The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-07-17


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Grades, sa75@4. 10; Butchers Stock. $3.50
@a75; STOCK Cattle, s3.5o@a.40. Hogs
Good to Choice, s3.5O@3.95. sheep-Poor
to Choice. S2.5Ol04.75.
MULTUM IN PARvO.
STUBBORN rH1NGs-Facts and mules.
"JuMp1NG down rope' is what they
call hanging in Nevada.
The Cradle Hymn is new piece
of music recommended for beginners.
THERE isn't much romance in the ex-
istence of member of hose company
his life is too reel.
The art of defensive speaking has
been said to consist largely in knowing
how to omit judiciously.
THE recent cyclone in Kansas was
quite popular many persons were
really carried away with it.-Brooklyn
Union-Argus.
pond he went home and told his moth
er he had caught the "dip theory
DAM elsonville Sentinel.
The mosquitoes have appointed all
their committees for the summer ses-
sion, and will soon present their bills,
which can't be vetoed.-Boston Adver-
tiser.
WHEN boy scrapes a little skin off
his knuckles while saving wood for his
mother, he makes more ado about it
than when he knocks his big toe-nail
off in running to a fire.
Now the winds that softly breathe,
and the flowers that garlands wreathe,
gentle hint of summer in the mind
implants; and so do the beetles, and the
spiders. and the ants.-Y onker Gazette.
"THAr is what call finished SER
mon," said lady to her husband, as
they wendell their way from church.
eyes," was the reply, with o yawn,
"but, do you know, 1 thought it never
would be-"
THE ugly girls never get married,
and the common young men die old
bachelors. No matter who is married,
the bride, in the report, is always
"beautiful and accomplished" and
the sheepish groom is invariably "the
son OF one of our best families. bur
lington Ha,ok-Eye.
The editor of foreign review SAYS:
"The fate of most great commercial
houses is either to be ruined by the i'm
providence of those who succeed to the
family rights of control, or to disappear
by sinking into the prudent security of
accumulated capital invested beyond
the reach of commercial viclssitudes."
ABOUT this time of year city people
are getting terribly anxious about the
welfare of their country cousin. This
anxiety and solicitude will grow as the
season advances, and, when they can
bear it no longer, they will pack up
four children and two trunks and 20
and see about it.-Middletos0n Tran
script.
WHAT we want is to find out what
every one is fit for, and put them to
that work which they naturally lean
toward. There is a niche for every
one; the trouble is, in dealing with peo-
pie we want to drive them into lines
and battalions by wholesale, instead Of
andinx fo. ev~.yL vdy luis natural place.
Sunday afternoon.
RUST &c CRITIC Ito artist painting out
of door s)-"Now that's real kinder
material, amt it? But what makes We
waste yer time on them darned old
ellum tr eesp Ye'd ought to 90 right
up back here onter SINNERS Hill,
where ye could see something sorter
interestin' the Town Hall, an the
Baptis' meetin' -ho use an the new brick
High-skule. "-Harvard Lanpoo1.
eve cannot 60 below the bottom Of
anything" said Professor Miller, the
last day of school. eyes, we can"
interpolated the smart bad boy. s.Ah,"
said the Professor, in tones that indi-
Gated his doubt, "and what is it that
extends beyond the bottomP' "Straw-
berry box,' shouted the smart bad
boy, and before the Professor could
stop the class the boy received three
encores and q rocket. - Burlington
HasOk-Eye.
PEOPLE talk very lightly, says the
London Spectator, of "supplying an
army" as if it was an easy thing; but
just let them try to take five wagons
across a thousand acres of plowed
field. In India the camels if over
urged have trick of "splitting up"
that is. dislocating or slipping their
thigh bones out of the socket, in way
nosveterinary skill is able to repair;
and even in Zululand, and with oxen,
the beasts die of heart break as much
as anything.
The Salt Lake Tribune says that the
scene of the Mountain Meadow massa-
ere is now the very picture of DESC
lation. Before the Mormons murdered
III innocent men, women and children
there, in 1857, the meadows were
known far and wide as paradise in
the desert, with an abundance of grass,
crystal streams and ever-fowing
springs. To-day, the grass is gone, the
water-courses dried up, and nothing but
q dreary waste marks the once beauti-
full spot. It is said that the earth is
also sinking, and the bones which were
collected after the massacre, though
thrice buried, continue to reappear,
while settlers in the vicinity shun the
spot as haunted.
An old chevalier worth millions
feels his end approaching; he sum-
mons his lawyer to give him his last
will and testament. He tries to think
TO which of his friends he can leave his
fortune. The lawyer observes: Mon
sieur has nephew" "Don't speak
of him; he hasn't a cent and is diving
of hunger; do you think I'm going to
encourage such peopleP" .:But, sir,
your nephew has no need of sncour-
agement. know you have lost sight
OF him for some time" "True. Tor
some timel' Every well, in that
time he has made q fortune" "Ah,
bah!" HE is now q rich fellow.
steady, and perfectly able to dispense
with your money" "Oh! in that case
It's very different; make him my sole
heir!"-Fsgaro.
A gentleman, wishing to obtain
board for his wife and family in the
country, was directed to neat-looking