The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-07-20
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS,

to law about pair OF Maltese kittens.
I'm institutions for the insane the ratio
of admissions to recoveries is said to an
nually increase. - i
NO one can afford to be Indifferent to
tina walfara~ Of others, for his own is de-
pendent upon it.
-Tace predicts an earthquake: Those
who believe in him will henceforth make
their habitations in tents.
1t costs twenty years. imprisonment
now in Connecticut to poison a well, Of
bind and rob bank officer.
Miss Thackeray says that rather than
keep dinner waiting people break off their
talk, their lives, and their prayers.
Conway, Mass, has forty eight sheep
and forty-two dogs. 1t is apprehended
that the balance Of power will not remain
with the sheep.
The English War Office reports thir-
ty-two officers still living who took part
in the battle of Waterloo. Yet this battle
was fought sixty-one years ago.
The Creator implants in all boys likes
and dislikes for various pursuits, and it is
useless for man to struggle against their
feelings and disgusts.-Erchoage.
Prof. johnson says from ninety five to
ninety nine per cent. of agricultural plants
derive their entire mass (weight) directly
or indirectly from the atmosphere.
The population of Westminster, Pa,
by recent census, is found to be $3.50,
gain of 1000 since 1870. There are two
females to every male in the venerable
town.
This must have been shadowy affair.
Thn RoSto,, dlaho fashion, h1o
wedding took place last evening at St.
PauPs Church in the presence Of nearly
$50 invited guests
Florida shipped eleven tons of Gu.
cumbcrs on one day. An eminent statis-
tician figures out the deduction that they
contained stOmach-ache enough to initiate
Prof. Kings biggest balloon.
George Eliot was wise of speech when
she said: Half the sorrow Of women
would be avertcd if they could repress the
speech they know to be useless = nay, the
speech they have resolved not to utter"
The laurens County Is. c. Grand
Jury reported the clerks books all cor
rect, but citizen, who had mortgaged his
house for 81 ,O01, was surprised to find it
recorded as pledged for the payment of
$1,o0O,0o1.
The army of Greece is tremendous
thing. The cavalry branch of it is said
to consist of eleven men, nine horses and
'bus-not blunderbuss, but an Omni-
bus. When Greece takes up gun Europe
lies down behind log.
"A Chicago surgeon called in the night
to perform an operation, put the necessary
instruments in bag and started. A pc.
liceman stopped him, examined the con-
tents of the bag, refused to believe that
they were not burglars tools, and arrested
tue surgeon.
Genius leaves the water in the wash
basin. Genius never shuts gate or q
door. Genius borrows small sums of
money, never to return them. Genius
its keys and spectacles. Genius uses other
is often poet Genius is incapable of
a book clean. Genius always leaves q
litter on somebody's desk. Genius is q
grown baby that disarranges everything.
Genius is systematic only in bad manners.
Genius faults are ascribed to eccentricity.
Genius would be happy, but his selfish.
ness won't let him alone. Genius, in an
advanced state of civilization, would be
stamped to death by an Infatuated mob
Courter-Jourm
The sea-serpent has been seen again,
this time in tropical seas, and his appear
arce was noted by the passengers and
between Bombay and Alden. According
to an account by passenger, this oceanic
reptile has grown familiar and sportive
O., 10. rI In oil 1n
the vessel on this occasion, and seemed
disposed to come on board, but finally
contcnt.d himself with raising his head
some thirty or forty feet out of the water,
and wiping his nose on the topmast,
which made the vessel sway as if a water.
spout had struck it. The eyes of the
monster were distant apart at least three
feet, and the eye-balls, which scintillated
constantly, were four or five inches in di.
ameter. When he lifted his head up to
the height before mentioned, only his
neck appeared, so it was supposed that he
had number of square rods of body still
under water. This king of the water
snakes must be a splendid navigator and a
rapid traveller. He has undoubtedly been
wintering, like sensible serpent, in the
warm waters of the Indian Ocean, and
may be looked for at Newport and other
fashionable watering places very soon
N. Y. Graphic.
The Meriwether (Ga.) Vindscator re-
lates as follows the adventures of steel
trap: "Mr. Mark Crpwder, who resides
a few miles south Of Greenville, has a
small steel-trap which he placed in his
chicken house several months ago to catch
the minks that were troubling his poultry.
One or two minks being caught Ivy it, the
trap disappeared without any one on the
place being able to explain the cause. A
week or ten days after the trap was missed
the dogs caught and killed mink in the
swamp near Mr.. Crowder's dwelling that
had the missing trap fastened to one of
his legs. After the minks, the owls be-
coming troublesome, Mr.. Crowder placed
the trap upon the top of tall pole, owls
usually alighting upon the tallest object
in the vicinity when meditating descent
upon the poultry yard. Ten owls were
caught by this arrangement, when the trap
again disappeared. About week after
ward Hal Crowder, who lives three miles
from his father, Mark Crowder, heard an
unusual commotion in his poultry house
Repairing thither he found an owl in the
house, which, on being killed, discovered
the missing trap fastened to one of his
feet. MIR. Crowder has his trap again"