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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-05-26
And Such a Change.

Within the last ten years q new and
significant kind of literature has sprung
up among lis. 1t consists for the most
part of thin octave volumes, in purple
or red bindings, with gorgeous coat
of arms blazoned on the back, and on
the front page the magic words, print
ed for private circulation only" Each
of these volumes purports to be the aal-
thentic history of some American fami-
ly, Smith or Potter, as the case may be,
from the present time back to great
founder somewhere in the mists of an.
tiquity. The popularity of these books
is that very little Information is given
concerning the present generation of
Smiths or Potters, although it could SO
readily be obtained. The writer of the
book is usually that member of the fam
ily who, having made q fortune by a
lucky speculation in soaps or patent
pill, is acquiring taste for good birth
along with the other belongings OF the
class into which he has made his way:
He has given up pie for breakfast and
a noon dinner, and leisurely eats his
eleven courses at seven. He no longer
takes his boys to the negro minstrels
and laughs on front bench, but sits in
a box at the Academy, where the music
is severely classical, critical and calm.
His wife has banished knitted cotton
tides from her parlor, and talks now Of
the ''feeling in her embroidered tow
els" and the "harmony of eternal mo.
tom in the wave-pattern of napkin.
Why should they also not drop the
Smith and Potter blood If tho nresent
smelling as it does of soaps or ipecac.
and treat themselves to a great ancestor
back in the middle ages-a whacking,
bloody, spurred Crusader of the high
heroic patiently. y. Tribune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-05-26
WIT AND WISDOM.

"A Philadelphia has resolved to
starve himself to death. He will engage
board at watering place and never tee
a waiter.-Eln,irG ADVERTISER.
Why are the men who charge
bombshells at the arsenals like pirates
or Senators? Now, don't go off mad.
Because-because they fill-a-buster for
a living. IN. y. Graphic.
-"Young Husband -House-clean-
ing means for the women to tie towels
around their heads and run the men
into the streets without any breakfast
every morning for a week or so, while
they break lamps and spill whitewash
on the stairs. Chicago Tribune.
Strange, the glass bomb has been
used on Almost all American railway
trains for many years without fatal or
even disastrous results. But then we
notice that the American usually presses
the cork back firmly into the glass
bomb after shooting himself with it.
Perhaps this may account for it.
burlington Hawkeye.
"A street-car conductor carelessly
carried his bell punch home and allowed
his children to play with it. The next
day, when the company informed him
that he was nine million nine hundred
and ninety-nine fares short, his hair
rose so rapidly that his hat, in banging
against the ceiling, broke out fifteen
yards of Observation-Disclosures Chrosai-
Gle Herald.
I'm the spring the merry housewife ties q rag
around her head,
In the So ing she breaks the furniture and dis.
locates the bed,
In the spring she has the carpets beaten till
the wekin rings.
In the spring she swaps her husbands clothes
for china dogs and things.
In the spring what's called "house cleaning
occupies the female mind,
In the spring your wife some bargains gay
ly starts her out to find,
In the spring she pays 5! for tub that has no
hoops,
In the spring shc buys flat-irons, and arranges
them in groups.
In the sp ing the prudent husband buys him
self Book of Prayer,
In the spring be soon discovers that he's bet
ter OF elsewhere,
In the spring he let's the women turn things
over till THERE tired,
In the spring he finds it healthy to be more or
less retired.
Chicago Tribune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-05-26
A Fair Somnambulist's Adventure.

