New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-01-23

The Chicago ministers meeting dis
cussed all the morning, 'The Final
Doom of the Wicked !" then went, good,
jolly fellows that they are, to the Grand 4
Pacific Hotel and had royal semi-annu-
al dinner.
A curious headstone stands in the old
burying ground at Newport, R. L., which
chronicles the death of son and daugh-
ter of William and Desire Tripp, "also his
wife's arm,n amputated Feb. 20, 1776. A
representation Of the severed member is
cut upon the stone. a
Salem is the most moral place in New
Jersey, being settled chilly by Quakers.
There is only one prisoner in the Salem
all. Heis there for stealing hooppoles.
The Christmas services at the jail consist
ed of the eating by this purloiner ofhoop-
poles of large part ola turkey. He ate
in solitude and silence.
The very latest Turkish atrocity is
to be seen in Cheapside,in London, where
peripatetic vendor of penny wares is
CARRYING about a trayful of /" Bulgarian
ears,' made of fesh-colored indian rub
Der, and initiating, with frightful fidel-
itv, human ear several from human
head.
Col Gordon, "Chinese Gordon" has
lately entered into a contract for four
steel steamers of small draught. He in
tends exploring the Albert .Nyanza and
the rivers flowing into it. The steamers
are to be carried as far possible by
water, and are to be composed OF several
portable pieces Of about 900 pounds
each, and to be put together on arrival at
their destination.
The London Economist says that Claw
being in England made mostly through
litigation, the casual exigencies of litiga-
ton determine what parts of it shall be
filled out, and what left incomplete; the
fabric of English Jurisprudence presents
to the legal minds eye view not un-
like the visible fabric Of the new law
courts in its present condition-here pin
nacles receiving the last touch; there walls
only rising from the ground"
The following advertisement lately ap-
peared in the Huddersfeld (north of
England) Daily Aduertiser: Wanted for
the sorting room of rag warehouse, an ac-
tive man with thorough, practical
knowledge Of cotton and woollen rags,
and capable of managing about eighty
women. To suitable party very lib
eral salary will be given" "And SO
there ought to be- is PuncA's comment
thereanent.
Inarecent lecture Lord Butte alluded to
the remarkable tenacity with which the
Welsh stick to their language. There are,
he said, twenty-four papers published in
Welsh in the principality. Sir Creswell
Creswell, the eminent Judge, who had a
large experience of Welsh trials, and did
not think highly Of Welsh veracity, used
to express his conviction that they per-
sisted in the language in order to de
feat the ends Of justice.
Recent sanitarytisti stacs made In Eng
land go to confirm the extraordinary
healthiness of the grocery as compared
with that of the dry goods trade. The
reason is that those employed in the
former live in such airy and the latter in
UGH confined rooms. Insone of the great
London hospitals a visitor. spoke to the
House Surgeon about the daughters:
tsThe poor. fellows" he said, shave all
got colds.'' 81 know it, and regret it, !"
was the reply, "but it is much the less of
two evils. Better have colds than air in
the least tainted"
According to the correspondence of the
Washington Capital the wife Of a New
York banker appeared the other evening
at a. party as Capital. The dress was
covered on the skirt, SO as to make it
appear one piece, with one hundred and
five-hundred dollar bills. 'The.waist and
sleeves were $1,000 bonds sewed in, and
her fingers and ears blazed with diamonds
The tiara was said to have been worth
$4,000, and the total value Of the notes
and diamonds on her person was $3.50,
900. Two pages carried her train, and
watched lest the jewels and greenbacks
should foil IA tho Hnnr