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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-26
Queer D0ings for a Cent.

THE interesting story which was
supposed at the time to have been con-
nected with the attempt of young
lady to jump into the river from the
railing of the Hand street bridge, last
Wednesday night, came out this MORN
ing, and certainly presents queer
commentary on the credulity of toll
keepers and policemen. 1t will prob
ably be rccollected that the young lady
passed out on the bridge. and was soon
after followed by a young man, who,
in the most excited manner. stated
to the toll, keeper and policeman that
she was bent on suicide. He then hur-
riedly went to the rescue. 1t seems
that the young gentleman and lady
were in company. and were on the
wav to their home, in Allegheny, when,
as they were nearing the bridge, the
escort found that he was without the
penny with which to pay the necessary
toll. This was certainly a ridiculous
position to be in, but, as the young
man was upon very familiar terms
with his companion, he did not hest
tate to tell her the cause of his per-
plexity. Then the young lady stated
that she, also, was in the same posi-
ton, having left her purse at home.
What they were to do under the cir
cumstances was discussed for a mo-
ment, and then, with ready wit, the
young man suggested the suicide ex-
pertinent, trusting that under the ex-
element of the moment nothing would
be thought about the toll. The young
lady agreed to the proposal at once. The
attempt was made; the toll-keeper and
policeman were startled beyond express
ion; the morning papers were furnished
with sensation, but the young man
and his devoted companion passed over
the bridge Pittsburgh Telegraph.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-26

inevitably run out the clover and tim
othy, while, in order to secure the best
results from the latter, the pastures
must be kept clean. Have, then, if
possible, high. dry and clean pasture
for your cows, with q few shade trees
for protection during the heat of the
day; or, what would be still better,
keep them housed during the hottest
part of the day, for two OF three hours,
where they can be kept cool and free
from flies. Be sure, also. they can have
plenty of pure, running spring or we'll
water, and as often as they want it.
Do not allow them to drink impure,
stagnant water, unless you desire i'm
pure. stagnant butter. Let them also
have free access to salt, both summer
and winter; their instincts will be q
better guide for the amount they actual
ly need for the purposes of health than
any theories upon the subject.-Anseri-
can Dairynsan.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-26

nearer. Rain is not essential in the
production of neuralgia. The severest
neuralgia attacks of the year were those
accompanying the first SHOWS OF No
vember and December. One other in
teresting observation is as follows:
Every storm sweeping across the Con-
tinent consists of a vast rain area. at
the center of which is a moving space
of greatest barometric depression. The
rain usually precedes this storm-center
by $50 to 600 miles, but before and
around the rain lies belt, which may
be called the neuralgia margin OF the
storm, and which precedes the rain by
$50 miles. The fact is very deceptive.
because the sufferer may be on the far
edge of a storm-basin of barometric
pressure. and seeing nothing of the
rain, yet have pain due to the Storm
Chicago Tribune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-26
Setting the Fashion In Pig.Skin Caps.

