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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-05-30

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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-07
WIT AND WISDOM.

The pastry cook is not able to make
a magpie.--M o. Rcayune.
-"Let's consolidate" is what the
bashful telegrapher says to his best girl.
Detroit Free Press.
The first thing to do when an Arctic
exploration expedition has been fitted
out is to tit out an expedition to go in
search of the first one, and so on
LoweU Courier.
-" Lend me your ears" quoted a
Chicago orator, and a wicked st. Louis
man who was present said it was big
loan to negotiate in Chicago.-Bosto's
Commercial Bulletin.
-WLvnever young ladies' learn so to
stick pin in their apron strings that it
won't scratch fellows wrist, there
will be more marriages.-7Mrnsr's Falls
Reporter.
An Iowa clergyman regulates his
marriage fees by weight, the rate being
four cents a pound for the bride.
Should Sarah Bernhardt ever conclude
to marry she can make money by hay
ing the ceremony performed in Iowa.
Philadelphia Nes0s.
There are so many inventions that
"cannot get out of order and "will
last lifetime" that anybody who shall
discover something that s0iU get out of
order and will only last long enough to
be carried home, will supply long-felt
want.--Bosto,e Transcript.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-07
Can't Do without 1t.

The following correspondence over
the telephone wires yesterday is fur
Their proof of the fact that no one but q
bald-headed man could do without one:
"Hello! Central!'
"Hellor'
"Connect me with the Signal Blu
reau."
"All right-go ahead"
"Hello! Signalr'
"Hello!'
els it going to thaw to-day?'
Eyes, there are indications"
"How's the wind?"
"Getting around to the south"
"Do you think I can safely have my
hair cut?''
"Wait q minute until I consult the
barometer, thermometer and wind
gauge"
(Silence for half minute.)
"Hello!'
"Hello!''
Eyes, you can 60 ahead. There
won't be any change to speak OF for tho
next twelve hours. There is cold
wave moving up the Ohio Valley. and
snowstorm is reported at CHEYENNE.
but if were you I'd take my chances
on the hair cutting and get my neck
shaved to boot"
"All right mitch obliged"
"Good-bye." -Detroit Free Press
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-07
Eyesight and Spectacles.

There is a condition of the eyes from
which many people suffer, generally
known by the name of weak sight; it
NAV have been produced from over
study or fatigue. There is entire ina
bility to read or write for any length of
time. and the trying to do SO produces
giddiness, and even headache, palpita-
ton, etc. In such cases attention to
the health and due portion of rest may
do good, but it cannot be too well
known that hundreds of people who
have been sufferers from weakness of
sight, have not only been relieved. but
even cured, by the wearing of proper
spectacles. But let me here remind
sufferers from this complaint, that even
the cleverest opticians are not as rule
the men to be advised by as to the kind
of spectacles to be worn. A cure is
never immediate, but indeed often tedi-
Gus, and the advice of the best oculist
or cphthalmic surgeon should, if posi-
BILE, be obtained.
Short-sightedness is often hereditary,
and the worst of it is that it has ten
dency, if its influence be not quickly
counteracted, to increase as the child
SeCS OlOeF. "A case VI GHlS Aluu ouOu'u
never be neglected, and spectacles
should be worn, especially when read
ing, writing. etc. The apartment, too.
in'which studies are conducted. should
be airy, well lighted and clean, and the.
desk high enough to prevent STOPPING
position being at all necessary. Plenty
Of outdoor exercise. by strengthening
the body. will tend to prevent the in
crease Of the ailment, and if these in
structions are followed to the letter it is
not at all unlikely that upon attaining
the age of twenty. or little over, spec
tacles may be gradually dispensed with.
Parents ought to put themselves to
some little trouble with regard to their
children's eyesight. Never overtask
them, and see that they do not sit at
their tasks with heads falling forward.
If signs of any weakness of sight or alb
normal vioion be noticed, surgical adj
vice should immediately be had. The
handwriting children are taught ought
to be large. the books they read to have
q wide margin and clear good type, and
the light to be amply sufficient. Again.
the tasks they have to perform should
not be of kind to. distress the eyes,
nor should, in my opinion. they be pun
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-07
Elephants Playing Possum.

