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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-03-27
Rearing Humming.Birds.

IT was long thought that humming-
birds would not live in confinement;
and this idea is so far correct that, al
though easily tanned, they will not live
long in captivity if fed only on sirup.
If confined to this food they die in q
month or two, apparently starved;
whereas, if kept in small room, the
windows of which are covered with
fine net, so as to allow insects to enter,
they may be preserved for consider
able time in health and beauty. Their
nests are very curious; many of them
are cup-shaped and very small, some
times no larger than the half of wal
nut shell; and they are often beautiful
ly decorated on the outside with lich-
ems, SO as exactly to resemble the
branch, in the fork of which they are
placed. They are formed of cottony
substances and are lined inside with
fibers as fine and soft as silk. The
nests of other species are hammock
shaped, and are suspended to creepers;
the Pichincha humming-bird has been
been known to attach its nest to straw
rope hanging in q shed; their eggs are
white, and they never lay more than
one or two. Once, when on the Anna
zon, Mr.. Wallace had nest of Young
humming- birds brought to him, which
he tried to feed on strip, supposing
that they would be fed on honey by
their parents. To his surprise, how
ever, they not only would not swallow
the liquid, but nearly choked Them
selves In their efforts to eject it. He
then caught some very small flies, and
dropped one into the wide open mcuth
Of The poor little orphan humming.
bird, II closed instantly With satls6sd
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gravely asserted that it had long been
known in Borneo that pearls when put
by for some time in q box along with
rice would reproduce their kind. We
learn that three or four months have
now elapsed since the pearls were dis
patched on their journey, and that the
grains OF rice inclosed with them have
all the appearance of being partially
eaten. This astounding absurdity is
being gravely discussed, and, strange
to say, many OF the correspondents of
the journal actually maintain the
plausibility of it. 10 find a fitting
parallel for such belief in the annals
Of natural history it will perhaps be
necessary to travel back to the olden
time when it was firmly held as truth
that the crustaceans known as barna-
cles gave birth to the fowl called the
barnacle goose.-Scientifc american.
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@s21<c. Corn-Westen Mixed. 4s1f@45Ac.
Pork-Mess, s9.s71<@lO50. Lard = g. 20.
Cattle = s775@1O25 for Good to Extra.
Sheep-$4.75@5.75 Hogs-$3SO0AOO.
EAST LIBERTY, Cattle-Best,
e5.Oo@525; medium, $45o@4.75. Hogs
Workers., 936O@3 ~; Philadelphia, $42O0
40 Sheep-$3.5O@5.25
BALTIMORE, Md Cattle-Best quail
fly, e4.75@5621f; medium, e3121<04.OO.
Hoes-Good. e5.5O0575. sheep-Good, $3.50
@6.Ol.
CHICAGO - Wheat No. 2 Spring
closed At 9O1k@9O1c cash; 9O@9OHc for
April; 941S@94Ac for May. Corn-Closed
at $3.50 for No. . cash; SIC for April;
361Sc for May. Oats-No. 2, 1890, cash; seller
April, 21Hc. Rye-No. 2, 1910. Barley
Mo. ., cash, 75@76c; 75@7c for April.
Mess Pork = $1,000 cash. Lard-$6.52x.
Butter-Good to Fancy, 1S@26c. Eggs
-15@16c. Cattle-Extra Beeves, $500
5.25; Choice, t4.5O@4s0; Good, sA10@44O;
Medium Grades, $S75@4.10; Butchers
Stock, s2.65@375; Stock Cattle, s2.6o@
S.65. Hogs-Good to Choice, $3.500425.
0heer-PoOr to Choice, O. 5O@5.2I
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INDUSTRIAL.

