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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-11-08
Wholesale Destruction OF Squirrels.

The irrepressiblc squirrel has at last
met a cOnqueror in the person of a Mr..
Bryant, who, if report be true, kills
them by the score. 1t seems that this
squirrel destroyer was for a long time
an invalid. He captured a lot of squir-
rels, and day and night, to while away
the tcdium of disease, he studied their
habits and discovered their special weak
ness. He then compounded a pellet,
the base of which was deadly drug,
and sugar-cOated it with something es-
pecially attractive to the squirrel tribe.
His success surpassed expectation, and
he is how travelling over the country
taking contracts to kill all the squirrels
on farm for so much an acre-eight
cents in the mountains and five cents in
the valleys. He passes by their bur-
rows, drops few grains of his exter-
minator, and in few moments the
squirrels lie dead in all directions. It
is said that one will eat a grain contain
ing the poison, pick up another and die
with it in his paws. Green Valley
(Solano County, farmers tell us that
heaps of squirrels lie piled up in that
valley, attesting the skill of the great
est squirrel killer of this or any other
country. The farmers of San joaquin
County will be happy to make the &C
quaintance of this individual, with the
little pills. Stockton (Cal.) I'sdepe,sd-
emf
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-11-08

they conduct the public service. But
they are quite willing to be feed, and it
is plain that they expect it. Their
manners are not equal to their dress.
Let me take your dirty plate" is not
the request one likes to have made,
though the plate may not be clean.
1t is very much after the manner of
the English lady who said at a table to
her husband: "Try it, Hugh, it's not as
nasty as you think it is"-the word
nasty having an English sense that we
do not appreciate in our more uncivil-
lied country. She did not mean any
thing more than unpleasant, by word
that, to us, is the sum of all abomina-
tons.
At the church service in one of the
great cathedrals in England one Of the
party left n umbrella, and returned
to recover it. A stately individual in a
black silk gown with a white cravat
went kindly for it, and l awaited his
return. He presented it to me, for
which l was truly grateful, and was
afraid to offend him by the offer of
money, but, rccOllecting that no one is
above receiving, dropped the welcome
coin into his open hand and received
his thanks.
Walking by an ancient building,
looked up at it with partlonable curios-
ity. A shabby-gentecl individual ap-
pcared. He was seedy. His nose was
red. He had taken much gin and want
ed more. THAT is nunnery,'' he
said, "and the church near by is st.
Johns" and SO he went on to cnlighter
my ignorance. Soon he turned hi
back upon me, and his hand was be-
hind him open to receive the expected
fee. They call it backshecsh in thu
East; it is begging in any country.
You order a carriage, and when YOU
ask the charge are informed that it il
two, three or more shillings, pounds OF
dollars, and you take it; but ut the END
of the drive you find that the driver il
to be paid a large percentage over and
above your stipulated contract. 1t i:
quite in vain that you ask in advance
what extras are to bic paid; you arr
always assured that there is "nOthins
but what you please" and the nothing
often amounts to something that spoil
the pleasure of the ride.
| There are two ways of avoiding thi
annoyance. One is the American wa
of paying like Princes! that is, throw
ing money away lavishly as if it were
token of wealth and distinction. Tn
other is to pay honest bills and nothin!
more. AS to Princes, am told the,
are more careful in spending none,
than their people, and landlords fin
them the sharpest customers they have
Rich men, too, are generally quite a
unwilling to be imposed upon by over
charges as others, and indeed the
would not be rich if they had alway
: submitted without resistance to the dc
mands of robbers. Managers of hotel
need to be watched as we'll as other PEG
. pie, and bill may well be scrutinize
with some care before it is paid, 70
mistakes, especially in addition, will
happen in the best regulated establish
mentS.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-11-08
The Clerks Leisure Hours.

