The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-10-23
MlSCELlANeOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Experiments with brake shoes for
the purpose of doing away with the dis
agreeable noise made when q train is
being checked show that gun-meSal
shoes are the most satisfactory.
The small was originally written
without the dot. but this was added in
the fourteenth century, as means of
distinguishing from in hasty and in
distinct writing.
The most valuable metal in the
world is said to be gallium, which is
worth $3.50 an ounce. Calcium brings
81, 800 pound, and cerium 81, 900 per
pound. Gold is worth $40 pound.
-Tomson-"I generally carry an UNI
brella when it looks like rain" Sam
son-"You likewise carry one when it
doesn't look like rain. You carried one
away from my house the other day when
there wasn't cloud in the sky."-Yan-
kee Blade.
"A watch for blind people has been
invented in Switzerland. In the middle
of every figure is a small peg, which
drops when the hour hand reaches the
figure. The owner feels that the peg
is down, and counts back to twelve to
determine the hour.
Il. N. Blankinship, of Marion, Mass,
has clock which was made in 1872.
The works are of brass, and the clock
keeps as good time as it did when it
was made, 1873 years ago, but the ac-
counts vary as to the kind of time it
kept in 1889.
Fully three-fourths of the babies of
the world 20 naked until they get to be
five or six years old. The Canadian In
dams keep their babies naked up to a
certain point, and as for the little
Coreans, they wear nothing but short
skirt until they are as old as our school
boys.
"A retired English army officer OF
means is on tour through the Western
States of America. When he sat down
to dinner day or two ago he met with
quite surprise. The waiter who took
his order was his son, who had run away
from home to scalp Indians some seven
years ago.
"A we'll known lawyer of Toronto
who is about to be married ordered his
wedding suit, whereupon it was attached
by lady to whom he owed S41, the pay
ment of which he had Systematically
evaded. His wedding garments are now
in the hands of court official, and will
be put up at auction if the matter is not
settled.
Anxious Mother-My dear, it's per-
you at these hotel hops. Now, look at
that couple coming this way. See how
respectfully that gentleman treats the
lady he is dancing with. He holds her
almost at arms length" Pretty Daugh-
ter-"But, ma, they are married" IN.
Y. Weekly.
Can you do any thing with my ac-
coant to-day, sir?" asked collector.
I'D like to pay it," replied Gazzam.
''but the fact is haven't any gold coin,
and the doctors declare that the notes
carry the microbes about. One can't be
too careful, you know, and under the
circumstances wouldn't pay you with
notes for all the world
The average velocity of the Gulf
Stream is about three miles, yet there
are places where it attains a speed of
ffty-four miles, per hour. Through the
Yucatan Channel, the current is only
about one-fourth of mile per hour. In
the Straits of Bemini, however, it has a
breadth of fifty miles, depth of about
1000 feet, and a velocity of between
four and five miles.
p. Thompson, of Pine Canyon, CAL,
cut bee tree, and in taking out the
honey he found several hawks eggs in.
corporated in different layers of comb.
The comb had been built around the
eggs in such a manner as to leave them
in the center Evidently there had
| been contest as to the right of posses
sion between bird and insect, and the
latter had settled the case without re-
course to the courts.
An electro-mechanical rail-testing
apparatus, call the "schiscophone," has
been tried lately at Ermont, France. 1t
consists Of microphone and telephone
combined with mechanical striker
and an induction audiometer. The in.
strument is claimed to be a reliable
indicator of faults in the metal, and
in the experiments made defect was
invariably found on breaking rails at
places indicated as defective.
Years ago Ruskin vented his spleen
against all kinds of cycles thuswise: II
not only object, but am quite prepared
to spend all my best bad language
in reprobation Of BIZ, tri- and
A., s., g. or 7-cycles, and every inven-
ton for superseding human feet on
Gods ground. To walk, to run, to leap,
and to dance are the virtues of the human
body; and neither to stride on stills,
wriggle on wheels, or dangle on ropes,
and nothing in the training of the hui
man mind with the body will ever SUI.
persede tho appointed Gods ways OF
slow walking and hard working"
"A game hen died on R. w. CANDLES
place, at Cuthbert, Ga. This hen had
reached the age of fourteen years, lack.
ing only few weeks. She continued
to lay eggs until year before she died.
For several months she had been totally
| blind. but was fed and watered regu.
larly by Miss Mary Gamble. In 1886,
when Mr.. Gamble moved to Macon, this
hen was carried there, and brough,
back when he returned to Cuthbert. In
the spring of 1882, when the cyclone
struck Mr.. CANDLES place and tore
things up, this old hen was setting in a
box on the kitchen hearth. The kitch.
en- was blown away, the chimney was
missing, but the hearth remained, and
there sat the old hen in her box, a.
composed as if nothing had happened
SPAIN'S QUEEN-REGENT.
She Is Extremely Popular Simply Becaus.
| She Tells No Falsehoods.
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