The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-28
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

If rocks ever bled, they would bleed
quartz. Neaos.
King Alfonso's betrothed, the Princess
Mercedes, is but fourteen.
I'm an English court a boy has been
sentenced to five months Imprisonment
for throwing stone at railway train.
Willie was disputlng with his sister.
1T is true" he said, firmly, "for mother
said so, and if she says 50 it is so, if it
amt So"
They tell US that postal cards are a
German invention, and were first intro
duced by the German Government during
the Franco-Prussian war, for the conven-
fence of the soldiers.
Sidney Smith says marriage resembles
a pair of shears, so joined together that
they cannot he separated They often
move in opposite directions, yet always
punish anyone who comes between them
All, that eager grasp of the hand that
anxious inquiry about your wife and the
babies; that kindly solicitude concerning
your financial welfare; yes, there's no
installing it. He's candidate. -Ne,o
York Commercial Adoertiser.
If you would rise as far as possible
above the brute creation cultivate your
thinking, reasoning faculties, for it is
thinking and reasoning that make the
difference, not only between man and
brute, but also between man and man.
There is no other one way by which
friendship may be SO quickly broken or
SO thoroughly and completely crushed out
of existence as by GOODNESS of manner
hard words are no competitors at all, for
they are often satisfactorily explained.
An old writer in the american Rural
Home thinks the reason the QUALIFY of
flour made in the famous Genesee Valley
of New York has deteriorated is that
farmers have continuously cut the wheat
before fully ripe, using this wheat for
seed.
DIR. Cressy, of Amherst, Mass, has
returned from a professional visit to the
epizootic region in Connecticut, where
the disease is more violent than In this
State. The doctor recommends careful
treatment and general regard to the
hygiene of the horse rather than violent
dosing.-SprinQfeld (Mass.) Republican.
Temperance, cleanliness and indus
try! This is the hygiene of the Bible. A
"pathy" as old as the race. A system of
medication applicable to all chimes and all
constitutions; always safe, always ef-
ficient, and to which human sagacity, in
the space Of six thousand years, has not
added one radically new idea.-Kansas
Farmer.
When the soil freezes 1t Is greatly ex-
banded; and the expansion is all upward,
because the unfrozen earth below will not
yield to the frozen stratum; and there is
no vacant space to be filed by the lateral
enlargement. For this reason the surface
of the soil is often elevated two, three or
more inches higher than it stands when
the ground is not frozen.
The best gait horse has is the fast
walk. A slow-walking horse is an abom.
ination. Who has patience with such a
horse? If you ride him or drive him he
exhausts your patience. If he is used to
pillow or harrow or 60 on the road he
mopes along at snaiI's pace. He does
only about half the work of the rapid
walker. If time is money you make
money because you save time BY having
horse that walks fast.-N. Y. Herald.
The New England Sabbath is be-
spoken space" at the Philadelphia Gen.
tennial, by the COngregati0nalist, which
declares that "nothing is more worthy of
being shown on that occasion. Nothing
SO truly fully represents the secret and
ground Of American prosperity as this
holy day, with the ideas for which it
stands. Nothing is more needed by ma.
jority Of the nations Of the earth, this
hour, than this same Sabbath, with its
truths and ordinances"
"A Boston man, somewhat accustomed
to missionary labor, recently called on an
aged woman who was on her death bed
and, after speaking in suitable terms, was
surprised by the rejoinder: II heard that
you were at the door and wanted to see
you moment am too weak to talk OF
to listen. cannot ask you to pray with
me, but can you tell me If the com.
pany is going to pay any dividend this
Year," The interview was not prolonged
-Sprina1feld (Mass) Republican.
Home presents noble field for the
exercise of our graces. We should BIZ
ambitious of shining there if we canno
shine anywhere else. The inmates of oul
houses have the strongest claim upon om
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