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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-19
How Kid Gloves arc Made.

GLOVES have been in use from vcrv
early times, being mentioned by such an
cicnt writers as Homer and Zcnophcn.
During the middle ages they were worn
by certain officials as q mark of dignity,
But as civilization advanced they gradu.
ally became common to all classes of the
community. In the early part of this
century there was no positive regularity
in the cut and shape of kid gloves, all be.
ing left to the judgment of the cutter, who
had no systematic pattern. In 1884
Xavier Jouvin invented a new method of
cutting out the kid, doing it with geomet.
rical precision. His system is extremely
elaborate, having thirty two sizes, cutting
ten widths to each size, in all making thir-
ty-twO different numbers. Since then
other manufacturers have made numer-
GUS Improvements in shape, finish aud
stitching, and now the best makes have
almost reached perfection, and merit the
growing demand, which is such that the
price of skins have advanced 80 per cent.
in the last fifteen years.
The term "kid," however, is q mere
technically, as the quantity consumed an.
nually Of leather bearing this name is
largely in excess of what could he sup
piled from the skins of all the young
goats that are annually slaughtered, lamb
and other thin skins being extensively
used. One of our Newark stores by act
ual count has retailed 472 pairs in six
days, and q certain New York house re.
tails $500, coo worth annually. The value
of those manufactured in France is esti-
mated at SO, 600, 900 francs, and there are
large quantities made in Italy, Germany
and England, and comparative small
amount in this country, at Gloversville
and New York City.
As the sewing of a single pair
of ladies' kid gloves requires 5000
stitches, for which the continental
manufacturers pay about ten cents,
it can readily be seen that this
industry cannot be carried ON exten.
sively in this country. The seams are
sewed with perfect regularity by placing
the edges to be united in the jaws of wise
which terminate in fine brass teeth like
those of comb, but only one-twclfth of
an inch long, the stitches being held by q
knot to prevent ripping, which used to be
q frequent source OF trouble. 1t is neces-
sary that the animal should be killed
young, because as soon as it begins to feed
on heritage its skin is impaired for this
purpose. Eggs are very extensively used
in preparing the skins-it is estimated
that 80, OOO, 900 are annually used in En-
gland and France alone. In cOloring the
Kids dye is applied to the outer skin with
brush by hand; if the skins were i'm
mersed the inner portion would also re.
ceive the dye and stain the hand.
France exccls all in the variety and
richness of her colors, which is attributed
to her atmosphere and water -producing
200 different shades. Ladies' sizes run
from 81 to 8; gents from ~ to II;
misses from 4 n ~. Gents are longer
in the fingers ami higher in the wrist than
those of ladies' of like number, though,
they are alike in width, and the misses
gloves are narrower.-Ntcask IN. J.|
Aduestiser.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-19
Torpedo Boats.

