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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-01-06
DEGRADATION OF q French Oficer.

A Paris dispatch to the London Daily
Ne,os says: 1.-THE military degradation
of Lieut.. Maurin, who has been sentenced
to ten years. penal servitude for nine rob-
berries, one of which was aggravated by
house. breaking, took place on Saturday
1T Toulon. The convict is described as
tall, finely-b built, handsome man of twenty
six. His military antecedents are highly
honorable. He was promoted from the
ranks for his heroic conduct at Woerth
and Wissembourg, but he seems to have
been Is thievish as maybe, stealing
money, trinkets, spoons, forks, pipes,
snuff boxes and cigars whenever he had
an opportunity, and boarding them In his
quarters. Before the trial he twice at.
tempted to escape from Forts Care and
Lanharque aud dlslocatel his ankle in
Jumping from wall. Being unable to
walk he was carried into the barrack- yard
for degradation. A Sergeant tore off his
epaulets. Being popular in the regiment
his comrades were most painfully affected
g his sword was broken. No private Of
fered 70 kick him, but when handed over
to the civil authorities the gendarmes,
SITTER slipping on the handouts, dragged
him along to prison.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-01-06
Copper In the Human Organs.

Some recent experiments made by NM.
Bergeroo and L'Hote demonstrate the
presence of traces Of copper in the human
body. The fact that copper, when intro
duced into the system through the ALI
mentary canal, accumulates in the liver
and kidneys, served as starting point for
their inquiry. These organs were ana
lyzed in fourteen cases, whose history
made it practically certain that no copper
compounds had been swallowed for con-
siderable period before death. They were
invariably found to contain traces Of the
metal, varying in amount from quantity
incapable of being numerically estimated
in young man of seventeenth one of
two milligrams, this latter in the case of
the body Of man aged seventy.eight The
conclusion is that when the total mass of
the liver and kidneys contains more than
three milligrams Of the metal, 1t must
have been introduced into the system in
unusual quantity. The traces normally
present are attributable to such accidental
causes as the use of copper utensils, which
are SO generally employed in the prepare
ton of food; the greater part OF this is
eliminated, but minute trace of the
metal is found In the liver and kidneys,
and this is true whatever the age, sex or
mode Of life.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-01-06
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

A steel trap set in store in Belfast
revealed the following morning the two
fore legs OF rat, firmly graspod The
animal had gnawed off both legs and
made his escape.
AT Rochester, N. Y, few days ago,
a little girl four months old was smoth-
cred to death in its mothers arms during
a sleigh-rlde. Life was crowded out by
the very means adopted to secure its pres
ervation.
"A pauper ran away from the Polk
County (Iowa) poor house, the other night,
and both his feet were so badly frozen be-
fore morning that they had to be ampu-
tated. That's the treatment poor fellow
gets out in the cold, cold world.
"A young girl named Kightlinger, of
Plum, Venango County, Pa, was terribly,
II not fatally burned, recently, by a boy
named Welsh, who, for fun, took a shovel
full OF Goals from the stove at school and
threw them among bevy of young girls.
Mary. Ogle committed suicide at
Pittsburgh, Pa, few days ago, by throw
ing herself in front OF an approaching
locomotive. She was struck by the engine
and thrown over convent wall, about
forty feet high, and instantly killed. As
the train was backing up to pick up her
body the rear Car struck an old man who
was walking on the track, and passed
over him, killing him instantly.
The crowd of people at the Pittsheld,
Mass, depot on the arrival of the six
night were Mortified at thessight of the
mangled body of woman Ton the plat
form in front of the engine. A Mrs.
Cruikshank, aged sixty years, had been
struck and instantly killed by the train
about half mile from the station, and
was brought in without stopping the cars.
The jailer at Henderson, KY, from
whose custody sixteen prisoners recently
escaped, committed suicide at his own
house few days ago. He took the de-
depressed afterward, fearing public sus-
picion that he aided the convicts. He
settled up all debts in the morning, in
sisting on paying them, but assigning no
particular reason for so doing. He went
straight home, and, going into an upper
room, pistol shot soon told of the deed.
Michael Carney, Cincinnati stereo-
typer, had terrible fall the other after
noon from the top of story building
through hatchway to the street floor He
had gone to the hatch with the stereotype
plate in his arms to send it down. The
gas had been turned off and it was dark
there. He had no idea, it seems, but that
the elevator platform was up. By habit,
knowing it ought to be there, he stepped
out-and down! 1t was trightful fall,
past four landings, until he struck on the
platform at the street floor. The plate
was broken-the man was not. Subse-
quent medical examination showed that
he was not seriously injured.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-01-06
An UnimprisOnable Celestial.