STREET CARS manufactured in Bridge
port, Conn.,, find sale in London, Eng.
IT is said that sufficient quantity of
c0coons was raised in Utah County,
Utah, last season, to MAKE 500 yards of
silk.
THE American Consul at Florence in
forms Mr.. Evarts that American man.
ufacturers could successfully furnish
steel wheels to the Italian railways.
PENNSYLVANIA newspapers are re-
joicing over the hopeful sign of the
times that renewed activity is permeat-
ing every branch of the iron trade.
ONE Boston hotel-keeper has paid
marketmen for supplies so, 1872, 1862. IS
in the last ten years. In forty-six
years. he says, he has paid them S.
l88, 906.90.
The Lewiston (Me.) Journal says
that the cotton manufacturers of that
city have q very hopeful feeling in re-
gard to the business prospects of the
present year.
THE latest invention is that of a
Pittsburgh pa. man, who, from much
service as pall-bearer at funerals. has
turned his experience to practical &C
count by inventing an apparatus for
lowering bodies into the grave.
The Philadelphia North american
says that the number of houses unoccu-
pied in that city is excessive, and thinks
it shows that the business employments
of labor and capital are not kept up
commensurately with the progress Of
building.
The Batavia IN. w advocate says
printer in that village has invented
an apparatus for Matching chickens,
and has brought it to such perfection
that "the enormous saving of Is per
cent. is effected in the cost of Matching
chickens-the absolute cost being but
one-fourth of one cent per chick. !"
PACIFIC coast whalers set forth from
their winter quarters early in the
spring, provisioned for a cruise of at
least six months. The crews number
about thirty-five men, force sufficient
to man four or five boats. The num-
Der of boats carried depends on'the To-
cality of the hunting ground and the
nature of the whales to be captured.
In the extreme north whales never at
tack boat, but in the south they do
so frequently. The best of the weap.
ons carried is the patent harpoon- gun,
which is darted from the hand, and ex.
plodes after striking the whale, caus-
ing instant death when it enters vital
part.-V Y. Sun.
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1t has been estimated that there
are in the State of New York no fewer
than 6, 400 ecclesiastical organizations
of all denominations, occupying near
ly as many edifices, which furnish seats
for over 2,600, 900 persons, and having
an enrolled membership of 1900, 900
in round numbers. The aggregate
value of these church-edifices and the
lots which they occupy is about $1O1,-
ITO, 900, to which should be added, say,
SIT, SOC, 900, the value of the parson-
ages and other real estate belonging to
the various denominations. The Meth
odist Episcopal Church is the most
powerful one in the State, all things
considered. It has the largest number
of organizations, the largest number Of
ediacss, Gle largest numbsr Of sistings,
and pays IL olsrGymsn 30 per cent,
moro money In salaries thsn any othsf
senomlnktiuM.
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Parasitic Life ON Submarine Cables.

The amount of submarine life that
comes up on q cable which is taken up
for repairs, after being immersed for
a wear or two, is surprising. Three
years ago the writer was with a repair
ing expedition on the Para to the Cay
enne section of the Western & Brazil
ian Company's cables. We were chief
" ut work off the Island of Marajo. in
the estuary of the Amazon. The ca
BILE had only been submerged about q
month, yet It came on board the ship
81 places literally covered with berns.
ciee, q others overgrown with subma-
rins yeeetstlon, crabs and curious
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-03-27

i'm arranging the heating surfaces
of steam boiler, Prof. Thurston lays
down as the essential rule that the ef-
fort be to impede the draft as little as
possible, and SO to place them that the
circulation of water within the boiler
be free and rapid ut every part reached
by the hot gases; the directions of cir
culation of water on the one side, and
of gas on the other side of the sheet,
should, as much rs possible, be oppo-
site; the cold water should enter where
the cooled gases leave. and the steam
should be taken off furthest from the
point. The temperature of chimney
gases has thus been reduced to less
than 800 deg, and IN efficiency equal
to 0.76 to Q.6o Of the theoretical 10 ess
tsinahle.
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gulp and opened again for more. The
little creatures. he found, demanded
fifteen or twenty flies each in success
sion before they were satisfied; and
the process of feeding and fiy-catching
together required SO much time that he
was reluctantly compelled to abandon
them to their fate. chambers Journal.
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An Innocent Man Imprisoned for Five
YearS-An Old Prisoner.

