The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-02-08
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
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"A Joint communicative doctors work.
ing over sprain.
Intelligent public spirit-open adj
vocacy of our views.
-Everybody-that portion of the com.
munity, small or great, which sides with
Us.
One of the earliest printers on record
the Emperor Trajan, who set up a Roman
column.
Men with the best of intentions often
leave other people to carry them out.-N.
o. Republican.
-Overskirts are altogether out of fash
ion in Paris, and soon will be here. The
style is drapery.
"A gentleman said, when pretty girl
trod on his toes, that he had received the
stamp of beauty.
"A hesitating, tardy or glum yielding
to the wishes Of another always CRATES up.
Oh loving neart.
Tom Hood said the reason why duel
lists chose two assistants before fighting
was that in case they were killed they
might have two seconds to live.
Traders and merchants in the Black
Hills give miners $50 worth of goods for
an ounce of gold dust, while the bankers
of Cheyenne allow $3.50 in cash.
The Portland Press has just paid one
dollar to settle $4,000 libel suit, and
the Rochester Democrat says that, Icon.
much"
The swell of the period has new
collar. 1t is like that worn by curates
and English hostlers-straight all around
and not broken in front. In event of any
one wearing this collar and falling, decap-
itation must surely ensue.
-Danbury's abscnt-minded man attend
ed church the other evening, and placing
his hat on the stove backed up to the
cabinet organ to warm himself. The SEX
ton discovered the mistake, and FASTENED
to the rescue of the hat and organ.
The Glasgow Times catches its breath
and remarks: !" 1t is to be hoped the lovers
of the pulchritudinous tlaky congelation
OF aqueous particles may get their enteric
bailiwick stuffed to safety with the splen-
did opportunity afforded by the hibernal
sOlstice.''
When you imagine woman's work to
be an easy one, compared with the labors
Of your heated Office, just stay home some
Monday and volunteer to hang up the
washing in yard where the wind comes
along on fast-mail time, and the mercury
tries to bore through to China.
The Christian Mon:tor addresses it.
self to its mother readers thus: "Take
your youngest child when about three
years old. Let him have everything he
wants let him make as much noise as ever
he likes let him cat and drink as much and
whatever he has fancy for; give strict
instructions to his papa, his big brothers,
sisters, visitors and servants, that he is
never to be punished in any way for any
thing he may do, and never contradicted
in anything he may say. BY the time he
arrives at the sweet age of seven, your
youngest child will be nice pickles
That Duel
They met in the snow. with their seconds around,
And the ran with the longest legs measured the
And with great big horse pi=tuels they bla-zed
And May he missed Bennett and Bennett missed
May.
Then they madly reloaded their art:ileree;
Their courage aid bOdness was handsome to see;
In taking their places they delayed not a minute,
When Bennett missed May and May didn't hit
Bennett.
Then the seconds came mp and declared with u.
eS
around,
umber-cd up their ordnance and marched off the
ground.-N Y. Graphic.
"A chap who had, perhaps, read a
newspaper item about how a strect-car was
cleared of passengers in short order when
man in the center of the car announced
that he had the small pox, tried the game
on Gratiot avenue car yesterday. Get
ting aboard the car on Monroe avenue, he
sat down beside big listed man and re-
marked: don't suppose you object to
riding beside smallpox patient, do
your" Not in the least" replied the
big man, but as some of the other pas
sengers may, / shall heave you out!'
Thereupon he took the joker by the collar
and leg, carried him to the platform, and
shot him far out into big snow-drift.-
Detroit Free Pres.
1T is curious how superstition springs
into life at sea. OF all the monsters that
swim the deep or haunt the land there ID
none SO powerful as this, and none like
this that is omnipresent. It can be fought
or ignored upon the shore, but at sea it
looks up from the green hollow of the
waves, and lifts its ghostly hands from
every white curl of their swiftly formed
and swiftly falling submits. It is
in the still atmosphere, in the bowling
wind, in the awful fires and silences Of
the stars, in the low clouds and the light
nings that shiver and try to hide themselves
behind them. Reason retires before its
baleful breath, and even faith grows fear.
full beneath its influence. 1t fills the i'm.
agination with thousand indefinite forms
Of evil, and none are so strong as to be
unconscious of its power.-Dr. Holland,
in Scri6ner's Aontkly.
For simple and convenient dresses,
easily put on or of, and which may be
worn at home at almost any hour, there il
nothing more appropriate than the prin.
cesse dresses, which ladies now have
made of dark blue, plum or green cash.
mere, trimmed very slightly with pleat.
ings of silk of the same color. Only q few
yards are required for making the dress,
and, If the lady has the ingenuity and taste
to make it herself, she can at small ex.
pense have pretty dress, as comfortable
as wrapper for the morning, suitable for
receiving afternoon visits, and, with the
long wraps now in fashion, entirely ap.
propriate for the street. Dressmakers who
have pOlonaise patterns that are popular
with their customers make princesse
dresses by these patterns, simply adding
to their length and breadth. Black cash.
mere and inexpensive black silks ara made