The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-05-27
GLEANINGs.

GLEAN1NGS.
"SwEEr are the uses of . univer-
sity," said the girl when q senior asked
her to 60 to the concert.
The young man who wants to get up
with the sun must not sit up too late
with the daughter. Mddlct0s0ss Tram
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DE LEssEPs estimates that the Brook
Ign bridge will last for six centuries.
We shall watch that bridge with some
to see just how near he hits it. ]
Boston Transcript.
MINNEAPOLIS makes 16, 600 barrels of
flour per day. Some leading millers
there have orders more than they can
fill direct from England, Scotland and
Ireland. - st;
To Cool INFLAMMAT1oN.- Refined
chalk made into a thick plaster with
one-third as much glycerine as water,
and spread on the parts, will cool in
flammation and reduce redness of the
nose or face. aaf ell.
An appeal is making to English
churchmen for money to build q cathe-
dral at Lahore, India. At present the
services of the Church of England are
performed in q Mohammedan shrine
dedicated to murdered slave girl. The
Maharajah of Cashmere has offered to
furnish the timber.
INDIANAPOLIS dealers in hard wood
say that the supply of black walnut in
Indiana has decreased to such an ex-
font fho< - oo,n NJ 1on~op ho hop11o1
profitably. No better Investment can
be made in the tree line than to plant
few acres to the black walnut, the most
useful tree of modern times.-Isdia,s-
ap0lis Journal. m
TALKING about tunnels, there Is the
Hoosac, hole down East, the name of
which may be familiar to some. ABos-
ton man invented drill that saved
much time and $6OO, 900 in cash to the
company. This man died in poverty
lately, having never received adequate
compensation for his invention.-Er-
change.
FLAX requires dry deep loamy soil,
thoroughly under-drained and SUBSIDIZED
A long series of years Of experience
show that fax should not be grown on
the same land ~ofteDer than once in five
years, and that the best rotation is as
follows: First, grass; second, oats;
third, potatoes Or turnips; fourth,
wheat; fifth, fax; sixth, clover.-Fdrn
Notes.
The Cornhil Magazine has an article
on g the possible age of man." There
is little use discussing such question
as that. If it would take up something
that had some matter of doubt or mys-
stery in it some good might ensue; AZ
for instance, that mystic problem that
has baff1ed the world for years" the
possible age of woman. "-Detrott Free
Press. ..nf
DIR. EVANS, of Paris, the famous
American dentist, who took it so i'll
when Mr.. Evarts good-naturedly al
luded to him as person 'tto whom the
greatest potentates, usually so reticent,
had freely opened their mouths" has
just been consoling himself by plug
cling and boring away at the teeth Of
the Crown Princess of Germany, in her
villa at PigG, near Genoa. u
A TRAVELLING glazier has been ar
rested at Warrington, Eng, for stimu-
lating the law of supply and demand.
His method of creating trade was to
throw q stone through q window in the
evening and then appear in the morn.
ing to offer his services. But he over
did the business when he smashed sew.
enteen panes of glass in the church, in
one night, and came near hitting the
landlord with the bowlder thrown
through plate-glass window of the
Bulls Head Inn.
AL1rTLE child had wonderful escape
from drowning at Manchester, England
Its mother, in q fit of desperation in
duced by the desertion of her husband
intended to destroy herself and babe
and chose the water of the cana
as q sure and easy "ferry over,
She tossed her little one into
the water and jumped after, but the
child came to the surface and floated or
its back with the ease of gosling, and
the foolish mother was fished out in
time to express in police court he1
disgust with exceptions to natural laws
TEA drinkers nowadays will do vel
to apply the following simple test tt
the tea purchased of their grocers
Turn out the infused leaves, and if they
are found a good brown color, with fail
substance, the tea will be wholesome
but if the leaves are black and Of q rot
ten texture, with an oily appearance
the tea will not be fit to drink. The
purer the tea the more the distinctively
brown color of the leaf strikes the at
tention. The mixing that is frequently
adopted to reduce prices results in the
two kinds of leaves being supplied to
gether. It is important to see that the
leaves have the serrated or saw-like
edges. without which no tea is gen
uine.