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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-10-25
Collecting Car Fares in Geneva, Swift.
Zerland.

AS THE bell-punch on the horse-rail-
roads seems to have failed of its object
in New York, it may be interesting to
know how horse-car fares are collected
and recorded here. Each conductor is
supplied with a little book, in which
are printed numbered tickets. These
tickets are as thin, though little larger
than our postage STAMPS, and are de-
tached in the same way, being sur
rounded by perforations. On the up
per left-hand corner is g f ~ denOting
the conductor to whom the book is
given. On the right upper corner is
the number of the ticket. In the CEN
ter, twenty-five centimes," five cents.
Below is printed: ''The passenger is
required to show this ticket when re-
questcd, and to destroy it OH leaving the
car" Within the city limits the price
is but two cents; outside, five cents, and
longer distances eight cents, the con-
ductor being supplied with different col
Ored tickets for different distances. At
unexpected times and places u soon
troleur'' steps on the car, examines the
last numbers on the conductor books,
and then looks at every ticket in the
hands of passengers. This examine
ton insures two things: First, that all
the passengers have paid their fare: Sec
ond, that the numbers show that they
have just been torn from the book.
There is very little chance here for the
conductors to pocket any money, and
any fraud is easily detected. 1t would
be of no interest to the conductor to al
low old tickets to be used again, and,
if such were attempted, the fraud is too
easy of Genera (iS,citz. Cor.
N. Y. Ereming Post.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-10-25
A Man Of Acquaintance.

The original and only Intelligent
Compositor-allo others being impostors
has been in the city several days. He
entered the newsr00m of the HasOk-Eye
and Immediately distended that valu-
able department with information to
such an extent that the old tramp who
was trying to keep awake until lunch
was spread out, got out and, humbling
himself in utter .abasement, publicly
retracted every personal narrative and
general statement he had made in the
room, and went out of town on q tie
ticket. The original and only Intelli-
gent placed himself in an easy position
Of superiority by challenging the regu-
lar gentlemen at the cases to spell Mus
sulman, and a. no one responded to
this challenge, he proceeded to edify
the congregation with a short but COM
prehensive lecture on the manners and
customs, religion, politics and tradi-
lions of the Oriental Nations. BY this
time the assembly was hushed into the
most respectful silence, and when the
gentleman who had just finished SIX
inquired where the blacksmith who
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-10-25
The Wonderland OF Montana;

A CORRESPONDENT of the Idaho
Statesman, writing from the National
Park, on the Yellowstone, says: For
the past three days we have been rcvcl-
ING in the wonders Of this Plutonic re-
giOn. On every side we have had
springs hot and cold, clear and muddy;
mountains of pure sulphur, geysers
throwing water $50 feet high Of all
shapes, sizes and variations. Right
here, within 200 yards, the thing varies
a little; for instead of water oozing
from mounds built up from the sedi-
mentary deposits of ages, they are
funnel-like caldrons fifty feet from the
surface. There is one that, looking
down into it, appears to be-and l think
it is-a subterranean river. 1t is as wide
as the Boise River, and the bubbling
sccthing noise it kicks up is almost ter
rifying. 1t very muddy, and from the
appearance of the trees for 500 yards
around, and the wetness of the surface,
it must occasionally spout to an im-
mensc height. Not far away, at what
appears to be the entrance of Il cavern,
is another boiling spring like the other,
rolling out in waves from Il vast hole.
1t is scalding hot, beautifully clear, but
very sulphurous. The rocks around
the entrance are covered with Il soft
sediment Of various dark brilliant col
Ors, on which many names are written.
OF course we added ours.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-10-25
Ridiculous, But True.

