The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-07-13
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS,

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Folly soon wears her shoes out.
Men who win love must do their own
Wooing. F#
One horn of the Indian dilemma
Big Horn.
. Diet for training baseball players
Batter pudding.
Too many friends hurt man more
than none at all.
What holds all the snuff in the
world? No one nose.
| "A Connecticut farmer finds guinea
hens the best potato-bug destroyers he has
tried.
Don't kiss your dog. A woman in
kGermany died the other day, and died of
a mouth disease contracted from the
poodle.
To give employment to honest and
worthy people, and to hold them to rigid
accountability, is the best and truest be-
nevolence.
| Henry V. belts are the lat est feminine
freaks in that line. They are probably so
called because it costs Henry a V every
time his wife purchases one.
| The Modesto (Cal.) Herald says that
those who purchase blackberries of China
men have the consolation of knowing that
they use their boots for pals.
-Helmbold went insane, and now DR..
Aver is a lunatic. It is too much strain
on mans nerve tissues to try to cure ev-
erything for dollar.-Erc1anQe.
"A Minneapolis lady found little
package that contained seventeen dia.
monds secreted in desk which had once
belonged to her great grandfather.
When the Mexicans find a man in
their midst who does not want to start q
revolution, they Immediately brand him
as traitor to the principles of his coun-
try, and hang him.
A man never really understands the
doctrine of total depravity till he has
worn pair of white pantaloons to pic
mic and sat down on plate Of custard
pie.-Noyaoich Bulletin.
Well tell you story of Bill John.
sons dory which tried to go cross the
Atlantic; if the dory'd been stronger, this
story'd been longer, but 'twouldn't have
been half so romantic.-N. Y. Graphic.
Gentlemen, remove your hats and lis.
ten to the Philadelphia Buhetin's latest.
On conspicuous page, in a conspicuous
column, it says: "The comedian Hack
ett's widow is something of Hacket-
tress.''
The watering place hackman has
been incontinently snubbed at Saratoga.
The trustees of the village have passed an
ordinance prohibiting the running of pub
lie carriages except in connection with the
hotels.
An English snob, visiting the Phila-
delphia Exhibition, saw "great sale
of domestics" advertised in the news.
papers. Bless my cart" said he, "hi
thought they'd habolishcd slavery ERE,
you know"
-" Ma" exclaimed Chicago young
ster, as he gazed longingly into bakery
window, "wllat nice, pic-ous men bakers
are, amt they?" The mother Immediate.
ly invested in enough pastry to shut the
child's mouth.
"A high toned tramp managed to run
up bill of $3.50 at Wizards Hotel the
other day, but he was caught sneaking out
OF the back door, carpet bag in hand, was
exhibited to the crowd, and then bid to de.
part on condition that he would leave town
by the first train.
"A market woman living near Read
ing, Pa, has curious suit against rail.
road company. While going to market
with her goods in that city, a spark from
locomotive set her basket on fire, de.
stroying her butter and eggs, for the value
of which she intends to sue the CON-
pany.
After four years of almost intense and
constant suffering, Thomas Bartlett, of
Waterford, an amateur base ballist, has
paid the penalty of his ambition with
death. He was struck in the knee at the
time mentioned with bat thrown by a
careless player; bad swelling was the
result and the pain ended only with his
death.
Near Poughkeepsie, N. Y, is COT
.tonwood or swamp poplar tree, recently
felled, which measures 1875 feet in height,
six feet two inches in diameter two feet
from the ground, where it was cut off;
four feet six inches in diameter thirty feet
from the ground, and each of its large
limbs was a large tree in ITSELF Its rings
show it to have been only sixty five years
old, and the person by whom it was trans
planted is said to be now living.
"A North Adams (Mass.) man, whose
suspicion of real estate investments had
caused him to put his spare capital into
the savings bank, where the interest would
be sure, became so demoralized the other
day by the heavy failures that he deter
mined to trust no one but himself, and
rushed into the bank, threw down his
book, and demanded his money. The
cashier, with $25 900 in bills behind him
in anticipation of run, after a minutes
calm figuring, handed him out the balance
due, just sixty cents.
The Hartford Times of recent date
says: "Something has been said of
scene which happened. during the baptis-
NAL service at the Universalist church on
Sunday, June II, when beautiful white
cling round two or three times, alighted
upon the shoulder of little boy. The
incident, a peculiar one, and one which
was feelingly alluded to at the time by
Rev. Mr.. Skinner, the pastor, has been
made the subject of some skeptical COM
ment by persons who supposed it was a
preconcerted affair. They err in such q
supposition. The incident did occur as
stated, and what renders it more peculiar,
is the fact that the grandfather of the boy;
few minutes before the dove appeared,
in listening to the clergyman, began to
consider, mentally, the question whether
the baptismal service was really accepta-
BILE to heaven, and, if it was, to wonder
why no visible sign might not be given,
as was done to John and the assembled
multitude when Christ was baptized and
dove descended. A few moments later
this dove did actually appear, as stated.
Regarding the two facts simply as coinci-
dences, it is at least curious coincidence.
The boys mother was alarmed and afflicted
at such a seeming sign, but she had no
cause to apprehend any evil"
National Democratic Convention.
FIRST DAY.
The delegates to the Democratic National
Convention assembled in the st. Louis
Chamber of Commerce, at noon on the 9th,
and ,uara callad to order INV Hor, A,1n sf,,a