New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-08-24
ALL SORTS.

ALL SORTS
A beautiful Fronc, girl at 0 fancy
bazaar in Paris demanded fifteen louis
for kiss. Fifteen wealthy gentlemen
would not accept the Cler, even
by chipping in and drawing lots for the
honor. Finally the Countess Pourtelcs
paid the money and took the kiss.
A machine has been brought to the
attention of the French Academy of
Sciences which is capable of raising
water to height previously unattain-
able by rotary machine. 1t is the in
vention of NJ. dc Romilly, and a labor
atOry modei worked by hand projected
water to height of five hundred feet.
Miss Proudfeet j., !. belle of southern
Kansas, and her beauty is such that sho
had crowds of admirers. Latterly the
beaux have Stunned her company,
from the fact that three of her suitors
have received gun-shot wounds while
paying her attentions. Its not known
who the assassin is, but he is supposed
to be somebody who, being unable to
secure the prize himself, is determined
that nobody else should do so.
The anti-French agitation in Italy
has aroused the somewhat astonished
attention of Frenchmen to the great
number of Italians inhabiting France.
The floating population of Italians in
Paris amounts to the large total of
fifty thousand. The other cities in
which they swarm are Lyons, Marseil-
les, Toulon, Mines, and Besancon. One
sees little of them in other places; but
where Italians assemble they cluster
thick and live together.
Mr.. Cover, London milliner, was
lately fined 1914 SO for employing work
people after 4 on Saturday, which is
against the law there. Three of the
workers pleaded that they were on
piecework, and thought they were en-
titled to 60 on. The Justice said s.No."
The act was passed to obviate s'Work,
work, work, from weary chime; work,
work, work; as prisoners work for
crime," etc.
1t is fashionable fancy in Paris to
have dessert wines slipped into satin
cache-bouteilles, the corks of which are
heads, with the hair dressed in the
fashion of tho country whence the wine
is produced. Alicante is in q pink
satin bottle, aud the cork or stopper is
Spanish girl with high comb. Port
wine is in a garnet or ruby satin, with
an Oporto beauty for its stopper, and
she holds fan in her hand. Pajarete
wine is in sulphur colored bottle Of
satin, with a bull-ighter cork, etc.
Modern materialism will make q
striking conquest if the plan to build q
railroad from Choggia across the la
coon to Venice is successful. It will
involve the filling up of number of
canals along the route, the tearing down
of some famous buildings, and a radical
change in the traditional character Of
the place. It may be, however, that
Ruskin will be allowed to depart with
out seeing this evil, as just at present
the municipality is too poor to under.
take such a work.
The project of police has issued q
series of Instructions to the managers
of theatres in Paris, prescribing the
precautions which they must adopt
against fire. In the first place, they are
to have oil lamps in the theatre itself
and in all the passages, SO that if the
gas happens to 60 out, tho audience
may not be left in darkness. The stage
scenery is to be made of non-inflam-
mable materials, and the apertures of
the heating apparatus are TO be five
inches above the level of the floor and
to be covered with perforated zinc caps.
In the third place, all the side-stalls are
to. be removed, so as to leave clear
space of over three feet on aach side nj
the theatre. This clause is likely to
excite much discomfort among the man
ayers, for it is estimated that it will en-
tail loss of f8 per night when the
house is full. Their contention is that
if this clause is insisted on they are en-
titled to some compensation, as in tax
ing lease of their different theatres
they calculated upon being able to seat
SO many people: Tho fourth clause is
that all doors ate to be kept ready for
opening, with a placard on each stating
whether it opens inward or outward.