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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-06-23
A Mothers Devotion.

A very peculiar case of q mothers devo.
ton to her son, maniac, has just come to
light. About eighteen years ago family
named Harrington moved to Portsmouth, r.
I. Nearly four years after, son, William,
then about two years Of age, suddenly dis.
appeared. About three weeks ago the
mother Of the boy died. Some Of the people
at her funeral heard strange noise, and, on
going to q small, dark room in the attic,
found there young man, having scarcely
any clothing, covered with hair. The
husband of the woman told the follow
ing story: The young man, he said,
was his son, who had mysteriously disap-
peared SO many years ago. When about
two years old the boy became insane, and
soon was q raving maniac. The mother re-
fused to let him be taken from her, but
placed him in an attic room, where at times
she was compelled to tie him. During all
these years he had been confined there, and
the mother was the only living person whom
her son had seen. She was accustomed to
visit him and feed him, with her own hand,
and had jealousy guarded her secret from
the neighbors, fearing that steps would be
taken to tear the boy away from her. When
she died, the father attempted to follow her
example, but was not equal to the task.
Young Harrington has been removed to the
insane asylum at Cranston, r. L-Boston
Journal.
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Important Decision to Settlers on Pub.
lie Lands.
WASHINGTON, June Il

WASHINGTON, June H.
Judge Lawrence, First Comptroller of tho
Treasury. yesterday delivered an opinion
touching the rights of settlers upon public
lands that will be of interest throughout the
entire West. The law of Congress relating
to railroad lands provides that alternate Sec
lions shall be taken by the Railroad Com.
pany for its grant, but that the odd sections
when sold shall command double the mimi
mum price, namely, $1.25 per acre. Last
year Congress passed law providing
that whore a purchaser has paid double
the minimum price for land which is found
to be outside the ten-mile limit Of the Rail-
road grant, one-half the amount paid shall
be refunded to him or his heirs and assigns.
A case under this law came. before the
Comptroller November -, 1880. Nathan
Alspach purchased quarter section of land
near Augusta, Kan, and paid $3.50 per
acre for it. 1t was afterward found that the
land lay without the ten-mile limit of the
Railroad grant, and Alspach applied for
repayment of $1.25 per acre. The
First Comptroller wrote and inquired
of him if he had in any way in
numbered the land. Alspach replied that
he had sold the land, but had not trans
ferred his claim for rebate from the Govern
ment. The Comptroller to-day decided that
under the iaw Of Congress mentioned above
the claim for repayment runs with the es-
tate, and that, having sold the estate, Ais.
pach had no claim upon the Government,
but that it accrued to his vendee. Upon this
ruling the Treasury Department rejected the
claim.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-06-23

days old, appears ~ . narrow crescent,
the unilluminated portion of her orb is
seen shining with faint, ashy, light.
This light comes from the earth, and is
reflected back by the moon just as the
landscape is family visible in full moon
shine. A few weeks ago, M. Jansen,
of Paris, succeeded In making photo
graphs of the moon that showed this
phenomenon clearly. So light that
sprang from the sun was reflected
from the fields and waters of the earth
to the moon, was thrown back from
her stony surface to the earth again,
and, after this triple journey, yet re-
tanned enough power to stamp the faint
picture of luna landscapes upon q pho
Geographic plate.
Moon photographs are taken by the
aid of telescopes, the prepared plate
being fixed at the focus of the instru-
ment in the place of the eye-piece.
They are obtained only one or two
inches in diameter, and have to be en-
larged. Fine ones will bear being en-
larged TO a diameter of two or three
feet. Mr.. Rutherford uses a refracting
telescope to photograph the moon, the
object glass being peculiarly corrected
so that itfocuses the actinic rays. Most
other astronomical photographers use
rejecting telescopes, in which con-
cave mirror takes the place of an OBJ
ject glass.
The moon is not the only celestial
object whose picture can be taken.
Photographs are also made of the sun,
showing the spots and the phenomena
of eclipses. Venus and Mercury have
been photographed when in transit
across the suns disk. Even stars can
be photographed, and recently Prof.
Draper, of this city, succeeded in pho
tographing the Great Nebula of Orion,
which astronomers believe to be an
enormous mass of gaseous matter con-
tanning in itself the germs of future
worlds and suns.-Baltimore Ne,us.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-06-23
An Eye.StOne's Wanderings.

