The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-05
MULTUM IN PARVO.

The early apple catches the worm.
The feathered tribes-the Indians.
A COOL thousand-half q ton of ice.
RUSSIA choice-Aut Cesar aut Mill.
Punch.
PREFERENTIAL comes the egg.-Boston
Transcript.
WHEN too well done, bread turns to
q dun color.
The bottom of the strawberry box
continues to be too near the top.-N. o.
hcay,1ne.
"OH COME, come hay weighv' as the
impatient farmer said to the man at the
hay-scales.
A KENTUCKY newspaper boasts of
society editor who ''has no peer outside
the Lunatic Asylum"
No, OSCAR; the person who does the
GROWING at a coronation is not called
a coroner.-B0stosa Post.
The college boat-races have begun,
and we shall now see the result of the
winters hard study.-Boston Tran-
script.
The Cincinnati Board of Health has
passed an order prohibiting the land
ing of rags at that city from Southern
points.
STRIKING woman, says q British
Journal, has never, even in EXTREMIST
cases, been regarded with great favor
by the average Englishman.
A BOOK just published is entitled,
"Sayings and Doings of Great Men,"
We notice that the "Sayings'' have
large majority.-Utica Observer.
SHE was q stubborn woman, and
when she died her husband planted
willow over her grave, so that even in
death she might have q will O. her
own.
The blue goods used in the manufac-
ture of American flags makes hand
some seaside dresses for children. It
is q sort of billow baby bunting..-M. O.
Picayxse.
The number of flies that are chewed
up annually by careless tea-drinkers,
who mistake them for tea-leaves, is be-
yond all earthly computation.-Cinci,-
,sati Enquirer.
MAMMA Ito Hamilton, who has been
put in the corner because he would not
say "please'')-"You may come out
now" Hamilton" Not till you say
please mother. Punch.
"TH1s is sad commentary on our
boosted civilization" the tramp de-
spondentlJ observed when he found out
that the ham that he had taken from
the front IF a store was wooden.-Dey-
rick.
ode MoRTUIs NIL NIsI NAHUM
Ellis acts made him immortal, and he
lives more than ever" were the words
of minister at a funeral; but the COM
positor put it in this fashion: ellis
acts made him immoral, and he lies
worse than ever"
THE following testimonial of a GER
tain patent medicine speaks for itself:
Dear Sir: Two months ago my wife
could scarcely speak. She has taken
two bottles of your Life Remover and
+, now she can't speak at all. Please
send me two more bottles. wouldn't
be without II. '-Norristovn Herald
"WHAT are you looking for?' asked
one of the Widow Bedott's two daugh.
tiers, who were entertaining their
young fellows on the piazza rather late
one night last summer, of their mother,
who seemed to be hunting for some
thing around the front yard. "The
morning papers," answered the widow.
The young men left.
"MY dear Baron" said she, timidly,
81 am such silly child, while you are
so witty and accomplished, and have
such an irresistible way of putting
things, that wish you would show me
how To-" How to what, my dear?"
elbow to let you know delicately but
firmly that l want you to let me have
fifty louis that am most desperately
in need of. "-Fre'sch Paper.
THERE are numbers of ships on which
yellow fever breaks out whenever they
90 into water warmed to about the
temperature of 10 deg. Fair. This
will occur year after year, season after
season. The cause is well known, has
no mystery in it, and can easily be OBJ
waited. AM number of tons of solid
filth from yellow-fever ports will be
found between the inner and outer
plankings of these vessels, and they
will always remain unhealthy until It
is removed. No amount of superficial
cleansing, whitewashing, disinfection
or freezing will subdue this permanent
ly, but only put it in allegiance for
short time. 1t must be simply emptied
out.-Ercha'age.
A BALD-HEADED gentleman stopped
at the corner of Meridian and WASH
ington streets, the other morning,
where sat an Italian, with cage con-
tanning three canaries with the follow
ing placard placed above them: LA
dies and gents, take advantage of the
occasion of these birds which with five
cents will select from the several boxes
planet of the fortune which will tell
you of your past and future life; said
planets are for ALL" The bald-headed
gentleman handed over nickel, lit
tie bird flew out, f1uttered over the
boxes moment and drew out an en-
velope with its bill. He read that he
"would travel to the East and marry
an Egyptian lady of great wealth and
S Siaut snd wRS had long H ssS,sy a ovsd
smile was spreading over his counte-
nance, when an elderly lady in smoked
spectacles, who had approached him
from the rear, twisted the ferule of her
umbrella between his fifth and sixth
ribs and said, "Why hain't you sent
that wood up, Jacob? Do you s'pose l
can git dinner without as much as a
splinter to burn in the stove?" and he
answered not, but meekly followed
her.-Indianapolis NesUs.
A FEARFUL FATE.