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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-11-28
FACTS AND FIGURES.

DURING the year just closed, SO,61O
Canadians emigrated to the United
States.
THE net earnings of the Bank of Cal
ifornia for the past year amounted to
$527,OO
THE silver product of this country is
estimated at 100000 to 100000 ounces
per week.
rnE Chinese population of San Fran
cisco has been lately reported 30, 900,
including 1000 servants.
Ten AND A HALF tons-or about T.
500, OOO-of lOcusts We're destroyed at
Ajmerc, India, in one day, not long
ago.
DURING the year ending with June
last the exports of the United States to
Brazil reached So, CSC, 2O4; the imports
were $42,972,O36
In some English coal-pits it is found
necessary to force down $4,000 cubic
feet of fresh air every minute to supply
the needs of workmen.
In Germany $4,000 acres of land are
devoted to raising tobacco. The Gov
eminent derives about $3.50, 900 revenue
year from the product, the tax being
about fifty cents per hundred-weight.
MAY-DAY in Paris comes on the 9Th
of October; that is the day selected by
small tenants for moving. Within the
limits this year there were ON that day
7,147 removals and 5,782 movings in.
CAsT-1RON PIPES, Is inches in dame
ter and inch thick, will sustain
ho0A IF oko,, ~ COO Cont n~o oe on1~
inches thick and of the same dame
ter, will only sustain head of $50 feet.
American Builder.
In France, the accidents from steam
machines, from 1873 to 1876 inclusive,
were 1913 $50 in 1873, 80 in 1874, "a in
1875 and 35 in 1870, resulting in the
death of AS persons, 1913 others being
more or less severely injured. Most Of
the severe accidents were due to the
use of boilers which had no inner
CRATE. Only three accidents were
caused by the explosion of the boilers
Of railway engines, and in neither of
these cases was there any loss of life.
1t is worthy of note that there are
fewer accidents in the very large fact
cries than in the second and third-rate
establishments, though when they do
happen they have more disastrous re-
suits than any of the others, because
of the number of people employed. At
least one-fifth of the accidents have
been due to the want of water in the
boiler; but in many cases it has been
impossible to speak positively as to the
cause. Of the las fatal cases, IA are
set down to defects of construction, 3
to the bad quality of the metal, ~ to
excessive wear, % to corrosion of the
sides of the boiler, 8 to over-pressure,
% to the want of water, IA to the
; carelessness of the stoker and 6 to in
sufficient cleaning. The number of
these accidents might, by increased
care and watchfulness, be reduced; but
the returns vary little from one year to
another, and, asupward of 10000 steam
machines are at work, the bill of NOR
tally is not SO heavy as it is in some
other countries Scientific american
Supplement.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-11-28

There is something terrible in the thought
OF having our friends stricken down at our
side, without parting word of endearment
flush of vigorous life, cheering our hearts
with their loving sympathy; the next at our
feet, pale with death, deaf to our cries and
needless of our tears. Every excessively fat
person is in instant danger of such a death.
Seven-tenths of the victims of obesity die of
heart disease or apoplexy. Allan's Anti-Fat,
weight by regulating the digestion and assim-
ilation of the food. 1t is perfectly harmless,
and its use will insure in every instance, re-
duction of weight from two to five pounds a
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-11-28

"They are not beverage. but medicine,
with curative properties of the hig hest degree,
containing no poisonous drugs. They do not
tear down an already-debilitate system, but
build it up. One bottle contains more hops,
that is, more real hop strength, than barrel
of ordinary beer. Every druggist in Roches-
ter sells them, and the physicians prescribe
them. Rochester Evening Express, on Hop
Filters.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-11-28

That boy was a true philosopher
who, when he lost his kite, thought he
would cry about it, but Immediately
after concluded not to, and went home
whistling. When asked if he wasn't
sorry to lose his treasure he replied:
d" Yes, but can't fool away much time
in being sorry; I'm just going to make
a new one, and guess a better one.'
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-11-28

Few are aware of the importance of check
ing cough or common cold in it's first stage.
That which in the beginning would yield to
mild remedy, If neglected, soon preys upon
the Lungs. DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup affords
instant reliet. Psice. q cents.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-11-28

If each one of several makers had taken
the highest medal at one of the great worlds
expositions there would be room to question
which was best; but Mason d Hamlin have
taken the highest hOnors at every such compe-
tition for twelve years.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-11-28
FORTY.SIXTH CONGRESS.

According to the latest returns re-
ceived up to the morning of Nov. Is,
the Congress of the United States, after
the 18th Of March next, will be CONF
posed as follows:
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VEGETINE
I CAN RECOMMEND.


