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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-30
The First Scl0olmaster in New York.

Adam Roclandsen enjoyed the dstinc-
ton of being the first schoolmaster in the
metropolis. From some cause, possibly
because "people did not speak we'll Of
him." he could not make living a, his
vocation and so took in Washing But he
did not succeed in his laundry enterprise
either. There is curious lawsuit on
record which shows how he demand
ed payment of ellis De Voocht for
washing his linen. The defendant made
no objection to the price charged, but re-
fused to pay until the end of the year.
The Court decided that Roelandsen should
continue to wash for De Voocht the re-
mainder of the year and then collect his
money. Meanwhile the schOolmaster built
himself house thirty feet long, eighteen
feet wide and eight high, which was
rooted with rceden thatch, had an entry
three feet wide, two doors, a pantry a
staircase, mantelpiece and bedstead.
This latter was built into the wall, like a
cupboard in a partition, with doors clos
ing upon it when unoccupied. 1t was a
great economy in the matter of room. A
sleeping apartment in one of the small
Dutch taverns of that date often accom-
modated several travellers at night, while
during the day it was only an ordinary
public room, quite unincumbered in ap-
pearance. But Schoolmaster Roelandsen
was unable to compensate the builder;
and he finally committed Il grave otfense,
for which he was chastised at the whip
ping post upon the waters edge and ban
ished from the Dutch dominions.-Chris-
tInaaJ173li0n
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-30
A Frenchman's Practical Joke.

Great commOtiOn was created in 1.-THE
wood of Vincennes few days ago by the
discovery, by party of promenaders, Of
the body of a we'll dressed young man sus-
pended from one of the branches of a
sturdy oak, while his dog, lying on the
ground Just beneath his dangling feet,
seemed to keep watch over the corpse.
The terrified pleasure-seekers hastily sum-
moned one of the forest keepers, who adj
vanced to cut the body down. A sudden
kick from the supposed dead man sent him
staggering in the other direction, while
the dog, with howl Of fury, fastened his
teeth in his leg. This done the body hung
motionless as before. @g
"Try again." said one of the bystanders;
" that movement was merely the result OF
muscular contraction" 81
But the second attempt was attended
with the same. result, and then shout of
laughter from the apparent corpse re-
vealed the. secret. The whole affair was
a practical joke. The young fellow was
suspended, not by his neck, but by cord
passed under his arms, and he had the
courage and perseverance to remain hang
ing in that painful position for more than
an hour in order to successfully take in
somebody. Unfortunately the joke will
not prove as laughable one as he at first
imagined, as he was at once arrested and.
taken to the statioE-house on the two
charges ofdefacing the, trees and having
kicked q keeper of the forest.-Parts Lat
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-30
How Spontaneous. Combustion Takes
Place.

