The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-04-15

now regularly borrowing money to be
repaid / 1000 per cent. upon the restora.
ton of the Empire.
In the suit against the London World
for libel in some sharp articles against
money-lenders the court dismissed the
complaint, holding that malice was not
made out and that "a strong case of
public benefit was shown"
His Royal Highness the Duke of
Edinburgh has invented and brought
into use a style of dress in which the
tops of the shoes are made of the same
material as the pantalOOns, which must
tend to largely increase the shoemaker's
bill.
I'm 1872 no less than 800 patents were
granted in England to persons who con-
fessed that they had got their ideas by
telegraph from abroad, having agents to
look out for valuable new inventions and
steal them. A bill has been introduced
in Parliament to stop this.
Certainly the oldest place in the
world for mouse to thrust his head into
was chosen by little prowler at Ang-
mering, England, the other day. Some
| oysters were lying, open-mouthed, on the
kitchen table, when mousie, attracted by
the prospect OF y savOry morsel, inserted
his head between the jaws of one of them.
Together sprang the shells with a snap
and mousie was caught in a vice as strong
and as close as q steel trap. His death
was instantaneous and several persons
in the room at the time will testify to the
strange manner of his tragical demise.
Personal and Literary.
The Mayor of Philadelphia has pro-
hibited fortune-telling.
Now, Just as we have learned to read
his signature, Spinner must up and re-
sign.
Bret Harte now reckons up four sons
on his fingers. All, no doubt, after his
own heart.
"A son of former Governor of Ice
land, named Bjornson, is teacher in q
public school in Michigan.
Horace Greeley, during the last fif-
parties of whom sixteen cents cannot be
collected.
Gail Hamilton says she knows Con-
gresham who "invites his friends to
dine, does his own carving, and saves all
the titbits for himself"
The widow of the late John Mitchell
lives in Brooklyn with her daughter 1sa-
bella and son. One of her daughters
is the wife of Mr.. Roger Page, of Louis
vile.
Zone Frost, of Marion County, KY,
has named his five sons Severe Frost,
Winter Frost, White Frost. Jack Frost
and Black Frost" An ice family they
must be.
Mrs. Consider Dickinson, whose es-
tate is worth about $4,000, and who is
eighty-six years old, has willed most of
; her property for educational purposes in
Deerield, Mass.
The house occupied by George Ban
croft in Washington, where he is COM
pleting his history, has had for its ten
ants james K. Paulding, Washington Irv-
ing, John P. Kennedy, William Writ, Pc
ter Force and Jared Sparks.
The immense estate of the late John
, Hopkins, of Baltimore, amounting to
, more than 81, 600 600, has been settled at
cost of less than three. quarters of 1
per centum on the whole value, and
this although the property lay in three
States and its interests were very widely
: extended.
1 Bret Harte once worked for his
q board up in one of the Sierra valleys,
: but the old fellow he lived with thinks
he hardly paid his way. "Do you see
+ that fence?" said the old man to party
t of visitors lately, pointing to stump
0 and brush affair around his garden
I, "well, Bret stayed with me two year,
t an bout all he done was to help me
build that"