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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-06-30
FACTS AND FIGURES.

I'm the Smithsonian grounds, Wash
ngton, $4,000 bedded plants were set
,ut last year.
The sum of 1890 was offered for
ram exhibited at the recent sheep
show in Australia.
An average of 1000 postal cards
are daily mailed in this country without
address on the face.
-Laborers' wages in Mexico under
The railway boom, have advanced from
eighteen to forty-three cents per day.
If man of $50 pounds weight were
IS strong in proportion to his weight as
IS beetle he would be able to move
one hundred tons.
An alligator known to be twenty
two years old was caught recently in q
steel trap near Talbotton, Ga. He was
five feet four inches long, and in 1861
escaped from q pond belonging to Levi
B. Smith
The largest pasture in the world is
on the border between New Mexico
and Texas. The Indian Territory
bounds it on one side and Colorado on
the other. On one side there are forty
miles of perpendicular rock fence, and
yet it will require 200 miles of fencing
to inclose it. The owner, Taylor
Mandolin, has sown 1000 tons of oats.
He will feed on it 100, 900 head of cat
tie.
The lead used in sounding from q
vessel usually weighs about IA pounds;
but in deep sea soundings a weight of
not less than $50 pounds is usually en-
ployed. Wire has been largely used for
q line, as it makes less friction in sink.
ing through the water. With hemp
rope a sinker OF 800 weight is some
times 20 minutes in reaching the bot
tom in 1900 fathoms of water, so great
is the friction of the line.
The Cologne Gazette. commenting
on the yearly gathering of the beet-root
sugar industry, remarks that Germany,
which last year with 4O9,OO tons ran
Austria with its 400, 900 tons very close,
is likely this year with $4,000 tons to
stand first in beet-root sugar countries.
Home consumption. however, is rather
declining than increasing, and the Co.
logne Gazette suggests a reduction of
duty, as in England and France, to
stimulate the consumption.
"A lecture recently delivered by a
Parsee milling expert, Mr.. NJ. F. Pntett,
B. A.. gives good deal of information
about spinning and weaving mills in the
Bombay Presidency, India. The first
mill was started in 1854, and since that
time 81 in all have put in operation TO-
900 looms with 100000 spindles, Civ
ing employment to &c, 900 persons. The
total capital invested is about $35, OOO,-
600. Besides the Bombay mills there
are in all India 18 others, with some
800 looms and $40, 900 spindles. in
volving capital of about So, 900, 900.
The industry employs in all India an
average of 1000 hands to each mill.
The highest number of spindles in one
mill is loo, 900, the lowest 1880. The
average number of looms in mill is
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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-06-30
II don't know" growled Bill Barker

II don't know" growled Bill Barker
and Lem Williams in chorus.
swell, I'll just tell you what he did.
He propped up the axle-tree, TUX the
wheel of, and steppin' out in the woods
he picked up pine knot, held it over
the axle and squeezed the tar outen it.
uld Pete Jennings had a grip what beat
q wise, you bet.
"Stranger," said Lem Williams, as
he rose up, 81 don't like to dispute q
mans word, but that's q blazing lie,
and | amt gwine to believe it," and he
and Bill Barker, Quilted and disguised.
mounted their horses and left Upper
with a serene smile on his face as he
whitfield the edge of a cracker box
NJ 0. Times.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-06-30
Care Of the Finger Nails.