SOMERyILLE, June 10, 1875
DR. II. r. STEVENS:
Df0r Si1-It is with great pleasure can recommend
in the highest terms Vegetne as purifier OF the
blond. Having met with painful injury to the spine
and scaaca nerve over fourteen years ago. my ankle
has been swollen great deal Of the time and very sin
full BY using yegetine find great relief as it gives
higher tone to the blood, improving my health: ana
hope that all the human family in suffering condition
will avail themselves at of this most valuable REM
edy Yours most respectfully -
VIM. S1TNEHERST, Station Agent, SOmerville Mass.
"vEGETINE." says q Boston physician, "has no
equal blood purifier. Hearing Of its many wonder
full cures after all other remedies had failed visited
the LABORATORY and convinced myself Of its genuine
merit 1t is prepared from barks roots and herbs each
such manner as to produce astonishing results"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-11-28

Worlds Fairs are all the rage, and
the st. Louis Republican proposes an
International feet exhibition in that
city. Il -
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PARTICULARS regarding Electric Belts free.
Address Pulyermacher Galvanic Co., Cincin. o.
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SENATE.


Republicans Tin Roman), s.; Democrats lin
SMALL CAPs), Il; Independent lin H0lics), /;
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VEGETINE
Completely Cured Me.

NEWPORT, KY, Feb 70, 1877.
Mr.. H. r. STEVENS:
Dear Sir-I write to say that seven bottles Of your
vegetine have completely cured me from very severe
case of crOfuI Of many years. standing, after trying
many medicines and dOctOring a great deal am now
free from all and can work as well as ever and
think the vegetine Is gOd-Send and ought to do
without it. remain, respectfully yours,
j. A. PATRICK.
vEGETINE Is now prescribed In cases Of Scrofua and
other diseases Of the blood. by many OF the best physi
Clans owing its great In curing al diseases OF
This nature
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VEGETINE
Prepared by H.R. Stevens, Boston, Mass,

vegetine 10 Sold BY Al! Druaaistsr
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VEGETINE.
| advise All who are suffering as | have
suffered to give VEGETINE a trial.
BOSTON, Sept. q, 1877.

BOSTON, Sept. 2, 1871.
MR.. ii, II. STEVENS:
Dear SRI have suffered with SrotMlons Hunor fol
years could get relief have tried every
thing in the shape herbs s,ves plasters etc.. but
nothing did me any good. was from my knees to my
ankles one mass of sores. advised by lolice nicer
W. Il Hill, to try ve.etine. commenced last July,
1876. After taking the second bottle began to get
lief and the to heal up was finally reduced to
large ulcer my right leg, that much and
looked SO bad that many said must lose my leg; but
after had taken fourteen bottles OF Vegrtne my leg
was all healed up. and am well as ever was
in my life consider Vegetine the best cleanser and
purifier Of the blood and advise all who may he suffer
ing as have suffered to give It trial.
HENRY L. SMITH, No. so Utica st., Boston, Mass.
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SCROFULOUS HUMORS.-The vegetine has cured
many cases If Scrofua Of five and twenty years
standing where the patient has had many physicians,
tried many of known remedies, and alter trying the
vegetine the common remark is, 1T acts differently
works differently from any medicine have taken"
vege,ne will cleanse ScrOfua from the system. Try it.
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TAny Book mailed postfree, fos Retail Prica
LYON q HEALY, Chicago.
OLIVER DITSON Il CO., Boston.
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HOUSE.