A MERCHANT in Bangor, Me-, many
years ago, openad store in one of the
thriving towns in the northern part OF
that State. where he found sale for a
great many goods which had become
tout of fashion," Among other arti-
cles sent to his country store were lot
of pig-skin caps, which, however.
proved too much for the genius of his
salesman; and they lay in stock long
time. One day the merchant visited
the town where his store was located.
and noticing the pig-skin caps, in
quired if any had been sold. mot
one," responded the salesman; "no
one will purchase them" Every
well," said the owner, shave them all
taken to the back part of the store,
brushed up clean, and put in the win
dow next Monday morning" On the
ensuing Sunday the merchant made his
appear ance at the village church
dressed in best broadcloth, with a
heavy gold watch-chain dangling from
his vest. and a pig-skin cap jauntily
set on the side of his head. On Mon
day the sale of the pig-skin caps COM
menced, and continued until the whole
lot were disposed of.-Shoe and Leath-
err Reporter.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-26
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Wood ashes make an excellent
fertilizer for pear trees. Mixed coal
and wood ashes may also be applied
with advantage. Ground bones are
better for fruit trees of all kinds than
fermenting manure. Gardeners Jour-
nal.
Let no time be lost in the use of
the harrow in the corn held. So soon
as planted start the harrow and keep it
going. Corn pays. Weeds do not.
The most effectual way to raise good
corn is to show the weeds NO mercy.
Now is the time to head them with the
harrow.-IosOo State Register.
To relieve corns on the sole of the
foot, cut piece of stout card board to
tit the inside of the sole of the shoe
The cardboard must be large enough
in every way to prevent it shifting un-
der the foot in walking. Cut round
hole in it exactly where the corn rests,
but little larger than the corn. This
arrangement relieves the corn from
the pressure and allows of its cure, and
at the same time gives immediate re-
lief in walking.
"A French pharmacist offers the
following discovery for preserving eggs;
namely, to use solution of silicate of
soda, which, being of a very glutinous
or adhesive character, is kept in q
liquid state by adding little tepid
water. Simply dip the fresh eggs in
this and then dry them. When thor
oughly dried and completely covered
with the silicate solution, which any
druggist can furnish, the eggs can
then be put away, and will keep, it is
stated, for more than year without
injury.
Having just read the announce
ment of the death of man from "Oak
poison" and knowing certain cure,
will you please publish it? l obtained
it from the Druggists Circular many
years ago, and have applied it very
many times, never having known it to
fail. Dilute sweet spirits of ritre with
the same quantity of cold water; apply
with white cloth every ten minutes
until cured. When of a few hours
contraction it seldom requires more
than one application.-Cor. Burlington
Havk-Eye
There has been much said oy good,
common-sense people, as we'll as by
physicians. against the use of much
soda or saleratus in cooking. There
is no doubt that it is of great injury to
health when used as constantly as it is
by many cooks. Physicians very gen.
orally agree that its frequent use debil-
itates and relaxes muscular strength,
and is peculiarly injurious to the d.
gestion, and greatly weakens the tone
of the bowels, often ending in acute in
flammation. DIR. Alcott has no hesita-
ton in expressing his belief that the
habitual use of soda is one great cause
of the great mortality, particularly
among the young, from bowel COM
plants. The coats of the stomach and
bowels are so weakened by the use of
this alkali that they have no power to
resist the facilitating effects of the in
tense hot weather. Christian Union
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-26
A Collectors Strategy.

A COLLECTOR in this city has in
vented a new dodge, which he en-
ploys with great success in scooping in
unwary debtors. He finds out what
night in Che week the debtors daught-
er's young man visits at the house, and
as soon as the young man has entered
he goes and rings at the bell. "Mr.
SO-and-so is not at home," says the
debtors wife, or whoever it is that an
swers the bell. eft wasn't Miss So
and;so wanted to see," says the call
er, ID the high, clear tones peculiar to
the deaf; 81 called about =" "He
won't be home to-night-not till to-
morrow" says the lady, in voice in
tended to be loud enough for the deaf
man. but not loud enough for the
young lover in the parlor. 81 don't
want to borrow nothing" yeils the
collector, loudly; "It's bill l want to
GET" "Ssh! for Heavens sake"
gasps the lady, turning pale; "I'll
give you the money by. and-by. It'll
be all right "All night?' shouts
the collector. 81 don't care if have
to stop al: night and all next day. too
Pm going to get that money before 1
leave" and the unhappy woman has
nothing for it but to fork over or leave
an impression upon the mind of her in
tended son-in-law that the volume of
currency in that family is contracted,
and as likely as not, if he marries into
it, he'll have the old woman and at
least two of the children staying with
him most all the time. Then she goes
into the parlor trembling to think of
the narrow escape she has just had,
and says to her daughter, "Louisa,
that stupid old MIR. Saunders gets
deafer and deafer every day. Here he
was trying to get change for $40
bill. and shouting at the top of his
voice, Its a bill 1 want to get
changed SO that people could hear
him all over the block. Chicago
Tribune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-26
Pain and the Weather.

