The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-07-08
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

who are in the habitof chewing gum, must
be told the painful news that the practice
is going out Of fashion.
-"Such remarks consider low and
an insult to my understandings said a
witty Rochester beauty to gentleman who
praised her small feet.
"A Darwinian tipplcr has discovered
that the evolution of beer from the uncon-
ditioncd chaos of malt and hops dates back
more than 1900 years.
They turn out 100000 barrels of flour
in Milwaukee every year. Yes, it does
look big, but it is only half the quantity OF
beer brcwcd in the same town.
.-Schoolboys will be pleased to learn
that Miss James, a teacher in Plttsfleld,
Mass, has been fined fifteen dollars for
whipping scholar too severely.
When the burglar who wounded Mr..
Shutc heard that a Brooklyn detective was
upon his track, he caspcf his hands and
dcvOutly exclaimed: THANK Heaven!
Now am safe"
Our mattcr-Offtct contributor OBJ
serves that the difference between an am
bilious man and Il mcrccnary one is that
the former wants credit and the latter only
wants casl.-Nev York WORTH
cents damages for calling Il man Il scala
wag and rascal, and though the paper may
possibly stand up under the burden it will
| receive check in its mad career.
Gen. HaZcn says the upper Missouri
for about 1000 miles is merely Standing
pools or petty rivulcts in the summer He
pronounccs the country practically IL bar
rcn, plagued with insects and stcrility
hi Dr<tn IT,;
Church in Boston the congregation re-
vcngc themselves on an inefficient choir
by responding during the litany: Lord
have mercy on our miserable singers
The potato-bug is becoming cosmo-
politan. From nearly every State in the
Union come reports of its visitatons, and
it seems to have civilized capacity for
adapting itself to all vicissitlltlcss of eli
mate.
Fishing in the Tennessee River is
pretty good just now. The other day IL
fisherman hauled up his wife, who had
been missing for two weeks, and he saved
the $500 reward he had offered for her dis
covcry.
After all the strcct-car conductors who
have committed suicide because their hon
cSty was doubted, the New York compa-
mics now find that they have saved over a
million dollars by the use of the bell
punch.
Hartford, Conn, with prudent regard
to the frequency of drowning casualties,
has its free public bath-hOusc situated at il
safe distance from any water, and wisely
refuses to appropriate any money for
launching it.
"A Lowell man keeps up his woodpilc
by making bets that his wife can saw and
split two cords in twelve hours. The poor
woman is so vain of her husbands praise
that she never can be brought to sec the
speculation in it.
~ We were married just month ago
today said a Chicago bride after her re-
turn home. I'VE went to Bawston and
New lawk and ever so many places, and
had perfectly gawgcOus time New
Yawk's just lovcly!"
The quarrel between st. Louis and
Chicago has broken out aircsIl, and st.
Louis never goes to sleep now without
dreaming that at the dead of night Chi
cago editor comes and pulls down the
hridgc.-Broohlyn A,yus.
"A man up the lake wants to know
what "hOlocaust' is. AS near us we
can make out from an Omaha paper he
fore us it is used to make an article on the
burning of /; horse barn read sort o. high
toncd.-Uetrvit Free Press
-" And shrill cid,,dn all the woodland
tire,' says the poet, speaking of the inccs-
SAINT singing of locusts in June. But out
i'll Nebraska they have a better name for
it: They call it the grass 'oppcra.'-Nlm
York. Commercial 41drcriscr.
City boartlcrs are beginning to arrive
at Danbury, says the News, and are going
enthusiastically into the bayfield,. 1t is
estimated that one able bodied city boardcr
with good sharp scythc will NOW down
ten yards of stone fence and cripple seven
people for life in single afternoon.
"A schoolmastcr who had an invctcrate
habit of talking to himself was asked what
motive he could have in doing SO. He
replied that he had two good and sul,stan
tial reasons: In the first place he liked to
talk TO sensible man; in the next place
he liked to hear sensible man talk
While writing verses for my love |
looked up from the paper,
And there she stood! l rose in haste,
and overturned the taper.
| How careless to put out the light"
she said. "Is it surprising"
answered, "that quenched my lamp
when l saw the sun arising:'
"A pcripatetic "profcssor" who has
been cditying Albanian audiences with
Scriptural lectures illustrated Ivy Il "Bibli-
Cal stcreOpticOn'' is under arrest for man.
ufacturing and circulating spurious nickel
cents; which, in view of his clerical char
actor, is not regarded as a canonickcl per
| Torrance.
While the workmcn were taking Il
ball of rcd-hot iron from the furnace to the
"squcczcrs' in an iron mill in Pittsburgh,
the other morning, the ball dropped into u
watcr-tank, causing an explosion which
shook the mill and sent fragments of iron
in all directions. Fortunately no person
was injured.
| "A farmer in Bath County, Ky, while
engaged in blowing recently uncar,hcd
ga city of regular streets, curbcd with
stone, and cvincing higher order of
architectural knowledge and a greater civ
iliZation than any other prehistoric re-
mains yet found in this country Which
shows that subsoil tillage must be car
ricd to greater depth in Kentucky than
i'll any other agricultural district in the
world
Says lady in the JVomon's Journal
You can't imagine the wrctchedncss of
| unbusincsS women set down to conduct or
| share in committee work. How to move Il
resolution, or what to do with it after it
was moved! Pass it ?ccrtainly-two ladies'
voting for it in whisper, the rest timidly
and dcprccatingly silent. 1t is carried.
Then is the signal for discussion. 1T
wasn't right; they didn't want it; it must
be done some other way"
1t is well known that nobody makes
more delicious corn bread than the negro
women down South. One of them told an
inquiring young lady how she does it, and
for the benefit of housckeepcrs the recipe
is here given. Says Dinah: "Why, dar-
lin, sometimes gen'ally l takes little
meal and sometimes gen'ally, takes little
tlou', an kline o mixes 'em up with
some hot water, and puts in eggs enough
an little salt, and then l bakes it jist
bout enuff. An you dose, jess so, honey,
an you'll make it as good as do:''
The Paterson On. j. papers tells the
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