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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17
ANCIENT POCKETS.
Tho Modern Man Would Have Been tn
Envy of the People of Antiquity.

Tho Modern Man Would Have Been the
Envy of the People of Antiquity.
What would men do in these days
without pockets? A purse, handker-
chief, a wa tch, knife, a lead-pencil,
memorandum book-these are only some
of the things that man must have al
ways upon his person.
As for the school-boy it would be idle
sables in this line. 1t Is no wonder the
tailor caters to so universal taste, and
doubtless it is true, as some one has
said, that the number of these conven-
lent receptacles in the clothing of the
modern man would have been the sur
prise and envy of the people of an
tiquity.
The ancient Hebrews carried pouch,
and the Roman matron a handbag,
which was perhaps the origin of the mod
ern handbag and reticule. This was at
first made Of netting, but later Of
leather.
The Roman toga was bound in knot
under the left breast and a protuberance
was there formed, divided into many
folds, called ss7aus, which answered the
purpose of pocket. The Roman ma
irons concealed valuables about their
persons in the upper part of the
strophiuna, kind of corset fitting the
waist tightly, yet loose at the top.
Charlemagne carried travelling pouch
suspended from his person. The Saxons
had purses, and the Normans, when they
went to England, bore the aul'nontere, q
little purse for aims which was hung
from the girdle. The fashion Of carry
ing the purse in that way, but not for
that purpose, has been revived in recent
years The purse, commonly of trian-
gular form, was frequently ornamented
with beads and suspended from the
girdle.
Bankrupts fguratively gave up their
effects to their creditors by putting of
their girdle, to which their purses and
the keys of their estate were attached.
So long as girdles were worn there was
less need of pocket. for custom and
convenience made it habit to thrust
any thing within the encircling band
Youths COMPANION.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17
WHERE DAY BEGINS,
A Curious Fact Illustrated by an Exampl

A Curious Fact Illustrated by an Example
or Two.
According to the way in which this
arrangement is carried out, the first land
that the new day dawns upon is Easter
Island, about $50 miles west Of the coast
of Chill, in the South Pacific Ocean.
That is to say, Saturday, February %,
breaks here within a few hours of FRI
day, February 21, having broken on the
American coast to the east, the two days
run alongside-the 22d on Easter Island
and the 21st on the American coast $50
miles to the east. We may, therefore,
realize this idea-that at 7:30 o'clock
any morning of our lives the next day Is
commencing in the world at this little
barren Pacific island, whence in due
course of time it will travel around to
US But to have thus the start Of the
world is not SO much an advantage to
these islanders as one might suppose.
Suppose one of them sails east to
America, what is the result? He will
find that they keep the day there under
a different date, and he will have to
reckon one day in his calendar twice
over to put himself right with their no
tions. On the other hand, If An Amer
ican crosses from east to west of this
wonderful magic line where the day be-
gins, he will find the date in that part
of the world one day ahead Of him. and
he must strike day out of his calendar
in order to keep up with the times.
This fact was csriously illustrated in
the case Of Magellan, the Portuguese
who sailed around the world
from east to west and having Gro sed
the magic line of the days birth" in
his wanderings, his calendar, Of course,
became . day in arrears, fact which
greatly puzzled his crew. The sailors
being in ignorance Of the change
wrought, and finding ON landing st home,
that their Sabbath was falling on Mon.
day, accused each other Of tampering
with the reckoning. It was not for
some time that the true explanation Of
the wonderful loss of time was dis.
covered. st Louis Republic.
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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17
safety.

MAYOR GRANT, of New York, recently
received report from the Excise Board
for the year 1889, from which it appears
that there are now in that city s,ss5
places licensed for the sale of liquors,
including 5,s57 liquor saloons, 1874 ale
and beer saloons, 1895 ale, beer and
wine saloons, 152 restaurants, 262 ho-
tells, Sc steamboats, and 1,O9S grocery,
drug and wholesale liquor stores. The
receipts were 81, 442, ITO, an increase Of
$l2, $50 over those of 1883.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS
CAN NOT PRACTICE.
The License Of DIR. Theodore DodOlph,
St. Paul, Revoked.