Scarcely any personal popularity is
more indicative of character than the
finger nails. There are some who be-
leve that palmistry or the reading Of
character from the hand can be reduced
to science just as much as phrenology
can. If so. it would necessarily be an
obscure science to the majority of peo-
pie; but the signs of character indicated
by the finger nails may be read by all
with very little study. In the first
place, the shape of the nails is very sig.
niiicant. A slender, tapering nail of o
rosy hue, with a shell-like, transparent
edge, is always the accompaniment of o
refined nature. Broad, stubby nails Of
a yellowish- white color, and with
Opaque, muddy looking edges, indicate
natural coarseness, though they often
accompany great good nature, while
the other variety as frequently goes
with shrewish temper. The care Of
the nails is one of the most important
of the minor operations of the toilet.
Nails may be greatly improved both in
shape and color by proper attention.
The best appliance is q nail brush used
in water softened by little borax and
fine toilet soap. In well-cared-for nails
the curtain-like rim which surrounds
them is well pushed back. displaying q
delicate crescent at the root. In trim
m NJ and pairing, the shape should al
ways be as long an oval as possible. To
cut nail squarely off gives the end Of
the finger stubby look. In cleaning
the nails the knife should never scrape
off the inner substance of the nail, as
this makes the edge muddy in appear.
ance. whereas it should be transparent.
The nail is susceptible of high degree
of polish by rubbing it with the towel
when drying the hands. The habit Of
biting the nails is one against which
children should be carefully guarded.
It is ruinous to the structure of the
nail. and once acquired is one OF the
most difficult habits to break. This is
evidenced by the fact that some men
and women, but more especially men.
have a habit of biting their nails when
reading or studying, Of which they ART
perfectly unconscious. Not few law.
yers and clergymen occur to mind
whose nails are almost deformity as s
result of this habit. -EzeAange~
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-06-30
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The African Methodist Episcopal
Church claims that It has 387 $50 men,
bers and probationers, against $4,000
reported in 1879.
--According to church paper, the
Christians of America gave last year TO
foreign missions 81 for every $25, 900
worth of property owned by them.
The United Brethren in Christ have
q membership in Iowa of about 159, 900.
Last year they paid preachers salaries
to the amount of 1855, 900.
Trinity College, Dublin, has for
the first time conferred the degree of
Doctor of Divinity on a Presbyterian.
The recipient is Professor. Murphy, the
commentator.
DIR. McCosh, of Princeton. will use
the revision of the Bible in the college
chapel, but President Porter, of Yale,
will read from the old Bible for the
sake of the association. ..,.
During the session of the Universe
ty OF Edinburgh of 188O-8l no fewer
than $3.50 students were in attendance.
The greatest proportion of these studied
in the medical classes.
Iva AAOSoO SOlU y lCE SOIue IuOuGuS
ago gave up his connection with the
Congregationalist Church and was con-
firmed in the Protestant Episcopal
Church, and since then he has become
q candidate for orders in the same COM
munion.
"A gift of 800, has been made
to the Theological Seminary of the Re-
formed Church in America by Colonel
Gardner A. Sage, of New York City.
This institution is situated in New
Brunswick, N. j., adjoining Rutgers
College, which is of the same religious
denomination.
The new Manual Training School
in st. Louis promises to tor very sue
cessful. 1t has a serviceable building,
an income of $4,000 guaranteed for five
years, and $4,000 was raised by the
purchase of necessary appliances. The
school now has about 60 pupils, many
of them belonging to prominent st.
Louis families. A tuition fee of $24O is
charged for the course.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-06-30
Black Silk Dresses.

Black and white striped silk is very
popular this season for the skirts of
dresses, or rather for their tiounces.
Even stripes, each from half an inch to
an inch broad, are chosen in satin
striped gros grain, usually with the
white stripe of satin, and the black OF
gros grain; this is laid in plaits that
have the black on top, and the white
beneath is only accidentally disclosed.
Five deep plaitings of this kind appear
to surround the entire skirt, but are
only placed on the sides, where they
are not covered by the over-skirt, two
of the tlounces alone passing around the
foot. Such tiounces are not fastened
down as closely as they formerly were,
being only held once, and that not
stitfiy, by thread below the top, where
they are first sewed on. The over-skirt
is Topped high on one side-almost tc
the waist, indeed--has very ample dra-
peries in front and back, forming a
point low on one side of the front, and
a similar point behind. This over-skirt
is of plain black satin Surah, and is
merely hemmed by blind stitches, and
not otherwise trimmed, unless jet orna-
ments or great pins, shaped like hair
pins. are used to hold up the drapery.
The basque is plain and round-that is,
it is perfectly even on the hips, instead
of being shorter there than in the front
and back-and is cut away from the
waist line in front. The Byron collar
and small cuffs have thick jet embroid-
cry upon them, and there are small jet
buttons for fastening the front. This
simple and stylish dress is we'll worn
with black rough straw poke trimmed
with shaded red plumes, and is accom-
panied by large red silk umbrella.
Watered silk is also stylishly used for
trimming black silk or satin Surah
dresses. For instance, with q round
black silk waist, the neck draping,
cuffs and sash are of watered silk in
stripes alternating with satin stripes.
Around the neck, reaching to the waist
on each side of the front, are three
straight folds, so laid that the satin
stripes are concealed, and the watered
stripes are on top. The sleeves have
similar folds at the wrist. The sash
bow at the back is of the striped mate
rial. cut in half, made with two wide
loops each half a yard long. and two
long ends; these are closely strapped
and sewed to a wide belt of three soft
folds, making the stripes pass around
the waist.-HarpeT's BdzGr.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-06-30
One Man Killed by Colliding with An.
other.