The most frequent instances of spon-
taneous combustion happen with cotton
rags or waste, that may have been more or
less saturated with oil. Few people are
aware of the ease with which these mate
rails originate fire. Two or three bushels
Of rags. wet with linseed oil-the driving
oil such as painters use-left IN heap,
have been known to char in the interior
within little over an hour, and then after
smoking awhile, and being placed where
there was slight current of air, burst sud-
denly into blaze. Painters rags are
probably quicker at this performance than
the waste used in oiling machinery and in
printing offices, but there is plenty of evil
dence that even the heavier oils thus thin
ly spread in cotton stuff will heat if in
mass, and start fire. Bituminous coal,
if wet, is about as bad as oiled rags,
though larger quantity is required
gas company in Brooklyn had fire few
years ago in their coal heap, thus occa-
stoned, which lasted week and only the
other day the burning of the bark Aurelie:
at sea, from this cause, was chronicled in
our columns, the case being of interest on
account of the many lives endangered.
Perhaps the most curious of instances of
spontaneous combustion were those of
black silks stored on the shelves of ware
houses IN Paris The facts were we'll
authenticated, but the evidence rather
tended to show that the silks most in
clined to this freak had been loaded with
some substance during manufacture, to in
crease their weight.
Not strictly speaking spontaneous, but
nearly so, have been many fires occurring
in woodwork adjoining heat tlues. II
was stated before government commits
sion that fire which took place in the
House of Parliament originated in wood
work against which a pipe for heating
purposes had lain. The wood in that and
similar cases has been found reduced to
condition like punk and it is the opinion
of good engineers that the heat from steam
pipes may be quite sufficient to set such
wood on tire-N. Y. Tribune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-30
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The New York Ecensng Mail says
that Barnum's chariot girl who was to
have married the unfortunate Donaldson
has entered a convent somewhere in Can
ada.
Webb for being muscular enough to swim
the British Channel. 1t has been thought
that brains instead Of muscles won the
applaudits of the age, but the idea is fast
becoming delusion and snare.
Samuel L. Clemens mark Twain re-
Gently gave reading in Newport, and a
lively sheet of that city is so unkind as to
say: =" Mr.. Clemens manner suggested
his own remark that he had seen slower
people than he was-more listless, apa-
thetic-but they were dead.''
Gen. Meyer c'Old Probabilities
has sensitive face, but the curves and
angles of his mouth denote the mental
stamina and poise indispensable to his vo-
cation. "a large-framed, muscular man
is this god of the thunderbolts," says a
writer, but his voice is as soft and low
as woman's." 7'f
1t would appear that the statement
that DonaldsOn's children are in destitute
circumstances is untrue. Mr.. James
Keller, Of Rochester, N. Y, who has
been appointed their guardian, finds that
Donaldson's property will pay them an
annual income Of several hundred dol
lars-enough, in fact, if properly man.
aged, to rear and educate them quite WELL
After all that he has done for that un-
thankful State, California paper comes
out and speaks of, Mr.. James Lick as an
"old, superahnuated, lichen.covered indi.
vidual, thin visaged, arp-angled in fore
head and chin and nose, with a full shock
of matted and tangled black hair, slightly
sprinkled with gray, covering his head
nearly down to his eyes, which are a cold,
pale, blush gray, and long, struggling
underbeard covering his throat r.,
lit is said that A. r. Stewart has made
more money this season than was ever
made by one establishment at an American
watering place. he wit expend $500 900
on the Grand Hotel before its reopening
next year. It costs something to officer
that hotel. The head cook, a giant in size,
receives q, 500 for the season, or at the
rate Of 81 900 month, yet it is not con-
sidered large salary. He has thirty two
cooks and assistants under him, and is
responsible only to the steward, who is
autocrat over 2l2 waters, fifty laundry
women, thirtytwo cooks and assistants,
and 9 constabulaEy of storekeepers, con
tractors for supplies and runners.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-30

When Mr.. Sankey, tie singing asso-
ciate of Mr.. Moody, was in Great Britain,
he used to sing, among those of his own,
four little songs which are the property of
Mr.. w. H. Doane, of Cincinnati. Arriving
at his home in Pennsylvania, the other
day, Mr.. Sankey sent fifty dollars to Mr..
Doane, saying that he felt he owed him
that much for the pieces, and adding that
many thousands have been blessed bv
your songs whom you will never see until
you meet them beyond the river,' safe
in the arms Of Jesus, where the prodigals
have found the way-house' by hearing
the old, old story of Jesus and His
love-" Mr.. Doane very promptly re-
turned the token, with the asseverat;on
that he felt richly repaid by having his
compositions become as familiar as bouse
hold words to all classes of British society.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-30
A Great Adventures.

A female adventurcr of no ordinary de.
scription has just come to grief in Paris.
Some time ago she cut dash at Pau,
where she succeeded in getting into the
good graces of distinguished families.
She lived in fine style, but she paid no.
body. Her debts then amounted to 81 600,
but she was so clever that when any Of her
creditors dunned her she invariably paci-
fled them with some promising story, and
in one or two cases succeeded in borrow.
ing money from them. For example, in.
stead of paying her doctor she got him to
advance her 92O0 on the belief that she
was to come into her long.expected for
tune. One of her principal victims at this
period was Nine. Ducout, to whom she
introduced herself as the Countesse de
kersabiec, and said that Lord Palmerston
had been one of her most intimate friends,
that Lord Stanley had been charged with
the administration Of her fortune, which
amounted to 100000 but which she could
not get at for the moment on account of
technical lawsuit About this time Marie
Gribaumont, her cook, fell ill and died IN
few days, worth e7OO, which she had
saved up. Our heroine at once set to
work to obtain this money. She produced
a false I. o. u, sent it to the lawyer and
ordered him to see that the family of her
deceased cook paid it, but before the mat
ter came before the court she disappeared
one night with all the money and valua-
bles belonging to the cook. She now
turned up again in Paris, where she made
fresh victims, and then went to Versailles,
where she made debts and dupes on ali
sides, when her old Pau creditors, who
had lost all traces of her for years, found
her out and she was arrested Her trial
has only just come Oft: She appeared in
court calm and collected, and gave an &C
count Of her strange, eventful life. The
jury found her guilty and she was SEN
fenced to ten years. Imprisonment, 5000
francs fine, and to the surveillance of the
police for the rest Of her life. She received
her sentence Will the utmost indifference,
and left the court putting on her lavender
colored gloves as coolly as if she was 60
ing on an afternoons walk instead of to
the prison cell.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-30
Salmon in Fresh Water.

