The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-18
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wit is a dagger, sharp and strong,
To him who understands it's use.
But to the man who'd boast his skill.
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But to the man who'd boast his skill.
IT'S but a boomerang let loose.
Will Kennari.
Hawthorne was a student of Bow
dom College, and it was in Maine, h,
said, that ''he first got his cursed hab
its of solitude"
The State of Maryland pays its Gov
ernor $500 a year, and gives him ,
home to live in that requires an income
of $40, 600 a year to keep up.
The Louisville Courter-Journal be-
lieves that many of the best people o.
Kentucky favor the Whipping-post bill
now before the Senate of that State.
The revival of Irish language ane
literature is quite spirited movement,
and there is q New York firm publish
ing very cheaply books for the study O
the language.
The instructions to Census Super
visors expressly states that women ma,
be appointed Census Enumerators if in
the Judgment of the Supervisor it i.
deemed advisable.
"A San Francisco paper announces
the destruction by fire of a Chinese
wash-house and its contents. s'includ
ing full and fine set of washing ma
terial and apparatus, and ten China
men,"
Lieutenant H. L. Smith, of Boston
in 1876, saved from death from drown.
ing ten children of Maryland gentle
man, and the grateful father, who late.
ly died, bequeathed the young man the
sum of $27, 900.
"A man went down to Wall stree,
yesterday, and by a rise in the mSrke,
cleared $1,000. This morning he trieC
the same racket, and in just half ar
hour he didn't have money enough tt
take him across the ferry.-N Y Er.
press.
"A Washington correspondent Of
the Boston Herald says that ex-Senato,
Pomeroy, of Kansas, is making 81 ,OOO
a week from North Carolina gold
mine, and adds that sat least one
third of the United States Senators arc
specializing"
John Dozier, farmer near Deer
Creek, Va, made himself obnoxious tc
his neighbors by enforcing the fence
law. A few nights ago his house was
surrounded by mob who kept up q
tusilade until Dozier and colored man
left the house by rear door, attempt.
ing to escape to the woods. The col.
ored man was struck by ball and
killed.
In Zurich, Switzerland, nearly five
hundred shOp-keepers have asked the
City Council officially to suspend all
trade on Sunday. Shops were opened
by few persons at first on that day,
but the practice has increased so rapid.
ly that all feel compelled by business
interests to follow their example.
Hence the petition for legal measures
to suspend trade on Sunday.
The influence of the New York
Elevated Railroad on the trade of the
city is said to be very marked. The
cross streets on which the stations are
situated are gradually absorbing the
retail trade-handsome brown-stone
buildings. not yet antiquated, nor even
impaired, having to give way to bust
ness blocks. This movement, it is
thought, will, by spreading the bust.
ness literally, check the movement Of
trade toward the upper part of the city
and confine it to the center.
An interesting judicial decision
has recently been rendered in Balti.
more in the case of a conditional be
quest. A gentleman, who died in that
city some time since. left by will a
house and lot to his two sisters. to hold
as joint tenants as long as they re.
NAMED single, but if one married the
property was to go to the other. One
of them did marry, and then brought
suit against her sister for half the
property, claiming that the provision
was against the policy of the law on re-
straint of marriage. The Judge de-
cided the provision to be valid as linn
itatiOn which terminated the estate,
and the unmarried sister is thus Sc.
cured in the undivided possession o.
he entire property.
"A Mayne Reid story comes from the
New Hampshire woods. Three farmer.
were a considerable distance from home
gathering spruce gum. They encoun
tered bear, and, though armed only
with axes, were rash enough to assume
the offensive. Bruin took to a tree anG
they went home for their guns. Thu
next day they were on the trail again
their dog having scented bruins 1odg
ing-place. The bear when overtake1
climbed another tree, but after being
wounded hastily descended and turned
on his now frightened assailants, who
ran for their lives. The one bruir
singled out for his revenge ran unit
his escape was impossible, then turned
and fired, the bear falling dead almos
at his feet.
"A Boston physician recently pre-
scribed for young woman addicted
to French heels, and whose eyes were
so weak that she could not read, tt
abandon the French heel. In a month
the eyes were well, and the young lady
learned by her experience and little
wise talk how near she had come tt
having no eyes at all. 1t may not fol
low that all young women equally de-
voted to wicked heels will be affected
in like manner; but it serves to show
that there is the possibility, and al
ways the certainty, that with that in
strument of torture constantly at worl
in the center of the foot, where all those
delicate nerves and tendons lie that arr
SO intimately connected with all the
other delicate nerves of the body, there
must presently come some disarrange
ment and disease that may work fata
mischief with the health, and, conse
quently, with the enjoyment and goot
looks If the wearer.
The trouble and annoyance caused
by the circulation of clipped, mutilateG
and defaced coin is likely to be soor
remedied by such deteriorated piece.
finding their way to the melting pot, a!
they are now refused at all the Govern
ment Offices, either in the way of pay
ment for articles required, as dues t.
the United States, or for redemption a.
a superabundance of q circulating me
dunn. For a while it was supposed
that coins with holes in them had beer
merely worn as charms during the war
when metallic currency was very scarce
and when again put into circulation
we're taken BY storekeepers, but the
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