The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-03-01

kept for two or three days in fused
state, in order to expel the supersbundant
slkali and perfect the refining. This
paste is used not only to produce facti-
tiOus diamonds, hut, beside, other facti-
tiOus gems. of which it forms the basis.
SENSE AND NONSENSE.
Our OF sEAsoN-an empty pepper box.
THE day laborer must strike for hire
wages.
PEACEFUL sleep is the sheet anchor of
health.
GOETHE says that the key to history 10
enthusiasm.
How TO make time 60 fast: Use the
spur of the moment.
MERRY men are rarely witty, and witty
men are rarely merry.
A HOTEL is advertised as "kept by the
widow of Mr.. Brown, who died last sum-
mer on new and improved PLAN"
In some California towns man with q
standing collar is looked upon as a stand
ing insult until he is knocked down.
NEAR Malone, N. Y, is what they call
y line SCsIC, Will OuC uOOE OpCuAuS
into Canada and one into the Land of the
Free.
NATURE is a saving housewife. Out
of waste she creates new things. A pudding
is made from bread crumbs. From buried
leaves is born q violet.
THERE is an average of eight suicides
per week in the United States, and it's
better to reduce the population that way
than to 60 to'war.-Detrott Free Press.
A GERMAN looked up at the sky and re-
marked: II guess leedle it will rain
sometime pooty queek." 'Yees do, ehr'
replied an Irishman. "What business
have yees to purtend to know about Amer
iken weather, We furriner:"
1.-THE sentence of the Court is" said
Judge Porter, q popular Irish magistrate,
to a notorious drunkard, "that you be
confined in Jail for the longest period tho
the time in cursing whisky" BE jab-
ers will, ana Porter, too" was the an.
swer.
An Irish glazier was putting pane Of
glass into window, when a groom who
was standing by began joking him, telling
him to mind and put in plenty of putty.
The Irishman bore the banter for some
time; but at last silenced his tormentor
with: "Arrah, now, be off wild We, or I'll
put a pain in yer head without any
putty"
A SINGULAR legal decision has been rem
dered at Los Angeles, CAL, where dam
ages were assessed against the defendant,
who had agreed to loan q certain amount
of money to the plaintiff at stipulated
time, but who, 0hen the time arrived, re-
fused to comply with his contract, where
at the plaintiff suffered great inconven;.
ence and expense.
'"WHAT is going on in the next room,
waiter ?" asked staid committee man at
q leading hotel the other night. They're
haxin' little game there, sir" respond
ed the attendant, and just then somebody
in the apartment referred to bawled
Pass the buck" at which the good
mans face cleared and he said: Oh,
see; q venison supper" and the committee
business went on.-B2st0n Commercial
Bulletin.
AFTER Detroit small boy had leaned
up against wall for two full hours yes.
terday policeman asked if he was wait
ing for any one in particular. .'Waitin'
for runaway to come along, !" replied the
boy. You want to see team run away,
do your 81 want to see q truck team
come zippln' along here, hit that peanut
stand in the middle, and while the sympa-
thetic public are picking up the italian I
want to be picking up the peanuts" was
the frank reply. The officer decided to
enforce the twenty second joint rule, and
the boy was made to move On.-Detr0it
Eres preea
FRENCH ingenuity has invented q
method Of controlling the most fractions
horses without any exerti0n on the part Of
the driver. The horse Of the future is not
to be driven by ordinary reins, but by
goodman is to have under his seat an
works by means of q little handle. One
wire is carried through the rein to the bit,
and another to the crupper, 80 that cur
rent once set up goes the entire length of
the animal along the spine. A sudden
shock will, we are gravely assured, stop
the most violent runaway, or the most OBJ
stinate jibber. The creature, however
strong and however vicious, is cat once
transformed into q sort of inOffensive
horse of wood, with the feet firmly nailed
to the ground" Curiously enough, the
very opposite result may be produced by
Q succession of small shocks. Under the
influence of these the veriest screw can be
suddenly endowed with q vig0r and ire
Undesirable. What is the effect upon
the condition of the horse is not stated, but
the Steele cCngratulates N. F. Fancher
upon ian invention equally original and
salutary," and one which places in the
hands Of even an infant power over the
horse which Is - sovereign Is 1t Is invisi-
ble.-Hos,s Journal.
TIE miraculous cure Of lady, in an
suffered from paralysis of one-half her per-
con, is just now undergoing discussion in
Chicago, one party speaking OF It with
credulity and ill-disguised derision. The
large part Of the religious public hold that
we have NO right to say that the" age Of
whole plan Of evangelical Christian work
d based upon faith in the supernatural
interposition Of Gods Spirit. Nor is 1t
doubled that God answers prayer in the
healing Of the sick, and in the rescue Of
those exposed to al kinds Of dangers.
moral and physical. But there is . very
important distinction between the pest and
present miracles which should not be over.
looked. The miracles Of Il . ages Of
Revelation were nearly all given as testi-
monials to the truth, and a. evidences
upon which human reason could rely.
Most of them were acts Of beneficence or
OF judgments upon persons. Some, such
. that Of Elijah on Carmel and the Trans.
1guration, were exclusively evidences for
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