The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-11-01
SENSE AND NONSENSE.


ALMOST all love is misguided.
A DANGEROUS game-Playing the
deuce, So
The best throw of dice-Thro~ them
away. r. y
BEAUTY is not essential to the high
est type of womanhood.
r. Why It rains in very hot weather.
The heat opens the pours of the clouds.
The New Orleans Pcaywnc says that
the Car signs for other Nations to
concur.
If YOU hear man say that +" life is
dream,' tread OH his favOrite corn, and
then see. =-.v.-.- ----... ..
The potato-bug is passionately fond
of the OdOr of flowers, and his favOrite
resort is in the tuber rows. II e. rr'
The Philadelphia Bulletin has dis
covered that the " Indian chiefs banker
chiefly after handkerchief" y IT.
A RICH, ministerial miser has been
found in New Hampshire. Clergymen
are seldom parson-moneyous.- Y.
Graphic.
AMONG the rural music of this SOL
emn season, the sweet symphony of the
cider-mill arises as the pensive mule
goes round.
"COARsE rice for food, water to
drink and Bonded arm for a pillow
happiness may be enjoyed even in this"
said Confucius.
Mrs. STANTON says: "On her own
hearth-stone woman is fortified. There
she may make herself heard.'' It
seems to be regarded as sort of Jab-
ber-altar.-Graphic.
The New York Sun wants to know
if a man can marry on thousand dol
lars year. Yes, he could, if, as is
usually done, he is taken home by the
bride father.--DetroI Free Press.
GENrLEMEN's hats that last year
brought SO apiece can now be pur-
chased for $3.50; whereas it still costs
a woman from $15 to $50 to go COM
paratively Observation-Disclosures b.
gar.
| A YOUNG man who has come West
and turned poet, contributes the follow
ing:
The sun in the gorgeous East chaseth the night,
When he riseth refreshed in his glory and might;
But where doth he 60 when he seeketh h,s rest!
Oh, doth he not haste to the beautiful West!
The country will breathe easier
when it learns that the $1,000 green
back of 1869 is all right. There are no
counterfeits as reported, and there
should be no hesitation about taking
them in in change. Post and
Tribune.
LORD MAYO imported a female emu.
While his lordshipe was away from
home she laid an egg, and his pcrplexed
bailitf, writing to inform him OF the
occurrence, began his letter Us follows:
"In the absence Of your lordship put
the egg under the greatest goose could
find.n
"ANNA, dear, if should attempt to
spell Cupid, why could not get beyond
the first syllable?" Anna gave it up,
Whercupon William said: Because
when come to II, Of course l cannot
90 further.'' Anna said she thought
that was the incest conundrum she hat
ever heard.
THE leaves are turning slowly yell
low; their summers hue is hence; the
ripening fruit is on the mellow: the
small boy on the fence. He looks
around, he views the ground. and thinks
the moment suits; he fills his pockets
full and round, then jumps the fence
and scoOts.
A TRAMP who called ut q Danbury
house for something to cat, and was
ordered off the premises, Indignantly
inquired of the proprietor, lis your
name Hilton?'' mo- "All right,
Them rjoined the tramp in softened
voice, s. was going to say wasn't a
Jew. "-Danbury News.
ANY number of women are ceaselessly
guilty. of false hospitality. They invite
their friends to a little company, call il
informal, declare they shall make nc
preparations, and yet, between the in.
vitatiOn and its acceptance. toll early
and late, and fidget and fret lest some
thing shall go ill.-N. Y. Times.
"WHY, my sweet Arabella, you have
papered this room since l was here in
the spring-bcautiful design! Does i,
represent sea-wced or some pretty. lit.
tie brown blossom?'' "No, Mrs. Sprig.
gins, haven't papered it. These figgers
witch you see, is where mashed mos.
keeters on the wall !''--N. Y Graphic.
| NEVER be in hurry to put your
money into the contrihution-bOx. Wait
awhile until copper will make u noise
by coming in contact with others. The
first pennies that are dropped in are
still-born. No one observes who gives
them, but a sizeable copper, carefully
tossed in among specie, has the true
ring of piety in it.-Hartford Sunoa,
Globe.
THE Russian peasant has made the
act of splitting fine art. He spits as
a sign of astonishment; he splits as q
sign of defiance; he spits to avert an
evil omen; he splits for a fine day, and
he spits against bad weather. 1t is not
strange, then, that those enemies OF
everything that exists in Russia-the
Nihifists-should adopt as the title OF
one of their newspapers: II Spit a,
Everybody"
WHEN New York medical student
gets plucked he is not discouraged
about the matter, but merely goes to a
stationer's, buys a blank diploma, fills
it out neatly and then begins to prac.
tice with clear conscience. It
strange that these improved processes
are not adopted in the Old World. An
Edinburgh student was plucked three
times, and then, instead of bringing
his ingenuity to bear on the matter, hi
proved his medical knowledge by tax.
ing poison that speedily rendered ali
university DEGREES useless. = Detroit
Free Press.
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| A Statement by Sec'y Sherman.
| WASHINGTON, Oct. Is.
| The following letter from the Secre
tary of the Treasury, transmitting esti.
mates of appropriations required tt