New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-05-29
CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS.
Grant is now in Paris. He hobnobs VITA
Princes and Dukes, samples the work of
the famous cooks, drives in the Bots de,
Boulognc, and visits the Exposition. he
is likely to soon regain the seventeen
pounds that he lost on the Nile.
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The paupers Of Bangor, Me-, struck
last week because their food was insult
fcient and their tobacco rations had Civ
entout. buta conference was held with
two authorities, and labor Ion the town
farm-w was resumed, compromise hav-
ing been arrived at. 5,i e ''A 5a,gs ...
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=, A poor woman in Milwaukee, unable
TO teed her .eight-year-old boy, resolved
to kill HIM. She took him to q bridge
over deep water, aud, although he chung
to her and implored he's not todrownt him.
threwihim into the water, He was, how
ever, rescued. fa'. @{' q 'itss
we Gov. Robinson, of New York, has We.
toed all the items Of the supply bill pro-
yiding law Libraries for the judicial dis
tricts of the State. To his mind there
exists no reason why the State should
provide lawyers with books any more
than it should provide mechanics with
TOOLS, a., -.1s -. -
The Lonnon Times sagaclously observes
that the social fabric ofthe United States
is as capable Of successfully resisting
Communism as that of any State in the
world. We are safe because we do not
dam it up. So long as its vitality is.
permitted freely to expend itself in agi-
tation, it can do no serious injury to the
social fabric.
q, The Emperor Of Austria is notable
sportsman, and the following list points
to one conclusion that his subjecrs are
pretty active in the same line. There
were killed in his dominion in the year
ending 1875, 81 bears, 10 lynxes, 233
wolves, 23,606 foxes, 7.113 martens, 261
eagles, GIG owls, 66,925 kites, falcons, and
sparrow hawks, and 12,411 crows.
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The popular ovations which took place
the other day at Berlin over the escape OF
the Emperor from a madman's bullet,
show the high regard and esteem in which
the genial Kaiser is held by all classes of
his subjects. His death would have been
an irreparable loss to the German Empire
at least for some time, while the affairs of
all Europe would have been materially
affected by the calamity. '5st''S5
The conundrum m Pennsylvania now
is, Will Hartranft hang Jack Kehoel
Jack, known as the king Of the Molly
Maguires, is under sentence of death for
murder. Two warrant for his execution
have, been issued and Withdrawn within
the past Two mouths, and it is though
that there is something in Kehoe,s boast
of a mysterious influence oyer him whom
he calls familiary the old man at Har-
risburg." AL.
@a According to a work lately published
by DR.. Christlieb, Bonn professor, OPT
um was first introduced into China in
1773 as a medicine. 1t took as rapidly
as Charles Lambs roast pig, and within
twenty years there arose complaints of
its abuse. In 1899 the importation was
prohibited under severe penalties. But
a large contraband business was done.
Since 1860 it has been admitted, subject
to.an enormous duty, which, however,
does not prevent the consumation being
as enormous. 3e7 sEs 45i:ti4t d
Bag Referring to the terrible number Of
suicides in San Francisco Of late, con-
tributor of the Neps Letter adverts to the
tendency of one suicide to make many.
The writer thinks that were those who
fee1so downcast by misfortune as to make
away with themselves to remember how
many now prosperous people Saye been
through similar trials, but courageously
bore up under them, they, too, would
take heart. But men at such times are
aptt0 look only at their own failure. The
poet 'Cowper, who twice resolved on self.
destructi on, wrote: .i,.. A 4.
-io Beware OF desperate steps; the darkest day,
Live TIL tomorrow, will have passed away,
And 1t is Who'll s0me reflection.
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at7 The famine in China continues 10 make