"There are some very cunning fell
lows among our twenty elephants. said
Mr.. Durand. 1.-THE other day Chieftain
and Maudrie, the top mounters in the
pyramids, and the most cunning of the
lock, suddenly took shivering chill at
rehearsal. The keeper sent out and
bought four gallons of whisky, which
the monsters devoursd rapidly and with
great relish. The bill came to Mr.. Bar
mum, whose strong temperance predi-
lections you know. After paying the
bill Mr.. Barnum insisted that nobody in
his employ, not even his. elephants.
should drink whisky under any circum-
stances. In q little while the elephants.
when the effects of the liquor had died
away, commenced shivering again. and
apparently had another chill. They
looked longingly at the keeper, and at
tempted to caress him with their trunks,
As much as to say, Give US another
drink The keeper shook his head.
and told them positively NO. In five
minutes every appearance of ague had
vanished. and the animals were quietly
munching hay, as usual. They had
been playing 'possum. M 7. San.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-07
The Mutations Of Fortune.

The principal family in the parish of
Margate, England, in the days of Queen
Elizabeth was that of Norwood. This
is proved not only by some handsome
brasses in the church, but by the fact
that whenever one of them is baptized
the registrar more than once makes the
entry in large embossed hand, so that
it is the most conspicuous entry on the
page. There is little difficulty in trao-
ing out the pedigree of the family with
the assistance of the records of the
neighboring parishes. And the same
family is now represented in Margate
by the town bill sticker, who, according
to the escutcheons which meet one on
all sides, is entitled to decorate his pro-
fessional paste-pot with cross en-
grailed gules, on field ermine. Three
other names are conspicuous, each of
which has much that is interesting to
the local historian. Visitors to the Isle
of Thanet know the grand old castel-
ated brick gateway of ABOUT the date
of the third Edward, on which lion
with an enormous tooth is sculptured
on corbel. The place is called Dent
delyon, and so were the family inhab-
iting it till the middle of the fifteenth
century. Most illustrated books on
brasses have an engraving of the fine
eftigy of John Dande lion in the church,
who died in 1445 on the day of the
invention of the holy cross September
14), as the inscription states. He re-
built great portion of the church, and
put up one or more of the beautiful
peal of bells. He left one daughter
only, and she married certain Henry
Petit, who thereby became owner of
Dentdelyon. Consequently when we
come down to the time of the registers
we find much made of the Petit fami-
". The head of it for the time being
is always called MR." and gent" or
generous" is always written after his
name.
One IF them, who died in the days of
Charles H., and who has q handsome
monument on the north wall of the
church, was chronicled in more perish
able style. He had poem written to
his memory (for a consideration no
doubt) by Elkanah Settle, and have
seen copy of ia handsome folio in
rich morocco binding, and adorned
with sculptures. This family, too,
tlourishes in Margate. Its present rep
resentative is respectable and eff
cient chimney-sweep. Two other great
families have, so far as l know, quite
disappeared, the Claybrooks and the
Spracklyngs. Much honor. is offered
to them also in the registers, and to
the former there is remarkable fine
monument of the days of Charles II. !;
to the latter there remains only the
matrix of a vanished brass. The head
of this family was hanged in 1853 for
the murder of his wife. There are
some old quarto pamphlets giving the
history and moralizing upon it. but
the story is told also in Lewis History
of Thanet. .~.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-07
A Little Heroine,