One of the most extraordinary fatal acct.
dents on record occurred last evening on the
Perrysville plank-road, short distance
back of Allegheny City. 1t seems that be.
tween eight and nine o'clock at night AL
bert Beck and young man named Becker
had foot-race on the public road near Ep-
pert's saloon, and not far from the toll-gate
1t appears that the young men had started
on their race and were we'll under way
when Beck, who was about three yards
ahead, running with his eyes to the ground,
ran against John Born, who was returning
from his work. The collision was unavoid-
able, because it was so dark that neither
could see the other approaching. As Beck
was under full Roadway they came together
with tremendous force, their heads striking
together. The collision was most unfortu-
nate affair for Mr.. Born. He fell to the
ground, and was subsequently picked up
and carried into the house of his brother, Mr..
VIM. Born, who lives in the immediate vicin-
ity Of the accident. Mr.. Albert Schoftnett, q
nsighbor, was dispatched for a physician,
and started for one on horseback. In his
hurry his horse stumbled and he was thrown
to the ground, breaking his leg. Finally,
DR.. Eggers, Of Allegheny, arrived, but Mr..
Born was dead man, having lived scarcely
five minutes after the accident. The acct
dent, as before stated, was a most extra
ordinary one. Beck, who was doing the
running, says he knows nothing save that he
was stopped suddenly in the race by his head
coming in collision with the head of Mr..
Born. The collision caused Beck to re-
bound. Beck suffers from bruise on the
head, which is swelled up to considerable
size. 1t is supposed that Mr.. Born's death
resulted from concussion of the brain. Mr..
Beck made no effort to get away, holding
that the sad termination Of the race was
purely accidental.
The deceased, who was between forty and
fifty years Of age, was . well-to-do farmer
and was we'll known in the Allegheny mar.
ket, where he did business for many years
past.-l'ttsbM,yh (pa.) Leader.
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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-06-30
How Uncle Sile Run q Caucus.

When poor old Uncle Silas Patterson
went to his grave the other day not
mourner followed, and never will tear
moisten the earth above him. In by
gone days he aspired to be political
leader, and there are plenty of men
who remember how he once run ward
caucus. Knowing his ambition to be-
come power in the ward, three or
four old jokers put up plan to make
him Chairman of the caucus shortly to
be held, and they visited him in a BODY
and explained:
Everything will depend on how
you run this caucus. Be calm. Be
dignified.. Don't let any one ride over
you. One will move this and the other
that, but you must refuse to entertain
any motions until you have ascertained
the pleasure of the meeting"
Uncle Sile was delighted and pulled
mp, and he could hardly wait for the
hour which was to witness his triumDh.
He was called to the chair, as planned,
and after few remarks to prove his
gratitude he called for order and said:
"Now, then, what is the pleasure of
the meeting?'
A citizen rose in reply and began:
II move you. Mr.. Chairman, that we
now pro-"
"Order! Order!'' called Uncle Sile.
81 am in order"
"You are not! Take your seat o.
I'll have you put out"
The astonished elector dropped back
to second fiddle, and Uncle Sile con-
tinued:
"Now, then. what is the pleasure of
the meetingp"
II move that we proceed to bal"
1t was another electOr, and lie had
only got thus for when the Chairman
cried out: E-tfE.$tk
II call for order! If we can't have
order we might as we'll adjourn. now
ask you for the third time: What is the
pleasure of the meeting"
The electors were dumbfounded for
time. but one of them recovered
little sooner than the rest and asked:
Is this q caucus"
you betr' answered Uncle Sile.
care we here to nominate ward Off
cers?"
1--WE are"
"Then, sir, move that we pro-
"Order! order" yelled the Chair
man. "That's the third or fourth time
that trick has been tried here, and the
next man who makes motion before I
heve found out the pleasure of the
meeting will be put out! Now, then, is
there any pleasure in this meeting? II
so, where is it and what is it?'
He soon discovered. About twenty
men rushed for him at once, and he
wont out If tho window like a baU of
sand, and before he had come to, the
caucus had transacted its business and
adjourned. The incident not only
cured Uncle Sile's ambition to be po-
litical leader, but i. is doubtful if he
ever cast another vote. Detroit Free
Press.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-06-30
This Beats Colonel Sellers.