The forming of character of the
young man in the city goes on chiefly
in his spare or leisure hours. Hewhose
leisure is occupied in the pursuit of
some object that calls into exercise the
best qualities of the mind and heart, is
usually safe.
Such occupation does not come through
light and frivolous amusements, how
ever innocent they may be in them
selves. The young man who comes to
the city must have different mental
food. Right occupation of his leisure
will not only put him in armor against
temptation from without, but will prove
in the end the surest means of bringing
him into congenial and safe society.
Every young man has some special
mental endowment, some governing
taste, some ambition to acquire some
art, that rises above all others. Each
one has tastes in harmony with his life.
With one it may be music; with another
art; with another language or literature;
with another invention; with another
q knowledge of the exact sciences. The
city will enable him to cultivate any
proper and congenial taste at an expense
which is really trifling. The libraries
offer him their wealth Of literature; the
ornamental and mechanical arts their
most inspiring models; the evening
schools and lecture-rooms their courses
Of special training, and each will open
the door to congenial society, and to
amusements that elevate while they en-
tertain. The study that interests him
will keep his motive power right, and
will lift linn to a higher level, and prove
an element of growth which nothing can
dwarf or take away.
These intellectual requirements will
prove the beginning Of those golden
opportunities In the, future which men
en- hssk, but whieh ass really tnS Ne
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result of antecedent events. Let us
make this plain.
Two brothers some years ago entered
wholesale store in Boston. The one
was studiOus in his leisure and made .
CONSCIENTIOUS use of his time. He at
tended the free courses of lecture at&he
Lowell Institute, and acquired a con-
siderable knowledge of both French and
German at the free evening classes at
the Young Mems Christian Association
and Christian Union. The other passed
his leisure chiefly in the society Of some
well-tO-do friends, whose favorite even
ing amusements were euchrc and whist.
In few years their employer wished
to send young man abroad on some
business, to remain a year in Paris. II
will send A." he said; che knows
something of French, and has the lager
intelligence and more solid habits
The younger brother was accustomed
to speak Of AS preferment as piece
of good "luck," and to say, in droll
way, 8. that his dish was always bottom
side up when it rained pudding" LucI
had nothing to do with it; it was the
force of antccctlent events; it was tuu
Just and equal law.
This young mans residence in Paris
became a second source of culture. He
made the most of it. He is now q
United States Consul ut foreign port,
and a brilliant writer for the best maga-
zines. His brother is still clerk at less
than $500 a year.
| Hungering and thirsting for knowl-
edge, and restless for some opportunity
to advance the ideas and discoveries
that haunted his mind like waking
dreams, young Columbus stood at the
door of an old Spanish convent, and
asked the Prior for drink of water.
The hot sun was above them as they
stopped to talk in the shade. The vast
Learning and requirements of Column
bus Won the admiration of the Prior.
He resolved to introduce this waysi,le
philosopher to men of rank and learn
ing. In that unrecognized moment Of
destiny there was given to CASTLE and
AragOn new world. Good fortune
was it that brought about that meeting
in the shadow of the old convent?
Perhaps; but if at that moment the
mind of Columbus had been less richly
stored than it was with the fruits of
patient study, the flag of Spain might
never have been unrolled on the islands
that jewel the Caribbean Youths CONF
panion.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-11-08
The Extra Fees Expected Of Foreign
Travellers.

In one of his late letters to the o.
scrvcr, Ireneus'' thus descants upon
the minor miseries of travellers:
visions,' is the advertisement, after
stating the price of passage on the At
lantic steamers. But it is soon discOv-
cred that the stewards of high and low
degree, and stewardesses, and the sew
eral ranks and conditions of men-serv-
ants and maid-servants, expect their
fees as regularly as the company cal
culates on the passage money. This is
a swindlc, unless the servants are en-
joined against gratuities, and even then
they have their own way of levying
contributions upon the too complaisant
passenger. A man with his family is
easily robbed of twenty-five dollars by
this taxation, if he has not the moral
force to resist the example of those
about him, who say, ut is the GUS
tom,' and thus perpetuate positive
wrong.
Many man makes his close calcula-
tions as to the amount of money he can
afford to spend on a tour, and is sadly
put about when he finds that he must
spend dollar or two daily where he
was assured there was nothing to pay.
paid fifteen dollars in fees on ship
board, and, old traveller as / am, had
not the force to resist the imposition.
And, in my first hotel bill in England, I
was charged three dollars for service,
my bill stating that this is " in lieu of
all fee and gratuities to servants But
when l asked if that meant what it
said, the answer was given with shrug
that assured me the servants would all
be glad to get it.
The solemn grandeur in which they
stood in swallOw-tail coats and white
cravats, like clergymen all, was some
thing almost ludicrous, but have not
found one of them SO gorgeous that he
would disdain sixpence dropped into
his itching palm. They stood in dread
array, a. I entered what Hsrper's
Handbook" says 10 one Of the best ho.
tsls in.ths Kingdom, end the church
disnitasiss ~ net more &gnaaed whsn
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-11-08
Mars Four Hundred Years Ago.

