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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-19
A New Motive Power.

In the middle ages, gentlemen of a
philosophic turn of mind and an unlim-
tied amount of leisure wasted their lives
in fruitlcss search after the elixir Of life
or the philosophers stone. The present
time finds people more sensible, and
these desirable but very unobtainable arti-
cles are not now sought after; the philos-
Opher of the nineteenth century prefers
employing his talents to better advantage,
and, when everything else fails him, he
turns his attention to the discovery of q
new motive power, and whenever he an.
nounces that he is ready to run train of
cars or q steamboat with half pint of
water, or condensed air, or pendulums, or
something of that sort, there are hundreds
ready to believe the inventors promises
who would scof at the idea of transmitting
metals. There is no doubt that a new mo-
tive power is urgently needed; any person
who has run against .lamp.pOst ut mid
night is ready to admit that, and perhaps
this is one of the reasons that makes
people 80 anxious for something novel in
this line, as icy pavements and late hours
arc very apt to undermine persons con-
fdence in the present style of l0c0m0tiOn.
Philadelphia had her moment of triumph
In this matter, but now the voice of Keely
ID heard NO more in the land. Detroit
stepped to the front, but classy has de-
parted forever; 90 Brooklyn now stands
up. and In the person Of Isaac Chomel, sol
Fulton street, challenges The admiration
OF the world tor her new motive power.
Unlike Keely, Isaac ID not satisfied with .
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-19
A Novel system of Caltsthenics.

Ar progressive female seminary in the
South Division, the exercises in calls
themes are very properly arranged and
conducted so as to fit the young women
practicing them for their duties in life.
Swinging from straps is found an admir-
able preparation for travel in horse-cars,
and the exercise is so conducted as to
strengthen the arms, open the chest, dis
play the arm, if symmetrical, and give
new grace to the figure. The class that is
to graduate at the June commencement
goes through the broOmstick exercise
daily, and practices throwing gutta- percha
table crockery and cOal-Oil lamps at dunn
mics to represent husbands, at all ranges,
from the length of dinner-table to that
Of n dining-room. One young lady last
week, for bet of three boxes OF chocolate
creams, undertook to sling the contents Of
tea-tray, twenty-seven pieces in all, at q
dummy at ten yards distance, and to hitit
above the Piccadilly shirt-collar twenty
times, the feat not to occupy two and one
quarter minutes. She performed it in the
unexampled time of one minute and
twenty-six seconds, hitting the mark
twenty-six times, the only miss recorded
being with the teapot. It could hardly
be called a miss, because she took the
dummy in the epigastric region with it
it was sort of q "killed, but fell dead
out of bounds" business. Her enthusiastic
room Innate offered to match her agains
Bogardus for dozen pair of ten button
gloves, and the lady principal of the
school, who is widow, kissed her tender.
", and said such things made her feel
young again.-Chicago Tribune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-19
The Largest Musical Box In the World.

The following very interesting descrip-
ton is from the Continental Herald, an
Anglo Amcrican paper printed in Geneva,
NJ. Samuel Troll, fills, of this city, has
just finished, for the Khedive of Egypt,
certainly the biggest and finest, and, prob
ably, the handsOmest musical box ever
made. Its beautiful ebony case is buffet
shaped, as large as full-sized sidebOard,
and inlaid with zinc and brass work, and
ornamented with bronze chasings and
plates. The interior of this remarkable
box is perfect marvel of mechanical in
gcnuity; it includes all the latest improve
ments for selecting tunes, patent moder-
ator, ETC., and is finished with flute, flute
bassO, drum bells, and castanets. The re-
pertoire consists of 1872 tunes supplied by
eleven cylinders (which can he exchanged
at pleasure) each of them being inches in
diameter and 26 inches long. Notwith-
standing its Brobdignagian dimensions,
this instrument, like others of its kind, per-
forms ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the Khedive
desires to treat himself to concert he needs
only to touch spring, and if His Highness
should grow weary OF the monotony Of his
1879 tunes, he has but to communicate with
the ingenious and cnterprising manager of
Nj. Trolls establishment-Mr. Geo. Baker
who can speedily supply him with the
materials for a few additional hundreds.
To complete our description we ought to
mention that the price to be paid for the
box is 10000 francs. As this peculiarly
Swiss work of art will leave Geneva in the
course of few days, we should advise
those of our readers, who may have time
and opportunity, not to omit making q
visit to the warehouse in the rue BOnivard
they may count on courteous reception
from Mr.. Baker, who will be happy to
show them his big box--the result OF eight.
cen months assiduous labor, and Of whose
successful completion his firm may be
Justly proud.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-19