The Scientific american gives an illus.
trated description Of the torpedo Alarm.
1t says while foreign nations have be-
slowed chief attention upon immensely
costly experiments on guns and armOr,
here in the United States the principal aim
has been the perfection of the torpedo
system. An admirably organized and
thoroughly equipped torpedo school for
the navy has for several years been in ex-
istencc in Newport, r. I. The work
which there is done IS not published, but
many of its results are of great impOr.
lance. There is also an army torpedo sta.
ton at Willct's Point, L. l. We have also
constructed one torpedo vessel, which is
probably the most formidable craft aflOat
mot excepting the Italian iron-clads with
their 1OO-ton gans), and in time of war
will form the model for a fleet IF like
steamers. This vessel is the Alarm, which
would be disagreeablc craft for heavy
iron clad Zone like the Vanguard, for in
stance, which went down like shot on
being slightly rammed) to encounter. She
is well provided with defensive means
Having sighted an enemy-s say at night
her compound engines drive her headlong
at him at the rate Of fifteen knots per
hour. As she ncars him the immense
electric light on her bow flashes out its
glare, binding her adversary to her own
hull-which is already sunk so low that
her deck is but three feet above the sea-
while displaying his every proportion.
The roar of her fifteen inch gun, as it
hurls its huge shot or she'll in
to the attacked vessel, is followed
by the crash of the low spar
torpedo striking the devoted craft thirteen
feet below the water line. Then, per-
haps, after momentary check due to the
torpedo rccoil, the Alarn plunges for.
ward, driving her immense ram into her
adversary's crushed side. As she swings
broadside onto her foe, another torpedo
spar shoots out from her side, and anoth-
or torpedo is exploded under the un.
guarded boom of the enemy; while the
machine guns under the torpedo. boats
rail keep up deadly fire Of thousands of
bullets per minute, sweeping her Oppo.
nent's decks Her length is 172 feet, of
which thirty two feet is snout or ram-her
beam is twcnty.seven feet six inches, and
she draws eleven feet of water, displacing
about 700 tons. She is built of thorough
ly.tested charcoal iron, ard on the Eng
fish bracket-plan system; that is to say,
she has really double hull, one shell be-
ing constructed inside the other. Within
the outside shell three longitudinals of
great strength run the entire length Of
the vessel, and are connected with bars
running 10 ahorizontal direction by brack-
cts. The differcut sections can be en-
tered through man. holes, so that per.
son can pass from stem TO stern between
the inner and outer vessels. These com.
partmehts are all water-tight, 80 that in
the event of q leak, only one section could
fill. The whole interior of the vessel Is
also built in compartments which may be
Theoretically sealed.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-19

in the administration of law he should know NO
race.
A strike among the cotton.spinncrs in
the Lancashire (EnglandD district was imminent
on the 9Th.
Odessa kilograms of the It'll report that
hurried preparations were making in all porta
of the Black Sea to meet an apprehended attack
by the Turkish iron-clad feet.
The Reading (Pa.) Railroad Company
decided, ON the 7th, to suspend all engineers ON
the Germantown 4 NOrristown Branch belong
ing to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin-
GERS. They were given two days in which to de-
eide whether they would abandon the Brother.
hood or the Railroad Company.
According to Washington dispatch
of the 9Th, Gov. Chamberlain friends had de-
termined to have him assert his claim to the
Governorship of South Carolina, on the ground
that if neither he nor Hampton were properly
inaugurated, then Chamberlain holds over
Wright, the third Judge of the Supreme Court
holds to this doctrine. Chamberlain, who
reached Columbia on the preceding day, insisted
that the Legislature must meet, if at all, under
his call, and either order new election, recan.
vass the vote, or order what was necessary to BIZ
done.
A London special of the 9th says intel.
ligenoe had just been received to the effect that
the Porte had rejected the principal clauses Of
the protocol, and refused to admit the Russian
doctrine of disarmament; declined to send an
envoy to St. Petersburg, and insisted on dealing
with Montenegro as she pleased. War was con-
sidered inevitable and imminent,
A Rome Utaly) telegram of the 9th re-
psrts the appearance of armed bands of Inter
nationalist at various towns in the interior. Al
Selma, band of thirty took possession of the
town and burned the municipal archives.
On the morning of the 9th, the Louisiana
Commission sat three hours in secret session,
and in the afternoon received delegations in the
interests of the two GubernatOrial claimants.
The Commission stated, among other things, that
the moment the members of the Legislature,
whose election was undisputed by either party,
should meet together as one body, it would con-
stitute the State of Louisiana. If this were
done, self-government and the withdrawal of the
army would follow in twenty-four hours, they
thought.
The President is constantly in receipt
of letters from persons of both political parties
and from all parts of the country, heartily APP.
proving of his policy, according to an Associated
Press dispatch of the 9Th.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-19

GERMANY sends annually into the fur
market about 12O, 900 fox skins, of which
80 900 come from Bavaria and q, 600 from
Prussia. Of other skins her average an
nual produce is 20, O0O pine martens, co.
600 stone martens, 280, 900 polecats, 5000
offers, 5000 badgers and COG, 900 hare
skins, which last are used by the felt hat.
makers. Of rabbit skins the annual yield
Of Germany is only 800, 900 to 5000, 900 in
France The skins of 40O, 900 domestic
cats complete the list.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-19
Transporting Fresh Beef.

