New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-02-12
GLEANINGS.

the value of the ribbons she sent to us
five years ago.
SAN FRANCISCO recently shipped her
first cargo of furs to Europe. The
goods came from Alaska, and are worth
over half a million.
THREE years ago there was not
tree in Santa Monica, Cal. Now there
are hundreds there that will measure
thirty inches in circumference.
The experiment made last season of
cultivating cranberries in Bouldin ISL
and, Cal. among the tules, was so sue
cessful that plants for 100 acres have
been ordered from New Jersey. .
Texas has LOO convicts, five or six
hundred of whom are kept within the
walls and the rest are hired out to
work on railroads and farms. One is
said to be hired to his wife and lives
comfortably at home.
The temperature of cellar may be
suddenly raised by burning a saucerful
Of alcohol. A kettle of live wood Goals
will soon warm it up to the desired
point, but considerable carbonic acid
gas will be generated.
The wood of the apple tree is very
fne-grained, and, when green, weighs
from forty-eight to fifty-six pounds per
cubic foot, and, when dried, loses about
one-tenth. The wood is used in the
manufacture of shoe lasts, plane-han-
dies, cog-wheels and the like.
ANEW bell has been blessed at Mos
cow in memory Of the emancipation of
the Bulgarians, which, though smaller
than Ivan the Great, still is larger, the
London Times says, than any other in
the world. It weighs 63,976 pounds,
though the contractor asseverated that
it weighed 1925.
SOME statements from an English
newspaper do not bear out the stories
of the Jews focking to Palestine. A
new synagogue, said to be one of the
finest of its kind in Europe, has just
been opened at Warsaw. It cost $780,
000, exclusive of the cost of the ground
on which it is built 1t is said that
hundreds of Jews are leaving Palestine
for Russia and other countries, and
that the streets of Odessa are full of
Jews.
THE Scientific american says I'M
Stacked lime compressed into cartridges,
or used loosely and well-tamped down
in the hole, using water or other liquid
to saturate and expand It, is now pro-
posed for use in firing coal mines. It
is claimed that the advantages to be
gained from its use are economy in the
production Of coal; making less slack
than using ordinary blasting powder;
lives of golfers are in less danger; the
breaking or shattering of coal back of
the charge, which is especially charac-
teristic of gunpowder, is avoided, and
the quality Of the atmosphere is rather
improved by its use than otherwise.
The Repubhque Francdtse summa-
rizes as follows the military establish
ment of France, as fixed by the budget
of war: The total credits amount to
about $50, 100000 francs. They pro-
vide for the maintenance of an effective
force of 496, 442 men and 124, 279 horses.
But, from those figures must be deduct
ed q, 1872 Of the former and 13,48O Of
the latter, belonging to the gen.larme-
RE, so that the remainder will only be
469, $40 men and Ito, 799 horses for the
troops properly so-called. OF those
last numbers, 4l6, 1856 and 90, O43 are in
France, and So, 424 and 1876 in. Al
geria.
Some months ago the Roman
Catholic Indians in Maine sent to Pope
Leo an acknowledgements pair Of
moccasins, and he has just returned
the compliment by sending them
handsome medal.
The pubic schools Of the United
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