The smartest Texan, and in fact the
smartest farmer, have ever met, is
old Sim Graves, who lives on 1,OOO-
acre farm west of Waxahatchie, in Cen
trail Texas. After Mr.. Graves had shown
me his cattle and cotton, he took me
over to see his woods.
"Well, what of it?'' I said, as he
pointed to q ten-acre forest.
"'What of itp' Why, them's black
walnuts, sir. Ten acres of 'em. Plant
ed 'em myself ten years ago. See.
they'r nine inches through. Good
trees, eh?''
And sure enough there were ten acres
of hand-planted black-walnut trees.
They stood about twelve feet apart, 200
to the acre--in all 1000 trees.
swell, how do you get your money
back?" 1 asked.
"Black-walnuts are worth $3.50 a
bushel. 'aint theya I'll get 400 bushels
this year. That's $1,000. A hundred
dollars an acre is good rent for land
worth $15 an acre, 'aint it2''
"Well, what else?' Inquired, grow
3The trees" continued Mr.. Graves,
..are growing an inch . year. When
they are twenty years old they will be
nineteen inches through. A blackwell
nut tree nineteen inches through is
worth S25. My 1900 trees ten years
from now will be worth 5000 If I
don't want to cut them all, can cut
half of them, and then raise a bushel OF
walnuts to the tree--that is, get 81, 500
q year for the crop. Two hundred and
fifty dollars an acre is q fair rent for
9l5 land, amt it?".
The more l examine into the possible
tiles and probabilities of ten acres OF
black-walnut trees, the more astounded
become. There is no crop on earth
that will come within fifty miles of it.
Calculate it any way you may, ten acres
of black-walnut trees Will pay @zoO
annually an acre for the nrst forty
wears. Ten acres of black-walnut trees
fifty years old would be worth $lOO,OOOi
There is no fruit that will pay $3.50 .
bushel, the market price of black
walnuts. Ten acres Of black-walnut
trees, at any age, would always find .
market, like q marble quarry or cool
wine. 1t could always be sold. MIR.
Graves says he has never seen q time
since his black-walnut forest was two
years old that he couldn't have sold #
for more than as many crops If wheat. !,
Now. any farmer who has ten acres
of overflow land on the Illinois Bottom
can do just what this smart Texan has
done. He can make it worth more
than ten acres in the suburbs Of Chicago
inside of ten years. Any Chicago man
can buy fifty acres Of low, black prairie
within fifty miles Of. Chicago Ut &25 an
acre. plant it to black-Walnut, and
make It pay him $4,000 . ySar.-EI
Perkins, IN Chicago zribsssss. 49,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-06-30
Unhelpful Criticism.