SOME four or five years ago, Col. E. G.
Townsend settled the point, once for all,
in regard to the temperature at which
fresh beef could be transported, having
successfully carried cargo of meat from
Texas to Philadelphia. 4 degree of cold
approaching to freezing is not required
for transporting fresh beef. 1t is true
that such meat would arrive, if kept al
80 degrees during q year, in q sound con-
dition, but the act of freezing meat i'm.
pairs its quality. It is unnecessary to
enter here into an elaborate explanation
why such frozen beef is not good. It is
sufficient to say that, though merchanta-
BILE, its price would be very low. Scien-
tific men state that such changes ~ may
take place in beef kept at very low tenn
pcrature are more physical than chemical.
but, as butchers and consumers pay for
the beef, and are ignorant or Indifferent
US to the scientific facts, If they can help
it, they will not touch frozen beef. The
dissatisfied party, then, who in winter
hangs leg of mutton out of his window,
and allows /: to freeze and thaw, and
thaw and freeze, will, when he boils or
roasts his piece Of meat, get very indif.
ferent leg Of mutton.
1t is fortunate, then, that beef does not
require such low temperature In order
to keep perfectly we'll. The difference Of
q few degrees Of the thermometer 10 of
the greatest help in point of economy Of
ice and expense of apparatus. If, dur
ing the ten or twelve days voyage the
State of Indiana may take to reach 0las-
gov, the temperature of the beef-chAmber
can be kept somewhere between IS de-
grees and 40 degrees, the steers which
were killed Ut HaTsumus Cove on the 7th
of this month will arrive In Glasgow on
the 10th of March in the primest, ripest
condition, and, - roast beef or steaks, will
undoubtedly delight our Scotch friends.
6crambling down the ladders Of tho
ship, we make our way below. and Wit.
ness the construction Of the chill.room.
First given space has had some half.
dozen shea&hings applied to the iron ribs
and aides Of the vessel, ~ much greater
precaution must be used On IN iron vessel
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-19

The newest style Of fancy shirts for
gentlemen are made of white linen,
double breasted, ornamented with q fine
line of red, blue, or brown, and with col
lars trimmed TO match.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-19

MIR. James Gordon Bennett il in Rus
sic, and says the story that he went there
to get out Of the reach of cowhides IL y
knout and knout Observation-Disclosures
Hasek- Ere.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-19
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.

Caleb Gushing, United States Minister
ut Madrid, has had farewell audience with the
King.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-19

Gov. Packard addressed letter to Presi.
dent Hayes. on the 5th. in which he excerpts to
the instructions issued to the Louisiana Commits
sioners, in that they exclude do not direct in
quiry upon the three essential questions namely:
Which is the legal government entitled to recog-
milton: which is the legal Judiciary? and does
domestic violence and instruction prevail with
in the meaning of Sec 4, Art. 4, of the Constitu-
tion of the United States?
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-19

Finzel & Sons. of Bristol, England, pro-
prietors of the largest sugar refinery i'm the
world, have failed, with liabilities aggregating
e., SOC, 900.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-19

A school.house in the Norwegian village
of Eilcngoa has been burned, and sixteen chill
dren perished.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-19

A family. named Kcafer, were recently
arrested by Kansas detectives, at Alma, Ark,
suspicion of being the notorious Bender
tribe Of murderous fame in Kansas. The de-
tectives had been shadowing the Keafers for
some time, and are confident they have captured
the right PARTIES.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-19

John p. Hoyt, of Michigan, has been
appointed Governor of Arizona Territory, and
Alfred +. Lee. Of Ohio to be Consul General at
Frankfort, Germany.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-19

