New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-10-02
News from Our Exchanges,

The death is reported from Chill, of two
women, one aged III and the other 1876 years.
Two Japanese girls, Miss Stematz flanagan
va and Miss Shige Nagai, have gone to Vassar.
A Rochester woman went from her marriage
| to prison cell, because she wore stolen bon
net.
Coffee without milk is called barefooted cof-
however.
L The French working classes, we are told.
spend less in proportion to their means than
any in the world.
Death is the penalty in China for the authors
of all anonymous accusations Of crime, although
the charge be true.
Nikosia, in Cyprus, asked that Greek might
be the official language there but Sir Garnet
Wolseley said, ':No-English.'
man in Milan has devised system of
| music photography. He is able to take down
airs as sung without mistake.
A paragraph is going the rounds that John
Wesley's grandson is preaching in England.
Wesley never had any children.
Eleven thousand women are telegraph opera
tors IN Great Britain, and it is said they gen
orally keep the secrets Entrusted to them.
ASpanish woman walks in the Paris boule-
wards leading dove with a ribbon. She walks
Spanish, it Is presumed, and is devoted to her
pet. s
About two-thirds of the tunnelling of the
Gothard railway is now completed-l1, 200
metres, out Of a total estimated length of
$4,000.
An infant child of Mrs. Moses Rice, residing
near Forest Hill, Nd, has four distinct and
well developed ears. Few ears of rice are equal
to them. n &
It's rather singular that a Jew should be en-
gagged IN the disreputable work that Cohen is
following in Washington; but, then he is prob
ably ajeu desprit. Es E!5
Among the convicts at The Auburn prison are
forty-tWo lawyers, twenty-seven clergymen
and thirteen physicians. Editors are left out
in the cold as usual. fi. ~ a
Wisconsin's bounty of SIS for every wolf scalp
cost the State 600 last year, as the wolves
are increasing, and it is suspected that wolves
are raised for their scalps. ri t5t$3gs$
Spanking baby in rude, insolent or angry
manner renders a mother liable to prosecution
for assault and battery, accordidg to decision
OF q justice in Layfayette, Ind.
The Rev. Lewis James, son of the late Bishop
James, is now member of an Illinois Confer
| ence and, though an earnest and diIgent man,
receives ouly about $500 year.
| M. Jacotin, the French Senator and Judge
accused OF cheating at cards at Vichy, has re-
signed both offices, and will probably be struck
off the roll of the Legion Of Honor. tt,ist
! At Poland, Me-, last week. Charles E. Ord.
way, an orphan of IL, hanged himself, through
grlef Tor the loss Of his parents and sisters.
Rather an Ordway of expressing his grief.
According to an eminent medical authority,
there occur annually III England 100000 cases
OF typhoid fever which are clearly traceable to
defective drainage and sewer-gas poisoning.
Col. Nicholas Smith, Ida Greeley's husband,
| is lecturing, his subject being "A Plea for
Tranlps." The best plea for those fellows, it
seems to us, would be guilty, your honor"
The Rev. W. R. Jolly, of Birkenhead has
been reproved by the Rishop of Chester for re-
fus1ng the sacrament to a communicate be-
cause he genehucted in approaching the altar,
countryman who went into a PougEkeepsie
saloon to get a drink was followed by his
horse, which tried to pull the wagon in after
him. He probably thought it was horsepital.
The people Of the parish Of Didsbury cannot
call their souls their own. A London draper
bought the living at bargain, advertised it
like SO much railroad stock and sold it at auc-
| tion.a
James Broadbelt. of Indianapolis, while
asleep on his way from Indianapolis to Chi
| the robber he would give him broad belt across
! the face.
| Madame Adelina Patti has purchased Craig-y-
! nos Castle at Ystradynglais, in the southern
part of Wales. We should think she would
strain her voice in trying to tell the name of
ueT purchase. a-s.
man at Plymouth Eng, lately died in fit
caused by the excitement into which he worked
himself because the servant girl didn't answer
the bell promptly. That girl deserves to have
| her neck wrung.
| Mr.. Frank Work, of New York, has pur-
chased of NJ A. Pierce, of Philadelphia, the
trotting horse Edward for $4,000. His best
4 time is 2:l919. He thinks he will be good
! work horse, evidently.
Mr.. Ho, one of the secretaries attached to
i the Chinese Legation in England, is engaged in
translating Shakespeare into Chinese, and has
i made considerable progress in the translation
i of Blackstone's .'Commentaries'
A scrap-book, complied by Thomas Jefferson
/ while he was President of the United States has
been recently added to the collection of the
4 Virginia Historical society. It contains news.
/ paper clipping of The Beautiful Snow
A nurse in Glasgow hospital has had to pay
consent Of the boys parents some healthy
flesh from the arm of a juvenile patient in
order to graft it upon the body of another.
Miss Romh Bye, Mahratta lady, knows by
heart the IL, 900 verses of the Scrimat Vagabat,
and can recite or explain any verse from any
chapter at a moments notice. She also ex.
temporates Sanskrit verses with great facility.
4 Some recently discovered inscriptions on
burned bricks bring to light the astounding
revelation that King 5Ahasuerus hanged Haman
because he invented the ACCORDION and put the
! price down to $l.i5 SO that every young man
might have one.
The wife Of a minister residing near Pawlet
found him FEEDING chickens with dough in the
dining room. She :''shooed" the chickens out
) her husband boxed her ears, she complained t.
) the church, and it compelled him to resign
! pnt him out on a fowl, as it were.
The Rev. D. y. Vanderveer, recently pastor
Of the Union Park Congregational Church il
2 Chicago has accepted the call Of the First He