The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-03-23
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Corn for leap year planting" Pop.
corn.
A laxative man never thinks he says
much. Neither does any one else.
Now if any one asks you for any
thing. You can truthfully say, It's Lent"
Every town out West seems to be pull
ing up stakes and starting for the Black
Hills.
The milk of human kindness is, with
out doubt, the most condensed milk in ex-
istence.
"A London court is deep in the mazes
of divorce suit, in which the respondent
is ninety years old.
The deepest mine in Colorado is said
to be the Burroughs, in Alpine County,
which is down 9l5 feet.
"A lady thought it was the essence of
rose that made her hair white Jerrold
suggested that it might have been the es-
sence Of thyme.
1T pleases a woman to see man hold
plate of refreshments on his knee at a
party. He can't do it without turning in
his toes.-Danbury Ners.
London is excited over proposition
to name q new and important thorough
fare Washington avenue" as a Centen-
NAL tribute. 1t would be graceful.
The bell punch promises to become
one of the greatest reformers of the age.
A Philadelphia paper wants it introduced
in every public office in the land.
California saws that she is bound yet
to develop wealth of gold, silver, graz
ing lands, stock and products which will
make her the wealthiest propOrtionate
area of land upon the globe.
Boston was fifty -four years old on the
22d of February. The city was incorpo-
rated in 1922, 40 years after the incorpo
ration was first mootcd, and 113 after the
first failure to incorporate it.
If any one wishes to fish in the Con-
necticut river he must apply before March
Is to the Fish Commissioner for blanks,
on which he must record each day g catch,
and return them to the Commissioner at
the end of the season.
Capt. Willard Glazier, of Boston, in
tends to start from that city on the list of
next May for trip on horseback across
the continent to San Francisco and return.
11c Has CSllLudtCU IlloG liz WILL ICQulI0 six
months for the journey.
SO live that, like Charlotte Cushman,
there shall be no need for any one to go
around soliciting memorial and monu-
mental funds for you. Earnestness, dill
gence and economy in life will win not
only fame but funds. Chicago Journal.
1t is said that there is confined in q
Paris mad-house a printer, whose lunacy
takes mild though curious form. The
poor fellow was once foreman of a news
paper Office, and the demands for heads of
columns for advertisements, putfs, etc.,
have driven him crazy
"A young American lady who has en-
joyed the rare privilege of taking stroll
with the poet Tennyson, mentions in
letter to a friend that It seriously at.
fected the romance of the situation when
he paused during the walk to scratch his
back against gate-post-"
A little six-year-uld city boy went
into the country visiting. He had bowl
of bread and milk. He tasted it, and then
hesitated moment, when his mother
asked him if he didn't like it, to which he
replied, smacking his lips, " Y es, ms am
was only wishing our milkman would
keep cow"
A child afflicted with diphtheria in
! Pittsfield, Mass, was poulticed with large
Indian meal poultices, which, after being
used, were thrown out where dog and a
! flock of hens fed on the meal of which the
| pOultices had been made. Seventeen oil
the hens and the dog died, it is supposed
from poison absorbed into the poultice
from the diseased throat. The child re-
covered
On wet, miserable, foggy London
| day in autumn, harles Lamb was &C
costed by beggar-wonlan with, Pray,
sir, bestow little charity upon a poor
destitute widow woman who is perishine
for lack of food. Believe me, sir, l have
seen better days" $50 have l." said
Lamb, handing the poor creature shil
ling-"so have l. It's miserable day
Good-by, good by"
-"Have you any elm wood?" said a
seedy- looking customer to dealer in
wood. "Oh, yes.' was the reply; ''some
down at the wharf" The fellow bought
a log. The next day he duplicated the
purchase, and the day after: "What are
you doing with this woods' asked the
dealer. Every log is worth ten dollars
since the great elm tumbled down." was
the significant reply.-Boston Journal.
There is beautiful little bug O,
beetle in Peru, of brilliant gold color
called by the natives orO-quesdda, which
nestles in the heart of large golden lily
! peculiar to that country, whose bite OF
sting is as fatal ;s that Of the deadly cobra
of India. This lily is almost the only
flower in that tropic land that emits 8
perfume, and to smell of it Tin conse
quence of the presen &c Of this poisonous
and combativc insecD is almost cer.aiu
death.
Walt Whitman has been interviewed
at his home in Camden, n. j., by Phila.
delphia Times reporter. In reply to 8
question as to when his book would be
ready, and who was the publisher, Mr.
Whitman said: 1.-The book will be re adv
in about two weeks. I am having il
printed on my own account. None of the
publishers will take my writings. Ever
when l send them a magazine article
they always send it back | was telling {
friend the other day that was beginning
to grow proud of always having my writ
ings sent back. My only way is to print
the things myself or have them printed
in the newspapers. The short article.
sometimes make good things for the last
column of the editorial page, to be set in
small type; but it depends about as much
on the pressure of other matter as it doe.
on the merit Of the article whether it get.
into newspaper or not" "You mus
have had some experience in the newspa
per business; you seem to know its in.
and outs" said the Times reporter "Oh
yes" said Mr.. Whitman, "I'm an ole
newspaper man, and an old printer, too
| I've stuck type all the way from New
York to New Orleans. Yes, am pretty
| we'll posted in the newspaper business. )
Personal AND LITERARY.