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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-11-17
FACTS AND FIGURES,

Sound travels 1.-THE rate of |, 142 feet
per second In the air, $3.50 in the w.
ter, 1000 in cast iron, 1900 in steel
and $4,000 in glass.
According to the last census the
outlay for building and repairiny farm
fences during 1879 in eleven Southern
and Southwestern States aggregated
$l3,565, 746.
Gathering buffalo bones along the
extension of the Texas 4 Pacific Rail-
road is an extensive industry. Hun
dreds of wagons and teams are engaged
in the business, and the bones sell for
$12 per ton.
Great Britain has forty-nine per
cent. of the carrs ing trade O the world,
and actually cares fifty-two per cent.
o. all merchandise. Oh the steam ton.
mage of the world she owns 1850, OOO
tons, against 1.530.O)O owned by ill
other nations combined.
The average product of human in.
dustry is now set down at 500 per head
per annun. In Great Britain. for the
year 1880, the average product was
about $500. for Europe it was Sll5 and
for the United States about $500. With
in the last decade there has been rise
OF twelve per cent. in the average in
dustrial production.
1t is found that 2,OS2 cubic feet of
fresh air per head must be supplied
every hour, so to dilute the products OF
respiration from the healthy human
BODY as to keep the air always pure and
fresh to a degree OF wholesorleness. In
mines, to keep up the phi, steal health
OF the laborers. it has been determined
that 5000 feet are requisite per hour.
The city Of Bangor is the head
quarters of the lumber business Of
Maine. This year there have been
2uO. yO0. 0Ou feet of logs in it's booms and
the localities above, and about La. OOU..
OOO feet have been manufac; ured and
shipped to market. 1t has been an un.
usua ly good year for hauling and cut.
ting. wages of men and teams have
been reasonable. and supplies were
cheap. The only drawback has beer
the scarcity of ships to carry stock tc
marset. 1t is thought that next winter 4
cut will be poor, as from present indica.
tons stumpage, feed. wages, and sup.
plies will be much higher.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-11-17
Advice to q You. & Man.

We don't know much about it, of
course. but we should Tia nix. after man
had been Secretary OF the treasury for
three or four years. and had occasion
ally ':dumped ti,ty millions of dollars
into Wall street to relieve the money
market, and had callel in twenty mill
ion skies ut one me, and bought two
millions of bonds every week. and dis
bursed eleven mill Uns Que week and
eighteen M lions the next, We should
think it would gravel him awfully to go
back into his law Office when the Ad.
ministraton cham ed, and make out an
abstract of farm away out in Buck
shaw County and sell it for an old wom-
an down in kickapoo Township TO an
old fellow out in WauKindaw settle
ment, and only get ice of thirty two
dollars, and have to wa t four months
for that, and then have to take sorrel
colt for it. ierhaps the ex-Seoretarie,
of the Treasury don't mind it.; but we
just saw we don't believe we should
like to get used to. it. And what
more, we don t believe we would like
to be President of the United States
four years and then, about three DAYS
d1tcT Ju0 JULIET AI0SluCut was iu0uSe
urated, have a citizen point at me on
the street and say to his neigh5or:
THAT'S old -" and hear the sec.
ond citizen say: "Who in thunder is
old -p' These things. my bow,
do Desdemonia seriously incline to keep
out of politics. And do you keep out
of 'em. also, my son. Don't be the
fool who is imbecile enough. and has
little enough self-respect and pride of
country. to boast that he hasn't cast .
vote Tor twenty years. Vote every
time there is an election; always think
about and have something to say about
the important political questions Of the
day. But if you want to be happy.
don t run for President. just gather
an arm full of bricks aud make it lively
for the fellow who does run. Then you
will do your duty by your country, and
loving and grateful people will forget
you when you are gone.-Bursington
Huvkele.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-11-17
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL

The estimated amount Of money u
DO raised by the London School Boar,
this year 10 about fourteen dollars TO,
each child instructed.
The Methodist Episcopal Church
viii establ sh q magnificent UNIVERSITY
IN Chattanooga, provided that city viii
give the ground for the structure tina,
is to be built.
"A rich Italian who lately died IL
france has bequeathed $40. 600 to Z sic.
ben. the birthplace of Luther. "a a tes.
tlmony OF his pc, sonal veueration fol.
, the great re. ormer.
The King of Sweden last snr:no or
dered COLLECTIONS taken up in the father
land TO aid feeble Swedish Lutheran
church in Phi'adel phia in pa iny deb
OF $1,000. The result is the hand som.
little sum of 1900.
The friends Of the Pacific Theoloyic.
al Seminary, Oakland, Cal, nave
raised $40, 700 of S5O.OOU which are re-
quired to secure a conditional gilt OF
$5O.OoO more from Mr.. Moses Hopkins
, to tie institution.
The London Truth saws of the Rev.
Ponto scooter, the negro clergyman who
has attracted some attention in England,
that he preached ''in we'll chosen
language and with . purity OF intona-
ton that would shame many of our UXA
ford curates."
OF two hundred aud six ministers
OF the Northern Presbyterian Church
who died last year, two were over
ninety years old. n neteen were be.
tween eighty and ninety, thirty.five
were between seventy and eight, and
one hundred and fifty We're under
seventy.
In the current number of a month.
ly rev ew list is given OF the product.
i've property and income OF the pr.n-
ciral American colleges. Columb A.
College has the greatest resources;
property valued at 81, 1000, with an
income of S3l5.OO0. Harvard is second
with productive assets OF 81. 5000.
with an income of S23l,OJO. Johns
Hopkins, University has s3,OOC,OOO Of
property and an income OF $lsO,0OU
Yale has property to the amount of
1851. OOl, with an income of sl3j.OOo.
Most of these institutions have been
literally endowed. and large amount
OF money has been < ven to institutions
which are scarcely mentioned in the
list o. our principal educational estab.
lishments. One OF the greatest Of
American cole les. an institut on which
possesses more claims to the title OF
university than any other American
college. the University OF NJ chigan,.
which ins:ructs nearly 1900 students
for merely nominal tn ton. has re.
! ceived scarcely any aid from individual
benefactiOns.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-11-17

-"lt makes no difference when .
man dies remarked Brown. in an ar.
0umentative wav. Every true" re-
piled Fogg. therefore I prefer to die
when I am very old."-Loston zran-
SCRIPT,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-11-17
The Presidents Thanksgiving Procla.
nation.

The President on the 9TH issued the
following Thanksgiving proclamation:
BY the President Of the United states OF
Americana Proclamation:
1t has long been the pious custom Of our
people, with the closing Of the year, to look
back upon the blessings brought to them In
the changing course Of seasons, and to re.
turn solemn thanks to the all-giving source
from whom they flow; and, although at
this period. when the falling leaf admonlsh.
es us that the time Of our sacred duty is at
hand, our Nation still lies in the shadow Of
It's great bereavement, and the mourning
which has filled our hearts still finds sor.
rowful expression toward the God before
whom we but lately bowed in grief and sup.
pifcation, yet the countless benefits which
have showered upon us during the past
twelve months call for our fervent gratitude
and make it fitting that we should rcjoics
with thankfulness that the Lord in His inf.
mite mercy has most siynally favored ou=
country and our people. Peace without and
prosperity within have been vouchsafed
to us. No pestilence has visited our
shores. The abundant privileges Of free
dom which our fathers left us in their wis.
dom are still our increasing heritage, and
if, in parts of our vast domain, some at
fiction has visited our brethren IN their
forest homes, yet even this calamity has
been tempered and in manner sanctifed
by the generous compassion for the suffer.
ers which has been called forth throu xhOut
our land.
For sll these things 1t is meet that the
voice of the Nation should 90 up to God in
devout homage.
Wherefore I, Chester A. Arthur, Presi.
dent of the United States, do recommend
that all the people observe Thursday, the
oath day OF November instant, a. .
day of National thanksgiving and prayer,
by ceasing, SO far as may be, from their
secular Iabors, and, meeting In their
several places Of worship, there to Join in
ascribing honor and praise to Almighty
God, whose goodness has been 90 manifest
In our history and in our lives, and offering
earnest prayers that His bounties may con.
tinue to US and to our children.
In witness whereof, have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal OF the United
States to be ahixed.
Done at the City Of Washington, this 18th
day Of November, in the year Of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and eighty zone,
and Of the Independence of the United
States the one hundred and sixth.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
BY the President: Tx
JAMES G. BLAINE, Secretary Of State.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-11-17
JAMES g. BLAINE, Secretary Of State.

