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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-02-28
Our Girls.
Enquirer.

THERE has been i great deal said,
during the last twenty or thirty years,
concerning the health of American
women, and the general spininess and
delicacy Of American girls. We have
never given much credit to the state
mcnts in general on the subject, having
found, in our own observation, an
average of health comparing farorably
with that of most English and French
women, and with that of the more in
telligent and cultivated German wOm-
en-, and holding the matter to be more
the stock in trade of certain paragraph
lists than anything else.
The frame of the American woman,
we know, does not in her youth greatly
incline to adipose, although in her ma
turity she is likely to be round and
plump enough to hinder wrinkles for
some years after they a1e overdue,
while the natural American complexion
is of a peculiar soft and tender tint,
that ignorant people might take for
pallor. But neither absence of adipOsc
nor tcndcr;y-tinted skin really consti-
tltes, or is 4 symptom of, ill health,
and the thin and delicately fashioned
young woman will undergo a world of
fatigue and strain, and will rise from
her sleep the next day fresh as a lark,
while the rubicund and roly-poly one
will be overcome with exhaustion, and
good for nothing; and while the latter
may have died before fifty, the former,
wiry and indOmitable, u bundle of
nerves, will be able to give younger
people odds at eighty.
But the random and long-continued
statements of which we speak, whether
true or false, have really done a good
work, and fathers and mothers of late
have paid very different sort of atten-
ton to the health of their children from
that paid a half-century since; SO that
children now not only inherit such good
health as there was in the past, but have
all that the added solicitude, the care
full diet, the warm clothing, the out
door pursuits, of the present can give
them. With all those having any abil-
ity to do so, a care has been taken of
health of girls, especially, that can
hardly be rivaled in any other land;
they have been encouraged in most of
the sports of their brothers, that they
might live the more in the open air, fed
on simpler food than once, although
abundant, and allowed to take such
sleep as they need, without regard to
the unwise old saws about early rising,
and all in such manner as to counterfeit
any unfortunate influence that too-stim-
ulating study might exert; and the re-
suit is a tribe of rosy, rounded Great
ures, whose sparkling eyes, shapely
forms and elastic steps are full of prom
Use for the health and strength of the
future.
1t is = pleasure to see these children
stepping along; they are satisfactory to
mind and sight; objects of beauty in
their abundant health, they are objects
of yet greater beauty in view of the
health they are hiving to give to the
generation that is to come, doing their
part in the physical. and therefore in
the olosely-following mental and moral,
PERFECTION OF the race.-HaTer's b.
EAr.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-02-28
THE TURCO.RUssIAN WAR.

