The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-12-05

The threshers in this section are
very Spartans in their bravery ir
attempting to overcome the diff.
culties they have had to encounter
in moving their heavy machines
from place to place in their thresh.
ing operations, says the Renyille
Star. Besides the loss of time the
damage due to the strain on the
machinery of the engines is not in
considerable. We hear Of some con-
Stunning two days to move a mile.
e. McBroom stated that his rig is on
the roadside and that he fired up
three times to move yet failed each
time. The unthreshed farmer may
be great loser but he is not alone
in that respect.
The Northwestern railroad COM
pany has voluntarily granted station
agents and the operators on their
entire system an increase in wages.
Eleven hundred agents and appromi-
mately five hundred telegraphers
will come in for share in the
advance. The average increase in
wages will be about SIS a month.
The credit for the raise in wages is
largely due to the untiring efforts
of the Order of Railroad Telegra-
piers, an organization which altho
young in years is doing exactly the
same work for its members as the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
has already accomplished for its
men. The raise is general turnout
the country, almost every road in
United States having complied with
the schedule which was adopted by
the order some time ago. The
telegraphers and station agents oc-
cupy positions of responsibility and
trust and the raise is justly due
them. However, this is not the first
time that the Northwestern has Civ
en- them a raise.
The origin Of the pearl in the shell
of the oyster or other bivalve or mol
lusk has been the subject of con-
siderable amount of investigation
and speculation, says the Scientific
American. Among the more recent
studies of the subject may be noted
those of M. Seurat, recorded in the
Camptes Rendus. This naturalist
finds that in Pearl oysters Of the
Gambia laggoons, in thesouth Pacif-
ic, the pearls are due to small worm
a sort of tapeworm. In cysts of
the body and mantle of the oyster
he has found true pearls surrounding
a nucleus, which he has shown to be
one of these worms. Like other
tapeworms, this one concerned in
the production of pearls requires g
second host in which to complete its
development; and M. Seurat consid
ers the ray the second host in this
case, for he has found in the spiraI
intestine Of this fish, small tape
worms which he regards as the adult
form Of the larval warm of the pear
oyster. The author has named this
new species of tapeworm, tyloceph-
alum margaritiferae. This view W as
held that the pearl is a secretion
formed, as it were, in self defence,
for the surrounding and isolation of
an injurious foreign body.
A St. Paul special of recent date
says that when the Twin City-Omaha
Limited arrived at the St. Paul I'm
ion depot at Tbs o'clock there was
one passenger aboard from whom the
conductor had received no fare. The
little stranger arrived while the train
was speeding between LIE Sueur and
Merriam. Conductor Dan CALVIN
was notified Of the arrival, and i'm
mediately started through the car in
search of aid. He routed DR.. Crane
of Sheldon, Iowa, out of his berth,
and with the aid of the doctor and
the porter, the mother was taken to
a vacant berth in the state room.
Conductor Calvin telephoned to the
officials of the Omaha about the hap
pening and when the train arrived
at the union depot there was an am
bulance at hand to meet the mother
and child, who were conveyed to the
Lutheran hospital. Mrs. Ole John
son and the baby, who was bounc-
/ inp how were renorted tn he dOino