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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-05-31
Friday, May rs.

At the conclusion of the morning hour
the house went into committee of the
whole for consideration of private bills.
Mr.. Springer gave notice that he would
call up the Brawley bill for the repeal of
the state bank tax law.
Kyle's Hawaiian resolution was debated
half an hour in the senate without action.
The tariff bill was then taken up and con-
siderable progress was made on the cut
lery schedule.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-05-31
Thursday, May "a.

When the legislative appropriation bill
was reported from the committee of the
whole separate votes were demanded upon
Mr.. Hayes resolution declaring the laws
repealed authorizing the docking of mem
bers' salaries for absence, and upon the
amendment striking out the civil service
commission appropriation. The Hayes
amendment was lost-1O4 to 124-as was
also the amendment striking out the civil
service appropriation-SO to 15S. The leg
islative bill was then passed.
The senate continued consideration of
the tariff bill. The finance committee
agreed to accept Mr.. Aliens amendment
placing barbed wire on the free list.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-05-31
Tuesday, May 22.

Civil service gotta black eye in the house,
the occasion being the amendment to
strike out the paragraph in the legislative
appropriation bill providing for the civil
service commission. 1t gave opportunity
for some stirring and not a few amusing
speeches. The amendment was adopted
by vote of 100 to Il, amid great Demo-
cratic applause and Republican cries of
"spoils."
The senate debated the metal schedule
for eight hours. The duty on iron ore was
placed at 40 cents a ton, and on pig and
scrap iron 81 per ton. Some of the provi.
si~.ls of the Mckinley bill were adopted.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-05-31
Wednesday. May 23.

There was a vote in the senate taken
virtually as a test of Democratic senti-
ment. When Mr. German had finished
his speech in defense of the senate COM
promise bill Mr.. Teller moved to lay the
bill on the table The vote resulted, nays
SO, yeas %, strict party vote, Senator
Hill and the Populists voting with the
Democrats.
The onslaught on the civil service COM
mission was continued in the house. The
appropriation for commissioners and clerks
OF the civil service bureau having been
stricken out the next paragraph providing
for the transfer to the civil service COM
mission of clerks from the departments
was stricken from the bill,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-05-31

better cause, ordered that that nag should
be allowed to flap in the days wind.
ana An citr ne as we came marching into
led Banner, etc. sometimes feel that
grow tail as it's sacred folds are unfurled to
the breezS e. and II tns very face OF e1yions
fall, we can faunt It without a star blotted
from the constellation, which forever estab-
fishes the fact that s not fail all
blood of nearly million Of lives. The blood
of the south instead of blottling them out has
Only ADDED new lusfer to their brightness
our fathers bore through the long revolution
ary struggle. they have saved from disgrace
and have won for 1t new hOnOrs, and will be-
Queath it to their children more sacred
emblem than it was to them. May that sac
red banter continue to float over this entire
nation, from the east to the west, from the
north to the south, until all governments
shall be merged into one, whose ruler shall
be the Prince of Peace, and whose standard
shall be the precious cross of Jesus
There are great events in the history OF
every nation which the people do well to
commemorate. that the REMEMBRANCE of
Of ae tie people forever Th ae celebration Of
the 4th of July has had its effects upon the
| minds of the American people. Not only
gle we as nation had to gain our liberty.
not only have they read the declaration of
independence; but as once year the an
n1VCfSdIy OF that event draws near Lie
blood in every young American veins begins
to warm. the old musket is made ready. a
good stock of ammunition is laid in. his India
crackers are purchased, and in his pocket an
extra quarter impatiently waits formarching
orders. And oh! how he feels as the day is
ushered in with the cracking. of musketry
The celebration of the 4th Of July has
kept the fires of patriotism briskly burning
upon the affairs of our hearts, and did much
to prepare the people to meet and disarm
30 foo h. Dor
orator, in his third Grafton against Catalina,
claims that the day in which we are preserv-
ed from danger, is more to be held in honor.
than the day in which we are born. So &C
cording to that. those who saved the nation
from the peril Of destruction, are more to be
honored than it's founders. But we COM
memorate the deeds of both Washington and
the Revolutionary heroes, Lincoln and the
great army of the Union, who triumphed
over treason and a rebellion in the interests
of human bondage. We are no less under
obligations to the latter than to the former,
we decorate the graves of both AS we
stand amid these graves to-day we can
proudly say. Here lies the loyal dead who
never Quailed in mortal combat, who offered
their lives upon their country's altar, which
they gave us and redeemed"
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1894-03-09
Know When They Are Hungry.