DURING the autumn of 1912, was in
Algiers, and, one pleasant day, joined
a party of French officers in a jaunt
into the back country. The distance
from the coaster from the City of
Algiers-to the northernmost sweep Of
the Atlas Mountains, is not quite twenty
miles, and thitherward we took our
way to see the sights. My particular
object was to see the district whence
came the chief supply of gum Arabic.
On the first night out, we found quar-
tiers with u Peola peasant, whose house,
hold was far from repulsivc or unplcas-
ant.
On the following morning, we found
our host preparing to 60 to the forest.
He said he was going to examine his
monkey traps. Three of us went with
him; and the first trap we visited held
a monkey, whose facial contOrtions and
sharp chattering and screaming, as we
approached, were frightful. And what
do you suppose that trap was? How
was the monkey caught? Iwilltell you.
Attached to a limb of an acacia tree
by strong cord was a gourd, the shell
of which was tough, strong and intact,
saving small round hole on one side.
Within this gourd the peasant had
placed small quantity of little nuts,
of which the money is very fond.
Well, the monkey discovers the gourd
in strange position, and he investi-
gates. Very soon. he determines that
some of his favorite nuts are within.
Aha! here is treat. The hole is just
large enough to admit his hand; he
feels the nuts, and in his cagerness to
make good thing of 1t, he gathers up
all he can grasp. But when he tries to
withdraw his hand, it does not come
forth. Closed, with gill of nuts in its
grasp, the hole is not half large enough
to let it out. Poor avaricious wretch!
he cannot surrender his prize or, at all
events, SO eager to secure it is he that
the idea of letting it 60 never enters his
head. And there he remains, swapping
and growing, vainly trying to get his
hand free with the prize in possession.
And so it is until morning-until the
man who exposed the bait comes and
takes both gourd and monkey. He is
very angry, and anon looks very crest
fallen and foolish; but there is no help
for it.
saw four monkeys captured in that
same way while tarrying in the shadows
of the Atlas Mountains.-N. Y. Ledger
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-10-25
Financial Traps.

UNDER this head Bishop Clark makes
some capital hits in the New York
Ledger, which seem especially applica-
bic to the present time. Here in the
Office, he says, you see a young man
whose business it is to handle q great
deal of other peoples money. All at
once he finds himself in a tight place,
and he says to himself: '.My salary
will be paid me in a couple of months;
what harm will it do for me just to an
ticipate the payment? Nobody will be
any the worse off for my taking little
of this money to bridge me over the
present emergency. / shall be sure to
make the accounts all right before they
are looked into" This was the trap in
which he was caught, and there he lies
to-day with the blood all gone out of
him.
Another man holds certain amount
of trust funds in his charge. They are
well invested and drawing a reasona-
BILE but not extravagant interest. Sud-
denly there comes to him the opportu-
nifty of a grand speculation by which
minis of money may be made, if he only
had capital enough to 60 into it. Then
he says to himself: ..If could use these
trust funds for that purpose, l might
soon double their value, and at the
same time make snug fortune for my
self. 1 am not certain that the owners
would not agree with me, and perhaps
had better not consult them in the
matter. will take the risk on my own
responsibility" In 60 his feet into the
trap, and it closes upon him with its
sharp teeth slow and sure and fast, and
he is ruined
Another man is an officer in a great
moneyed corporation. 1t is the source
from which many widows and orphans
derive their whole subsistence-hard-
working men and women have invest
ed their little savings there, not be-
cause they knew anything Of the oper-
ations of the institution, but because of
their confidence in the persons by whom
it is managed they are men who stand
very high in the community, and have
big titles appended to their names;
they belong to some of our most FASH
ionable churches. They are riaha and
honorable, and would deal very severe
~ with one who robbed them Of their
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-10-25

purse, or broke into their house at
night. On certain day, to the un-
speakable grief and horror of the thou
sands whose earnings are deposited
there, it is announced that the company
has suspended and gone into the hands
of a receiver. What is the trouble?
Why, suffering friends and innocent
victims, that money for which you
toilcd so hard has gone to build splendid
palaces and open railroads through the
lands of this or that Director, or i'm
some other way to swell the fortunes of
the distinguished citizens who prom
ised to take care of your interests and
of your savings. Did these Directors
and Presidents and Treasurcrs, in the
beginning, intend to defraud the widows
and wOrkingmen who trusted them 50
implicitly? Probably nOt-but they
saw lying about the Office divers traps
not very dangerous to look upon
chances to do something for their own
private benefit, and, starting, perhaps
in a small way, they went on from bad
to worse, from one doubtful thing to
another less doubtful, and then on to
another altogether damnable, when the
trap gave its last fatal snap, and every
thing was gone. .44
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-10-25
THE rURCo.RUssIAN WAN.