Alonzo Bell has been appointed Assist
ant-Secretary Of the Interior being promoted
from the Chief Clerkship, in accordance with
the Civil-Service rules.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-19

The Spanish General commanding in
Cuba has promised pardon to every person in
rebellion who surrenders before the first of next
May. provided such person has not committed
an extraordinary offense.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-19

Peter B. Sweeney. in card recently
published, denies that he has any revelations to
make concerning ex-Mayor Hall, or any other
person. and he says none can truthfully be made
regarding himself.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-19

The American pedestrians, O'Leary and
Weston, recently engaged in a walking-m atcha at
London, the former winning, Weston being
twenty-five miles behind at the end of the con-
test,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-19

The New York papers of the 9Th say
the only difficulty then in the way Of the re-
lease of Tweed was his unwillingness to divulge
the names Of those who are said to have been
bribed by him.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-07-26
Narvona Debility.

A depressed, irritable state of mind a
weak. nervous, exhausted feeling; no en-
ergy or animation; confused head, weak
memory, often with facilitating, involuu-
tary discharges. The consequence OF
excuses. mental overwork and indiscre-
tons. This, NERVOUS DEBILITY finds a
sovereign cure in HUMPHREYS HoMEO-
.PATHIC SPECIFIC, No. %, 1t tones up the
system, arrests discharges, dispels the
mental gloom and dependency, and rejuve.
mates the entire system. 1t is perfectly
harmless and always efficient Price SIS
for package of FIVE boxes and a large s.
vial of powder, which is important in old
serious cases; or 81 per single box. Solo
by all druggists, or sent by mail on receipt
Of price Address Humphreys Homeo.
pathic Medicine Co., No. 100 Fulton ST.,
n. Y.
sSg-See argC advertisement
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-07-26

already it has been extensively put to prac-
teal use, and has proved that it meets a
real want.
In Providence and some other manufac-
turing cities, the agents of the factories
have established communication between
their offices in town and their mills. ten or
fifteen miles away, by means of the tele-
phone, and they find it works admirably,
is surprisingly cheap, and is easily man.
aged. A conversation may be held be-
tween two persons at the different places,
and the words heard almost as plainly as
it the persons were in the same room. The
sound is so distinct that you can dis.
tinguish the difference between voices; tell
who it is with whom you are telephonically
talking.
The advantages of such a method OF
communication are Obvious, especially al
no battery is required, no knowledge Of
teiegraphy is necessary, and anybody is
equal to the management of the instru.
ment, without any previous training. AL
that is required is simply to put you,
mouth to the orifce of the telephone and
say your say, just as you call through g
speaking tube to person with his ear al
the other END. 10 get your answer, yoU
have only to apply your ear to the tele
phone, while the person at the other enc
Of the wire, miles away, puts his mouth tC
the ori6ce of the instrument 10 his hands
and replies to your question. So far a.
known, there is no practical limit to tn,
distance through which communication
may be made. Gov. Lippitt. for example
sitting in his Office at Providence. is IN con
slant telephone communication with hi
factories, fifteen miles away; anG Prof
Bell we believe, asserts that there is n
difficulty in talking across the Atlantic
thus reducing the cost of transmission o
messages, so that it need not exceed tina
of telegraphing the same from New Y orl
to Boston. This claim, however, has ye
to be proved.
1t is plain that in the telephone we hav
the germ of a great practical discovery.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-07-26
A THING OF BEAUTY

Indeed, and joy Forever, Is the New
and Superb Edition of the Rocky
Mountain Tourist.
So remarkably large has been the demand
for the now widely noted work, the Rocky
Mountain Tourist, that an entirely new edi-
ton has been necessitated, and is just
ready for issue. While the first edition
was an elegant thing, the second Is really
superb, and the Rocky Mountain Tourist
IN its new form, royal octave, thirty two
pages, printed on the 1nest Of super sized,
calendered paper, handsomely bound with
engraved cover, is without the slightest
question the richest and most attractive
book of the description ever issued. Allwho
contemplate trip through the garden of
the Observation-Disclosures Kansas-to
the Alps of America-the Rocky Noun
tains-will comit the gravest of mistakes
I'by starting before securing the Tourist,
San Juan Guide and accompanying maps.
Simply the mere request by postal card or
letter addressed to t. j. Anderson, Topeka,
Kansas, will insure, by return mail, abso-
lutely free, the receipt of these indispensi-
bic auxiliaries to travel in the Great West.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-07-26