A Constantinople dispatch of the
lith announces the arrival of the British
fleet off that place. 1t was also reported that
the Russian forces were on the march thither,
and only few hours distant.
An Athens dispatch of the nth SAYS
fighting had been renewed on the Thcssalian
frontier
The Turkish Parliament was dis
solved by Imperial message on the 14th. The
Sultan stated that the necessities of the stu
alton compelled this step, and that he hoped
speedily to reconvoke them.
4 Bucharest telegram Of the 18th
says the feeling there was exceedingly bitter
toward Russia, and there was some talk of re-
calling the Roumanian contingent.
1t was stated, on the 10th, that the
British Ambassador at Constantinopc had a
long audience with the Sultan, the night he
fore, :" explain England's policy to His Majcs-
". 1t was also reported that the British fleet
had been withdrawn to Muiania Bay, forty
miles south Of Constantinople. A London
dispatch of the 10th says it had been authori-
tativcly stated that, in consequence of repre-
sentations made by Austria, backed by Ger
many, tn. Car had abandoned the idea of oc-
cupying ConstantnOple. All the Powers, in
GLIDING Russia, were stated to have asscnte,l
toa Congress at Badcn-Badcn. The Gar and
the Sultan were actively exchanging personal
and friendly dispatches.
The London Observer of the 18th ex-
pressed the belief that Russia had represented
to England that the United States, as a great
maritime power, should participate in the
coming Congress. England had not objected,
hut had suggested that Greece also be allowed
to take part.
A Paris dispatch of the 18th says two
iron-cla,ls from the French squadron ut Smyr-
ia had gone to the entrance of the Dar,ia-
nclcs.
A Constantinople dispatch of the 18th
says the Russian advance guard had not trans
crossed the lines settled by the armisticc. In
consequence Of the withdrawal of the British
fleet to Mudania, the Russians would not oc.
cuny the suburbs Of COnstantinople.
A Pera correspondent of Len,lon
newspaper says it was reported that the Cir
cassians, when rctreating before the Russians,
suffocatcd with sulphur 500 women and chill
dren who had taken refuge in a cave.
A Paris dispatch of the 18th says it
was understood that Russia had abandoned
the occupation of Constantinoplc at the re-
quest of the Emperor of Germany, and not be-
cause of England's pcrturbatiOns.
A Pcsth dispatch of the 18th says the
Hungarian Ministry was in complete accord
with Count Andrassy, the Austrian Premier;
that u.tro-Hungary was resolved Ia defend
her interests automatically in the Congress i'm
the first instance, and then, If necessary, by
force.
The Porte has informed the Powers
that the Greeks have again crossed the Turk
ish frontier, near Arta, in Albania.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-02-28
G EN ERAI.,

A vessel reached New York, on the
nth, having on board the Captain and crew
of the schooner Sallie NJ. steelman, which
was recently abandoned at sea. According to
the story Of the survivors. they suffered most
frightfully before their rescue. Two men
were killed aud eaten, the provisions having
been entirely exhausted or washed overheard
Before being reduced 70 this extremity, their
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-02-28

"A Boston artist has worked some
of the hair of the two cows of the Smith
sisters of Glastonbury, Conn.,, which
have been sold SO often to emphasize
the convictions of the sisters on wOm-
ans rights, into representations of
flowers, which have been framed and
set up for the admiration of the advo-
Gates of woman suffrage who visit the
sisters.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-02-28
Gravity In the Moons OF Mars.

We are able to consider the relations
of inert matter in worlds where gravity
is so small as it must be in the Marian
moons. 1t has been said, by myself
among others, that building and all en-
cheering processes would be much
easier in world where gravity is very
small than in our own world. But if
less arduous, SO far as mere labor is
concerned, they would in some respects
be far more difficult. Much more skill
would be required to give adequate
stability to buildings, made even of the
most solid materials, in world where
all weights are SO much reduced. Sup
pose even platinum were available in
sufficient quantities for architectural
purposes, yet block of platinum of
given size would press downward with
less force there than a block of deal
wood of about One-twentieth its size on
our earth. Whewell has well described
in his Bridgewater treatise the effects
of great reduction in the force of
gravity, though he is not there consider
ing life in other worlds, but the import
ance (Which many are apt to overlook
of those portions of our earth's frame
which lie far below the deepest mines
ever yet dug by man. If the interior of
our earth could be scooped out and re-
moved, we should in fact suffer from
precisely the same Inconvenience rs
would affect creatures like ourselves
living in the moons of Mars.
We should, indeed, find ourselves
living like them in dread and
terror. Things" Whewell truly says,
"would not lie where we placed them,
but would slide away with the slightest
push. We should have difficulty in
standing or walking, something like
that we have on shipboard when the
deck is inclined; and we should stagger
helplessly through an atmosphere thin
ner than that which Expresses the
respiration of the traveller on the tops
of the highest mountains 1T is
hard,' says the ingenious writer in the
Spectator, Ito conceive even a one
storied house holding together" in the
Marian moon world, g against any
serious lateral blows.' Projectiles
would be no less deadly than in our
own world. But the range which pro-
jectilcs such as ours would obtain in
such world would render close fight
ing impossible on the one hand, and
efficient aiming impossible on the
other. A Krupp cannon, for instance,
whose greatest range on our earth is,
let us say, five miles, would on the
Martian moon fire projectile which
would leave that moon forever, and the
recoil of the cannon would probably
carry it half dozen miles away from
the firing point. Much weaker pro-
iectile force would have to be en-
ployed, and less mischief would be done
on this account, and also because any
living body struck by one Of these pro-
iectiles would give way before it much
more readily than similar body SINH
larry struck on our own earth.--Richar1
A. Proctor, IN BelQravia.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-02-28
The Silver Bill.

