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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-31
A Burmese Monkey.

The monkey is not generally popular
as a domestic animal, yet do not fear
to assert of the representative of the
genus to which l now refer that he is
capable of winning the heart of the
most inveterate monkey-hater. of u
constitution so delicate that he cannot
be safely transported even to India
from his warm Southern forests, the
little Gibbon monkey may be seen in
perfectly happy freedom in the south
of Burmah, and when taken young and
trained as a home pet. no more engag-
ing animal is to be found. He is not,
indeed, free from the mischievous pro-
pensitics of his kind (and some Glib
bons are very mischicvous), but they
are certainly less obtrusive and are
counterbalanced by many attractions.
The tiny body is entirely covered with
a thick coat of the sOftcst wool, either
black or creamy white, out of a fringe
of which the beaded eyes peer wistfully;
unlike his more plebeian relations, he
has no vestige of a tail, and his arms
are of immense length in proportion to
his body. The grace of his movements,
and the suppleness and power of his
limbs are absolutely unexampled, car
rying him at giddy pace, with perfect
fearlessness and consummate ease, from
branch 10 branch of the loftiest trees,
or along the caves of houses. And
when with this beauty and grace are
combined the most shy and retiring
disposition. the most clinging and al
fectionate heart, the winning ways and
plaintive noises almost of a child, he
must nave an ineradicable aversion to
monkeys who is not won to affection
for the Gibbon. Seen, as have seen
him, set to play with a communicated
monkey, he is for all the world like a
child of an aristocratic family, who,
having been reared away from all con-
by the side of some rude village school
boy, whose familiarity is as hateful to
him as his coarse jests are repulsive and
unintelliqible.-Fraser's Magazine.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-31
Games Of Savage BOYS and Girls.

IHE state OF communism in which
Indians live, generally, permits no
privileged class among them. and the
girls of the Chief walk in SINGLE file
along the wood-trail, under lust as
heavy burdens as are carried bv the
daughters of the others, who have no
rank or standing whatever in the vii
lage. Liberty, equality and fraternity
among the children are npatent fact.
There are no heart burnings caused by
wealth, here, or high public position.
The boys are never known to have quar-
relied among themselves because the
father of one was richer than the father
of the other. and the little girls never
attempt or think of queening it over
one another on the strength of better
dresses and their mothers carriage.
There are no rivalries of this kind
among Indian children until they as
sumo the toga cirilis but they have
jealousies and malicious promptings,
which eliminate in blows and taunts,
that spring out of their childish games;
for they play at bat and football, at
hidc-and-seek, at tag, and have several
outdoor pastimes not unlike blind
man's-buff and hunt-the-slipper. Indian
boys do not know anything about mar
bles; they have no game at all like it,
though they might have, with great
propriety, for the wear and tear to
which our boys pantaloons are subject
ed, in the season of this sport, would
never give an Indian mother q mo-
ment's concern. because her boys never
wear trousers. They fly little kites,
however, made out of fish. bladders or
air-sacs, and they spin teetotums on
flat, polished stones; but the delightful
mysteries of mumble-peg they have yet
to investigate. The girls, however, do
not participate much in these sports,
since they become coy little old women
at a very early age, and when not on
the water, fish and wood-paths, they
are usually busily employed in helping
their mothers gather mast and dry ber-
ries and roots, scraping, tanning and
sewing skins, travelling sinews, etc., etc.
The industry of Indian women is real
ly remarkable; they are always ut
work, from the oldest to the youngest,
making, in this manner, a wonderful
contrast between the laborious dill
gence'of an Indian girl and the mag
nificent loafing of an Indian boy.-Hc's-
ry w. Elliott, IN Harper's Magazine for
November.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-31
DR.. Petermann's Death.