The recent discovery that the planet
Mars has two and possibly three satcl-
lites is of course well known to our
readers. Some surprise has been not
unnaturally felt and expressed that the
discovery that a planet so near us was
thus attended had not been made many
years ago by the observing astronomers
who are constantly sweeping the heav-
ems with their telescopes. But there
is another reason, possibly, for sur
prise, one which has not to do with
mere telescope observation, and which
we believe has not been alluded to. 1t
will be remembered that the famous
discovery of Neptune simultaneously by
Adams and Leverrier was by calcula-
ton. They were not observing astron-
omcrs, but great mathematician and
geometers; and from certain irregular
tiles in the movement of Uranus, the
remOtest planet of our system known
before this time, they inferred that
there must be disturbing attraction
somewhere. They set themselves to
work to discover what and where the
disturbing body could be; and they fig
ured out the amazing calculation SO
truly that at last they said to the OBJ
serving astronomers, ''Turn your tel
escapes to such place in the heavens,
and you will find new planet with
such an orbit and such time of revo-
luton around the SUM-" They did as
they were told, and there, true enough,
was the planet, 19O,OOO,OOO miles
away, the existence of which had new
er before been suspected by any one
but its discoveries. This beats Column
bus out and out. Now, ever since care
full astronomical observations and cal
culations have been made, the move
ments of Mars have been puzzle.
His pcrturbations bafflcd the astrono-
mers to account for them. This was
SO well known 800 years ago that in
the First Part Of King Henry W."
which is enormously attributed to
Shakespeare, there is a passage, which
may possibly be Shakespeare's, in
which this battling perturbation is re-
ferred to and made use of with fine
mctaphorical effect. The French have
just obtained an unimportant victory
over the English, and the Dauphin
Charles says:
So in the earth, to this day is not known.
Late he did shine upon the English side;
Now we are victOrs.
These irregularities were an inexpli-
cable puzzle until Kepler applied the
ellipse of ancient geometry to the solar
system, and particularly to the motions
of Mars, which he did in 1909. 1t has
since then been assumed that the irreg-
ularities in question are due entirely to
the very elliptical orbit of this planet.
But is it not possible-we ask as lay
man, as one of the faint nebul;e might
ask-that the ncwly-discoverel sateL
lites had something to do with the per-
turbations, and that little calculation
might have also revealed their exist
ence?-GNINIY.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-11-08
Thanksgiving Day.
The following proclamation has been
issued by President HAYES:


issued Nv President HAYES.
T,.. 49,,
ING cohhpleteu clrcie OF summer ana winner,
seed-t'mc ana harvest, mas brought us to the
accusIohheu season at wnch renSlous people
cel e: VIII praise anu tnanksgNms tne
enuurlhS mercy OF Almlghty uod. Inns &C.
vouS anu pubic conIesslon oi .ne constant &c
pE ~ .,'l vi h s upon .ne DIVINE ratner 10.
all tne goM gus Vi lie, anu heath, anu
pcaee, anu nappi.ess, SO carry m our history
Illauc the naoit ol our people, MUS IN sur
vey Oh inc past year new srounus LOT
lS nvlul anu Eraielul MANIFESTATIONS ! IN
aII olessm:s wmen uepenu upon pehShanI
seasons, tnls mas smceu peen mehioranle
veal. VVcr inc Wlde terrltory OF our country;
Win an Ms DIVERSITY OF SOL ana climate and
prOuucts; ue earth mas yicdeG nountlIui re-
turn 70 tne laoor OF the husDamaman Inc
nealt9 VI 'he people mas oceh D1ghted ny no
prevalent OF wluesiHeau dlseases' no great
DISASTERS Oh shlpwreck upon our COASTS or 10
our commerce ON tne seas nave drought loss
anu na1aSnip 10 merchahts OF MARINERS anu
clouueu tne happhess oi !nc community Win
svmpatneuc sorrow. In all tliat concerns our
s.remg,n, anu peace, anu greatness asa Na.lon'
IN an tIat touches the Ier'iiahchcc anu sccuri-
~ OF our Government and the heneiicent inst
tutiohs ON when II rests, III an tnat ansc's .G
character anu disposition Oh our people, ana
tests our capacity 10 ENJOY anu uphoM the e4tai
ana Tree contitioh OF society, nov Ierlnahcnt
and universal throughout the land the expert
ence Of the last year is eonspicuously marked
by the protecting providence Of God, and Is
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-11-08
THE TURCO.RUsSIAN WAR.