The following is the full text of the
Silver bill as amended and passed by
the Senate on the morning of the 10th.
1t is entitled "A bill to authorize the
coinage of standard silver dollar, and
restore its legal-tender character:''
Be II enacted, etc, SECTION l. That there shall be
silver dollars Of the weight Of 4l2n grains troy,
S sa f tan silver rs provided in the act Of Jan
coined by the United States Of like
weight fbsr and nd ns1es shall be q sI
dues. public and private, except where otherwise
ssp1essed and t stipulated i? the contracts and the
bullion at the market price thereof, not less than
$zNOOO worth per month, nor more than "a :
VO,OoJ worth per month. and cause the same to
such dollars, and sum sufficient to carry out the
foregoing provision of this act is hereby appro-
priatea out Of any money y the Treasury not
seigniorage arising from this coinage shall be &c
counted for and paid into the Treasury, as pro-
vided under existing laws relative to the subsid-
ey at any one time invested in such silver bullion,
exclusive of such resulting coin, shall not exceed
$6,WO,CO; and provided, further, that nothingi in
this act shall be construed to authorize the pay
ment, in silver, of certificates of deposit issued
under the provisions Of Sec. "a Of tine Revised
Sec. 3. All acts and parts of acts Inconsistent
with the provisions OF this act are hereby re-
9Ec. 3. That Immediately after the passage Of
1nents of the countries composing the Latin
Union, 30 called, and of such other European Ma
ti0ns rs he may deem advisable to Join the United
States in Conference to adopt . common ratio be-
teen gold and silver. for the purpose of estab-
hshing internationally the use of bi.metallic
between those metals; such Conference to be held
at such place in Europe. or in the United States,
at such time within six months as may. be
mutually agreed upon by the Executives Of the
Governments joining in the same, whenever the
Governments 80 invited, or any three of them,
shall have signifed their willingness to unite in
the same. The President ehall, by and with the
three Commissioners, who shall attend such Com
ference on behalf of the United States and
shall report the doings thereof to the President,
who shall transmit the same to Congress, Said
Commissioners shall each receive the sum of
$2,5OO and their reasonable expenses, to be ap-
proved by the Secretary of State, and the amount
necessary, to pay such compensation and ex-
in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
SEC. 4. That any holder of the coin authorised
by this act may deposit the same with the Treas
urer OF any Assistant Treasurer of the United
States in sums of $40, and receive therefor GER
Gfcates of not less than $40 each, corresponding
with tie denominations of United States notes.
The coin deposited for, Or representing. the Ger
payment Of the same on demand. Said certif-
Gates shall be receivable for customs, taxes and
all public dues, and when 80 received may be re-
issued.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-02-28
Keeping . Diary.