The question as to the ability Of the
salmon to remain permanently in fresh
water received an important illustration last
winter. 1t is we'll known that the lakes
of Maine along the coast contain variety
of fish known as the land-locked salmon,
which, while possessing the external APP
pearance and peculiar habits OF the
salmon, together with equal excellence Of
flesh, is much smaller, and remains per-
manently in the lakes; and it is still
vexed question whether this is actually a
descendent Of the true sea salmon or differ
ent species. An argument in favor of its
being the former is afforded by the fact
that in two localities young salmon,
Matched from eggs of the true sea salmon
collected at Buckport, have lived in fresh
water ponds and yielded ripe eggs during
the past autumn; in the one case at New
Hope, Pa, the fish attaining several
pounds in weight, while some bred in
Wisconsin were only five to seven inches
in length, though perfectly mature in
every respect. In the first case, however,
the ponds were quite large and offered
ample space for the movements of the fish,
while in the other they were confined to
small trout ponds Of only few yards in
extent Whether the eggs thus obtained
will produce healthy young and whether
these will attain maturity are questions OF
much interest.-N. Y. GrapAic.,at
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-30
Walter SCOTS First Love.

!. Writing of the love disappointments of
literary lights, a correspondent says:
His early disappointment was very
bitter and, although its full details cannot
be given, it may be said that when he was
a poor young barrister, living still under
the paternal roof at Edinburgh, he fell in
love with maiden whose rank was above
his own and whom he could not expect to
win. Still he hoped against hope. His
father heard of the affair and, with sober
sense of mature years, informed the lady's
friends of Walters weakness, and they at
once removed the girl from the city. Scott
never knew the cause of this change till
years afterward, but, as the income of his
profession for five years averaged only
e1OO year, he could not expect to en-.
counter the expense of domestic estab-
lishment. The girl married soon after
ward, and one of SCOTS friends was much
alarmed for fear Of the consequences He
writes as follows: This is bad news to
our romantic friend, and now shudder at
the violence of his most irritable and un.
governable mind. 1t is said that smen
have died and worms have eaten them, but
not for love-" sincerely hope it may be
verified on this OCCASION Scott did moth
ing worse than to pen afew stanzas, which
are worth reading in this connection.
They are addressed to the violet and close
thus: ...E f..
Though fair her gems of azure hue, .-
Beneath the dew-drop's weight reclining,
I've seen an eye of lovelier blue, -
More sweet through watery luster shining
The summer sun that dew shall dry
Ere yet that sun be past its morrow. a.
Nor longer in my false loves eye az
Remained the tear of parting sorrow.
Before six months had expired this dis
appointed lover was as deeply enamored
of another girl whom he met while on an
excursion into the north of England, She
was of French birth, and is described as
very fascinating. One of his friends said !:
Scott was sair beside himself about Miss
Carpenter. Il. We toasted her twenty times
over, he xaving about hsriuntil it was one
in the morning. The next Christmas
they were married.. /, II may be added that
the match was not felicitous on the part of
the husband, for although their married
life was harmonious; the wife was deficient
in that mental strength; which such n
union required. Scott never outlived the
influence exercised on him by. his first
love, and in his latter years he wept at the
mention Of her name and the memory of
old associations fa aFHFtgs Il t1tf4
~ sAE-tj --..----fa zfs ~
-.--Wnnhorfs,1
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-30

A VERY small boy is more modest than
larger one. While the latter directly
asks the peddler for a peach, the former
will stand by and bashfdliy explain several
hundred times: II like them, l do
peaches is what likes, peaches isl And
if the peddler is confident he cannot kick
the child's head off without + eng seen, he
gives him peacn.-Danlury Nsus.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-30

