The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-08-05
CURRENT ITEMS.

CURRENT ITEMS.
Miss Riviere, of Charleston, 8. c.,
has court dress once worn by Marie
Antolnette. 1t is of purple satin and is
still in good condition.
Mrs. Margaret Perry, of New Or
leans. gave birth to triplets, two boys and
agirl, on the day on which the Cincinnati
Convention reached a nomination, and
called the trio Hancock, English and
America.
Salt water is being distributed
through Brooklyn daily, in three-gallon
cans, for sponge baths for invalids and
children. The water is pumped at
night at the end of the iron pier, and is
sold for four cents gallon.
"A man was the other day, fined one
dollar in Oneida County, N. Y, for
swearing one profane oath, in these
words, to wit: (the oath is recorded
on the 9th day of July, 1880, at the
county,"
"A son of Ed. Johnston, a farmer in
Stephenson Township, Ont, saw a bear
passing through clearing on his ia
TIERS farm, and fired, wounding it.
He then started in pursuit with the
empty gun. whereupon the bear turned
upon him, and before assistance could
arrive had killed him and torn his body
almost to pieces.
"A Boston newspaper, speaking of
DIR. Tanners fast, recalls the alleged
fact that ten years ago DR.. M. G.
Smith, of Newberryport, went without
food for forty days, and during all that
time visited his patients daily. DIR.
Smith is still alive and sincerely be-
lieves that healthy people can live on
air.
1t is common now in the English
metropolis to meet with young men
who are prematurely round-shouldered
and walk with bent knees and sort of
crab.like movement. Riders of the
so-called "steel horse'' may be inter-
ested to know that this ungraceful ap-
pearance has been named the +" bicycle
back" in honor of the pastime that
causes it.
Designs have been accepted by the
British Admiralty for q table to be
manufactured for the Queen from the
timbers of the old Arctic exploring
ship Resolute, which has been broken
up at Chatham Dockyard. A copper
bolt from the same vessel is to be rolled
into a plate at the mills, to be let into
the table, and to bear suitable inscrip-
ton.
"A we'll near Brandon, VT, forty
two feet deep, freezes solid in winter
and contains ice the year round, while
one hundred rods away, in gravel pit.
is a spot which never freezes, and
which sometimes sends up a cloud of
steam. Prof. Hitchcock thinks there
are currents of air passing through a
stratum of gravel about fourteen feet
down w hich cause the frost.
AT the funeral of Price, the hanged
Cincinnati negro murderer, it was in
tended to pass in the immediate friends
and relatives of the deceased; but hum
dreds of the vast cOncourse claimed re-
lationship with the dead murderer.
Even white women declal ed that they
were related to the dead man, and
when told that they were not colored,
they solemnly declared they were.
The latest acrobatic advertisement,
not down on the programme, was fur
nished by female performer in Ham,
burg. The girl-Mdlle. Leona, Euro
pean favorite--was hanging by her
knees, face downwards. and supporting
another acrobat by her teeth, when
those much-abused members gave way,
and the man fell into the net beneath.
Six of the teeth and a portion of the
jaw were torn out. Disgusting to re-
late, an English admirer has had one Of
the teeth handsomely mounted and in.
tends to wear it as q breast-pin.
The Dalai Lama, who is the per-
soniication of the deity of the Thibe-
tans, lies so seriously ill that the priests
have petitioned the Emperor of China
to name his successor. When Dalai
Lama feels his end approaching the
Emperor must nominate the next Dalai
Lama, in order that the first may trans
fer his soul to the second. So it has
been and so it must be to the end of
time. The Dalai Lama lives at L nassa,
the city which Europeans cannot reach,
in palace with a golden dome, and
has an income of nearly 1000, 900 a
year.
General Manager Thompson, of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, has given the
necessary directions to at once COM
mence the construction of buildings for
special use of employees. These build
ings are to be located at points where
crews lie over or trains are made up,
and where there is a large number Of
trainmen either on duty or awaiting
orders. They are to be fitted up with
reading-rooms brilliantly lighted, bath
rooms with hot and cold water, dormi-
tories, closets, etc. 1t is the intention
to make them as attractive as possible,
the reading rooms to be kept supplied
with daily papers and periodicals.
WHEN the curtain rises on the third
act of Carmen" recumbent smugglers
are discovered in peaceful slumber.
They are speedily reused by watchful
comrade. During performance at the
Vienna Opera House, one of the leading
bass smugglers, although prodded in
the ribs by the sentinel, remained in
sensible. "Carmen," represented by
Nine. Lucca, advancing from the re-
cesses of the contrabandists' cave,
found her tuneful utterances accom-
panied by a snore, which is described
BY a Viennese musical critic as only
comparable to ian avalanche, the roar
emanating from a travelling menagerie
at feeding time, or the bowling of
cyclone The audience laughed loud
ly, and the smuggfers, gathering round
the PROSTATE sleeper, belabored him to
oroh nnr,oso that s. Carmon,' hersalf
pleaded that some mercy might be
shown him. Finally he was dragged
off.
"A native of Bossito. in Lombardy,
lately suffered bereavement by the death
of his wife, and his grief was SO poignant
that his relatives deemed it expedient
to prevent him from being present at
the funeral. Returning to his house
late in the evening after the burial, and
entering his bedroom, he found to his
horror and CONSERVATION the lifeless
form of his wife, robed in its death
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