The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-04-15
CURRENT ITEMS.

CURRENT ITEMS.
DIR. Tarlton II. Bean, Of the Massa-
chusetts Fish Commission, Is about to
start for Alaska in the interest Of the
Commission.
"A few months ago colored woman
in Hayti began to grow white, and now
it is said there is not trace of color In
her skin, and she is much displeased ut
the change.
"A frenzied drunkard held . pistol
at bar-keeper's head at Portsmouth,
Va. and pulled the trigger. The charge
failed to explode, and the man peered
curiously into the barrel. At That in
slant the bullet came out and killed
him.
There is now at the Boston Deco
rative Art rooms q remarkable piece of
work by an old lady over ninety-two
years Of age. 1t is a piano-cover which
she has designed and embroidered with
out any other pattern than the natural
flowers.
Baron Minckwitz, q Hungarian,
was last year caught poaching by the
head gamekeeper of the King of the
Belgians on the royal preserves at the
Chateau of Ardenne, and he was tried
and punished. Recently the head
gamekeeper was found dead, and the
Baron has been charged with the MUIR
der.
The refusal of a British General
named Donovan to fire q salute on
Washington's birthday has caused no
little Indignation among the American
residents of Hong Kong. The practice
by American commanders of firing sa-
lutes in honor of British anniversaries
entitled the Americans to expect a like
favor at the hands of British command
ers; but Donovan was too boorish to
extend the courtesy.
When the Gar, at the suggestion
of the Czarevitch, intrusted General
Loris Melikoff with the semi dictatorial
Office he now holds at St. Petersburg,
he is reported to have said to the latter
my dear General, 1 am very sorry to
be obliged to offer you, in all probable
ity, "a a target for the Nihilists. But
as it is my duty to appoint to Office the
worthiest men, cannot possibly spare
you. Let us hope that the assassins
will continue to aim at me alone"
On the edge of a slate quarry 8
thrush had made her nest. It was SC
close to danger that when the rock was
blasted piece of the falling slate came
almost into the nest. At the ringing oil
the bell the bird saw the men run. She
left her nest, too, and after the explo.
sion she returned. This the thrust
continued to do whenever blast wa:
fired. The men rang the bell to hoa1
the bird, but she only peeped over the
nest, and, as the men did not run, set
tied down again.
General Melikoff is in the habit o.
wearing number of flannels, as many
as four or five, one over the other.
very spare man. and by no means o.
robust constitution, he is very suscepti
BILE to changes of temperature ant
somewhat of hypochondriac on thu
score of his health. Having tried in tn
Caucasuse very preservative agains
cold, he has found this flannel padding tn,
most satisfactory. His flannel accouter
ment served him like a suit of armo
when he was recently fired on.
| Walter Sneathen and his wife, o
Pittsburgh, were only nineteen an,
seventeen years of age. They ha'
married against the wishes of thei
parents. The husbands business ha'
been bad, and, at the end of hal
q year of wedlock, they were yer
downhearted. II have come to til
conclusion that the best way out {
trouble is to commit suicide" sal
the husband. "and I shall do it.
The wife said, every well; we wi
both kill ourselves" She shot hel
self fatally through the head, an
he was found with the weapo
aimed at his heart, but he lacked th
courage to pull the trigger, and sti
lives: ,,.x .v,uux,, .. ,,.
fined in narrow cell, and only pei
mitted to walk on the ramparts accom-
panied by sentinel. The parapet {
the wall is high above his head, SO ths
flight by this means is impossible, Will
the poor fellow has grown so stiff an
unwieldy from confinement, change {
habit and diet, that it is as much as
can do to keep himself steady on b
legs during the long and dreary prom.
made upon the stone pavement, with tn
two military guardians dragging the
slow steps behind him. He is most d.
sirous to cross the sea and see Quee
Victoria, who, he believes, will enter
tain him sumptuously, and punish tn
soldiers who have destroyed his maali
fields, burned his kraals. and killed hi
! young men.