The Russian estimate places Mukh-
tar Pashas losses in the late battles in Asia
Minor at 5000.
The Russians have begun to run par
allcls before Plcvna, under the direction of
Gen. Todleben.
The Russian police have discovered a
fresh Nihilist conspiracy, and numerous arrests
have been made at Moscow and elsewhere.
A London dispatch of the 10th says
that three trains Of supplies had entered
Plevna since the last great battle. 1t was
stated that Osman Pasha had everything he
needed for the coming six months, except
medicines There was great lack of medicinal
stores and much sickness in the Turkish
forces.
The Russian authorities have Or
tiercd the instant departure of all the CORE
spondents with the army before Plevna.
The Russians in Bulgaria numbered
go, 900 on the 18th. &9tt4
A Russian official dispatch of the
18th says the Turks had destroyed the bridge
across the Danube at Silistria. The same DIS
patch reports the blowing up Of Turkish
three-masted monitor from striking torpedo
in the Suleina mouth Of the Danube.
A Belgrade dispatch of the 18th says
Russia had undertaken to pay Servia 100000
roubles monthly from the time the Servian
Army is sent to the frontier. ~.
According to latest advices, the Turk
ish forces in Plevna have bean reinforced -
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-10-25
A Little Daughters Devotion.

A LITTLE girl, eleven years old, very
lightly clad, and barefooted, applied ut
the Jail at Goderich, on Wednesday
forenoon, to be permitted to sec her
father, George May, from Exeter, who
was serving term of one month for
abusing his wife. She was admitted at
once, and the fathers surprise and
pleasure were genuine, the more SO
when he learned that the little one had
walked the greater portion of the way
on foot. The girl left her home in En-
eter on the previous Monday evening,
and walked along the track toward
Clinton until it got dark, when she laid
down in the grass by the way and slept
until morning. The journey was re-
sumed early on Tuesday and maintained
until the vicinity of Clinton was reached,
late in the evening. During the day
she had nothing to eat but beech-nuts.
which she gathered in the woods, but
she was taken in by kindly farmers
wife in the evening, kept overnight and
forwarded to her destination next morn
ing in buggy. She was kept for -
short time in the Jail, where She made
herself very useful, and provcd herself
a bright, intelligent little one. On
Thursday the mother arrived and took
the child, much against her will, home
again.-TOrOnt0 Globe.
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FACTS AND FIGURES.
THERE are 6, 500 teachers in Maine

THERE are $500 teachers in Maine.
THERE are three thousand prisoners
in the Texas prisons.
THE sand banks in the German
Ocean are one-tifth its area.
AUBURN, N. r, has 59,8O4 innabit-
ants, of whom 27,9H are females.
NEW York CRY paid 81, 748, 456 in
damages for the draft fiots Of 1868.
ABOUT thirty-three million of frac-
tional silver has gone into circulation.
AUSTRALIA has been shipping to Eng
land smoked and dried legs of mutton.
A GUILLOTINE that has cut off %, 600
French heads is ON exhibition in Lon
don.
The United States annually ships
over 100000 boxes of clethes-pins to
England.
SIXTY MILLIONS of dollars is she sum
set down as having been lost by the late
railway strikes.
In two years six thousand London
children have been taught to swim by
the Health Society.
ONE industrious Organ-grinder has
furnished New York with music for
thirty-seven years.
SINCE the LIST of January 11O,357
pounds of opium have been received at
New York, valued at $751;, 1919.
NEBRASKA will raise upward of 3d.
600, 900 bushels of grain this year. The
estimate of the wheat crop alone is 49,
OOO, 600 bushels.
CIGARETTE smoking has of late years
enormously increased in France. Gig
arettes were first made in the French
Government manufactures in 1843.
FROM West Griqualand there was
sent by mail during 1875 seven hundred
pounds weight (avOirdupois) diamonds,
valued at $7,OOO,OOO. The totel yield
of the Province is estimated at $12,-
500, 900.
The number of those who, like Mrs.
Gen. Gilfory, 60 abroad, is yearly in
| creasing. This season, from New York
alone, eighty-one thousand passengers
have sailed for Europe. Over one
fourth of this number landed in Eng
gland.
IT is estimated that 100000 bales Of
the deficiency of the cotton crop of the
season of 1867 was the result of the
overflows in the lower Mississippi and
tributaries in the spring and summer Of
1876. Of this $1,000 bales are appor.
toned to the lower Mississippi, $4,000
bales to the Arkansas, and 81 900 bales
to the Wichita. The money value Of
the crop lost by high water is estimated
at So, $50, 600.
ACCORDING to the reports of thu
Philadelphia State Mine Inspectors thu
number of persons killed in the anthra
cite region last year was 228. TIL,
average number of tons to one of thes'
unfortunates was 9S,353. The humble
of those not fatally injured was 462
The average number of tons to each o
these was therefore about 1858. Tn
average number of tons to both kille'
and injured was 80, 449.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-10-25
CoNGRBss.

