The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-09-18
MULTUM IN PARVO.
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EGGS come in layers.
AJUDeE's position is : trying one
Boston Post. @
There is no use in wasting time
showing how to keep ice cool, Il cam
not be kept any other way.
"TRow him a rope" is the proper
thing to say when you see q friend of
yours over-bored. The effect is magi-
cal.
The law can never make man hon
est. 1t can only make him very un-
comfortable when he is dishonest-N.
O. Rcayune.
"JENN1E. did you divide that choco-
late with your little brother?''
''Yes'm; took the chocolate and gave
him the label; you know how fond he
is of spelling his letters"
THE young man who, wishing to
know the pronunciation of a word. was
advised to consult the authorities. in
terviewed the Mayor, three Aldermen
and the Sheriff. Boston Post.
He was inclined to be facetious.
"What quantities of dried grass you
keep here, Miss Stebbins! Nice room
for q donkey to get intor' "Make
yourself at home!" she responded
Hudson Register.
A PHILADELPHIA miss here bothers
the young men to whom she is intro
duced by starting off in this way, be-
fore they have a chance to say word:
eyes, it's awful hot. We came last
week. We will stay two weeks. We
are at this hotel. like Long Branch.
Now let's talk about something else."
Long Branch Letter.
The Rockland Courier makes this
observation: ''The young man who
is constantly seeking to perpetrate
witticisms which shall convulse his
young lady hearers with laughter is
usually characterized by the other
young men as fool. And the great
force of this designation lies in the
correctness of the other young mems
position"
C, WHOSE death is just an
nounced, was one of the most secret,
dark and midnight men imaginable.
He did not wish the fact that he was
i'll to be made public; and so when his
faithful friend x. was asked how the
old gentleman was, he took the in
quirer by the button-hole and whis-
pered in his ear: "He's dead, but he
doesn't want it known. '-Paris Paper.
ARE you married?" queried a New
York Justice to Mary Reilly, an old
law-breaker who was up before him on
Saturday, being drunk. "No," was
the reply, but if you will let me off
will find some nice young fellow and
marry him. '.For fear you WILL"
replied the magistrate, "I will send
you up to the island for three months"
The male sex have noble protector in
this dispenser of justice.
"YoU don't seem to have made much
money by bringing your hogs down
here?" was the casual remark of BY
stander to q speculative agriculturist,
who had driven his hogs seven miles to
the market town and sold them for pre-
cisely what was offered him before he
left home. swell, no." said the agri-
culturist, pensively, 81 hain't made no
money; but notwithstanding up
"you know had the company of the
hogs on the way down."
The remarkable unanimity that is
30 pleasant to observe between man
and wife is nicely illustrated by the
following letters of the same date:
UP COUNTY, August 20.
Dear John-I am going to stay another week.
Am having a splendid time.
Affectionately. JULIA.
Cry. August 20.
Dear Julia--You can stay another week. Am
having splendid time.
Affectionately, JOHN.
For some reason or other, she con-
cludes to pack up and start for home
Immediately, to see about his "splen.
did time. "-Nev HAGEN Register.
We have been informed that Captain
Dow Lawson, who lives about three
miles from this place, lost valuable
COW few days ago. Her death, it is
said, was caused by the abundance of
mosquitoes in that region. They have
been rather troublesome here for few
days, and the merchants through the
day we're compelled to make "smoth-
ers'' in order to secure some respite
from the little pests. At night smoke
was so abundant that it gave Crisfeld
the appearance of being on fire. Re-
ports from other places on the PENN
sula have reached here to the effect
that the people were sorely troubled
on account of the mosquitoes" -Cris-
field (Md.) Leader.
The widely-circulated Gartenlaube
of Leipsic. Germany, describes what it
calls American surprising parties"
Excitement, it says, is necessity with
the Americans, and where occasions
for it do not occur in the natural order
of events it is sought III other ways.
This accounts for the surprising par
IT," A number of ladies and gentle
men in full dress, and provided with
fine wines and all delicacies for a
"splendid SUPPER betake themselves
to the house of some friends after the
inmates have gone to bed, and as soon
as entrance has been obtained by one
of the party on some zpretext, pour in
and take possession Of the whole estab-
lishment. While some get the supper
ready others improvise dance OF
other entertainment, and drag the
friends whom they have taken so un.
awares from their couches to partici.
pate in the amusement. After having
had their full of enjoyment, the com.
pany take their departure as suddenly
and quickly as they arrived, after hav'
ing turned the whole house topsy.
turvy; to leave everything in the direst
confusion is considered Indispensable
A family that has a large acquaintance
says the Garte'slaHbe, may be visited in
one evening by two or three of these
remarkable Z" surprising parties"
An Americans Experience in Aus.
IL ttttt tralia.
ONE day while I was at work in the
drift one of cur party who was bailing
in the shaft said:
There's something big happened up
above, Tom; l hear great buzzing
and shouting.''
"Perhaps it's a tight" suggested,
az I struck my pick in the soil and un-
earthed nugget as big as walnut.
Perhaps it's find,'' suggested my
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