The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-08-12
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CURRENT ITEMS.
If . Chinese store in Sacramento,
the Health Officer of that city recently
found the bones of between fifty and
sixty Cinnamon stored for shipment to
China.
There is Juniper tree near Lundy,
Mono County, Cal, which is sixty feet
in circumference and has limbs grow
ing from its trunk five or six feet in
diameter.
-Sallie Martha Brown Washington
King Green Violet Ada Moore Thomp-
son, the only daughter of an aged COL
ored man in the Natural Bridge district,
Virginia, is included in the present
United States census.
"A lad was recently sent to the
Work House in Cambridge, England,
for picking q rose and q spray of gera-
MUM. The Mayor and Aldermen con-
sidered it an offense to be punished by
three months of hard labor.
Beer is 50 expensive in Mexico that
no one can afford to drink it; but they
have a cheap native liquor that will
make man want to break windows and
get into fight, aud finally 20 to sleep
with his head in an ash-box.
There are said to be now ITO, 900
Germans in London. An immense inn.
migration mas taken place since the war;
The ruthless CONSUMPTION and tyrannical
Government of the Fatherland sends
thousands of her sons abroad.
King Stanley, the ruler of all the
gipsies in this country, lives in the
midst of settlement of his people near
Dayton, Ohio. His daughter, who was
to become Queen at his death, as lost
her heritage by clipping with m an not
a gypsy.
-Wife-beating is one of the cheapest
Injuries in England. A brutal fellow
in Exeter, who severely thrashed his
wife with bellows because she had
not got his breakfast ready, was re-
Gently sentenced to pay fine of five
shillings.
"A miner was accidentally thrown
out of bucket at the top Of Cali
fornia shaft. He clutched wildly at the
jagged rock, and by chance his wrist
caught in crack. During ten minutes
he was thus precariously suspended at
height of two hundred feet.
"A Boston milkman has triumphed
in the Courts. He was prosecuted for
selling watered milk. His defense was
that the milk was Just as it came from
the COW. The Milk Inspector visited
his farm, tested the milk fresh from the
animal, and found it even poorer than
the sample that was sold. The dealer
was acquitted.
Mrs. Greenzwrit, of Williamsport,
Pa lost her voice several years ago,
and the physicians could not make her
utter word. She lately resolved to
try the efficacy of prayer, and now can
talk as well as ever She says that an
hour of earnest praying every day for
month was required.
Centuries ago some one left Lon
don parish property yielding $1.25 a
year for an annual Glove FEAST" at
which persons at variance should meet
and be reconciled. This gradually ex-
banded into $500 year, which for a
long time past has been devoured by the
''parochial' authorities holding the be-
quest in trust in dinners at Richmond.
William Elwood was actually too
proud to beg and too honest to steal.
He was travelling afoot in Ontario, try
ing to get orders for agricultural imple-
ments. Finding himself without cent,
and having eaten nothing for two days,
he hid himself in barn and resolved to
starve to death. He was discovered,
when almost dead, by farmer who
would willingly have fed him for the
asking.
AS menagerie was entering New
ark, Ohio, the elephants keeper fell in
fit. The elephant wouldn't allow
any one to approach him, but at first
taking him up tenderly with his trunk
tried to put him on his tusks, but find
ing he was insensible put him gently
down again, and showed great distress.
At length the man revived enough to
speak to the animal, and to tell him to
let people approach.
A shocking balloon accident occurred
at LIE Mans, in France, on Sunday, July
4. NJ. and Nine. Petit went up in one
balloon. and their son in a smaller one
attached to it. The former burst soon
after starting and the car fell 400 yards
to the ground. Nine. Petit escaped
with slight bruises, but her husband
was much hurt, and has since died.
The smaller balloon got free, and the
youth effected descent some miles dis
tant.
Parkersburg, in West Virginia, has
a ten-year-old hero. He plunged intoa
river to save a drowning pfayfellow,
came very near losing his own life
through the clinging of his terrified
companion, and dragged him upa steep
bank, where both lay q while, COM
pletely exhausted. Then the rescued
one insensibly rolled back into the wa
ter, and the brave little fellow again
performed the difficult feat of getting
him out.
The smallest lovers on earth were
united at the altar at Odessa in Russia
q few weeks ago. The marquis"
native of Kiel, is thirty years old, and
wei chs only nineteen pounds. while his
fairy-like consort, a young lady, born
in Neumunster some twO-and-twenty
years ago, just turns the scale at thir-
teen pounds. At a first glance this tiny
pair, it is said, might be taken for
couple OF scarcely-weaned babies.
dressed up for a joke in the garb of
adults.
For years railroad companies, in
making up their passenger trains,
placed the express cars Just after the
locomotive, and now do, except where
postal cars are run; in this case the lat
ter follow first after the engine. Yet
statistics show that fewer messengers
and postal clerks have been killed or in
jured, proportionately to the number
carried, than on rear coaches of trains.
Consequently the theory that the last
coach on train is the safest to ride in
is rapidly being exploded.
"A letter has recently been deliv-
cred in France after being detained in
the Post-office for half century. A
singular discovery was made q few
weeks ago in the course of the opera
tions going on in the General Post
Office at Paris. In panel near one of
the boxes was found a letter, which had