SADIE LORD, Of Clinton, Me-, bright little
lady sixteen years Of age, had an adventure
the other night which is narrated in the Au.
gusta Journal. Miss Lord is an active young
body, and sometimes the events of waking
hours so crowd into her dreams that she COM
mts strange freaks of somnambuism. Her
father is dead, and she lives with her mother
and brother on a farm. On the night in ques-
ton mother and daughter went to bed early
and were soon asleep. The young man came
in soon afterward and retired to his chamber
over his mothers apartment About $50 Mrs.
Lord awOke. She was terrified to find her
daughter gone. The mother listened moment
and then heard some one moving in an ad.
joining room. She at once proceeded to the
spot, and found Sadie putting on her clothes
and fast asleep. She called her name softly,
not wishing to rudely awaken the dreamer.
The moment her mother spoke the girl
grasped a shawl and, half clothed as she was,
ran out doors like startled deer. Mrs. Lord
tried to follow her, and could discern the out
lines of her 1.-the form fastening toward the
railroad track. 1t was time for the Pullman
train from Bangor. The mother could hear
the shrill whistle in the distance. What If her
darling should be crushed beneath the cruel
wheels! She saw the moving lantern of one Of
the section men, and shouted to him to inter
cept the fugitive, but he did not hear her.
The train came nearer and nearer. The
great headlight Of the locomotive threw
dazzling path Of light adown the
track. The girl, unconscious of her dan
ger. crossed right in front of the engine and
narrowly escaped from the very jaws of death.
Heaving great sigh of relief that her darling
was free from imminent peril, the mother re-
turned to the house and called up her son. He
hastily dressed and continued the search fully
an hour, when he aroused the neighborhood to
assist him. The church bell was rung and the
entire community turned out. A little after
midnight the wanderer was found. She had
crawled under the barn belonging to Charles
Baker, about one-third of a mile from her
home, and had nestled beside great ox-cart,
where she was sumbering as peacefully as If
she was in her own comfortable bed. She was
gently awakened and taken homo.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-05-26
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Patent medicines in England now
yield a Government revenue of over
81, 100000. They were first taxed in
1888 under an act requiring vendors of
secret remedies to take out license
and pay stamp duty. This act did
not apply. however, to any one who
had served apprenticeship TO asurgeon,
apothecary or druggist.
The longest span of telegraph wire
in the world is stretched across the
Kistnah River, from hill to hill, each
hill being 1900 feet high, between Be-
zorah and Sectanagrum, in India. The
span is a little over 6, 900 feet in length.
The only mechanical contrivance used
in stretching this cable across the river
was common windlass.
Several specimens of fossil woods
and Ignite have been found at depth
of 19l feet below the sur ace in boring
an artesian we'll at Galveston, Tex.
Above these were IS feet of quicksand
and 1875 feet of solid blue clay. The
contractor also asserts that q consider
able quantity of bones and shell have
been drawn out of the well, from what
depth is not stated.
The glass works ut st. Goblain,
Chauny, Grey and Mountclucon, in
France, and Mannheim and Stolberg,
in Germany, have produced plain white
and silver plates varying in weight
from $40 to l, 900 pounds. Some of the
mirrors for the new Grand Opera-house
at Paris are forty-tive by fifty-two feet.
They also make glass tiles, pressed in
imi. alton of the clay article; these tiles
are used for roofing, and are nodded
in such a shape that they can be laid
alongside or one another, making tight
fitting joints without any cement or
mortar. Another article produced in
large quantities at these works is glass
flooring, made of flags or slabs of rough
cast glass; pavements Of glass intended
for carriage ways are likewise made in
the same style as the slabs.
If the amount of paper consumed
by nation has any bearing upon the
question of enlightenment and civiliza-
ton, England and the United States
take the lead of the world. England
produces annually 10000 tons, and
uses about five kilogrammes (about
eleven pounds) for each unit of its
population. The United States produce
2O7, 900 tons, and consume five kilo-
grammes per head. Germany produces
2O3, 900 tons, and consumes 4.76 kilo-
grammes; and France produces $4,000
tons, and consumes 1863 kilogrammes.
The consumption of paper in other
countries is in the following order:
Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Aus
tria, Italy, Sweden, Portugal. Switzer-
land uses 4.54 kilogramnes per head
and Portugal 1.80 kilogrammes. Aus
tria produces 81, 200 tons: Italy, so, 600;
Russia, 32, 400; Spain. 3d. Turkey,
Greece and Roumania produce none.
Asia. Africa, Australia, South America
and Canada combined, produce less than
$4,000 tons and import 10000.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-05-26
Economy in Sh0e.Making.