tDemocrats (sMALL cAPs). us; Republicans tin
=; reelected %; Independent Democrats O.;
lpdependent Republicans a.; to be elected. 4;
total. 293. Smith, in the Twelfth New York Dis
trict, died since the electiOn.l
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III. J. W. SINGLETON.
IL. Nv. NJ. SPRINGER.
ID. A. +. STEVENSON.
IA. *JOseph G. Cannon
rs. Albert II. Forsyth.
IL. *W. A. j. SPARKS.
~. wv. Il. MORRISON.
|1S. j. II. Thomas.
-. *R.W.TOwNsHEND.
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ma lived when she was q little girl?
and where the scenes of all mammals
stories were laid" mammals splendid
stories, which were better than any
fairy stories, or any stories printed in
books or papers,"
On, on they whirlcd. 1t was Wednes-
day afternoon; yet these children, who
had never in their lives been five miles
from their own clearing, were not cross,
or sour, or out of patience, although
they were dreadfully tired. and oh, 50
hungry, for the sizable lunch basket,
we'll filled when they started from home,
had quite given out, and the reinforce
ments bought in haste ut waysidc res
taurants not SO filling.
"Only fifty miles from grandpa's
now," and the plump little woman
marshalled her brood about her as they
made the last change of cars. "Only
two hours of precious time" But,
alas for human calculations, there was
connection to be made ut an out-of-
the way junction on the line. The east
ern train was late. Trains always are
late the night before Thanksgiving,
there are SO many happy souls going
home. These trains are mail trains,
they mast meet, and our train must
watt
"'Twill make Il pretty late supper
time,' said Charlie.
IL should think it was supper-time
now," cried Mary, poking around in
the bottom of the empty hamper.
81 suppose there is some place near
by where l can get a lunch for the chill
dren,' said the pleasant mamma to af-
fable Conductor Carroll, who came
through the car just then.
I'm sorry to tell you, madam, that
the restaurant has been discontinued,
and the hotel burned down week ago
or so. You can see the ruins just over
the brook there
A glance at the ashes and embers of
what was once a hotel was not very
satisfying to five hungry juveniles, and
mamma, for the first time since she
babe her husband good-by, with almost
a cloud on her brow, said:
1--WE will play we have got to grand
pas, and see how nearly our real get
ting there will be like our play. l will
begin-now-'W What would l like for
supper, Sister Harriet? Oh, a cup of
tea for me, and plenty of milk and
bread for the children wall, l de-
clar' fort, Sister Susan. l guess these
children won't eat bread and milk at
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-07-06
PAYING SMALL BILLS,

Now that the semi-annual period for
the settlement Of small bills has rolled
round, o moments reflection will recall
the benefit that would be conferred upon
all, debtor and creditor alike, if those
who are amply able pecuniarily, and
have the means at command, would
promptly liquidate their matured ac-
counts and obligations. We now refer,
however, to those of comparatively
small amounts, but which being numer-
GUS, involve as most business men well
know, a large proportion of their pro-
fits. With the printer this is especially
the case. Accepting in good faith the
orders of his patrons and customers, he
has rendered his service or performed
his contracts,-whilet the amount due
him from each although inconsiderable.
exhibits in the aggregate important
figures. Yet he fails to realize in many
cases the small sums due him, simply
because of the comparative insignifi-
canee of each separate Indebtedness
The books OF every printing Office will
show a large number of small bills, due
from solvent debtors, but neglected by
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them simply because the sum is small.
We commend to careless patrons these
sensible remarks Of the Baltimore
Sum-
with the first of July ends one of
the halfyear periods for financial set
Elements according to the custom in
many lines of business, especially with
the retail trade. Bills are rendered at
least semi-annually where credit is
given to householders and others who
have regular accounts with store-keep-
ers. Of course great convenience will
result all round by prompt payment at
such times. Those having money in
hand will contribute to the growth of
confidence by at once applying it to the
payment of any bills they owe, as by
doing SO they will aid their creditors to
meet in turn their own obligations A
spirit of promptness is paying bills gen.
orally by the well-to-do, will have
happy influence, give encouragement in
many quarters, and, where it shall be
necessary, enable the creditor trader to
show greater leniency toward debtors
who have no surplus funds at hand
Paying the party that you owe enables
him to pay another that he owes, and
so, as the money goes round, much
wholesome liquidation may be effected"
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HINTS on EDUCATION.

DR.. Peabody in his recent baccalau-
reate address before the graduating
class at Harvard, gave the young gen.
tlemen much sensible advice with ref
erence to the choice of profession or
business. 1--WE need" said he, cable
&c and educated men in agriculture and
manufacture, and there is not de-
"partment under those titles that may
"not he elevated, not alone in name,
"but in its permanent value as factor
"n its we'll being by such recruits as
"our college might furnish" In view
of the very foolish and erroneous ideas
entertained by many of the young gen.
tlemen of the period relative to the re-
spectability Of the professions, these
remarks are as sensible as we'll timed.
Very many graduates of fair standing
are now pining away in the undisturbed
seclusion of their " Offices" simply be-
cause professional life seemed to promise
higher realizations to youthful amb-
ton than commerce. the trades, or agri-
culture A profession was selected, not
on account of any special aptitude or
personal fitness for it, but simply at the
suggestion Of juvenile weakness that
ranked the professions "above" the
trades. AS a consequence, good farm
ers, active merchants, and progressive
mechanics were spoiled for poor law
yers, unskillful doctors, and uncalled
preachers. We hold that educated men
have ordinarily fully as ample field for
development and enterprise in agrcul-
ture, commerce and mechanics as in the
professions. We except of course young
men of exceptional ability, and which
foreshadows their professional success
True, classical education may not be
essential to the success of merchant,
farmer, or mechanic, but other things
being equal the educated man in either
of these pursuits commands undeni-
able advantages over the uneducated
one Very many parents, indeed, hold
erroneous ideas as to the object and end
of a classical education. They regard
it only as essential to the success of
professional man. That some Latin and
little Greek are SINE QUA NON for
the lawyer or doctor, but totally use
less in unprofessional callings. They
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are misguided utilitarians in educational
matters. They prefer the polytechnic
system, that provides special education
and training for a particular business
Herein lies the error For it is clearly
not merely the classical requirement
that constitutes the feature of, and
marks the value of, collegiate educa-
ton 1t is the mental training and dis
cipline, the requirement Of the power
of concentrated and continuous mental
labor. the formation of the habits Of
study, and the exercise and consequent
strengthening of the memory, that con-
stitute it's value. These are necessary
and general requirements, and have no
specific bearing upon any calling or pur-
suit. 1t does not follow, as a matter of
course, that young gentleman who
has completed his collegiate course
"must" be professional man to make
his classical attachments available
Latin and Greek as such are no more
use to a money-making lawyer than
they are to money-making merchant
and farmer, but the mental habit ac-
quired in attaining them is the power
that compels success in any calling,
either professional or otherwise
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ANOTHER TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.