The License Of DIR. Theodore DedOlph. -
St. Paul, Revoked. 99
The license Of DR.. Theodore Dedolph,
Of St. Paul, to practice medicine in Min
nesota was revoked by the State Medi-
cal Examining Board. He was charged
with striking patient in the eye and
permanently iniuring its sight. The
man was recovering from the effects OF
chloroform and had struck at him. The
latter says the patient inflicted the in
jury on himself, and the doctor clat inns
the case is one OF malicious persecution,
instigated by certain physicians of an
other school. The doctor has been in
high standing and has had large piac-
ice in st. Paul for many years. This
decision debars DR.. Theodore Dedolph
forever from practicing in this State.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17
Quaker Poets and Warriors.

It is curious to note that the supposed
repressing tendencies of Quaker life
should have developed the two poets,
Taylor and T. Buchanan Read, Benj ja-
min West, the first American painter of
European fame, and Hovenden, the
American who is doing the most impor-
tant art work in this country at the
present time. From the time OF Cen
eral Mifflin and General Greene to ths
surrender of Vicksburg by the Confed-
crate Lieutenant-General, John C. Penn
berton, Of Philadelphia, Quaker blood
has developed some splendid fighting
qualities, and the nu nerous instances
with which the world is familiar would
seem to throw, some doubt upon our
cherished theories as to the effect of
training and surroundings to make the
human sapling inclined the way the
twig has been bent-Philadelphia In
quirer. .r-- .....
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17
THE Mississippi flood of 1890 is q

THE Mississippi flood of 1890 is .
grand object lesson. 1t teaches that
the entire revenue Of the United States
Government would not be sufficient to
confine the Father of Waters to his bed
when the impulse to get up and spread
himself comes upon him. His Muddy
Majesty is as restless as tornado and
mocks the puny efforts Of man to stay
his course or establish boundaries 70
his goings forth. Some other solution
of the problem than the building OF
mud dikes will have to be tried if the
Mississippi is to 60 unvexed and unvex-
ing to the sea If, indeed, his Majesty
will ever so do.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17
Hs Becomes q Count.

Assistant Secretary of State Herman
Stockenstrom has received communi-
cation from the Swedish Minister of the
Interior informing him of his succession
to the title and entire estate of his father,
Count Stockenstrom, who died last
month in Stockholm. The estate h
valued at s30O,OO0. MI. Stockenstrom
will sail for Scandinavia May to claim
his inheritance.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17
Death Came Oulckly.

The other morning at 10 o'clock T.
M. Stewart, an employe in the Colum-
bia pool room at Minneapolis, died sud-
denly Of heart disease. lie was sitting
in chair, apparently in good health,
when suddenly he gave gasp or two
and fell forward on the floor and died
instantly. He was about 40 years of
age and had been employed in the COL
umbia about two years.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17
Chicaxo win Il, Cut Out,

The Duluth Board of Trade has 81
cided to lock horns with the Chicago
board in the matter Of furnishing quo
tatiOns. The Chicago board has re-
fused to furnish information. An order
has been issued to telegraph companies
not to furnish any more informstion to
the Chicago board Quotations and
other information will be furnished to
St. Louis, Minneapolis, Milwaukee and
New York as usual, but Chicago will bs
ignored entirely.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17
Evidently Were Hungry.

The other night a number Of houses
and shops at Faribault were entered by
some party or parties who evidently
were hungry, as they took nothing but
potatoes, eggs, onions, doughnuts, etc.
At one place they took from shelf in .
cupboard six dozen eggs and left small
tin box containing over $4,000 in valu-
ables which stood right beside the
basket which contained the eggs.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17
A Murderer CAntured.

The other afternoon a man was ar
rested at La Prairie who was wanted for
murder committed at Superior, Wis,
last fall. He killed his sleeping room
mate with broad-axe. The murderer
had been in the Wlnnibigoshish lumber
camps working for Minneapolis lum-
herman all winter. In trying to escape
he fell into the river and was nearly
drowned.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17

A YOUNG man of Watertown, N. Y,
was married day or two ago, and the
wedding feast brought out the fact that
he was burglar. He wore pin that
was stolen and the table was set with
stolen silverware. AS a result of the
discovery, he went to Canada on his
bridal tour, leaving his young wife be-
hind
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17
THE EAST.

