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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02
Domestic Troubles in High Life.

THE following fragment of a private
letter from the young Duchess of Edin-
burg to an old settler on West Hill, has
fallen into the hands of the conscience
less editor of the Burlington Hawk Eye,
who does not hesitate to give it to the
public. 1t indicates very plainly the
domestic troubles that cloud her skies:
81 am having the hardest time try
ing to keep peace in the family. My
mother-in-law is just one of the dear
est of women, but she and papa have
fallen out about something and are
quarreling so dreadfully that even the
neighbors are beginning to talk about
it. am so mortified and distressed I
don't like to go out of the house. Papa
is dreadfully angry, and seems to for
get that my husbands mother is a
woman, and says if she tries to NEEDLE
with his affairs he'll break every bone
in her body. And my poor, dear hus-
band is SO tormented and badgered be-
tween their quarreling and my weep
ing, he is almost crazy. He has gone
away in his ship, and says he is afraid
if pa doesn't talk more respectfully TO
his mama, he will pound st. Peters,
burg down about his ears. And when
Brother Nicholas heard of it, he SAID,
if my husband came fooling round
there, he'd put torpedo under his old
mud scow that would hump him over
the moon. Oh, am so miserable. 1t
is dreadful way to live. The other
day one of Edinburg's sisters looked
very hard at me, right at the dinner
table, and said that between the rats
and the Russians one couldn't keep a
candle about the house long enough to
light it, and the very next day I got a
box from Brother Alexis, with a letter,
requesting me to distribute the contents
among my husbands family, with his
compliments. And I supposed it was a
peace Offering of some kind, and called
all the family in to see it opened, and.
what do you think? 1t contained about
bushel and u half of wooden HIS
Such a scene. Mama was SO angry she
had peace meeting called in the park
right away, and five men were pounded
nearly to death, and all the windows in
the street were broken in three min
uteS.n
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02

The Asiatic race loves monotony.
The London Spectator says that there
are artisan families in India and in Da-
mascus who have worked at the same
work day by day for 1000 years, peas
ant families who have not only titled
the same fields, but have gone into
them and left them at the same hour,
according to the season, from period
before the birth Of Christ. They have
no wish for change, no ambition to
do better, no inclination to roam, no
sense of failure because they are as
their forefathers were and as their sons
will be.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02
Two Men Carried Over Niagara Falls,

A CORRESPONDENT of the Buffalo
Courier writes from Chippewa, Ont,
April 2:
Our otherwise quiet village was cast
into q state of great excitement, last
evening, about seven O'Clock, by the
report that two men had gone over the
falls. Every house in the village quick
~ rang with the news, and at the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, where revival
services were being held, slip of paper
passed round caused great excitement,
one young lady fainting away. The
news was too true. The number of
Niagara victims had been increased. 1t
appears, from what we can learn, that
Capt. j. Riley and three or four others
rowed over to Port Day early in the at
ternoOn, followed soon after by his
brother Patrick, in his own boat, which
was very large and safe craft. Patrick
was in a state of intoxication, but his
knowledge of the river brought him, in
spite of his condition, safely to Port
Day (the entrance to the water-power
canal Immediately above the rapids).
Capt. Riley, learning that his brother
was in town, determined to return with
him, and, on one of the party volun-
teering to bring him over, he replied:
"No! he is my brother; it is my duty
to look after him." Some time after
ward their boat was seen, by young
man on Goat Island, heading for Chip
pewa for about quarter Of a mile,
when the Canadian current struck it,
turning its bow toward the falls, they
continuing to row without apparently
knowing the direction the boat had
taken. A boat started in pursuit, but
was soon obliged, ON account of the
nearness of the falls, to desist, and they
we're left to their fate. Soon their boat
was seen to upset, leaving the two pow
erful men struggling in the water, until
the intervening rapids hid them forever
from view. The eye-witnesses of the
catastrophe drove hastily over the river
and communicated the news to the vii
lage. The shock to the Captain young
wife, who was away from home, was Of
such nature as to make her faint
away, and she had to be carried home.
Patrick was unmarried. The aged
mother, who is widow, seems to bear
the news more quietly, but ''still water
runs the deepest" A lamentable feature
of the affair is that sister of the de-
ceased, who was ''April-fooling'' during
the day, at Mrs. S. Macklem's, where
she is employed, whose house overlooks
the rapids, called out, about an hour
before the catastrophe, "See two men
going over the falls in boat" which
had the desired effect in causing all to
rush to the windows, to find that it was
q false alarm. Too soon, alas! two did
pass over, and those were her brothers.
During my residence here l have known
many to pass over the falls, and, with
one or two exceptions, the immediate
cause of their destruction was intern
perance.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02
Additional Particulars Of the Suffer.
ing In China.