A shoe mandatory nowadays, that
is. one of any considerable capacity
will cost from $4,000 to $l5,O 900 to
equip with machinery and improved
appliances. The economies in the old
times were necessarily few. Now they
are such that not only are the waste
scraps of upper leather utilized In ex-
tracing the oil from them, but. after
the oil is extracted they are found TO
make good fuel. At one Maasachu-
sets factory about two barrels of this
oil are extracted each day, and are used
in one of the processes Of finishing the
shoes. The scraps of sole leather re-
manning after cutting out the soles and
uppers are utilized for making heels:
while the feshings, SO called, saved
from the splitting machines where the
soles are turned up, are sold to be
made into leather board Boston Her.
aid,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-05-26
CURRENT ITEMS.

The artist Mr.. Frederick Church Is
travelling in Mexico with friends.
Mr.. Carlyle's bust will be placed
in the poets corner of Westminster
Abbey.
Mr.. Theodore Tilton's daughter
Alice is studying art in Paris, and has q
pretty little studio there.
The London News, speaking Of
Miss Braddon's novel-writinp. saws sha
has to perfection the art of cooking her
turnip so as to make it taste like pre-
served ginger.
1t is said that Wachtel, the famous
Vienna tenor, was in early youth q
position, and that his fine voice was re-
marked by some manager who sat in
the chaise he was driving.
The London aAcatieny finds fault
with novelists who teach the rising gen.
Grafton how young gentlemen kiss their
dancing partners in greenhouses and
other secluded places.
1t is rumored that Beaconsfield was
50 very generous with his money that
he had to write "Lothair" and En-
dymion" as spot boilers" Carlyle,
on the contrary, with his Scotch thrift,
managed to amass q verv comfortable
fortune-some put it as high as $780,
600: Probably he did not give money
lavishly away.
Literary pirates fare badly in Chi
ma. Any person printing and selling
the works of an author without his
permission is liable to hundred blows
Of the bamboo and transportation for
three years. If the offender has stopped
short at printing, and has not begun to
sell, the penalty is fifty blows, together
with the forfeiture of the materials from
which it is intended to print.
Lord Beaconsfield left all his let
tiers, papers, manuscripts, etc., to Lord
Rowton, with full discretion to publish
all except private letters, and these if
the writers are willing. He strictly
enjoins Lord Rowton not under any cir
cumstances to publish any letter which
may in any possible way give pain to
living persons, or tarnish the character
Of the dead. He specially directs Lord
Rowton that no part of his correspond
ence with the Queen shall be published
without her consent.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-05-26
Foreign Intelligence.

A 81. PETERSBURG dispatch Of the 18th
says antiJcwish disturbances had recently
occurred in Warsaw, Poland. In consequence
Jews Of the latter city had been ordered to
surrender their arms.
TIE new italian Ministry resigned on the
18th.
SEVERAL hundred Chinese laborers on a
strike at Yale, in British Columbia recent
" wrecked transportation company's ware
house.
A BAND Of Turkish marauders has entered
Bulgaria, and, according to dispatches Of the
18th, were committing great depreciation.
DURING the two weeks ended ON the 14th
1,247 smallpox patients were treated in tho
London hospitals, against 957 during the
previous fortnight
FoR the first four months of 1881 there was
. falling OF of French exports of $4,000, 900
francs - compared with the exports of the
corresponding four months Of last year, and
the falling Of Of imports was a6.oo10Jo
francs
erArs's deficit for the current fiscal year is
tA0uQ000
Two ITALIANS, who had been ruined ct the
palatial gambling halls Of Monte Carlo, COM
mittsd suicide on the 18th BY throwing them
selves under . railroad train.
A LATE issue Of the Mark Lens Express says
the harsh winds Of the preceding week had
greatly hindered the growth Of the English
grain crops. Spring wheat would be almost
failure. aud on the whole the season was
] the latest on record
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-05-26
Another Comet Discovered.