MEMBERS of the New York Methodist
Episcopal Conference in session IN the
7th in New York City rendered report
declaring that the recent decision of the
Wisconsin Supreme Court against the
reading of the Bible in the public
schools was "un-American, pagan, and
a menace to the perpetuity of our insti-
tutions"
The firm of George K. Sistare's Sons,
bankers, of New York, failed on the 7th
for $5O0,OO0
Six steamers landed total of 3, 122
immigrants at Castle Garden on the 7th
s74 at Baltimore.
THE death of Mary Danahan occurred
on the 7th at Oxford, N. j., aged 1O2
years.
On the sth James Fl. Shellenberger,
of Doylestown, Pa, was said to be short
$50, 900 in his accounts with various es-
tates of which he had charge. He had
fed.
A SHORTAGE of $50, 900 in the accoun ts
of Frederic Kimball, teller of the Peo-
ple's Savings Bank of Worcester, Mass,
Was ulSCONereu Ou tuo otu. Ae WAS III
Canada.
FLAMES swept away nine buildings at
Linesville, Pa, including the Herald
Office, OR the 9th.
In Pennsylvania four persons were
executed on the 9th: William H. Bar
tholomew at Easton, Alfred James An
drews at Bellefonte, Charles Carter
(coloredD at Ebensburg, and Zach Tay-
lor at Waynesburg.
HIGH water flooded the Conemaugh
(Pa.) valley on the 9th, and the towns
of Wilmore and Woodvale were under
water. The lower part of Johnstown
was also overfowed. In western Penn
sylvania high water and wind had done
great damage.
On the 9th the twenty fifth anniver-
sary of the surrender of General Lee to
General Grant at Appomattox was cele-
brated in Brooklyn, N. Y, by a recep-
ton to Generals Sherman, Howard and
Slocum.
A LARGE mass of ashes and potato
bugs fell from the clouds during an
electrical storm on the 10th at Pater-
son, N. j.
THE Brooklyn City Railroad Com
pany's equipment shops were burned on
the 10th. Loss $500. 600.
OF the 3.OS1 immigrants landed at
Castle Garden, New York, on the 10th
1.O3O were Italians,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17

Great Britain was officially proclaimed
at Washington and London the other
day. American citizens with thieving
tendencies and practices must therefore
select some new country as successful
hiding place from American officers, for
this treaty puts up the bars so high
that they will not get into the Canadian
dominion with any further assurance of
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17

THERE have been, and perhaps are
now, tender-hearted people who think
the Government has not done enough
for the Indian. Yet IT is stated that
creased in few years from 800 to 1000
by accessions from the Canada side of
the line. They come over to share bet
ter treatment than they had in Canada
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17

THE largest bond ever made in Pitts
burgh, Pa, was given the other day by
Milton L. Meyers as guardian of Theo-
dore r Hostetter, son of DR.. Hostetter,
deceased. The bond is for So, 600, 600,
and has only six months to run, as
young Hostetter will then be Of age.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17

THE proposed Nicaragua canal will
cost S65, 600, OOO The distance between
the oceans is 1o9 miles, but only twenty
nine miles of canal will have to be dug.
The San Juan river must be deepened.
Lake Nicaragua affords ffty-six miles
of free sailing. The Suez canal, which
was cut out of the soil and sand for 100
miles, cost Ss1, 900. 900.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17

THE story of the discovery of a gold
mine of astounding richness in China is
supported by many Specifications. The
gold-bearing quartz is reported to be on
a peninsula across the Corean sea from
the peninsula of Corea, and directly
west. The mountains are very precip-
itous, and the outcroppings of rocks
rich in gold have been traced for sixty
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17

HERETOFORE Manitoba has supported
separate schools for Roman Catholics. A
law has been passed abolishing this
system, and hereafter all of the schools
supported by public funds will be nom
sectarian. Areport states that the law
provides that all classes shall attend the
national schools
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17

