The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-08-07
MULTUM IN PARVO.


MULTUM IN PARVO.
ICELAND is losing its people by emil
grafton.
THE girl of the period.-Rusty
Kate.-St. Louis Times-Journal.
In Richmond, Va, over two-thirds
Of the population use kerosene lamps.
A LITTLE wisdom now and then 10
relished by most foolish men.-OI CITY
Derrick.
The young man who loved above his
station was always getting out at the
wrong depot.
TICKLING the earth with hoe is dis
couraging when it laughs potato bugs
in place Of q harvest.
TAKING medicine will make q we'll
man sick much quicker than it will
make q sick man well.
THERE'S no breadth of tone to the
whirr of the arrow as it sings through
the air. It's little tune-arrow.
THERE is no clergyman in the world
who can preach successfully against q
man who snores.-N. o. hcayuxe.
A CORRESPONDENT asks: "Do pro-
fessional pedestrians shorten their
ives?" We don't know, but we hope
they do.-Erchange.
Who was it asked what is rarer than
day in June? We want to tell him to
salt down the observation that the 29th
of February is.-M. Y. E1press.
A POOR fisherman at Tallahassee,
Fla. while digging worms for bait the
ether day, came upon an old brass ket-
tie containing 81, 400 in gold coin.
SIR HENRY THOMPSON, an English
surgeon, divides Europeans into two
meal, Ghree-meal and four meal races,
and describes tobacco as ian ally of
temperance"
IT was Hood, ever pleasant memory,
who exposed the peculiar weakness of
every sportsman by saying: "What he
hit is history (his story, and what he
missed is mystery (my story"
A DOCTOR should know whether his
patient is poor or rich before he writes
a prescription. In one case a dose of
common salts will do, in another a
trip abroad and German baths must
be ecommended.-N. o. Pscayu,ae.
A GEORGIA farmer uses novel fer
tilizer. He kills snakes, lays them in
the furrow, and then plants corn on
them. These snakes are made to pro-
duce corn, which produces whisky,
which in turn produces snakes again.
THE following curt epitaph is said
to mark tombstone at Connecticut
Farms, N. j.:
Reader. pass on, pe'er waste your time
On bad biography or rhyme:
For what am this cumbrous clay insures.
And what was is no affair of yours.
A MAN who can take down and tie
up seventy-five feet of clothes-line
without having from five to fifteen
snarls in the bundle is most always
the husband of a woman who has to
split her own wood.-Detroit Free
Press.
A YOUNG lady pupil of high school
put on a mass of false hair, penciled
her eyebrows, 1ouged her cheeks, etc.,
and then went to the Commencement
and read her essay, entitled " Decep-
ton Prevailing Folly."-Norristos0ss
Herald.
SURPRISING the Hon. George Brown,
of the Toronto Globe, had accepted the
distinction so graciously offered him
by Royalty, he would have been only q
knight editor. All well-regulated
morning journals have one or more
night edltors.-Boston Advertiser.
MISTRESS Ito new cook: "Now,
Sarah, remember if you are strictly
honest and economical in your market
ing, will give you q few shillings ex-
ira per MONTH" New cook: Thank
you, ma am; will think it over, and
let you know in the evening!"-Fdnny
Folks.
THE public credit of the United
States, says the London Times, is about
countries can borrow money in the
open market a. somewhat less than
four per centum. Whatever is done in
Congress, no holder Of American bonds
feels himself in any danger.
A FRENCH newspaper says that in a
certain Irish cathedral there used to
be shown three skulls, one little one
and two big ones, which the guide de-
scribed to visitors as the skull of st.
Patrick when he was a child, the skull
of St. Patrick grown up, and the skull
of st. Patrick as an old man.
STEP-MOTHERs have some friends. A
Wisconsin lady writes: I" know to-day
that had my own mother lived she
would have been much more strict with
me than either of my step mothers, and
implore the girls who may read this,
if they are so blest as to have some one
try to fill the place of the mother who
is taken away, give them your best
affections, and do not listen to the so
life the harder to bear, and you will
save yourselves the regrets which have
filled my heart for years, coming with
the death of one that had just begun
to realize was a mother to me" IN
7. Evening Post.
In the schools on the Comstock the
arithmetical examples are adapted to
the surroundings. Instead of saying,
81 have nine apples; l give William
one-fourth of the number, John one
tenth, Henry one-sixteenth and Charles
one-eleventh; how many apples does
John have?" they say: Suppose {!
buy seventeen and two thirds shares OF
Union Consolidated at the market
price, on twenty-six per centum mar
gan, and the cross drift on tie twenty
three hundred don't pan out accord
ing to expectations, and the broker
calls on me for more mud and can't
put up, how much share will Hale &
Norcross be worth when the last drop
of water from the flooded mines has
passed through the Sutro Tunnele"-
California Stock Report.
Best Husband i'm the World.
A CORRESPONDENT of an exchange
writes from Brookville, Penn: A let
ter from a lady residing in California
recalls a romantic episode connected
with the writer. The lady, school