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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-03-13

The "text book BILL finally passed
both branches of the Legislature
with an amendment attached to it,
providing for the submission Of the
question in 1880 to vote of the
people, whether the contract with
Mr.. Merrill shall be continued or
not.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-03-13

The bill "Authorizing the ex.
change Of the 100000 acres Of In
ternal Improvement Lands for the
old railroad Bonds outstanding
against the State,'' passed both
branches Of the Legislature.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-03-13

General Grant arrived at Piracus,
Greece, Friday escorted by three
ironclads. A large crowd witnessed
the landing. Afterwards the Gen
eral visited the king in Athens.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-03-13

The Austrian steamer Ophire, from
Cavello, with $500 Circassians on
board, caught fire and went ashore
near Cape Ella, one day last week.
Seven hundred lives were lost.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-03-13
III. II. Beussmann's Store.
Post Office Block Cor Mimi & LIST North ss New Ulm Mimi

There will
Tresels Self Binders
chine Repairs; Sulky, other Plows
Also
ter Farmer Tools, Guns & Sporting Goods
We invite all Farmers and other friends
before elsewhere.
fully warranted, and will be sold bottom prices.
O. FEant. J. Frana H. III. Reussmann.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-03-13
Prof. Tice predicts several earth
quakes for this month.

After a nine years struggle the
Cuban insurgents have at last sur
rendered, and peace has been de-
clared.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-24
AEAITEFUL WIFE,

The following stcry is true In every do.
tail: A miliiner of responsibility married
a dissipated tailor, who abused, neglected,
and abandoned her. Several years having
passed without clue to his whereabouts,
her friends advised divorce and her accep-
tance of an advantageous offer of marriage.
The woman persistensly declined every
offer, and when she had accumulated q
sufficient sum started of in the direction
her husband was supposed to have taken
when he left her. At Halifax, N. S., she
received n slight clue, and took the steamer
to Portland, Me. Thence she followed his
track to New York, where she ceased for
many months to hear of him. Finally she
found that he was working in Albany, N.
Y, for which place she Immediately
he had been discharged for drunkenness.
Spending her days in lucrative work and
her evenings at detective service, the un-
wearying wife at length discovered that he
was employed by large firm in Chicago.
She wrote there, and was answered that
her husband had gone away, nobody knew
where. Not satisfied with this, she Travelled
to Chicago and ransacked every concern
interested in the tailoring business there,
until she met fellow countryman, who
said that her husband, when last heard
from, was in Omaha City. She wrote
there, got no answer, but went on. There
sho heard that he had certainly left for
San Francisco, where he had obtained
fine place as cutter to large firm. She
of course went thither, only to be told that
her husband had been several days away
from work, and was drinking hard. He
had not been even to his boarding house.
This led her to visit the station houses,
and in one of them she ascertained that her
husband was in jail for ten days. He was
released and prevailed upon to return
home after six years absence. All this
occurred eighteen years ago, and to-day
the prodigal husband of yore is astrict tenn
perance man in independent circumstances,
model husband and father, and re-
spected citizen.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-24
MANS AGE.

Few men die of age. Almost all die of
disappointment, passion, mental or bodily
toll, or accident. The passions kills men
sometimes, even suddenly. The common
expression, choked with passion, has little
exaggeration in it; for even though not
suddenly fatal, strong passions shorten
life. Strong bodied men often die young
weak men live longer than the strong, for
the strong use their strength, and the
weak have none to use. The latter take
care of themselves, the former do not. As
it is with the body, so it is with the mind
and temper. The strong are apt to break,
or, like the candle, to run out; the weak,
to burn out. The inferior animals, which
live, in general, regular and temperate
lives, have generally their prescribed term
of years. The horse lives twenty five
years; the OK fifteen or twenty; the lion
about twenty; the dog ten or twelve; the
rabbit eight; the Guinea-pig six or seven
years. These numbers all bear a similar
proportion to the time the animal takes to
grow to its full size. But man, OF the ami
mails, is one that seldom comes up to this
average. He ought to live a hundred
years, according to this physiological law,
for five times twenty are one hundred; but
instead of that, he scarcely reaches, on an
average, four times his growing period;
the cat six times; and the rabbit even eight
times the standard of measurement. The
reason is obvious-man is not only the
most irregular and the most Incorporate,
but the most laborious and hard. worked of
all animals. He is also the most irritable
of all animals; and there is reason to be-
lieve, though we cannot tell what an animal
secretly feels, that more than any other
animal man cherishes wrath to keep warm,
and consumes himself with the fire of his
own secret reflections.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-24