The following remarkable incident
has just come to our knowledge. It
would seem almost incredible, were it
not for the absolute veracity of the
gentleman making the statement. Mr..
Rufus Miller is a well-known farmer of
this town. living at Mechanicstown.
Some five or six years ago, just before
retiring Mr.. Miller placed In his eye
what is known as an eye-stone, for the
purpose of removing mote, as he had
frequently done before. For the benefit
of those of our readers who may not
know what an eye-stOne is, we will ex-
plain. 1t lisa small, white, round shell,
about three-sixteenths of an inch in
diameter, concave on one side, convex
on the other, and quite thin. 1t is
from the head of q crab, one being
found under each eye of that crustacean.
In the morning. when MIR. Miller
awoke, he could not find the stone. He
made a careful and thorough search,
but all in vain, and he made up his
mind that it was gone for good. A few
weeks ago he felt hard growth on the
end of the little finger of the right hand.
He showed it to some friends, who con-
cluded it was a wart, and advised him
to let it alone. He did so until about a
week since, when it began to be sore,
and he commenced picking at it. He
soon found out that some hard SUBJ
stance was under the skin, and, dig
cling away, he finally took out his long
lost eye-stone. He examined it so
carefully that there can be no mistake.
He now recollects that at one time he
experienced q considerable soreness in
his wrist, and supposes at that period
the stone was pressing in that direction.
How this little bit Of carbonate lime
ever made that long journey without
being lost or absorbed is mystery.
That it did so there can be no doubt. =
Middletow1s IN. ~ Press.
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WIT AND WISDOM.

-One-half the world doesn't know
how the other half lies about it.-Mod-
ern Arqo.
Most inventors die. poor. The
proverb has truly said that invention is
the mother of necessity.-Chic.
"A medical writer says children
need more wraps than adults. They
generally get more. Wit and Wisdom.
-Oi all the attachments of a sewing.
machine the Teller is most pleasing to
the girls. Baltimore Every SATURDAY,.
The man who can see sermons in
running brooks is most apt to go and
look for them on Sundays when trout
are biting.-M o. Rcayu,se.
What utter nonsense to speak OF
stock reports. Every child knows the
report does not come from the stock,
but from the barrel.--M Y. Nevs.
-Ou ght not a picture dealer to be a
man of picturesque appearance, have q
fine frame, and be able to canvass sue.
Observation-Disclosures Item.
Morse, who invented the telegraph,
and Bell, the inventor of the telep hone,
both had deaf mute wives. Little com.
ment is necessary, but just see what q
man can accomplish when everything
is quiet. Citizen.
The inmates of a Canadian insane
asylum were taken to a circus. The
only melancholy result was that they
wept because the clowns were at liber.
ty while they were kept confined
FhsladelphiG Chronicle.
The Pennsylvania Legislature has
passed a bill to "prevent the selling oil
explosives to miners;'' and old Mrs.
Wiggleton thinks it is a very good law,
for now there will be fewer miners gel
blown up in mines and quarries.-
Norristown Herald.
=" How do you like Austinp'' asked
gentleman Of old Uncle Nose. 81
likes de town fustratc, but feels sorry
for de folks, dey is so pore. Yesterday
1 wanted to get change for five dollar
bill. | put my han in my pocket, and
hunted for cher so long, and l amt
found it yet. I nebber seed a town
whar it was so hard to git change foah
five dollar bill. "-Austin Sittiags.
Miss Lonemaiden must have been
wonderful child. She is but twenty
this upon her own authority-and yet,
while speaking of war times, the other
evening, she got quite excited while re-
lating her sensations upon seeing the
first troops that left Massachusetts,
marching through the city-when she
could have been but a babe in arms,
even if she had arrived at that distinc-
ton. 1t is wonderful, wonderful
Boston Transcript.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-06-23
Hearing Restored After Many Years.