"Our best friends are those who tell
US OF our faults" So we are taught
from childhood up, and there is truth
In the teaching, no matter how unwel.
come the actual experience and appli-
cation Of it. But it is important to re.
member the other part of the sentence
=" and show us how to cure them"
Fault-finding is easy enough, and plenty
there are who are ready to practice it up
on others; but the proportion of helpful
critics, truly entitled to be counted .'our
best friends" is lamentably small. 1t
is III the power of human beings to as
sist each other not only by hearty COM
mendation, but by good healthy criti-
cism.
But criticism may be either kind or
cruel. hurtful or helpful, according to
the spirit which inspiresit. To tell one
of his faults without a hint of cure
for them is unhelpful. The criticism
of true friend will always be directed
to the correction of faults, in the wise
showing of the steps toward perfection,
and how to climb them.
But there are among all classes OF
society those who are ever ready to
criticise unhelpfully, who seem TO take
petty and thoughtless, if not malicious,
delight in spying out and bringing into
notice defects in the character or in the
work of others, and who, with con-
scious self-suficiency, bear down upon
errors and failures without taking any
pains to point out the more perfect way.
Under this kind of criticism many are
irritated and soured, others are crushed
nd nd nj
quite recover their original hopefulness.
One of the most admirable, and most
lovable traits of George Eliot's char
acter was her tolerant spirit; she had
no patience with that sort of criticism,
which ruthlessly bruises and willis the
spirit of its victim. Her own sensitive
nature had felt the smart, her writings
having been subjected to much sharp
criticism, and perhaps to this cause
more than any other may be attributed
that tinge of sadness which colored
all her literary work, and which
made her sound out this warning:
ut is with men as with trees; if you
lop off their finest branches, into which
they are pouring their young life-juice,
the wounds will be healed over. with
some rough boss. some odd excres-
cence; and what might have been
grand tree, expanding into liberal shade,
is but whimsical, mis-shapen trunk"
How few realize the responsibility of
heedlessly wounding, by unmerciful
criticism, those who would have been
glad to have had the advantage of their
superior discernment, and would have
been grateful for suggestions tending
to improvement. So the unhelpful
critic comes to be considered as an en-
envy by the criticised, rather than as
s'best friend" 1t is not agreeable to
be told of our faults, but much depends
on the manner in which it is done, and
by whom, whether it results in benefit
or not, and many are led to cry out
with the writer we have already quoted.
Il really do not want to learn from
my enemies and so miss the discipline
of what with a little more kindness
would have been helpful criticism.-
BdDtiSt WeeElv.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-06-30
Champion Liars.

Hanks grocery is situated on the
edge of q prairie in Southern Texas, and
quite a crowd used to meet there and
swap news and lies and have horse races
and get boiling drunk and indulge in
other amusement. Old Lem Williams
used to be on hand every day, and was
considered the boss liar in the State.
One day Lem was seated in front of
Hanks store, splitting tobacco juice at
a grasshopper, when Bill Barker re-
marked:
SLOWS crops up your way, Lem?"
"Well." he replied, "corn's sorter
gin to tasseling, but the stand is pow
erful poor"
"That seems to be the general COM
plaint," remarked Bill"
eyes; this here country amt good
for raisin' corn" said Lem, as he took
fresh chew; ''but if you want to see
corn what is corn. you just orter 60 to
Fort Bend. When l was farming on
the Brazos, in that country, my corn
grew 80 tall and thick that l had to
hang lamps on the mules ears to see
how to pillow furrow. 1t was corn and
no mistake, and in the fall the stalks
were SO high that I had to knock the
ears down with q sassafras pole. Darn
my skin, the ears were so big that it TUX
strong man to carry more'n three of
'em at time"
"Speakin' about strong men," re-
marked Bill Barker, ''sorter causes. me
to remember an old steamboat Captain
who used to run on the Yazoo River in
'58. One day he stopped at landing
for some wood, and the niggers were
kinder slow about bringin it aboard.
Old Judkins, the Captain, reused up
and cussed everythin' in reach. Says
he, walkin' up to the woodpile whar
the niggers were at work: Pile on
your timber, yer emery skunks, and let
me show yer how to carry wood an
he stretched out his arms. Well, sir.
the niggers piled on the wood and kept
pilin' until Judkins had a cord and a
half of irewood on his shoulders, and
he turned and carried it on the boat just
as easy as if it was q bokay. He was
what I'd call purity tolerable stout
man."
THAT reminds me of a man used to
know in Buford County, Alabamy,"
said stranger named Upper, who had
been in the neighborhood but short
time. All eyes were turned toward the
speaker, and they began to size him
up. II guess old Pete jennings" con-
tinued the stranger, twas about the
heftiest man in these United States, if
amt mistaken"
You see, one day he was hauling
some fence posts in an OK wagon, when
the wheels began to creak like if they
needed greasin'. He looked under the
wagon for his tar bucket and found it
warn't thar, and what do you 'spose he
didp''