RECENT letters from Pekin to the last
of January furnish details of the ex
tremity to which the people in that part
of China are reduced by the want of
food. The missionaries there and in
Tientsin had given themselves to the
work Of relieving the distress accord
ing as the funds furnished enabled
them to do so and out of their own
means had contributed 628 taels (3872)
to aid. Other foreigners in the Lega-
ton made up 41,215 more, part of
which has been sent to Shansi to be dis
tributed by the Rev. Messrs. Richards,
Turner and their associates English
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02

Col. Decter HI. .Follett, of Boston,
not knowing that his revolver was
loaded, gave it to his little eight year
old boy to play with and the little fellow
playfully shot his father behind the ear
with it. It didn't kill the Colonel. But
that is not surprising. We wouldn't
suppose you could kill q man who
would give child pistol to play with,
by shooting him in the head.-B~rling-
ton HdsCE.E Eye.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02

Two little boys were seen q few
days since on Washington street, the
one with an accordion in hand, the
other with large placard in front,
upon which was printed in large let
ters: Ladies and gentlemen, I am
the mother of five children. Please
hep ."-Boston Journal,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02
The Small Arts Of Living.

Hardly anything is too small to
spoil the comfort Of life, if it be mis-
placed. A speck in the eye, kernel
0fwheat in the boot, apin-pOint touching
the skin, . band too tight or q needed
strap gone, and good-by comfort!
Considering how much depends on
our daily food, it is surprising how lit
tie is thought of the conditions under
which it is taken, in many families.
Some people think q good deal more Of
what is on the table than what is said
or done around il; and some few, per-
haps, reverse the order-an operation
that may do very well for special occa-
sions, when what is said is something
extraordinary; but one that we shall
beg to be excused from las q regular
diet" even if the gods came to dine.
until we are able to dispense with all
that is implied in good appetite!
The cookery is too big topic to
touch in this connection; though what
with cookery schools, better knowl-
edge among the people, and higher
standards made familiar by our best
hotels and dining places, the art has
greatly advanced in this country within
the present generation. Good bread,
q properly broiled steak, and q roast
done to q turn, no longer excite the
special wonder that once they did. By
and-by perhaps it will not be unusual
to find a good soup, or vegetables that
haven't been spoiled in cooking!
But consider the meal cooked how
shall it be best enjoyed? BY having it
daintily and tastefully arranged and
served, in the first place. We always
mark the good house wife up notch or
two in our esteem If we see that, how
ever competent help she may have. she
always slips out to give the "last
touches" to the table before the fam
lily or the guests sit down. Some do
it for the guests but not for the
family, but that is an error. The ar
tistic arrangement Of the table furni-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02

IT is officially estimated that the
wheat crop this year will be "a, ZOO, 900
bushels larger than last years crop,
leaving loo, 00O. 900 bushels for exporta-
ton. The cotton crop will be almost
4, 900, 900 bales. The tobacco crop will
be about $4,000, 600 pounds greater
than last year. - >-~~.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02

native regiments had been ordered to iill up,
and the factories for the manufacture OF war
material were working day and night.
A ST. Petersburg dispatch of the I'D
says the proposition for the simultaneous
withdrawal of the British fleet and the Rus
sian Armies from Constantinople had been &C
cepted in principle.
A rumor prevailed in Constantinople,
on the 22d, that the Mussulmans in the Bal
kans had armed themselves and attacked the
Russians, who lost 900 men and thirteen off,
GERS. 1t was also reported that the Bulga-
rians had attacked eight Mussulmau villages
and committed great outrages.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02