IT is familiar experience that GER
tain bodily pains vary in their phases
according to the weather, but probably
few have made exact scientific observa-
tions of this to any considerable extent.
A series of such observations, made
with much ability and perseverance,
has lately been reported to the American
Academy of Science by Professor
Mitchell. Thew are by Captain Catlin,
of the United States Army, who lost q
leg during the war, and since that time
has suffered good deal from traumatic
neuralgia. He carefully noted, during
five years, the effects produced on him
by changes of the weather. For the
first quarters of these five-years there
were 2,471 hours of pain; for the Sec
ond quarters, 2,1O2 hours; for the third
quarters, 2.O56 hours; and for the last
quarters, 1921 hours. The best "yield
# pain" is in January, February and
March, and the poorest in the third
quarter-July. August and September.
During these five years. while the sun
was south of the equator, there were
1862 hours of pain, against 4, 1853 hours
while it was north of the equator. The
0VOx 0tSV uuA 0OAOu Va OuO 0UV0CAS 1OE tu6
first quarters was twenty. two hours,
and for the third quarters only 17.9
hours. Now. taking the four years
ending January l, 1879, it is found
that of the 537 storms chartered BY the
Signal Bureau. 298 belong to the two
winter quarters, against 239 for the
summer quarters. Hence we have the
ratio of the number of storms of the
winter and the summer quarters CORE
spending to the ratio of the amounts of
neuralgia for these respective periods;
and the ratio of average duration of each
attack for the same time corresponds
closely with the ratio of the respective
total amounts of neuralgia for the same
periods. The average distance of the
storm-center at the beginning of the
neuralgia attacks was $50 miles. Storms
from the Pacific coast are felt farthest
of very soon after, or as they are cross
ing the Rocky Mountains, while storms
along the Atlantic coast are associated
with milder forms of neuralgia, which
are not felt till the storm-center is
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-26
How Civilization Benefits our Birds.

The result of all this is that the ag-
gregate army of singing birds east Of
the Mississippi has been very consider
ably enlarged during the last two CEN
turtles, and is still on the increase. This
can only be owing to the fact that by
cutting down the forests, etc., man has
tempered the rigor of the winter, has
multiplied the sources of their food, has
appended many additional places suit
able for rearing their young, and has
enabled them to bring more t1edglings
to maturity by reducing the ranks of
their enemies. This has not only aug
mented their numbers and modified
very appreciably their habits of nesting
and migration, their physical natures
and mental characteristics, but proba-
bly, has even changed their voices.
There is little doubt in my mind that in
making their lives less lab0rious APP
prehensive and solitary, man has left
the birds time and opportunity for far
more singing than their bard-worked,
scantily-fed and timorOus ancestors ever
enjoyed; a privilege bird is not slow
to make use of.
But on the other hand it seems
equally certain that the music of our
more domestic birds, though greater in
volume, is not so sweet in tone as that
of their wilder brethren. Our street
sparrows are naturally, l suppose,
rather harsh voiced, but whatever they
might have been q thousand years ago
they could hardly be otherwise now,
when the rattle-te-bang of the city
pavements has been their only teacher
for many centuries. The mocking-
bird has learned to initiate the creak of
the fal mer's wheelbarrow-no dulcet
southland the scream of the farmers
boy. Many of the sounds constantly
uttered by men and evoked by their
work are anything but melodious, and
young birds born and bred in their
midst must surely turn out less sweet
and accomplished singers than it reared
among the gentle whisperlngs of leafy
woods, and learning music only from
the golden-mouthed minstrels ct the
sylvan choir. Ernest Ingers0H, IN
SundGu Afternoon.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-26
How a Secret Nihilist Press Was
Found.

