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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-03
Skin. Transplanting Experiment.


ABOUT hve weeks ago Mrs. Wilson, of this
city, was so dangerously burned by her cloth
ing ignitinE that her life has been despaired
of. For weeks she fingered without an inter
mission Of her agony or apparent improve
ment.
Last Wednesday Dr. Mclean informed Mr..
Wilson that it would be absolutely necessary
to transplant live flesh to those parts where
the tissues had been destroyed, and Prof.
Lewis, who had been called in, decided in ia
vor OF the operation. Although her mind was
wandering, Mrs. Wilson appeared to have some
idea that painful experiment was impending,
and screamed to the doctor to take away the
lancet, although he had not displayed, nor in
deed, at the time, spoken in her hearing, of
any instrument, but her nervous exhaustion
was so great that 1t was considered unsafe to
cut the flesh required from her own person.
DIR. Lewis asked Mr.. Wilson II hew willing
to submit to the painful process Of furnishing
the flesh from his arm. "Certainly," said Mr..
Wilson, "if 1t takes my whole right arm, cut
itoR from the shoulder to save my wife," Mr..
Wilson barred, and extended his right arm,
while DR.. Lewis, with the assistance Of DR.. Nc
Lean. cut ten pieces Of skin a quarter of an
inch square from its upper surface, and trans
planted them into the back of Mrs. Wilson.
During the whole operation Mr.. Wilson never
moved muscle nor showed sign Of the pain
that he suffered, while 1t required the strength
OF six women to hold Mrs. Wilson a. the deli
cate transfer was made.
After the operation was finished the patient
seemed more comfortable, the brain trouble
gradually subsidized, and she is now in fair
way to recover. The selfsacrificing fortitude
of Mr.. Wilson Is the moro remarkable because
of the fact that for two years past his health
has been failing. philadelphia Cor CtnctnnatS
Gazette,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-03
Died in the Snow.

On Thursday, December 30, at 1880 p. M,
Mr.. Silas c. Lowe left here on foot to take
messages up to the steamer John Gates, at
Simmons Landing, distance about twelve
miles. He passed our section in good spirite.
Two Indians going from here for Wallula were
some distance ahead of him and broke the path
for him. 1t seems that he went within about
three miles of the steamer and then turned
back. Nothing was heard of b m until yester-
Anderson came down from the Gates. After
walking about three miles this way
they saw blood on the trail and sprinkled
along on the snow and places where the snow
was stamped down as If person had been
crawling and rolling in it. They saw where he
had walked from the railroad track out to q
telegraph pole, evidently to get kindling to
make a fire. They found matches in one place
where he had tried to make fire. They came
ON until within six miles of this l:ace, where
they found MIR. Lowe lying in the Tow and in
a dying condition. He was just Rasping for
breath. His hands were bleeding. The skin
was torn from his fingers and hands IN several
places, which l suppose he did in try ing to get
sage brush to make fire, as he had 40 knife
with him. Mr.. Roach came on into town as
fast as possible to bring the news, anil as soon
to go out and bring him in. We took Xxx
car and a dozen citizens. We were detained
some time by the snow on the track about q
foot deep. We arrived there about fifteen
minutes to two and found him dead.-COr. Port
land Orc00ntan.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-03