Pigeons must have the credit of pos
sessing some intelligence. 4 curious
and very interesting sight may be seen
each day, Sundays excepted, at one of
the windows of the Office of Henry W.
Williams, in the Rialto building, oppo-
site the postoffice. For the past few
years some 80 or 40 pigeons have been
there regularly fed at II o'clock. A
bushel Of cracked grain is purchased at
time for the purpose. The birds gath
er on the west side of the poStoffice and
watch for the window 10 open. They
know perfectly we'll when that hour ar
rives. If there should chance TO be
any delay in opening the window, they
will often fly over TO the other windows
of the same Office and tap on the glass
TO remind the clerks who may be sitting
there that it is time for their breakfast.
The minute the window opens they land
on and about the sill and push and
crowd and stand on each others backs
and sometimes fight, SO eager are they
TO pick up the grain which is spread all
about the outside. They soon become
quite tame and readily eat out of the
hand.-BoSton Transcript.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1894-03-09
Pumice Stone.

Pumice stone is porous feldspathic
scoria from volcanoes. The pores are
linear and so fine as often to be barely
visible except by meansof magnifying
glass. Its specific gravity is 2.2 to "a
water being the unit-but by reason
of its spongy texture pieces are often
buoyant enough 10 float on water. Ii
consists chiefly of silica, with some
times II per cent of lumina, per cent
OF soda and 4 per cent of potash. 1t is
of grayish shades of color, passing into
yellow and brown. The chief source
from which it is obtained for CONNER
cial purposes is Campo Bianco, one of
the Lipari islands, where it forms hill
nearly 1000 feet high. In the arts
pumice Is largely employed, mostly in
a pulverized state, as a polishing mate
rial for ivory, wood, glass, marbles, etc.
1t is also used in lump for grinding and
smoothing metallic surfaces, leather,
ETC., and in the preparation of parch-
ments, etc. Quantities of the pulver-
lied pumice are used in making fancy
soaps Brooklyn Eagle.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1894-03-09
Wolfe Tone.

A desultory and enormous reader of
plays and novels, with an impish hu-
NOR and facility and felicity of quota
tion which never deserted him under
the most terrific circumstances, Tones
style is throughout literary and in that
sense artificial, but he had passion for
facts and healthy determination to see
things as they really were. He is per-
fectly free from every kind of illusion,
delusion and humbug.
He is very much alive to the humor-
Gus side of all things, including him
self. The diaries are full of entries like
this:
Il cannot help this morning thinking
of Gil Bias when he was secretary to
the Duke of Lerma. Yesterday l dined
with Carnot. Today l should be puz-
zled to raise guinea"
Wolfe Tone at the bottom of his heart
was grave enough. His death is war
rant for this. But he belonged by the
order of his mind to the Knockers.
Tones widow, though she had doubt
less good deal to put up with, mourn
ed her husbands loss for II years, when
she married one who shared her venera-
tion for Tones memory. His son grew
up to be proud of his fathers sufferings
in what he was taught to believe was a
good cause. Ireland has never forgotten
Tone and probably never will.-Con-
temporary Review.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1894-03-09
Very Ancient Jokes.

When Themistocles was trying to get
money out of the Andrians for the
Greece defense fund and told them that
the Athenians would come with two
great gods, persuasion and necessity,
the Andrians replied that the Athenians
were we'll off with two such serviceable
gods, but they had two gods who al
ways dwelt in their cOuntry-poverty
and impossibility.
Cyrus bitter jest about the fishes to
the wretched Ionians, who had declined
his overtures, and then after the taking
of Sardis wanted to come to terms, has
too much cruelty to be humorous.
Say" said the insulting victor, that
a piper, seeing fishes in the sea, were to
pipe TO them. thinking they will come
out to the land, and when he was dis
appointed of his hope took net and
inclosed a great multitude of the fishes
and drew them to land, and seeing them
Topping about said to the fishes, Cease
dancing to me, since you would not
come out and dance when played. {"
Westminster Review.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1894-03-09
A WOrkman's Time Checker.

