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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-17
Youths Department.
MILTIADES SHOWS HIS COUSIN
"a NEW KIND or SWING."

Miss MUSLIN, while down in the kitchen one day,
And watching with great admiration the way
In which, at the table. Abiathar Ann
Would roll out and faehion gingerbread
Heard Miltiades calling; and yet, looking out.
he was nowhere in sight, though she eazed all
why. Miitiades-dear me! Where are are3"
" Here 1 am" cried Miltiades. /" Here, up a treer
And. sure enough. looking straight up overhead.
There Miltiades was" up in tree. as he said,
Quite way, way from the ground firmly perched on
Sc , stout 'tworld have held up dozen Of him..
Won c gst tb she in Distress how ut"
~ Never mind," replied he, with mysterious air.
1t may be climbed up; it may be lfeW;
But I'll tell you, my dear, what want you to do.
Just 60 QUITO the woodshed, as sly as you can
Without saying word to Abiathar Ami,
And you'll lind there clOthes-line, which, if you
I'll show you. directly, a new kind of swing.
And, while you're about it. stop on the way back
And get. too, that long pole that John Henry
Keeps to pick apples with. 1t will answer, hone.
As means to reach up here one end Of the
rope"
So Miss Muslin, with very great promptness,
And finding the clothes-line and pole as he said,
She quickly returned and by means of the latter,
She held up the end Of the rope SO that he
Could reach down and get it from up in the tree.
Then she stood there impatiently, wishing she
just what twas that her cousin intended to do.
But he seemed en- by no means in such hurry as
Having gotten the rope. he quite coolly proceeded
To make a moose in it, and (still in no haste)
Deliberately passed it about his own waist.
He instructed Miss Muslin that, having unwound
Enough of the line. she should cut it off short,
Tie the end round her waist. and walk off till
twas "taut."
There " At length said Miltiaden. THAT is all
Now, just hang back upon it with all of your
And walk slowly this way. by which means
You will let me doIn easily out of the tree
While Miss Muslin began walking up very slow.
But she, pretty soon. found herself going some
Than she wanted to go; for our hero surpassed
Very much, as may we'll be imagined, in weight
Presently, all at once 10! our heroine found
That her feet, as she ran, were scarce touching
And -horrors!-she felt herself suddenly
caught
From the earth altogether (the rope was too
And, the next instant, there she was slOwly
ascending,
Giving vent all the while to screams really heart
rending,
Till, meeting her cousin in mid-air, she chung
To him wildly-and then, both together, they
hung
Some six feet from the ground. trying in vain to
get free,
As funny sight as one often may see.
At least so I'm sure thought Abiathar Ann,
Who laughed from the doorstep until the tears
ran.
| "Well!' she CRIED when at length she had helped
them down, " that's
| A case very much like the Kilkenny Cats!
Pray, how did you mango to get up herey
Why"
Said Miltiades, heaving a very deep sigh,
Il was showing my cousin a nesU Kind Of sUing
But can't say 1 think very much of the thing!
| John Brornjohn, in october Vide vake.
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Tom POtter's Shooting.

THEY had been talking about the re-
markable performances of DR.. Carver,
the marksman, who shoots, with a rifle.
glass balls which are sent into the air
Us fastas a man can throw them. Pres
emily Abner Byng, who was sitting by,
said:
"That's nothing"
"What is nothingP'
"Why, that shooting. Did you ever
know Tom Potter?"
"No."
"Well, Potter was the best hand
with rifle l ever saw; beat this man
Carver all hollow. I'll tell you what
I've seen Potter do. You know, may
be, along there in the cherry season,
Mrs. Potter would want to preserve
some cherries; SO Tom ID pick 'em for
her, and how do you think he'd stone
'em?''
81 don't know. Howr'
"Why, he'd fill his gun with bird
shot, and get q boy to drop half BUSH
ell of cherries at one time from the roof
of the house. As they came down he'd
fire, and take the stone clean out of ev-
cry cherry in the lot! It's positive
fact. He might occasionally miss one
cherry, may be, but not often. But he
did bigger shooting than that when he
wanted to-"
"What did he dop''
why, Jim Miller-did you know
him? Mop Well, Tom made bet
once with Jim that he could shoot the
buttons off of his own coat tail by aiming
in the opposite direction, and Jim Mil
Ter took him up
Ibid he do itp''
"Do it! He fixed himself in posi-
ton, and aimed at a tree in front of
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FACTS AND FIGURES.

