The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-08-03
MISCELLANEOUS ITEHk
Children never love bad men.

AISCELLANEOUs ITE1A
Children never lov, bud mon.
PROF. Peters has discovsred another I:
1T doesn't stop perspiration i bit il
think IF the Polaf regions. e
THE question of the hour: "How
highs the Thermometer"
-Grssshoppers are reported thick on
the Union Pacific Railroad.
-Firecrackers destroyed q ten.acre
grain field in Lehigh County, Pa.
American weather can change quick
er than Mexican can change his alle-
glance.
old friends are often lost sight of in
the efforts of some people to form new &C.
quaintances.
"A signal service station is to be estab-
lished on the summit of Greylock, near
South Adams, Mass.
The individual who broke the ice
with his maiden speech was ultimately
drowned in applause.
The word Sioux Ii pronounced a.
though spelled $780," and not sigh.
OK" as most Eastern people persist in call
ing it,
"A bee.sting, scratch or misstep will
send some men into eternity, while others
seem bullet proof, and may almost laugh
at any accident.
There are 10000 Turks in prison for
debt. The Sultan will probably relieve
them and enroll them in the army, pardon.
ing their Indebtedness.
-Forty-one guests of hotel in Omaha
were poisoned, some of them almost fatal
ly, by eating ice cream, the f1avoring sub
stance of which contained arsenic.
Bismarck took Turkish bath once,
and when he got through he said that ever
thereafter he should prefer going under
water-wheel and over mill-dam.
The Courier-Journal is of the opinion
that regiment of correspondents would
give the Sioux bad shaking up. They
would also shake up all the compositors
and proof-readers in the country.
William Emerson Baker, an eccen-
trio Massachusetts millionaire, has placed
in the hands of ex-Gov. CASTOR and four
other trustees farm containing fifty acres
of land and $50, 900 for the purpose of
founding college of cookery.
Since this warm spell began the
wheelbarrow tiend everywhere has con-
cluded to suspend operations. Even the
heavenly strains Of the hand organ are
mute in the presence of Old SOILS inten-
sity of indignation.-N. Y. Commercial
Advertiser.
Conventions are becoming fashion.
able. Brigham Young's wives have de-
cided to hold one for the purpose of com.
ing to an understanding rs to their course
in case of Brigham's ultimate death. 1t
Is understood that each goes into the con.
vention pledged to stand for her thirds.
"A St. Louis letter says: 1.-THE Board
twenty seven to three, has amended the
that it reads:
IL lines--1 inch.
SO inches-1 yard.
yards-1 St. Louis foot, etc.
"A correspondent writing from Macon,
Miss, to the Columbus Inder, says: I'VE
have in our town probably the strongest
man in the State. He goes by the name
of Wild Jimmy'-is a mctlium-sized,
compactly. built man weighing about 1870
pounds. have seen him lift a hOgshcad of
bacon out of the cars, and as for bale of
cotton, he handles it like he would a play
>hing
"A model in WOOD of the State of New
Hampshire has been constructed, and is
on exhibition at Concord. It is fifteen
feet in length, while the vertical scale is
1000 feet to an inch, five times greater
than the horizontal scale, in order to make
the smaller elevations noticeable. Tho
model is to be cOlored to show the geol.
ogy of the State, and will also have town.
ship lines, streams, railroads, etc., marked
upon it, and will be put in the museum of
the Agricultural College at Harvard.
We have frequently said that skirt
made with narrow box plated flounces,
headed with bias one bound top and bot
tom, and laid in three knife-plaits, one
just over the other, leaving the lower edge
flaring and the upper one caught down
between the plaits, was just the thing
needed in this country, but some one who
overheard us was mean enough to men,
ton it in Paris, and now the French peo-
pie have introduced it and are getting all
the credit of the idea.-No,7oich BuActin
An old bachelor at New Orleans tells
how he was deferred from committing
matrimony in the following way: "Think-
ing over the subject, and particularly of
the expense of maintaining a family. he
set the table in his lonely abode with
plates for himself and imaginary wife and
five children. He then sat down to dine,
and as often as he helped himself to food
he put the same quantity on each of the
other plates, and surveyed the prospect,
at the same time comparing the cost. He
concluded to remain single"
During the first half of every month,
while money is plenty with the miners of
Virginia City, sixteen gambling saloons in
that place never close. Three sets of deal
ers day and assistants keep the games
going without cessation. 1t became CON-
mon for restaurant and lodging house
keepers, grocers and others to sue the mi
ners for debt, and this gave the clerks Of
the mine companies SO much trouble going
to and from the Justices Courts with their
books, that an order was given to dismiss
any man on whose wages a garnishee was
placed. This rule has hurt the business of
the gamblers, because the miners are less
reckless with their wages.
One of the most extraordinary spots
visited on Sunday last, when the mercury
in the thermometer marked 1O4 in the
shade, was the "Stony Glove" or The
Notch" in the Shandaken range of the
Catskills. -Four Poughkeepsians passed
tnrOuSn Tie NOtcn NJ noon Oh the Jay
mentioned, and ten feet from the road.
way, where the mercury marked 100,
three Poughkeepsians stood in a little
group in rocky chasm where it was SO
cold that the breath of all became frosted,
and chunk of ice as big as an ordinary
hat was Clipped from the main bowldel
of ice in the chasm. This in July is ex'
traordinary, and yet ice is found in the
oil %1,o vo,,rG Dnasu1Lonooa:I
IN. ~ Ea0le.
Some Of the Favorite Lunar Studies.
There are two lunar spots which the Sc
lenographer regards with special favor,
because of the evidence they seem to give
of change. One is a crater lying on the
On called Sea- Of Serenitv which some