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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-07-15
The Poor Music Teacher.

He came as poor student to Paris and
happened to give piano lessons to the
daughter of retired actor, possessor of
2,0OO, 900 or 100000 francs. Suddenly
he thought it necessary to discontinue his
lessons. The ex-actor found this rather
strange, especially as his daughter seemed
to be perfectly unaware of the cause of it.
After some vain exertions to find him the
actor met him at last accidentally in the
street. "Why don't you come, as usual!"
thundered the old man. because l con-
slider it my duty to stay away" "But
why?" continued the father, in the same
manner: Because think your daugh-
ter is in love with me, and" "Wellw
I" am poor music teacher" "Humv'
exclaimed the old man. "Never mind"
he said at last, you may give another
lesson to my daughter tomorrow" Poor
Kastner went, and found his loving scholar
in tears. Her father stood before her. II
ask you now, for the last time, child"
cried he, "do you love Mr.. Kastner!"
The "child" could not help saying, at
last, Eyes" WELL" concluded the
father, "then marry him" And a fort
night afterward George Kastner was the
possessor of wife, a palace and 600, 600
francs. The student has remained faith
full to his early inclinations, and, in spite
Of his brilliant situation, has worked hard
In the field of musical literature.
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A Long Detention Of the Mails.

A relic of the siege of Paris is noticed in
an article in the Journal de ProUtns, which
states that one Vanot, fisherman of the
village of Vimpelles, lately dragged up in
his net a globular tin box of light con-
struction, and ON opening it with knife
found it full of letters. It was of course
relic of the vain efforts made to communi-
cate with the inhabitants of the invested
capital by floating mails down the Seine.
Those that the current bore were for the
most part captured at the barrier the Ger
mans formed for this purpose in their lines
at Villeneuve St. Georges but this one was
probably overweighted from the first, for
it had evidently not sunk from any leak
age. Vanot, the finder, discovering the in
closures to be perfectly dry and in good
order, carried the globe home to show his
neighbors, and the letters, some 500 in
number, were for some time freely dis
tributed about and read by all the curious
eyes Of Vimpelles. The affair, however,
presently got to the ears of the police, who
at once made domiciliary visits on Vanot
and his friends, and carried off all they
could recover to Provins, whence they
were RENTED to the postoffice of Moulins,
in the Department. of the Allier, where they
had been originally stamped in 1870, and
which is now forwarding them to the adj
dresses in Paris to which they were di.
rected
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-07-15
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The day we didn't celebrate this year
The Fourth.
Wolves in sleeps clothing-Lawyers
among their parchments.
What portions of the body are the
best travelers-The two wrists.
Low as the grave is, only Faith can
climb high enough to see beyond it.
"A village in New Hampshire is re-
ported to have produced twenty six editors.
The Buffalo lager-drinkers drink over
10000 barrels of beer more in summer
than they do in winter.
1.-Two soles that beat as one," re-
marked the boy to his mother, as she was
dealing with him for his sins with both
slippers at once.
AT the salmen-breeding establishment
at Sebec Lake, Me-, there have been
Matched this season 10000 sea salmon,
which have been distributed in the State.
Sugar from the beet has become so
abundant in England that the sugar re-
finers have protested against the further
free introduction of the article into that
country.
William Flynn, sixty-eight, who died
at Digdequash, N. B., lately, about twenty
minutes before his death arose from his
bed, unlocked trunk and took out suit
Of grave clothes he had kept in readiness
for several years, then washed and dressed
himself for burial. His last words were:
Welcome, death, I have long waited for
thee!'
The day following our centennial
festivities the following incident occurred
in South End saloon: A friend had in
vited one of the South Carolina soldiers
into the saloon to put another turf on the
buried Ratchet. While standing at the
bar stranger came in. The Carolinian
suddenly dropped his glass, and closely
eyed the stranger. His gaze was so steady
and peculiar that the friend began to be
alarmed and to fear that the Ratchet was
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-07-15
Left His Everyday Hat at Home.