CAPTAIN CLAsON, OF the sloop Tommy, ply.
ing between Clear Lake and this city, gives
the Ne,Cs an account of an act Of heroism by
young girl that is eminently worthy Of record.
He says that during the last norther q small
sloop, in which there were two men, was cap
sized on Edwards Point. Both succeeded in
getting upon the bottom of the boat, and in
this perilous position were bufeted by wind
and sea and exposed to the cold for about
twenty-four hours. One of the men, utterly
exhausted, was ready to succumb, but hts
companion bound him to the boat with rope.
and thus prevented his destruction. Finally
they were carried by the waves to within
about mile of the shore, when they were
seen through spy glass by Miss Evans, six
teen-year-old daughter Of gentleman resid-
ing at the Lawrence place on the bay shore,
between Edwards Point and the mouth Of
Clear Creek. The brave girl. realizing their
imminent peril, and knowing that there was no
one on the place to go to their rescue, herself
launched frail skif and set out to aid them.
With such sea as was running, this would
have been a hazardous undertaking for q
strong man, but the little heroine was not
daunted by danger. Pulling through the bill
lows until exhausted she would drop her
anchor, rest, and, hosting her weights, would
start anew. In this manner she slowly worked
her way to the men, whom she relieved from
their dangerous situation and safely conveyed
to land, attending to their wants and gently
caring for them at her fathers home.
Brave-hearted and courageous acts like this
are rare indeed, and Miss Evans is Justly emit
tied to be called the Grace Darling of the Texas
coast Galveston (Terds) Nctps.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-07
New York City Statistics in Short.

New York has, according to the
United States census of 1880, l, zoe, SIT
inhabitants, of whom $50, 762 are males
and Gle, 815 females.
New York has q floating population
of about $4,000. This includes sojourn-
ers at hotels, boarding and lodging
houses. and emigrants temporarily stop
ping in town.
New York expended for amusements,
theaters, operas and shows about ST.
600, 600 last year, and in the drinking
places nearly $50, 600, 900, the latter ex-
penditure resulting in the arrest of 49,
191 persons for intoxication.
New York's accession of population
by birth last year was about 50, 900; its
loss by death Just 81, 1866.
In New York live 213, 467 families, &C.
cupying 81. 126 dwelling houses.
New York weddings last year reached
the number of 10000.
New York supports 145, 749 males be-
tween the ages of Is and 80 years, and
172, TT females between the same ages.
About 80, 600 of the latter are domestics.
The New York police arrested last
year 1869 persons, 4.798 of whom
were held, while 23,899 were discharg-
ed. Crimes of violence are On the in
crease. In 1880 they numbered 5, 100.
The New York City prisons opened
their doors last year to 3O,825 persons
of incorporate habits. The police STA
lions furnished lodgings to 12O, OS4 men
and women who had nowhere else to
sleep.
New York's organized charitable
societies discussed 81, 600, 600; and AL
765 persons were committed by the
Commissioners of Public Charities and
Correction to the almshouses, prisons,
hospitals, nurseries, schools and asy-
lumS.
New York's Sunday-school scholars
of all denominations number lis, 1926, in
418 Sunday schools. .,et@
New York's street Arabs, growing up
without instruction and learning to be
criminals, form an army of over 10000.
M y San.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-07
A Destructive Year.

If good old Mother Shipton, instead of
frightening timid people with the prophecy
that the world would come to an end in 1881,
had announced that it would be a very extra
ordinary year, and that the natural elements
would be in unusual commotiOn, involving
vast destruction of property and entailing
great human suffering over wide areas, and
that an era of casualties would set in, Occa-
siOning severe loss of human life and that
violence, murder and suicide would run RAM
pant, she would have hit much nearer the
truth. There yet remain ten months and a
half Of the year, and if the destruction which
has been caused during the past six weeks
continues in anything like the same pro-
portion for the rest of the year it will be
set down in all future time as the year of
horror. The winter seems to have accumu-
lated its ravages since the 1st of January.
Fierce billiards have continuously swept
down from the Arctic region, via Manitoba,
piling up snow almost mOuntain-high, and
burying many victims beneath its ava
lanches, while numerous others have frozen
to death, exposed to its pitiless blasts. Con-
tfnuous rains have inundated the Pacific
coast and have washed out several mining
towns. The ice gorges have burst with great
Toledo. Philadelphia and other cities, involv-
ing damages to property that amount up in
to the millions. A large part of New Orleans
has been under water for days. Innocent lit
tie brooks and creeks in the rural districts
that have barely life enough to run in the sum-
mer have been transformed into raging tor
rents and have swept away mills, rm-hOuscs,
bridges and fences, and inundated quiet coun-
try villages. Railroads have been blocked up
until supplies of TODD and fuel have grown
scarce and prices have mounted upward with
astonishing velocity. The ocean bas been
strewn with wrecks. Not satisfied with
their damage in their own region, the snow
billiards have crossed their natural bound
aries and devastated unfamiliar re-
gions, killing the fruit. Disease has
followed in the track of these extraordinary
natural manifestations, and epidemics Of scar.
Leftover, smallpox, diphtheria and other dis
eases have spread with fearful fatality. Every
element of destructiveness seems to have been
let loose. In this country alone the railroads
have killed 102 persons and severely MANNED
10 others. BY marine disasters 40 persons
have lost their lives. By explosions and other
casualties POS persons have been killed in this
country, as reported by telegraph, which only
takes cognizance of larger casualties. Not
content with the loss of life by natural and
unavoidable causes, eighty wretched persons
In this country have taken their own lives,
and lis others have been murdered in six
weeks time, and these figures only include
those whose names have been mentioned in the
telegraphic news, which, of course, only in
cludes part of the whole number.-Chicdg0
Tribune, February is.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-07
WGtsOn's
nm1s~ks-~,
Census Of
that Year.