The Turks have begun the lombard
mcnt of the Russian position in Schipka, and
on the morning of the 2,d had succeeded in ST
lcncing one Russian battery.
According to Constantinoplc adviccs
Of the oath, the Porte was considering the pro-
pricty of asking for an armisticc.
The Prince of Lcuchtenberg, an aid
dc-camp of the Emperor of Russia, was killed
while making reconnaissance, recently, with
the Czarowitz.
According to official dispatches of
the 18th, the Russians had captured strong
Turkish position on the Sophia road, after an
engagement lasting ten hours. The engage
mcnt also resulted in the capture Of Achmet
Ewsi Pasha and many other Turkish officers,
5000 infantry, a regiment of cavalry, and great
quantities of arms, cannon, ammunition and
provisions.
Under date of Oct. 25th, Suleiman
Pasha telegraphed to the Porte that Russian
attack upon the works at Rustchuk had been
rcpulsed, and they forced to retire into their
intrenchments at Pyrgos with a loss of $50
killed and wounded. The Turkish line on the
LON had also been attacked near Kosovo, but
the Russians had been driven back with loss
Of 500 killed and wounded and some prisoners.
The Russian losses, to the 18th, are
officially stated at 60, 100 men.
A Vienna dispatch of the 25th states
that Kars had been bombarded by the Rus
slams, and that the town was then on fire in
several places.
At Moscow, Russia, on the Goth, dur
ing the trial of person charged with en-
bezzlement, Maj. Gen. Hartung shot himself
incourt because witness accused him Of theft.
An Erzeroum special of the 9th re-
ports that the situation in Asia Minor, from
the Turkish standpoint, was exceedingly crit
ical The Russians were advancing on Otti,
and a battle impended unless the Turks re-
treated
A Bucharest correspondent Of the
1onden Time, IN dispatch putlishsd on ths
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-11-08
FACTS AND FIGURES.

HERE are In Preside County, Tex,
$500, 900 acres of land.
The largest fouring-mill in New
York State Is to be erected at Niagara
Falls.
KENNEBEc, Me-, ice dealers are ship
ping more ice now than at any time last
summer.
LONDON was enlarged by 226 new
streets, three new squares anu lz,93o
new houses last year.
Our Consul at Liverpool sends word
that American poultry, alive or dead,
will find market there.
Two HUNDRED stem-winding Ameri-
can watches have recently been sent to
India for railway service.
Boston pays $1,211,797 annually in
salaries to the teachers of its public
schools. 1t has 5O,819 pupils, and the
average per cent. of attendance is as
serted to be 92.8.
The midsummer return of paupcrs
in England and Wales showed u dimin-
ution of 2,119 as compare with last
year, which in view of the rapid in
crease Of population, and the exceed
ingly depressed condition of trade, is a
remarkable decrease.
The postal statistics for the last two
years show that New Haven proper.
tionally mails more letters than any
other city in the country. Her pOpu.
lation is 5O,S4O, and 416, 654 letters are
mailed there every four weeks, SO tina,
while she is the twenty-fifth city in
population, she ranks eleventh in the
letters sent.
The New York SIN says the grair
crop of the United States this autumn
is u vast increase over that of any pre-
ceding year in the history of the cOun
try. 1t amounts in the two principa
cereals, wheat and corn, to 1925, OOO, OOt
bushels of the former and !, 28O, 600, OO(
| of the latter, according to the careful
estimates of Mr.. Walker, the Statisti
clan of the New York Pr.h &C Elk
change.
+ THERE are twenty-five packing
houses in Baltimore, employing cacl
from so to $50 hands, and handlin.
3, GOO, 600 bushels of raw and II, 600, OOl
of canned oysters each season. Beside
there are fifty steaming houses, wher
%, 600, 900 cans are prepared each sea
son by 1000 men. Nearly 1000 mel
are engaged in making cans. Oyste
shuckcrs make on an average 1925 pc
day, but some experts make as mucl
as s.. A bushcl of oysters in the shel
will make ten cans.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-11-08
Three Times Divorced, and Then Re-
married to His First Wife.

