The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-11-07
SENSE AND NONSENSE.

SENSE AND NONSENSE.
A LAZY house girl must be told to get
up and dust.
THERE is q fearful rumor that the
days or crinoline are to return.
A GENEROUS MAN feels most like Civ.
ing after his money has given out.
A BURLINGTON physician calls his
dog Cinchona because his bark is the
only valuable thing about him.
"PEK1N" is a generic name given to
all striped goods, whether of silk, satin
or velvet, and it is much seen in de-
scripti0ns of French costumes at pres.
ent.
A WESTERN theorist affects to be-
lieve that wives have better food and
less work than formerly; and as they
have less work to do, grow fat, while
the husbands, being obliged to work
harder to maintain them, are just as
strongly inclined to become Lean
Graphic. ..,:..
"DEAR ME, what charming little
birds. They are perfectly exquisite. :"
"They are not birds, my DEAR" re-
Piled her country cousin. i" They are
butterflies" "Oh! you don't say so!
Then these are the deah little creatures
that fly from flower to flower and
gather the sweet yellow butter that we
use. They are too lovely for any
thing. Whitehall Times.
AMONG the other curiosities on ex-
hibition at the American department
of the Paris Exposition was a spring
chicken from an American boarding
house. The chicken was taken to the
guillotine one morning, but when the
heavy knife fell on its neck the fowl
gave frightened squawk, and after one
or two tremendous pulls, jerked its
head away from under the knife and
made its way back to its coop in the
Exposition. The knife was sent to the
foundry for repairs Chicago Times.
"WHEN I travel by rail-" said an
eminent divine on the Victoria plat
form, the other day, 81 select first
class carriage in the middle cf the
train, enter the middle compartment
of that carriage, and l take the middle
seat in that compartment-In medic
tutiSsianus i6is-and l leave the rest TO
Providence" g 1t strikes me he leaves
precious little to Providence" said an
eminent descendant of Mr.. Toodles,
soto v0ce, who happened to be standing
by.-LOndom World.
AMONG the pleasant people one meets
with in the cars the palm must always
be awarded to him who relates pro bona
pubiico all the little occurrences at his
hometown the girl broke another dish,
and what his wife said ON the occasion,
and especially what he said; about his
new frying-pan, and how much it cost,
all the particulars of the way the fire
Is made, and table set-in short, q full
history of his domestic economy. Veri-
ly, he is blessing in disguise; so well
disguised, that we sometimes lose sight
of the blcssing.-Bostos Transcript.
ALGERNoN, under her window in the
cold, white moonlight. with tender ex
preston says:
"'Tis the !a:hast rose o-hof summer,
Le-heft hloO-hOoming alo-hone;
All its lo-huv-lee. companions
Ah-har fa-deh-hed and gO-hOne-"
Voice of pa, from the next window
straining and cracked like. as though
the old gentleman didn't have time te
look for his store teeth: "All right,
young man, all right; just pin news
paper over it to save it from the frost,
and We'll take it in with the rest of the
plants in the morning.'-Ha,0k-Eye
SOME rather strange errors and ana,
chronisms arc committed by newspa.
per writer's. The Times of this city re.
Gently located the Osborne House-the
Isle of Wight residence of Queen Vic.
toria-in Scotland. The same journal
stated that Sigismund, Emperor Of
Germany, visited England and was
decorated with the Order of the Garter
by Henry VIII. Sigismund was EN-.
peror from 141O till 1877. Henry VIII.
reigned from 1909 till 1917. It is there.
fore impossible that Sigismund could
have received the Order of the Garter
from him. Henry VI. was on the
throne of England when Sigismund
died. The Washington Post, in a recent
editorial on "The Beer Business =
says: "It is doubtful if the most ardent
votaries known of the extreme antiquity
of this beverage. Tacitus, who visited
Germany at the time of Christ" ETC.
Christ is said to have been crucified In
the year 80, under the reign of Tiberius.
Tacitus was born A. d. S., when Nero
was Emperor of Rome, who was the
third successor of Tiberius. 1t is al.
ways we'll to examine and compare the
statements of some newspapers before
you bet your money on them.-N. Y.
Graphic.
AN impression widely prevails among
certain classes in this country that the
danger arising from the bite of dog
suspected Of being mad can only be
averted by the death of the animal; and
dogs unaffected by rabies are no doubt
often destroyed in accordance with
this theory, leaving The PERSON or per
sons they may have bitten in state OF
suspense as to the risk incurred of an
attack of hydrophobia. In. Bdrmah,
mad dogs and dogs supposed to be mad,
ane not only killed, but eaten, the flesh
If q mad dog being, in. the opinion bf
the Burmese, not only the best antidote
to the poison of the tooth, but pro-
phylactic against hydrophobia. A
crowd, the other day, according to a
Rangoon paper, were seen in4he streets
If that city hacking a dog to pieces
and scrambling for the morsels, which,
when scared. were taken, home and
fried and esten by.thsir fortunate pos
SCISSORS. The dog was rabid and. had
bitten several persons, some efswhona
have since died. 1t was ultimately
chased and dubbed to death, and these
who devoured its remains fiatter them
selves that they are now hydrophia-
proof forever.-London PAIL Aan Ca
zekte. ,Et. s.sssfs;f r
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Some Late fashions ! ~ =
The double-breasted English coat is
a jaunty and becoming garment that is
worn alike by old and young ladies, by
the stout and slender, and BY the most
dressy as well as by those with plain
taste; it serves also for both house and
stroot Dress The vest ia seSved in the