The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-24
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

-Singular-To sec garden walk.
Struck aisle-Thc man who fell
down in church.
MIR. John Murray, of Windsor, Me-,
has eight little girls, aged thirteen, clcv-
en-, ten, nine, seven, four, three, and one
years.
The average American youth would
postpone an election any day for game
of baseball.
Prof. II. r. Palmcrs Musical Insti-
tute at Dunkirk, N. Y, begins July 10,
and holds four weeks.
"A mourning widower declares that
nothing brings him such affecting men,
cries of his dear, dead wife as to STUN
BILE over a flat-iron.
"A mistake of the types in Boston
paper caused an announcement to read !:
Thirteen Illinois railroads are in the
hands of deceivers."
The animalcule in Baltimorc's drink
ing water are so large as to be visible to
the naked eye. A fastidious citizen
counted fifteen skipping about in tum-
bier.
The Sanscrit class of the Boston
University includes two young ladies.
None but secondhand bookseller would
dare marry one of 'em.
New York is given to thinking that
there can little of merit como out of
what it is pleased to term provincial
towns; but some of the Country" bands
of music at the Masonic ceremonies fair
ly surpassed the noted bands of the me-
tropolis.
DR.. A. Morahd, South Boston drug
gist, who has been for some time suffer
ing from thefts of hair oil by number
OF young women, prepared decoction
of gum arabic and sugar, which he deli
cately tinted and placed on his counters,
and since one girl has used it, and
had to cut off her hair close to her scalp,
he has not been troubled.
Twelve black fish or grampus were
driven ashore at St. Augustine, Fla, dur.
ing heavy gale that prevailed there re-
Gently. They consisted of bulls, cows
and calves. One of the old bulls yielded
100 gallons of superior oil and measured
twenty -one feet in length. The grampus
is smaller variety of the whale family.
There is something wholly signif-
cant writes an American naturalist) in
the CLEAN of the snakes eye-it is look
generally of the most malicious nature.
Cats have the same look when irritated.
At such times there is ray of vicious
intelligence in the eyes of both Cat and
snake, and that both of them are ami
mated by deadly purpose is soon per.
ceived, should any creature be in their
power.
There is boy in st. Louis who writes
to Sergeant of Police: Dear Captain
am sorry to tell you that broke pane
of glass in C lamp-post on Twenty-third
street, between Carr and Wash streets,
on Sunday, April rs. broke it with a
ball, and the policeman ran after me but
he couldn't catch me. So hope this
twenty-five cents will pay for the glass,
and that you will forgive me, and prom.
Use that l won't play ball on the streets
any more"
"A new baggage-man on one of our
local trains was told to pile up the trunks
in the baggage-car, and be sure to hang
the checks on the outside. The liberal
minded youth piled up the trunks and
then took off the checks, with the leath-
er straps attached, and hung them on the
outside of the Car. The baggage.master
at the depot was driven nearly frantic by
the passengers per the Orizaba attempt
to identify their boxes.-Los An0eles (Cal.)
Star.
"A young lady living in the northern
part of Indianapolis has, through little
simple vanity, nearly, if not quite, de-
stroyed her eyesight. A few days ago
she painted her cheeks with the red col.
oring matter of some cinnamon candy
and went to party. During the even
ing her cheeks became very much swol-
len and the poison soon after cOmmuni-
Gated itself to her eyes. She became
quite blind, and, though receiving the
best medical attention the city could
afford, there seemed to- be little hope
that she would ever regain her eyesight.