var, then peninsula just east of Calves
ton, to await his return, where she re-
NAMED with the force left TO hold the
place. Hearing nothing from their
commander, the little force dwindled
away, and finally abandoned the post,
but the heroic young wife of Long. with
her infant child and father and negro
slave, refused to leave, and remained
until her friends came from Louisiana
and carried her away. She kept the
Indians at bay by firing cannon at inter-
walls and creating the impression that
troops were still there. In 1922 she
learned that her husband had been
murdered. She settled on the Brazos
with Austin's colony in 1922 or 1928,
and has remained in Texas ever since.
Hcr daughter. who was the infant at
Bolivar. was afterward tho first wife oil
Judge j. 5. Sullivan, now q citizen Of
Galveston,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-03
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Wesleyan University has adopted
the co-educatiOn system. There IRE
ten girl students, seven of whom are
members of the class of '84.
The Evangelical Synod of North
America, which represents the united
or State Church of Prussia, has 4OS
pastors. $40 congregations and 80, CLIO
communicates.
Sir Richard Temple, Governor of
India, after thirty years observation.
bears enthusiastic testimony to the
great good missionaries have done and
are doing among the people of India.
When money is to be raised in
heather lands, and the converted
heather have no money, they often sell
their furniture and trinkets and give
the proceeds to the church.
The old Carmelite convent in Lis
bon now bears over its gateway the
inscription Presbyterian Church." the
building having been purchased OF the
Portuguese Government.
England has given this country
MANY ministers, but Perth Amboy, N.
j., now sends one to the old country.
The Rev. S. G. Woodrow goes from the
Perth Amboy Baptist Church to that
of Wakingham. 1t is a pleasant coin
cidence that Mr.. Woodrow's father and
grandfather were pastors Of the Wax
ihghan church.
When the Rev. Mr.. Wright, pastoi
Of d church at Hampstead, England
died, his congregation want6d to raise I
monument I'd his memory, and for tina
purpose subscribed about $4,000. /
was concluded that the best memoria
to him would be gift to the Church
Missionary Society, to enable it to sent
out missionary. So the monumen
took that shape.
There are at present laboring IL
India at least twenty-eight differen
church organizations, representing bod
les in England. Scotland, Ireland Can
ada, the United States, Germany, Den
mark and Switzerland. In all Their,
are now at work in heather countrie.
two thousand Protestant missionaries
and the churches sustain the work b,
an annual contribution of about S., 600,
OOO.
Many clergymen in this countr,
have received a circular from Londof
dealer. who offers second hand sermons
photographed in bold, round hand
SO that those who happen to see then
will suppose that they are manuscript
for twenty-five cents each, or $50 hun
dred. He has line of cheaper ser
mons in print, at ten cents piece
warranted orthodox, and others. q litt.t
more expensive, which have "a pleas
antness. yet an awful solemnity, abou
them"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-03
WIT AND WISDOM.

,.-"There's to place like homie"
That's the reason, perhaps, that some
married men find it so easy to make them
selves comfortable away from home.
Boston Transcript.
"A report is going around that in q
neighboring city a barber charges light
ning-rod men only five cents shave in
consideration of the privilege of honing
his razors on their cheek. Book agents
are shaved for nothing. -Ravkeye:
The Doctors Daughter de-
clare. you're dreadful fanatic, Mrs.
McCizzom. l do believe you think no.
body will be saved but you and your
minister!' Old Lady" Aweel, my
dear, ali whites haze ma doobts ABBOTT the
meenistern'-L0ndon Punch.
FL never saw such tenderness in
my life. Whenever De Smith comes
home his wife meets him at the door
and kisses him." Tenderness, in a
horn!' responded friend of the fami-
ly;. "she does that to see how his tenn
perance pledge is coming on this cold
weather. Whenever she kisses him it
smacks of hypocrisy" -Galrestors Neus.
The New Haven Register draws the
following charming sketch of country
life in winter: '.The farmers lad now
hustles around and gets his chores out
of the way early in the evening, and,
arraying himself in his Sunday-go-to
meeting ready-mades, leads a life of
reckless enjoyment at can6y-pulls,
where all the girls sit in groups in the
corner and snicker.'
"A brilliant correspondent of the
Putnam Comm Patriot, who evidently
cares little for agricultural matters,
suggests the following themes for dis
cussion by the Farmers Club of POM
fret: "Why do not cows sit down to
rest the same as dogs? Why does a
dog turn round q few times before he
lies down? Why does a COW get up
from the ground hind end first, and a
horse fore end first? Why does a
squirrel come down tree head first.
and cat tail first? Why does mule
kick with its hind foot, and a sheep
with its fore foot?''
One of our citizens was going home
at u late hour recently, when he was
suddenly confronted by footpad, who,
with pistol pointed at his head, de-
manded his money. The citizen as
sured the fellow that he had no money,
that he had "been to fair" Before
he could say more the rascal dropped
his pistol, put it in his pocket, and
presently took out his wallet. and
crushing something into the citizens
hand, said, in gr;ef-broken accents, as
he turned on his heel, "Been to fair?
Poor fellow! take that wish it was
more" He was soon lost in the night.
Upon approaching street lamp. the
citizen found that the miscreant had
given him ten-dollar bill. Verify, one
touch of nature makes the whole world
kin. Transcript.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-03
The Wrong Parrot.

