The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-06-07
SENSE AND NONSENSE.

SENSE AND NONSENSE.
THE regulation sizes for ladies' um.
bEellas 10 twenty and twenty -eight inches.
A NOVELTY in ladies' breakfast caps ID
made Of striped Madras gauze, and imi-
tate the half handkerchiefs worn form.
| erly by the mulatto women of the South,
-0Asesgs zti5xns.
"A NEW BEDFORD teacher asked his
class to explain the difference between
fellow exclaimed, lone is biped and the
other is quadruped."
TIE World says: a6ome wondrously
smart fellow has just determined the diff
ference between an editor and his wife.
He says ono writes articles to set and the
other sets articles to rights
"HE is q man after my own heart, pa, -
said Julia, reverting to her Augustus.
Is . man after the money your uncle left
you." And then all was quiet.
| Tn new dress goods called "bunting''
is light, COIL, durable, Inexpensive, will
mot crease, and is not affected by damp
ness or salt water. Long may it wave.
TIE Roumanians have been working
necessarily at the Kalafat Notifications
and have mounted some forty new guns.
IT the Turks capture this fort they will
have what one might Kalafat thing
Worcester Ress.
Two YOUNG brothers may be as devoted.
ly attached to each other as were Damon
and Pythias, but you will never hear of
one snatching the scuttle from the hands
| of the other and insisting upon going
down cellar to bring up the COAL
JONES has discovered the respective
natures of distinction and q difference.
He says that IA little difference fire.
Quently makes many enemies, while !. a
little distinction" attracts hosts of friends
to the one on whom it is conferred.
THERE is something indcscribably
grand in the indomitable perseverance
with which our courthouse architects
year after year, attempt to perch 17O, 900
tons of dome Oh about 256 pounds of
foundation -Burlingtvn Hapk- Eye.
The Boston Poet thinks that when Co.'S
sack meets Bashi- BazOuk then comes the
tug Of war. On the other hand, then
comes a tug at each others canteen, and
the solemn agreement to go and shoot
some unarmed person.-N. T. Graphic.
"SusAN,," says the madame of board
wishes to absent hcrsylf from he class
room this afternoon; is the reason for her
staying away very urgent?" :" Yes, mum,
it is Ter gent. "-Neso Orleans Republican.
ANYONE would suppose that the employ
pent of sewing was the most peaceful and
in tho FL a.. o,>A -
is absolutely horrifying to hear ladies talk
Of stilettoes, bodkins, gatherings, surg.
ings, hcmmings, gcrgings, cuttings, whip
pings, lacings, cuttings and hastings.
What list of abominaIlesi
hotels at Niagara Falls, the resident Irish.
men are practicing upon their Indian dia-
lect, the hackmen are robbing and muir
dering each other for practice, and all ma
ture bears the uninistakable indications
that the annual summer victim is ap.
observation-disclosures Democrat.
A RUSSIAN engineer has invented 4
bombshell tower, which is moved about
by steam, and in which artillerists sit and
pelt the enemy with destruction. BY the
time the next war breaks out the warrior
will sit in rockingham in the front
parlor of hotel and talk his enemies to
death with a revolving telephone.
A HARTFORD lover of the sport declared
lately that he never knew q good trout
fisherman that he wasn't poor, miscra-
BILE cuss." The common opinion of New
England seems to be to this effect. The
shy inhabitants OF the brooks have almost
an affinity for the vagabonds with ragged
trousers, crownlcss hats and still more
dilapidated morals.
SPRING is here. Every morning the
painter who agreed to have your house
all painted by the 30th of May comes
round and sits in the front yard and holds
. paint pot between his knees and stirs
paint till three O'Clock in the afternoon,
and then says he believes he will 90 down
to the shop and get brush and see if
there is ladder there.-BurlinQto HACK
Eve.
The industry of railroading has tevei-
oped some thrifty characters, among whom
former workman of the New York,
New Haven s. Hartford Road deserves
high rank. He was at one time at work
in the Springfield depot, and while taking
trunk out Of baggage-car from Boston
he was thrown over and hurt, the baggage.
smashing art being for the time reversed.
The injured workman suffered terribly
and crawled around on crutches until the
Boston q Albany and the New Haven
Roads united and gave him Sc, 600. He
was cured the next day. Shortly after q
man ON the Boston & Albany Road was
killed and the company gave his widow
5000. The former cripple, who had
scored Sc, 900 already, soon married her.
and thus counted $1,000. He recovered
his health 90 completely that he was able
to work again on the railroad, but finally,
not being hurt again within q reasonable
time, he retired to q farm which he had
bought with part of the proceeds of his
former calamiiies.-HarUvrd Coxrant.
PERHAPS there is no one way in which
more money is spent to less purpose
than upon funerals. So long as it was be-
lieved that future hope was involved in
the preservation of the outward form, it
was natural that to the precious spices and
the embalmer's art should be added the
protection of massey structures, that the
tomb should be craven in the abiding
rock, and that the dust should not be
suffered to mingle with meaner elements.
Science and Christianity alike have tried
to teach better lesson, and yet the power
of the old superstition is not quelled. 1t
would seem incredible, were we not 50
used to it, that large and profitable trade
consists in taking costly woods, in drying
and polishing them with care, decorating
them with silk and silver, and then putting
them where they will be forgotten and
perish as speedily as possible. We do not
like to look at these things in the under
takers shop, and we like them SO little
that whatever reminds us of undertakers'
work Is acknowledgement ksaa.
sine.
The Manufacture OF Weddlnx.Rings in
Birmingham, Eng.
THE manufacturers who actually con.
| fine themselves to the making of wedding.
rings are comparatively few in number.
It is an easy going aud pleasant trade, and