MONDAY, Oct. 15.-The Senate was
called to order At twelve o'clock on the 18th,
with very few absentees. After the calling of
the roll, Messrs. Stanley Matthews, Don
Cameron and D. H. Armstrong were sworn in.
The credentials of Mr.. Sponord, Of Louisiana,
were not presented. A motion was agreed to
stituted for few days. The Senators absent
were Messrs. Morton, Mcmillan and Sharon.
49, The House was called to 0rder Ut twelve
O'Clock by Clerk Adams, and the Presidents
proclamation converting Congress was read.
The roll was called. When Louisiana was
signed by Gov. Nichols relative to the MEM
bership from the First, Fourth and Sixth Dis
tricts were the only ones presented by parties
claiming the seats which were regular and
legal in form, and the Clerk had, therefore,
placed on the roll the names Of the persons
contained in them. The Clerk stated that no
certificates had been received from the Third
Missouri District. As to the First and Second
Districts Of Florida, the Clerk had received two
sets Of certificates, one from Gov Stearns, and
the other signed by Gov. Drew-the first GER
tifying to the election of Messrs. Punam and
Bisbee, and the second to the election Of
Msssrs. psvidson and Finley; hs deemed ths
Bisbee, from the Second, to be regular In form,
and had, therefore, placed their Nance o. lie
roll. With reference to Colorado, the Clerk
stated that the certificate presented By james
b. BelfOrd showed that he was elec4ed ut 8
time not authorized by law, and the peper.
fed copies of abstracts Of votes In several
counties, which votes had never been can
vassed BY any Board Of Csnvassers; he had,
therefore, placed neither name on the roll A
motion was agreed to-1zotQ 1910 proceed to
the election Of . Speaker, md lessts. Samuel
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-10-25

"A friend to the human race invent
ed u patent bootjack which shuts up
like wise when it strikes anything,
and hence is calculated to hold on to
cat every time until the hooking laugh
ter with which the feline is wont to
greet the touch Of a bootjack, is hushed
in death. Unfortunately, however, the
inventor, in moment Of forgetfulncss,
used the bootjack to pull off new tight
boot, and when the battle was over, the
bootjack was a wreck, and the inventor
looked as though mad dog had hauled
him around the block by the heel
BurLin0tOn HnaUE- Eue. -
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"A fashion paper says the hustle is
going out of fashion. Never. While
spoony man and loving woman live,
the buss II be in fashion, and in de-
mand. -Bwrlin0toss Hasck-Eys. a
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-10-25

The Great Western Railway of
Canada is endeavoring to fill up q
ravine near Hamilton, Ontario, in
order to have solid roadway where
hitherto there has been trestle-work
bridge, but the ravine decidedly objects
to being filled up. Like Oliver Twist,
it continually asks for more. Train
load after train-load of earth has been
dumped into its yawning jaws and still
the jaws yawn. Lately they thought
they had about finished the apparently
interminable task, as the embankment
was almost up to the desired level.
But the ravine was only fooling them.
Suddenly, and without moment
warning, the mass of earth sank nearly
thirty feet, and, like the clown at the
pantomine, up IL came in fresh place
several rods away. The Canadians
condemn severely the levity of the
ravine in playing tricks on men whe
are in earnest, and if it exhibits any
more of this foolishness there is some
talk Of appealing 10 the Government.
Meanwhile the dumping is steadily
progressing. - Detroit Free Press.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-10-25

Gambetta has been again sentenced
to three months Imprisonment and fined 500,
for placarding his recent manifesto.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-10-25

On the 10th. the Nebraska Repub-
leans met in State Convention and nomi-
mated Chief Justice Lake for reelection.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-10-25