OVER SO per cent. of Chicago's
deaths, during one week recently, were
of children under five years old.
In 1871 the municipal debts of En-
gland were $340. OOO, 900, and they have
since sprung to 1881 ,OOO, 900, while local
taxation has expanded one-third.
SEVERAL years ago the number of CT
CARS imported by dealers in New Or
leans was about 100000. Now it is
only $500, 900 annually.
AT a very low estimate there are at
least $500 incendiary policy-holders
annually in this country, who burn up
$5,5OO,OO0 worth of property every
Chicago Times.
., A SINGLE factory in Redditch, Eng,
turns out between 6,OOO,O 600 and 7,OOO,-
600 needles each week, or about $780,
900, 900 a year, which is equal to one
third OF the population of the globe.
THERE are 1907 real estate owners
in Nevberry County, s. c., of whom
III are negroes. One of these negroes
owns 672 acres, valued at $4,16O; an
other owns SS7 acres, valued at 50, 40.
LAST year in Massachusetts 12,737
couples were joined in the bond of we'd
lock. Of these there were 9,915 bach
elOrs who chose maidens to be their
wives, and COS who chose widows;
while 1896 widowers married maidens
and 81S married widows. From this it
appears that 1888 more widowers than
widows were married again, and that
1896 maidens married widowers, when
only COS bachelors married widows.
THE report of the State Board of Ag-
riculture puts the population of Kan
'sas at 100000, an increase of over
10000 since 1875. The wheat crop of
the present year is ESTIMATED at 3O,OOO,-
600 bushels, and the corn crop at
1OO,OOO,OOO bushels. From the eighth
place as wheat State in 1876, Kansas
advances this year to the second place,
if not the first, the yield in California
being about the same.
The opium product of China is in
creasing so rapidly that fears are en-
tertained by the English that the Indian
article will be supplanted in the Chinese
markets. In the opium-producing dis
tricts of China, smokers are estimated
to comprise five-tenths of the native
male population, and in all China
three-tenths of it. There have been
public edicts against the cultivation of
opium, but they avail little, as the pro-
Queer silences the official with fee.
ALL silver bullion for coinage pur-
poses is now purchased in this coun-
try. Until recently large quantities
were bought in London. Now the
Government can secure all the bullion
it wants from native holders, buying
at the London rate. Most of it is pur-
chased in San Francisco and New York.
1t is a little singular that, though paid
for in the standard silver dollar, very
few, indeed of those dollars get into
circulation in this way. The sellers
take silver certificates instead. In a
recent transaction in San Francisco
more than 100000 ounces of silver
were bought by the Superintendent of
the Mint, who gave in payment there
for check on the Assistant Treasury
there for the bullion's equivalent in
standard silver dollars. The holder of
the check presented it at the Assistant
Treasury, and, without moving his
dollars, redeposited them and received
silver certificates for the amount
Chicago Times.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-17
Optical Effects OF Intense Heat and
Light.

The following facts have lately come
under my observation at the rolling
mills at this place:
While looking at the eclipse of the
sun July 29th, / handed the glass TO
one of the mill heaters" He at once
told me he could see as we'll with the
naked eye as with the smoked glass. 1
then tried another ''heater," and he
at once repeated the same statement. I
then went to the rolling mill and tested
every hester" at his furnace. They
all told the same story. l hunted up
every Z" heater in the town except two
(who were not found), over twenty in
in all, and every one declared he could
see the phenomenon, and all its phases,
as we'll or better with the eye unshad-
ed. l took the precaution to test each
one by himself, told him nothing of
what l expected, or of the testimony of
others. made no suggestions to any
Of them, but let each tell his own story.
All told the same tale; one PECULIARLY
all agreed to-the image in the glass
was upside down from what they saw
with the naked eye. They would de-
scribe many peculiarities OF color
which could not be seen by others with
the aid of the glass. 1t should be re-
nembered that the s.heater" has to
see his iron in the furnace while it is
enveloped in q flame whose intense
glare prevents unskilled eyes from see
ing anything, an education of the eye
peculiar to this class of workers, as no
other class of workmen is exposed to
the same degree of heat or light.
noticed as soon as the eclipse had
progressed some time that I became
nervous. observed the same fact in
many others about me. My wife at
home did not think of the phenomenon
ut first, but became so nervous that she
had to rush out of doors; she then saw
the eclipse for the first time. found
this nervousness more in women than
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-17