1t MAY be possible for man to have
anything to do with Il parrot and main
tain his reputation as gentleman, but
Mr.. kagbag doubts it. Ragbag is en-
gagged to a young lady at the South
End, and at Christmas time proposed
to present to her little brother one of
those BIRDS. He explained to his pros
pective m0ther-in-law that it would be
perfectly SAFE for the child to have the
bird. as it was d very moral parrot. He
stated that he got the bird when very
young and had brought it up himself;
and nobody but him had been allowed
to 60 near the fowl; 50 he was sure tho
bird would not indulge in profanity, for
of course he never did, him self, and SO
how could the bird know any? The
gift being approved, Ragbag took the
parrot down to bird store to get new
cage for it. There was none that Just
suited, and he had to leave the parrot
for a couple of hours while a cage was
fixed. When he went for it, they by
some mistake gave him a parrot of the
same breed and looking just like his
own, but not the same parrot by long
way. 1t was a bird that had belonged
to Major Dash, who was not only very
prOfane man but great masher. Rag
bag sent the bird to his sweetheart
house. The next day he called. Her
father and big brother met him. His
reception was warm if not cordial.
After they had thrashed the lite half out
of him, his mother-in law that was to
be bounced into the hall where the cir
Gus had taken place, and gave him a
tongue lashing as the most profane viii
lain and worst tlirt in the nation. She
wanted to know who Estelle, and Leo
nora, and Theodosia were, and, when
he swore he didn't know, the old man
and big brother sailed in on him again
and threw him out of the house. And
when he got home, nearly dead, he
found all his letters and presents to his
girl, together with the parrot, returned,
and notification that the engagement
was off. And few minutes after the
owner of the bird store came in to tell
Ragbag that the birds had got trans
posed, and Major Dash was wild be-
cause they had sent him bird that
wouldn't swear: Ragbag saw it all.
He assaulted the bird man and after
beating him, made him go up to the
girls house and explain. That fixed
matters. The old man and the big
brother have apologized to Ragbag, and
the girl has cried with her head on his
shoulder and said she never would dis
trust him again. But Ragbag won't be
happy till he gets some of the bruises
healed up and he has wrung his poor
innocent parrots neck, and swears he Il
kill anyone who mentions the breed Of
birds to him.-.B0st0,s Post.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-03
Dust, Fogs and Clouds.

Mr.. JOhn AlCK0n mas Deon 0Xporl'
menting on the artificial production OF
fogs and clouds, and an abstract of his
paper before the Royal Edinburgh So
ciety is given in Nature. The conclu-
sions he has arrived at are these: l..
That whenever water vapor condenses
in the atmosphere it always does SO on
some solid nucleus; 2. That dust parti-
cles in the air form the nuclei on which
the yapor condenses; 3. That if there
was no dust there would be no fogs, no
clouds, no mists. and probably no rain,
and that the supersaturated air would
convert every object on the surface OF
the earth into condenser on which it
would deposit; 4. Our breath when it
becomes visible on cold morning, and
every puff of steam as it escapes into the
air, show the impure and dusty condi-
ton of our atmosphere.
1t is not the dust notes revealed by a
beam of sunlight when shining into a
darkened room that form the nuclei OF
fog and cloud particles, since these may
be entirely removed by heat, and yet
the air remain active as clOud-pro-
Queer. The heat would seem to break
up the larger notes which reflect the
light into smaller and invisible ones.
BY atmospheric dust is meant these
enthusiastically small and invisible par
ticles. The larger notes which reflect
the light are no doubt active nuclei, but
their number is too small to have any
important effect. All forms Of combus-
ton produce large quantities of this
dust, and Mr.. Aitkin does not therefore
anticipate any diminution of the fogs
of large towns like London, by inn
proved fire-grates and the like. They
would be whittier and purer if there was
no smoke. but Mr.. Aitken Is not alto
gether certain that tho removal of smoke
and sulphur would not cause greater
evils than their presence.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-03
Rich and Ignorant.

It is the fashion among people who
have nothing but money to recommend
them, to affect artistic and literary
tastes, and the consequences are some-
times direful. As an example, take the
following story. which comes to us from
one of our large cities. There is So
cial Art Club in that city whose men,
bers are supposed to know such subjects
as architecture, painting, sculpture.
house decoration, lace, ETC., from their
foundations in eternal truth to their
topmost heights of poetic significance.
Into this club, however, have crept
some rich, fashionable people. One of
these, not long since, demanded of his
friend over the dinner-table:
"James, what the meaning of this
new word that is in everybody's mouth
aesthetic ?"
James, thoughtfully, "Ah-really,
ali, don't know. Not new dance,
eh?'
mo, not that. Think
"Send William for the dictionary"
William is sent, but the dictionary is
mislaid. Another member enters, and
they appeal to him.
"Frank, we're a little bothered.
What's the meaning of the word
'esthetic'?''
Frank, after moments grave reflec-
ton, aesthetic - 'thetic? Pom my
word, Lob. see! You don't pro-
nounce it right! The accent should be
on the first syllable--aes-thetic. 1t
means person who does not believe in
the existence of Godr'
Another story which is vouched for
as true is told of one of the leaders of
the literary world who was present at a
reception one evening where friend
arrived late, who apologized for his
hardness by saying that he had been to
hear Emerson lecture.
Emerson? What Emerson"
"Ralph Waldo.'
"Oh, yes, I remember. He is not
much of success. He is never called
upon by any of the old families in the
cit when he is here"
In Justice to the city mentioned, how
ever, be it said that there are many
students of Emerson there, and people
who have learned the meaning of the
word aesthetic "by heart" and proba.
bly, as far as decorative art is CON
cerned, have learned it by pocket, too
not wisely, but too WE'LL Youths Com
D0niOn.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-03
How d Philadelphia Reporter Came
West, Got Married and Grew Rich.