their pockets, and upon arriving az Bristol
found themselves penniless. They were
obliged to write to the Swansea manager
for loan, which, when 1t came was al
most entirely swallowed up by the ex-
penses they had incurred while waiting for
it. They obtained passage on board a
boat laden with hemp and tar as far as
Newport. Thence, again resumed their
weary journey. Sometimes they came
upon good Samaritans, who would not
take their money for the frugal meal they
ordered; at other times they met with
brutes. who refused draught of milk to
the poor footsore woman who scarcely
knew an hour she might not be seized with
the pangs of premature maternity. Again
we hear of them destitute at Dumfries,
announcing an entertainment in a public
house, to which came Gle sixpenny audi
tor. Then they trudged on with their two
children to York, where lie became so des.
perate that he offered to enlist, but was
persuaded against it by good-natured
officer. At York, thanks to the aid of q
benevolent dancing-master, who gave them
G5 note, and interested himself in pro-
curing patronage for the entertainment,
they obtained sufficient money to carry
them on to London. But there was some
years of strolling still before them ere he
attained to that marvellous fame and for
time which SO wonderfully contrast with
pictures such as these, -Betgravia.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-24
THE DUKE OE SUSSEX.

The Duke was famous for having the
finest collection of old bibles and tobacco
pipes in Europe. Sir Henry Ellis, of the
British Museum, was great fayorite with
him in general, but his Royal Highness
would occasionally take tiff," and in
these fits of pique always ignored Sir
Henrys Christian name, and called him
"Sir Ed-dard" Sir Henry once dined at
the Dukes, meeting Capt. Marryat, whom
his Royal Highness introduced as "his
friend who had been engaged in 128 ac-
tions." Il am not quite sure as to the
number.) In the course of the dinner the
Duke, by way of making conversation,
asked Marryat where he had got some
curious article which he had presented to
the Duke. comp said the Captain, II
met sailor with it, and gave him knock
on the side of his head, and took it from
him." There was quiet, modest, little
clergyman at table, who was heard to say,
"And was that, Capt. Marryat, one of your
hundred and twenty eight actions?' For
getful of the Royal presence, tie Captain
flew into furious passion with the poor
parson, who had no idea that his mild
Joke would have produced such all explo.
sion, and was really greatly distressed; so
much SO, that when coffee was served in
the gallery he begged the Duke to make
his peace with the exasperated hero. This,
/ believe was with some difficulty effected.
The Duke appears to have been the only
Ole of the sons of George Ill, who ex-
tended anything like encouragement to
literary and scientific men, or cared to
have them about his person. Sir Henry
always spoke of him as very kind man.
The University Magazine.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-24
ROADS IN PALESTINE.