'>N'..y
Fire at Winona the other night did
$500 damage to three small houses.
A swindler, claiming to represent =
Chicago portrait establishment, has been
victimizing residents of St. Paul.
During March the loss by fire in
Minneapolis amounted to $13,45
1t was decided at q recent meeting Of
the directors of the Duluth Street Rail-
way Company not to substitute electric
ity for horses on the Duluth roads.
The directors of the C. C. Washburn
Mill Company of Minneapolis have, it
is said, decided to sen the mills at the
first favorable opportunity.
A Lake City COW recently gave birth to
four calves.
The Government fish hatchery at Du-
luth has planted this spring 80, 900, 600
white fish and has about 5000, 600 more
to plant. Over A, 900 brook trout have
been planted at Baptism river.
Bireline & Berdsley, saloon-keepers
at Rochester, made an assignment re-
Gently. Their liabilities were $1,000
and their assets the same amount
Burglars entered the store of M. v.
Harrington, postmaster at Dakota, the
other night, blew open the safe and Sc
cured six 800 certificates belonging to
A. T. Sinclair, $500 in cash belonging to
M. V. Harrington and $50 worth Of
postage stamps.
Burglars robbed the Office of the Fari-
bault Windmill Company, F. Peoppin's
hotel and E. Keohoe's grocery store .
few nights ago.
The other evening P. g. Anderson
was returning from Garfield to his
home six miles west of Alexandris
when his mule ran away and threw
him out OF his buggy instantly killing
him.
L. W. Henry, a well-known iron bro
ker of Minneapolis, was found dead in
bed the other morning. A bottle labeled
''laudanum" was discovered nearly
emptied. and it was believed he died
from this poison administered by him
self
Fred W. Peake, an aged pioneer, died
the other night at Mr.. jenkins farm
near Aitkin- He was once wealthy, but
lied poor.
It has just been announced by the
Board Of the Baptist Missionary Union
that O. Hanson, Minneapolis boy, has
been examined and accepted as mis-
honary to Uppe. Burmah, in Asia.
William Poole, Of Mazeppa, who was
released from the penitentiary recently
sfter serving three years for burglary,
sloped the other day with the daughter
IT Frank Wyatt . weA.to-do farmer Of
south Troy. The couple wers married
u OronQco
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being destroyed.
THE doors Of the Manhattan (Kan.)
Bank were closed on the Sth. Liza
biities, $561, ZOO.
A TORNADO in Indiana on the Sth did
great damage at Lafayette, Wabash and
other towns, and at Fort Wayne Miss
Ida Miller, aged 30 years, was instantly
killed by lightning.
HOUSES at Denver and Julesburg, Col,
were wrecked by vino On the Sth.
A DERRICK in use in repairing tres
tie near West Point, KY, fell on the sth
and killed four men.
leprosy on the Sth. He was an old man
who contracted the disease in Louisiana
three years ago
AT Scranton, Miss, George A. Fields
(colored) was hanged on the 9th for the
murder of Jennie Mosley.
ALLEN THOMAS (colored) shot and
killed his wife and then killed himself
in a Fl of jealousy on the 9th at Cairo,
Ill.
On the 9th q cyclone swept over Sum-
NIT County, O., cutting path twelve
miles long and quarter OF mile wide.
The devastated district was in Sharon,
, Copley, Akron and Springfield town.
ships. Houses were wrecked and four
injured.
AT Pine Village, Ind, lightning
struck John Eberley on the 9th and tore
out both of his eyes.
A CYCLONE on the 9Th wrecked nearly
100 dwellings at Roanoke, Va, and four
men were killed In Richmond several
houses were destroyed and a number of
persons badly injured.
In Colorado storm of sand on the 9th
did great dam ge in several towns and
all railway traffic was stopped.
In the Iowa Senate a bill providing
for the execution of condemned GRIM
inals by electricity was defeated on the
9th.
Two LITTLE children of John McCloy,
living at Jersey, Ark, were burned to
death in their home on the 9th in the
absence of their parents.
AT Webb City, Mo-, four boys-Ed
Severn, A. D. Cannon, son of Mrs.
Stoner and Joe Wright-were killed On
the 9th by the falling Of slab of rock
on them.
In Chicago on the 9th Harry P. Ly-
ons aged IL years, was found guilty of
murder by Chicago jury and sentenced
to the penitentiary for life.
ARBoR DAY was observed throughout
Kansas on the 10th.
HIGHWAY robbers captured in jack
son County, w. Va, on the 10th proved
to be two women.
On the 10th Emma Stark, under ar
rest for poisoning the Newland family
in Chicago. admitted that she put poison
in the food ''just to see how strong it
was"
WHITE caps brutally beat Isaac
Leavenworth, on the 10th for no known
cause.
CoNGREssMEN HoUK and Taylor were
renominated in Tennessee on the 10th.
Mr.. Taylor's nomination was bolted by
faction which nominated ex-Congress-
man Butler.
CALIFORNIA Prohibitionists in session
on the 10th at San Francisco nominated
General John Bidwell, of Chico, for
Governor.
AT Helvington, KY, flames on the 10th
destroyed seventeen buildings and
large tobacco factory.
A COUNTERFEIT $40 bill on the Ger
mania National Bank of New Orleans
was in circulation in Chicago on the 10th.
The street-car stables at Arkansas
City, Ark, were destroyed by fire on the
10th, and twenty-three horses and four
| cars were burned
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17

DR. GEoKGE MURRAY HUMPHREY, in
his work on old age, collected facts con-
cerning the lives of no less than
seventy-four centenarians. OF course
old Parr comes in for a paragraph, but
he was only 152, and two others are
named as having reached 100 This is
considerably above Parr
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17
Skinned to Canada.