Charles A. Cowles, q compositor EN-.
ployed in the Democrat and Chronicle print
ing Office, has been afflicted for thirty .seven
years with serious and increasing deafness.
Last evening, while eating his supper, he
suddenly began to hear sounds which he had
not heard before since the fourth year Of his
age, when he was rendered deaf by a severe
attack Of scarlet fever. The ticking of .
clock, the ordinary conversation Of people
near him and other like sounds fell upon his
hearing last evening, bringing with them .
grateful hope that his years of deafness
were drawing to close, II not already at an
end. This certainly appears to be one of
the most remarkable instances Of complete
restoration on the part Of Nature herself,
Independent Of medicinal or surgical
agencies. Mr.. Cowles is . man whose mind
10 well stored with information, although It
was impossible for him to get even com.
mon school education when child. He was
too deaf to acquire any benefit from attend
ing N ordinary school. He could not have
heard the teachers instructions unless they
were screamed in his ear. Consequently,
when only eleven years Of age, he went into
. printing Office to learn his trade and &C.
qufre IN education at the same time.-
Rochsstsr IN ~ Dtmocra&
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-06-23
Ninety.FOur Miles an Hour.

"Ialk about fast trains! Why, / was
carried at the rate of ninety-four miles
an hour said Philadelphia yester-
day, who for forty-ive out of his sixty
years has been prominently connected
with railroads in this country and En-.
gland.
Posssible:" incredulously remarked
the newspaper man.
"Fact! It was away back in 1872,
over the Great Northern and North
British Roads, the connecting links be-
tween England and Scotland. A party
of us went over to inspect the Tay
Bridge, the one that came down last
year, you recollect. We had a cab en-
CINE, four seats in the cab and four oc-
cupants, two Government officials and
two railroad men. The manager of the
road gave orders for clear track, and
off we went. The engine had a ten
and-a-half feet driving-wheel; it was
light locomotive, built expressly for
speed, but not much for draught. At
the start we made about
mile a minute, but we ran so
smoothly that we did not know
we were doing it until we overlook the
forty-mile-an-hour trains, which were
standing off for us. Well, we kept this
speed up until we were at q point be-
tween Glasgow and Dundee. Then the
engineer let her out, and for at least
It's miles we went at the rate of mile
and half a minute. POUNDS, how she
did fly! How that engineer managed
to make out the signals 1 can't con-
ceive. One moment post would be in
the distance, and the next far behind
us. Just the same with the stations.
AS we passed one put out my head to
see the names and before could draw
it in again we had come to the next.
Of course the stations were rather close.
Talk about counting the telegraph
poles! Why they looked like picket
fences. Were we nervous? Not a bit
of it. When you get above sixty miles
an hour you don't appreciate it except
by looking out of the window. The
permanent way, too, was magnificent,
and that aided us in getting along
smoothly. I'd risk that ride every day
in my life without any fear.
There was an engine on the Worces-
ter & Norwich Road. now part of the
New York & New England Road,
which made seven miles in five minutes
on part of her route as regularly as
the sun rose and set," went on the
speaker. "She was a seven-foot driver,
made in Paterson, and carried bag
gage and two passenger cars. There
was long stretch of road, with a
down-grade of thirty-five to forty feet
to the mile, and when this point was
reached the engineer would let her go
for all she was worth.
"Before you go I'll give you a
point" said the speaker, in conclusion.
"It's funny thing, but it's true, that
an engine going down grade at high
rate Of speed will slip more than one
drawing the same train and going up
grade. It's fact; yet it can't be &C.
counted for even by mechanics who
have given it years of study. The
French Government has spent thou
sands of dollars in an endeavor to solve
the mystery, yet its engineers are as
much in the dark now as ever. "-Phila-
delphia Record.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-06-23
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Large amounts of California barley
travel 5000 miles to be matted in Chi
cago. VI.
There are about II, 900 locomotives
running on the railroads of the United
States, and 500, 900 cars of all kinds.
Two Boston hotels, which last
summer paid Sc a ton for their ice,
have this year contracted for their sup
ply at 1926 per ton.
AN estimate has been made that
the immigrants coming into this country
this year will bring at least eight mill.
ion dollars in money.
"A locust post was dug up in Easton,
Pa, a few days ago in a sound condi.
ton, rihca. was set there over 100 wears
ago as part of hotel sign post.
The known exports of oleomarga.
rine from New York last year amounted
to II, 900, 900 pounds, of which Rotter.
dam took nearly 1000, 900 pounds and
Glasgow 1900, 900 pounds.
Last year 1881, 73S bushels OF
buckwheat were raised in the United
States, against 1891, 721 bushels raised
in 1870. There were 44,149,47 bush
els of barley raised last year, against
29, 761. 3O5 in 1870; 4O7, 979, 712 of oats.
against 282, 10Y, 157; 459, sol, O98 BUSH
els of wheat. against 287, 745, 626; L.
773, 106,576 bushels of corn, against
1904, 549; and 10, 1868, 632 bushels Of
rye, against 1913, 795 bushels in 1870.
The report on color-blindness re-
Gently presented to the English Oph-
chronological Society on more than
eighteen thousand persons suffering
from it, who have been examined, con-
tains many curious and suggestive facts.
For instance, color-blind men are near
ly five per cent. of the male population,
while the percentage among women is
hardly one-half per cent. Another
result of the investigation is
that there is an unusually large proper
ton of color blind persons among the
Society of Friends.
PROF. Charles E. Monroe, of Ann.
apolis, states that the ordinary fruit
acids, such as those contained in apples,
tomatoes, rhubarb, lemons, ETC., ali
acted upon tin. Some cider which he
examined, and which had been stored
in tin fountain, contained one hun.
dred and seventeen milligrammes oil
metallic tin to the liter in solution. One
case was given where persons eating
fruit preserved in tin cans were made
violently sick, and tin only was found
in the fruit. Corrosion of tin pipes by
water was referred to, and it was sug.
gested that the corrosion was due t.
the vegetable acids in the water.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-06-23
Ph0tOgraphing the Moon.