the Cantata of Queen Esther to crowded
audiences Mrs. Hayden, who supervised
this performance, is about leaving for
Europe, much to the regret of the Salt
Lake people.
A Gentle correspondent of one of the
Salt Lake journals thus sets forth some of
the pecularities attending education here:
my favored lot in Zion is that of day
laborer. have about $3.50 taxable prop
erty, and four children of school age. To
keep them in school, say seven raonths in
the year, costs thirty-five dollars for tut.
ton alone, exclusive of books, school,
house tax, etc. This is tax of fourteen
per cent. on my taxable property for the
one item of tuition alone. Now, were q
citizen of Iowa, would pay for the privi-
leges, with all school-hou expenses
thrown in, on the above $3.50, $3.50: or in
Illinois, 81; in Ohio, 90 cents; Maine, %
cents; New York, 43 cents; Indiana, %
cents. Now, Brigham Young's assessable
property is no: over 1850, 600, and his
not very numerous offspring who are OF
school age, we estimate at forty, making
his school tax .OOO14, or about one-seventh
of one mill ON the dollar, while l pay IA,
or 40 mills. That is to say, pay one
dollar in seven Of my assessable property,
while Brigham pays one in 81, ."-Salt
Lake Cor. N. 7. Graphic.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-19
Faithful to His Trust.

WE hear all about the bad deeds of this
wicked world, but the good deeds are
rarely alluded to at any length. We ex-
pect people to be honest and say nothing
about it. 1t is the dishonesty of men
which excites comment. The other day, in
New York, Mr.. Samuel T. SkidmOre, the
executor of the will of one John r. Town
send, who died thirty years ago, asked to
be relieved of his trust on account of age.
The son of Mr.. Townsend stated in court
that during his long trusteeship Mr.. Skid
more had refused to accept one cent of re-
and he requested that the &C.
counts be accepted without an investiga-
ton. Surrogate Calvin said it was q
bright spot in the history of the Court,
where so many had proved false to their
trusts, when acase was presented in which
all parties interested in trust expressed
themselves so highly gratified with its
management. He directed the accounts
of Mr.. Skidmore to be passed without ex-
animation. There are q thousand in
stances of similar fidelity on the part of
executors and trustees in Boston, but we
do not remember that any one ever took
care of a large estate for thirty years with
out compensation. Boston Journal.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-19

In speaking of persons faults,
Pray don't forget your own;
Remember, those with homes of glass
Should seldom throw a stone.
If We have nothing else to do
But talk Of otters' sin,
It's better we commence at home,
And from that point begin.
We have no right to judge a man
He should be fairly tried;
Should we not like his company,
We know the world is wide.
Some may have faults-and who have not,
The old rs well as young?
Perhaps We may. for aught We kipw
Have many where they've one.
Ill tell you of a better plan.
And one that works full we'll:
Be sure your own defects you cure
Before of others tell.
And. though I sometimes chance to be
No worse than some know,
My own shortcomings bid me let
The faults of Others 60.
Then let us all. when we commence
To Islander friend or foe,
Think of the harm one word may do
To those We little know.
Remember. curses sometimes, like
Our chickens. roost ut home;'
Don't speak of others faults until
We have none of our own.
Harry .. Free, in Chicago Tribune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-19