Something should be done to stop
the manufacture and use of poisonous
wallpaper. Formerly suspicion fell
on green wallpaper only, and there
was certain reason for this, because
there is really not the slightest excuse
for using arsenic in even the brilliant
colors Of any other shade than green.
Paper-stainers, we are told, have found
that it is such an unusually profitable
practice that now they are not content
to use arsenic in green wallpapers
only, but are introducing it into even
the palest white drawing-room papers,
and especially into those which have
an enameled ground.-Chicago Jour-
nal.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02

She asked the clerk if he was positive
thoroughly convinced the eggs were
fresh. ''Oh, yes" said the young phi
losopher. II know they are; why, the
farmer said none of his hens were more
than year old" She bought basket
full on the spot.-SyracWse IN. ~
Times.
Two CALCULATING friends were
passing through q pine forest, when
one asked the other this audacious
question: ''Why cannot the proprietor
Of this forest fell his own timberp'
When the stupid young man gave it up
the other answered, because no one is
allowed to cut when it is his own deal"
SOMEBODY writes to the Washington
Star asking why numbers of school
mistresses cannot club together for ex-
cursions to the Paris Exposition and
London this summer. He thinks q
party of 600 might make the entire trip
to Paris and London, and stay two
weeks, at q cost not exceeding $3.50
each.
AFIsHERMAN caught a sturgeon in the
Columbia River, near Columbia City,
Ore, which measured nearly fourteen
feet from " nose'' to tip of tail fin, and
was little less than five feet in cir
conference. Owing to the lack of
means, the fish was not weighed. This
is the largest fish of the kind ever taken
in the Columbia.
In the still watches of the night it is
easy enough to fancy that one hears the
soft whispers of angels telling him to
be good. but jump out of bed and you'll
find it is the hired girl talking from the
window to her fellow below-perhaps
telling him why the Monday washing
was brought in, contrary to agreement.
Detroit Free Press.
HYPOCRISY came in as a necessit Y
with civilization. Alady requested b er
little daughter to kiss an old gentle
man. The child refused, and being
hard pressed for a reason said: 50 He
kissed me the other day, and his brea tn
was bad" The mother, shocked at
her offspring's lack of hypocrisy, adj
ministered the necessary punishment
at once.
THE London Contemporary Revies0
observes that it is as natural for q
woman to prink for her adlnirer as it is
for birds to plume themselves and strut
and show off their bright feathers. The
Contemporary Revieso forgets that only
male birds thus "prink for their adj
mirers." The modest little female
birds never think of such a thing.-M
=. Graphic.
QuARRE1s, like thunder storms, would
and in sunshine if it were not for the
determination to have the last word.
II yeu are scolded or criticised Just bite
your lips and keep still, and it will soon
be over; but if you retort you are in
for three years or the war" Many .
man who pours himself in torrents Of
rain for five minutes and then breaks
out into the sunshine of good temper
again will settle down into three days
dismal drizzle if he is weak enough to
insist ON having that last word.-M r.
Herald.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02
Mr. Basinpbal (city merchant)-

Mr.. Basingbal Getty merchant)-
Most convenient! I can converse
with Mrs. b. just as if l was in my own
drawing-room. I'll tell her you are
here" (Speaks through the Telephony
"Dawdles is here-just come from
Paris-looking so well-desires to be-"
etc., etc. "Now you take it and you'll
hear her voice distinctly" Dawdles-
"Weallyr' Oawdles takes it.) The
voice" For goodness sake, dear, don't
bring that insuferable noodle home to
dinner!'-Phnch,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02

MIR. Caleb Cushing has received
fee Of more than $1,000 for recover.
ing the estate of a Cuban which was
seized by the Spanish Government, and
another claim for $4,000, 900 has been
made, which, if established, will make
Mr.. Cushing o very rich man.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02

! At a baseball game in Cleveland.
Ohio. on the Goth, Albert Walker was struck
in the head by the batter and fatally injured.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02
SENSE AND NONSENSE.

