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Good atured Editing.

"Good natured editing" says some
wise man, "spoils half the papers in
the United States" Yea, verify. CIVIL
you please publish the poetry I send, -
says one, at is my first effort )" and
some crude lines go in to encourage bud
ding genius. "Our church is in great
peril" says another, twill you publish
our appeal ?" and a long dolorous plea
is inserted. "My father took your
paper for twenty years." writes another,
" 1 think you ought to publish the reso-
lutions passed by the Big Brake Church
when he died." and in 60 resolutions of
no interest to a majority of the readers.
81 am particularly anxious that the
views I present go before the church
this week." and out go a covey of small,
l,thy contributions, to make room for
three columns from a ponderous D. D..
"There is immediate necessity for the
exposure of one who is a bitter enemy
to the TRUTH" writes another, as he
sends nh attack upon an antagonist
which will fill an entire page. CT am
about to publish a book, identifying the
great image of brass, iron and clay,
and I would be obliged to you to pub
lish the advance sheets Of chapter V.
which I inclose to you" "Why don't
you publish in full RS great speech in
the General Assembly? It would in
crease your circulation largely" eff
you will publish the sermon I transmit
to you, I will take eight extra copies J"
"The church must be aroused on the
subject of foreign MISSIONS" says a
l.astor, as he forwards the half Of his
last Sabbath's sermon. And the ladies
bless their sweet smiles and their
sweet notes.-the good-natured editor
%surrenders to them at once, and they 60
away happy, utterly unconscious that
they have helped to spoil the paper
Philadelphia Presbyterian.
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WebSter's Wit.

Daniel Webster gave a reception to
some Western lawyers one evening soon
after the accession of President Tyler md
the dissolution of Presidents H%arrison's
Cabinet. Among those present were
Nj. Stanberry, late Attorney General and
a bashful gentleman by the name OF
Leonard. They were presented, made
their compliments to host and hostess,
and Leonard, to get out of harms way,
made for n of those nonsensical little
gilt and satin chairs which are not made
to sit in, but which adorn all drawing
rooms. To make things sure, Leonard
tilted his chair backward, and down it
went, smashed, cracking in o crowded
room, and, of course, Leonard the un-
fortunate was also Leonard the observed.
Webster rushed to the wreck of the
Buckeye" extended both hands to
haul him up, and said
"Why, Mr.. Leonard, you ought to
know that no cabinet work will hold TO-
gether here"
There was a general laugh, and Leon
ard did not again try satin chairs that
were not made to be sat in.
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Allied Enemira tn Health.

In many Of the fairest and most fertile dis
tricts of North and tropical America, air and
water are allied enemies to health, both being
imprognated with the poisonous mtasnata
tents and febrile disorders Of q still more
malignant type. Fortunately, a sure pre-
~yentive and curative Of such destructive
maladies is to be found in Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, O vegetable preparation which
is infinitely to be preferred, both on account OF
its efficacy and freedom from all hurtful pro.
p~erties, to the deleterious mineral and a1ialoid
remedies of the pharmacopna. Ity moreover,
the reigning specific for dyspepsia, debility,
constipation, urinary troubles, rheumatism,
and nervousness, promotes appetite and sleep,
and is q capital antidote to depression OF spirits.
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At O recent sale of short-horned COVE
in England O beast named Fifth
Duchess of Hillhurst was sold amid
great applause for 1922, 500. She is said
to be the highest price cow in England,
and is described as a "charming crea-
ture." The largest sum ever paid for u
COW is believed to be S26, $50 for the
duchess of Geneva" which was sold
at New York Mills, in New York, two or
three years ago. Twenty-Five thousand
five hundred dollars is the next highest
sum.
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Peculiar Marriage Ceremony.

On the wedding day in Borneo the
bride and bridegroom are brought from
opposite ends of the village to the spot
where the ceremony is to be performed.
They arc made to sit on two bars of iron,
that blessings as lasting and health as
vigorous may attend the pair. A cigar
and betal leaf, prepared with the areca
nut, are next put in the hands of the
bride and bridegroom. One of the
priests then waves two fowls over the
heads of the couple, and, in a long adj
dress to the Supreme, calls down bless
ings upon the pair, and implores that
peace and happiness may attend the
union. After the heads of the afianced
have been knocked against each other
three or four times, the bridegroom puts
the prepared sire leaf and cigar into the
mouth Of the bride, while she does the
same to him, whom she thus acknowl-
edges as her husband.
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Words Of Wisdom,