The Boston journal says: "A good
clergyman recently went out to preaci,
in ) town upon this coast. and after an
able discourse upon certain worthy
charity and the blessedness of aims
giving, passed the contribution boxes
about the house of worship. Thew came
back to the pulpit with little in them to
speak of. as the preacher discovered by
q sly cast OF his eye in their direction.
He thereupon recalled the deacons who
had carried the boxes about, and say
ing: Brethren, we have not been worry
successful this time: think we will try
it again. directed that they should af-
ford another opportunity for offerings.
This time the occasion was we'll inn
proved and the boxes were comfortably
filled"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-11-17

Large numbers of honey-bees were
seen. last summer, tlving around the
Adams House. at Norwalk, Conn.
They were SO numerous a. to excite
comment, and they kept so close to the
hotel that it was thought thew must
have hive either in the house or close
by. The guests of the hotel were re-
Gently treated to some very fine honey,
and inquiries WI re made as to where it
was obtained. 1t was learned that the
bees had hived just under the caves and
between the wall and siding of the no.
tel, and had there accumulated seventy
i've pounds OF excellent honey.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-11-17

"A certain domestic event having
occurred in the family of distinguish
cd clergyman, he sent the following
postal-card to his mother:
From sweet Isaiah's sacred song, ninth chap
ter and verse six.
First thirteen words please take, and then the
following atfix:
From Genesis. the thirty-fifth, verso seven.
teen no more,
Then al verse twenty-Six of Kings book sec
ond, chapter four;
The last two verses, chapter flrst, book of
Samuel,
And You win learn what on this day your
loving son befeil.
And others. who want to learn also,
must s'searoh the Scriptures"
-Shad are getting to be quite CON-
mon in tho San Francisco markets.
They can be caught every month In the
year in CaliforniS waters.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-11-17

There have been set up in tho
Grand Opera House at Paris number
o mirrors. measuring forty-tive BY fifty.
two feet. and weig hing from l.200 to
1,6OO pounds.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-11-17
FOREIGN Intelligonc0

VIENNA papers of the 7th say that the in.
PRODUCTION Of military law in Bosnia and
Herzegovina means the final annexation OF
those provinces and the abrogation of the
suzerainty Of the Sultan.
CALCUTTA kilograms of the 7th say that
at Darjeeiing, India, choleraic fever was un.
usually prevalent. Nine thousand deaths
had occurred, being ten times rs many as in
previous years.
DURING the month Of October the British
exports increased nearly $4,000. 900, and
the imports increased about $l6, OOO, 900 over
those Of the preceding month.
On the 9Th Lord Byron's statue was nm.
yelled at Missolonghi, Greece, where he
died. The ceremony was attended with
great popular enthusiasm.
IT Is stated that the Scherif of Mecca has
refused TO permit Midhat Pasha, con victed
Of being concerned 10 the assassination o.
Abdul Aziz, to make pilgrimage to that
shrine.
Two SOCIALIST members were elected to
the Reichstag at Breslau on the second cleo.
ton. held on the 7th, defeating, by the aid
Of the Catholics, the Progressist candidates.
IT is stated that the Irish landlords are
much alarmed lest the late decisions Of the
Land Courts reducing the rents thirty per
cent. will prove ruinous to their interests.
On the 7th five thousand tenants on :he
estates Of Sir John Ennis, member Of Psrlis-
men,, assembled near Athlone and resolved
to Apply tor an abatement Of rent, and in
case the abatement was not granted to apply
to the Land Court. Sir John Ennis is a
supporter Of Mr.. Gladstone's Government.
A BERLIN dispatch OF the It'll says the
Japanese Government has asked the Ger
man Government to send experts to advise II
on the subject Of the REIMBURSEMENT of it.
treaty relations with Europe and America.
RESPONDING to Nm invitation by the Land
League TO proceed to ireland and advocate
no rent. oil expenses being paid, Wendell
PHILIPPE advises the Irish people to persevere
in sublime patience, keeping within the
limits Of peaceful agitation, but states tina,
his health will not allow him to publicly
advocate their cause.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-11-17

Senator Morrill,. of Vermont, now
seventy-one years of age. is the senior
member of the Senate, and the youngest
is Senator Aldricll, OF Rhode Island, now
forty years Of aye.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-11-17

There are said to be 800 bachelors
under the supervision of q Presbyterian
Superintendent of Missions in Manitoba,
and Woodstock, Ont, editor proposes
to get up an excursion of manageable
girls of the Dominion to proceed to the
abode of the bachelors referred to next
spring. when it is hoped the bachelors
fancies will turn to thoughts of love and
matrimony. The Ontario editor says
he is quite serious about the matter.
He win receive applications from Onta-
rio girls.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-11-17