JorNr ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
IT takes a pickpocket to dispurse .
crowd.
AN OLD SoAKER-An aged washer.
woman.
dive for Egypt
"OuR Mexican relations" are princi.
pally Rio Grande cussins.-Has0k-E Eye.
IT is lamb-entable fact that the
number of sheep in the United States
is yearly decreasing.
IF q man desires many things he 10
exalted by hope, but if he fears many
things he becomes q slave.
IT takes but trifle to mako woman
happy. Shoemakcrs discovered this
when they marked No. 4 shoes q.
The rascality which has destroyed
60 many life insurance companies in
this country is doing similar work in
Germany.
OLD Deacon Dobson always boosted
that he was prepared for the worst"
and his neighbOrs thought he got it
when he married his second wife.
THE new St Louis directory is com.
posed Of 5000 pages, and the Chicago
Inter- Ocean alludes to it fatteringly as
1.-the great romance of the century,"
A MAN is never so cmphatically en-
braced by the spirit of economy as
when the church contribution-box
stares him in the face.-Fulton IN. W
Times.
A STUDENT recently stepped into q
store In Bangor, Me-, and asked the
proprietor if he had any instruments in
the mathematical or optical line. The
reply was, Nothing but q VIOLIN"
The oldest stove in the United States,
If not in the world, is that used in the
hall of the Capitol of Virginia, in
Richmond. 1t was made in England
and sent to Virginia in the year 1777.
TO BE comfortable and contented, be
sure to spend less than you earn, and
restrain your outgoes till they are less
than your incomes. This seems to be
an act that very few persons have
learned.
ECONOMY is the road to wealth."
But as it is 298, 900 miles long, and up
hill all the way, it doesn't hold out
much encouragement to u man who
isn't able to travel by rail.-Burlington
Hasnk-Eye.
NORTH CAROLINA was always rather
plebeian in her staples. The Raleigh
papers report ''shower of pine bark"
After showers of fish, frogs and mutton
chops, that is terrible coming down.
But these are hard times. Graphic.
WELCOME, season of string beans,
Lettuce, danaelion green's,
Radishes and juicy beets,
New-laid eggs and fresh-bom meats
Welcome. season of delights
Balmy days and breezy nights
Welcome, hale and hearty chills:
OoctOIs' physic. doct0xp' bilh!
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02

Many of the National Banks in Chi
cago. Cincinnati and other portions Of the
West are redeeming their bills in specie.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02

Extensive Nihilist riots have lately
occurred at Moscow and other cities in Rus
STA. The fuu details have not been allowed to
trauSpire
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02

WELCOME, season of string beans,
Lettuce, danaelion green's,
Radishes and juicy beets,
New-laid eggs and fresh-born meats
Welcome. season of delights-
Balmy days and breezy nights
Welcome, hale and hearty chills:
DoctoEs' physic, docton' bills!
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02

\ Washington special of the 2lst
states that up to that date, since the passage
of the Silver bill. there had been coined of the
new silver dollar 0,5SS of which Only
Sl23,3l9 had been issued. the Secretary of the
Treasury refusing to exchange them for any
thing but gold.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02

1t has turned out that j. w. Daniels,
recently hung at Warrensburg Mo-, for muir
der. was entirely innocent. and proceedings
have been instituted against the parties con-
cerned in the judicial murder. 1t was case
of crcumstantial evidence purely.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02

At Franklin. La. on the 22d. three
negroes were hung, for murder. As the drop
fell, one Of them fell to the ground, the rope
breaking. 4 new rope was obtained and he
was again hung, this time successfully.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02

The operatives in the cotton mills at
l.onSridge, Eng, to the number of 10000.
have struck because of 4 reduction of 10 ger
cent. in wages.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02

A plot has been discovered at Con-
stantinople to deposc the present Sultan and
restore ex-Sultan Murad to the throne.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-10-23
steam Road wagons.