An English time check has been de-
signed for use in factories and work
shops for keeping d register of the time
of the workmen. Its inventor claims
that it is the only apparatus of the kind
actuated and controlled by electricity.
1t contains no special clockwork and no
complicated parts and requires no fix
ing. AS many checks can be fitted to
one clock as may be desired, and any
ordinary clock can be adapted for the
purpose. Each man is provided with
checks, one of which he drops into the
slot of the apparatus ON entering the
building. The checks are subsequently
removed, and after their numbers have
been registered placed on a board ready
for the men to take when next leaving
work. Any number of slots can be pro-
vided, but as rule two only, marked
respectively early" and late, are re-
quired. When the time for beginning
work has gone by, the early slCs is
closed by an electrical attachment,
and the late" slot is opened. Before
the next spell of work commences the
Late" slot is closed, and the early"
slot is made ready to receive the checks
of the workmen.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1894-03-09
Illiterate Statistics.

A few men were discussing the prog
ress of education in this country.
You re doing a good deal of talking
here" said one, but I'll bet any man
in this crowd a new hat that here in
London there are at least 80, 600 per-
sons who can 'tspeak word of English. /"
The crowd was staggered at first, but
recovered in a moment, and hat bets
were made. Then it was suggested that
some one should go after the statistics.
Before you do that" said the man
very coolly, Il want to bet 81 apiece
all round that there are twice that num-
ber that can't read and write"
Again the crowd felt the pressure of
a bluff, but it rallied soon, and every
man who had a sovereign put it up.
Thi newspaper man stood to win eight
hats and sc. The man to get the sta
tistics was about to start.
Hold on," said the man with the
iron nerve. Il can tell you now who
the first 90, 600 are"
Tell u.s., was the unanimous COM
mand
Babies under one year, ;" was the re-
ply, "and under four years for the other
100, 900. London Tit-Bits.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1894-03-09
VEROUROUS LAWNS AND FOLIAGE.
An Englishman Tells About the Careful
Gardening In His Native Land.

An Englishman Tells About the Careful
Gardening In His Native Land.
Lewis Rose, practical gardener,
came TO this country 10 years ago from
England, where he was farmer, aqd
he trims and cuts according to English
rules. Speaking of this country, he said:
You Americans do not know what
good lawns are. In England the houses
Of the gentry are surrounded by acres
of green sward that looks just like vel
vet. They NOV the grass with a ma
chine every week, and after the mower
comes a heavy stone roller that rolls it
down as fat as piece of paper. II is
just as smooth as that table cover there
stretched over the table. The roller is
TO press down and heal any little break
or tear in the turf made b. the machine.
If you break the turf anywhere, it Is
just like breaking your skin. You
must fix it directly, or there will be
sore place on the lawn. Even if it gets
well there will always be a scar there
unless you mend it carefully You
should see the English lawns after a
shower! The green is beautiful, and
every blade of grass stands up straight,
but all the little blades are of exactly
the same length. and they look soft and
level. The perfume of the new grass
is delightful. They have windows gen.
orally that come down to the floor, and
on the walls outside the house are
climbing rose bushes all in bloom The
combined odor of roses and new mown
grass is very pleasant.
You have TO go at lawn as if it
were a piece of embroidery you were
at work on. First you must have a good
rich, decaying mold for the grass to
live on. You cannot make grass grow
in sand. Then as the grass comes up
you must go over it step by step and
dig ont all the coarse grass and weeds
and be sure to mend each place after
digging up the roots. Then you will be-
gin to find patches where no grass ap-
pears. You want to have grass seed
handy and sow these places with it.
l water my lawns twice day-in the
morning before the sun gets fairly up
and at night after it goes down. 1 NOW
the grass every week. After you have
a good lawn you must watch every
inch of it. You have no idea how easy
it is to let patch here and there get
poisoned to death. When you find any
foreign substance on lawn that is like
ly to poison the grass, you want to dig
it up, put fresh soil and fertilizer un-
der it and fit new and healthy bit of
turf in the hole you have made. Then
keep an eye on it afterward and water
it well. The rich, decomposed sweep
ings from the stable make the best fer
tilizer.
In pruning trees you want to cut off
every long shoot and make your trees
compact and bushy like a full blown
rose. Even wealthy Americans let their
trees get scrawny, and they don't al
ways cut them enough to prevent decay
in some of the branches. 1t is easy to
trim trees if you understand this prin-
ciple. And the only reason | have been
successful with my lawns is tfat have
been willing to take pains with them
and do a lot of hard work.-New York
Sun.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1894-03-09
When Apparently Freezing.

