The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-12-12
SENSE AND NONSENSE.

SENSE AND NONSENSE.
49,, A MAN who has plenty Of thyme:
"IDIor,FRrnaE," vigorous Western
editor calls banged hair.
A FASHIONABLE dress resembles war
when it has q wrinkled front.
WHEN halter fits cap to your
Uranium he cap sizes your head. doesn't
| Re?
THERE'S only one thing stronger than
q woman's will, and that's woman,s
won't"
The consciousness of q sacrificed
manhood will stuff the pillow with
thorns. -Erchange.
Isn't it queer how all the smoke in .
stove will lind its way to one little
crack and conre out?-Bellaire Phono-
graph.
The poet says that truth lies at the
bottom of a we'll. Then it can't be the
truth, for the truth never lies any
where.
THE man who goes to church simply
because he has nothing else to do, may
not be heather, but he is certainly an
idle worshiper.
In starting out, every young man
should lay the foundation of his future
career on the enduring principles of
everlasting truth. State Register.
The Frankfivter Zeitung reports
glut of maid-servauts in Frankfort.
Many women are Offering their services
at nominal wages in order to secure
homes.
AN English burglar says that where
men work in gangs, it is usual for one
of them to become the sweetheart of
the servant girls, and obtain informa-
| ton from them.
elderly females look young and young
females look elderly. The girls en-
deavor to neutralize the effect by bright
colored trimmings.-N. Y. Graphic.
TwENrY-oNE young girls of Keno
sha, Wis.,, have " ReSolced, That if the
young men won't come and see us, we
will 60 and see them" And the young
men are stepping down and out and
taking to the woods.
PEOPLE are usually not particular
about the presents they receive. but
when it comes to the gifts of Provi-
dence, each one acts as though he were
appointed committee to find fault
Meyiden Recorder.
THE chart of life is dotted all over
with dark spots as marks where young
men have gone down by going in debt
without the means or probability of
paying. He forfeits his word in prom
Uses, then he loses his pride of charac-
ter, and sinks all that was noble and
good in his life.- lowa State Register.
He had broken his promise to marry
the girl, and her father wanted money
consideration to help heal a wounded
heart. The young man said he would
consider a reasonable proposition,
"Well. them" said the irate father,
who was seeking justice for his daugh-
ter, ''young man, how does dollar and
half strike your Turner's Falls
Reporter.
THIRTY days hath September, if we
the almanac remember. Then comes
October, brown and sere, the month
We chills and fever fear. And then
November, month of rains, when one
is full of aches and pains. December
comes, with frosts and SHOWS, and
gives us chilblains on our toes. And
January without "thaw''-no cash
on hand from which to draw.-B0ston
Globe.
MIR. HALLIKER, of South Hill, sent
his boy to the grocery with a quarter
to buy twenty cents worth of cheese,
nd tkn ho~- A.
nickel of change, and smell of gum
drops on his breath. The skate-strap
was produced and explanations de-
manded. Father" exclaimed the
noble boy, "don't whip me. If you
don't want your funds forcibly abstract
ed, don't intrust the combination to a
boy."-Burlington Haaok-Eye.
In the old days, when there were
very great numbers of deer to be found
in this country, and when venison was
more familiar dish than it now is, it
was usual to place on the tables of the
wealthy only the best portions of the
meat. The rest was generally given to
the huntsmen or distributed among the
poor, and to it the name of "umbles"
was given, and it was through the GUS
tom, which was then common, Of max
ing the latter into pie, that the term
which we know as humble pie" arose.
STRONG LOvE.-In the Parish of
H, kincardineshire, lived carter
whose youngest daughter was being
courted by mason. In visiting her
he had to cross bridge over a small
burn of water running from the mill.
Having taken little too much of
"John Barleycorn" on the meeting
night, he stumbled and fell into the
water, which, fortunately, was not very
deep at the time. Gathering himself
up as best he could, he walked to the
gate where his intended was waiting
for him. "Oh, Charlie, you're a. wectv'
was her startled greeting. "Eh, ma.
Annie; it's the dew O. love-" was the
loving fellows answer.
AT the late State election, John Sim
monson, who is now in his 10th year,
cast his vote as usual. Mr.. Simmonson
has voted on every side of every cleo
titn contest since the formation of the
Government, commencing with Wash
ington, for whom he tells he gave
twenty-five votes. He says that's the
best days work he ever put in-on one
side, you know; fifty is about his aver
age, but his sense of fair play leads
him to divide them up among the diff
ferent candidates. rive don't know for
certain how old MIR. Simmonson is; in
fact, don't know Mr.. Simmonson. All
the papers are telling stories of voting
Mathuselahs, and we wanted to be in
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