A awATERINa-PLACE fraud recently
wormed himself into the confidence OF a
West Troy.(N. Y lady and her daughter.
He accompanied the ladies' to their home
on their invitation. After being lionized
for two or three days, he asked the .youHg
ladys brother-in-law, who is in .bns iness,
to cash . $3.50 check, as he was stranger
attic banks, and they were closed, and be
was entirely out of money The check
was cashed, and that is the last seen Of the
scoundrel, 1s$s' ''es:47SsA 4ssT Us
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-30

New LONDON has the largest wharf in
the United States. 1t is 1850 feet long,
sand1s00 and $50 feet wide, has twenty feet
depth of water, and covers nearly six
acres; the walls are solid stone-work,
witha hhfngin 81 gravel. The wharf 10
the terminus of the New London North
ern Railroad, and isir pGwgabout com
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-30

HARTFORD is as. thick with thieves,
burglars and pickpockets as toads after q
shower! hut they have been pretty care
fully looked after by the police. Quite a
number of spectators at the races had to
ASK their neighbors the -. :. time o. day."
g Why don't you carry your wallet where
I3earry miner and then you wouldn't have
itstolen y SAID man on the ace-ground
to discbnsolate who had been relieved of
his money. Where do you carry yours,
then ?. Shaping his hand on q deep
sidepocket; he exclaimed, Here! but by
thunder its gone. '--Nesos Haosn Register.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-30
Fine Writing.

There are other forms of indefiniteness
upon which criticism or remonstrance
would be labor thrown away. People who
use long words which they do not under
stand; instead of short words which they
do understand, probably imagine that they
increase in some way their dignity and
reputation by the process. When a man
is hanged at Newgate, or vessel goes
down at sea, it is Of no sort of use to ask
the reporter who writes that the criminal
or the crew were "launched into eternity"
why he uses the words or what he means
by them. The impulsive incumbent who,
on the strength of writing d. u. after his
name, was allowed by the Times to inter-
fere at some length in the recent tombstone
controversy in Lincolnshire, probably
thought it piece of very effective writing
when he described the feelings of be-
reaved father toward his departed cher
ub'; and many readers of the Times no
doubt thought the words as appropriate as
they were touching. 1t is useless to ex-~
pect unframed minds to abandon fine
terms for simple ones, or popular for exact
expressions but, at any rate, people who
are able to weigh the force of words may
begin by setting the example. Perhaps,
in the presence of style of poetry which
has found of late no small acceptance, it
is mere crying in the wilderness to offer
any such advice as this; and when q
writer who has already obtained reputa-
ton as. critical scholar and editor of uni
versity classics prefaces volume of poetry
with an address To the Beloved" begin.
ming
= !, Ny holy love of many names
Whose face have not seen, -.
aG 4 With rosy dews and subtle flames
49,. Amounted for queen
we ought rather, it may be, instead of
finding fault with some prevailing forms
of indefniteness in the use Of words, to
feel thankful that there is any language
left which it is possible to understand at
all Saturday Reoie,o. es
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-30

, BASEBALL is undoubtedly good exercise
and capital amusement, but It often occa-
sions bungcd eyes, broken skins and blistcrcd
hands. We can tell you that in all such
cases, If JoltMson's A.olyne Limime.t Is re-
sorted to, it will reduce the swelling and
stop the pain.
I We would not recommend the frequent or
consistent use of any medicine. 1t is import
ant to take even . good, article judiciously:
and reliable as laxative or cathartic.
II YOU want to keep posted as to the value
of YOUR insurance, subscribe for The HERALD,
published by Geo. j. Yeager, aO2 La Sale St.,
Chicago, at $3.50 per .annum, in advance.
Send Is cents for sample copy.
FIRST Grand Exposition OF the Tradesmen's
Industrial Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa, opens
Oct.7, closes Nov.6. Address Al .Nellis, Pres,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-09-30
WEST AND SOUTH.