They have caught Chinaman in Cali
fornla who is great puzzle to his keep
ers. His name is All Cow; he is thief
and they are trying to keep him in Jail.
They thought they had him in safely
locked cell one night, but the next morn
ing the cell door was open and All Cow
was gone. They caught him and put him
under stronger lock and key. The next
morning the door was open and Cow was
again gone. This time he left behind him
on the Jail floor the key to his escape. It
was wooden key which he had carved to
fit the lock. After some days he was, by
the assistance of some of his own country
men, caught and again Gagged. He was
deprived of knives and wood, and the
jailers thought they had him. They in
terviewed him next day to see how he was
employing his time. He had another
wooden key nearly ready to fit the lock,
and could soon have been out of his cell.
Digging through some brick-work he
found planking, tore off strip, sharpened
his long finger nails by whetting them
upon brick until they cut keenly as a
knife, and thus had almost carved his
key. The Sheriff cut his claws, hand
cutfed him, manaclcd his ankles, attached
to him sixty-pound ball and chain, and
locked him in perfectly dark cell. Now
they thought they had All Cow sure
enough. Not so. In a day or two the
jailer heard suspicious noise in the
neighborhood Of the Celestial felon's cell.
He went to see about it. Opening the cell
door, there stood All Cow, sweetly "child-
like and bland" his hands and feet free,
his sixty pound ball laid away quietly in
a corner and pile of bricks and mortar
all around him. He held in his hard
brick ready to heave at the intruder's
head, but the jailer did not wait. All
Cow had dug hole through the brick
wall of his cell almost large enough to let
him go; and in ten minutes would have
been gone. He was moved to another
cell, and still more heavily ironed, but his
jailers never know whether they have their
Celestial guest or not. There seems to he
no way OF preventing him from tearing
down the jail over their heads. He is as
bad as apowder magazine, and there's no
knowing when he may blow breaches in
the walls The jailers can think of only
one other way of holding him, and that is
to stand watches over him, holding pis-
toll at his head. His countrymen say he's
bad Chinaman. and they too have an
interest in keeping him locked up, if the
thing can be done.-St. Louis Republican.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-01-06
PERSONAL AND LITERARY. :.

& -Bayard Taylor says that Mark Twain's
wit is only skin deep. q.
Hon. Reverdy johnson expects to re-
turn home from England next April.
II MIR. Thomas Ball has been selected to
make . statue Of Senator Sumner for the
city of Boston. ~27s-.-.-." Sf'-- =, >' .'''
-Ex.Speaker Blaine was in early life
Professor of Mathematics in Drennon
College, Kentucky.
Bret Harte is printer by trade. Ten
years ago, it is said, he was working at
the case On the Pacific coast.
Paul Boyton wants National Con-
vention to discuss the swim question, and
calls on the press to set the matter afloat.
Edward G. Marshall, the only living
child OF Chief Justice Marshall, of the
United States Supreme Court, is clerk
in the Interior Department in Washing
ton.
The late Amasa Walker was quite
successful as practical financier, what
ever may be thought Of his theories, as he
lett property amounting in value to $72,-
200.
= Senator Dawes is still suffering from
the injuries sustained by the kick of a
horse several weeks ago. 1t is feared
that he may be MANNED for life. AT pres
ent ne is in Washington attending to his
duties.
The wife of Houston, the chief en-
gineer OF the steamship Pacific, who lost
his life while trying to save the women
passengers of the Inflated vessel, has be-
come insane from grief a; the death of her
husband.
vice President Wilson's private Sec
rotary has possession of all his notes and
material for the concluding chapters of his
" Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in the
United States" and will at once finish the
last volume.
-Ex-Senator Nye, the Salt Lake Trib-
u,ae says, has recovered his health suffi.
GENTLY to permit his removal from the
asy lum for the insane, where he has for
some time been staying, and his friends
now have hopes of his complete re-
covery.
Vice President Wilson, according to
the Banner Of Light, visited a spiritual me.
dunn in Boston about three weeks before
his death, and held communication with
his dead wife and son, who informed him
that he would soon be sick, and warned
him to be extremely cautious in regard to
mental labor, or he would speedily come
to their side of life.
MIR. c. A. Perkins, the husband of
the Princess Isabelle of Bourbon. con-
demned year ago by the French courts
to a years Imprisonment and to two
years "holding of the body" for debts
which the courts decided were contracted
under false pretenses, has lust finished
his year at st. Pelagie and been transferred
to the Conciergerie, there to submit to his
two years. Imprisonment for the debt, if
the creditor. who has to pay his board,
does not sooner release him.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-01-06
Character in Calllxrsphy.