A FEW miles from Providence last
Wednesday an old gentleman boarded an
outward bound train, and after satisfying
himself by numerous inquiries that he
was all right sat down on the front seat
and began to read. He was evidently try
ing to enact the experienced traveller with
out having had experience enough to sup
port his pretensions. That he was ex-
tremely hard of hearing, however, was
more apparent There was one of those
nomadic musical geniuses aboard the
train, who soon took up his position i'm
mediately behind him and struggled
through his programme, from Zip Coon"
to "Casta Diva" on a violin none the
more musical for the morning fog, a per
Torrance, by the way, of which the old
man was happily unconscious. When he
got through he pulled off his populous-
looking hat and held it expectantly before
Rusticus, who, failing to comprehend the
situation, returned it with a negative
stroke of his head. The boy modestly ex-
planned, but his explanation, like his
music, was wholly inaudible, so when he
again presented it the old gent said, mild
~ but firmly: =" No, sonny, it is not mine;
l left my every day hat at home" The
boy skunk away, making some casual re-
mark in his native "lingo."-Psvuidence
Poxsa
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JUDGE MARTIN RyERsoN formerly one
o. the Supreme Judges of New Jersey anda
member ofthe Alabama Claims Court, who
was buried yesterday proved in his later
days singularly methodical invalid. For
weeks, while confined to his bed, he had
been directing his gardening operations
by a map, showing the various plots for
the different vegetables, which he kept by
his bedside, and had been conducting q
correspondence with friends as to new va
rieties of early vegetables and best meth
ods of treating them. When his death
was merely question of few hours he
thought it well to make a provision for the
funeral expenses so that the family might
have no lack of funds before the executors
were able to enter upon the regular settle
ment of the estate. He examined his bank
account, thought he detected slight mis-
take, sent to have it corrected and then
drew check for what he considered
sufficient sum. Less than twenty-four
hours afterward the end Of his long illness
had come.-N. =. Erpress.
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Playing Chicken.

II say, girls" said a little, blue.eyed,
flaxen-haired boy on Second street yester.
day, "let me take your candy and we'll all
play chicken
els it nice!" inquired half a dozen six
year-ol6s, in chorus.
Nice! you bet it is! Let me show you.
Now, I'll lay the candy down here on
the step, and you all 60 down there and
come up when you hear me call like q
rooster'
The girls retreated and gathered in q
group about fifteen feet off, while the boy
got on his knees, with his head over the
candy, and began to call, and strut, and
flap his arms like ROSTERS wings.
"Cluck, cluck, rat, tat, rap, cluck!" and
all the girls came running up and bent to
pick up the candy, when the little fellow
opened his mouth and took it in at one
gulp.
"Oh, you mean boyr' they cried, "you
have taken all our candy"
That's cause played rooster" said
the boy; " . rooster always calls the hens
up when he finds grain of corn, and then
picks it up himself."-St.7 Joseph (ko.)
(9lzEEE. - h@ u.s.. " 81 - 3. 80
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Over Niagara Falls.