A recent traveller in Palestine was as.
tonisled by the number and preservation
of roads built in the Roman era. They
were laid out ON all main routes and were
constructed so perfectly that in many
sections they endure to day as if finished
not long ago. The country of Palestine
was one of the most difficult sort to carry
a system of roadways over, and yet its
obstacles were surmounted with the least
possible expenditure of labor Every route
was curbed on each side by lines of stones
projecting from one TO two feet above the
surface of the soil; between these boun-
daries the avenue was paved; streams
We're crossed by bridges, whose style re-
mains preserved alone in those of Italy to
the present hour-as, for example, those
of Venice; valleys were trayersed by via
ducts; and causoways carried the line up
or down mountain sides, either by piers of
masonry or in channels sufficiently wide
cut out of living rock. Often zig zags and
steps were reSorted to in climbing steep
ascents. Whenever the street passed over
solid rock, the wear of chariot wheels in
the course of time made ruts, which re-
main to-day as plain and deep as when the
last car passed over.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-24
EDMUND KEAN AS A STEOIL1NG
PLAYER.

Once, after walking many miles on his
way to an engagement at Braintree, in
Essex. Kean found himself on the Kentish
side of the river, without copper to pay
the ferry. With his whole wardrobe tied
up in pocket-handkerchef, slung about
his neck, he plunged in and swan across
the Thames. Then, dripping wet as he
was, he pursued his journey. Without
having eaten or drank, he arrived at the
theatre just in time to dress for Rolla,
which he had to play that night; but he
tainted away in the middle of one of the
scenes and was laid up with ague and
fever for some time afterward. Even
more sad was journey he made from
Birmingham to Swansea with his young
wife just about to become mother.
Dressed In blue from head to foot, with
his dark, sharp, resolute face, q black
stock. and four swords over his shoulder,
suspending family bundle of clothes, he
looked like poor Navy Lieutenant They
started on foot with Q few shillings In
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-24
AN IMPORTANT PERSON.

A very terrible personoge is the head
butler in an English family of distinction,
for on him depends the success of the little
dinners which they are so fond of giving.
He has the privilege of the first glass of
wine from every bottle uncorked, and he
sees to it that the host is not niggardly in
quantity and quality in this uncorking. l
scarcely know where the head buffers
privileges end, though know where they
begin. His aim in life is to get all he can
and keep all he gets. There are certain
things he would no more think of doing
than cutting his own throat with the
grooms razor on the cooks hearth-rug
He would die in the hall rather than open
the door, even if his mistress was fainting
on the steps in the rain outside. He would
no more think of handing dish to you,
even if you gasped for it, than he would
refuse bridesmaids bribe or "tep.' The
footman and waiter he delegates to these
duties, while he majestcally looks on like
II magnificent Apollo. So, also, from the
head to the second butler, and down to
the kitchen-m maid, they rule sublimely and
inperiousl y-rule each other, and all rule
the mistress of the house-their house.
They are masters of the situation in every
sense of the word.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-24

passes equany In all directions; but the
drum membrane is the only part which
can yield, and dp tion always results if
the inflammation continue. II this is
severe, there may be destruction of the
whole membrane. When the fluid escapes
there is usually decided mitigation of the
symptoms; but it must be borne clearly in
mind that the longer perforation isdelayed,
the more the lining membrane Of the
middle ear suffers, the more deeply the
inflammation becomes fixed, the more
difficult it will be TO effect cure. The
mastold cells may have become already
involved and the perforation may be too
late to prevent the formation OF mastold
abcess. 1t is possible to avoid this train of
of evil results? Not always by skillful
and timely treatment; very seldom indeed
by leaving the case to Nature, which cannot
be depended upon to work cure. The
surgeon must interfere, and at the earliest
possible moment in severe cases) give exit
to the distending fluid thus relieving pres
sure and pain, and thereby very greatly
moderating the infammatory process.
When this is done sufficiently early, in
very large proportion of cases there is
rapid recovery. The entrance of water,
during bathing causes many severe cases
of middle-ear disease, that demand the
evacuation of the contained fluid. Tile
use of the nasal douche is also not infre-
quently followed by similar results.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-24
INFLAMMATION OF TzhE MIDDLE
EsAss FEsOM BATHING.