At q recent meeting of the Psychologi.
cal Society of London, the Vice. President,
Mr.. G. Harris, read . pager ON {" Callig.
raphy as Test of Character" After
commenting on the variouA modes by
which character Ia exhibited, and upon
tho infinite diversities of handwriting, the
author proceeded to point nut the .pecul.
iaritles Of the latter which display the
distinctive qualities of the writer. His
theory was illustrated by the exhibition of
number of original autographs, includ-
ing those Of Napoleon l., Wellington,
Nelson, Brougham, Horn Tooke, Southey,
Cowper, Sheridan, Goblet, Bulwer Lyt-
ton and Charles Dickens, the contrast be-
tween the writing of the last two being
especially dwek upon. A lively discus
sion, we are told, followed the reading of
the paper. :.
There is no gainsaying the fact that
character may be read from handwriting,
but not by any means from all handwrit-
ing. In the first place, there must be
character in the writer, and among the
millions Of mankind who use the pen
there are lamentably few marked and dis
tinctive individualities. The multitude
Of people have no aim but to be copies of
each other, to do and to be in every event
of life just like their fellows. 1t is i'm
possible to expect from these handwriting
that will show anything save an absence
of character. Hence It is that the idea
universally prevails that mere calligraphy
means nothing. Nevertheless it does con-
vey great deal of meaning. The old saw
that "Straws show which way the wind
blows' finds just application in this as
In many other things, and masterful traits
fho,oco1x-o, IN ffn T.
every other act of human being.
When you see notably prominent,
vigorous, reckless style of calligraphy you
may be pretty sure that the writer is
person of bold, daslling, independent
disposition, that overrides all barriers and
thrusts aside all impediments. A pen
manship full of hourishes indicates a
character fond of ornament and addicted
to vanity. Crampcd writing and crowded
lines proclaim that economy, Perhaps
parsimony, is strong attribute of the
writer. A distinguished American scien-
fist whose passion is study with the micro
scope forms such minute letters when
writing that there is almost necessity for
using magnifying- glass to decipher
them. Is there nothing more than fancl-
full significance in the connection between
this mans writing and his dominant pas
sion?
1t requires training to interpret hand
writing, and very seldom is any attention
whatever given to the subject. Yet, when
once the mind has been led to it, there is
opened up an interesting and prolific
source of entertainment. Nothing is more
delightful, and it might be added more
novel, than to meet with a consistent,
complete and harmonious character that
expresses in all lis operations the SYM
metry and Wilderness Of Its nature. The
chirography of such character will be
clear, certain commentary, telling its story
as plainly as perfect picture or a piece
of sculpture. Chicago Tribune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-01-06
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

"A small town in Westmoreland
County, Pa, had two elopements in one
day lately.
Mayor League, of Memphis, is
charged by late clerk with gross miscon-
duct in Office, Incorporating moneys,
etc.
have strengthened, as race, by disper-
sion, and that they will not return en- nsasse
to Palestine. E'f
1t is feared that the horses entered
for the San Francisco ur-mile-and-
repeat race will die of old age before the
trOt comes of. ~
The Western Kansas papers are pre-
dieting that the passage of a herd law by
the Legislature would bring such an i'm
migration into Kansas as has never been
known. T
% -" Truth, indeed, is stranger than fric-
tion," .as the boy remarked after the
schoolmaster had rubbed him down with
a rattan for five minutes, for telling a
falsehood. .......
Women never truly command until
they have given their promise to obey !;
and they are never in more danger of be-
ing made slaves than when the men are
at their feet.-F0rqubar
Providence seems to watch over the
little man with big wife and teaches him
that one of the principal conditions of do
mestic tranquility is to always keep his
dander at low tide.-Brooklyn Argue.
"A Brooklyn bill collector who lad
been kicked off the front stoop BY
debtors wife explained his sensations by
observing that it wasn't so much the
quality Of the thing that astonished MIN
as the quantity.
A nice point for casuists has just been
raised in Montreal. Two men were quar-
reling on st. Francis Xavier street and a
knocked B down, whereupon horse,
alarmed at the struggle, kicked B on the
head and killed him. What is A guilty
of?
The managers Of the Direct Cable
Company suspect that their cable was
broken by some vessel, designedly, and
offer reward Of 5000 for the discovery
of the vessel that broke it. As it was
broken about ], 600 miles from land 1t will
need 70 be smart detective that earns the
reward. g
IN Baltimore, yecensly, . nan stood
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-01-06
Alligator.Hunting.