~, dan. G fenart meut, recruiting serv.
ice, signal corps, etc.. ......,.... a.:al
Total enlisted force OF army. 5ss
"Nearly every general officer command.
ing troops on the frontier asks for . larger
increase than have herein indicated, but
this may be better accomplished by giving
to the President the right to increase, vi
his discretion, companies most exposed to
danger to any number of privates not ex.
eceding 100, limited always in practice by
the actual appropriations of money rather
than by the fixed number Of menu
The General asks for an increase Of nine
Majors In the Inspectors corps, and recon.
m ends that the whole question of coast de.
tense be submitted to board of high off.
GERS, while similar board should consider
the matter Of mili'ar posts and stations now
obsolete. These recommendations are with
. view to the safe and relief Of the army from
the care Of useless forts, posts and stations.
Some old forts, General Sherman admits, are
worth retaining, and, In order that these
may be properly taken care Of, he recon.
mends that the President be authorized
to transfer out Of the class Of enlisted mer
who have served for twenty five years OF
uiUICs uuMOCA uot " OACOCu wv luCiuuluY
Ordnance Sergeants (now 112), and establish
q veteran corps to be stationed at these
old forts, with the rank and pay they hello
at the close of their active career of army
service, to be sulje to the rules and arti.
cles of war, but only to be used for guard.
ing public property. One or two officers o,
the retired class and half dozen Of these
old soldiers would compose good garrison
tor an abandoned post or fort. BY granting
the retired officers thus detailed fuel and
quarters, we would provide homes fol-
worthy vett rams, which would be most hon.
orable and charitable to them and advan.
tageous to the Government
General Sherman, in his remarks on West
Point, says: g. The Board Of Visitors sub.
stansially recommended that the Superin.
tendent Of the Military Academy should be
a Colonel OF EnxDeers. will concede h
the engineers all they ask, but whea wa,
comes the engineer naturally takes to ma.
neuvering and parape,s, whereas the In.
fantry, cavalry snd artillery must 20 I'M
and do the fighting. 1t was so in 1912, and
ls4G, and 1926. West Point Is INTENDED
to make soldiers, and not professional en-.
gineers, and the word soldier embraces
everything in war. II the engineer be
better soldier than the infantry officer, ther
let him In war and peace have all the honor
and emOluments. But our recent expert.
ence does not fulfill this assertion"
General Sherman takes direct issue alsS
with other recommendations OF the Board d
Visitors,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-11-17

The worst spell Of the season
comes from Dakota postmaster, wht
acknowledge the receipt of package
of postal cards from the uolycks
factory in these words: "Received the
pscakichitch.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-11-17

Members of four generations OF ons
family, Farwell by name, are officially
connected with the Claremont IN. H.
National Bank.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-11-17
West and South.

On the 9Th Lieutenant Commander
Wright, of the navy, died Of yellow fever at
Key West, Fla.
IT 10 believed that only two lives were lost
BY tho wreck Of the steamer War Eagle Mt
Keokuk. Iowa.
THE lower house OF the Legislature Of
Washington Territory has passed . bill civ.
ing the right Of suffrage TO women by vote
Of Ii TO II. A similar bill was recently de.
featsd In the upper house by avote Of to6.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-11-17
AN Eastern paper publishes the fol-
lowing alleged correspondence:

CONCORI, Mass. October -.
DEAR II .LPH: II you shoot two oil rabbits
with sorrow to the crave! T. uly,
"A. 49, SIN ALCOTT.
CnNCORr, Macs October -.
DEAR AMOS: tn nix n t: but sOmetimeA
have fanc,e.i that II one ehOu d cut 80 Iab.
bis down the back tn order to br Il them-
rabbi 70 are ve cool whel nicely bro T.
one might Ne said 70 be splitting hares. Yours,
sincerely, y. w. EMERSON.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-11-17

-,Joncs thinks man fortunate who.
has his will contested after death only.
He says his will has been contested
ever sipce he welded 4reL Jones'
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-11-17

Which number, added to the 2666u be-
fore explained, will make the total enlisted
forse of every nature and kind 80, 40"
General Sherman submits statement Of
the actual number of enlisted men in tho
reg ular army October Is:
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-11-17

