The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-07-03

late an expression into grammatical
and unprofane English that would do
Justice to the situation.-Nes0H aven
Comm Register.
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
A MAN was recently mulcted in dam.
ages, in Buckingham, for keeping q
" savage and dangerous cock-fowl,"
which had pecked and injured small
child.
In sober TRUTH" says the London
NesCs, "there are few times when a
war in which Great Britain is con-
cerned is not raging in some quarter of
the globe"
IT is said that so much alike are
modern and ancient Greek that any,
body who can read Plato and Thucy-
dides can get the meaning out of an
Athens newspaper of to-day.
elf the Isthmus of Panama is cut by
q canal" remarks a London journal,
E" English ships will assuredly reap q
great, if not the greatest, share of adj
vantage. 1t is said that, as q conse-
quence of the abominable climate, an
1rishman rests under every sleeper of
the Panama Railroad"
ANOTHER man, and he is an English
man-Sir Patrick Colquhon, q. c.,
Vice-President of the Royal Society of
Observation-Disclosures that Shakespeare
was not the writer of the plays that
pass under his name. He purchased
them and "died in good circumstances.
while the real authors, without excen-
ton. died in penurvn
AN old resident of Zululand says that
the Zulu King has thus far received no
injury at all from the English. His
sole wealth lies in his crops and his
cettle-he has gathered the former and
kept the latter. Some of his warriors
have been killed, but then he loses a
certain number every year, either by
massacring them himself or by their
flight to Natal. He has gained enor-
mously in arms and ammunition cap
tured during the war.
The Prince of Wales, who used often
when boy to be separated by court
etiquette from his father and mother.
insists as an imperative rule of his
household, when his boys are at home,
that whenever they wish to go to their
parents they shall be allowed to do so.
The lads run in to see their father at
times when they are least expected, as
at semi-official and business audiences
in Marlborough House. He permits
them to linger about him in the way
affectionate boys will about father,
without regard to royal precedent.
AN English workman thus testifies in
the English Mechanic to the good quail
ity of American wares: "But speak
of things which l know thoroughly we'll
when l say that in very many things
our manufactures are not fit to be
shown in the same street with Ameri-
can ones; and this is not merely in
knick-knacks or little ingenuities, as to
which it is tolerably evident we have no
pretensions to enter into any compare
son. only invite any one who doubts
my statement to compare such a rough
common matter as "cut nails" Our
rubbish, with half of them split up,
which tend to turn round in the wood
and split it, and with conical heads,
look very poor against the straight,
clean nails, with well-formed heads,
which the Americans used to send out to
Australia, and which, when had once
seen them, prevented me from ever
buying an English nail again as long
as I could get the American ones"
AMONG the ANIMALS belonging to a
menagerie that visited Tenbury recent
ly is a fine female elephant named
Lizzie" Nearly five years ago this
animal, after hard walk, was allowed
to drink quartity of cold water, the
result being that she was seized with
severe illness, and her life was all but
despaired of. A chemist of Tenbury
being called in, by his vigorous efforts
and skillful treatment she ultimately
recovered. Lizzie had not forgotten
her preserver; and when she was walk
ing in procession through Tenbury.
recognizing the chemist at the door of
his shop, she left the other animals,
and going to him affectionately placed
her trunk in his hand. In the evening
the chemist visited the exhibition, when
Lizzie gave him a warm andm0st graf
flying reception. Gently encircling
him with her trunk, she held him for
some time captive, to the anxiety of the
spectators, and was with difficulty in
duced to let him go.-Btrnsinghans
(Eng.) Gazette.
THEY are telling good story III
court circles of Prince Peter, of Olden-
burg, Chief of the Russian College for
Girls. At the Smelling Convent, which
is under his jurisdiction, eight hundred
girls are educated, and he had received
anonymously and otherwise several
complaints about the food, which was
pronounced execrable. 81 will see to
this myself," said the Prince, and one
day, a few minutes before the dinner
hour, he presented himself at the end
of the passage leading from the kitchen
to the dining-saloon. Here he met
two soldiers carrying a caldron, steam
ing hot. HALT" The men obeyed.
"Put down that KETTLE" The kettle
was at once deposited on the floor.
"Fetch a spoon" Here Russian dis
cipline wavered. One of the men had
the audacity to begin a protest.
"S'death!" exclaimed the Prince;
"hold your tongue-fetch me a spoon." "
"But," stammered the soldier. can
other word and I place you under ar
rest" The spoon was brought. The
Prince dipped it into the caldron, and
swallowed quantity of the liquid.
al thought sO," he said. "DO you
call this soup? Why, it is dirty water"
eft is, your Highness," answered the
soldier who had been threatened with
arrest, "we have been cleaning out the
laundry. "-London Letter.
Deceptive Distances in Arizona.
If there is anything more deceiving
than your grocery bill which has been
stretching unsettled longer than sixty
DAYS, it is distances in this climate.
You are not always certain whether
~, 90 ernest there or not. 1t is not
lust wise to attempt to walk to the top