The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-08-10
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
The prodigal sun-Old Sol.
-Frugality is the corner stone of pros.
pcrity.
Say nothing when nothing ought to be
said
About all that some people ever want
is to be let loan.
More poetry comes from disordered
liver than from inspiration.
"A lady has been found so kind-hcart-
ed and lazy that she will never beat an
egg.
Women will suggest a thousand ex-
cuses to themselves for the folly of those
they like.
If you want to have people claim you
as relative when you die, leave little
money behind you.
Lieut. Cameron says that the whole of
Africa is one vast slave field. The trade. is
increasing instead Of diminishing.
The nineteenth century doesn't seem
to climb along about its business near
as sprightly since the fast mail has
stopped.
The Big Horn country is white with
an alkali foundation that reflects the sun
horribly, and makes the region hot
place for soldiers to fight in.
In the ice factory at Galveston, Texas,
the workmen go about dressed in the
thickest wooden clothes as they move about
among the columns of solid ice.
"A total change of diet, with no mcdi-
cine, is recommended by the Professors of
Kings College, London, as an efficient
method Of treating nervous diseases.
The flies this season are equipped
with teeth, which is interpreted to mean
that, in the Judgment of Nature, the
American people are IA pretty tough set.
Very intellectual women are seldom
beautiful.-Neao Uoceu Register. Now
add, if you dare, that very beautiful
women are seldom intellectual. -L0uisrik
Courier Journal
joyment of rest and pleasure is to be at.
tanned only by real honorable labor, W.
should have fewer valctudinarians and
hypocOndriacs in the world
An old bachelor, who died recently,
left will dividing alfhis property equal
ly among the surviving women who had
refused him. Because" said he, "to
them l owe all my earthly happiness"
-"Gcn'l'men," exclaimed an old Con-
nccticut salt, as he graspcd the brawny
arm of Yale College oarsman, and called
the cOmpany's attention to its muscular
development, gcn'l'men, thar's intclleck
for yer"
An index of the increased number of
bankrupts in the East this year may be
CLEANED from the fact that the morning
toilets of the ladies at Saratoga are even
more costly and elaborate than they were
last year.
New York physicians say that many
of the children dying in that city every
summer might live if their parents would
occasionally change the little fellows
clothing, and give both children and
clothing bath.
"A gentleman with full forehead, who
has given the subject much thought, says
there's no more striking sight in the world
than that of pretty woman dressed in
mourning, bravcly defending the good
traits of the man whom she nagged into
the tomb
The demeanor of the playful fly on
these warm mornings continues study.
His terrific mental struggle between de-
sire for anatomical knowledge and dis
position to make square meal reminds
one of young lady meditating upon two
styles of hat trimming.
1T is difficult to explain some If the
great problems of Nature. 1t is estimated
that it takes eighteen centuries to form a
foot of coal, but it is well-known fact
that ton left out on the sidewalk will
usually shrink fifty per cent or more in
single night.
Some sanguine persons in Montreal
have organized a society known as the
"North American Union" whose object
is said to be the confederation of this
continent of North America in one grand
constitutional whole from the Atlantic to
the Pacific, and from the Arctic Circle to
the Isthmus of Panama"
The newest things in neck-wear are
the campai On neck-ties. They are white,
with the names of the Republican or Dem
ocratic Presidential nominees on each end,
and are calculated to save good deal of
time and trouble in finding out what q
mans political sentiments are. If you
wish to know his politics all you have to
do is to look at his neck tie.
The Postmaster General, sustained by
act of Congress, has declared unavailable
all letters and circulars relating to lotter-
les, and managers are given to understand
that the depositing of such letters and cir
culars to be sent by mail is an offense pun
ishable by fine not less than 800 or
more than $500. This applies to all lot
teries, whether authorized by law or not.
-Saratoga correspondents note new
style of walking adopted by the young Ia
dies there. 1t is called the "chicken
STEP" and is only used while passing along
the corridors or through the parlors of the
hotels. 1t consists of very many rapid ev-
olutions Or steps per minute, very similar
to duplex shuttle, the body elevated on
toes and inclined at an angle of forty-fiv
degrees.
AT the close of concert, willie a
young gentleman was struggling with his
hat, cane, overcoat, Opera-gla and his
young lady's fan, all of which he was
struggling to retain on his lap, sus-
picious- looking black bottle fell on the
fJor with thud. There" he exclaimed
to his companion, II shall lose my cough
medicine" There was presence Of mind
for you. List !.
"A transaction in stocks, not more dis
honest than passes for shrewdness in. Wall
street, has sent four men to prison in Lon
don. They organized the Eupion Gas
Company, announced fictitious sales Of
stock, and got it quoted in the Exchange.
Then they sold ''short," and, having all
the stock in their own hands, calculated
on an enormous profit. The principal
conspirator, Aspinwall, an old and hereto
fore honored London broker, has been SEN
fenced to a year of imprisonment. Anoth-
er, bank manager, gets the same; The