Mississippi by from IL, 900
to 10. 900 majority.
Wisconsin-Republican by about 5000
to 1000 plurality; Democrats claim the
election of their candidate for State Treas.
urer. claim not conceded by the Repub.
licans. Legislature Republican by . 70.
duced majority.
Minnesota-The Republican ticket elected
by between 2O,0O0 and $1,000 majority.
Nebraska-Republican by . majority Of
shout 10000.
New Jersey--Legislature Republican BY
. reduced majority-three on joint ballot
Kansas-Election only for county officers.
Prohibition candidates generally elected.
Colorado-No general State election. Den.
yer selected for the permanent Capital by
about 10000 majority.
SEVEN earthquakes were reported from
6cio on the 18th. the village sinking into the
earth. The inhabitants fed.
GENERAL SIR PATRICK MACDOUGALL was
sworn IN at Ottawa on the 18th as Adm:lis-
traitor of the Government Of Canada during
the absence of the Marquis Of Lorne.
WOODSTOCK, . town of about 5000 in.
habitants, on the st. John River. in New
Brun. wick, was the scene Of great coufa.
grafton on the night Of the 10th. About
eighty houses were destroyed. Loss about
500, QUO. The fire was OF incendiary origin.
The various departments ct Washington
have completed the estimator for the next
fiscal year. The Secretary Of War asks for
-. 600 900 on account Of the increase in the
price Of supplies. The Interior Department
asks for 500, 0Oo, 900 for pensions. OF which
$65, 000, QUO are for s. accrued" pensions;
and The Navy Department asks for $Sl ,OOo. O00
for new ships. The Post Office Department
b nearly self.sustaining. and no demands
are made on Congress for sny large appro.
priation.
SURGEON. GENERAL BARNES reports that
the Medical Department Of the army will
need $3.50 900 for the next fiscal year. Tho
deaths from all causes among the white
troops during the fiscal year were 1877, or
nine TO every 1000 men.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-11-23
Height Of Clouds.

The height of cloud may. sometimes
be measured in the same manner as the
height of any other inaccessible object.
by simultaneous observations of It's Iii
rection at two stations. More sat,siac-
tory results may, however, be Obtained
by ascending in a balloon and noting the
height of the barometer at the instant OF
entering a cloud, and again when cmerg-
ing from it, the barometer adOrGlng tine
means Of computing the corresponding
attitudes. Iu mountainous countries We
may sometimes determine the height Of
q cloud by comparing 1t with 81 peak of
known elevation near which the cloud Is
carried by the wind.
The height Of clouds is very variable,
and their mean elevation is not the same
In different countries. The stratus cloud
often descenGs to the earth's surface. In
pleasant weather the lower limit Of cum
ulous clouds varies from 5000 to 5000
feet elevation, and their upper limit
from 5, 600 to L, 900 feet Cirrus clouds
are never seen below the summit O.
Mount Blanc, which HIS IN elevation Of
15, IA feet.
Clouds are sometimes seen above the
summit of ChimborazO, which has on el-
ovation of q, 424 feet. Gay-Lussac and
Glaisher, in their different balloon as
cents to the height Of $1,000 feet, saw
cirrus clouds which appeared cOnsidera-
biv above them Tt IS estimated that
the greatest height at which visible
clouds ever exist does not exceed ten
miles,
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-11-23

A Paris journal, in referring to tine
memorable quarrel between the Duke
de Htzjames and NJ. Greffulhe, both of
them expert gWOrdsmen, says the differ
ence Of opinion was extremely slight,
but, As usual, public opinion interviewed,
and the two gentlemen were compelled
to appoint seconds and consider the af-
fair as an exceptionally serious one.
The question a. Issue was q political
one, and had been warmly discussed at
the Jockey Club. An encounter was
declared inevitable. The Duke, who
was the intimata friend Of NJ. Greffulhe,
determined. II possible, to prevent any
reRrsttAble consequence. He had been
out over and over again, consequently no
one could doubt his courage. When the
two parties met ON the ground, the Duke
went ny 20 Qrehulhe and said: 1--WE
are making ourselves most ridiculous;
give me your hand, my dear fellow, and
let our quarrel drop, ''NeveT," replied
Grehulhe; ''ths insult was grave, and
one or othaE AZ us must remain here.
"Is that sol" rejoined the Duke with
smile; well, 10 be it You can remain;
I am of He turned his back and
marched OF in an opposite direction, but
before he had gone a dozen yards Grief
fulhe ran after him and said, Look
here, Robert. nay good fellow, you are
the most reasonable. You are quite
right give me your hand!" The two
shOok hands, and the champagne break
<ast Nhich followed reconcied all parties.