A Rochester IN. W telegram of the 18th
says: 1.-THE second comet discovered during
the present year was found by Prof. Edward
E. Barnard, Of Nashville, Tenn, Thursday
morning. It is located in right ascension q
hours 50 minutes IS seconds; declination
north, IA degrees n minutes 20 seconds, and
is small, bright, and moving slowly toward
the northwest. Prof. Barnard will receive
the prize of $aOO in gold, offered by Mr.. H. H.
Warner, of this city. the same Is Prof. Swift
did for the discovery Of the first comet of
1881, ten days ago. The discovery of two
comets in such close succession Is something
wholly unknown in the previous history of
this country, and, while 1t is certainly singu-
lar, cannot be considered as indicating seri.
GUS results during tho present year"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-05-26

Beatrice, Princess of Great Britain
and Ireland. leads dreary sort Of life
divided between Osborne, Windsor and
Balmoral. She has no definite duties
except now and again to stand in full
dress near her royal mother at some
exceedingly uninteresting State cere-
monial. If she drives out, it is with the
Queen; If she walks in Windsor Park,
the majesty of England is still with her.
Full of fun and high animal spirits, she
is bound down BY a rigid court Ell
quette, which must be insuferablY gall
ing.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-05-26
West and South.

OK the f4th three whites and two negroes
were publicly whipped at Newcastle, Del,
for petty offenses.
On the evening of the 18th q tornado
passed over Dayton. Ohio, and vicinity, doing
damage variously estimated at from s., 900 to
$4,000.
A BOAT in the Licking Reservoir at New
ark, Ohio. capsized on the 18th, and Brice
Stowe, Mrs. John Lasch and two children
were drowned.
On the 18th the graves of the Confederate
dead at Memphis, Tenn, We're decorated
with flowers.
The City of Rome, q steamer recently
launched at Cleveland, is said to be the larg-
est vessel on the lakes. She is 1905. 10 tons
burden, and cost $l35,OOO.
On the 18th the Springfield (lL) liquor
saloons were again closed, by order of the
Mayor.
On the 10th the Chicago Tribune published
large number of crop reports from different
points in the West, the majority of which
were very favorable. At important points in
Illinois the showing was that prospects had
been wonderfully improved during the pre-
vious two weeks, and that the outlook for
wheat and corn was gratifying.
The recent six days pedestrian contest in
Chicago resulted in Hartman scoring $50
miles; Tracey, 523; Krohne, $40; Struckel,
45s; Faber, $50. and Campana 375
IT was reported from the frontier posts on
the 18th that the Navajo Indians were steal
ing stock, claiming lands not belonging to
them, and threatening whites who settle out
eide the reservation. A conf any of infant
~ had been sent from Fort Wingate and
General Hatch had been requested to furnish
protection for Government surveying parties.
The Navajos number twenty thousand, and
the years allowance Of rations had been ex-
hausted.
On the 18th John Schmidt received twenty
lashes for petty larceny at Richmond, Va,
and committed suicide two days after because
OF the Disgrace.
JOHN BRowN, living near Statesville, N.
C., with q view of breaking . little nephew
of the habit of eating dirt, recently took him
out to tree and told him he intended to
hang him. He accordingly tied . rope
around the boys neck and swung him up to
limb. After letting him hang awhile he
cut the child down. The experiment had
been carried too fer, and the child died soon
after.
TIE United States Attorney General has
given an opinion, at the request OF Secretary
Window, that under the law Collectors Of
Customs have no option in the matter Of ex.
porting butterine aud oleomargarine - but.
ter, and adds that further legislation 4
necessary to cover the case.
DURING the late session of the Brewers
Congress in Chicago . resolution was adopt,
ed to aid John Walru6, . Kansas brewer, Il
the extent Of $4,000 to take the question d
the constitutionality Of the Kansas Prohibit
tory Liquor law to the United States Supreme
Court.
A FEW days ago Judge Burgoyne died d
Cincinnati, aged eighty years He was f.
nous - leader in the old Wing party, end
first pronounced from the bench the uneon
stitutionality Of the Fugitive Slave Law.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-05-26

Russian ladies, it is said, always
wear in winter time fur next the skin,
as in consequence of intense cold no
ordinary merino or flannel is sufficient.
Lynx is most frequently used. and ev-
cry young Russian bride has one or two
undergarments in this fur, and then Is
considered set ND In life.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-05-26