among men, chiefly in persons of de-
bilitated frame, such as convalescents.
Is this magnetic?
In accordance with your request, 1
repeated the experiment of Ericsson,
and submitted spherical piece of iron,
eight inches in diameter, to heat of
over 5000 deg. Fab. 1t was carried
to an almost melting point, withdrawn
from the flame and placed on stand.
1t had the appearance of disk at all
distances tried. up to over 100 feet. AS
seen by Mr.. Hughes, the chief engineer
of the mill Zone of the most scientific
men in his line in the West), myself
and others, it was perfectly flat. The
convexity did not appear; it was, while
in this state, to all appearance, no
longer a sphere, but a disk. As the
iron cooled off it resumed its original
appearance of a sphere. Our mill men
were much surprised by this phenome-
non which they had been seeing all
their lives, but till now had never OBJ
served Ihor,se, N. d., in Ka,-
SaS CStu ReUiesU.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-17
A Bogus Princess.

A CURIOUS case of swindlirg has just
been tried before the Correctional Trib-
unal of Paris, with the result that an
adventures, who passed herself off as
the Princess of Keuss, has, in spite of
the able advocacy of M. Lachaud, been
sentenced to two years imprisonment.
A few weeks ago, "lady of distin-
guished appearance, very elegantly at
tired" fell down, apparently in q faint
ing fit, ut the St. Lazara Railway Ter
minus, and among the persons who hur-
ried to her assistance was retired serv-
ant, who had already been struck by
the grace of her demeanor. When she
came to, he asked permission to assist
her to hotel in the neighborhood, and
sent for doctor, being assured, in re-
turn, that he would have no reason to
regret his kindness; "for," added the
lady, " 1 am the Princess. of Reuss and
shall not forget your goodness" The
Princess went on to explain that she
had immense possessions in Germany,
which, unfortunately, had been selzed
by Prince Bismarck, and that the worry
to which she was subjected by the suit
going on for their recovery, had so af-
ACNICU HCs VuHO ouC w do OAGCu OvC1 b6ACIl
by fainting-hts. "But," she added,
with touching condescension, "can I
regret all this, since it has procured
me the opportunity of meeting with
such disinterested attention." The re-
tired servant was so completely won by
this last phrase, that he begged the
Princess to accept the loan of any money
which she might require for temporary
purposes; and it was not very long be-
fore the f400 which he had saved dur
ing long years of service, had been bor-
rowed from him. After these had gone,
and when the Princess still failed to re-
ceive the remittances she was expect
ing, he awoke to the possibility of his
having been defrauded; and the inqui-
ries which were instituted by the Police
showed that the Princess of Reuss and
well-known swindler by the name of
Perrin were one and the same person.
Justice has been satisfied by the SEN
tence of two years. imprisonment; but
the retired servant will not, it is to be
apprehended, recover his f4OO.-Pall
Mali (4nzcfke
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-17
Battling With a Bull.

HENRY GROATHERD is a German,
working on the Burhans farm, short
distance above Paterson, in the direc-
ton of Little Falls. On Friday after
noon he went across a lot to get a pail
of water from a spring at the lower
end of the lot. In the lot was bull,
which had always before behaved HIM
self in a very creditable manner, and
which was regarded as peaceable
beast, SO that everybody who wished
passed through the lot and paid no at
tention to the bull. But on Friday aft
ernoon that bull was in a bad humor.
The minute he saw Groatherd he made
for him with lowered head and mis-
chief in his eyes. Groatherd was trudg-
ing along, all unconscious of the inn
pending crisis behind, and the bull
came against him like battering-ram.
Groatherd sailed upward and landed
in the grass some distance in advance.
When he gotup and turned to see what
had struck him, the bull was coming at
him again at full speed. Groatherd
took to his heels, and for short dis
lance the race was close one. Groat-
herd made Decline for the fence, but
the bull was too fast for him, and, in a
minute, Groatherd described another
parabola in the air. Groatherd was
now half frightened out of his wits,
although not much injured. The bull
took a fresh start, and this time he
gave Groatherd q worse blow than be-
fore, tossing him headlong, and injur-
ing him quite severely with his horns.
Then GrOatherd's spunk was up, and
he turned on the defensive. caught the
bull by the horns and held him fast for
some time. At last the bull threw him
into the grass with considerable force.
No less than five times was this repeat
ed, the man sometimes being tossed in
the air, and sometimes hurled heavily
to the ground.
A negro named jackson, who worked
OH the same farm, happened to see the
battle, and he got rail from the fence
and came to the rescue, beating the
bull over the head until he was COM
PEELED to run away. Groatherd was
then picked up and carried to his home
near by. A surgeon who was called
found him to be badly, although not
seriously, injured. He had received
thrusts from the bulls horns in both
arms and in the breast, while his back
was terribly bruised, and there was
hardly a spot on him that was not
black and blue. The physician thinks
he will recover in a short time. rs none
of the horn thrusts are deep, and no vi
tai part seems to have sustained injury.
IN. Y. Sun.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-17

