The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-01-21

and the decks are apparently motionless.
When drawn slowly over the water the
vessels offered more resistance than
models OF the ordinary shape; but when
the equilibrium between the horizontal
pressure of the inclines forward and the
pressure OF the water in the contrary
direction are destroyed, the model at
once rises in the water and passes over
the mass Of hitherto obstructiny fluid.
Miscellaneous.
Why does widow feel her bcreave-
ment less when she wears corsets? Be-
cause then she's solaced.
That a great social reformation is
under way is indicated by the fact that
own dresses this winter, and cOnfessing
it too.
AS long ago as the days of First
Samuel Chapter thirteen and twentieth
verse), pl0ws had iron shares and
Golfers. This was about LOO years be-
fore the Christian era.
"A gentecl farmer in Massachusetts. a
retired Bostonian, didn't know how to
take wagon wheel off to grease the axle.
and so he bored holes through the hub
and poured in the grease.
"A minister in Kansas received only
fifty cents for his first quarters salary.
And, strange to say, he did not wait for
his next quarters allowance, but fled to
some spot where the laborer is worthy
of higher
-Rhincbeck (N ~ now claims him
luz years old, shaves himself, threads a
needle at arms length, chops cord of
wood before breakfast in three languages,
voted for all the Presidents before and
since Washington; uses tobacco.
Talk about stamina in female char
acter! But there is mother in Detroit
who will sit on the corner of the bureau
and read a dime novel half through be-
tore she becomes aware that her baby
has been bowling for thirty-tive minutes.
"A female Justice of the Peace in
Wyoming notified her friends in this
wise: Z" am about to marry Mr. J.
D., OF this county, and he will be
sworn IN at my office on Wednesday
morning next, at ten u. m. You are in
vited to attend"
The fashionable courtesy of givino
dinner party or any entertainment to
visitor is now carried to the extreme of
not only requesting the lady or gentle
man to name the people they would like
to meet, but to say what music would be
preferred and what there shall be for
dinner.
The Gold Hill New Ne,os saws:
Living IN the western part of Gold
Hill is Portuguese boy, aged about
seven years, who has not particle of
hair on his head, never did have any, and
probably never will. 1t is said that he
has an aunt, aged about twenty-five
years, whose head has always been SINH
iarly destitute"
The question of spontaneous COM
bustiOn has attracted more or less atten
tiOn from scientists since 1872 Various
French savants have regarded the plIe-
nomenon as possible; but the Germans,
as Casper and others, have refused to ac-
cept any argument in its support NJ de
Chassaignol has conducted IL revision of
all the cases on record, and finds that
no medical man nor trustworthy observer
has ever witnessed the phenomenon, or
obtained evidence of its occurrence at
first hand. Numerous authors have de-
clared that the human body burns with
blue flame and the production of an
empyreumatic Odor; and it has been
deemed plausible that the alcohol with
which the tissues of drunkards are satu-
rated might take fire. But, after death,
the flesh of drunkards does not appear
to be more intlammable than that of
temperate persons. Even when it has
been soaked in alcohol for several DAYS
it burns with difficulty. After injecting
the veins of dogs and other animals with
alcohol it has been found impossible to
effect this combustion 1t has been suw-
gested that intlammable gases might he
generated; but no case of the kind has
been proved. On the whole, NJ. de Chas-
saignOl arrives at the conclusion that the
spontaneous combustion of living ami
NAL cannot take place.