t is
Eliot's account Of his labors among the
Indians, q thin volume of twenty pas. 8,
dated 1880.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-05-27

AT Western spelling-ma.ch on re
cent night only four persons were pres
ent, but the next day on the public
green more than 400 citizens found time
to witness game of quoits with horse
shoes.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-05-27

The sensible man trots home from the
grocery store every morning with pitcher
Of milk in one hand and plate of butter
in the other, and doesn't care q cent who
sees him. The proud man carries the
butter in the lining Of his coat and pays
the grocery boy 50 per cent. of the cost
price Of the milk to carry it home for him.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-05-27
THE SOUTH.

THE following ticket has been nominated
by the Republicans Of Kentucky: For Gov
ernor, John NJ. Harlan, of Louisville; Lieu
tenant Governor, Robert Boyd; Attorney
General, W. NJ. Cassius Goodloe; Register of
Land Office, Reuben Patrick; Auditor, DR.
VIM. Berry; Treasurer, P. B. Radcliffe.
A LITTLE Rock (Ark) telegram of the
14th says final arrangements had been made
by the Confederate and Federal soldiers for a
joint decoration on the Goth of May. The
colored people are included in the arrange.
mcnts.
CANNoNs were fired at Little Rock, Ark, on
the 18th in honor of the proclamation of
President Grant one year ago recognizing
Baxter as Governor.
GEN. AND EX-VICE-PREs1DENT JOHN C.
BRECKENRIDGE died at his residence in Lex
ington, KY, on the evening of the 18th, of alb
scess of the liver combined with consumption
During the war he was struck by fragment
of a shell, which inflicted an injury that is
supposed to have aggravated the disease of
which he died. He was little over fifty
years of age.
Gov. JACOBS, of West Virginia, having be-
gun the moving of the State Capitol from
Wheeling to Charleston in compliance with
the law to that effect, an Injunction was
taken out against the movement, and a tele-
gram of the 18th says the injunction had been
partially complied with, and the contemplated
change would probably be delayed for some
time
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-05-27

happened to two brothers, commanders
OF ships sailing in opposite directions,
who recently met and spoke each other
in rough weather of Cape Horn.
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!. Mrs. Senator Sumner is reported to
be about to marry one Jones, q clerk in
the New York Custom House.
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General News Summary.
FROM WASHINGTON.

Aev2sA Vv<AS1AAIN"AVI VIM
THE Secretary of the Treasury at Washing
ton was informed on the 18th of additional
seizures of distilleries. A Washington tele-
gram says searching investigation will be
made into the conduct of the Supervisors
and other prominent internal revenue Off.
Gals, and all against whom charges have
been or may be preferred, with view to Sc.
cure the prompt punishment OF the guilty
parties engaged in the whisky frauds.
A WASHINGTON Associated Press dispatch
OF the 18th says nothing was known at the
Executive Mansion of the reported probable
resignation of Secretary Fish at the end OF
the present fiscal year.
THE Postmaster General has issued an Or
der forbdding payment by the Postmaster
ut Cincinnati of postal money orders drawn to
the order of L. d. Sine, who is engaged in
conducting gift enterprise. All registered
letters addressed to him are to be returned to
the office from whence mailed.
JUDGE PIERREroNT, the new Attorney
General, took charge fhis Office in Washing
ton on the 18th, and was called upon by the
heads of bureaus and others.
THE Postmaster General, under authority
of an act of Congress, has ordered
that the rate of United States post
age on letters sent to or received from
foreign countries with which different
rates have not been established by postal con-
vcntion or other arrangement, when for
wardcd by vessels regularly employed in
transporting the mail, be reduced from ten to
five cents for each half ounce or fraction
thereof, to take effect July l, 1875.
MAJ. II. W. BINGHAM, Indian Agent at
Cheyenne, arrived in Washington on the 10Th
with Red Cloud Spotted Tail and seven
other Sioux Indian chiefs and an Interpreter
THE Secretary of the Treasury has issued
call for s5,00O,OOO coupon bonds, upon
which the interest will cease on and after
Aug. Is next
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were again operating together, havtngrecent.
ly purchased some of the fleetest horses in
the State with view of committing further
robberies. They have been Joined BY two
other desperadoes.
DISPATCHES of the 14th state that in East
ern Kansas and Western Missouri a grass
hopper panic already prevailed. The pests
had started on their line of march in north
| westerly direction, and were destroying every
thing green in their way.
WHILE the steamer Senator, plying be-
tween Portland and Oregon City, was being
loaded at the former port, few days ago,
her boiler exploded, rendering the vessel a
complete wreck, and killing the Captain and
| several Of the crew. The engineer has been
placed under bonds to answer to the charge
of manslaughter.
THE great May musical festival in Cincin-
natl this year was magnificent success. It
closed on the 18th.
THE Andrews Wharton Black Hills party
| captured by the military on White River and
taken to Fort Randall on the 18th have, with
the exception of two OF them who refused
to sign the parole, been, by order of GA.
SASIiN"AIS ASASAoCN VA p0lOA gnu eASA "i AAo1
horses, wagons and outfits restored to them.
THE citizens of Council Bluffs, Iowa, Joined
| in a public demonstration and torch Ii ght
procession on the night of the 18th to rejoice
over the recent decision of the United States
Circuit Court at Des Moines declaring the
former city to be the eastern terminus of the
U. p r. r.
Col. j. H. BR1TTON (Dem.) has been elected
Mayor of st. Louis, viee Arthur B. Barrett, de-
ceased. The vote was: Britton 1861; Henry
Overstolz und) 1894.
The Governors Guards, a military compa-
ny of Springfield, ILL.,, won the prize banner
at the competitive drill on the occasion of the
late soldiers reunion in Chicago.
THE Governor of Missouri has issued a
proclamation calling on the people of the
State to observe Thursday, June 5, as day
of humiliation, fasting and prayer, informa-
ton having come to him from all sources that
the State is threatened with the grasshopper
pcstilence, to be followed by a failure of the
crops, great distress and possible famine. He
recommends that the supplication of the peo-
pie be raised for divine relief and protection
A YANKroN Cd. T.) dispatch Of the 18th
states that Capt. Bates command had cap
turcd, at the White River crossing, the John
Gordon Sioux City Black Hills party.
Gov. TAYLOR has issued proclamation ap-
pointing the Goth inst. as Decoration Day in
Wisconsin.
In Chicago, on the 18th, spring wheat, No..
2, ruled active, closing at $1.O219C61.O S
cash. Cash corn closed at 6914c for new No.
and 6S}5c for rejected. Cash oats sold at
6315@64c; June options were sold at 64Mc.
Rye brought sl.o6@1O6k. Barley, No. 2,
$1.33@1.35 Cash mess pork closed at
s2l.2O@2125. Lard, sl5.2O@l525. Choice to
fancy graded steers brought s6.30@6. S711;
prime to choice native stock, $5.5O@6OO;
Texans, $250@5.5O; scalawaSs, $3OO@4OO.
Hogs brought S750@S.25 for good to choice,
and SS5Ol0S. rs for extra.
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THE WEST.