The sad circumstances surrounding
the death of him who is widely admit
ted to have been the foremost geogra-
pher of his age, DIR. August Heinrich
Petermann, come tardily to light. His
sudden death, announced to have &C.
Cured on the 9th ult., was stated to
have been the result of an apoplectic
stroke. Science mOurned its loss in
heartfelt terms, and tributes to his in
dustry, his learning and the happy in
fluence they have had upon geographic
cal science were paid by every press in
Europe. A correspondent of the New
York Herald, upon the first whisper
that DIR. Peternann's death was not at
tributable to apoplexy, set about an in
vestigation of the facts. His story con
firms the rumOr that DIR. Petcrmann,
driven to distraction by bodily suffer-
ing and mental anguish, committed
suicide. He telegraphs to the Herald
as follows:
"Dr. Petermann had for some time
suffered from repeated attacks of bron-
chitis. He coughed almost continuous
" and complained of constant pain.
His nervous irritation increased, and
added to the physical suffering was a
mental excitement of q domestic ma
ture which rendered him almost fran
tic at times. He complained of head
ache SO acute that the least touch upon
the forehead produced violent pain.
He was but fifty-six years old, and it
was hoped that his strong constitution
would pull him through. On the
morning of the 25th ult., after a rest
less night, DIR. Petermann, who had
been tenderly watched over by his wife
and daughters, exhibited an agitation,
which they alarmingly noted, but never
for a moment attributed it to its true
cause. He begged them to retire from
the room.
"Here it may be proper to observe
that the lady who, with his own grown
up daughters had watched by his bed
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-31

NO man can 60 down into the dun
geon of his experience, and hold the
torch of truth to all the dark chambers
and hidden cavities, and not come up
with shudder and a chill as he thinks
of the time when he undertook to talk
politics with tho deaf old father of his
first sweetheart while the girl was pres
cnt. -CSsci,ss,ati Breakfast Table.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-31

Ell want, and will have, wife
without falling" was the remark Of
a Young man who had three seasons
experience of life. His sister, with
only a country girls philosophy, re-
marked: "Then you'll never marry,
because, should you find such . WON.
an, she'll be sure to want husband Of
the same character"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-31

1OUal.. ZESI, lUU
Ut the total product here stated, over
40 per cent. was in gold, and the re-
mainder in silver, deducting $780,, 200,
the value of the lead extracted.
FRUIr-CULrURE is making rapid
progress in the United States. Accord
ing to recent official statements, the
land appropriated to this branch of in
dustry is 4,50O,OOO acres. Upon this
there flourish 100000 apple trees.
$4,000, 600 pear trees, liz, 27O, 600 peach
trees and 141, 900, 900 grapevines. The
total value of the fruit crop throughout
the United States is set down at $685.
PIG, 700, an amount equal to half the
value of the average wheat crop of the
country. Toward that large sum ap-
Piles are held to contribute $50, 40O, 900,
pears $14, 13O, 900, peaches SAG, 1856 200,
grapes 81, lis, 900, Strawberries s., OOO,-
600, and other fruit $40, $4,000.
The ostrich-feather business in
creases, but the supply is getting sadly
short. Twenty pairs of ostriches were
recently sold in South Africa for breed
ing purposes, and fetched an average
of nearly ST. 900 per pair. As much as
81, 1926 was paid for one pair, while the
lowest price paid was $3.50. It was
only few years ago that ostriches
could be procured in South Africa for
catching, and for exhibition purposes
in London they sold at a mere trifle.
Even the Geological Society in London,
remarkable for its collection of foreign
birds, does not possess single speci-
men of the African ostrich. At a re-
cent sale of feathers q choice parcel
realized $40 per pound, or about 81
for each separate feather. In 1860 the
exports from the Cape o. Good Hope
were about 2.297 pounds, valued at
500, 800. Ten years later the quantity
had increased twelvefold and the value
fivefold. In 1873, 81, 581 pounds were
exported, at a value of $798, 1896, and
last year the exports had reached in
value the sum of 81 ,967, 1850.
The grain movement this fall is far
in excess of what it was q year ago.
At Buffalo, the total receipts by lake
for the month of September of grain of
all kinds, including that received in the
form of flour. foot up 14,787, 1850
bushels, against 9,34S,O95 bushels Tor
September, 1877. For the season to
date, the grand aggregate is So, 738, 1882
bushels, against 80, GAL 1907 bushels to
the same time last year. Exports by
canal show q corresponding increase,
and aggregate for the season 42,13S,-
COS bushels, against 80, 466, $40 bushels
last year. Railway receipts share in
the general gain, footing up 2,49O, 500
bushels for September, against 1,446,-
800 bushels for the same month last
year. For the first nine months of
1873 railway receipts are 22,8S4, 400
against 10, 348, 44O bushels for the same
months of 1877. OF grain received at
Buffalo by lake, 1901 ,557 bushels went
eastward by rail during September,
1877. For the year to date, railroad
aggregate 1923, 1862 bushels against
but 6, 124, $50 bushels for the same time
last year.-Iroy IN ~ Times.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-31