prove of keeping diary. Some strict
principled against it. Some unambi-
tious, indoleht persons sneer at it, as
prompted by egotisln and fostering
conceit. And others carp at in igno-
rance, or are heedlessly Indifferent to
it. Well, let those who will disap-
prove, and oppose, and sneer, and carp,
and -Ibelieve in keeping a diary.
Of course there are different ways
of keeping diary. l do not recon-
mend recording our cogitations on all
possible or passing subjects. and es-
pecially not studying our feelings and
remarking upon their development, ex-
pansion and measure on each occasion:
not at all. My idea of diary is the
noting of occurrences of interest to my
self, or family, or town, or country,
with such passing comment Tor none)
as my mind may be prompted to make.
l thus gain the unspeakable advantage
of stated retrospect, and.the planting of
stakes to mark the striking incidents of
my progress.
1t is always rcstful and refreshing to
the traveller, on reaching the top Of a
long and toilsome ascent in his jour-
ney, to halt and, from that elevated
position, glance backward over the
rugged way. Discerning the line of
his march and noting its salient points,
he recalls the special objects of beauty
and interest. How exhilarating is this
backward survey!
1t is natural as life for me to 60 to
my desk in the latter part of the even
ing, take out my book of diary and
make an entry in brief of such personal
or family incidents and experiences as
have made decided impression upon
my mind and heart, and of such social
or public events as seem of interest and
value. The twenty or thirty minutes
thu spcnt deem as among the best
occupied moments Of the current day.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-02-28

"A memorial of King Philip, the
Narragansett warrior, has been set up
by the Rhode Island Historical Society
at Mount Hope, in that State. A large
bOwlder on the summit has been marked
with his name and the date of his death,
the 10th of August, 1876, in large let
ters. and in the valley below, where he
fell, a granite block three feet high has
been erected, marked with suitable
inscription.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-02-28

When Mark Twain lecturcd re-
Gently at a town in Massachusetts, it
was arranged that T. b. Aldrich, the
poet. should introduce him. When
Mr.. Aldrich was about to step forward
to perform his duty, Mark checked
him. Then, advancing slowly to the
edge of the platform, while the amazed
poet resumed his chair, the humorist
remarked: Ladies and gentlemen,
my friend, Mr.. Aldrich, was going to
tell you who was, but l would rather
nOt-he knows me too we'll"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-02-28

The New York Street, Cleaning De-
partment during the year 1877 swept
1852 miles of streets in the city, re-
moved 733, Ill loads of ashes and 544,-
O42 loads of street dirt; IS, 295 loads Of
snow were removed and carted away;
the expenses incurred for laborcrs and
cartmen were S612,819.83.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-02-28

Rev. Robert Collyer advises that
two cords of wood and saw be kept in
the backyard as q sort of ipdgmleenattsdsy
for the tramps,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-02-28

So far as Cornelius Vanderbilt has
| got along with his testimony, itappears
that he has borrowed more money and
paid back less thaa any other man In
merica.-,Hawk-Eqe.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-02-28

TURN a. barrel over pie-plant hill
and pile fresh horse manure over and
around the barrel. and in a month you
can have fresh, crisp pie-plant.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-02-28

Rev. Alexander Duff, ID. d., a dis
tinguishcd Scottish Missionary, is dead.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-02-28

The Plainfield Savings Bank, of Plain
field, n. j., closed its doors, on the 18th.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-02-28

The King Of Siam has decided to
send diplomatic representative to the United
TAFT
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-02-28

The .Etna Iron Works, of IrontOn,
Ohio. has suspended payment. 1t had capt.
tai of s. OOO,OOO.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-02-28

An official telegram from Zanzibar
announces the death there of Mcssrs. Mars
and Crespel. who were sent by the King of
Belgium TO explore the interior of Africa.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-02-28

The United States Treasury held. on
the 10th, S:Sti, 30 $50 in United States bonds
to secure National Bank circulation, and 3d.
$4,000 in bonds to secure public deposits.
National Bank circulation outstanding: Cur
rcney notes, 3o,tOS. SIS; gold notes, 81, 49,,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-02-28

\ recent fire in New York City de-
stroycd siN-story building, known as En-
cr>ior Block, ON the south side of Twenty
third street, near Second avenue, and two
Presbyterian Churches adjoining The total
loss was estimated at from :5OO,OO to
Ns)tkn
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-02-28