Mems muscles move better when
their souls are making merry music.
Genius is the morning dew that keeps
the world from perishing in drouth.
To sheer and denounce is o very easy
way of assuming q great deal of wisdom,
and c%oncealing a great deal OF Ignorance.
Live for to-day, tomorrow is q dream,
We maj not see its bright fulfilling;
But now, while duty's earnest voices coll,
We will, with courage strong and willing,
Live for to-day.
None are too wise to be mistaken, but
few are so wisely just rs to acknowledge
and correct their mistakes ; and espec-
tally the mistakes of prejudice.
There never did, and there never will,
exist anything permanently noble and ex-
cellent in the character which is q strang-
er to the exercise of resolute self-denial.
The truest help we can render, to an
afflicted man, is not to take his burden
from him, but to call out his best
strength, that he may be able to bear
the burden.
There are two sorts of enemies insepa-
rable from almost all men, but al
together from men of great fortunes
the hatterer and the liar. One strikes
before the other behind-both in
sensibly, both dangerously.
Do little he., full things and speak
helpful words VII. ever you can. They
are better than pearls or diamonds to
strew along the roadside Of life. They
will yield a far more valuable harvest,
as you will find after many days.
Faith may sometimes exceed reason,
but not oppose it and belief may be often
above sense, though not against it. Be-
ware, then, not only of an implicit
faith, but of being too closely tied up
to reason where faith is required.
Do little helpful things and speak
helpful words whenever you can. They
are better than pearls or diamonds to
strew along the roadside of life. They
will yield q far more valuable harvest,
as you will find after many days.
Poets know, and statesmen ought to
know, it is by sentiment when well
directed-as by sorrow when well used
great nations live. When sentiment
dies out, and mere proaaic calculation OF
loss and profit takes it's place, then
comes a Byzantine epoch, a Chinese
epoch, a deceptitude and slow decay.
Children must have love inside the
house and fresh air, and good play and
some good companionship outside
otherwise young life runs the greatest
danger in the world Of whitening OF
growing stunted, or at best, prematurely
old and turned inward on itself.
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Physicians of high landing nnhesitatingly
give their Endorsement to the use Of the Graef-
enberg- Marshall's Catholicon for all female
complaints. The weak and debilitated find won
derful relief from a constant use of this valu-
able remedy. Sold by all druggists. $3.50 per
bottle. Send for almanacs, Graefenberg Co.
Nav York
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Wander IInnn Mander.

