The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-05-18
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Sense not ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
AN 1rishman gives as a reason WHY
Echo is of the feminine gender, that
"maybe it is because she always has the
last word"
TO reprove small faults with undue
vehemence is as absurd as to seek to re-
a sledge.hammer.
"A colored railroad porter of Chicago,
who has seen the Emperor of Brazil, Is
"clean disguised" with that potentate,
because he "don't wah nary damon
'tallI'
Lots of us folks would have acted for
A. Il. Stewart's estate for $500, 600 less
than was given to Judge Hilton, and thus
square halfmillion dollars more could
have been given to the roor.-Detroit Free
Press.
"A man is expected to hang to a strap,
but it has been decided by the Philadel-
phia courts that a woman who is thrown
down in horse car by a Jolt can collect
good round damages if she hurts herself
very much.
Can our weak women CARRY their
purses In their hands when silver comes
into general use? If the resumption of
specie payment should cause the abolition
OF this familiar horror, we will not have
suffered in vain.-Chicngo Tribune.
Among the seasonable hints the
Brooklyn Argus says: "Salt mackerel
Tor breakfast at this season of the year
clears the complexion. invigorates the in
tellect and imparts flavor to the mus
tache that will vanquish the most obsti-
nate odor of hair dye"
The honest agriculturists are crum-
bling bits of clod in their horny fingers,
wondering if they contain anything over
5000 grasshoppers' eggs to the peck. No
alarming discoveries have been made in
Iowa, but in Kansas they are tossing
nickels, where they have nickels, to see
whether they will flee from the 'hoppers
to come, or stick by their farms and trust
to Providence and the relief societies.
darlington HACK Eye.
"A petition presented to the General
Court of Massachusetts asks for the es.
Enlistment in that State Of park of five
or six square miles of every kind of sur
face, still partially covered with wood,
for forest conservatory. The idea is to
reserve this park in its primitive condi-
ton and to preserve in it the fauna and
flora of the State. The petition is numer-
ously signed, Cambridge and Concord
names being especially prominent on it.
The practice of allowing boys to
spend their evenings in the street is one
of the most ruinous, dangerous and mis-
chievous things possible. Nothing so
speedily and surely marks their course
downward. They acquire under cover of
the night an unhealthy state of mind,
vulgar and profane language, obscene
practices, criminal sentences, and law
less ami riotous bearing. Indeed, it is in
the street after nightfall that boys gener.
ally acquire the education and capacity
for becoming rowdy, dissolute, criminal
men. Parents, do you believe it? Will
you keep your children home nights, and
see that their home is made pleasant and
profitable ?-Church Union.
MIR. Thomas Carlyle has been heard
from on the subject of vivisectfon. He
says that ever since he was a boy, when
he read the accounts of Ma]endie's atroci-
ties, he has never thought of the practice
ofvivisecting animals but with horror. He
believes the report about the good results
said to be obtained from the practice of
vlviscction to be immensely exaggerated.
Even supposing the good results to be
much greater than Mr.. Carlyle believes
they are, and apart too from the shocking
pain inflicted on helpless animals, he
ing to tho operator that he would earnestly
wish the law on the subject to be altered
SO as to make viviscctiOn, when prac-
ticed by private individuals, an indictable
ctlensc.
Somebody must have played q stu
pendous first of April hoax on the New
York Ecening Post man to force such ut.
teraaces as these: "The man who plays
not his fault that he is so constituted as
Monkeys play similar pranks, and we
is not musical, and may be even annoying
in its harshness, but it is as much part
of the animal as his ears arc. In like
manner the practical joke is not the cause
OF idocy, but only symptom. The weak
ness Of mind which prompts its enact
ment, and makes it source of delight, is
like the long but ill-tuned car of the ass;
Its perceptions are not refined, but they
are very appropriate to the animal pos
sessing them"
"A threadbarc tatterdemalion applied
at the St. George Hotel last evening for q
nights lodging, and proceeded at once to
the registering of his name. The horri-
ned clerk followed the strangers pen and
saw him write 1.-THE Emperor of Brazil"
Then the man sat down on a trunk
checked for New York and began whis-
thing, mo One to Love-" Chief Jones
was notified at once. ACCOMPANIED by
Sergt. Buchanan, he rushed to the st
George, and, bowling profoundly to the
distinguished stranger, asked. care YOU
the Emperor Of Brazil, sir ?" "Not T."
replied the shabby man. "Why, then,
do you SO register your name :" /" Be-
cause l wish to travel incogntt0.' The
Sergeant had him by the neck in q min
ute, and be slumbercd in the Central
Detroit Free Press.
Every person should know how to as
certain the state of the pulse in health:
then, by comparing itwith what it is when
he is ailing, he may have some idea of the
urgency Of the case. Parents should
know the healthy pulse of each child,
since now and then person is born with
peculiarly slow or fast pulse, and the
very case in hand may be of such peculiar
ity. An infants pulse is 40; a child of
seven about eighty, and from twenty to
sixty years it is seventy beats q minute,
declining to sixty at four-score. A health
full grown person beats seventy times in :
minute, declining to sixty at four ocore.
At sixty, if the pulse exceeds seventy,
there is disease; the machine working
itself out, there is fever or Inflammation
somewhere, and the body is feeding ON it.
self, as in consumption, when the pulse il
quick.-Ezchange.