A panacea, or "cure-all," is one Of the
myths Of the age of super stition. DR.. 4. V.
Pierce does not recommend any one of even
his whole list of standard remedies as ade-
quate to cure every disease. For severe lin
gering coughs. bronchial, throat, and chronic
lung diseases, he believes his Golden Medi.
cal Discovery is unsurpassed. but 1t will not
cure you II your lungs are half wasted BY
consumption. The Discovery not only ex-
ercises potent influence over pulmonary
affections, by reason of its pectoral proper
ties, but possesses also the most valuable al
terative, or blood cleansing properties, and is
therefore sovereign remedy in blood and
skin affections. But while 1t will cure scrof-
ul0us and other ulcers or sores, blotches.
pimples, and eruptions, 1t will not cure can
cor, nor does its manufacturer claim any
such merit for 1t 40 is done by proprietors OF
other blood cleansing medicines, who dis
honestly try to deceive the afflicted into the
belief that their preparations will accom-.
plish impossibilities. By reason Of its real
intrinsic merit it has sale surprising that
Of any other blood and cough medicine.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-19

dition of Egypt is not much better now.
The Khcdive, who seems to have taken
Napoleon III. for his model, builds pal
ace after palace for himself and his 800
wives, and constructs by forced labor rail-
roads and sugar factories; but more de.
graded, miserable, slavish and beggarly
population than the Egyptians it would
he difficult to find within the limits of the
civilized world. Backsheesh" is the
first word they learn and the last they
forget. You hear it everywhere from
morning till night, as if it were 1.-the
chief end of man. The Khedive grinds
his people TO the very dust by taxation.
He is very intelligent and has all the
varnish of the French civilization, but he
builds from the top downward, instead of
building from the foundation upward.
The result is bankruptcy. But this may
end in the annexation of Egypt to En-
giant, which will be great blessing to
Egypt, and part of the solution of the
Eastern question. Every intelligent man in
Egypt Il cannot add, woman" for WON.
an expresses no wishes in MOhammcd-
an countries) longs for English rule.
1t is strange that no allusiOn to the
Pyramids should be found in the Bible,
unless it be in Job 3: IA, where the He
brew word chdrab0fh (mistranslated " des-
olate places" in our English versiOn) sig
mites lofty sepulcher or pyramid (from
"perami" lofty:
For now should have lain still and been quiet,
should have slept; then had been at rest
With Kings and councillors of the earth,
Who built themselves pyramids.
The Books of Moses may be read with
increased interest on the banks of the
Nile, especially the Book of Exodus. The
real history of Egypt is written in the
Pyramids and the Bible. To the Bible
student it will always be of deep interest
as the adopted home of Joseph and the
patriarchal family; as the birthplace of
Moses, who was there initiated into all
wisdom under the fostering care of Pha-
raoh's daughter during the long reign of
Rameses the Great; as the training school
of the people of God; rs the house OF
bondage out of which God called His Son /:
as the temporary shelter of the infant
Jesus and the holy family. And the STU
dent of church history can never forget
the important service which Egypt rem
dered to Christendom through the learn
ing of Origen and the orthodoxy of
Athanasius. The time will come when
the Cross will replace the Crescent, and
and the gospel once more illuminate the
darkness of the land Of the Nile.-Cairu
Egypt Cor. n. Y. Observer.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-19
The Story Of q Nose.