An ingenious tailor of this city got
a lot of empty pop bottles, put one of
his business cards in each, then
wrapped up every bottle separately in
q poisoned tenderloin. steak and threw
them into the bay from the ferryboats,
one by one. He naturally supposed
that the meat would be swallowed by
sharks; that the poison would kill the
latter; that the fish would float ashore,
be cut open, the bottles discovered, the
fact be reported by the newspapers, and
an original and effective advertise
ment secured. That was precisely
what happened. Day before yesterday
a yachting party picked up an immense
shark not far from Alcatraz. In its
stomach was found one of the bottles
alluded to, and the card it contained
handed to reporter of this paper.
The name of the clever merchant it
contained - will be published at
our regular advertising rates. if SO di-
rected by him. See terms on inside
page.-San Francisco EOst.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-17

him. The ball hit the tree, caromed,
hit the corner of house, caromed,
struck lamp-post, caromed, and flew
behind Tom, and nipped the button off
as slick as whistle, You bet he did
it,"
"That was fine shooting.
eyes, but I've seen Tom Potter beat
it. I've seen him stand under flock
of wild pigeons, billions of them COM
ing like the wind, and kill 'em so fast
that the front of the flock never passed
given line, but turned over and fell
down, so that it looked like kind of a
brown and feathery Niagara. Tom did
it by having twenty-three breech-load-
ing rifles and a boy to load 'em. He
always shot with that kind.''
of shooting?''
eyes, sir; and better than that, too.
Why, I'll tell you what I've seen Tom
Potter do. l saw him once set up an
India-rubber target at 800 feet, and hit
the bulrs-eye twenty-seven times a
minute with the same ball! He would
hit the target, the ball would bounce
back right into the ritle-barrel just as
Tom had clapped in fresh charge of
powder, and so he kept her a-going
backward and forward, backward and
forward, until at last he happened to
move his gun. and the bullet missed
the muzzle of the barrel. 1t was the
biggest thing l ever saw; the very big
gest-except one.''
"What was that?''
"Why, one day was out with him
when he was practicing, and it came
on to rain. Tom didn't want to get
wet, and we had no umbrella, and what
do you think he did?''
"What?''
Now what do you think that man
did to keep dry?'
81 can't imagine ......
"Well, sir, he got me to load his
weapons for him, and pledge you my
word, although it began to rain hard,
he hit every drop that came down, so
that the ground for about eight feet
around us was as dry as punk. 1t was
beautiful, sir; beautifully
And then the company rose up slow
ly and passed out, one by one, each
man cycling Abner, and looking solemn
as he went by; and when they had gone
Abner looked queerly for a mor1ent,
and said to me:
"There's nothing hate so much as
a liar. Give me a man who is the
friend of the solid truth and I'll tie to
him. "-MaI AdeLer, in N. Y. Wee Gly.
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q EN ERAu..

