The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-02-10
HlSCELLANEOUS ITEMS,

MISCELLANEOUS ITEls. 4
TO hep warm-Keep a. furnace
I AIS well that dividends we'll, is !
new version of an old saying. b
-''Can you return my love, dearest
Juliar' "Certainly, sir. I don't want
1t, I'm sure"
Mushrooms weighing from six ounces
to two pounds each are staple article in
the Bakersfeld teal. )market Stsl J l
Sir Daniel Gooch, manager of the
Great Western Railway, hopes TO- be able
to run trains at the rate Of seventy miles
an hour soon.i sa@siSa n<. ts'@ rTstra Is ~-
. The editor of the Newport Neos
wants female correspondent he
says, who can fling golden gleamings
over the somber tints of lite."
"A New Bedford (llass.) poet recently
suicide for want of words to
fill up two lines ending in "flow'' and
wo." He concluded with Co." an in
adyertent rhyme accomplished by pistol.
If you want letter mailed in hurry
hand it to q friend ON the street who Is
holding hot argument He will put it
In his pocket and carry it around for three
months, and then hand it back for you to
freshen DIP the date. -.
Gov. Bedle. Of New jersey, goes one
step ahead of his contemporaries, and pro-
poses that every person convicted Of
bribery in elections or in securing the
passage of any law, shall be forever dis.
franchised, in addition to other penalties.
An important omission has been de-
tected in the 10th section of the English
Public of Health act. The word "but-
ter" has been omitted among articles that
may be seized and DESTROYED under amag.
istrate's order, if found 10 be unfit for hu
man food. So that bad butter may still be
sold With impunity in England.
1T is suggested by correspondent of
the New York Tribune that washing''
postage stamps would be impracticable if
the same ink were used for canceling
them that is used for printing them in the
first instance, 50 that any chemical used
the same time destroy the stamp.
The French and Germans have more
varieties of hash than we of staple dishes.
They have fried hash. boiled hash, baked
hash, boned hash, hash friccasee, hash
stuffed with ortolans, hash on the half
shell, hash au saturel, hash marmalade,
hash dumplings, hash fish balls, and sew
eral other varieties. II is very nice trussed
up this way, but the eater can never be
certain about its pedigree.
"A new style of rat has been imported
into this country from Africa. 1t is
called the "roof rat" 1t is an aristocrat-
ic kind of vermin, clearly in manner and
shapely in appearance. 1t affects the at
tics of houses, and is a relentless foe of the
rodent that consents TO occupy the sub
basement. 1t is believed that the "roof
rat" with its superior civilization, will
cxterminate the house rat and demonstrate
the Darwinian theory OF the ''survival Of
the fittcst."
How beautifully Nature has adapted
ner means to endsl How tenderly she
provides for the wants of the humblest of
her creatures! Darwin says that male
grasshoppers use their hind legs to fiddle
on the edge of their wings, and that the
best fiddler first succeeds in fascinating
the females. Behold how the industrious
spider spins her web, ana then masticates
Ter husband and filings his carcass out in
the backyard. Thus 1t is that the harmo-
MES of life swell the grand diapason Of the
universe, as it were.-N. 7. Graphic.
Some romping girls, says the Carson
(Nev. Appeal, were snow-baliing in and off
and about the capitol steps yesterday. One
of them held the ramparts and fusiladed
the attacking party with great effect. The
battle was carried on with much energy
on both sides, the girls shawls flirting
back and their cloaks flying in all dircc-
tions. These girls fired" girl.fashion-
the awkward, pump-handle style, but they
made some pretty fair shots. It's queer,
but the other sex always throw stone or
SNOWFALL just as if they we're left-han6-
ed in the right arm. A boy always leans
to one side when he throws, but a girl
bends over backward. And yet when
they grow up to be women they want their
rightsl
"A touching instance of fraternal af-
lection has just come to light in Cincin-
natl. An eccentric doctor died there a
short time ago, and an administrator was
appointed to settle up his estate. Among
the bills presented for liquidation was an
itemized account from brother of the
deceased which contained . charge of
$3.50 for three days time lost in attend
ing the funeral. 1t was probably nothing
but the bereaved gentleman's delicacy and
good taste which prevented him from put
ting in bill for the wear and tear on his
feelings, although as the estate was rather
small one, he perhaps knew that it
would not be competent to meet SO large q
demand. It is pleasure to be able to
add that this engaging mourner is one of
our Northern Ohio citizens.-L leoeland
Herald.
On the estate of Wodarg, in the neigh
borhood of Trepton, in Hungary, young
stork fell from his nest last spring and
broke his leg. The galnekeeper bound
up the broken limb, and fed the stork
with great care until the bone grew again,
and the bird was cured. Meantime the
stork had become SO tame that he always
came for his dinner to the kitchen of the
chateau. This practice he kept up even
after he was able TO fly to the meadows.
After the rye harvest, his parents and
brethren took their departure for other
climes, but he preferred to remain. One
day, during severe storm, he disappeared,
and no trace of him could be discovered.
After many days he was accidentally
found in disused room which had an
old fashioned fireplace. He was on the
hearth, and completely covered with SCOT.
He must have fallen down the chimney
on the day Of the storm. When found he
was in very forlorn condition, as he had
been in the room without any nourishment
whatever for thirty-four days. His neck
had become as slender as ones little finger.
At first he would eat nothing, but drank
an enormous quantity Of water. He is
now, however, once more completely re-
stored to heaath, and is more of pet
than ever on the estate. He flies around
the neighboring fields in the day time,
but never fails to return to his stall at
night.
IT is fact perhaps not generally
known, says the Oakland (Caf.) Nesos,
that there is firm doing business in San
Francisco who purchase the thousands Of
dogs slaughtered by the Pound-master Of
that city, or that may have been otherwise
killed, for which they pay forty cents
each. The carcasses are conveyed to their
mandatory at south San Francisco,
where the skins are removed and sold to
the tanneries, the hair taken off and re-
sold to plasterers, the hide tanned, made