New Ulm weekly review., 1879-03-19

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brilliant but without showing the fiery
figure 81 the sun itself. blowing "a the.
base of its own pyramid enlarp cd "a
the eye some forty Of fifty dianeterg.
The circles at evening as described au-
peared almost an hour after the sn..
had zone below the horizon, and .iaated.
IN view no more Chan twentv 81 thirty.
minutes. Were both circles cased S..
the moon or was the larper one paint.5s
about the zenith. refraeted from
.un SO Ions, passed below the horizou.
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Rob Rnrdetta,s Rov.
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lAbskact Of the Lecture on :" The Rise and Fan
Of q Mustache." y
A boy asks questions. II there was
any truth in the theory Of transmigra-
ton, when boy died he would 20 into
an interrogation point. A bov knows
where the first snowdrop lifts and
where the last Indian paint fingers.
His pockets are cabinets. He drags
from them curious fossils that he don't
know the names of. He knows where
the herbs grow that have marvellous
medicinal properties, and he nearly
sends the rest of the family to the grave.
yard by making practical tests upon
them. The boy has his superstitions,
and he carries in his pocket one partic-
uiar marDle-De 1t brummie, agate or
Dlood aliey- which when he loses he
sees panic ana bankruptcy coming, and
reuIes Del0re tne crash comes with his
Pockets 1ull OF shllllngs and 9 creditors
meeting IN the back room: He has q
en- arm 70 cure warts on the hand; he
mas q marvellous instinct Tor the woods.
AS ne grows older he wants to be q
missionary or pirate, and so far as
there is any preference he would rather
be pirate-a profession in which there
are more opportunities for making
money and fewer chances of being de-
vonred raw. He hates company, for it
carries him to the second table and
leaves him no pie. He never walks
down stars, but adopts the single-rail.
narrow-gauge, passenger tramway, and
soon cures the other members OF the
family OF the practice of setting the
water-Pitcher on the baluster posi-: he
ASKS Win alarming frequency Tor
new nat, ana wears II IN the air or on
the ground ten Times more than on his
head. Poor Tom loves as he makes
mischief. He muses. his sisters ruff1e
and gets severely reprimanded. But
some neighbours Tom comes in and
makes the most helpless, hopeless, alb
ject, chaotic wreck of that ruffie that it
can be distorted into, and all the re-
pr0ach he gets is, 'sMust he 60 so
so0np But poor Tom gets weary and
drops off into the wonderland of boys
dreams, and no mother who has not
dragged sleepy boy off the lounge at
nine o'clock and led him upstairs can
understand the Herculean grasp
with which square sleep takes
hold OF boy. how fearfuliy Timber
ana imp 1t makes him, and now it de-
velops lnnumerable joints that work
Doth ways. he never relates his
dreams till every ono else in the family
has told theirs, and there and then he
comes in like q back county with the
necessary majority. In time Tom
comes to desire a tail coat and glove
lifting boots. Before he has worn his
fathers arctics-on his feet and his
mcther's sllppers--on his jacket. 1t
dawns upon Iom that he has hands-a
pair. good hand. And when he goes
70 the hrst church sociable with his Sis
ter on account OF the absence OF some
0tner Iom, ne hnds that he has eleven
hands, ana ne wonders where the elev-
entn one came from. Now his mother
never cuts ms halr with a pair OF scis.
sors tnat nave cut miles and miles OF
calico and vast tternities OF paper, and
snarls ana tangles OF string, and have
snuHed candles, ana pared apples, and
trimmed lamp wicks. and pried up car
Pet-tacks, and trimmed the family
nails, and have done their level best at
the annual struggle of cutting stove
pipe lengths in two. Now he knows
that man 8 upper lip was destined by
nature to be mustache pasture. How
ex4uisitely reserved he is; with what
delicate action does he make the first
preliminary investigation in order that
ne may detect the first symptoms Of a
fo,nd thst sssI. - a th.,o anJ anui wien ne nas
ha hronrh. @ o,.t - hou, a. su ,.,e,,l Jny hseus "
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