New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-08-27

DIR. Scudder, she is my wife" An
enormous cake was presented to the
married pair by divers friends, who
ornamented it with this genial inscrip-
ton:
GOOD wishes and Joy to the new married pair,
Miss Julia the brave and a. Parker, Esq.
Scenes In Morocco.
On every side, as you travel through
the country, you cannot help noticing
the fertility of the land. Delicious
fruits grow almost wild in great album
dance, oranges, pomegranates, april
cots, peaches, ounces, almonds, vines
and tig-trees. Wide fields of grain
wave before your eyes, as surely they
would not were it not that the soil
barely needs to be turned over; for,
through all the centuries since this
coast was first cultivated, not one parti-
Gle of improvement do the INDECENT
people seem to have made in their
clumsy methods. When a native farm
er finds he can no longer sit in the sun
and postpone his blowing, if he is to
have any crop at all, he catches
donkey and q goat, or q COW and a
mule, or any other creatures (includ-
ing his wife) that will pull, and har-
nesses them to pillow which would be
q fine curiosity for one of our agricalt-
ural fairs, since it is simply some sticks
of wood bound together so that the
sharply pointed end of the main or
handle piece is dragged along little
under the sod. Yet we must not forget
that much nearer home like lack of
progress is seen; for in parts of Mexico
an almost exactly similar excuse for q
pillow has been used for three hundred
years, and may perhaps be used for
three hundred more.
When the caravan reaches q town of
considerable size, a stop is likely to be
made for some days, in order to allow
trading to be carried on. But business
is not permitted to worry The traders
much, and between the entertainments
of the village people and the rccreations
at the camp, the stranger will not lack
for amusement. It is to this race, it is
always to be remembered, that we owe
the Arabian Nights tales. OF these
stories our translations contain only
selection, and as you sit and sip your
coffee, tea, or lemonade in some little
cafe of whitewashed stone, YOU hear
the old plots and the familiar names.
and many new romances of the same
kind, told by men who do nothing else.
These tales form the treasure of very
numerous class of men and women
throughout the East, who find liveli-
hood in reciting them to crowds never
tired Of listening. The public squares
of all the towns abound with such men,
whose recitations, full OF gestures and
suggestive looks, hold circle of silent
listeners spell-bound with the pleasing
pictures their imaginations coniure. It
is said that the physicians frequently
recommend the st0ry-tellers to their
patients in order to soothe pain, to calm
agitation, or to produce sleep; and, ac-
custOmed to talk to sick folk, thew
modulate their voices, soften their
tones, and gently cease as sleep steals
over the sufferer.
Quite the opposite of this quiet and
dreamy amusement, which takes tho
place of our theaters, are the shows of
the snake charmers, who everywhere
collect pennies from admiring groups.
They sit on the ground and handle the
serpents in every way, allowing them
to coil about their arms, necks and
body, and dart long, forked tongues al
most into their faces, while one of the
group hammers a tambourine as though
his life depended on it. l cannot con-
COVE how this so-called music has any
thing to do with the wonderful control
exercised over the snakes by the Jug
gler; l should think they would grow
cross, rather than be charmed,h by
its incessant discords. Ernest I,a1e1-
soN, IN St. Nicholas for Mag.
There was wedding in Portland,
Me-, recently. Miss Ida I. Baker had
been for number of years operator
in Western Union Telegraph office III
that city. Among her friends was
lady operator in Newburyport, Mass,
who visited her. The latter had
brother, shipmaster, and she made
up her mind that that brother should
marry her friend. The rest of the sto-
~ the Eastern Argus tells thus: $50
she wrote her brother, painting in the
strongest lights tho accomplishments
and good qualities Of Ida. So much
pleased was he with the description,
that even before they had seen each
other they became engaged. Four or
five week ago Mr.. Charles H. Heming-
way and Miss Baker met for the first
time in Boston. a personal acquaint-
ance only the more fayorably i'm.
pressed each with the other, and before
a week had passed day had been set
for the wedding .
1t is related that after Mr.. l.. Brad.
ford Prince had received his appoint-
ment as Chief Justice Of New Mexico,
among the first persons whom he met
IN Washington, was Miss Slough, the
daughter Of an exc Justice Of the
Territory. She was very entertaining.
and gave him much valuable infOrma-
ton. On his way to the Territory, Mr..
Prince took seat alongside Of fine
looking man, who also proved to be
from New Mexico. After q long con-
versatiOn, Mr.. Prince mentioned his
meeting with the ex- Chief JUSTICES
daughter, and asked his companion il
Col. Slough was living. :. No, re-
piled the stranger, II killed him.
The information was found BY Judge
Prince to be correct.
-. Perley. . Of the Boston .1ouynah
says that Gen. Lafayette introduced the
game az faro into this country during
the Revolution, and that Il was first
played ~ the officers stationed with
him on tho Hudson River.