"Do you think l don't know the
moon from peeled Granger" was the
half indignant, half laughing exclama-
ton of young lawyer who was shown
stereoscopic picture of the earth's
satellite in the writer's presence.
Probably he is not the first intelligent
person who has made the same mistake.
In truth. common photograph of the
moon does bear striking resemblance
to a peeled orange. The great crater,
Tycho, looks like the nib whence the
stem has been removed and the long
lines of trap rock or whatever they may
be, that radiate from the crater, resem-
BILE the whitish streaks marking the
divisions of the orange. But in larger
and better photographs, and especially
in those taken at one of the quarters,
instead of at full moon, all resemblance
to an orange is gone. Where the line
of daylight falls, the saucer-shaped
craters, with their sharp central noun
tain peaks and the long, Jagged shadows
cast by lofty ranges are revealed with
surprising distinctness.
Photographs of the moon are not
mere scientific curiosities. They not
only serve a useful purpose in astro-
nomical research, but they have COM
stereoscopic views are destitute of one
or more of these photographs. They
are as popular as pictures of some
actresses. The way these views are
obtained is interesting. Everybody
knows that a stereoscopic picture of q
person or waterfall is got by combin-
ing two pictures of the object taken
from different standpoints, so that each
shows little around the corner, and
the two being combined make the OBJ
ject appear to stand out in lifelike per-
spective. To produce the same effect
with the moon, advantage is taken of
the fact that she vibrates; or rolls a
little upon her center, in, swinging
about the earth, so that at one time we
see little more of one side than usual.
and at another time of the other side.
When two photographs of the moon.
taken at opposite Vibrations, are COM
bined by the stereoscope, the lunar orb
seems suspended before the eyes like
ball that the hand can grasp. ~
America is ahead of Europe in the
art of celestial photography. En-
glishmen of science, who, like all En-
glishmen, have q keen eye for the de-
lection of special excellence in the
work of their own countrymen, admit
this. They say that the photographs
OF the moon taken by Mr.. Lewis M.
Rutherfurd, of New York, are better
than those taken by their own Delarue.
who is SO conspicuous an astronomer
that one of the oceans Of the planet
Mars has been named after him. Mr..
Rutherford's lunar photographs are 30
fine that they can be sufficiently mag
nified to furnish q better view of the
moons rocky scenery than many
amateur astronomers can obtain with
the full power of their telescopes.
Everybody has seen what is called
"the old moon in the new moons
arms" When the moon, only . few
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-06-23
A japanese Punishment.

