The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-11-22
SENSE AND NONSENSE.

SENSE AND NONSENSE.
"IF health could be deposited in
savings banks" says the Rochester
Democr0t, ''therc wouldn't Ee well
person in the world
"How TO tell lady, is described
in fashion exchange. But, pshaw!
they can't tell people anything ON that
subject. just take hold of her hand,
slip your arm around her waist, and
tell her in whisper. That's the correct
way.
The Mobile Register says that the
Southern women were not nervous dur
ing the war; that ut Vicksburg and
Petersburg, when the shells went
| through the houses, they would go
down into the cellar and get dinner
ready as usual.
A HARD-HEARTD Western editor
asks: s. Did you ever notice how sensi-
tive are the ears of woman in churcl,
to the crying Of some other wOman's
baby, and how deafcr than a post she
is when her own offspring sets up its
PicHcinss S4udll!
FASHIONABLE English women are
just now agitated with a terrible ques-
tion-whether or not it is right to wear
furs. 1t is not because furs are too
dear, or not as warm and lasting as
ever, but because they are "commOn."
Every woman has \ set.
He was just married and the sweets
of the honeymoon seemed destined to
infinite prOlOngation. But one MORN
ing he read u newspaper prediction
that there were to be ITO snow-stOrms
this winter, on the strength of which
statement his wife bought snow-shOv-
ell. 1t was too much for him. He is
now chattering maniac.
A CORRESPONDENT writes "Do YOU
think it is wicked to smoker Oh,
dreadfully, awfully, sinfully wicked.
Send your cigars to this office and let us
burn them up for you. while you swear
off and reform before it is too late. 1t
is already too late for us. We went to
swear off last week, but the office was
closed and the man had gone to a pic
nic.-Burlington Hawk-Eye.
A TRAVELLER who dropped into a
GOuverneur IN. J.) store, the other
day, just after recent fire there, found
the occupants all talking about that
matter. During lull in the conversa-
ton the traveller remarked, to an old
man sitting near by: II suppose every
body thinks the fire was the work of an
incendiary.'' WALL said the old
man, "some do think so, but think it
was sot.''
AN envious st. Louis paper says !:
''The Chicago papers tell us that when
one respectable Chicagoan remarks,
with a sigh, to another respectable Chi
cagoan, Another old citizen gomez
the response is, with how much?
What bankP' )" Whereupon Chicago
paper sharply retorts: g But when
st. Louisian observes, Another old cit
zen gone" the question is, How many
counts in the indictment? Which
jail?'' Tally one for Chicago.-M Y.
Graphic.
A THEOLOGICAL student, who ven-
tured out from an Ohio College, recent
", to preach in little village near
Cleveland, learned while there that
countrymen are appreciative of literary
art. He preached Il sermon on the
mystical importance of the number
three-three kinds of life, mineral, veg
etable and animal; Noah had three
sons; faith, repentance and baptism,
the three things necessary to salvation,
etc. After the service an aged deacon
approached him and said: "Really
your discourse was one of the most
ingenious l ever listened to. | was
sorry that you did not carry your illus
trations in regard to that wonderful
number just little further. For in
stance, there are three aisles running
through this house; there are three
lamps in the chandelier hanging yon-
der; three books lie upon the pulpit;
there are three ink-spots on this table;
and, better than all, noticed three col
orcd men in the gallery"
WHILE blasting rock from one of the
quarries on the hillside west of town
the attention of one of the workmen
was attracted by the curious formation
of one of the pieces that had been split
off. An examination proved that i'm
bedded in the rock was wasps' next,
the texture and cells of which, although
turned to stone, were plainly visible.
On breaking open some of the cells the
Larvae and two perfectly formed wasps
were found within i'm the same petri-
fed condition as the rest. There was
no visible crack or outlet by which the
insects could have penetrated the rock,
and the piece in which this curious
formation was found was taken from q
depth of forty feet from the surface.
The rock is granite sandstone of sed-
imentary origin. The specimen was
carefully cut out and forwarded to the
Smithsonian Institute mt Washington.
Eureka (Ncr.) Sentinel.
We lately were told of a Fifth-avenue
resident who was presented with doc
tors bill of long standing, by the doc
tor in person, just as the nabob was
coming down his front steps to take the
air in his handsome carriage. And all
that the doctor got for his pressing re-
quest for money was the confession
that his gay and festive patron had not
a dollar nor the means of getting one.
When demonstrated with on the incon-
sistency of living in such style at the
expense of his creditors, the "gentle-
man. frankly stated that this was ne
cessity of the case, since if he should
turn economist his credit would collapse
at once and his family become candi-
dates for the poor-house. Rather than
endure such humiliating vicissitude
he looked upon his constituencies
course as an excusable alternative
And there is good reason to suspect that
fashionable society is just now doing a
large business in this confidence line
N. Y Mail.
Law and Lawyers.
LAW, as defined by an eminent En-
glish jurist, is command proceeding
fn0m the surname aufhnrify of the Stair