As General Walker says, in speaking Of this
matter, it almost staggers credulity. "That
man, mere human being" says General
Walker, "should be able to predict fifty years
in advance the number Of inhabitants in a
rapidly-growing country within fraction Of
one per cent. seems wOnderful-almost be-
yond belief" Had the war not inter-
vened 1t Is believed that Watson's
also in 1850. But In 1870 he was ahead Of the
census nearly 1000 600, and in 1850 nearly $780,
600. The losses of the war, direct and contin-
ures, almost absolutely accurate up to the war
period, would show it to affect US the present
year to the extent of nearly 100000. That is,
had there been no war, the present population
of the United States would b. about b, 0O00 600.
Watson predicted that the population in 1900
would reuch 100, 600. but General Walker
does not believe 1t win be over about 30 100000.
-E1ch0u0e
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-07
FACTS AND FIGURES,

Brandy distilled from the juice Of
lines and lemons has been made in
Tucson, A. T.
1t is estimated that $4,000, 900
worth of fruit is grown annually in the
United States. t.r-.
The Japanese persimmOn has
proved great success in Algeria, and
is being largel, planted.
Seven hundred thousand women in
France and Italy are employed in the
manufacture of raw silk from the cocoon.
New and extensive coal mines are
to be opened this year on the line of the
South and North and the Alabama
Great Southern.
Wool furnishes the largest single
item of eastward freight on the Pacific
roads. In 1880, 81, 588, 900 pounds were
shipped from San Francisco, all do
nestle wool; a mere trifie, $4,000
pounds coming from Australia.
st. Louis is agitated over q project
to construct locomotive works within
the limits of the city, to have q capaci-
ty for building five hundred engines per
year. A company has organized for
this object, with q working capital of
$2;5OO,O 900.
-Shipbuilding on the Clyde was un-
usually active last year. Two hundred
and forty-one vessels of all kinds were
launched, of a total of fully $4,000
tons, an excess of II 900 tons over 1879.
Their marketable value represents an
outlay of about $50, 900. 900.
The manufacture of brick is one of
the most important industries of Ma
con, Ga. The material furnished by the
land below the city in the Ocmulgee
swamp, and q tract extending across
the Brunswick Railroad, is said to be
unexcelled in the world for purity and
firmness.
The Nordenskjold, the largest tor
pedo boat in existence, was recently
launched at Copenhagen. She measures
215 feet in length and AZ feet in breadth.
She can make fifteen miles an hour.
Her steel armor is four inches thick,
and she carries an unusually large
breech-loading Krupp gun.
Never in the history of railroading
has the shipment of baled hay formed
so important a feature of business.
Heavy shipments of baled hay are pass
ing daily to Southern cities and to New
York and New England points as we'll.
Most of it is forwarded from points in
Illinois.
1t is said that there are 24S spoken
languages in India, and. including diff
ferent dialects, $40. The use Of the
English language, however, is fast sup
planting them. particularly among the
young. From 5000 to 10000 candidates
are annually examined at the three
great universities of India, and English
is the chief language employed.
AN engineer of one of the Indianap-
oils roads says that he breaks the lump
coal as fine as nut coal before using it.
and claims that this gives an increase
of twenty per cent. in steam; also. that
his fireman pays special attention when
throwing fuel into the fire-box to drop
it where it is needed, the secret of firing
successfully being to have an even fire
all over the fire-box.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-07
LATER.