Two years ago. says Philadelphia
paper, the Western fever took posses
sion of the soul of William E. Jones, q
Philadelphia newspaper reporter.
While his mind seemed filed with the
idea of starting out for q wilderness
where he could pitch his lodge and
grow up with the country; his fellow
scribes; knowing that his bank account
was not as big as jay Gould and that
the walking was bad and the Indians at
that time were searching for the topknots
of dove eyed young men, took turns at
him to dissuade him from his purpose.
But their eloquence was wasted. Jones
had broken out bad with the fever, and
go he would if his shoes held together
Finding him fixed in his purpose, he
was referred to Lou Donnelly, then a
Fifth Ward statesman id Common
Council-fof Donnelly had been West
looking after his silver mine, and was
regarded as just the right sort of per-
sor to advise a tender young man as to
how he should conduct himself in West
ern society Donnelly looked at Jones
and saw good head of hair, a pale
face over which fragile whisker was
struggling, and form that indicated
he was in no way related to the Cardiff
giant. 49, .as
IF you 90 West, Jones, and want to
make your mark, you will have to have
your scratch and lick your man. AS
long as you are in it, lick him good,
and your fortune is made" He didn't
look it, but there was not a square inch
of cowardice in the whole ANATOMY of
Jones, who, thanking Donnelly for his
consideration, seized his grip sack and
started for the railway depot and let
| out. The next time Mr.. Jones was
heard from he was doing service as
city editor of the Denver Tribune.
Time passed on, and nothing further
was learned of the adventurous and
when DOnnelly returned from the land
of silver mines and bowie-knives. When
questioned about Jones the miner smiled
all over, and remarked: HE struck a
big deal in that advice l gave him,
sure. He had been in Denver but a
short time when long haired knife
swallower tackled him. It was the talk
of the town. Jones went for that chunk
of humanity and chawed linn right up.
The next day he was made managing
editor of a Leadville paper. He's a
popular man out that way. Now he
owns a paper of his own. And what
does he do but marry Miss o. Brien of
Leadville, daughter Of one of the
wealthiest and most prominent citizens
of the place. fBs b
Indications point to a hegira of Phila-
delphia reporters to the enterprising
West. Nhf
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-03
FACTS AND FIGURES.

One pound of glue boiled in two
quarts of skinned milk will resist the
action of water.
The lead pencil of the future will
substitute paper for wood. The paper
is stepped in an adhesive LIQUID and
rolled around the core Of lead to the re.
quired thickness, and is colored after
drying, when it resembles an ordinary
cedar pencil.
North Carolina is to be coneratu-
lated on the fact that her handful of
manufacturers in 1870 have increased to
sixty-five cotton factories, with 125, 600
spindles; $50 tobacco factories, and
numerous machine shops, all running
on full time and often overworked. ,
The revenue books show that dur
ing the year 1880 $3,561 800 were re-
ceived for revenue stamps from the
match manufacturers of the United
States. This would make the number
OF matches consumed 1858, OOO, 900, or
about 700 matches per year to every
man, woman and child in the Union.
The Improvements recently in the
| simplest processes of manufacture, and
especially in carding cotton, are of the
most remarkable character. A saving
of even three to five per cent. in quanti-
ty utilized. and in strength all the
thread.spin effected by an improve
rnent of the carding process alone, il so
much added to the value of the cotton
crop as d whole.
| In the manufacture of altar of roses
at Gharapore, Hindoostan, the petals of
the flowers are put into clay stills, with
twice their light of water, and the
produce exposed to the fresh air for a
night in open vessels. The altar is
skinned from the exposed pans. aul
sells at flO the rupee weight, to make
which 10000 roses are required. 1t is
frequently adulterated with sandal wood
oil.
1t is estimated that electricity
travels at rate 100000 times a.
fast as the nervous force, or. according
to Weber, animal tissues have a con-
ductivity only one-fifty -millionth of that
of copper wire. Light moves about
twO-thirds as fast as electricity. A.
railroad tran, speeding along at sixty
miles an hour, would be moving at
about the same rate as an ordinary
nervous impulse, or nearly 50.