The details Of the Port Deposit trag-
edy will be read generally throughout
the county with pain and surprise. The
recklessness of human life that charac-
terizes it seems, however, to be gen.
orally prevailing epidemic, and the
cause of which we leave to philosophers
and moralsts to decide. From every
section of the country the sickening
stories of crime, suicides and murders,
come with all their narrowing details
Why this recklessness of human life :?
Advocates of capital punishment will
doubtless claim that it is because so
few murderers are hanged in proper
ton to the murders committed. In the
face of the frequent convictions of our
courts, and of the imposition of the
death penalty, the carnival of crime
does not seem to abate. Within a
week there has been chronicled one of
the most reckless and fendish acts per-
petrated in this section of the Middle
States. We refer to the Claymont train
wrecking, and to-day we chronicle
bloody murder and suicide within the
limits of quiet Cecil town.
To Brown and McGill human life
does not seem to have been held at
pins fee. Moralists may attribute to
whatsoever cause they see fit the pre-
yailing recklessness of life, but it GER
tainly affords food for reflection to all.
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Mental Powers of the Sexes.

The question as to the different intellec
tual capacities and talents of men and
women has been frequently agitated; and
it seems to be decided that in most respects
there is an equality of mental power; and
that, in quickness of apprehension, and
accuracy of discrimination, women gener-
ally excel. Their Imagination is not sur
passed by the other sex; nor is their Judge
ment less to be depended on, in cases where
they have had experience and a full OPP
portunity to compare. For, in many cases,
judgement is but another name for taste;
and in taste, as well as in imagination,
women have long been allowed the highest
need of praise.
But they also make rapid progress in
studies which require something more than
taste and imagination. They are equally
capable of attention as the other sex, and
their memory is also equally retentve. In
the study of grammar and in acquiring
knowledge of languages, they succeed
altogether as well as men. And their com
positions on most subjects may be justly
pronounced equally pure and elegant when
compared with those of the masculine pen.
In metaphysics and mathematics, their
may be said perhaps that they have not put
forth any efforts in these departments. And
it may be as well that they should not.
For other and indispensable duties seldom
allow them the leisure for such severe APP
plication. 1t may be question whether
their delicate constitutions would be equal
to such long and close Investigations as
those studies require. There is little doubt
that they have mental strength and capac-
ity sufficient.
AS in the frame and the duties, so there
seems also to be difference in the studies
appropriate to man and to woman. 1t is
proper, no doubt, that the distinction
should be kept up in their education, and
in their literary labors. Most branches of
knowledge aud departments of science are
common to both, since both have equal
capacity for advance in them. But the
more abstruse and recondite sciences may
well be exclusively for the pursuit of man,
while most that are useful and all that are
necessary pleasant and improving may be
profitably cultivated by women as we'll as by
man. If formerly there was any doubt on
this subject, the present age has given
many proofs to remove it.
1t is proper for young ladies to study the
principles of ethics and moral philosophy.
For every accountable being should be
made to understand the difference between
the right and wrong Of actions. The con
science or moral sense of every one is i'll
some measure a guide and judge in this
respect, but, like other faculties, should be
cultivated, and may be improved. Our
perceptions may be rendered accurate, and
less likely to mislead us, by careful obser-
walton, and our Determinations more just
and useful i'll settling all questions i'll morals.
In the various relations of society and in
the changing circumstances of life, it will
be important to decide correctly, to satisfy
ones own mind as we'll as to avoid giving
Just occasion for offence.