--.' Exertion." saws great writer,
:" is the price of noble life." Strange
that man never thirks of that when
he gets up before six O'CLOCK in the
morning. -Hasck. Eye.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-31

1OCal coinage .3lZy,6OU 81, sou
THE bullion yield of al! the mines of
the Pacific Slope reporting for the first
eight months Of the present year was as
| follows.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-31
FACTS AND FIGURES.
SUCCESS is born of industry.

SUCCESS is born of industry.
In Ireland this year there were 5, 2O3.-
7O5 acres cultivated, y decrease of g.
1876 acres as compared with 1877. The
chief decrease was in oats, potatoes and
flax.
The following is an official statement
of the coinage executed at the United
States Mint during September, 1873:
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-31

"A young man on being asked by
his sweetheart why the continued flow
of so many rivers into the sea did not
fill up the sea and make it run over,
replied, "Why, it's the sponges, my
dear" "What have sponges to do
with it?'' she asked. To which he re-
sponded: "Why, the sea is full of
sponges, way down at the bottom,
and they suck up the water don't you
see?''
There are three things that no man
can keep-a point on pencil, point
ed joke and an appointment with the
dentist Cincinnati Breakfast Table. :.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-31

In consequence of the glut of cotton
goods, several Of the largest mills in Lanca-
shire, Eng, have shut down.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-31

Jefferson Davis, Jr., tho only surviv-
ing son Of ex-Confederate-P President Davis.
was among the victims of the fever, on the
10TH He was twenty-one years of age. There
were eight deaths within and fifteen outside
the city limits of Memphis. The deaths I'm
New Orleans numbered twenty-six; Cairo
two. and three new cases; Chattanooga, tour,
and fourteen new cases. There was NO n,ate
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-31

The Archbishop of Salonica, the
anti-Russian candidate, has been elected Greek
Patriarch in Turkey.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-31

The Sultan has authorized Baker
Pasha to employ 10000 men to complete the
defensive lines of Constantinople.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-31

4 Berlin dispatch of the 10th says
the Emperor William would resume the Gov
crnmeut, on the LIST of December.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-31

The full official returns from the
recent election in Ohio give the following to-
tails for Secretary of State: Barnes (Rep.),
27a,120; Paige Oem.), 7O.966; Ray (Nat.),
$3.50; Robinson (Prohibition), 1874. Barnes
plurality, a154. The Congressman elected
are: Repubficsn-First District, Bdtterworth,
no majority; Second, Young, 947; Fourth,
Keller, 500; Twelfth, Neal, 2,078; Sixteenth,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-31

Clarkson n. Potter has declined q
denomination in the Twelfth New York Con.
gressional District.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-31

The German Parliament passed the
Anti Socialist bill, on the 10Th. hya vote of III
10 ll9 The Assembly was then prorogucd.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-31

At the recent races on the course of
the Chicago Jockey and Trotting Club, the
horse Hopeful made the unprecedented time
of mile in 2:l61a, to wagon. The owner has
issued challenge to all the world to try con-
illusions with Hopeful
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-31

A letter received, recently, in New
York, from the City of Mexico, says that, on
the 29th ult, at Alfalfa, mob, melted by
priests, killed twenty Protestants and wound
ed a number of others. In Pueblo the mob
threatened to break up the Protestant Mis-
sions. President Disz had promised the Rev.
DIR. Butler to do all in his power to protect all
religious denominations.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-31

CURRENT PARAGRAPH.
The Concord IN. Ill., Savings Bank
has suspended.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-31