Given away-A strange, mysterious and most
extraordinary book, entitled 1.-THE Book Of Won
ders." Containing, with numerous curious
pictorial illustrations, the mysteries OF the
heavens and earth, natural and supernatural,
oddities, whimsical, strange curiosities, witches,
and witchcraft, dreams, superstltions, absurdi-
ties, fabulous, enchantment, etc. In order
that all may see this curious book, the pub
fishers have resolved to give it away to all that
desire to see it. Address by postal card,
F. Gleason j. Co., 1888 Washington street,
Boston, Mass.
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| L vi hCf 10 Dhlu " " " o'S NS"SN
Gen. Grant visited Shakespeare's birthplace at
Stratford- on-Avon and was brilliantly received,
his arrival being made the occasion Of q fes-
tival, in which the whole tow joined. The
American colprs were conspicuous all over the
town, and Gen. Grant WAS presented with an
address enclosed in q box made from q null
berry tree planted by the Bard of Avon. IA
cargo of %, 900 bushels Of oats was lost by the
sinking Of O schooner off Kenosha, Wis.
Col. David H. Armstrong has been appointed
United States Senator from Missouri to succeed
the late Senator Bogy 100. The business part
about 5000, 900, on which there is an insurance.
......T The National Republican, the Washing
ton administration organ during Gen. Grants
term, has passed into the hands of A. M. Clapp,
late government printer, who will hereafter
conduct it as an independent Republican news
paper .....At Washington Ex-Assistant Secre-
tary of tho Treasury Sawyer, ex-Commissioner
of Customs Haines and Frank Brooks, of New
York city, were found guilty of tho charge
Of procuring the payment of n fraudulent claim
against the government for S57, OO0. Sawyer
was a United States Senator from South Caro-
lima between the years 1868 and 1878 ......
In answer to numerous inquiries at the Depart
ment of State at Washington; the proclamation
Of the President, calling for an extra session of
Congress on October Is, has been rcpublished.
Senior Castillo and his son, permanently con-
nected with the Cuban insurrection, have sur
rendered to the Spaniards. Senior Castillo was
minister of foreign affairs under the Cuban
government. At Richmond, KY, Perry
White, a colored man, WAS shot and killed by
Hon. Cassius NJ. Clay, formerly United States
minister to Russia. Whites mother had been
discharged from Mr.. Clay's employ, and the
son had threatened to revenge her removal.
Meeting Mr.. Clay on the roadside, White
rushed upon him, after IN alteration, when he
drew a pistol and fired twice. Mr.. Clay was
exonerated by a coroner's jury 49, The Work
ingmen's party of Massachusetts, have nomi'
mated Wendell Phillips for governor .:.:.A Al re,
duction Of 50, $50. 600 in the public debt was
made during September. go. William Hartman,
leader of a body of striking railroad employees
near Circleville, Kansas, fired upon a poss'
of sheriff's officers when commanded TO halt.
The fire was returned and Hartman received
wounds from which he died ...... An election
in Hartford, Conn, resulted i'll the success
Of the Democratic ticket. 80. Over 750, O0C
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Arab hunters and their attendants; a
flock of from $50 to 200 goats, for their
milk and also for food, and black slaves
to look out for the goats. The wild ami
mails are secured in strong boxes and
carried on the camels' backs. They are
all young, and are fed principally with
goats milk, although occasionally, to
keep them in good spirits and fine con-
dition, they are given pieces OF raw
goats meat. Horses are very cheap
there, ranging from SIS to 500 each
the natives ever cheaper, 50 being
thought an ~extravagant price per man
for the trip. Milking goats are worth
81 each, and others about fifty cents.
The journey usually occupies from thirty
to forty days, and all travelling is done
between three and eleven in the morn
ing and five and eleven in the evening.
During midday the suns rays are 80
fercely hot as to make labor or travelling
hazardous, and none is attempted. The
route home is much the same as that
taken going out, and in due time the
beasts are landed, usually with very
little loss, on the great stock wild ami
NAL farm of Charles Reiche & Brother,
in Alfeldt, Hanover. There they remain
until needed to fill orders of showmen in
either Europe or America, while their
hardy captors take three months of rest
and recreation before starting on another
trip.
The Reiche Brothers have nearly
$3.50, 900 invested in this enterprise,
which they have successfully conducted
for many years. The extravaganza OF
the prices paid for some of the beasts is
little known. AS high as $4,000 has
been paid for a single hippopotamus in
good condition. To-day 500, 900 would
hardly buy a specimen, as there is not
one in the country that is known to be
for sale. A rhinoceros is worth from
$4,000 to $1,000, according to the de-
mand and excellence. Girafes sell fo1
$1,000 to $4,000. Lions from $500 to
50, 500, leoparls from 5000 to $400,
hyenas about the same, and ostriches
from $500 to $500. Elephants vary in
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-03-29

devoured at one sitting went to it would
require Medical Board to determine.
Well, one day Jerry started with his
wagon to the city. His load consisted of
butter, eggs, potatoes and a few infant
swine, handsomely dressed for the table.
All of his marketing was disposed of
early in the morning but one pig, and
then the farmer drove round to q small
tavern on Second street, where he pro-
posed stopping for dinner, the price there
Of, in those cheap times, being twenty five
cents. He sold the rooster to Mr.. Ran
dOlph, the tavern-keeper, for seventy. five
cents. AbIut two o'clock, Jerry appeared
for his meal. There happened that day
to be no guest at the table but him. The
dinner was brought in. The rooster sold
Randolph:in the morning, all crisp and
brown, stood before his former owner.
Just as the trio were proceeding to work,
Mr.. and Mrs. Randolph were suddenly
called away to care for one of the children
taken i'll. The landlord, on departing,
told Jerry to 60 ahead and eat his dinner.
Jerry INVADED in" Piece after piece of
the pOrker was devoured with cranber-
berries, potatoes, turnips, and bread and
butter, 0d li6itum. In probably three
quarters of an hour Mr.. and Mrs. r. re.
turned. There was the table, there was
Jerry, but where were the provisions
where especially the pig? The jersey
man was leaning back in his chair com.
placently picking his teeth. The pair
surveyed him with an expression of in
dignant establishment. At length Ran.
delphi spoke: "Why-well, stranger,
should say you were unusually fond Of
roast pig" Yes, yes, may say am
and real, fat, good.sized one makes me,
with trimmin's, Just a fair meal,' said
Jerry, heaving a sigh. Randolph was
out fifty cents on the pig alone, and maybe
as much more on the other provisions con
sumed by the Jerseyman, but you may be
sure Foster ate no more dinners at Ran.
dolph's for QUARTERLY. Y. Mercury.
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A Cutting Argument.