Positively cured-also Blind and Bleeding
Piles, Fistula, Salt Rheum, and all dis
eases Of the Skin, by the use of
ROSSMAN'S CURE.
Itching PILES is generally preceded by
a moisture like perspiration producing a
very disagreeable and distressing itching,
particularly at night, after getting warm
in bed No humbug-as a trial will prove.
For sale by all respectable druggists.
RossMAN q MCKINsTRY, Hudson, N. Y,
Proprietors.
Sent by mail for so cents.
IF YOU HAVE A COUGH,
Cold, Asthma, raising of Blood or any az
fections of the Breast or Lungs, leadir to
Consumption, use
DR.. HOUSEMAN'SG GERMAN COUGH
DROPS,
as prepared for over thirty years By J. J.
Davis(now deceased) and you vi be sure
to find relief. Address ROSSMAN 4
McKINSTRY, who have succeeded to the
Proprietorship, and sold by all druggists
and dealers in Medicines. For sale by all
Druggists in Rock Island.
Sold by Avery & Tyler, Lafayettee. In.
diana. Fuller x Fuller. and VanSchaack.
Stevenson & Reed, Chicago, wholesale
agents.
John f. Henry, Curran & Co., Whole
sale Agents. s College Place, ~ Y.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-07-26
aayssisIn in Ohio.

From hs Cincinnati Enquirer.
A member Of the Republican State Cen
trail Committee said TO me tonight: Il
don't see what use there is in keeping up
cur committee organization. Our business
has been to collect money from the Office
holders, for one or two men to spend in
carrying on the campaign. Now the Fed
eral officers won't pay anything, because
l1ayes's order let's them out, They didn't
like to pay any too we'll before. Now they
won't pay a cent. So think we may as
we'll close up shop"
asked him what Wikoff was going to
do about it,
''Wikoffl Why, he can't do anything.
He'd lose his head If he attempted to con-
tribute dollarl"
Mr.. Wikoff, l might remark here and
now, is pension agent an office worth
$4,000 year, and yet they darent ask
him for money enough to illuminate a
transparency with Hayes's picture on one
side aud old Mad. Wells upholding the
down trodden liberties of Louisiana on the
other. He'd frown savagely and quote
Hayes's order at them.
SO | asked how the Federal officers
usually PANIED out in former times.
oh, they do pretty we'll sometimes
then again not 30 we'll Ten or ftteeI
years ago they did better than lately"
What is considered fair average croI
to harvest from the postmasters of OhioP
Five thousand dollars is q good yield
Sometimes it doesn't amount to that
Once in a while it goes over il"
"How'was it last year,"
well, last year was kind of excep
tional year. Up to the time we had tina
scare about Barnes's election we hadn't
got IN more than $4,000. When tina
came we all of us stirred around and toc
them they d got to pay up or wee lose thu
state and the presidency. And they stirred
around right lively, you bet, The none,
began to come IN then, and there was NJ
lack OF it the balance of the campaign"
How much did you get from them ?'
oh, l don't know exactly; probably
eight or ten thousand. Then the Easter
people didn't forget us either"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-07-26

EVERLASTING PERFUME!-Murray &
Lanman's Florida Water has often been
styled the Everlasting Perfume" 1t is
indeed true that its delightful aud refresh
ing fragrance fingers for many days around
whatever it touches-unlike the ordinary
perfumes, that leave no trace CT their mo-
mentray existence save the sickly, heavy
odor of rancid oils. Buyers should always
ask for the Florida Water prepared b.
Lanman & Kemp, New York.