A few weeks ago worthless dog was
cast into the Niagara River below Buffalo
and swan out to Robinson Island. A
half-witted chap decided to immortalizc
himself by rescuing the helpless brute and
succeeded in reaching the island in safe
ty. But the return was more difficult-in
fact, the fool-hardy adventurer found after
repeated efforts that he could not return at
all, but was certain to be swept down into
the seething cataract if he venture into
the river The people on shore after al
lowing him to live the life of a Crusoc for
the balance of the day and the night kind
ly sent rope to his assistance, and he
was brought off in safety. But the perils
of the situation had driven all chivalric
ideas out of his mind, and the poor dog
was left behind. There he still remained
several days after, and this is the way the
Niagara Falls Register speculates upon
his case:
The dog on Robinson Island continues
monarch OF all (the island) he surveys,
and his pedestrlnal surveys were quite
vigorously prosecuted Yesterday. His
only chance of life would seem to be to
take to the water and 60 over the falls.
Holley's " Niagara" contains several in
teresting "reminiscences of similar ma
ture. Mr.. Hollcy says: "Previous to the
war of 1912 the Niagara River abounded
in swans, wild geese and ducks Since
that war none of the former have been here
except two pairs which came at different
times. One of each pair went over the
falls and was taken out alive,
but stunned; the other two, faith
full unto death, were shot, watching
and waiting for the return of their
mates. In two instances dogs have been
sent over the falls and survived the
plunge. In November, 1886, a trouble
some female bull-terrier was put into q
coffee-sack by a couple of men who had
determined to get rid of her, and thrown
off from the middle of Goat Island bridge.
In the following spring she was found
alive and well about sixty rods below the
ferry, having lived through the winter on
a deceased COW that was thrown over the
bank the previous fall. In 1853 another
dog, male of the same breed, was thrown
into the rapids, also near the middle of
the bridge. In less than an hour he came
up the ferry stairs, very wet and not at all
gay. He was ever after a sadder if not
better dog. The reason why the animals
are not killed is that the water pOurs
down so rapidly and in such quantities
that the water, SO to speak, cannot run off
fast enough, and it piles up in large
water cones, which are constantly forming
and breaking. If any strong animal
should fall ON one of these cones as on Il
soft cushion, it might slide into the cur
rent below. The dogs were doubtless
fortunate enough to fall in this way, aided
also by the repulsion of the water from
the rocks in the swift channel through
which they passed. 1t is not impossible,
that some strong man, in light. strong
boat, may thus, at some future time, go
over the Horseshoe Fall and not be killed"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-07-15
Anecdote Of Emperor William.

There is, says Berlin letter, a charm
ing little anecdote current here Just now
about the Emperor William, showing his
kindness of heart to perfection. -Four lit
tie girls Of our acquaintance have been in
the habit for some years past of bowling to
the Emperor very enthusiastically when
ever they met him in their walks in the
Kindergarten" where, as is we'll known,
the sovereign may be seen almost every
day with only one servant besides his
coac1 man. Last year the little girls sorely
missed their daily nod from His Majesty,
and when his birthday came round, just
after the end of his long illness, they were
most anxious to send him their congratu-
lations. After many consultations four
little bouquets were tied together with
blue ribbon, his favorite color, accompa-
MED by little anonymous note penned by
the scribe of the party, in which "the four
little girls in the habit of greeting His
Majesty in the park send him their best
wishes for his birthday" etc., and sent to
the palace early in the morning and placed
in his room. Since that time the little sis
tors have been gratified and made happy
many time by gracious nod from the
Emperor, who, to their excited imagina-
ton, seemed to look at them 50 inquiring-
ly. And probably the sight Of four little
girls, dressed exactly alike, made him
think of his four little bouquets, for when,
some weeks ago, another birthday found
him with no traces of last years sickness
and only the remains of slight indispo.
sition, and four little bouquets with lit
tie anonymous note again found their way
to his table, he was evidently determined
to find out the little donors. The informa-
ton he wanted was not obtained until he
was in Weisbaden; but as soon as he did
know he sent off four beautiful photo
graphs of himself signed by himself with
his own initials, one for each little girl,
and with them he made them supremacy
happy by sending back their own note, at
the beginning and end of which he had
written some very gracious words of
thanks for their pretty thought of him.
Those children will be devoted to the EN-
peror William for the rest of their lives!
The only drawback to their happiness
now is not to know which Of them is
eventually to be the happy possessor of
that precious document OF course it is to
be framed and it will have the place of
honor in the house, but who is to keep it
"always?" That is the knotty point!
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
has made Charles O'Conor