The City Bank of Glasgow, Scotland,
with pad-up capital of 9l,OOO,O 900, decided.
on the evening of the LIST, not to open Its doors
on the following day. The liabilities are stated
to be over S50,OOO,OOO. 1t had about sixty
branches scattered throughout the United
Kingdom.
A Constantinople telegram of the LIST
avs the Porte had decided to submit the pro.
osed new treaty with Russia to the European
overs for approval.
A Rome dispatch of the I'd says the
negotiations for reconciliation between Ger
many and the Vatican had failed.
Adviccs received from Casablanca.
Morocco, on the I'd, report $50 deaths there
from cholera, out of population of 1000, be-
tween the 18th and 10Th of September, and
from sixty to seventy deaths, daily. at Fee
and Mequinez.
Charles +. Courtney, the United
States champion sculler, was beaten at La
chine, Can, on the Sd, by Hanlan, the Cana
dian champion, by half boats length. Dis
lance, five miles; time, thirty-six minutes
and twenty-five seconds.
The Nebraska Republicans have
nominated Albinus Nance fo- Governor; E.
c. Carus for Lieutenant-G Governor; Amos
Cobb for Supreme Judge; =. J. Alexander
for Secretary of State; E. X. Valentine for
Congressman for the long term, and Col.
Tom Majors for the short term; -
Liedtke for Auditor; G. NJ. Bartlett for
Treasurer; r. Thompson for Superintendent
of Public Instruction; J. Z. Dilworth for At
torney-(eneral; F. NJ Davis for Commission
er of Public Lands. They resolved, among
other things, that the faith of the Nation
shall be sacred, and its contracts redeemed in
spirit and letter; that the greenback shall not
be dishonored; that our money, whether
currency or coin, shall be equivalent. convert
ible, secure and steady.
A Vienna dispatch of the 4th says
the Ministerial crisis had assumed large pro-
portions. The members of both the Hunga-
fian and Auetrian Cabinets lad consented to
retain their portfolios only on condition that
Count Andrassy, the Premier, retires.
The Porte received intelligence, on
the 4th, that Saad Getden Pasha, on announc-
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-" Phew! What q smell of smoke!
And those best curtains, toov' said the
lady, severely, as on her return from
spending few weeks with her mother
in Wisconsin, she entered the parlor.
"Mria," said the wretched man, tim
orously, II thought I would disinfect
the place before you returned-you
and the children. How could ever
look your CHASTITY remains in the face
again. if 1 had neglected the timely
precauti0n which -" "And this, !"
said she. reaching down behind the
sofa and resurrecting q bottle with a
glass screw-top, "t6is is disinfecting
fluid, / SUPPOSED" He was. silent
Chicago Tribune.
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WOman's Rights In Ancient Egypt.

We are not perhaps accustomed to
think of ancient Egypt as very adj
vanced and liberal country. 1t is GER
tain, however, that ladies had no cause
to make one of the complaints which is
so often heard in modern England.
Women not only might hold property,
but they often absorbed all the wealth
of their husbands. There is in the
Egyptian Museum of the Louvre q col
lection of legal documents from the
time of Alexander the Great to the
twentieth year of Ptoiemy Energetes.
These documents, which are family
contracts, wills, deeds, and so forth,
have lately been deciphered by NJ. Re-
villout. He has traced legal existence
of several generations, and thrown
great, perhaps unexpected. light on the
history of female property. 1t seems
that husbands always coded all their
wealth, real and personal, to their
wives, who disposed of it in turn to
the children of the marriage or neph-
ews. A widow was thus left in q COM
Portable and even commanding posi-
ton. Let us take the case of Patma,
who, on his marriage with q lady named
L uOuCCAAs AAu&AO AOA " OAAAOA POA0
haps answering to the morning gift
of the Germans and the Hindoo gift
by the nuptial fire. He also promised
to make Taoutem a small yearly allow
ance, on the security of his property.
Three years later we find poor Patma
deep in his wife's debt, and he prom
Uses to yield up all he has if he has
not cleared himself in three years. A
later papyrus shows that Patma had to
sell all his possessions, which are care
fully inventoried, and that ne satisfied
the claims of his wife at this alarm
ing sacrifice. Examples of this kind
are common. Husbands were ruthless
ly "sold OUT and property was con-
centrated in female hands. The hus-
band, poor fellow, often inserted
clause in the marriage contract, by
which he stipulated that his wife should
maintain him in his old age. Dior
dorus Siculus, we believe, mentioned
these facts, but it was supposed that it
was only Diordorus' fun; q mere tray
eler's tale. The new papyri demon
strate beyond all doubt that man has
often been, in times past, a wronged
and submissive being -LoHtlon Week.