The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-03-15
SENSE AND NONSENSE.

SENSE AND NONSENSE.
Do YOU want your note discounted Try
blue glass.
GOLD bead embroidery on lace is CON-
Ing into vogue.
THERE is q revival of fashions demand
ing the use of lace.
RAILROAD AGENTS are always ready to
answer fare question.
Boston doctors, it is said, average
twenty-five dollars day.
BERMUDA potatoes are nine dollars a
box in New York, and each box has thirty
potatoes.
DON'T 60 to law. If you feel that way,
60 sit on bramble-bush, or crawl through
sewer.
A GERMAN professor figures that every
man is worth eight women in a CONNER
cial point of view.
A CHICAGO paper says that the front icr
is the public ear, but you can't make any.
body believe that ere.
WILLIAM II. VANDERBILT will publish,
it is said, volume of begging letters he
has received from ladies.
81 NEVER was knocked down by hu.
man being but once in my life," said a
braggart, and then I was kicked by q
mule"
HEARING that the matrimonial fever
had broken out again, a medical gentleman
remarked that he knew it, it was the tic
fuss again.
that "blue glass, mashed up fine and adj
sv,sc sntn al
sheep killing"
A GROCER had a pound of sugar re-
turned with note saying: TOO much
sand for table use, and not enough for
building purposes"
IT is still a question in the mind of the
Louisville Courier Journal whether dogs
or men should have the exclusive right Of
way along highways.
The poem entitled IA sigh for my pet
POODLE is respectfully declined. We
cannot afflict our readers with such sigh
at-a-cur.-Boston Bulletin.
A ROCHESTER, woman's plan for clear
ing the sidewalks in winter: Bore holes
in the ice, fill them with petroleum, set it
on fire, and wait till the snow melts.
IT is the opinion of some mariners that
SAAVAV 0AC AOCAS al tl1C kHtldutlC WHICH
have been thrown up by volcanic agency,
and are the frequent cause of ships disap-
pearing.
A MARLBRo Vermonter, aged sixty five,
has wife aged 1O3. He was nineteen
when he married her, and she was fifty
seven. And that is the latest recipe for
longevity.
SOME trees grow to finest proportions in
foliage, with little root Some men
achieve great fame with little education.
In both cases there is need of bracing
when the storm comes.
A WHITEHALL IN. W woman, who
was told to heap hot Goals upon the head
OF her enemy, not having any Goals on
hand, squirted lot of pepper sauce in the
eyes Of her next-door neighbor.
The metric system is before the Legis-
lature. Glad of it; the butchers have
practiced the meat trick system of charg.
ing for nine pounds of beef and trimming
it down to seven and half long enough
BosteH Bulletin.
How A man wears his hat: At twenty,
tipped sideways over one ear; at thirty,
on the back of his head at forty, drawn
down over his eyes; at fifty, sitting square
on his caput, with the brim trying to rest
on both shoulders.
EYES," said Mrs. Black, Is she sat Cos.
siping with her sister, g. you have no idea
how much my Jack thinks of you. Only
this morning, as I went to wake him, I
heard him calling out in his sleep: <Oh,
come, ante, will your"
An infants apron can be of gray linen
trimmed with cardinal braid. The pocket
Is trimmed to match, with the addition of
buttons placed all around. The small
pointed sleeves are trimmed with cardinal
braid, and so is the belt around the waist.
The French can eat anything. Long
ago they commenced on frogs. After a
while they introduced horse-m meat. Then
they began serving up mule-steaks. And
now-what do you suppose they are at
nows They are giving dog banquets-
eating puppy fleshl
BLACK and dark cOlors have gained
such deserving popularity, especially in
this Lenten season, that the ladies who
love "soupeon" of color, and think
their style requires it, have devised quite
pretty means of introducing it in such
. way IS not 70 appear remarkably con-
spicuous; this is to intersperse loops of
cardinal-red ribben ingeniously among
the other trimming, only in separate
punches, however, not profusely; pretty
finish is then to wear asoft messy ruching,
made of the silk raveled out, at the neck
and in the sleeves.
A LETTER from Deadwood City. In the
Black Hills, says that the main business
street Of that place Is in . fair way of
being worked out by miners, who have
recently struck It big at two different
points On the main thoroughfare. One
man who had been running q cross.ditch
came to the pay streak at the theater,
which was evidently built on an old chan.
mel Of the creek. Since then another
party has tapped the channel short dis
lance below and near the center of the
street. What led to the prospecting Of the
business portion of the town was the dis.
covery Of gold in paying quantities in Q
well that was dug not long ago. Next
summer will sec most of the business
houses Of Deadwood Get up on stills.
YESTERDAY afternoon pigeon and full
grown goose, feeding On the premises Of
Mr.. w. II. Porter, North Cumberland,
got into . quarrel, presumably over the
division Of their dinner, and organized .
very lively battle. The pigeon flew an.
gfily about the goose's head, putting in .
little peck whenever he could but finally
e received blow from the gooee's bill
and ned, true 70 it, habit, aiming at the
roof Of the house. The goose, thorough.
y mad, followed, watching the pigeon
until II became necessary 10 concentrate
IL attention On it, efforts to fly 90 HIN.
when, u ID blind fury, It dashed against
the wall and fell to the ground. dead.
When It WIS picked up Its neck was
found b BE- broken. Cxmber1sad MAJ
Rssaos
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