The money market in New York remained
In panic-stricken condition on the 25th.
The withdrawal Of bank circulation, aggrega-
ting, up to the close of business on that day,
! $l3, 7l2Sl5. was the answer of the banks to
the clauses of the Funding bill which were
offensive to them. They refused to loan
money to the best business men, and
in one instance a premium of one
and one-half per cent. per day was paid
Tor accommodation. Temporary loans
were called in right and left, and stocks
Tell from three to seven per cent Foreign
exchange was utterly demoralized. In addi-
ton to the call for Sc, OOO, 600 of bonds made
on the oath the Secretary of the Treasury au-
thorized the Sub-Treasurer at New York to
disburse SIC, 900, 900 for five aud six per cents
at par and accrued interest, and on this
order g, 694, 800 was paid out.
By vote Of 2Sl to 36 the British House of
Commons on the 25th passed the Government
Coercion bill.
LIEUTENANT GEORGE B. BURNETT, of the
Fou tn Cavalry. who was cadet at the West
Point Academy at the tine of the Whitta-
ker mutilation, was examined on the Gath
before the Whitaker Court-Mar+ial. Being
asked to describe how Waite er was tied,
he proposed to give practical illustration.
The Court asserting, he first tied his feet to-
gether, aud afterward bound his wrists. He
then tied his feet to a bedstead, which had
been brought in for the purpose, aud lay
down on his right side in the position in
which he said Whitaker was found. The
performance occupied about seven minutes
BY request, he showed his ability to reach
70 uni 10 hor r.
dian club placed at some distance on the
floor, and finally united himself without any
assistance. The performance was watched
with the closest attention by the Court and
audience.
The credentials of John Sherman, Senator
elect from Ohio, were read and filed in the
United States Senate on the 25th. The Ag-
ricultural Appropriation bill was passed, with
amendments. Mr.. Wallace, from the Select
Committee on alleged frauds in the late cleo
ton, submitted majority report which was
received and ordered printed. A Conference
Committee was appointed on the Legislative
Appropriation bill Bills were passed con-
shutting Atlanta, Chattanooga and In
dianapolis ports of delivery. Mr. Beck
introduced, as q substitute for the bill
presented by him on December 81, bill to
authorize the issue of legal-tender notes to
circulate as money on deposits of gold, etc.
The House remained in session all night on
the oath, without reaching a decision on the
Apportionment bill. At ten O'Clock the
death of Senator Carpenter was announced.
After the session of the 25th began the Sum
dry Civil Appropriation bill was taken up and
further considered in Committee of the
Whole, the debate being mainly on motion,
by Mr.. Goode, to insert an item of 500. 600 to
establish coaling stations on the Isthmus Of
Panama.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-07
Two SPANISH beauties in Paris. the

Two SPANISH beauties in Paris, the
Countess Multedo and Senorita Penedo,
had narrow escape of being suffocated
by natural flowers in their hair and the
trimming of their ball dresses q they
were returning home from Queen Isa-
bella's soiree in . closely shut-up car
riage. The flowers were profusely en-
ployed in garlands. The ladies for
some time chatted gayly. One of them
then became silent and then the other.
Count Multedo, who was with them,
grew alarmed when neither of them 70
piled to observations he made and
questions he put, and all the more 80
that he felt oppressed by the perfume
of the flowers. When he caused the
carriage to stop and opened the window
he found them insensible, but they soon
recovered when taken into the air; thev,
however, caught . severe cold from tie
sudden exposure.