The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-09-20
SENSE AND NONSENSE

A rwo-Toor RuLE-Keep your feet dry.
MANY consider - truth what Is merely
crror sanctifed by age.
An Englbhman Gays that American
girls breatAe through their mouths and
talk through their noses.
The meanest man lives in OH City. He
has sent . bill to neighbor for giving the
iaeter's children The mumps. IS
MEN are frequently like tea-thc real
strength and goodness are not properly
drawn out until they have been in hot
water.
TIE Russian eagle had two heads when
this war began. He now has three. The
Turk put the other head ON him.-Boston
1Vass.
APoLrT1cAt paper says, "This Is no
time to split hairs" Certainly not, but IL
IL . pretty good time for man to have his
head gone over with . lawn mower once .
wcek.-Com. Bssllefin.
"ALLow me to be your beau," said
gentleman, placing his umbrella over .
lady in shower. Thank you; I've
plenty Of fair-weather beaux, 60 I sup
pose must call you my rain-beau," she
replied. archly.
Pooh people will be gratifed to learn
that quails are liable to cause inflamma-
ton Of the bowels to those who eat them.
Toast on which quails have stood should
not be left where children can get hold Of
t.-Dssbwsv Nesos.
TIE man who thought to drive this Of.
6ce to the wall by stealing the shears, il
| respectfully informed that-ah, um.m; by
gracious, what is he respectfully informed,
anyhow? Without those shears We feel
sort of dazed like.-OH Uity Derrick
SUnnIR-r1xs has passed away,
And the winter.time 10 cominne
Gone the heat and piercing ray
Here ie autumn's cleaning;
So We bid such things alden
Az the tint Of flowers grown Old,
And We welcome in - new
Fallttmes garniture Of gold.
An old citizen in = country village, ON
having . subscription list handed him
toward purchasing . new hearse for the
dollars for new hcarse forty years ago,
and me and my folks hain't had the bene.
ct of it yet"
"WHERE can put my son so that he
will be safe 30 asked an anxious mother
of wOrldly-wisc old man. "The only
place know of is the one we are going
to now, or another like it." was the re-
ply. They were ON their way to Mount
Auburn Cemetery.
THE exploring party struck the store
where Priam used to trade for his flour
and beans at MyccnG, the other day, and
found the Trojan monarch's pass book,
showing that his account was behind fifty.
nine drachm&. Or. Echlicmann says this
arouses I'LL the grocer passions in his ma
ture.
The Londonderry Journal gives the fol.
lowing instance of q pulpit bull: "A
clergyman preaching u sermon on death.
concluded with the following observe.
ton: But even death, my brethren. 50
we'll deserved by mankind for their sins,
the wisdom of Providence has, in its pa.
ternal kindness, put at the end of our ex-
istence; for only think what life would
he worth ii death were at the begin
ningp"
AMERICA Is the best country In the
werld for young man to advance his po-
sition in life. Robert Almond, of Pitts.
burgh, last year engaged on the Pittsburgh,
Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad as
brakeman, and yet, not long since, he was
for three days General Manager of the
road. However, sad as it may appear,
this is q country of ups and downs, and
Robert now stands first rate chance of
being sent to prison.-Detroit Free Press.
"A BUxON-LOOKIN0 woman entered one
OF the dry goods stores in Augusta, Me-,
not long since, and asked the Z" gentle
manly" clerk to look at his calicocs.
What prints will you look att" in
quircd the clerk. :" l don't want to look
at no Prince" said the young lady. II
had ruther see frce-born American citi.
zen than oil the foreign Princes you can
bring out" The gcntlemanly" clerk
looked red in the face, choked a1ittle, and
ap0lOgetically asked what kind of calico
he should show.
A NEW insect pest is announced. It is
worm that eats the blossoms and fruit of
the cranberry. Its first appearance was on
Cape Cod, where it is already regarded as
the destroyer of 5000 bushels of Gran.
berries, and is still at work. The in
sect has been examined by Mr.. Taylor,
Microscopic to the Department of Agri.
culture. He finds that it can be extirpated
by busting the plants with q mixture of
crude naphthaline and flour. of course
Paris green would kill the insect, but il
would also kill the people that eat the
cranberries.
In the North Carolina Supreme Court,
recently, Col. Edwards, of Granville, who
is distinguished for his courtesy, in the
course of his argument made quotations
fiOm an opinion delivered by the Chief
Justice, saying, "the learned Judge in
that case said, etc. Thereupon the Chief
Justice, who puts little value on compli.
ments, requested him TO "drop the learned
judge" "What shall call him, NAV it
please your Honor ?" asked Col. Edwards.
Call him the judge" said the Chief
Justice. 1t was but moment before an
other quotation was needed; thereupon
Col. Edwards, with his politcst bow and
blandcst smile, said; ",The Judge in that
case held, etc. shall not, may it please
your h0nOrs, second time commit the
error Of calling him the learned Judge"
A YOUNG man of Tennessee, searching
for the place in life to fit his frame, writes
to Western paper: have been teach
ing school ever since quit school about
year ago, but do not like it. It is time
had chosen profession, and think I
would rather he an editor than anything
else, for l like ease and comfort and plenty
of money, and do not like to work. TO
be an editor, to sit in an elegant sanctum,
with nothing to do but write when I felt
like 1t, to have plenty of money and 20
when and where please free of cost, and
lead the editors quiet life Of ease, without
care or trouble Of any sort, is the height Of
nay ambition" Why didn't he ask for
place in treadmill! All he would have
to do would bc to stand in a nice, cool
place and move his feet once in SO often,
with plenty Of opportunity t0smokc, read,
talk or watch his ncighb0rs. -Boston Ad.
| ssrtissy.
The Fall Of HOuntain In Savoy.
An interesting account of the recent fall.
ing of . mountain in Tarentaise, Savoy,
causing disaster to two a0urishing villages,
has been communicated to the Courier
de- Alps by n. Bersrd. The phenome.
NON has been incorrectly reported a. in
stantanoous and the destructive effect COM
plete, whereas the case 10 that Of noun
tain which, for twenty days, without ces-
literally falling, night and day, into the
valley below, fIling il with piled up blocks
of stone. extinguishin9 ali aounda NV ifs