Do not take person severely chilled
or apparently frozen into warm room
to be treated. The first thing to do, if
the condition requires it, is to attempt
artificial respiration as in "drowning."
Rub the limbs very gently with snow
or cloths wrung out of cold water until
good circulation is established. Give
stimulants in small quantities at a time
as soon as the patient can swallow.
When fully restored, warm the room
very gradually, cover the patient with
warm blankets and give beef tea or hot
milk. For the treatment of frozen
hands, feet or any portion of the body
the same principles apply. Rub slowly
and very gently with snow or cloths
wrung out of cold water while the
nulnbness lasts. Then, if the case is Sc
we're enough to require further treat
ment, consult physician.-NewY York
World.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1894-03-09
FALSE SYNTAx FOR ECONOMY.
The Only Consideration That Could Have
Prevailed In Boston.


The telegraph operators were telling
stories. The tall man, who has held q
key all over the country, had the floor.
You see good many jokes in the
papers," said he, "about the culture of
Boston and the habit people living there
have Of using big words and correct
grammar and all that. Most of you
think that these jokes have no founda-
tion in fact. Now. know better. /
was receiving clerk in the Western
Union Office there a good many years
ago, and some of the messages handed
In TO me were corkers.
''One summer / had the cable win
dow. One day two women dressed in
black and greatly agitated came in and
inquired the rate per word to London.
| told them it was % cents. They con-
suited for minute, and then one of
them asked for blank. | told them
where the blanks were, and one of them
wrote message. The other took it and
read it two or three times.
Then she came over TO the window
and asked again how much it was
word to London. Twenty eight cents
/ told her. She looked at the message
obviously. The other woman came up
to her and said, Don't you like it?'
No. she said, L don't like it.
That form is improper. You say that
Charles suicided this morning, when it
should be said that Charles committed
suicide this morning.
But, said the other, # we put il
in that way we will save 2S cents.
THE woman who objected turned
this proposition over in her mind for a
long time. Finally she said, Il don't
think that such syntax is excusable.'
The other took the blank and read
the message a few dozen times. We're
poor, she said decisively after studying
it in all its phases, and we can't save
2S cents any easier.
This partially convinced the woman
who objected. But what will our
friends Think she asked obviously.
/ suppose they will notice it, but
we can't help that. Then the two wom-
en- retired TO one corner and had a con-
sultation. After talking earnestly for
10 minutes they wrote out another mes
sage. So help me, this is the way got
it: Charles suicided this morning.
False syntax used because it is cheaper
And they paid me % cents word
for it. All of which," continued the
tall operator, illustrates one of the
curious ways in which a woman s mind
works. Buffalo Express.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1894-03-09
Is the GIeander Poisonous?

