The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-08-24
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
"A cash customer-The tilttappet.

than the late lamented month.
Accommodating friend with fifty
dollar note is an ex-L-lent way of getting
rid of money.
If you dislike to say potato bug, it is
the iecemlineata. e'~'~ - 'ss' "ag:'sa~-- --"'-
He who buys for cash buys cheapest;
he can better afford to borrow money than
to buy on credit.
A. People forgive great mans faults
much more readily than they praise
small MANS virtues.
"A woman who makes practice of
borrowing quart Of milk usually makes
pint of returning it. .
The first entry on the books Of Ne
braska frontier organization reads: s" Re-
soloed, That there be no more Injuns.'
American railway fares are ahead of
the world for moderateness, and American
car arrangements beat the world for COM
fort.
One of the best velocipedists in the
world is Chicago letter-carrier. He does
all his travelling on the back of bicycle
"just as easy"
massachusetts is paying about three
quarters of a million annually for interest
on the debt incurred in the construction Of
the Hoosac tunnel.
The seasons summer suit grows old
and rusty. Autumn will soon be along
with the coat of many colors. Autumn is
the Joseph of the year.
A Central City (Col.) man keeps an
Indian scalp hanging upon the wall over
his desk, with club handy, so that he
can occasionally pound the thing and i'm.
agine it live lnjun."
The Supreme Court of Louisiana
seems to be in state of war with the
lower courts. Out of thirty nine cases ap-
pealed, twenty -nine have just been either
reversed, amended, or remandcd.
A new epidemic has made its appear
ance on the plantations in Cuba. it is
called "Beniber," and attacks negroes and
Chinese, but seldom the whites. The face
and feet swell very much, there is severe
palpitation of the heart, and death soon
ensues from sutlocation.
Making love at watering places and
camp meetings is delicious thing, but
the participants should remember that in
real life is found business instead of fir
tation, hard knocks instead of soft smiles,
work instead of dalliance, and corn beef
instead of jelly cake.-CAicago Journal.
"A very mean storekeeper of Eddy
stone, Ont, recently charged one of his
female clerks who had ridden into Co.
bourg with him, fifty cents for the use of
the buggy and fifty cents for lost time, but
the young lady had him fined twenty dol
lars and costs for carrying passengers
without license.
-"Pa,' exclaimed Elnathan Dorkins,
Jr., to his respected sire, "pa, what is the
difference tween elephant and a tree?"
MI Dorkings said something about both
having trunks, but was scornfully inter-
ruptcd by his offspring, who shouted,
cause the tree leaves in spring, and the
elephant leaves when the menagerie
leaves"
The Western Texas papers are still
hammering away for new State of West
Texas. The San Antonio Herald claims
that the original founders of the Texas
Republic stipulated that Texas should DC
divided into four additional States when
ever any section possessed sufficient popu-
lation for admission, and hints that this
time has now arrived.
The authorities took poor man from
Happy Hollow one day this week, and
sent him out to the Poor House. The
parting between the poor man and his
eleven dogs, which he distributed among
his sympathizing relatives, was affecting
in the extreme. We believe the man had
few children, too, but not enough to
make fuss about.-Burlington (Io,oa)
Haaokeye.
1T is now reasserted that the He'll Gate
explosion will take place early in Septem-
Der. Everything is ready at the scene of
operations, except the charges to be
placed in the borings. The only work in
progress at present is the pumping of the
water from the bottom of the shaft and
galleries. Between $4,000 and 10000
pounds of explosives will be required for
the blowing down of the roof and the pill
lars and walls which support it.
The Colorado decemlinedta, vulgarly
known as the potato bug, has been the in
nocent cause of a lawsuit in Syracuse, N
Y. A farmer whose potato plants were
covered with bugs purchased from drug
gist in that city a quantity of Paris green,
which he distributed over the plants as
far as it would CO. Then he patiently
awaited the result. A day or two later he
found that the bugs had all left the un-
sprinkied plants and had flocked over t.
those that were covered with Paris green,
which they were devouring with every ap-
pearance of delight. Then the farmer
brought suit against the druggist, who in
sists that his Paris green was the pure ar
ticle, and ought to have poisoned the bug
if it didn't. The only way he can account
for the failure is by the theory that the
bugs have gradually become Injured to ar
senic and cannot get along without it. Tho
case is not yet concluded.-Detroit Free
Press.
Senator Jones tells story, which he
probably will be greatly mortified to see
in print, of his experience with roulette
, wheel in San Francisco. 1t was twenty
eight years ago, and in those days Mr..
Jones was thrifty soul, not above Ego
ing into a gambling house to raise stake, -
as he finely expresses it. He had been
told by an experienced professional that
the safe thing in roulette is always to bet
against the pile, and he faithfully followed
his instructions. The consequence was
that he came very near being kicked down
stairs. The secret of it is that the gam
bier who manipulates the wheel uses a
small wire which raises either color at
will, and throws the ball upon the other.
When the flk Of hemoney, therefore, is on
one color, and small amount on the other,
the dealer will take care to win the large
sum and pay the small one. Senator Jones
was thus enabled to win by betting persis-
tently on the gamblers side.-Chscago
Tribune.
Il INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.
Ia little boy was attacked by three
water snakes in Connecticut, and wher
his father, who rescued him, came up, al
the snakes were wound around the child''
body
s-Zellao Wendemuth, one year ant
three months old, in Dorchester, Mass
died the other day from the effects of eat
ing fly paper. The little one suffered
| about ten hours. "''
a Baltimore lawyer killed himself be
cause it was too hot to live, and five min
utes afterward cool breeze .,sprang W
from the bay, running the thermomete
down twenty degrees. -
The fifteen-y ear-old daughter of 1