Dartmouth has made Charles O'Conol
an IL. D.
And now they say that Faust knew
nothing about printing! Well, we'll
what liars old histories are!
Mrs. Clinch, of Georgia, offers to bel
mule against twenty dollars that she Car
whistle better than any man in America.
MIR. S. L. NJ. Barlow, of the New York
bar, has been chosen to write for the
American Cyclopedia the article on whist
Nine Patterson Bonaparte has crossed
the Atlantic sixteen times, and proposes
to do it again, though ninety years OF age
-Disraeli says he will be happy if he
can see the return of the Arctic expedi
ton, because he "should like to see that
point settled"
Miss Clara Rose, of Philadelphia, had
$1,000 expended on her Latin, French and
German education, and then married a
man who has to buy his butter half a
pound at time.
The business aspect of scientific jour-
nalism is presented in the balance sheet of
the "Comptus Rendus' of the French
Academy of Sciences, which shows, after
forty years of fame, that the annual ex-
pendituress exceed the receipts by 10000
francs.
MIR. Tennyson, or his publisher, re-
ceives the handsome sum of $4,000 or
$4,000 annually from the composers who
make business of setting the laureate
poems to music. The charge for permits
sion to set a poem has been fixed at twcn-
ty-tive dollars, and the applications aver
age two or three day.
Elder Thurman, the man who proph-
esied that the world would come to grief
on the 10Th of April, has commenced the
publication, in Chicago, of paper whose
very significant name is The Day Of the
Lord, or Morning Light. The Elder was
fooled in the non-fultillment of his prophe.
cy the last time, but he is bound to hit it
yet.
Commodore Vanderbilt recently re-
marked to a New York reporter: Il was
thirty years old I had been working for
several years for my employer at 81 900 a
year, and when I left him had not more
than sec, 900, all told.' Now, that's the
way to start out in life. Young men OF
America; here is pattern for you; 60
thou and do likewise!-Chscaqo Journal.
Joaquin Miller is said to have re-
ceived his name somewhat as follows: His
name was John, but when he was small
boy he was always telling the other boys
some monstrous story under the pretense
of telling the truth, and they'd reply:
ooh, you're joking, Miller" until at last
he was known by the name of "Joking
Miller.'' Afterward, when the improba
BILE stories began to attract little notice
in the papers, he tried to be high-ton
and Latinized his nickname into joaquin
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HunOr In Animals.

The anecdotes collected in the late cdi.
ton of Darwin's " Descent Of Man" and In
Woods Man and Beast Here and Here
AFTER" which give evidence that some
dumb creatures are susceptible of humor,
have called out many interesting, illustra.
tive cases from the experience of unscien.
tific observers. A writer in Nature contrib.
utes to the general fund the following
anecdotes Of the ang:outan9 and the
Skye terrier; I'm watching the behavior
of an orang- outang confined il the Zoo
logical Gardens in London, the writer be.
came convinced that the animal created
fun for the spectators gathered around her,
from genuine appreciation and enjoy
ment of the ludicrous. For instance. the
pan from which the creature fed was of q
quite peculiar shape, and sometimes, when
a meal was ended and the dish empty, the
orang- outang would clap it upon her head,
in which position it bore cOmical re-
semblance to bonnet With a broad
grin upon her face the animal would then
face the spectators, and evidently feel a
deep qualification at her success in provok-
ing hearty laugh from them"
A Skye terrier belonging to the same
writer had store of amusing tricks which
were undeniably self-taught, and per-
formed for the sake of exciting laughter.
One Of these was, while lying on its side
and violently grinning, to poke one leg
into its mouth and hold it there. If the
little joke was not noticed, the dog tell in
to the sulks; but when it was successful
in awakening laughter the performer was
highly delighted. On the other hand,
nothing displeased the dog SO much as be-
ing laughed at when he did not intend to
play the Merry-Andrew.
1t is said that monkeys dislike to be
laughed at; and dogs sometimes evince
the same aversion to serving as the butt of
human ridicule. The writer from whom
we have already quoted gives the follow
ing instance: A dog of his acquaintance
had fondness for catching flies on the
window panes; but, if rallied when I'M
successful in the effort, betrayed the great
est annoyance. On one occasion the
writer purposely laughed immoderately
every time the dog failed to capture his
game; and it so happened that he failed
several times in succession-being, as the
writer believes, disconnected by the deris-
ion his ill-success called forth. Finally
he became 80 distressed that he actually
feigned to catch the fly, going through all
the appropriate actions with his lips and
tongue and atterward rubbing the floor
with his neck as if to kill his victim.
When the whole performance was con-
cluded he looked up at the writer with
triumphant air of success. So we'll did
the dog simulate the entire process that,
had not the fly still remained on the win
dow to convict him of deceit his ruse
would have been undiscovered. When,
however, his attention was called to the
fly, as well as to the absence of any rem
nants of one upon the floor, he saw that
his hypocrisy was understood, and skunk
away under some furniture, as if exceed
ingly ashamed of himself.
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General News Summary.
FROM WASHINGTON.