A GENTLEMEN relates to NesCs re-
porter singular matrimonial case,
running through twenty-five years in
the past history of Brunerstown, JET
ferson County. A gentleman in that
town married a lady of the same
neighborhood about twenty-five years
ago. After living together four or five
years they separated on account of in
compatibility of temper, and the hus-
band received divorce. A couple of
years after the divorce both parties
again married.
The husband, however, as in the case
of the first marriage, did not get on
pleasantly with the second wife, and,
in a couple of years after the second
marriage, he applied to the Chancery
Court for divorce from his wife, and
the coveted divorce was granted, and
he was again free. Then two or three
years more interviewed, when the
doubl y-divorccd husband pinned for an
other wife, and, seeking among the fair
he finally succeeded in finding one well
suited to his mind, and, after y short
courtship, he was married to her, thus
coming into possession of his third
wife. A few years later he was di-
vorced from her.
The first wife of the much-divorced
man lived with her second husband
very happily until five or six years ago,
when he sickened and died. And now
comes the singular feature in the his
tory of the widowed wife and her first
and three-times-divorced husband. He
again pinned for matrimOny, and as he
cast about for another partner for his
now declining years, he bethought him.
self of his first wife; and no sooner
had his thought taken Judgment in his
mind, than he hied himself to the
pleasant domicilc she occupied in her
widowhood and proposed that they once
more take passage in lifc's boat to-
gcthcr.
The old times and the old differences
between them were talked over, and
that the flame of their first love was re.
kindled is not at all singular, for dc
not the poets say that first love is ever
enduring? And so they agreed to again
wed, and soon thereafter their nuptials
were solemnized. The intervening
years have glided peacefully, prosper.
ously and delightfully."- for them, and
they live lovingly together, and arc not
only happy themselves, but make al
happy who come under their hospitablt
| roof.
Both parties, and, indeed all the par
ties to the several marriages and di.
vorces, are very respectable people, and
the Ncws publishes this seemingly i'm
probable series of matrimonial episodes
only because of their singularity, defy.
ing any other county in Kentucky OF
the South to furnish an equal example
of matrimony and divorce to the one
above narrated. The truth of the mat.
ter is just as valid as though the names
of the parties were given, but the Civ.
ing of the names is neither proper MOI
important.-L0uisrille (Ky.) Evcning
NeUs.
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AS sweet little schoolgirl, reg
ular golden-haired fairy, went tripping
along ON Douglas street yesterday, an
ill-mannered lad took her on the cheek
with q pea-shooter. Tears ebbed from
her angelic eyes, but she did not faint
NOR wilt away like flowers In autumn,
but up with her slate aud put It where
Il did the mostguod.-zytwsville Aerald;
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-ThePope few days ago read in
the Repxbltque Francaise, a Republican
Of Paris, that he was dead
and had been personated for several
years by q priest Pho Mono burst
into fit of laughter, and ordered .
to be taken in his name to
the paper for five years. 1--WE shall
see who lasts the longestr' he said,
:. and how it will vex them to put the
Pope's address on their wrappers.
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Cn1 Totalmin whose n

Col. Totalmin, whose name indi
Gates that he is the entire army, at.
tackled the Turks, and afterward "with.
drew his troops to post of observa-
ton" A post of observation Is big
tree Of anything that will ksep . man
from being hit while he 10 on the leek'
out for snSe retyost. -teeAanes.
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CT the POstoffice Department.; for tho admis-
sion of Utah and Dakota as States. The Stand
ing Committees were announced and the
House adjourned to the 31st.
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The marriage of the King of Spain
with the daughter Of the Duke de Montpcnscr
has been fixed for the 2:M of January next.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-11-08

Edwin Adams. the distinguished tra-
gciian. died at Philadelphia, on the morning
of the 2Sth. He was forty-thrce years old.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-11-08

The Chicago Savings Institution and
Trust Company closed its doors on the 18th.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-11-08

The Erie Canal is to be closed on the
1th of December. unless sooner closed by ice
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK,
Condensed Telegraphic News.
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.

Samuel j. Tildcn returned from Elt-
rope, on the 25th, in the steamer Scythia.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-11-08

The great eN-Confederate cavalry
officer, Gcn. Bedford Forrest, died. few days
age, ut Memphis, Tenn.