Mckinley, /, :s4; Seventeenth, Monroe, 2,6'S;
Eighteenth, Updegraff, 2,679; Nineteenth,
Garfield, 9,6l3; Twentieth. Townsend, $50.
Democrats District, Mcmahon, 1,O67;
Fifth, Lcfevre, ISIS; Sixth, Hin, 4,0SS; sev-
enth. Huri, 1904; Eighth, Finley, Less;
Ninth, Converse, 9sS; Tenth, Ewing. 1884;
Eleventh, Dickey, lass; Thirteenth, Warner,
l23; roustecnth, Atherton, 2, 2S7; Fifteenth,
Cet1des BIS
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-31

The whole management of the City
of Glasgow Bank--the Secretary, the Manage
ing Director and the six Directors-were ar
rested, on the 18th, upon the charge of fraud,
and confined in separate apartments in the
City Prison. They each declared they would
have surrendered voluntarily had they known
they were wanted.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-31

the following as the substance of the Ameer
OF Afghanistan's reply to a recent message
sent to him by the Viceroy of India, asking
an explanation of his hostile attitude toward
Great Britain: "You may do your worst
The issue is in Gods hands.''
The following failures in Glasgow
and other parts of Great Britain were an
nounced, on the 2lst: Laccur u Watson,
shipping agents; Alexander Bell u Sons;
James Morton Il Co.; Cooper, Scott & Co.
The aggregate liabilities of these firms arc
about $50, 100000.
In a communication to the press, on
the 2lst, Henry Havemcyer, of New York,
denies all knowledge Of the cipher dispatch
es relating to the last Presidential election.
He says: 81 never sent any of those dispatch
es. and never authorized any one to send
them, or any Of them. for me. never knew,
and do not know, the meaning of the cipher
or any Of the ciphers, in which they, or any
OF them, are written, and could not read
them II would. During a short period i'm
mediately after the late Presidential election,
large number of kilograms were sent to nv
address for other persons, and called for by
messengers. The practice was commenced
without my consent, and after few DAYS
discontinued by my requirement, because
their frequency rendered them great annoy.
ance. never knew the contents of those tel
egrams."
1t is stated by the Charleston Is. C.)
Nescs and Courier of the 10th that Republican
meeting at Lau.onville, in that State, had been
captured by q force Of about 500 "Red Shirts. -
who proceeded to run the meeting ON . divi-
sion-ttme schedule. making several Democratic
speeches. The meeting WA, it il said, oriei-
nally composed of about 1000 men. women
and children-mostly colored.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-31

Mr.. Tilden published a letter in the
New York newspapers, on the 18th, in which
he denies emphatically that he either sent.
received or authorized any Of the cipher tele-
grams. lately published, relating to the Pres
idential count in the disputed States. He
declares that the Returning Boards were
known to be corrupt before their acts proved
1t, and that his election was confessed by the
self-convicted participants in the fraud. His
nomination and triumph, he says, were un-
bought, and he, himself, untrammeled
A recent Paris telegram says it was
then officially known that the awards to
American exhibitors at the French Exposition
numbered $50. comprising ten grand prizes.
thirty diplomas of honor, 134 gold, 200 silver
and 20 bronze medals. and 1855 honorable
mentions. The aggregate is larger than the
whole number of American exhibitors at the
Paris Exhibition of 1867, or at the Vienna Ex-
position OF 1875. and is . larger proportion
awarded to exhibitors than to any other Ma
ton represented at the present Exposition.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-31

The Vermont Legislature, on the
18th, reelected Justin 8. Morrill, to the United
States Senate.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-31

Manton Marble has published, in the
New York Herald, sweeping denial of the
charges connecting him with the cipher dis
patches sent to and from the South during the
Returninp-B Board excitement, in 1876. He af-
firms that he never, directly or indirectly,
sought, or assented to any scheme, to purchase
or secure for Tilden the State Canyassers' GER
tifcate Of the vote OF Florida.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-31

A Washington special of the 10Th
says the new plan of registering third-class
mail matter, which had been in operation
three weeks, had proved to be great success,
and reports from all directions showed that
its advantages were appreciated by the public.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-31

The Rothschilds have agreed t
loan Egypt s3O,OOO,OO0 to clear off her float
ing debt.
The New York herald., 1878-07-11

r. M. HAYES. AUCrIONEER, SELLS THIS DAY,
iLsio O'Clock ~ ureenpoint i72 M.nhsstsn az. and
Sugars Flour Soap starch. spices vanned aooda Fix.
ssrss, Horse. Wagon, hanssss Aousshe FarnNurs, Ae
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-03-14
Cold Feet.