The Toledo Blade of the 18th publishes an
elaborate crop report from statements by
competent parties at $50 points in Ohio, In.
diana, Illinois, Missouri and Iowa. These
statements indicate that there has been from
one-quarter to one-third of the wheat crop
winter-killcd, but that this has been nearly
offset by the increased number of acres sowed
and the quantity of spring wheat put in.
About one-quarter of last years crops still
remain in the farmers hands. The amount
of corn being put in this year greatly exceeds
that of last year.
A DELEGATE State convention has been
called in Iowa of Democrats, Liberals, Anti
Monopclists and all who are opposed to the
Republican party, to meet at Des Moines,
June "a, to nominate State ticket. The call
is signed by the Chairmen of the different
opposition organizations in the State.
AT its recent meeting in Chicago the Ma
tional Encampment Of the Grand Army of the
Republic elected Gov. John +. Hartranft, of
Pennsylvania, Commander in Chief for the
ensuing year; j. 8. Reynolds, Of Chicago, Sen
ior, and G. J. Buckbee, of Connecticut, Jun
ior Vice. Commanders in Chief; John W.
Foye, Of Massachusetts,, Surgeon General.
A KANSAS CRY (Mo.) special of the 14th
says the feud between the James boys and
the Youngers had been settled, and they
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-05-27

In order to preserve eggs as long as pos
sible it is necessary to prevent the contact
of air with their interior by closing the
pores of the shell. 1t has been recently
asserted that the most etficacious means of
doing this is by the employment of soluble
glass. This substance, which is silicate
Of sodium, forms with the calcium car
Donate which composes the shell new
compound-calcium silicate-thus inclos-
ing the shell in an impermeable coating.
The soluble glass should he used as solu-
ton of sirupy consistence. The eggs,
previously we'll cleaned, are plunged into
the solution for half hour, being re-
moved from time to time to ascertain
with them. They are finally Withdrawn,
dried and placed on shelves which are
either bored full of holes or covered with
grain husks. They should be preserved
in dry place.-N. Y. Independent.
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Curing Insanity by Irritating the
Skin.

There are many cases published in the
medical journals relating to insanity, says
DR.. Brown-Scquard, showing that large
number of patients have been cured sud-
denly by means of irritation of the skin,
that was either accidental or employed by
physician. There are other means more
curious and equally effective, as in the
case l am about to mention. A patient in
lunatic asylum met another one who
struck his head and broke his Uranium on
the right side. The brain oozed out, a
good deal was lost, and the patient was
cured of his insanity and epilepsy. This
is rather a dangerous means of treatment,
however, and of course l only speak of it
to show that an irritation brought to the
brain may often cure. 1t is in that way
that bold surgcons-as many there were in
this country in the period from 1921 to
1S59-who have brought their instruments
to the Uranium and made an opening
there, in eases of epilepsy, in search of a
disease at that place that did not exist,
have very frequently cured their patients.
But not because they have taken away the
disease that they supposed existed there,
but because they produced an irritation
which has done it.
But may add that it is not necessary to
open the Uranium, though it has been done
to my knowledge more than fifty times in
this country. All that is called for is an
irritation of the skin of the Uranium and
Of the fibrous band that covers the bone
between the skin and brain. Irritation
there has a very good chance of curing
epilepsy in many very obstinate cases.
There are many cases on record showing
hat an inflammation in almost any of the
Of bo hr>1xr 20 crA9 tn ohaolx
insanity. In the same way other attec-
tons Of the brain, such as amaurosis or
paralysis, may be cured suddenly without
any cause that we can find, but with good
ground certainly to believe that irritation
las acted so as to produce change in the
ellis of the brain aud diminish their NOR
bid activity. For there are clear cases in
which those affections have been cured by
such irritation. Those alterations of cells
hat were producing arrest of the power OF
sight or paralysis have been submitted to
IN irritation Of parts of the skin or of
,ome viscus, and this irritation going to
the morbid part and producing change
I'D the activity of those cells has cured the
disease. So that double mechanism of
lrrest may take place in all these cases.
There is in the brain an irritation starting
rom the place where is disease That
We can see after death. That irritation
goes to parts at distance and acts on cells
to stop their activity; but another irrita-
lion starting from some parts of the
body goes to the parts that are diseased
md there acts on the morbidly active
cells and stops their activity, SO that
he effect that resulted from the disease
ceased. So one phenomenon of arrest
produced the cessation of another.