The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-25
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five years.
-Gambetta has been ordered to give
up smoking for fear of losing his voice.
The Gar has given it up Tor fear the
Nlhilists would poison his tobacco.
| The highest salaries paid bv auv
American college are those of the pro-
fessors of Columbia. who receive
amounts varying from $500 to $3, 1875.
- The Agricultural College of japan
has been in existence three years, and
| q large number of students have been
educated in it. The Government recoo-
nizes its usefulness, and aids it in Va
rious ways.
60 An Englishman'' writes to the
Boston Transcript that he has learned
| some marvellous things about his native
land during the last few weeks he has
| been in America. Any American who
| has ever resided in England, even for q
few days, knows just how he feels.
The condition of the public roads is
the measure of the civilization of the
inhabitants. Good roads facilitate
trade intercourse, promote comfort and
convenience, increase the value of real
estate add attractiveness to the neigh
borhood, and stimulate individual i'm
pr0vements.
-"I shall know better next time"
said Mrs. Keepupwiththestyle. "That
hateful milliner told me the hat was
something new, and there were four
hats just like it in church; but might
have known better. 1 saw the new
moon over my left shoulder. Of course
I'd be unlucky. "-Neo Haven Register.
"A strange old man, who died near
Troy, few days ago, requested that
his remains should be kept in the louise
for three weeks; that one of his sons
make his coffin, and that his four sons
dig the grave and inter the body. low
ering it into the grave as the sun
should be setting behind the mountains
near his house.
John Stephens, of Hoboken, who
had his nose split open by being thrown
from his wagon on the Hackensack
turnpike recently, is heir to the largest
fortune OF any young man of his age in
the United States, and in view of this
fact young ladies should be careful how
they laugh at a young man with q broken
| nose, as Mr.. Stevens is unmarried.
A girl nine years old was arrested
in Syracuse, N. Y, the other day, for
stealing dozen pocket-books on street.
cars, in churches, and in public places.
She was the apprentice of another
small maid who recently stole the gold
chalice from the Church of St. John
the Baptist, and after testing it with
acid to find out whether the metal was
genuine. hid it in salt covers until she
could sell it surreptitiouslv.
"A story is retold by the Lewiston
(Me.) Journal of good old Father Sew
all, of that State, who, when once asked
to lead the devotions of the meetings
in monthly concert of prayer for the
conversion of the world, arose, and,
after fumbling in his pocket for a coin,
at last brought it out and handed it to
the presiding officer of the occasion,
saying, as if to himself: II can't pray
till I've given something"
If Queen Victoria would send one
| of her personal, effective and inimita-
BILE letters to the President of the United
States, thanking the Americans, through
him, for what they have done to helr
the sufferers in Ireland, the Whitehall
RevieaO thinks there would be an end of
the anti-English agitation in this coun-
try for another quarter of a century.
Perhaps her Majesty would better try it
though more liberal British contribu-
tons would also be becoming Chicago
Tribune.
| In North Carolina the moonshiners
do not generally have serious difficulty
in finding time to get married, but q
case was reported the other morning
showing thht the revenue raid then in
progress compelled one couple, at least,
to wed and run. A parson was con-
Quoted to mountain retreat and, find
ing the lovers in waiting, tied the knot,
received $50 in gold and hurrah, and
in ten minutes was on his way home,
the moonshiner, his bride and their COM
panions resuming their tour, with the
deputy collectors in hot pursuit.
AT the paper mills of Crane Broth
ers, Coltsville, Mass, large quantities
of bank-note paper are made for the
Government. The strictest attention
as to quality is observed, a spot or
speck no larger than pin-head being
sufficient to condemn sheet, and the
employees arriving and departing are
carefully watched. Armed guards pa
troll the premises and grounds day and
night. and no approach to them is per-
mitted. Twenty-four women were sent
from the Treasury Department as
counters and examiners, and are each
able to count thirty thousand sheets
daily. The precaution is necessary to
prevent duplication of sheets for dishon-
est purposes.
during their recent expedition
across the Australian Continent, from
Perth to Port Darwin, the brothers
Forrest met with race of blacks who
are said never to have seen or even
heard of white men before. They are
described as fine, big, well-built men,
but cannibals. No women were seen
by the travellers, though several parties
of the same tribe of natives were met by
the expedition. The men adopt an in
genious mode of fishing in the rivers,
which TEEN with fish. They build a
series of dams across the stream, leaving
a gap in each. at which one native sta
tiOns himself with net made of grass,
and catches the fish as, frightened from
the pools by the other natives throwing
in stones, etc., they try to escape. The
natives did not attempt to modest the
travellers.
Proverbs in New York Neacs: "An-
swer not a fool according to his folly"
but with due regard to his size and
temper. "A man who beareth false
witness bends meath grievous bur-
den. "a just man falleth seven times"
and justly curses his mean neighbor for
not sprinkling ashes on the precarious
sidewalk. 1.-THE scorner is an abomi-
nation to men," and deservedly snubbed
by women. "A wicked man hardeneth
his face" which enables him to travel
on his cheek.
The citizens of San Francisco now
say that 1.-THE seals and sea lions must
gor' The latter are charged with hsv-
ing used their legal immunity from
being killed ut Seal Rock as cover for
entering the Golden Gate and fearless