Cold feet usually result from IN
equal circulation. People of active
minds generally find relief by wear
ing st times, during their mental
tasks, a lined or cotton skulIcap,
frequently wrung out in cold water.
The brain is cooled, and the blood
sent more naturally to the extremi-
ties.
A brilliant New York minister
was compelled to write his sermons
with his feet in hot baths. A promi-
nent hydopathist advised the wet
head-cap, and it worked like a
charm, enabling him to dispense
with the inconvenient tub OF water.
The feet should be washed in te-
pid water,n not so hot as to make them
tender. Concluding the bath, dip
them into quite cold water, which
closes the pores naturally, and then
wipe and rub them entirely dry and
warm them. No business at the
desk, the counter, the bench-no
domestic task or conventional cir
cumstance-is of so grave impor-
lance as To warm ones feet when
they are cold. You can't afford the
hazard of health incurred by indif-
ference to the discomfort nature is
giving you as a premonition of dan
ger. Keep your feet dry. Ii, by
accident, you wet your feet, don't
be foolish and sit till death-damp
steals into your vitals; exercise
common sense, and remove the wet
stockings. II chilly, take a warm
foot-bath, ending with the cold dip
and rubbing dry. II, in judicious
way, people would wet their feet of
tener-clean to their ears-it would
be better for their health.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-03-14
The Trials Of Beauty.

A really beautiful woman tells a
Philadelphia Times writer her ex-
perience, which, though hattering,
is by no means satisfactory to her
self:
81 have no money and no friends,
beng a widow with several children
dependent upon me for their daily
bread. l have tried everywhere to
get work without success, and final
ly 1 determined to go out to service.
l went to an intelligence Office, was
directed to a place, and found the
lady in want of help at home. L
was shown into the parlor, and
when the lady came in she treated
me with the greatest politeness. 1
made known to her that L was in
search of n situation at homework,
and asked her to engage me, but
she said 1 was entirely TOO refined
and regal looking, and that she
would never feel comfortable in ask
ing me to perform many offices
about the house which must be
done. Il would take you as a COM
panion,' she continued If it were
not for my husband, but he is an
artist, and such an admirer of beau
ty, that don't want to risk it. +"
"Well," said a third lady, who
heard this narrative, Il think they
were two fools well met" Perhaps
it would be more charitable to sa,
that the employer had an excess of
prudence.
The case is really n hard one.
This woman is so superlatively
beautiful, that even gentlemen are
afraid to engage her IN the ordinary
routine of business, lest it should
provoke criticism, and women will
not have her about their households
for the same reason. l don't know
but that both are right, yet it is
mean Of US. nevertheless.
Itis a case of 'too pretty for any
thing" Yet it is a real fact that
the woman is in danger of starving,
because her striking appearance al
ways invites comment
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-03-14
Nothing to Do.

The brave man or woman will al
ways find something to do. 1 know
a little woman who, by her hus-
bands illness, has been reduced to
work for a livelihood. She will do
anything that is honest. One
week she does some copying. The
next week she is at her sewing ma
chine; friends eyes are weak and
she happened to say she was look
ing for a seamstress. At once our
heroine flor are not such heroines?)
stamped on her pride, which
squirmed horribly and said, are
member she was your bridesmaid,
doesn't know how very poor you
are; you'd better pretend you know
of seamstress." Down came the
foot, and the words were spoken
bravely: "If L may take the work
home, 1 will be very glad to do it,"
time there is sudden sick
ness, and a nurse is required. She
goes; and so, gradually, she &C
quired a reputation for intense ear
nestness in fulfilling her duty-that
of earning money for her children
and, one thing leading to another,
she learns how to support her fami-
ly comfortably and with ease
Where there's a will, one can gener-
ally find a way.