The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-02-17
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

SOuTC VI OIAlmS WCfC COuCuFTeu IQC COOsu-
sidcred In Committee Of the Whole.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. p,
The Graphic wants to know If the
god of soft weather is Thor.
What sort of attention does one meet
with at hotels! Inn attention. ,,-
Why Is your wife like dynamite: Be-
cause she's apt toblow you up if harshly
handled.
Ought to be allowed to sit down. A
merchant of forty years. standing.-Com-
naercial Adrertiser
b --"All is vanity, ',remarked tn-w
peddler, the other day. "What's life to
me, anyhow, but holier and tin SELF" 4
IT, Many man who would roll up his
eyes in terror at the idea of stealing
nickel will swoop down on q silk UNI
brella worth ten dollars.
"A wise man now comes to the front
and proposes the organization OF Society
for the Prevention of Crime That would
hit the nail on the head.
The trowcl and measuring rod used
by the Prince OF Wales in laying the foun-
dation- stone of the Madras harbor works
were of gold and valued at $500. -.
Wellington was once asked to dine
with Judge Jones. The chair in which
he would have sat if he had accepted this
invitation will be exhibited at the Centen.
NAL.
There is not much brotherly love lost
among the railroads, although they are so
freightearnal; and the agents keep cool,
though they are such 'ighrate people
Graphic.
The Courier Journal comes. right up
to the confessional candidly as follows
If every husband who deserved it were
whipped by his wife the stock of raw
hides in this country would be exhausted
in four and twenty hours.'' --'
F. W. Clapp, of the Massachusetts
Legislature, has refused railroad pass.
II believe" lie says, "that no member of
the Legislature can receive favcrs Of this
kind consistently with his duty to his
constituents and the respect which he
owes to himself" Four other members
have also returned passes, but there are
275 to hear trom.-BOst0n Post.
THAT portion of the human race which
believes it wrong for a man to marry a
woman older than himself will find some
Confirmation of their belief in the case of
LaPsge, who has just been convicted of
murder in New Hampshire. When he
was twenty years of age he married
woman three years his senior, and all the
offenses Of which he has been guilty have
been committed since that time.
"A sweet young creature who lives out
on Angular street, and is just back from
Vassar, appealed with tender pathos to her
grim parent the other day: "Paw, deah
paw, cahn't you give Gallo away and buy
me seal bwown black-and tan to match my
walking suit?" And because paw roared
and gutfawed, and said there was no
brown black-and- tans in the market, she
ewied. poor girl.-Burlington Hasok- Eye
TIE Khedive of Egypt seems to pos
sess that single grade of intelligence
which is usually described by saying that
its possessor "knows whom to kick"
The Khedive didn't like the showing
made by Mr.. Cave, the expert who was in
vited to examine the financial condition
of Egypt, but as Mr.. Cave was an En-
glishman he didn't deem it exactly pru-
dent to kick him out tn proprta persona.
Nubar Pasha, however, who recommend
ed MIR. Cave, could be kicked out without
any fear OF consequences; and he was. &"
Several gentlemen who are stopping
at the National Hotel went to Groton, on
Saturday, for the purpose of going up the
monument, and visiting the various local.
tiles Of historic interest. During their
pleasant rambles they found full grown
grassbopper waltzing gayly about and en-
joyinC the benignant sunlight Of a beauti-
full winter. They captured and confined
him In an envelope. Arriving at the ho-
tel, and being released from his yellow
dungeon, he stepped gayly forth and or
dered bunch of celery for his supper.
Being strangers hereabouts, several of the
gentlemen were somewhat surprised when
the gay and rollicking old grasshopper.
shouidcred his hind leg, as if it was a
crutch, and broke out singing "The
Sword Of Bunker Hill" For good time
grasshopper.-Noaroich Comm Bulletin.
John Wilson brought to this Office
yesterday an ancient curiOsity-curious
from its age and the position in which it
was found, rather than from its appear
ance. The object referred to is q stone,
oval shaped, about two inches long and
one inch in width; around the Longitude.
nal and latitudinal centers slight groove
is cut, as though it had at some time been
tied to some object with string, in the
manner Of an arrowhead. The stone was
taken from an oak tree recently cut down
at Holden; the tree made thirty four cords
Of wood. This curiosity was found in .
ground, where the diametrical measure
ment was six feet The wood was solid
above, below and around the stone, with
tbs nveoovNfirs, "A al ,so1,