When acute Inflammation of severe
grade occnrs in the middle ear, the lining
membrane swells, mora or less completely
closing the ordinary permeable Eustachan
tube, while at the same time, fluid is poured
out into the cavity, the containing capacity
of which is already much reduced by the
swelling of its lining membrane. For this
fluid, which constantly increases in guam
tity, there is no escape except through the
drum membrane into the external auditory
canal, or into the mastoid antrum and cells,
the bony walls of both may be either
spontaneously perforated, or may require
to be opened into by the surgeon, to
permit the pus to escape. When this
external outlet Is not obtained and at
times even in spite of it, the pus may pass
through the bone, which is there very thin,
or in which there may be defects, and
thombosis of the laternal sinus, meningitis,
or abscess of the brain result. In other
cases the infammatory process passes
through the roof of the drum cavity into
che Uranium, and death follows from the
resulting intra-cranial disease. The
accumulating fluid in the drum cavity
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-24
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Sr1AKESPEAreEi,S TREE.

In 1853 New Place, the former home Of
Shakespeare, near Stratford-on Avon, be.
came the property of the Rev. Francis
Gastrell, who in 1856, ordered the muI-
berry tree planted by Shakespeare cut
down. Most of it was bought by a watch
maker named Sharp, who, in 1903, in con.
senquence of hints of his selling articles
purporting to come from the original tree
which did not really come from it, made
an affidavit before magistrate that Mr..
Gastrell in 1856 "cut down the said null
berry tree and cleft it rs firewood; when
the greatest part of it was purchased by
me, the said Thomas Sharp, WHO, out of a
sincere veneraton for the memory of its
reiterated planter, employed one John
Luchman to convey it to my own premises,
where | have worked it into many toys
and useful articles. And | do hereby de-
clare and take my solemn oath upon the
four Evangelists, in the presence of AL
mighty God, that l never had worked, sold,
or substituted any other wood than
what came from and was part of the said
tree"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-24

SOMEHOW the pedestrian is ever at the
mercy of the man who rides. His rights
upon the streets and highways are no
more considered than if he were an in
ferior being created only to be looked
upon with contempt from the elevated
throne of the omnibus driver, or to be
run down like doomed gladiator by the
arrogant milkman in his royal chariot.
Even the street car-driyers regard him as
III intruder and shake their whips at him
warningly, as if to say: "Confine your
belf to the sidewalks. The streets are
ours, and you only cross them at your
peril" To a certain extent this is cor
rect, but the Jehus should bear in mind
Dne fact which they often overlook with
disastrous results, namely, that the street
crossings are laid for the sole benefit of
the footman, and that they are as sacred
TO his use as are the open streets to the
driver. The pedestrian who sticks to
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-24

Louis XVI has been usually considered
well-behaved King, but he did little else
than slaughter wild animals. Taine tells
us to a nicely, the extent of his butcheries,
for the record of them is preserved.
Sometimes he killed upwards of 400 head
of game in a day. In 1880 he brought
down 20, 534 head; in 1871 20, 29l head.
In IA years he destroyed 189, PSI head, be
sides 1, ,254 stags, with boars and bucks
proportionate - all by his own hand.
Even when affairs were in the most critical
state the King went out hunting. In
short, the mania for slaughtering wild
animals, which were bred and preserved
for his diversion, set aside all considera-
tions of State policy. According to Taine,
battue-shooting, as it is now called, had
not little to do with bringing on the
Revolution, for, besides Withdrawing at
tention from matters of solid concern, it
involved the appropriation of vast do
mains for the rearing of creatures doomed
to destruction by way of pastime. The
brutality of this species of pastime need
not be dwelt on. The wickedness con
sisted of deprivipg the people of food, in
order that game might not be encoroached
upon except by the King and privileged
orders. Chambers journal.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-24
FactOrY Facts.

