The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-12-09

Ar. Indian thinks himself fortunate
when heystrikes trail;,a civilized man
on the promenade feels obliged to apollo
gize for such an occurrence.
The happy marriage-bells jingled
with uncommon fervOr on Thanksgiving
Day, as is shown by numerous reports Of
weddings from allparts of the Union. Z
OF themany scores of passengers ON
the ill-fated Pacific two were from the
little Canadian village of St. Thomas.
They were both among the three sur
vivors.
Mary questioning her little brother
on the gender of nouns): Now, Tommy,
what is the feminine of beau? Tommy
Why, arrow, of course! (NIary feels all of
a quiver.)
"A German street fruit-dealer rebuked
a young clerk whoaeok aasingle peanut
from his stand, the other day, by saying
Young Teller, we don'd sell dose by the
piece any more!" s..~zE-. .~.f ~
From the way in which the number
of people 100 years old increases, it looks
as though over-zealous Centennial workers
were encouraging the old folks to equivo-
cate little, which is very wrong,
There Is ali old farmer living within
two miles of the Erie Canal and he won t
go and see it because years ago he as
serted that any man who said that a canal
could be put through that region was a
blasted tool. , 49,
"A Sacramento lady who sports an
artificial tooth left it on the table of the
restaurant where she had taken breakfast
the other morning, and on returning for it
about an hour atterward found it attached
as charm to the fob-chain of the waiter.
Some of the young men of this place
tried to scare the girls by getting up a
bachelors club, the chief feature in it
being that no member should marry for
two years, but as the girls appeared in
different about the concern the thing OF
course collapsed.-Hawesvils (Ky.) Plain
dealer.
An American in a French hotel asked
for a toothpick and was told that they
were not to be had. Expressing surprise
at this, he was efectually silenced by the
explanation of the waiter that the supply
had been discontinued because customers
were so INSCRIPTIONS as to take the tooth
picks away with them.
An amusing incident occurred at the
Opera House last evening. During the
first act bat was seen flying around the
auditorium, and, as it flew across thu
stage, Mr.. Eberle, who took the part o.
Uncle Thomas in "Dixie" raised CUR
and, firing at the bat, brought it down thu
| first time "Good shot," said Joh1
Thompson, and the audience signifiet
their appreciation of the feat by hearty
applause.-7roy IN. ~ Times.
"A Southbridge (Mass.) man, a littl,
| inebriated, came in contact with tree
AS quick as thought he raised his hat
begged pardon and passed on. Thre,
other trees having met him in this I'm
ceremoniOus manner, he dotted hi
chapeau, and, placing it under his arm
backed up against the fence in apparen
meditation. A friend passing at the time
inquiring what he was doing, he replied
IL am waiting for the procession to pass.
The Spirit Of the Times says that til,
night previous to the last days racing a
the Jerome Park extra fall meeting Col
McDaniels dreamed that he saw four whit,
ducks on lake, to which he gave chas,
in boat. He captured three of them il
succession, but the fourth dived in th1
water and escaped him. Confidently re
garding his dream as ominous of the re
suit Of the next days racing, the Colone
and his friends backed Madge, Josie B
and Big, Sandy, and freely, for their en-
gagements, and all three horses won. IL
the fourth race the. Colonel had Madg
engaged, but, influenced by the remem
brance that in his dream the fourth whit
duck escaped him, none of the part.
backed her. Madge won, and now til
Colonel is disposed to grumble, and think
that there was something wrong in tn
dream, which only indicated the captur
of three out of the four white ducks.