The income tax of 1870 produced
>>."h,COo. and was paid by 5000 people.
Commissioner Raum has expressed the opinion
that the renewal of such tax would not now
Weld over half that sum.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-02-28

The old family mansion of Daniel
Webster, at Marshfield, Mass, was burned, on
tie morning Of the 14th.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-02-28

Among the nominations sent to the
Senate by the President, on the 18th, were the
following: Bayard Taylor to be Minister to
Gcrmanv: John Baker, Of Illinois, to be Min
lister Resident to Venezuela; VIM. A. How
ard. of Michigan. to be Governor of Dakota:
\. W. Speight and W. {. Quimby, of Texas,
and John Van Rencr,lcn. of Oregon, to be
Honorary Commissioners to the Paris EXPOSE
lion
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-02-06
THE NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY


Of 81 800 per annum."
Was read the first time.
MIR. Wheeler moved that the bill be indeG-
nitely postponed.
Mr.. Boatner moved Us u substitute that the
constitutional rule be suspended and the bill
be placed on It's second reading.
The President declared the motion not in
order, the motion to indefinitely postpone
having precedence.
MIR. Boatner demanded the yeas and nays
on the motion to indefinitely postpone.
The roll being called resulted as follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Burcht ella, HarpSr, Kelly,
Stubs, Twtchell, Wheeler, White and
Nays-Messrs. Alan, Boatner, Bryant
Cage, Ducros, Ellis, Garland, George, Goode,
Mitchell, Ogden, Perkins, Stamps, Sutton
ana ssn t"Messrs. Breox pemas Dumont,
Grover. Landry, O'Donnell. Richardson, Rob-
ertson. Sandford Steven, Wakefield and Zach
arie-12
And the motion to indefinitely postpone was
lost.
On motion of Mr.. Boatner, the constitu-
tional rule being suspended by a four-fifths
vote of lie Senate, the bill was read second
time and referred to the Committee on Cor
porations and Parochial Affairs.
On motion of Mr.. Boatner the rules were
suspended in order to receive at this time the
report of the Committee on Lands and Levees,
as follows: O
COMMITTEE ON LANDS AND LHvEEs.
New Orleans. February 4. 1898
To the Honorable President and Members OF
the Senate:
Your committee having had under consider
alton House bill No. 9S, report the same favor
'U Your cons ~ ttee having hsa under con
sderation Senate bill No. 100 Sport the same
,lnfavorably. n
Respectfully submitted. G
.a~ CEfAS. J. BOATNER, Chair9an.
The reports were received and lie over under
the rules.
Under suspension Of the rules the follow
ing named Senators introduced the following
petitions and memorials, which were received
and referred.
BY Mr. Goode:
"The petition of the Central Executive Coun
ell Of the Real Estate and Taxpayers Union
of New Orleans. protesting against the pass
age of the fWaterworks' bill
To the Committee on Corporations and
Parochial Affairs.
BY Mr.. White:
"rhe petition of the Society Of st. Vincent
de Paul asking an appropriation from the
State
Mr.. White moved that the petition be re-
ferred to the Finance Committee.
Mr.. Kelly moved as u substitute that the
petition be referred to the Committee on
Charitable Institutions, and it was SO re-
ferred.
BY Mr.. Garland
petition of citizens of the parishes OF La
fayette and St. Landry, praying for law
prohibiting all selling and bartering, and par
ticuarly of Intoxicating liquors, on the Sab
bath
To the Committee on the Judiciary.
BY Mr.. Wheeler:
Memorial of the citizens Of the town oil
Bastrop and citizens of the parish OF More
| house, against the passage of an act making
the town of Bastrop subject to the payment
of parish taxes"
To the Committee on Corporations and Pa
rochial Affairs.
On motion of Mr.. Allain the Senate then adj
iourned until Tuesday, February S, 1873, at
IL o'clock IN.
JOHN CLEGG,
Secretary of the Senate