Close confinement, careful attention to
all factory work, gives the operatives pallid
faces, poor appetite, languid, miserable feel
urinary troubles, and all the physicians and
unless they get out doors or use Hop Bit
ters made of the purest and best of reme-
dies and especially for such cases, having
abundance of health, sunshine and rosy
cheeks in them. None need suffer if they
use them freely. They cost but trihe.
See another column.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-24

the crossing is upon his own ground, and
no cart or carriage has any more right to
run him down than to take to the
sidewalk for its convenience. The rebel
lious spirit of the men who walk recent
ly brought this question before Judge
Simmons, of St. Louis, and, like an up
right Judge, he has decided that walkers
have rights. He declares that it is the
duty of the drivers of vehicles, including
street-cars, not only to check their speed
when any person is on crossing, but to
stop where there might be the least dan
ger of a collision.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-24

STATESMAN BEN. HILL, of Georgia,
declared in a recent speech that "the
Democratic party is the party of the
future" This is not at all cheering to
the present generation of unterrified and
hopeful Democrats A bird in the hand
is of more value than a whole flock in the
bush, says the old adage. The Demo-
cratic party meets with some accidents
now and then, and is quite frequently
the victim of stupid blunders, and its
future outlook depends very much upon
whether its management falls into the
hands of statesmen or into the control
of short-sighted and self-aggrandizing
demagogues.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-24

CONGRESSMAN WARD, of New York, is
recognized as one of the most industrious
and punctual members of the House, He
is, moreover, obliging to persons outside
of his own district, and never seems to
miss an opportunity of serving the peo-
pie. From the reputation he has made
In Congress and the readiness he always
exhibits to work whenever work is re-
quired we are not surprised at the fol-
lowing item from the Tribune: "Con-
gresham Ward has faculty for keeping
bis appointments. Through some mis-
understanding he was announced to
speak Saturday evening at two places
twenty miles apart. Both appointments
were important, and failure would
prove a great disappointment Mr.. Ward
determined that there should be no fail
nre 50 far as he was concerned so, after
speaking an hour at one place, he pro-
cured a locomotive and was quickly car
ried to the other meeting. His constitu-
ents will doubtless put him through at
railroad speed on election day." We do
not happen to remember to what party
Mr. Ward belongs. But that doesn't
matter-we hope he will be reelected, so
That people residing in districts repre-
ented by careless incompetent or dis
pbliging members may still have him to
call upon. He has been found very
convenient even for Western people, and
be never fails to take any amount OF
trouble to oblige even stranger Mr.
Ward deserves to be reelected, and doubt,
less will be.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-24

PROFESSIONAL COURTEsIES are al
ways enjoyed by the vulgar outsiders.
The V. O. like to see their betters taken
down a peg or two. Olive Logan, who
is lingering on the ragged edge of two
professions-the stage and the press
on neither of which has She coruscated
much, speaks of Dominick Murray as a
Sensational actor" Dominick, with
the courtesy of a thoroughbred gentle
man, who has been setting up all night
with some razor grinders, thus sharply
retorts: II am pleased to say that | en-
tertain for Miss Logan, individually, a
feeling of profound respect, not so much
on account of her literary ability, which
is but limited, as on account of her stu
pendous cheek, which is evidently un-
limited" Those who have been com
PEELED to read Olive Logans letters, in
absence of anything better, will enjoy
and appreciate the first part of Domi-
nick's sarcasm, but the question of
cheek had better be left to U. S. Consul
Sykes, of Cardiff or Cardigan.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-24

A PECULIAR carboniferous substance
a sort of mineral caoutchouc, in its gen.
eral appearance and elastic property-is
found in parts of Southern Australia,
the articles being known hitherto in only
two or three localities in Europe. The
Australian article ii found on the sur
face of the sandy soil, through which
it would appear to exude from beneath,
as, burnt of occasionally by bush fires, it
is again met with after the winter
season, occurring in quantity and of vary
ing thickness. Analysis shows it to
yield eighty.two per cent, or more
of pure hydrocarbon oil, thus indicat-
ing the existence of carboniferous de.
posits.