THE United States Treasury Department
was reorganized on the 30th ult., under the
Kellogg bill. The salaries of all bureau
officers and chiefs aud assistant chiefs Of di-
visions have been increased, but the general
force Of the Treasury will, by this bill, be re-
duced to the extent of sS4 employees, at saw
ing, it is claimed, of 100000.
THE commission to count the funds in the
Treasurers Office at Washington consists of
DR.. John B. Blake, formerly President of the
National Metropolitan Bank; Mr.. 9. E. Mid
dleton, Of the banking firm of Middleton &
Co.; A. IL. Leopold, of the Freedmen's Bank
Commission; Will H. Harvey, Special Agent
of the Treasury; and Messrs. c. H. Brown
John Patton and T. c. Dickinson, chiefs of
divisions in the Treasury Department They
commenced the work on the night Of the S0th
ult.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the SOth ult
says Secretary Delaro had not abandoned his
desire to retire from the Cabinet, but the pc
Rod at which this might take place was un-
certain.
THE Bureau of Statistics shows the imports
into the United States for eleven months
ending May 81 to have been $500, 444 ,22ssS and
the exports 800, Ia, 500. As compared with
the same period last year this has been a
falling off Of imports of $40, CA ,2S9 and of ex
ports of s16T,6S0,0Sl.
The following is the statement of the pub
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-07-15

"A few days since freighttrain, when
between Elko and Carlin, New, was
brought to a stand-still by q Chinaman
with red flag. An examination showed
that the heat from the sun had so expand
ed the rails at that point as to force several
of them from their position. The long
spikes by which they were secured in po-
sition were drawn out of the ties, and it
was found necessary to cut several inches
from their length in order to get them
back in place. The peculiar break was
discovered just in time to prevent what
might have proved serious accident
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6,134,311
~ S0a -n1

SEVERAL dismissals have taken place since
the LIST inst. in the United States Treasury
Department Treasurer New has issued an
order forbidding the clerks in his department
leaving their desks during Office hours, on
pain of dismissal.
ANOTHER dispatch was received at the
Indian Bureau in Washington on the 5th
from Prof. Jenney, in which he reiterates
his former statement that, so far, he had not
found gold enough in the Black Hills to
warrant any extended mining operations.
There were fifteen miners near where
he was encamped who claimed that
they obtained from five to fifteen cents
worth of gold to painful of earth. The
professor states that he had tested it several
times and could not make an average of over
IL cents per pan. He describes the charac-
ter of formations and says it does not indicate
gold.
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THERE is an unusually fine run of fish
in the upper Connecticut this season,
black bass, with which the river has been
stocked, Of four and five pounds weight,
being quite plenty, and several muskal-
longe having been lately taken, one that
weighed fifteen pounds.
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You remember, Ida Lewis, don't you
heroine handsome-famed? Well, she
weighs exactly 100 pounds now, and tosee
her trottinga bald headed baby as she
peels the potatoes for dinner takes all the
romance away.-Detr0tt Free Press.
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ONE of the Chavez gang of banditti,
having resolved to lead an honest life,
hired out to herd horses in Tulare County,
Cal. Shortly afterward his dead body was
found, having been lassoed and dragged
over the plain until his neck was broken
and life extinct.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-07-15

TENNESSEE lightning went for a Ten
nessee mule few nights since, but after
fooling around for while it was satisfied
with melting his shoes of and leaving him
unhurt, i.fG r.
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IRON beds and furniture, artistically
worked, and by new system of painting
initiating perfectly rosewood, are to be one
of the chief contributions Of Italy at the
Centennial Fair.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-07-15

A SUIT of two shades of brown looks
very we'll on the street, but when the be-
holder gazes from q fourth-story window
1t looks like nothing on earth but marble
cake .a-
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aWHY, Jennie, you look good enough to
eat said loving husband to his wife one
morning at breakfast. Well, I'm eating
o. fast as I can, amt IY' .4