The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-04-22
CURRENT ITEMS.

Mrs. Lydia Graham, of Port By
ron, Cayuga County, N. Y, recently
celebrated her one hundred and fourth
birthday.
---Masonville, VT, is excited over a
small nugget of gold that was found in
a hens crop, and gravel-bed near her
owners house is an object of great in
terest to himself and his neighbors.
Senator Thurman, when in his
greatest suffering from his late attack
on the floor of the Senate, realized
that the report would soon reach his
house, and said to one of The Senators
near him: "Send messenger imme-
diately to my house to tell my wife I'm
not sick"
An oak tree with elm branches is a
curiosity in Elmwood Cemetery, Mem
phis, Tenn. The trunk is two and a
half feet in diameter, and for dis
lance of ten feet from the ground is to
all appearances an oak. Above that
have sprung two large branches, one of
which is oak and the other elm.
Aaron McKenny, who died recent
ly in Maine aged one hundred and two,
was most remarkable example of Wig
Orous health and physical activity. Not
long before his death he knocked down
man who had suggested the appoint
ment of guardian for him, which
brought on his first lawsuit, wherein he
acted as his own counsel. He had new
er been out of his native town; had new
er tasted liquor or been in railway
train, and had never sent or received q
telegram.
These are the rules prescribed by
the Spelling Reform Association: l.
Omit a from the digraf ca when pro-
nounst as short, as in he'd, helth,
etc. 2. Omit silent after short VOW
ell, as in hav, Civ, definit, infinit, for
bad, etc. 3. Write f for 1,h in such
words as alfabet. fantom, cantor, filos-
ofy, telegraf, etc. 4. When a word
ends with a doubl letter, omit the last,
as in shall, viii, elf, eg, etc. 5. Change
ed final to where it has the sound of t,
as in lasht, imprest, vext, etc.
Charles C. Frost, learned shoe
maker, has just died at marlborough,
VT. at the age of seventy-four years.
He began to take morning walks
through the fields on account of his
ill health and SO became interested in
botany. He sent to London for a
standard work on botany, and when he
found that the work was in Latin he
bought Latin grammar and began the
study of that ancient tongue. He mas
tered Latin, French and German, and
received the degree of A. M. from Dart
mouth and Middlebury colleges. In bot
any he was a leading authority.
The Colorado Springs Gazette tells
of young man in Red Cliff, a new
mining town, who is a surveyor and
assayer, and has much to do in that
line. He also takes in everything else
that comes along, including haircut
ting, taking boarders and publishing
the weekly newspapers metropolitan
sheet-which consists of one written
copy, called the Red Cliff Wasp, and
when it is ready for its readers it is
fastened by strong string to the in
side door Of the grocery store, SO that
it can be read in turn by every one in
the place. Subscription price one cent.
if anybody chooses to pay; influence
and power immense!
-Langdon w. Moore, the wonder
fully successful bank robber, who made
$500, 900 by breaking into the vault of
the Concord National Bank, and after
ward lived in sumptuous style at q
villa near Philadelphia, has at last been
convicted in Boston, and sentenced to
sixteen years. Imprisonment. He is
not so much appalled, by the prospect
i've durance. however, as by the fact
that there are several convicts in that
prison whom his disloyalty sent there,
and who have sworn, he says, to muir
der him. He believes they will keep
their word, and begs to be sent to some
other prison, but his prayer is not to