Robert B. Tweeton, cashier Of the
Fosston National Bank, has fallen a
victim to dissipation. He had been ab-
sent for some time, and an examination
OF the banks hooks the other day
showed that he had taken from s., 900
to $S,O 600. Tweeton was last seen in Far
60. 1t was understood that he had gone
to Battleford, N. W. r.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17
Duluth Figures ON Coal.

Coal dealers at Duluth are making A.
rangements to secure this season 1900, :
600 tons of coal, about 400, 600 tons great
or than last year. There is left over
on the docks from last year $50, 900 tons,
and the total sales for the year 1890 are
expected to reach 1, ,75o, 600 tons, or 60O,-
900 tons greater than ever known.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17
PUGET SOUND BEAUTIES.
The Grandest sight to Be Seen Anywher
in the World.

The Grandest Sight to BE Seen Anywhere
in the World.
A tourist who has but recently re-
turned from prolonged trip through
the Northwest, speaks in the following
enthusiastic terms of the great Puget
Sound: Il have travelled pretty much
all over the world" said he, "and con-
slider that Puget Sound is in many re-
spects the most beautiful sheet of water
that 1 have ever seen. 1t penetrates
into the heart of Washington, and al
though but eighty miles in length, it is
diversified with innumerable bays and
inlets, 50 that its shore line can not be
less than five hundred miles The
sound is divided into two separate arms
or inlets, between which lies a long
jagged mountainous peninsula Seattle
and Tacoma are on one arm, while
Olympia, the capital of the State, is at
the extreme end of the other. The wa
ters of the sound are very deep and
blue as sapphire, reminding one strong
ly of the blue waters of the Mediter-
ranean along the southern coast of
France. There is six hundred feet Of
water close by Tacoma and that is
eighty miles inland. In fact there is
great difficulty in getting an anchorage
at all in many portions of the sound.
The shores are rocky and precipitous
and clothed with an almost i'm
penetrable growth of iron frs and
zines upon which the woodman's axe has
hardly, as yet, made an impression, al
though numbering operations have been
in progress for twenty years. At times
the surface of the sound is like mirror
for days at time, and then again it is
transformed into most dangerous and
tempestuous seattle irregular shore line
makes the winds very variable and nav
igation at times both d ficult and dan
gerous The sound is also the sub ect Of
most curious tide phenomenon. Owing
to its narrow mouth the tide makes but
slow progress inland and upon its ebb
meets the following tide about half way
down the sound. When the two bodies
OF water meet, there ensues miniature
maelstrom, the waters surge and boil
while trunks of trees, wreckage and
dr. ftwood almost obscure the surface,
and are held there for many days by the
opposing currents. East of the sound
are the Cascades, with jagged, snow-clad
peaks, while Mount Rainier, with its
rounded peak, although fifty miles
away, is plainly visible. On the western
side issues the lofty Olymp an range,
seemingly shelving down to the very
shores Altogether the sound is q
grandly beautiful sheet of water, and
people who once visit it are never salts
fed till they see it again. ."-Minneapo-
lis Tribune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17

IT has been discovered tn at the nickel
in-the-slot machine was an old Egyp-
tian device for dispensing and purifying
water in the temples. The apparatus
was described by Hero, of Alexander,
who lived two hundred years B. C.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17

CHARLES E. PILGRIM, of Philadelphia,
is boy evangelist" who is having
wonderful success in the pulpit He is
at present preaching in Ohio towns and
converting hundreds of people to the
fo;f
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17

ALL of the bank note currency of the
Italian Government is engraved and
printed in the United States. The notes
are neat, but small, resembling some
what the fractional notes issued in war
times
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-17

It's reported that the Indians on Court
dOrielles reservation are suffering for
food and that the aged and ntirm are
likely to die of starvation unless sup
piled at once. There are about 1,SO0
Indians on the reservation.