THE Cologne Gnzette contains some
interesting details respecting the dis
covery of a secret printing-press in St.
Petersburg. The most suggestive fact
in connection with this account is the
assertion that the telegram which
should have brought the intelligence to
the proprietor of the paper at Cologne
was detained by the Russian authori-
ties. yesterday evening"" says the
st. Petersburg correspondent OF the
Gazette, 81 dispatched to you q tele-
gram informing you of the discovery
of secret printing-pr here. l
fancy, though, that the Censor had
clapped his black hands upon it, and
but little of the orig inal telegram has
been permitted to reach Cologne. THE
telegram referred to, says the editor,
has indeed not been received here ]
Sc therefore now give you the details
in full: On Wednesday last, al about
four o'clock in the afternoon, the pO-
lice entered the Maison Barry, in the
Jomaclowski Polk. They found there
a printing press and seven thousand
copies of the last number of the Nj
hilist journal, Senslai Swaboda, Faith
erland and Freedons.) These had not yet
been published. The clue that led to
the discovery was obtained in the fol-
lowing manner: The latest number is
sued of the Fatherland and Freedom
was particularly well printed, and it
was evident that a new font of type
had been used in its production. An
adept in Typography and printing was
called in, and, upon examining the
Nihilist journal, he declared that the
type must have been procured from
the weli-known foundry OF Franzmarck,
who enjoys wide reputation in that
particular business. Inquiries were &C
cordingly instituted at the ware
house to ascertain who were the
latest purchasers of the pecu-
liar type in question. The chief
of this extensive establishment, Herr
Bohnke, Prussian, was rather
sharply interrogated. 1t transpired
during the investigation made that
quantities of type had from time to
time disappeared. A house-to-house
search was then instituted at the resi-
dences of the various employees and
compositors engaged at this foundry
ard printing business. and in the house
before mentioned, known as the Mai
son Barry-where the eight or ten
compositors reside, and which is act
ually next door to the Ministry of
Water and Highway Communications
the printing press was discovered.
Of course the printers and compositors
were NihiliStS."
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-26
ONE JUNE MORNING.

I'M thinking now of time, my friend
How many summers ago!
In the morning dewy prime, my friend.
That morn xSen sDa r. s ss that died.
Happy-h hearted. tender eyed,
oAt Side BY side, sat side by side,
Ana whispered low.
Oh. those young June days!
God never made aught so rare:
Glamour of slivern haze.
Fragrance III earth ana arr;
Eacn bird a fountain of praise,
Each flower \ lrayer.
They We're bladder tnan birds. they were sweeter
than flowers;
God looked II wn that summer day
On au sht SO tender and pure rs they.
Der her work my darling bent,
Lnwly, lOwly;
Waited while the minutes went
All. she Knew loved her we'll
Knew had a tale to tell
In her pinky ear.
Why, ali why. are lovers shy,
When maldens wait with downcast eye.
And none is near!
All, yes. there was Lot thing but knew:
The harebell unkie its bell of blue,
And looked away;
p~. the saucy thrush on the bough that swung,
ooidly ne stared, and archiy sung,
And bahbied the tale with wanton tongue
To every bird on the spray.
d
simple words
Which none erheard but bird or two
Flowers and biris.
Slowly my darling raised her head;
Never word the sweet lips said
But The hower-cheeks blossomed a ripper red,
And the lashes were bright and a-tremble with
As two young souls in a long kiss met
a KISS wr,se melody hauLts me yet
Through all the Years.
And then. from his nest hard by,
lark upsprunc.
And Quiv. red into the sky,
mt sung. an uny.
The noisiest babber held his breath,
And the wind aud the trees stood still as death,
10 list to the rapture deep and strong
VI that sky lark song.
All me- that strain. that tranced strain!
1t shlv. RED ana died and snrilled again,
In yearning and bliss and exquisite pain;
It pierced my heart 1t stung my brain,
1t walked the tears like sumner rain,
Ii lnahe me long to ole.
Her hand to the last held fond and fast.
And my rapt face turned to the sky
heard the lark sing yesterday;
From his grassy nest hard by,
tie Qulvered away IN the morning gray,
Aid lost himself in the ky.
he sang once more that self-same air;
But. an. fer the rapturr. the vast despair,
The passionate pam 1t had passed from there;
His heart vas sere and dry.
tie never will sing again. ah, no!
As he sung in that summer of long ago.
For the world grows old grows old, my friend,
And the Junes have turned So cold my friend,
And there fingers a smell of mold, my friend.
And he thinks of thos.. days of gold my friend.
And grleves, and grieves.
All, never again will he sing such strain
OF pas>iopate strength and glow,
As the strain ne sung when We both were young
How many summers ago!
As the strain he sung in the blithe June-tide,
When and my darling sat side by side,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-26

