The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-04-01
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Yates roses and carnations with her own
hands.
The ex-Empress Carlotta of Mexico
is said to be showing some signs of re.
turning reason.
Many Southern newspapers are be.
ing printed on unbleached paper, on
account of the high price of white pa
FER.
I'm the opinion of the San Francisco
Chronicle, the workingmen in California
are paid higher wages and are far better
off than their brethren in other sections
of the country.
"A simple and usually successful
mode of extracting a needle or any
piece of steel or iron that has broken oil
in the flesh, is by the application of a
simple pocket magnet.
"A Canadian paper announces, with
great pride, the fact that the Princess
Louise can make bread. The interest
ing feature in the case, however, would
be q look at tho man that can eat it.
ELchange.
George E. Richards, of Barton
Landing, VT, who is more than one
hundred years old, was married less
than year ago. Recently family
troubles arose which resulted in the
separation of himself and wife.
"A San Francisco thief did not know
that the woman whose pocket he tried
to pick was the Great American Female
Sampson, belonging to circus then in
the city; but he was sure he had made
a mistake when she struck out from the
shoulder, knocking him down like ten
pin hit with the big ball.
1t would seem that harmony ought
to be particularly found among musi-
clans, yet such is far from being the
case. The bitterest quarrels emanate
from operate companies. Now we
have the only real musical college in
America on the point of breaking up in
Cincinnati all for want of harmony.
Are musicians as a class more touchy
and jealous than any other portion of
the community?
The notion of putting light inside
the body, SO as to see what is going on
there, and to take remedial or prevent
i've measures accordingly. is not entire
" new, but it is very interesting. This
is the aim substantially of the "poly-
scope" an invention about which dis
patch from Europe has recently been
sent by cable, and which, it is asserted,
will render an examination of every
part of the human body feasible.
Cape Cod girls, when discarded by
their lovers, are apt to take summary
vengeance. A few days ago, near
Wareham, young lady, daughter of a
physician. repaired to the residence of
her recent beau and waited his arrival.
Then she told him she had good news,
asked him 20 bend his head over, and
while she placed her left arm about his
neck as if to whisper in his ear, she
poked a pistol to his head with her right
hand. He was too quick, however, and
the hammer came down between his
thumb and forefnger, thus saving his
life. All the parties move in good
society.
There is a good deal of square
common sense about the Directors of q
savings bank at Marysville, Cal. They
engaged new Cashier the other day,
and the President said to him: /" Mr..
Steele, your duties will be very light
and the salary $500 a month. Now, if
you'll agree not to speculate in stocks
or gamble or hypothecate the deposits,
We'll double the pay. Come, now, what
do you sayP' I'm very much obliged
to you, gentlemen" was the reply,
and Ill think it over and give you an
answer in the morning." But he re-
refused the offer, after all. He said he
couldn't be cramped down in that way.
The bells of St. Marks Church,
Philadelphia, were silenced by an in
junction obtained by annoyed neigh
bors, and the Court of Appeals sustained
the order. The result of that case has
led to movements against church bells
elsewhere. In st. Louis a chime in the
Congregational Church of the Pilgrims
has been attacked by two physicians
living close by. These bells are struck
every quarter of an hour, the number
of strokes numbering 1,116 day. be-
sides the tune. playing on Sundays and
at prayer-meeting nights. The two
physicians say, in applying for an injunc-
fort and dangerous to health. The
church officers reply that the chime is a
fine one, and that the complainants
would not object if they were not in
fdels, to whom any Christian sound
would be unpleasant.
"A New York Judge has rendered a
decision in curious case brought by
John w. Boyle against Philip H. Off,
man The claim of the plaintiff, which
amounted to $474.5O, was made up of
an item of $141.5O, alleged to be due
for training two pedestrians at defend
ants request, and the balance for serv-
ices in winning back the estranged af-
fections of lady of position whom
the defendant desired to marry. To
accomplish this latter result the plain
tiff says he wrote the lady a number
of tenderly affectionate and pleading
letters, purporting to be the produc-
ton of the defendant. To that portion
of the plaintiffs complaint relating to
the love service the defendant de-
INJURED, claiming that it was in the ma
ture of marriage brokerage; that a
fraud was perpetrated on the lady by
leading her to believe that the letters
were the production of the man who
sought a restoration of her affections;
and that on both these grounds the al
legged contract was void in law. The
Judge held that while the contract
might be open to the objections urged
against it, it was not pleaded in such
a manner as to authorize its being pro-
nounced absolutely void on demurrer.
The demurrer was overruled, with leave
to answer.
The accommodating evidence in regard
to the bridge over the Tay involves the
managers or contractors in q gross
neglect, If not deliberate recklessness
In its construction, which scarcely, if at
all, falls short of criminal character
inferior iron, cracked and blistered pill
lars, bolts drawn or lost, holes and de-
fects filed in with cement and covered
with paint, such is part of the testi-
mony of the constructors and workmen
who were aware of this 8. Stamping"
but did not feel called upon to expose
it, until. the investigation. Why they
did not fasten it together with glue or
tie it up with cotton Irvine must always
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