The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-06-21
SENSE AND NONSENSE.

3HE Government Stlll OWNS Onc-uIt0 Oh
Ill the land in Alabama.
Was the oat sack the original of the
sack coat ?-Commercia Bulletin.
GRACIOUS HEAVENS! The potato bugs
are tackling the beans.-BOston Post.
THE right eye of an engraver, on which
he uses his glass, is usually the stronger
of the two.
NEVER choose one.armed man for .
Magistrate. II would be impossible for
him to deal even-handed justice.
ONE of the acute sayings Of humorist
is, "Theres q great deal of human nature
in horse trading, but few assets.'
A WOMAN may not care for art, but she
does not like to have q man spit on the
stove hearth.-Yonkevs Gazette.
SAYs correspondents: "The Grand
Duke Nicholas is i'll. What makes Mic
sic just now? Has he been revictualed
too often ?''-BOston Globe.
WHEN man becomes q tramp, he be-
comes being bereft of self-respect; and
when self-respect is gone, little is left but
adangerous brute.-Chicago Journal.
A WOMAN in New Jersey was cured of
deafness by thunder storm. How many
men have been deafened by domestic
thunder storms, the report does not say.
The Warden of Sing Sing Prison says
100 women. But what does he want Of
those last two figures.-N. T. Graphic.
ANDREW JACKSON was accused of bad
spelling. hut John Randolph defended him
by declaring that T" q man must be fool
who could not spell words more ways than
One."
DREssY shoes are made with the uppers
to match costumes; or for walking boots
CATERS are used. Slippers have rOsettes
or bows matching trimmings of dresses
N. T. EUeaing Post.
TENNESSEE people depend upon their
local papers to tell them when it is safe to
take of their flannels. The power of the
press is getting to be mightier every day.
Detroit Free Press.
BERMUDA is proud of three things
its onions, its potatoes and its roads. It
is q delightful island to walk over, and if
one is fond of onions there is no place in
the world where his taste can be so per-
fectly gratified.
The fickleness of the weather makes a
green grocer pause and scratch his head
when he goes out ON the sidewalk and
finds his ripe strawberries frozen until they
rattle in the basket like hickory nuts
OIL CITY Derrick.
A MAN will carry $500 in his vest pocket,
but woman needs a morocco pOrtemOn-
maize as large as q fist, and too heavy to
carry in the pocket to escort a fifty-cent
scrip, recipe for making jelly cake, and
two samples of dress goods.
The fly that curiosity has led to ex-
plOre the inside of the chimney of light
ed lamp acts when it gets down to the
burner very much like a young woman
trying to sell young man ticket to
church festival.-zurner' Falls Reporter.
PSYCHOLOGISTS are indulging in wordy
war over the question whether Israelites
of the days of Abraham were or were not
taller than those of the present day.
This, however, is not the first instance in
history of battle about the Heights Of
Abraham.
MIR. ALGER says "a woman opens q
book, sees dried leaf and sheds tears"
And it is pretty much the same with man.
He opens a favOrite book just returned by
| borrower, sees a torn leaf and feels like
| shedding tcars-Or the borrowers blood
| N0rrist.sc Herald.
A MOTHER, in commencing her daugh-
ter to situation, was asked if she was an
early riser. "An early riser?" she cx-
claimed. II should think so! Why, she's
up in the morning, and has breakfast ready,
and makes all the beds, before anyone else
is up in the house!"
THE growing custom of putting the
choir at the pulpit end of the church has the
very serious drawback that it prevents q
man from turning around and looking up
at the organ in a critical manner just be-
fore the contribution box approaches his
pew-BaNimore Bulletin.
| A GIRL that is never allowed to sew, all
of whose clothes are made for her and
put on her till she is ten, twelve, fifteen or
eighteen years of age, is spoiled. The
mother has spoiled her by doing every
thing for her. The true idea Of self-re-
straint is to let the child venture. A
child's mistakes are often better than it's
no-mistakes, because when child makes
mistakes and has to correct them, it is on
the way to knowing something. A
child that is walked up every morning,
and never wakes himself up, and is
dressed, and never makes mistakes in
dressing himself; and is washed, and
never makes mistakes about being clean /;
with its food; and is watched, and never
watches himself; and is cared for, and
| kept all day from doing wrOng-such q
child might as we'll be tallow candle,
perfectly straight and solid, and comely
and unvital, and good for nothing but to
be burned up.-Henry Ward Beecher.
SrATE-AssAYER HAYES of Massachu-
sets prints q warning about the use of
Paris green to destroy potato bugs,
in which he says: "1he danger is
much too great to permit its use by New
England farmers. 1t is not known that
the arsenic or copper is absorbed by the
| plants; they may be; but assuming that
they are not, then the danger attending
the common mode of digging and gather
| ing potatoes, from the adhesion of parti-
| cles of the poison, in soil upon which
it has been scattered; the danger in dis
tributing it and placing in the hands OF
the workmen; and the danger to animals,
such as poultry, hogs, sheep and even
dogs, who may venture into the fields,
make only part of list of dangers that
may be readily brought to mind. And
| when we add to this that the effects of me-
tallic poisOns may not be observed for
months, or years in some cases, there is
certainly reason for saying that the indis.
criminate use Of Paris green on these
| plants may be more disastrous in its re-
suits than the loss of several crops of p0'
tatoes. I cannot suggest any harmless
chemical agents that will drive off the
bugs, but do Lot use metallic poison"
The Mount Carmel Qll) Tornado.
Heavy, dark clouds banked upon the
western horizon yesterday gave promise
| of a continuance of the rain which had
fallen at intervals during the day. The
hour, as near as can be ascertained, was
8 :35 in the afternoon. Men who were
looking TO the west said: "There is q big
rain coming on over there" Suddenly a
strange commotion was noticed in the
cloudy banks. The air was filed with a
mighty noise, like the rolling of waves
high up on the sea shore. The terrified
inhabitants saw mighty cone. It must
have been 1000 feet in height, and bore
the appearance of cloud whirling and
spinning toward the town. 1t first was
i noticed at . distance of q mile and q quar-
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