a CONFIDENCE man calling himself the
Hon. &. w. Benton, was arrested at Musca-
tine, Iowa, on the 18th. for having sought to
fleece the unsophisticated by inserting an ad-
vertisement in the Chicago Tribune for a Con-
CHEESEMAN'S clerk, offering $4,000 and ex-
penses, and instructing applicants to address
him at that place. His plan was to reply to
each applicant that as agent for the Con.
gresham he had inquired into his qualiica-
tons, ETC., and would forward the appointment
on receipt of five dollars to defray expenses
Of advertising, telegraphing, etc. He had
received a large number of letters in answer
to the advertisement. a7H
STATE Temperance Convention held at
GAINESVILLE, Wis, on the 18th, nominated the
following State ticket: For Governor, II. G.
Tilton; Lieutenant Governor, d. W. Gilfillan;
Secretary Of State, H. W. Brown; State Treas
urer, ID. W. Ball; Attorney. General, William
Monroe. .sa., ., So.
The Nebraska Republican State Conyeu.JI
ton met at Omaha on the 18th, and nominated
George B. Lake, T. F. Can't and Samuel May.
well for Judges OF the Supreme Court. l.s.,
The Rev.. W.. f. ;McLaren, Of Cleveland.
Ohio, was, on the 18th, elected Bishop Of the
Episcopal Diocese Of Illinois, receiving thirty
nine out of sixty clerical, and fifty-fve out Of
ifty-eight lay votes, on the second ballot
His election was then made unanimouss The
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He was lodger in an unpretentious
Brooklyn boarding house, and for several
days the landlady's daughter, sentimen-
tal maiden Of thirty. five, had leased him to
write something in her album. He at last
consented and penned the following: Gas
the hostility to dogs diminishes, the quail
ty Of hash improves" An explanation
was added, in these words: II never could
make srhynesy Nfisss Cites and when I
write poetry Ihaye II expressit in.prose:"
IF q man gets up in the night and
drinks throu gil tile nose 1t teapot, and
sucks 4 haifpin into his wirdpipe should
lie tedr around and blow up his wife,
and listrust the whole nejghborhood,
when the good woman had Eo idea that
the. hairpin would be disturbed before
morning - Detroit FREE Press, @@@,4@
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.2|;Wonderful metaporphosis: To see
sleepy man turn into . bed; IA
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The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-22

A fellow who was up in police court
recently, gave his occupation as that of a
'conchologist," and explained by saying
that he opened CLAIMS at a market.
An Akron physician tells us of little
Akron boy who came to him and said
doctor, want some ipecac" "What do
you want it for!" Never mind, just give
1t to me-" ''Who sent you here y NO
body come myself" 81 can't let you
have it unless you tell me what you are
gong to do with it," "Well doctor, our
hired girl has swallowed a silver quarter,
and she said that if would give her some
thing to bring it up might have it"
Prof Jones of our High School, deliv-
cred lecture upon Ancient Greece, and
among other things he mentioned the fact
that Leonidas at Thermopyle held the pass
with 300 men. AS we were coming out.
old Pitman said to me:
Good lecture, wasn't ii =
''First-rate."
'But there was one thing didn't quite
understand
"What was that 2" asked.
"Why, didn't he say that Grecian chap
had 300 men and only one pass?'
II believe he did,"
swell. all I've got to say is, that it must
have been deadly old circus that let so
many fellers in free on one ticket. l should
think they'd a stuffed the whole tent"
sent him to Jones to have the whole
thing cleared up.-Mar Adeler.
Napoleon was one day searching for
book in the library at Mamaison, and at
last discoveredt ON a shelf somewhat above
his reach. Marshal Money, who was
present-one of the tallest men in the
army-stepped forward saying, Permit
me, sire am higher than your majesty"
"You are longer, marshal said the en-
peror, with frown.
"Can you run ?" asked boy of st.
Louis officer who had arrested him. Like
a cuss," was the reply. "Then chase me,
said the boy, and off he went.
The Observer gives the following scene
on the cars not many miles from Utica
Enter lady, who addresses well-known
railroad ofilcial-"Mr. -, do you
think Mr. Bcecher IS guilty ?" Guilty of
what, madam ?" Exit lady, suffused with
| bushes.
A western incident is thus delcately
| touched by the Milwaukee Ne'cs: "Ned
| Vose used to travel around Colorado with
| performing bear, but great change
came one day last week, and now the bear
| travels around alone, thinking over old
times, and occasionally leaning up against
a tree as pang shoots through his bowels.
| Ned is inside that bear"