The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-07-25
SENSE AND NONSENSE.

SENSE AND NONSENSE.
The ladies If the Rothschild family
are inclined to be very fat.
CAsHs Of insanity in Oregon have
been more frequent in the past three
months than ever befores 81
WHEN the poundmaster gets fifty
cents tor shutting up a vagrant hog, is
that animal fees-ance in office?-Hdsck-
Eye.
AUGUSTUS" said Amelia, chow do
oysters get, any air to breath when their
shells are closed tight?'' " Bi-valves,"
murmured Gus.
INSTEAD of dr." Mary Walker
should be called "dock'd DRESS" for
grammatical and other reasons. Hack.
e,ssack Republican. ~ .,
A MAJORITY of those who write
smart things are suppressed by travel.
They soon find out how little they
KNOWN. o. Rcayunc.
Iris getting so on Long Island that
if q wife has a strange taste in her
mouth she at once jumps out doors and
screams, Pizened by my husband!'-
Free Press.
DARWIN says woman loses one
tenth of her time looking for her Thin
bic. He recommends that a shelf be
attached to the frame of the mirror
N. Y. Graphic.
One kind word spoken to q tramp
| nh Ia xvvLo E,,t,, Do
member this when you see him walking
off with your AK and fifty feet of gar
1en-hose.-Detroit Free Press.
CHAMBERS is so prevalent in Rich.
mOnd, Va, that it has attracted atten-
ton in the Legislature. In the City
Council, recently, an ordinance was
adopted to prevent the spread of the
disease among the horses of the city.
A QUAcK in a neighboring village is
so proud when patient does not die
that he takes him out and exhibits him
to the astonished and admiring multi
tude. Of course. his exhibitions are
few compared with the professions Of
his undertaker.-Port Chester Journal.
Now WELD the girls the n,allet-sticks
With Strange lnfatuatiOn;
And meanwhile play fantastic tricks.
With lOudt st cachinatlOn;
Their mallets swing the game to win,
Regardless Of the friction;
Till suddenly one strikes q shin.
And. though she struggles hard to grin,
She shrieks her mailet-diction.
ONE of the women employed at the
Albany City Hall, recently, cut the dis
trict telegraph wire that runs from the
Common Council chamber to the COun-
ty Court room, close to the wall on
both sides, thinking it ''not tidy to
leave strings hanging around in that
| way" s, goes
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country
Gentleman says that the growth of
horns in cattle may be prevented by
soaring the germ, before it passes
through the skin, with a hot iron. BY
this means the growth of horn is sus-
pended, and the animal remains horn
less. -Iowa State Register.
A TRAMP knocked at the door, and,
unexpectedly, the head of the family
opened it. "Young man," said the
latter, 81 landed here twenty years
ago. in worse times than the present,
with two shillings. and washed dishes
in the country for living, and now
look at me-" And he threw his chest
out and beamed. ''Sir," replied the
tramp, "can you direct me to anybody
who has lot Of dishes to clean?'
Miss FRANCES E. WILLARD, editor of
the late Chicago Evcaing Post, has adj
dressed a graceful card to the public,
in which she says that anybody who
will is permitted to lead d forlorn
hope, and that this alone explains why,
before the times were ripe for it. she
and her sister came to the front as
managers of metropolitan newspa-
per. She gratefully thanks the press
for notices uniformly generous, and
patrons and subscribers for the sub
stantial encouragement they gave the
undertaking, and announces that she
will hereafter be found in her chosen
place among the Temperance workers
of our land.
A HORSE with a snake in his eye was
in town last week on exhibition at the
stables of the Knapp House. The rep
tile is comfortably located in the watery
humor of the left eye, is perfectly
formed, of white color, and about
the size of an ordinary darning needle.
It is plainly visible, and is constantly
on the move. wriggling and twisting in
every direction. Its presence does not
seem to annoy the horse in the least,
| and has evidently created no inflamma.
ton in or about the eye. 1t has, how
ever, changed the color of the eyeball,
which is of lighter shade than that Of
the right eye, and has affected the sight
l somewhat. The snake was first dis
covered about two months ago, when
II was much smaller than it is now.
How it came in the horses eye is q
question which puzzles scientists
Penn Yam IN. ~ Express.
A VETERAN Boston bookseller has
discovered clever dodge for evadine
the law against pool-selling, and ap.
peared the other day at Beacon Parh
as the aucti0neer of an "art sale. y
His stock-in-trade consisted of lot oil
horse pictures, labeled with the names
of the horses to trot during the race,
and these were sold at so much for first
second and third choices, the purchas
ers picking out the pictures bearing the
names of the horses which they sup.
posed would win. The process was the
same as pool-selling, only a lot Of
wre:ched chromos', were sold, in.
stead of pool tickets. At the close Of
the sale the auctioneer announced that
the owners of the winning horses
wished to purchase all the pictures Of
their animals that had been sold, a
they desired to have item framed, and
appointed . time and place for buying
them back. The prices paid in the lat.
ter case were of course the winnings Of
the pool box, with the usual commits.
sions deducted.
| An Elephants Revenge.
ELEPHANTS have 50 much sympathy
/ with denravpd human nafnra 0a e.