The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-08-19
CURRENT ITEMS.

CURRENT ITEMS.
"A quantity of sea shells were bored
up from well twenty-seven feet deep
in Sumter County, s. C.
"A large beaver dam has formed a
lake on Stubble Creek, Cassie County,
Idaho, and it is literally full of speckled
trout.
"A man at Augusta, Ga, on receiv-
ing doctors bill for medicine and
visits, wrote that he would pay for the
medicine and return the visits.
| "A voudoo conjurer at Anderson.
$. c., sells charms which he warrants
will enable the owner to send a snake
into any desired part of an encmy's
body.
= The American Baptists have two
churches in Stockholm, Sweden, and
are about to form third. There was
an increase of 200 members in the past
year.
1t is said that the locomotives used
on the railroads of the United States
are doing the work of over 1000, 900
horses, while the census of 1870 aggre-
gates horses of all ages at less than
5000, 900.
"A grocer in Auburn, CAL, sent
some clothes to a washerwoman to be
laundried. The woman found in the
pockets of the trousers $4,000 in bills,
and promptly returned the money to
the owner. What did the grocer do?
He gave her a bar of soap and thanked
| her.
When you are travelling always
take some stranger into your confidence,
tell him how much money you have
with you, where you keep it and what
you are going to do with it. If he
doesn't relieve you of what you possess
you'll have the satisfaction of knowing
that you have at last met an honest
man.
"A silly American youth who had
announced on the steamer that Gin En-
gland I'm always taken for an English
man, you know" was disguised when,
on demanding, Zone first, single, Eus-
tom at the Liverpool station, the clerk
said. "Seven dollars and a half, please"
1t was paid, amid the unsurpassed
merriment of his companions.
The new passenger omnibuses for
Philadelphia are as handy as our old
fashioned omnibuses are unhandy.
They have immense wheels. between
which the body hangs close to the
ground. There is a low platform in the
rear, so that ingress is easy. The roof
is eight feet above the floor, afford
ing comfort to tall men. There are seats
for eight persons; one horse draws the
vehicle.
The sole hold of the Sultan over
his subjects is that he is the head of
their religion. The only man who can
compete with him for this position is
was an ambitious man, and it is believed
that he was assassinated in consequence
of orders received from Constantine
pie. The present Sheriff is young
man, and the assassination of his pre-
Gecessor has aroused much feeling in his
behalf.
An eccentric Englishman lately
went up to the top of Mount Blanc for
the purpose of building a fire where
none had ever been kindled. He sue
ceeded in doing so, and, on getting
back to the inn at the foot of the
mountain, recorded his triumph in En-
glish upon the hotel register. 1t was
achievements like this that originally
made the Englishman the laughing
stock in French comedy that he is TO-
day.
"A miner at Bridgeport, Pa, under
took to double his income at a very
small expense by adopting an orphan
hox, o,,d mo E;nnr him, 1o manic worl
in the mines. The boy performed the
labor until, in order to lessen the cost,
the miner allowed him only one meal q
day. Even the blows of club did not
keep him going on such diet. He
was missing for several days, and then
the neighbors found him in his masters
cellar, fastened to a post by a chain
around his neck, and half dead with
hunger and heatings.
An English Prelate, a year or two
prior to his being raised to the Episco-
pate, remarked to a friend that visit
to Switzerland had long been a day
dream with him, which he feared might
never be accomplished. 1t is so with
very many of his brethren. An English
clergyman's life is, for the most part,
one of unceasing toll, and his emolu-
ments, unless he be a man of private
means, permit of little holiday making.
Such men regard with much surprise
the crowd of clerical holiday makers
who swarm each year to Europe from
this side of the Atlantic.
AT the Panoptikon of Dresden there
is on exhibition a curious piece of
mechanism, entitled "Get up" Over
bed is a dial, the index of which is set
over night to the hour at which the
sleeper wishes to arise in the morning,
which, when it reaches the bed, as
mild preliminary to more decisive ac-
ton, lights a powerful lamp, SO placed
as to cast its rays directly on the slug
gard. Should this gentle hint fail, five
minutes later the bed automatically
falls asunder, causing its sleepy occu-
pant to lapse to the floor with force
and suddenness that prove fatal to
slumber. ....
Secretary Evart's professional in
come is estimated at from $4,000 to
800, 600 year lit has been as great as
$150,OOO) but he is not, in the New
York sense, rich, owing to his liberal
mode of living and his large family.
He is the head of the noted firm OF Ev-
arts, Southmayd & Choate, of Wall
street, with ten or twelve partners, and
many of the most prominent bankers
and merchants of the city are among
his clients. No great case is considered
completed without Evarts, whose fees
are the largest in the Republic, 1926, 900
to $50, 900 not being unusual. He is
now about sixty-two years old though
he does not appear over fifty, and he is
as alert as he was at forty.
-Aspanish peasant, living in the sub
urbs of Madrid, has long been in the
habit of repairing daily to the city, ac-
companied by donkey laden with milk
for distribution among certain custom
ers. One day, however, the master was
taken i'll, whereupon his wife suggested
that the ass should be sent on his Gus
tomary journey alone. The panniers
were accordingly filled with cans of
milk "a 1lsua1 and q hit of raner was