AP1rEous example of suffering from
the hardness of the courts in deciding
ca ses lately took place in Rome. An
innocent man was imprisoned no less
than five years for q crime which he
had not committed, and, after that
long misery, was at last permitted to
60 free. But who," murmured dis
contentedly the populace that greeted
his acquittal with frantic applause,
evil repay him the five years of
prison that he has sufferedp" When
the poor man was liberated his rela-
tons and friends gathered so closely
around him to embrace and kiss and
greet him with thousand affectionate
expressions that he asked the guards to
rcconduct him to his cell for q defense
from their kindness. He was a drug
gist, who in 1873 was supposed to have
poisoned a Frate. His conduct, how
ever, was so excellent that in the City
Prison, where he has been detained for
five years, he was appointed nurse to
the sick, Notwithstanding the charge of
poisoning that had been made against
him. The result of the studies of the
physicians and chemists, which caused
the delay, is that the crime for which
Amato suffered this long Imprisonment
was never committed. He suffered in
the interests of science, and his name
will in future be connected with very
important chemical discovery made by
Prot. Selmi, of Bologna. This discov-
cry has received special attention from
distinguished Psychologists of Germany
and France, and is destined to create u
revolution in the history of legal trials
for poisoning and open new avenues to
judicial chemistry.
Prof. Selmi has discovered in the de-
caying bodies of persons who died
natural death certain substances which
perfectly resemble well-known poisons.
These aDimal alkalies have until this
fortunate discovery been confused with
vegetable poisons which are used by
criminals. But he has found means to
test the difference between them, and
many innocent persons accused unjust
ly of crimes which they never commit
ted will henceforth owe their safety and
liberty to him.
In contrast to Amato, who escaped
from his unjust Imprisonment with
SuCA JOJs 10 GAO olOAy Va 0A OAU man
seventy-seven years old. He went to
the Questura the other day, and, de-
claiming with loud and profane words
against the present Government, de-
manded to be sent to some prison of
the State. The Same morning he had
been liberated from an Imprisonment
of forty-seven years. He had grown
so accustomed to that kind of life that
no other appeared to him desirable.
Under the Pontifical Government, he
said, he had been very comfortable,
gaining from six to seven francs per
day. But since the advent of the
Italian Government he had earned
nothing. However, even that was
preferable to liberty, and he besought
the Questore to let him return to his be-
loved prison. The position was en-
barrassing'for that officer. who told the
aspirant for the care of the State to re-
turn, and probably his unambitious
prayer was granted.-Rome (ltaly) Cor.
N. Y. Evening Post.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-03-27

The Selma (Ala.) Times says that
the railroad bridge near that city,
which let through . train Of cars lately,
with the loss Of about half dozen
lives, was perfectly rotten" and that
"the people of that section of country
had been looking for an accident for
two wears past"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-03-27
An Unlucky English Regiment.