The State of Wisconsin has offered prize
of $4,000 to the inventor, OF a steam wagon
satisfactory-to the Commissioners appointed
to test those which might be submitted.
Under the law, the wagon to receive the
prize must be 90 cheap and practical substf-
tute for use of horses and other animals on
the highway and farm" For some time
past the Commissioners have been favorabIv
considering two wagons of unusual prom
Use, but at last they have decided to still
withhold the bounty. In their report.
however, they state that one wagon, know n
as the Oshkosh patent, made trip of Dol
miles. passing over grades of not less than
], 400 feet to the mile, in 81 hours and n
m 7uees, or an average of six miles an hour
They report further that is was capable of
hauling heavy loads. that ii plowed. and did
many other things required by the some
what complicated law. In addition they
express their opinion that ft mere capacity
to certain specified werk was all that was
required by the law, the proprietors of the
wagon in question would be clearly entitled
to the reward offered by the State They
admit that it could be used 10 great aCfvati-
.age for threshing and hauling heavy agri-
cultural machines from farm to farm for
heavy work upon the highway, and for
mucil Of the work done upon large farm !
The wagons cast OIL 090 each. however. aud
require M. outlay Of from 81 70 SIS day 70
run. and the Com snissiouers wSssfy etinctnde
that upon such ms it ca aFiot be consider
ed a cheAptAnd practical substitute foI
horses, mules. ar u en- upon the highway OIL
Tarm. sssks - - -ss
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-10-23
A Agricultural and Mechanical
Represen IaIiOn in Public COun~
ell. Wise UtLerances Of Senator
Bayard.

Mr.. Bayard. in the earlier portion of his
address, at the State Fair of the Maryland
Society, conceded the force Of the criticism
that lawyers contribute so largely in filling
the chief offices of the government, and
said:
In England, from which country our in
sttutions of government are chiefly copied,
it has been often noted that men distin-
guished at the bar had failed to maintain
their reputation in the halls of legislation,
and those whose impress as leaders has been
most indeliby and favorably made upon
their country's government have been men
whose minds were freed from the mere
technical education in a single professional
pursuit. Therefore it is that | would re-
ioice 70 see a stronger infusion Of the intel
lect of leading men in the agricultural and
bodies by whom our laws are moulded, and
who should, therefore, be prepared
and equipped for such duties by a
greater amount of general culture and ac-
Quirement than Is usual, and, let me add,
should enlarge their studies OF government
and laws, and bestOw larger proportion Of
their time and thought to the details and
practical conduct of political affairs. I'm
dou btedly the driving, hurry and hustle Of
city life sharpens mems faculties and bur
nishes them by constant 1ttrition into a
brightness beside which the wits of ''cOun-
try cousins" may seem dull--but at the
same time it deprives them Of those seasons
tor calm self-communiOn, Of introspection
and Judgment, which are so essential for
public as wei as private safety and welfare.
Country life gives not merely the leisure for
study, but especially is fitted for meditation
and reflection, needed to counteract the
heated sensatiOnalism aud feverish thirst
TOR novelty so painfully characteristic Of
the time and country in which we live.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-10-23

The history of the past ten years
teaches one important fact in Western
farming greater diversified industry.
Every farmer should know the value of
his farm, as well as the character Of the
help he has to prosecute the business on
his farm. A reckless risk Of all the Ia
Dor of the year on one or two varieties OF
products is dangerous in the extreme.
Nor should farmers suddenly abandon
one branch of farming for the reason
that it is Improbable this year. The
same cause that will induce one man to
abandon hog raising will induce thous-
ands of others. The same way with
wheat, barley and corn. And proba-
bly the very year from this cause which
it was supposed it would not pay pro
duction. resulted in the most profitable
crop. All articles from over produc-
ton. or want of demand experience
their periods of depression. Corn and
hogs follow the inevitable law. But IN
a succession of seasons in the Northwest
these have proven to be remunerative
sources of profit. And as the demand
in Europe for the hog product is ten fold
what it was twenty years ago, the pres
ent depression is no cause TO abandon so
profitable a branch of industry. Con
tinue to breed the best class. and take
better care of them. But do not rely
wholly on hogs, or horses, or cattle, or
wheat, or corn, or any other staple pro-
duct. Study how many profitable arti
cIes can be raised on one farm. do
not put all the eggs in one basket. -
Iowa Register.