The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-04-06
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


man William Penn.
Hard times are the times In which to
be generous instead Of mean.
He who lives with but the thought
that he must sometime die 10 the craven
slave Of dependency.
-Pennsylvsnia herself b going to have
State building on the Centennial grounds,
If $4,000 will build it.
The Reueils says there is . gentleman
In Austin who is so noted for his reserved
manners that nobody ever saw him dis
play any.
1T was Archbishop Whstely who an
nounced that Noah's ark was made Of go
pher wood, while Joan Of Arc was maid
Of Orleans.
What was once the famous Island
No. TO-" in the Mississippi River, is now
a very small patch Of ground, and that
will soon dissolve.
-Mother-Charlotte, how do you like
your new teacher? Charlotte she's
q splendid teacher; she don't care wheth-
er we know our lessons or not.
MIR. Edw in Booth has been offered
$4,000 in gold for twenty performances
in San Francisco, by the managers of
Wade's Opera House in that city.
in Canon City, COL, a man can't take
. couple of broken chairs to the cabinet
shop for repairs without hearing such Inn.
putations as: "Hit you with chair, did
she!"
"A good disposition will carry a man
through a private party, make him hold
plate Of refreshments on his knees, full OF
stuff he does not want to eat, and yet say
he is happy.
An old cannon of revolutionary fame
that has for the past thirty years lain in
the Penobscot, between Orono and Web
ster. Me-, will soon be taken up and sent
to Philadelphia.
The suicide of murderers is becom-
ing frequent. If men capable of doing
| murder would only kill themselves before
they kill anybody else, much trouble and
expense would be saved.
-" Max wants to know how he may
break through the conventionality which
compels him to leave his girl at halt. past
ten. Give minister $3.50 and tell him
to put stop to it.-Erchange.
"A Waterville girl worked the motto,
Il need thee every hour" and presented
it to her chap. He says he can't help It:
1t takes him two hours to milk and feed
the pigs, morning and night, and business
has got to be attended to.
Miss Mary J. Smith, young and
prepossessing woman residing in Bedford
avenue, New York, has sued florist for
5000 damages alleged to be sustained
| by kiss which he gave her while in the
act of pinning flowers on her dress.
"A Hoboken young man pretended to
have the smallpox in order to see what
his true love would do. She didn't fly to
his side to nurse him and iron his fcvcred
brow, but went right off and engaged her
self to the owner of one-horse grocery.
Victor Hugo preserves blot on his
carpet caused by the upsetting of his ink
stand just as he had finished one Of the
most celebrated chapters in Lies Misera-
bles." So man might always cherish q
had been kicked all the way down stairs.
ment.-Detroit Free Press.
-" JOHN" said dying Danbury
woman to her husband, II am going fast.
may not be able to speak to you again,
but want-you to (her breath came short
here)-remember- that-you--cant- tilt
back-in-those They
ain't-strong-." There was a quick
nervous twitch of the face, gurgling in
the throat, and the sick one was gone.
The boy stood near a broken shaft,
and bitter tears he shed; we eyed the
youngster fore and aft-his eyes and nose
were red. He looked the picture Of dis
this unhappiness; his voice came sad and
low, and while the lad in tears relates the
story, we are awed. Said he, II bought
pair Of skates, and now it's gone and
thawed."
When you 60 to theatalr, where a
fussy young ushalr, with centrally parted
hair, and flowers in coat COLLAR, seats you
in chair, which belongs to anothair,
who comes late in great angair, and with
eyes of lurid CLAIR, calls you an intrudair,
rush to the managair, and after gushing
swair, he'll scalp that young ushair, with
collair.-AHo California.
Red Cloud says: "Many moons have
gone since the pale faces promised food
and blankets to the red men. The prairie
rose has bloomed and faded, the snow has
whitened the lofty pine tops, the violet
almost buds again, and still the white
men tell US to hunt the infrequent buffalo,
or arouse from his lair the vicious chip
munk. Brothers, the red man has suf-
fered much, and I'll be hanged if it amt
time to raise few scalps."
The Lansing Qowa) N;rror relates
this horrible affair in Allamakee County
"A man named John Osell, living in Vii.
]age Creek, came home, the other day,
and, not finding his dinner ready, in.
quired the cause. His wife, who was
peeling potatoes at the time, gave him a
rather short answer, when he seized an
axe standing hard by, and, while the un
suspecting woman's back was turned to
him, he struck-out for the wood pile and
chopped nearly halfa cord OF wood before
dinner was ready"
About two years ago, James Samson.
President of the Peoples Bank, Monon.
gahela City, sold four year-ol horse to
q gentleman living beyond Youngstown,
o., and by him it was sold to another gen.
tleman, having in the transfer travelled
over 200 miles by rail, and changed own
ers twice. On New Years day strange
horse was recognized by the people about
the Samson farm, and efforts were made
to drive it away. The horse acted excep-
tonally. neighing and whinnying when
any of the family came about, and it was
finally recognized as the horse sold two
years before. This animal had travelled
ZIG miles, after an absence of two years,
in search of his old home, which he
found, too, with that unerring quality OF
mind which people call instinct. -Monon.
gahela Republican.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marsh Before the In
vesttgatfng Committee.
| WARRINGTON, March "A.
Mrs. c. p Marsh, who arrived this
morning, came into the room of the Com
mittee on Expenditures in the War De
partment to-day, accompanied by her hus
band. She was sworn as witness, and
under the examination of Mr.. Danford
testified that she left Cincinnati in 1856
where she had formerly resided, and haI
lived in New York most of the time sine,
that year. She had known Mrs. Bowers
(now Mrs. Belknap), since 1850, and hat
been at the same hotel with her in Gin
cinnati for four. years. Cincinnati wa
her home, and she visited that city twic'
q year, staying there two or more weeks