NJ. ARAGo, the French statesman, and
nephew of the astronomer, is, in spite of
his sixty-five years, very handsome
man. He has large nose, of which he
is somewhat proud. A short time ago he
was travelling by train to Versailles. when
a child who was in the same carriage,
and who had watched Arago for some
time with dilated eyes, began to cry. In
vain did the child's mother, Arago and
another Senator endeavor to calm the per-
turbed juvenile. The poor mother was
in despair, and, as the shrieks grew more
and more piercing, Arago felt bound to
interfere and see what he could do. He
said to the child, "What ais you, nv
dear? Are you afraid of me? l don't
look very naughty, do Ig' Thus adj
dressed, the child sobbed out, "Take off
your nose" Arago looked at the mother,
who grew very confused and said: "Ah,
monsieur, excuse me; excuse my son"
But, madame" said Arago, "what does
he mean ~ The mother then explained
that she had during the carnival taken
her child to see number of persons in
masks and with false noses. and he had
got so excited that he could think of moth.
ing else. By an unfortunate occur
renee" she added, eve got into the same
carriage with you, who, for no doubt
some good reason, are prolonging the car
nival. But you see what a deplOrable re-
suit has followed. Let me then beg of
you to have pity on poor mother. and
take off your nose" "But, madame"
said Arago, stupefied. "a little more and
my child will have commissions, "shrieked
the mother; "take off your false nose :"
" But, madame" said Arago, in despair,
" that is impossible; this is not a false
nose, but my own" Impossible! i'm
possible!'' cried the agonized lady.
Touch it," said Arago. The lady gave
a pull at the Senator's nose, but it did not
come off in her hand, as she had expect
ed. "a thousand pardons," she said !;
but pray, oh! pray, hide it with your
hat" So Arago continued his journey
with his nose in his hat, and the child's
screams gradually subsidized. Arago him
self tells the story with much glee.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-19
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

COTTAGE PUDDING.-One egg, two and
q half spoonfuls melted butter, one cup of
sugar, all beaten to q cream. Then add
one cup of milk, in which is dissolved one
teaspoOnful of soda; into this stir one full
pint of flour, in which is well mixed two
1easpOOnfuls of cream tartar; flavor with
lemon or nutmeg; bake half an hour;
eat with sauce, made of one cup of sugar,
one large spoonful of butter, one pint of
boiling water; flavor with lemon and
thicken with one teasp0onful of flour. Boil
q few moments.
"THE thing is certain" said the Dea-
con, tive shall have to plant small pota-
toes this year. The spring Of 1875 pOta-
toes were scarce and high, and q great
many small potatoes were planted--some
not larger than marbies-yet we never
had such great potato crop. The next
spring potatoes we're not worth market
ing, and we planted the best and largest
and never had worse crop. And SO it
is evident that the character of the sea-
son has more to do with the result than
the size of of the ed.''-American
AgricuLtustst.
DIR. HENRY PIGEON writes to the Lon
don Lancet as follows: "The marvellous
success which has attended my treatment
of scarlet fever by sulphur induces me to
let my medical brethren know of my plan,
so that they may be able to supply the same
which used it were very we'll marked,
case came away like the skin of snake.
The following is the exact treatment
followed in each case: Thoroughly
anoint the patient twice daily with sui
phur ointment; give five to ten grains
of sulphur in a little jam three times a
day. Sufficient sulphur was burned,
twice daily ION Goals on shovel), to fill
the room with the fumes, and, of course,
was thoroughly inhaled by the patient. "
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York
Tribune gives the following recipe for
making a good cement A good cement
for mending almost anything may be
made by mixing together litharge and
glycerine to the consistency Of thick
cream or fresh putty. This cement ia
useful for mending stone jars or any other
coarse earthenware, stopping leaks in
seams Of tinpans or wash boilers, cracks
and holes in iron kettles, etc. I have
filed holes an inch in diameter in kettles
and used the same for years in boiling
water and feed. It may also be used to
fasten on lamp tops, to tighten loose nuts,
to secure loose bolts whose nuts are lost,
tighten loose joints of wood or iron, loose
boxes in wagon hubs, and in a great many
others. In all cases the article mended
should not be used till the cement has
hardened, which will require from one
day to week, according to the quantity
used. This cement will resist the action
of water hot or cold, acids, and almost
any degree of heat.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-19
Forty Years In q Cave.