Alligator steak being a choice delicacy
in the lean larder of the South American
Indian, the hideous saurian IS hunted with
Zest for the pleasure of the sport and the
food it will bring. The common method
OF capturing the monster on the Madeira
and the Amazon, as described by Mr..
Keller, is with a simple pole and sling. A
strong loop of rawhide fastened to the
end OF long rod furnishes the Indian
with his sole weapon, and, seizing this,
he creeps through the shallow water near
the shore and slowly nears his intended
prey. The logy alligator regards the APP
preaching enemy with apathy, making no
movement indicative of life saving an oc-
casional lazy flap of the tail. ltholds the
apparition Of the redskin steadily in It's
eye, but with dull, unsuspicious curiosi
ty. As the fatal sling draws nearer and
more near it continues its motioniess
stare, as If under fascination, until sud-
denly the moose is over its head and
slipped tight with dexterous jerk.
Now the Indians hitherto waiting on
the shore rush to the help of their COM
panion, and, SEEING the pole, drag the
ugly monster to the land. The struggles
OF the brute are furious, and it lashes the
sand with its powerful tail and shows the
jagged rows OF its cruel teeth; but, when
safely landed, a few vigorous strokes of
the ak on the skull and the tail prove an
etfectual quietus. "If," says Mr.. Keller,
from whom we borrow these incidents,
1.-THE alligator were only to rush forward
boldly to the attack of the Indians, they
would, of certainty, leave pole and sling
and run for their lives; but this bright
idea never seems tn occur to the uncouth
animal, and the strife always ends in
DEATH"
The first movement made with the
hunters knife is to cut out the four m usk-
glands that lie in pairs, one under the jaw
of the alligator, and one on the underside
OF the body near the beginning of the tail.
These glands are about an inch and a half
long and as thick as finger, and are
filled with greasy, brown liquid Of a
penetrating odor. Left in the body but a
few moments after death, they ruin the
flesh by ditfusing through ittheir offensive
faint.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-01-06

Pacific whalemen have made an inter
esting scientific discovery this season. A
few years ago they reached the whaling
grounds in August, only to be obliged to
leave them in September. This year they
remained until October and might have
delayed longer so far as danger from the
ice-p pack was concerned. They wentwith-
in eighty miles of the mouth of McKen-
zie River, where sailing vessels have never
been before, and say that steamer, aided
by the currents, might have gone through
to Baffin's Bay without ditaculty, and
thus solved the mystery of the Northwest
passage. They are unable to account for
this strange atmospheric change.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-01-06

N. Ev1NGER tells the Prairie Former
boys that the way to get into pair Of
tight boots Is to place piece Of writing
paper on the inside of the back of the
bootleg, letting it extend to the top and
tapping it over little, so that the paper
will not slip down.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-01-06

In the winter satisfaction lights the
deadly eyes Of fate; because then the
young mans fancy takes fatal turn
toward skates. ss
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-01-06

AN Alabama tAx-collector has been ar-
rested in Texas for embezzling e6O, 90
Nhlls " otaee,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-01-06
WEST AND SOUTH.

A VIOLENT earthquake shock was felt In
Richmond. Va, on the night Of the I'D.
The guests at the different hotels were SO
alarmed from the rocking of the buildings as
to assemble in the parlors en- deshabi1le, ready
to leave. The alarm was general, the shock
being felt tn all parts OF the city and citizens
leaving their domiciles in fright
The Governor Of Pennsylvania has par.
doned xingo Parks and several others Of the
miners convicted in Clearfeld County of
conspiring together for riotous purposes.
A SUIT in the Circuit Court at st. louis
against the Missouri State Lottery, managed
by Murray. Miller & Co., charging them
with usurpation Of their franchise and pray
ing for judgment of custer, was decided on
the ed against the defendants. An appeal
was taken to the Supreme Court.
An advance in railroad freights over the
different routes between the East and West
has been recently established.
The Executive Committee Of the Michigan
Agricultural Society, sitting ut Detroit, de-
cided to hold the State Fair five days, COM
mencing Sept. Is. The location was not
decided upon.
DISPATCHES received at San Francisco, Cal,
on the 2Sd from San Diego state that rev.
olution was in progress in Northern Next
CO. The Yagui Indians were in revolt, and
Gov. Pesquiera had levied special tax TO
carry on the war.
UNDER instructions from Judge knight, Of
the Circuit Court, Chief Of Police McDonoueh.
Of st. Louis, notified the msnapers Of the
Mfaanurf Cfake InffArv thof -, q, ..l1er !,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-01-06
BuRNxrr's COCAINE. See advertisement.
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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-01-06

Alexander Dumas denounces dandies
y corrupting insects,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-01-06

GENT1AN was our grandmother hobby for
tonic, and no bitter would be considered
complete without it; hence 1t enters int
nearly all. But experience has proved that
used A far better tonic is found In Gaarana
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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-01-06

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brated and popular medicines have effected a rev.
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