THE recent fate of the Twenty-fourth
Regiment of the British line in Zulu
land is peculiarly melancholy. The
regiment is nearly 200 years old, hav-
ing been originally embodied by Will
lam of Orange in 1891, for service in
the Flemish War and the Netherlands.
Its records show tour of service un-
surpassed by any other regiment of the
British Army for variety and hard
knocks, and it has always been un-
lucky. Its first experience was dis.
aster, being almost annihilated at the
Battle of Steenkirke when it was hardly
two years old. Subsequently it suffered
out If all proportion to its comrades at
Blenheim, Families and Malplaquet,
and was finally relieved and sent home
in the latter part of Queen Anne's
War, in consequence of the impossible
ity of keeping its ranks recruited. For
ty years afterward it had an almost
similar experience on the same ground,
in the War of the Succession, and still
later, in the eighteenth century, it suf-
fcred immense losses, and was at last
captured bodily in the American Revo-
luton. Returning to England, it en-
joyed only few years of rest when it
was sent to Egypt, and participated in
Sir Ralph Abercrombie's operations,
where its bad luck did not desert it.
Thence the regiment went to the PENN
sular, where it campaigned five years,
suffering, as usual, beyond all proper
ton. 1t was foremost at the storming
of Cuidad Rodrigo and St. Sebastian;
in the defiles of the Pyrenees; in the
forcing of the passage Of the Bidassoa
and the Nine, and in the Battles of
Nivelle, Orthes and Toulouse. It es-
capped Waterloo only by coming to
America, after the first abdication of
Napoleon. and participating in the ill
starred operations which terminated
the War of 1912 in humiliation to the
arms of England. Then it was sent to
India, where it had hard round of
service under Combermere Hardinge
and Napier, suffering, as usual, ex-
cessively in the first Sikh War. 1t was
no novice at the Cape, either, for it
had already borne the brunt of two
Kaffir wars, and had done as much to
establish British rule in that quarter as
any other regiment that ever served
there. In short, England has had only
one great war in nearly 200 years in
which the old Twenty-fourth has not
borne a hand. That one was the Cri-
mean War, which it escaped chiefly on
account of the sympathy at thu Horse
Guards for its unlucky traditions, and.
though it was on the roster for foreign
service when the Crimean was made
up, another regiment was detailed to
take its place, and it was sent to one
Of the Colonies. Finally. after nearly
200 years of slaughter in every CLINE,
and in battle against every enemy of
England, civilized and barbarous, the
Twenty-fourth has been annihilated by
savages in South Africa.-W Washington
CAPITAL.
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Mr.. Farnum, United States Consul
General in Egypt, writes that M. Ferdi-
nand Lesseps, who has been at the
head of the Suez Canal since its begin
ming in 1854, expresses the opinion that
the Panama Canal must be constructed
without looks to be successful Or 70.
muneyative.
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THE MARKETS.

