The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-10
SENSE AND NONSENSE.

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the Mississippi River.
SENSE AND NONSENSE.
| CRATE cheer-a coal fire.
CYPRUS is the home of the cauli-
flower.
SONG of the cheese" Will you love
the when mould?''
SEVEN persons have died of hydro
phobia in the vicinity of Berlin, Conn.,,
within a year.
Most of the poetry mills are running
full time on autumn styles.-B0st01a
Journal Of Commerce..
AN application was recently made to
q life insurance company in New York
for an annuity for person ninety-two
years old.
B1sMARcK's diplomacy has proved too
much for the Colorado beetle, and the
latter has packed its carpet-bag for
home.-B0Ston Post.
If man is on his way to the woods
to commit suicide and a bull suddenly
gives chase the chances are that he
will run for his life.-N. Y. Graphic.
"How LONG are you going to stay
here?" "Why, my little dear?"
"'Cause I'm hungry, and mamma says
we shall have dinner as soon Us that
dreadful nuisance goes away
IT is now the time that the conven-
tional small boy is penetrated by thrills
of rapture as he looks little way into
the future and contemplates the annual
advent of the buckwheat cake.
SCIENTIFIC men say that a person is
half an inch taller in the morning than
he is in the evening. In spite of this
we all know that men get fearfullv high
in the evening sometimes.-Syracuse
Sunday Times.
The Burlington Hawk-Eye wants to
know why a cow always laughs when
she meets milkman. 1t is difficult to
tell. We may only say that, the milk
man being an entire stranger, she is
deucedly impolite. Eapress.
We DON'T mean to say that Petaluma
is a particularly poor town, but we
remember that once when a San Fran
cisco burglar tried to enter a store in
that burg, the inhabitants caught him,
generally brightenedup in consequence
for the next six months.-San Fran
cisco Nes0s Letter.
AN Evanston beau took his sweet
heart to ball, in Chicago, last week,
and, seeing some candy in store, he
purchased a dimes worth, and, return
ing to the ballroom with his pockets
filled with the candy, remarked to his
inamOrata, as he swallowed the delic-
ious morsels: Mag, if you knowed
how good these is, you'd buy a dimes
with, too!'-Chic0go Times.
YESTERDAY two grammarians were
wrangling on Jefferson street, one con-
tending that it was only proper to say
"my wages is high" while the other
noisily insisted that the correct thing
was "my wages are high" Finally
they stopped a day laborer, and SUBJ
mittcd the question to him, which do
you say, your wages is high or your
wages are high?'" "Oh to the deuce
wild yer nonsense" he said, rcsuming
his pick, yer nayther ov We right; me
wages is low, thunderin' low. bur
lington Hawk-Eye
FULLER, in his Holy State" gives
. very opposite story: A poor man in
Paris, being very hungry, went into a
cook shop and staid there so long (for
the master was dishing up the meat)
that his appetite being lessened by the
steam, he proposed to go without his
meal; the cook insisted upon payment
all the same. At length, the alterca-
ton was agreed to be referred to the
first person that passed the door; that
person happened to be a notorious
idiot. Having heard the complaint, he
decreed that the poor mans money
should be placed between two empty
dishes, and that the cook should be
recompensed with the jingling of his
cash, as the other was with tho fumes
of the meat; and this little anecdote is
literally matter of fact.
MIR. WEBER states that in Thibet he
has lived for months together at q
height of more than $1,000 feet above
the level of the sea, and that the result
was as follows: His pulse at normal
height, only 6 per minute, seldom fell
below 100 per minute during the whole
time he was at that level. His respira-
tons were often twice as numerous in
the minute as they are at ordinary
levels. A run of 100 yards would
quicken both pulse and respiration
more than run of 1000 yards at sea-
level, and the higher the level the
greater the difficulty of walking or
running fast. He crossed the shoulder
of the Gurla Mandhata at q height of
some q, 900 feet, and found the great
est difficulty in getting his breath
quickly enough, had frequent and vio-
lent headaches, and found that his ma
tive guides and companions suffered
much more even than he did.-L0nd0s
Spectator.
IT is said that a farmer living near
Boise City, Idaho. is doing a heavy
business in rabbits He traps about
400 jack rabbits a day, which are fed
to the hogs and make very good pork.
The manner of catching the rabbits is
as follows: He has three miles of
brush fence along which are placed the
traps. The rabbits jump over the
brush fence and light on the board
covering the hole or trap, which board
works on pivot, and after depositing
the rabbit in the pit beneath resets it.
self, ready for another victim. Seven
men are employed to do nothing else
but run the traps and feed the rabbits
to several hundred hogs. The ears are
saved, as there is a bounty of two cents
per pair-enough to pay all the expenses
Of running the traps. There seems to
be no injurious effects attending the
feeding, as was predicted on account of
the fur in the hogs stomachs:- Cali
fornav Paper.
| "A snowy, dimpled cloud tossed in
to all kinds of fantastic shapes is an
enchanting sight. It is delicious; but,
at the saline time, it can't hold a candle
to b plate of fsh-balls.
spikes says her parents are willing
and ht likes the fiji, and thinks he will
take her II her cid f&hn will throw In q
ehron0'