A New York gentleman came to the
Gibson House, q few days ago, and
registered for brief stay in the city.
One Of the first things he did was to visit
the barber-shop next the Office an1 get
shaved. Charley, the barber, having
scraped the gcntleman's face to satisfac-
tory cleanliness, noticed that he wore
rather long hair, and, always ready to
make dime or two for his employer
when opportunity offered, he thought he
had struck upon thirty. cent job with the
scissors, sure. So he interrogated:
Cut your hair, sirs'
"No," was the reply.
.''It's mighty long hair, sir" ventnred
Charley, tucking the towel down behind
the gentleman's collar. There was NO
reply, and, as he ran his fingers through
the long, straight hair, he added:
Much too long, sir, for this weather
and the present style"
No answer.
Better let me Just sort o. trim it up,
sir" continued the barber, grabbing his
scissors and limbering up its rivet close to
the customers ear.
81 don't want it cut today"
"Better not put off till Tomorrow what
can he done today, sir. 1t won't take me
long,"
"But say don't want it cut, my good
fellow"
Excuse me, sir" persisted the knight
of the scissors, "but it is not healthy OF
stylish to wear ones hair so long. Jus,
let me show you how nicely l car
feather it,"
Then the stranger looked up, with &
de operate cast to his eye, and said
Young man, must tell you that l veal
wig? Now let me alone and brush my
hair"
The barber grasped the arm of chat
to save himself fnm falling. Cincinnati
ENQUIRER.
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"BREAKING THE ICE."

WINTER IDYL.
TWAS the touch Of mild weather that midwinter
The old. is:hionpd January thaw,
When snow. banks, like frOzen-up lovers relent,
By natures mysterious law.
The parson was breaking the ice at his gate
Forty, and frosty, was he
When blue eyed JEANNE came tripping that way
Twenty, and pretty, was she.
The parson he greeted the lamb Of his fo.d,
As cordial ~ parsOn could be;
But over the way her blue eyee strayed,
And why. it was easy to see;
For Jerry was breaking the ice at the church.
And JEANNE with Ida to shield her from harm)-
Had pyramids to Jerry, had che.
So they crossed. and she took the pick from his
And merrily struck brave blow,
Then held her dainty red mitten for pay,
And laughed till her cheeks were aglow
And the parson whispered: She's breaking the
II the ice in his heart don't break for that,
1t must be unc0mmonly strong"
80 the p:,son 1sp: :n picking away
When laughing girl, with her heart In her eyes,
Helps her lover to break the icer"
And he sighed. "Ah, were I but young once
But Jeannie. she wouldn't be here.
All; well; the next beet +. thing is fee
They'll send for me. IT'S the old, old tale
That started in Paradise;
And the sweetest remnant OF Eden that's left
Is loving-and breaking the ice.'"
&c. Lansing Taylor, DID,. in Harper's Bazar:
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An Absent.llinded Painter.

Miss JANE STUART, daughter OF Gilbert
Stuart, the painter, in her recollections of
her father, published in Scri5n<r's Month
IN, tells the following anecdOte of his lack
of method in business matters. (Stuart
once painted q picture for Mr.. Hare, of
Philadelphia "On its completion, Mr..
Hare made the requisite payment to my
father, who at once said: Excuse me,
this picture has been paid for Excuse
me for contradicting, Mr.. Stuart, but it
has not, assure you,' replied Mr.. Hare.
My father could not remember the circum-
stances. Mr.. Hare persisted in paying
the amount due. and handed him 5000,
which was . high price at that period.
The picture was full-length Of Mr.. Hare,
with his little daughter introduced. This
anecdote was related 70 me by the daugh-
ter herself, when quite advanced in life.
l write It as an instance OF my fathers
utter inability to transact business" It
would seem that Stuart inherited his alb
sence of mind, for Miss Stuart, In the
same article. says:
"How we'll do remember listening 10
my grandmother's stories Of those dear
old times; for instance, how they would
both 20 to church on q pillion. On one
occasion, my grandfather (wh0 was the
most abeent-minded Of men), while jog
cling along, lost in q reverie, dropped my
grandmother on the road. He soon be-
came aware Of her absence, however,
and turning suddenly, rode back, ex-
claiming, God's-my- life, arc you hurt!'
There she sat, enjoying her anticipation
of his surprise when he should discover
her plight"