New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-11-13
GLEANINGs FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

a limburger factory is appetizing the Des
Moines atmosphere.
Jersey City dame is on trial for binding a
neighbor with vitriol.
| In q Broadway, N. Y, store is set of Roman
furniture 400 years old.
The New York postofice orders about 4;O0O,-
600 postage stamps fortnight.
South Africa is highly recommended as a
place for consumptives to spend the winter.
Count acknowledgements is the name of the
grand chamberlain of the king Of Holland.
Miss Sadie Sykes, by a vote Of pol to 103,
! has been declared the prettiest girl at Reno,
New.
| Three stones placed over the grave Of Thomas
Jefferson have been, one by one, destroyed by
! relic hunters.
Gen. Bourbaki, of the French army, rides SO
hard at reviews that none of his staff even pre-
tend to accompany him.
| Human milk is used as medicine for con-
sumptives and for old people. It costs eight
cents pint in Shanghai.
Mr.. Sankey, accompanied by his family, has
arrived in Liverpool, and contemplates making
religious tour of England
The Rev. J. V. Douglass, of Lynn, Mass.
under bail for several ofenses, has ran away
and left his bondsmen to pay.
| Marietta, (Ga) woman of an unbounded
stomach for quail has eaten thirty of those
agreeable birds in thirty consecutive days.
At Sheffield, England, recently, game of
foot ball was played at night. four electric
lights being used to illuminate the grounds.
Marquis Antonio Mantilla, now Spanish
minister to Washington, will probably be
transferred to Constantinople at an early date.
Lord Bray brooke, who owns the magnificent
fifteenth century mansion of Audley End in
| Cam ridgeshire, has the finest aviary in Eu-
rope.
Two young women in Carthage, Mo-, (the
local calls them ''ladies') cowhided their uncle
! in the street because he criticised their con-
| duct.
| woman was offered 81 1000 if she would re-
main silent for two hours. At the end of fifteen
| minutes she asked: ''Isn't the time nearly
up?" She lost.
The temperance managers of the Oakland
| county (hlich.) fair refused to permit cider to
be made on the grounds, but offered premiums
for the best wine.
When the late Gen. Whitney, of Boston, was
interviewed" he would dictate both the ques-
| lions and answers to the astounded but de-
| lighted reporter.
Connecticut man weighing 200 pounds
convinced the jury that he was drawn around
| the yard by the hair, by his wife, who weighs
elghty-seven pounds.
Mr.. J. H. Williams, who writes the funny
paragraphs in the Norristown Hercld, Is said to
nave Iallen helr TO S3U,UGU, lett to him by a
| good old uncle in Holland.
The Scientific american says that if mans
arm were long enough to let him reach to the
sun, 1t would be over three years before he
| would feel that his fingers were burnt.
| The Catholics of the ecclesiastical province
| OF Quebec nave been ordered to pray for the
success of the movement for the qualification
of Mgr. Laval, the first bishop Of Canada.
| The Emperor of Russia and the Amer of
Cabul are DESTROYS of pooling issues. The only
trouble bruin is that the tail wants to wag the
bear, which the latter considers piece Of bear
faced impudence.
Being unable to make their wedding cake 60
around lit stood four feet above It's pedestal,)
| Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Bell, Jr., had it photo
graphed before they went to Europe and sent
copies to their friends.
| The alcade of Salto, in the Argentine re-
| public, recently seized the village BARRIERS
scissors for debt, and the unhappy man had to
scrape along with his razor only for some days
till the shears We're restored to him.
| An honest farmer sent some handsome game
| and black Spanish fowls to the Kingston CO.,
exhibition. The judges washed the birds and
| it came out that the former were painted and
that the latter had had their legs blackleaded
Jones, the man VINO was recently tarred and
feathered in Reno CAL, spends most of his
time reading the hotel register in San Francisco.
He carries two loaded revolvers, and will talk
with nobody. 1t is surmised that no is in
sane.
On Nov. IA the French academy will elect a
successor to M, de Lomenie. The two candi-
dates with any chance of success are NJ Tame,
we'll known for his works on England, and the
Due d Audltfret-Pasquier, president Of the
Senate.
At Des Moines kitten had caught and was
playing with a mouse, when the frightened
captive sprang into pussy's open mouth and ran
down her throat. The kitten went into spasms,
| which did not subside till the mouse had been
suffocated.
The Holly system of heating houses with
steam sent through street mains has just been
established in Springfield, Mass, where gas
company has bought the right. Springfield is
the second city to try it, Lockport, N. Y, hav-
| ing been the first.
! Russia is compelled to economic in many
| Quarters, as result of the late war. Among
other retrenchments the funds annually allot-
ted for the construction of the University of
| Siberia, and for the repair Of Siberian post
roads are withheld.
A few months ago the city of Cera, Vene-
zuela, was destroyed by an earthquake. It is
now about to be rebuilt, but upon an entirely
new site in the plain below, where several vii
lagos escaped unscathed, while every town on
the hillside was overthrown.
Monsignor Dupanloup's death brings the
number Of vacant seats in the French Senate
up to ten. OF these eight belonged to repre-
sentatives Of departments, and two to life Sen
ators. Within three years the upper chamber
has lost thirty of its members.
A son of ex-Mayor Stevens, of Cambridge
was engaged to marry one OF the bellies of that
city, but on the day appointed for the wedding,
after extensive preparations had been made,
and many guests had already arrived, he de-
clared that he had changed his mind.
~ Mr. Martin xuas ~, h;o frox, No1;.o. -