A HERMIT with most remarkable his
tory has been found in wild spot among
the mountains near Dingman's Ferry in
Pike County, Pa, where he has lived for
forty years. His story, as he tells it, is
that his name is Austin Sheldon, and he
was born at Stony Creek, c., his parents
being among the "best people" of the
village. He grew up to be blacksmith,
had a business of his own. and prospered.
When he was twenty-six he married the
daughter of wealthy farmer, and idolized
her; but after a short time of happy
married life, she died leaving him child
less. "Then," said the old man. "every.
thing changed with me. 1t was not in my
heart to work, and I could not bear to
associate with any one. think l became
crazy. l cursed God, at any rate, and re-
penting in agony, resolved to give the rest
of nv days entirely to Him." For five
years Sheldon was wanderer, roaming
through Connecticut and New York,
mankind, living altogether in
the wilderness, but constantly wandering.
At length he determined to settle down
where he could hold communion with
God Alone" and he secured 100 acres of
woodland on the Moosic Mountain of
Northern Pennsylvania, and there lived
in a cave for year. But the lumbermen
found him, and, when Sheldon refused to
sell, one of them brought his wife to the
cave, offering her in exchange for the
trees. Then Sheldon fled further into
the wilderness and took up his present
abode. Here in a half hut, half cave,
Just large enough to turn about in, with
only the cracks in the stones to let in the
light and give escape to the smoke from
his stone stove. the hermit has lived for
forty years. For ten years he did not see
a human being. He trapped more than
enough game for his needs; wolves ana
panthers howled about his den at night,
and once he found a she bear in his hut
and was forced to spend the night in a
tree. Then game grew scarcer and he
lived on roots and berries, once subsisting
q week on a quart of dried raspberries,
till he was driven to the settlements to
pick up work at making butcher-knives. A
brother and sister from Connecticut Wis.,
tied him not long since and begged him
to share their wealth and home, but
though the sister wept with him all
night, he refused. Here, with matted
hair and beard, with grimy. leatnery
skin, with feet wrapped in buckskin, and
with clothing that has not been taken of
for twenty years and whose rags are Sc
cured together with hickory withes and
wire, the old man, now past seventy,
means to spend his life, reading the
Bible, that he has strapped about his
waist, by day, aud sleeping, as he has
through all these years, in rough, root
woven chair.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-19
ManitOba's Curious Presents to the
Pope.

THE Catholics of the Province of Man
itoba, that wild portion of British Amer
lea living north of Minnesota and around
the Red River of the North, are about to
send to the Holy Father some very curl
Gus as we'll as valuable presents on the &C.
casion of his Golden Jubilee. These
presents consist of magnificent bed-rug
of black elk-skin "a very rare and valua-
BILE fur), small wolf-skin rug, q magnif-
icent pair of slippers and superb pair
of gloves, made in the fashion Of the
country, together with the winter outfit of
a missionary travelling in the north. This
outfit is something very interesting The
sled rests upon a ground of white cotton
and is drawn by three dogs, whose har-
ness is miracle of patience, for nothing
is wanting. On the sled are cooking uten-
sils, an AK and some kettles; on the sides
rise, over q closed net work of little bags
or pockets, the raw-hides used to cover
the loads, which consist of the missionary
bedding, the linens, etc., for the altar,
and the food for the missionary and his
dogs. These little bags, or pockets, which
are of very pretty design, will, this
time, be filled with gold pieces, the fruit
of the Easter collection taken up in all
the churches of the Diocese of St. Boni-
face. Behind the sled and holding the
guide-r rope, comes the missionary with
his snow.shoes, his long whip in his hand,
his loins girt with belt of arrows. the
nsashimout stuck in his girdle and his cow!
drawn over his eyes. All this equipsge is
contained within space nearly three feet
long and six inches wide. Notwithstand-
ing this, the smooth polished surface of
the Great Slave Lake can be seen in the
distance; and beyond this, at the other
extremity of the sea of ice, rises Papal
flag, on which are two appropriate inscrip-
tons The furs, the harness of the dogs,
and the gloves and the shoes are all vel.
low and white, the Pope's colors. The
object Of this miniature outfit is not
merely to crafty an idle curiosity, but TO
give the Holy Father an idea of what
manner of equipage our missionaries are
obliged to travel with, and of the wilds of
the Northwest and their long winters,
during which they bear the light of the
Gospel from one tribe to another, Sleep
ing in the open air, travelling hundreds Of
miles without meeting living soul, and
exposed to the fearful storms that some
times sweep over those vast and icy soli-
tudes.-Cincinnati Enquirer.