THE London Truth SAYS: "Sir Bartle
Frere is hardly in accord with history
when he tells the Beers that wherever
our flag is hoisted it is never pulled
down. for, if am not greatly mis-
taken. it once waved over the coun-
try that is now called The United
States Of what possible use can
it be to us that it should wave over
a number of discontinued and torpid
African DutchmenP''
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-26

that THE rHoNoGRAPH can "bottle up''
the Voice and pass it down to future ages is
indeed wonder, but is not tue restoration OF
a lost voice more wonderful And yet DR..
Pier. els Golden Medical Discovery speedily
restores q lost voice, cures hoarsrness. sore
throat, bronchitis and consumption. Many
ministers who had abandoned the pulpit by
reason of sore throat and general debility
have, by the use of the Discovery, been re.
stored to perfect health and strength. Sold
BY druggists.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-26

MUCH of the wood used for making
briar-ro pipes is derived from Cor
sica; the roots are dug up and cut into
rough forms of tobacco-pipes by saws
worked by the water-power OF the
mountain strcams, and are sept In
sacks 10 Frence and thence TO America.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-26

PEOPLE residing in paludal districts, or re-
moving to sucL localities, can place reliance
Periodic or Fever and Ague Tome, to prevent
or rather counterfeit all malarial diseas 8. It
never fails to cure Chills and Fever, D mb
Chills and ENLARGED Spleen, andis guaranteed
to contain no dangerous drug. The compO-
sition of this medicine is Civ with each bot
tie, and can be had from all Druggists.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-26

THE LADIES always choose Gilbert's Patent
Gloss Starch for laces, musllns, linens, etc.
knowing its well known PURIFY and lu>tre
The fiuest fabric Can be dressed with it with
out fear of mjurIng the texture. No olhel
can compare with 1t.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-26

If you wish to be as happy as a
king look at those who haven It as much
as you. not at those who have more
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-26

Requie scat in space" as the mule
said when he kicked man up into the
Clouds Gin cinnnti Enquirer.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-26

There IL considerable activity In
plow-shares, and many bank will be
broken by them.-Detroit Free Press.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-26
CHIEF!
The Best threshsr on Wheels T!

The Best IhTeSh0I on Wheels ]
tits not vibrator neither is It apron machine but
the best points Of both combined with and olg
nal features of its own 1t Is wonderfully simple In Its
rangement 1t Is admiralty perfect in its threshng and
separ tng qualities saves all the grain, and
Is finished beautifully is the most econ mcal least ex
pensye and altogether che most satisfactory machine
In the market
1t will handle wet grain as we'll a. DRY In threshine
Ing both as WE'LL and nearly rapidly wheat and 70
gures change except the ,ieves has more SQUARE
feet OF separating and cleaning surface than other
machine made, and cannot be overloaded. Il u both
over anu under blast at the same time.
Our clover huing attachment ID q new ana vory d0.
srae feature. 1t does the business more rapidly ana
better than IN exclusively clover hulling machine
SeparatOrS OF the various sizes nttcd Tor steam q
HOrS Power, Is desired.
An Improved Pitts P. wer. an Improved woodbury.
Power, and the Edward lual xing Power, all mounted
on four wheels. manufactured By u. and are nos
surf assod by any In the market.
SEYMOUR, SABIN 4 CO..
SALTWATER. MINI.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-26

STEAM Power Threshers Q Speciality. Special
- sizes Of Separators made expressly for Steam Power
0UR rnrivaled Steam Thresher EngiRes,
~ both Portable and Traction. with Valuable Improve
ments far beyond any other make or kind.
THE ENTIRE Threshing Expenses land often
d three to i've times that amount) made b. Tie
Extra Grain SAVED BY these Improved Machines.
RAIN RaixerS will not submit to the enOf.
~ Of Grain and the inferior WORK done b.
al other machines when posted the diderenoe
MOT Only Vastly Superior for Wheat, 0ats;
~ Barley, Rye and like Grains but the OSLy Success
fol Thresher in Flax, Timothy, Miliet, Clover, and like
Seeds. Requires "attachments' "rebuilding' =
change from Grain to Seeds.
RN Thorough Workmanship, Elegant Finish,
4 Perfection Of Parts, Completeness Of Equrmea etc.,
our "VlDRIvoa" Thresher Outfits Incompatible.