Whether locality has anything to do
with it or not has not yet been definite
ly settled, but certain it is that in GER
tain portions of the country the olean-
der, so much admired for its exquisite
blossoms, has been the cause of serious
illness, and in some cases death has
been attributed to too intimate associ-
alton with it. Several persons were at
tackled with exceedingly painful throat
disorders, with headache, giddiness and
violent heart agitation. The dispensa-
tories class it as heart poison, and one
of it's victims died in the most distress
ing heart convulsions. Animals are
affected by it as we'll as man. a valua
BILE horse died a few moments after
browsing on the stalks and leaves. Sew
eral COWS died from drinking water into
which some cuttings of the plant had
been thrown, and other animals were
very sick from inhaling the smoke from
burning twigs and leaves of this plant.
They were shut in a small yard, and a
breeze carried the smoke directly to-
ward them. In other localities there
seem to be no serious consequences at
tending the cultivation of this plant.
Whether immediate surroundings or
climatic conditions have anything to do
with the effects of this popular house
plant would furnish an interesting SUBJ
ject for discussion.-NewY York Ledger.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1894-03-09

OF course the little girl was just as much Of
mine as hers,
But somehow when our welded life got full Of
pricks and burs
told her that she'd better take the little one
and go
And stay a spell at Newton Greek along with
Uncle Joe,
While I'd go off to some far land, and there I'd
work and live
Until I'd quite made up my mind which one
was TO forgive.
tell you pride's an awful thing when it gets
into the heart;
Iguess it was thousand times thought I'd
rise and start
And go right after her and that little maid of
mine
never heard a word from them. She never
wrote line.
Then l had a spell of sickness and counted
through my tears
And found hadn't seen them both for more
than fifteen years.
Oh. my pretty, laughing darling, she must be
tall and fair
How I'd rig her out in ribbons and fea hers rich
and rarei
/ could almost feel my fingers upon her soft
That little sunny head of hers would touch my
shoulder now.
Yet the strangest thing-in all my dreams she
was a little child,
With the yellow curls OF babyhood and big
eyes, round and mild.
AS soon as was better / started on my way
And reached the town at noontime one hot
and dusty day,
And near by, in the churchyard, / stopped to
rest and wait.
There was a little baby's grave close 20 the
mold ring gate.
pushed aside struggling vine, kind o. Curl
OuS-no more.
Great God, my little girl lay there. dead tnir-
teen years before!
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1894-03-09
West Virginia.

West Virginia, with less than S00,-
600 inhabitants. has but three cities
and is essentially a rural and half set
tied region. In spite of her enormous
wealth in timber and mines also, many
Of her counties number only handful
of people. No West Virginia county
has so, 900 inhabitants, and only 10 have
more than 10000, while 10 have less
than 0,000 and two less than 5000.
In many of the mountainous counties
the conditions of life are simple to the
last degree, and the people are far re-
moved from the great currents of ma
tional life in spirit as well as in distance
and time.-New York Sun.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1894-03-09
Measuring Brain Work.

IAN apparatus for measuring brain
effort has been made by j. l.. Balbi,
who suggests that the arrangement
might be made to point out the proper
ttudies for children, or those which can
be pursued with the least work and most
profit, says an English paper. In the
center of sJme heat conducting mate
rial he places thermo-electric pile,
which is connected by flexible wire to a
sensitive galvanometer. The slightest
rise in temperature, due to rush of blood
in the head, is indicated by the galva-
nometer, the effect, of course, increasing
with the ir 'ensity Of the mental work.
-Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1894-03-09
"Sissyy Reed.

When Thomas B. Reed was boy, so
story goes, he used to put on big
apron and help his mother with the
housework, which afforded much amuse-
ment to the other urchins of HOrtland,
who were fond CT calling him sissy" /"
One day he was chCrning, while the
boys stood about guying him. He fin
ished the job and then took off his apron
and thrashed half dozen of them.
That was the last heard of sissy. -
Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1894-03-09
Rubber Buckets.

The application of india rubber to
buckets to render them noiseless has
been successfully tried in Great Brit
ain. The bottom, the ears and the
bail" are all protected. The bottom
of the pail has three round dish of rub
Der clamped ON at the edges, and they
can be readily removed and replaced.
The ears are of india rubber, while the
bail" has a single disk encircling it,
which answers the purpose. - Ex-
change.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1894-03-09

Cocoa and chocolate are prepared
from the nuts by freeing them from the
pulp and making them undergo proc
ess similar to mailing. They are after
ward roasted in a perforated cylinder
and are then freed from their husks and
made into cocoa or chocolate.