New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-04-16
SENSE AND NONSENSE.

SENSE AND NONSENSE
Do TWO phrases make paraphrasei
TIE mule Is the bird that makes the
shoe fy.
TEE man who has fellow feeling
the blind man.
a BosToN young lady speaks Of her
brothers $ boot john. =
I" MINNESOTA, as State, is Just OF
ago. says the st. Paul Globe.
The Whitehall Times demands that
you due as you wish to be dunned by.
REAL ESTATE in New York is said to
be rapidly recovering from the effects
OF the panic.
IT is stated that an economical family
of three persons near Wilmington, Del.
live we'll on twenty cents day.
The woman whose husband refused
her chip bonnet when she axed him
says he is q blockhead.
THERE are over $1,000 Sunday
Schools in the country. with an aggre-
gate attendance Of 100000 children.
A MARYLAND horse is accused Of
killing and eating sheep. in spite at
frequent beatings whom caught in the
act.
A HOT brick was the cause Of the
burning upof the bed of an Ohio Wild
ow, and her house was with difficulty
saved.
"PA," said Pct, "may I Diet up and
twot on your kneep" $ Certainly"
was the ready reply, :" let the little
gallop."
NORTH CAROLINA will employ fifty
convicts in draining and reclainling
Angola Bay-an immense body Of
swamp land.
IT is told in New York that White
law Reid has become rich by stock
operations, independent of his news
paper. 1t is said that he made yery
lucky hit in Pacific Mail.
The REV. DIR. H. q. POTTER, rector
of Grace Church, New York, recently
said that during the last ten years that
church had contributed 81, 082, 1868 for
missionary work alone.
To TELL q diamond from a gem.
look through the stone at the point Of
q needle or small hole in the card,
and it there are two points or two holes
the stone is not q diamond. Exchange.
The San Francisco Post says the fe.
male property owners of Alameda and
Santa Clara Counties pay taxes on
Sc, O00,0 900 of their possessions. Many
of these ladies are young and hand.
some.
THE last rays of the setting sun were
shining on the gilded frame Of mirror
before which young fop had been
standing for hours, trying to arrange q
refractory tie, when he exclaimed,
''Aha, at last it's eventider'
| A CHURCH to be called the '.Church
of Thanks, will be built in Berlin to
commemorate the escape of the EN-.
peror from the assassin Modelling.
Twenty thousand dollars have been
voluntarily subscribed for it.
| The Selectmen of an adjacent town,
having advertised for "a man of some
experience in the management of poor.
houses, have received several replies
from gentleman in the theatrical bust.
ness.-B0st0n Commercial Bulletin.
HUXLEY says: "There was q time
when men walked on all fours.'' He
probably alludes to that interesting
time in the early life of all Of US when
we approached 9 neighbours melon
patch from the back way.-Kentxcky
Near Era.
In 1896, in the Township of Eastman,
Mass, q regulation was made that ev.
cry unmarried man should kill six
blackbirds and three crows o year as
long as he remained single. If he neg
lected this order, and wished to marry,
he was not allowed to do so till he had
shot his full number of birds.
A BILL granting concession for the
construction of railroad from Mon
rovia (Liberia) to Musardoc has passed
the Liberian Legislature. It is a route
which has been asked for by society
of English capitalists, who regard it Is
the best means of tapping very pro
ductiye area of country in equatorial
Africa.
A MYSTERIOUS disappearance, which
remained a mystery for over thirteen
years, has at length been accounted fol
in Ellenville, Ulster County, N. Y,
where the reopcning of an abandoned
lead mine disclosed the skeleton Of {
man who faded from view in February
1866. It is presumed he was murdered
and thrown into the mine by man
who subsequently became insane and j.
now dead.
In recent lecture in London, on hi!
American trip, Dean Stanley said tina
when in this country it was suggested
to him that he should bring back .
wreath of leaves from the banks of til.
Hudson River, which were taken from
maple and oak trees overlooking thu
spot Of Major Andres death. he hat
done so, and had placed the wreatt
above the tomb in Westminster Abbey
where he trusted it would long remain
as q token of the kindly and human.
feelings that might be called forth by
tragic event Of this kind.
Mrs. ANN ELIZA YOUNG has writer
3 long letter to Mrs. Hayes on the sub
ject Of polygamy which closes as fol
lows: Polygamy desolates ever!
home which it enters. Surely it vii
neither be improper nor unwise for yot
to exert your influence against tina
vast and increasing crime. It il op
] posed to oil that you prize in domestic