A REoENr fire in Nashville, Tenn, de-
stroyed thirty-four business structures, I'm.
volving loss of from $A50, 900 to $500, COO
TIE switchmen employed in the yards Of
the Chicago railroads, after . strike Of two
weeks, returned to work on the 18th on the
terms offered BY the companies.
Two MASKED men recently halted . stage
near San Marcial, N. NJ, and shot st the
Winehesters and killed the robbers.
TIE claim Of the United States against the
International Bank of Chicago for back taxes
on deposits has been compromised, and GRIM
inal prosecution abandoned, on payment by
the bank of $4,000
DoUGLAss' stable at Franklin, Tenn, was
recently destroyed by fire, and fifteen horses,
including Rhadamanthus and Enfield, thor
oughbred trotting stations, were burned to
death.
A CHICAGO saloon-keeper has been recent
ly sentenced to ten days imprisonment and
fine Of 500 for selling liquor to an habitual
drunkard.
TIE Governor Of Arkansas recently COM
muted the sentence Of death OF negro muir.
derer to life imprisonment ON the very eve
Of the criminals being hanged for q crime
which he had fully confessed.
AT st. Louis few days ago Texas steer
gave half the police force Of the city en-
ployment for three houra After he had
been pursued for five miles no less than TWEEN
Is bullet-holes were visible in his carcass.
The Illinois Legislature has made the
manufacture OF oleomargarine and other
olesginous substitutes for butter illegal, q
fine of not less than SIS nor more than $500
being the penalty.
On account Of the presence of some mys-
terious disease five hundred children were
recently taken from the public schools at
Atlanta, Ga.
On the 10th q monument to George B.
Armstrong, the founder Of the railway mail
service, was unveiled In Oh cago. Hon.
Schuyler Colfax and Hon. +. w. Palmer de-
lvered addresses.
REPRESENTATIVE colored men from every
part Of North Carolina recently met In State
Convention at Raleigh and adopted resolu-
tions demanding recognition from the Ma
tional Administration, and appointed COM
mttee to present them.
A COLONY of Mormon converts from Aus
tralia reached San Francisco on the 10Th.
SEVEN Texas rangers and q band of thirty
outlaws recently had esperate battle near
Fort Ewell. One soldier was killed, and two
of the cattle-thieves were captured.
THREE road-agents lately stopped a coach
near Lake City, Col, shot railway engineer,
and carried of the treasure pouch and mail
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-05-26

james Russell Lowell is regarded
by many of his readers as young man.
He is sixty-two, and as bright as . man
Of thirty-five.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-05-26
Inconvenience Of Color. Blindness.

The inconvenience which cOlor-blind
people must frequently be exposed to
are manifest. Numerous stories are
told of the most ludicrous mistakes
made, especially by red-blind persons;
of tailor, for instance, who mended q
black coat with a piece OF red cloth; OF
hunter who bought red cloth to have
made what he supposed would be q
green hunting Jacket. The story of the
tailor shows how this malady, or, rather,
constitutional defect. may do injury to
men in their professional capacity.
But the consequences that may possibly
arise from it are of far more serious
nature when the safety of large num-
Der of human beings is dependent on
the color-vision of single individual.
This is the case with IA lroad opera
tives, who must be able without fail to
tell one signal from another; and, as
of late years the conviction has gained
ground that color blindness is far more
common than it was formerly supposed
to be, the railroad companies are
warned more emphatically from year to
year by scientific men to see to the
eyes of their employees. Some OF the
European Governments are beginning
to turn their attention to this important
matter (all the more important because
acknowledgements are usually red and
green, and red blindness is the most
common form of the ia ling). and the
Swedish Government has lately directed
the physicians attached to its state
roads to examine all the Operatives on
these roads. with a view to the detec-
ton OF the presence of color-blindness.
The first lruit OF this order is q re. ort
by Prof. Holmgren, who recently ex-
amined the employees of the UPsala-
Ge lie road, showing that, out OF two
hundred and sixty individuals,
eighteen were afflicted with the malady
to q degree sufficiently high to incapac.
itate them entirely for service on the
road. The prevalence of the disease
varies in different countries, the highest
percentage being found in England.
where. according. to q statement made
by Prof. Won Behold. in his Theory of
Color" republished in this country in
an English translation, one out Of every
eighteen persons is said to be afflicted
with it. Among men, as before re-
marked. the disease is more common
than among women.-Populor Seience
Nasath!y. !!