The Republican State Committee Of
Georgia has disbandcd, by vote of ten to two.
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Following is the list Of the Members of the
new House Of Representatives as presented by
Clerk Adams. Republicans are In small caps
the former and 1852 of the latter, with no
name on the roll for Colorado and the Third
Missouri District:
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- Al66IS0tfPI.
1881. Branch K. Bruce,
188. i. @. @. LAMAR.
MISSOURI.
1879. D. H. AnlasTRON9.
1881. +. NJ. COCKREIL.
NEW HAHr1HIRE. I
1879. B. Wadlli0h.
Il68. e III. Rollins.
NEW JERSEY.
1881. q. +. RANDOLPH.
1858. ]. r. MCPHERSON.
NEW YORK.
1879. Rescue COnklinn.
1851. FRANCIS KEENAN,.
| NEBRASKA.
,l1681. A. 3. Paddock,
ll88. Alvin Saunders.
NEVADA.
1889. John P.JO1es, >
. l6Cl. William sharon.
NORTH CAROLINA.
) 1859. A. 3. MERRnlON.
1855. MAT. w. RANSOM.
OHIO.
1879. Stanley Matthews.
1881. A. q. THURMAN.
OREGON.
1850. John H. Mitchell.
1883. l.. F. GROVER,
PENNSYLVANIA,
1879. ID. G. Cameron.
1881. WIN. A. WALLACE.
RHODE ISLAND.
1881. A. Il. Burnside.
1853. H. b. Anthony.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
.|1SH. J. j. Patterson.
1853. d. T.COrbin.
TENNESSEE.
1881. JAMES f. BAILEY.
lSj. lSHAM q. HARRIS.
TEXAS.
. 1881. &. B. MAxEY.
1858. RICHARD Coke.
VERMONT.
1879. Justin &. Morrill,.
1881. Geo. +. Edmunds.
VIRGINIA.
1881. ROB'T +. WITHERs.
1858. j. w. JOHNSTON.
WEST VIRGINIA.
1881. FRANK HEREFORD.
1853. HENRY q. DAVIS.
WISCONSIN.
1879. Tim. o. Howe.
=! 1881. Angus Cameron.
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rapidly as the investing Russian forces, and It
was believed, on the 18th, that they were now
comparatively stronger than at the last battle.
Vienna specials of the 10Th announce
a raid from Hungary into Little Wallachia.
The raid is not favored by the Austrian author
tiles. rs
The Vienna correspondent of the
London Times tclcgraphs, ON the 18th, that
Austria had addressed Turkey, advising her to
negotiate for q speedy peace. Germany and
England had not joined In the movement.
A Bucharest dispatch of the 18th 70
ports the discomfort in Roumania asvcry great.
1t had TRANSFERRED that Onc-thiri Of the Rou-
manian contingent had been placed hors dw
combat.
A London telegram Of the 10th says
both belligerents in Bulgaria were busily en-
gagged in caring for the sick. Typhus fever
prevailed in all the camps, aud was doing more
to weaken forces than heavy battles.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-10-25

The Lackawanna region has shipped
1886, 1876 tons Of coal thus far this year
Ian increase of 787, 476 tons over last
year.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-10-25

United States Minister Picrrepont
has rendered his resignation, to take effect on
the LIST Of December.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-10-25

Ex-Gov. Hendricks, of Indiana, reach
cd New York, from Europe, on the 9Th.
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\ confidential agent has reached
London to secure testimony whose object is to
break the will Of the late Commodore Wander
hilt.
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FORTY.FIFTH CONGRESS-.
Senate
ALABAMA.


Republicans in roman; Democrats in small
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The body Of Gen. Custer was buried
in the cemetery at West Point. n. Y. on the
10th. The ceremony was participated in by
1000 persons.
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sgisass sa - .atae Di ..le9h kit.g
e. sfsdt safa ra Sss. 5. 500
10 Una -e.aosjog 10 q suftg 4. 1asosa
.ysTsf5Sg EEigu.U. II vgEtat aGt,
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say. ,srray *zH = W.
.a7is5 q ,rY7 iXas 6 NJ
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The General Episcopal Convention,
in session at Boston. has consented to the
proposition to divide the State Of Illinois into
three Dioceses.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-10-25

The Ritterschaftlichc. private bank
in Stettin. Prussia. which did large business
in advances on land aud agricultural produce,
failed. on the llth. for f15O,OOO.