The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-12-23
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


proud flesh.
The toothache stops as soon as the
tooth is found out.
"A good temperance Removing
the bars at the mouth of the Mississippi.
Many man has ruined his eyesight
by sitting around in bar-rooms looking for
work.
-Barnum got only $20O, 900 at the re-
cent sale of his hippodrome stock at
Bridgeport.
The Hudson Bay trappers are always
glad when they are home again from
Turing shore.
If all men were as good as they repre-
sent themselves to be, the world would be
much better off.
The United States now raises onions
enough to supply the demand of the whole
civilized world.
The Courier-J Journal thinks the thea
ter no place for little babies, and yet ex-
poets every child to have playful little
ways.
American goods are so popular in
China that our trademarks have been
forged by English exporters to sell their
fabrics.
"A UTccu Ouy ulSCudIS tuC
hired girl for impudence, and she poured
kerosene over 112 pounds of nice butter in
the cellar.
During the past ten years New
Haven has been directly involved in
worthless stock enterprises to the amount
of $27, OO0, 900.
e. w. Bull, the originator of the Con.
cord grape, says that his loss from the de-
struction by frost this year will amount to
nearly $4,000.
The orange culture in the gulf States,
especially Florida and Georgia, is grad
ually increasing, and in the former State,
it is predicted, will soon meet the de.
mands of the American market.
If man is found drunk in Vermont
he can be kept in Jail until he reveals who
supplied the liquor. Several are thus
languishing at Rutland, and it is suspect
ed they will continue stubborn.
Immigration to this country from
Australia is beginning to- set in. Several
parties from that distant quarter of the
world are now visiting Iowa for the pur-
pose of securing land for sheep growing
purposes.
John Kelly, of Stockbr;dge Mass, has
sued Catharine Fitzsimmons, of the same
town, for breach of promise, alleging that
she agreed to marry him but now refuses
to carry out the bargain, by which he is
damaged $500 worth.
A Centennial curiosity is an open
faced watch, with an outer case of wood
and silver, formerly the property of Au-
gustine Washington, the man who en-
braced his son because he wouldn't tell q
lie, now belonging to Harry A. Arnold.
The finances of Tennessee are in a
bad way. State bonds are down to forty
six cents on the dollar, the floating debt
is over 81, OOO, 600, and the bonded debt of
$23, 0OO, 600 draws yearly interest Of
about 81 400, 900.
Even pull-backs' are blessings in
disguise, after all, causing so great de-
mand for elastic fabrics to furnish the
wherewjthal to tie back that the East
hampton <Mass.) Elastic Fabric Company
has been obliged to run to their full to
meet the demand.
Rhode Island has ten centenarians,
according to the census, one Of them,
Maria Little, colored woman, at Provi-
dence, claiming to be 120. 1t is curl
Gus fact that all but one are women. This
exception is John Bullock, of Bristol, 1O6,
who is native Of Massachusetts,.
in North Siam, when they go to law,
they have "a curious CUSTOM" Both par
ties to the suit are put under water, and who
ever remains there longest wins the case.
With us the custom is different. Both
parties being in hot water are kept there,
without reference to the right on either
side.
1t is proposed that the New England
farmers Lighthouse of 100 years ago, at the
Centennial, in which will he pictured the
home-with the spinning of wool and flax
quilting and knitting, and the serving OF
an old-time dinner-be built by the
farmers clubs and agricultural societies
of the State.
Pat had been engaged to kill a turtle
for neighbor, and proceeded immediate
ly to cut off its head. Pats attention was
called to the fact that the turtle still
crawled about, though it had been decap'
itated, and he explained: "Sure the basic
is entirely dead, only he is not yet con
scious of it,
An Albany man who had quite for
gotten a commission intrusted to him by
his wife slipped on the ice going home
and got blow on the head that instantly
reminded him of her. Then he walked
back half mile, purchased that quarter
of yard of muslin and felt happier
Brooklyn Argus.
On a street corner yesterday two mer
met and shook hands and one of then
asked: "1s Tom very sicks'' "Almos
waad the reply Sasn t eU
malady about limits just regular sick
ness, and it is going tough with him.
Detroit Free Press.
The twenty cent pieces have proved
failure in California. The San Francisco
Post says: Nobody seems to wan
either to pass or to receive them, and il
some mysterious manner they disappea
and go back to the mint, and, though des
titute of such coin, We will reckon il
bits for all our small transactions"
IL beg pardon, sir; I'm attached t
your she exclaimed, pettishly, in tn
street-car, struggling at the same time t
I free her clanking chain which had 20
hooked upon his button. He lifted hi
t hat and bowed and stammered: 9TH
t attachment is mutual, madam, / assur
you" The chain was loosed and the lad
, got off, blushing, and the young man 50
down ccmplacently. 1t wouldn't happe
l that way once in q thousand times.-St
e Louis Republican.
Yesterday while fifteen or twenty me
were sitting in a saloon at the ferry doc
toasting their shins and lamenting the har
times, man opened the door and calle
out: "Who wants work at twelve shi]
. lings day." Not person made answer
: Some shut their eyes and pretended to b
5 asleep, and others were busy looking on
l.. of the windows. In about five minute
t another man opened the door and shouted
t "Who wants an easy place in the City
: Hall? ?" IL dor' was chorused in tone
4 that made the decanters jar, and ever
man jumped to his feet. $50 do Iv' sal
t the man, as he shut the door and Wake
!, away.-Detroit Free Press.
= The Sandy Creek (Oswego County, n
y " Ners reports the following interestin
! case: "a novel suit between two farmer
came off not a thousand miles from he1
+ a short time since. Itappears that one {
the farmers sold forty turkeys to the otht
: | at a certain Drico npr nOund alive It ws