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Vasseso eps1n9s el;0o0l.10, Ma. 4fWau.
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man, or multiplied by his aid? This
is an important query; for, if it be pos
sible to do 80, way is opened for the
cultivation of a valuable industry. Ger
tain. it is that the pearl muscle Tor
"oyster," as it is improperly styled)
has the power of covering with concen-
trio layers of nacre such portions of its
shell as need strengthening, as well as
objects introduced by accident or de-
sign. The Chinese and Japanese, tax
ing advantage of this, have long prac-
ticed the art of stimulating the secre-
ton CT nacre by introducing beads
made of spar, or powdered glass and
varnish, or sometimes turned from
mother-of-pearl; and thus they do ac-
tually succeed in forcing the animal to
produce pearls at their will, although
of inferior quality. The results of the
few experiments that have thus far been
tried in other quarters seem to be neg
alive. One of the curious circumstances
connected with the New Jersey "pearl
fever" of 1858, was the discovery of a
few shells showing that, many years
before, some one had experimental on
the pearl-bearing muscle by dropping
small mother-of-pearl buttons inside
the shell, hoping that the animal would
cover them with its secretion. The ex-
periments proved failure, however,
the result being that the buttons be-
csme fastened to the shells by the &C
ton of the secretion, but did notdevelop
into pearls.
Before taking leave of this subject
we must refer to a remarkable dis
cussion which has been going on for
some time in the pages of our English
contemporary, Land and Water, under
the caption of "DO Pearls Breedp'
It seems that some time ago q number
of small pearls, of the kind known in
commerce as "seed pearls" were sent
to Mr.. Frank auckland from Borneo,
under the name Of breeding pearls"
These pearls were inelossd Ia . glass
tube, We are told, along with some
grains Of rice 10 fosd upon. The sender
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-12-02
FROM WASHINGTON.
DR.. FELTON, Ready for p Fight-HOw
SOuie Surrendered Outlook.
ETC.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 80, 10.
The Confederate Brigadiers are ar
irving in force, and barring their de-
mandatory remarks about Congress-
man Felton's recent letter, they are as
meek as so many lambs. They are
full of 81 told you $685." and lay ell of
their pa1ty's mishaps to such dough
faces" as Sammie Cox and Randall
Mr.. Bragg, who gave vent to his opin-
ions, last spring ia the House, upon
Southern claims in general comes in
for full share of vituperation and
abuse. Congressman FELTON,, of
Georgia, who, while he has repudiated
the Bourbon element, still claims to be
Democrat, has been made very angry
by the statement of Congressman
Ellis, of Louisiana, to a Washington
reporter, to the effect that 81 nothing
better could have been expected from
FELTON,, as he represents constituency
that was excessively loyal during the
late war" FELTON, says he will take
the record of the people on the floor OF
the House, and show that they were
loyal to the Confederacy, while he will
show that the people of New Orleans
threw up the sponge as soOD as Butler
entered, and were noisy in their pro-
fessions Of loyalty to the United
States with the hope Of saving
their property from confiscationF;
that while the men truckled to Butler
the women alone showed spirit, and
thus redeemed the city from the
stigma of a complete submission. In
this connection it may be apropOs to
state that one of the first men to call
on Butler in New Orleans was ex-
Senator Soule, who addressed the
General as his !" old fiiend," assuring
him that the people of that city had
never sympathised with the JEFF.
Davis Government. "Don't call me
your friend" added Butler; " we are
enemies, and I shall treat you as such
as long as the rebel flag waves any
where on American soil.o
Such Hotspurs as Blackburn and
Beck are to be muzzled, and they have
been prudentIy admonished by Sam.
Randall that they will be expected to
exhibit golden silence during the COM
ing session. But however good may
be the intentions of such fellows as
Blackburn, they forget themselves
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TERMS.

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and say naughty things just at the
time when they should their mouths
shut. Garfield and Frye have only to
utter some commonplace truths
about the methods of the Solid
South, when the Brigadiers get in
a rage, and make things howl, so 10
speak. Mr.. Blackburn's famous
speech, ia which he stated that the
Democratic party would not stop I'M
til it had wiped the last vestlge of
war legislation from the statute books,
Gid the Republican party more good
than would the canvass OF the North
by hundred loyal orators. Then
Ben. Hill helped the Republicans by
his memorable Chittenden letter.
Verify it appears that the Republican
party is in the keeping of Providence
and [ may add that it looks like his
Satanic Majesty has charge OF the De-
moeracy.
The outlook for the Republican party
was never brighter than ii Is to-day
The solid South has made a solid
North, and loyal men are taking coun-
sci together to devise means whereby
the Nation may be saved from the
domination of those who tried so hard
to destroy it. The last great effort OF
the Brigadiers is to Gust senator Kel>
lopg and give his seat to
one of the ''unrecoEsttucted.
To that end they have sent
partisan committee to New Or
leans, which has gone into the high
ways and hedges of that city and
''roped in" the politically MANNED,
halt and blind to testify against him.
They are pursuing Kellogg because, as
| they allege, he got his seat by fraud.
Behold the spectacle of the Louisiap a
chiValry(?), with hands reeking with
the blood of hundreds of Republicans
slain because of their politics, warning
upon man whose antecedents are as
! wool when cOntrasted with their blood
stained antecedents. Perhaps they
will turn Mr. Kellogg out of the SEN
ate, but when they do So they will be
establishing a precedent that will
make plain the way for disposing of
such adventurers as Hamburger Butler
and Wade Hampton, the former OBJ.
tanning his seat by means of the in
timidation caused by killing six
negroes at Hamburger, while the latter
was elected by Legislature which
owed its existence to tissue ballots and
other frauds to sickeniDg to recount.
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