An English resident in Japan recently
recorded theAhorror which he felt when,
Immediately after landing, he met
wretched criminal walking about Toxic.
in midwinter, naked, with his hair tied
tightly to q beam of wood laid across
his shoulders. to which his arms were
strapped, that no matter how far back he
strained his head, his hair was almost
torn from the scalp. On inquiry, he
found the torture was inflicted ON the
criminal to indicate the adherence
with which the law regarded the rob
berry of the scanty earnings of the help
less poor. The miscreant had picked
the pocket of q blind cripple.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-06-23
Brother Gardner on the Revised New
Testament.

81 take pleasure an satisfaction
said the President as he held up o par
Gel. I" in informin' you worthy citizen
of Detroit, who does not car to have
his name menshun'd, has presented dis
revised edishun of de Bible to de Lime.
kiln Club. We do not open our meet
ms wild prayer, nor do we close by
singin' de Doxology, but neberdeless !
am suah dis gift will be highly appre-
shiated by all. Oar has bin considuble
talk in dis club about dis revised edi-
shun. Some of you hab got de ideah
dat purgatory has all been wiped out
an Heaben enlarged twice ober, an 1
have heard odders assert dat it didn't
forbid lynn, stealin' an passin' off bad
money. My friends, you am sadly mis-
taken. He'll is jist as hot as cher, an
Heaben hasn't got any mo- room. In
lookin' ober some of de changes las
night selected out a few paragraphs
which have q gineral BARN. Fur in
stance, it am jist as wicked to steal wa
termellyons as it was las y ar or de y'ar
befo' an de skeercer de crap de bigger
de wickedness.
mo change has bin made in regard
to loafin aroun' de streets. De loafer
am considered jist as mean an low as
cher he was, an want to add my be-
lief dat he will grow meaner in public
estimashun all de time.
ode ten commandments am all down
heah widout change. Stealin' an lynn
an covetin' an runnin' out nights am
considered jist as bad as eber.
II can't find any paragraph in which
men am excused for payin' DER honest
debts and supportin' DER families.
II can't fin whar' a poo man, or q
poo mans wife, white or black, am
'spected to sling on any pertickler
style.
..Dog-fights, chicken-liftin', poly
ticks, playin' keerds fur money an
hanginl aroun' fur drinks an all SIGH
low bizness am considered meaner dan
cher. Fact is, I can't fin any change
whateber which let's up on man from
bein' plumb up an down squar' an hon
est wd de world. Dey have changed
de word He'll to .Hades,' but at de
same time added to de strength of de
brimstun an de size Of de pit, an we
want to keep right on in de straight
path If we would avoid it. Doan let
any white make you believe dat we's
lost any Gospel by dis revision, or dat
Peter or Paul or Moses have undergone
any change of speerit regardinT do
ways of libin' respectfully an dyin'
honorably. "--Deron Free Press.
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Foreign Intelligence.

DURING the session Of the international
Typographical Union, ut Toronto, Can, on
the 10th, George Clarke, Of St. Louis, was
elected President; Thomas Wilson, Of To.
ronto, Vice. President; w. H. Hovey. Of
Norwich, Second vice-President; w. H.
Trayes, Of Boston, reelected Secretary and
Treasurer, and Schley, of Indianapolis, Cor.
responding Secretary. The next meeting Of
the Union will be held in St. Louis.
AN Alden (Arabia) dispatch of the 18th
says an italian exploring party which some
months ago started from Assab Bay, Abys-
sfnia, consisting Of subaltern officer. ten
sailors and four soldiers, had been massa.
cred in the interior.
THE harvest in the southern part Of Hun.
gary has been destroyed BY recent heavy
storms.
THE American horse Foxhall, owned bv
James B. Keene, Of New York, was the
winner Of the Grand Prix race 1T Long.
champs, near Paris, on the 18th. The prize
was l 100000 francs. About 400, 900 persons
witnessed the race.
+ THt Bishop of Ross, County Cork, Ire.
land, has recently written to the papers that
the accounts in the English newspapers Of
the riots In his county were exaggerated, but
he claimed that while evictions continued
there could be no quietude.
. SMALLPOX cases In the London hospitals
had increased by 122 during the two weeks
ended on the 18th.