New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-03-16
CURRENT ITEMS.

--ln Chinese store in Sacramento,
the Health Officer of that city recently
found the, bones of between fifty and
sixty Cinnamon stored for shipment to
China.
There is a juniper tree near Lundy,
Mono County, CAL, which is sixty feet
in circumference and has limbs grow
ing from its trunk five or six feet in
diameter.
-Sallie Martha Brown Washington
King Green Violet Ada Moore Thomp-
sOd, the only daughter Of an aged col
ored man in the Natural Bridge district,
Virginia, is included in the present
United States census.
"A lad was reue:atly sent to tho
Work House in Cambridge, England,
for picking rose and spray OF gera-
MUM. The Mayor and Aldermen COR
sidered it an oiiense to be punished by
three months OF hard labor.
Beer is 50 expensive in Mexico that
no one can afford to drink it; but they
have cheap native liquor that will
make a man want to break windows and
get into fight, aud finally go to sleep
with his head in al ash-box.
There are said to be now 10000
Germans in London. An immense i'm
migra i',a has taken place since the war.
The ruthless CONSUMPTION and tyrannical
Government of the Fatherllnd sends
thousands OF her sons abro;sd.
King Stanley, the ruler of all the
gipsies in this country, lives in the
midst of a settlement Of his people near
Dayton, Ohio. His daughter, who was
to become Queen at his death, has lost
her heritage by clipping with D1an not
a gypsy.
Wife-beating is one OF the cheapest
luxuries in England. A brutal fellow
in Exeter, who severely thrashed his
wife with a bellows bccanse she had
not got his breakfast ready, was re-
Gently sentenced to pay fine of five
shillings.
"A miner was accidentally thrown
out of bucket at the top of Cali
fornia shaft. He clutched wildly at the
jagged rock, and by chance his wrist
caught in crack. During ten minutes
he was thus precariously suspended at
height Of two hundred feet.
"A Boston milkmaa has triumphed
in the Courts. He WV, prosecuted for
selling watered milk. His defense was
that the milk was just as it came from
the COW. The Milk Inspector visited
his farm, tested the milk fresh from the
animal, and found it even poorer than
the sample that Yves sold. The dealer
was acquitted.
Mrs. Greenzwrft, Of Williamsport,
Pa, lost her voice several years ago,
and the physicians ooild not make her
utter word. Sac lately resolved to
try tbs efficacy Of prayer, and now can
talk as we'll as ever. She says that an
hour OF earnest praying every day for q
month was required.
Centuries ago some one left Lon
don parish property yielding $1.25 a
year for al annual Glove teast,'' at
which persons at variance should meet
and be reconciled. This gradually ex-
| banded into $500 year, which for a
long time past has been devoured by the
''parochia1'' authorities holding the be-
quest in trust in dinners at Richmond.
General Sherman said in his address
at the St. Anthony Falls celebration:
II hope the boys Of Minnesota will
never get the gold fever. There is
more gold in farms than in mines. The
men in the mountains carry pistol on
one hip and knife on the other; they
make daily living, and when the gold
is exhausted they have nothing left.''
William Elwood was actually too
proud to beg and too honest to Steal.
he wss travelling afoot in Ontario, try
! ing to get orders for agricultural nipple
ments. Finding himself without a cent,
and having eaten nothing for two days,
he hid himself in a barn and resolved to
starve to death. He was discovered,
when almost dead, by farmer who
would willingly have fed him for the
asking.
AS menagerie was entering New
ark, Ohio, the elephants keeper fell in
a fit. The elephant wouldn't allow
any one to approach him, but at first
taking him up tenderly with his trunk
tried to put him on his t'1sks, but find
ing he was insensible put him gently
down again, and showed great distress.
At length the man revived enough to
speak to the animal, and to tell him to
let people approach.
A shocking balloon accident occurred
at LIE Mans, in France, on Sunday, july
4. M. and Nine. Petit went up in one
balloon, and their son in smaller one
attached to it. The former burst soon
after starting. and the car fell 400 yards
to the ground. Nine. Petit escaped
with slight bruises, but her husband
was much hurt, and has since died.
The smaller balloon got free, and the
youth effected descent some miles dis
tant.
! :Psrkersburg. in West Virginia, has
= ten.year-old hero: He plunge into a
river to save drowning p1ayfcllow,
cnme worry near losing his own life
through the clinginE Of his terrified
I compenion, md dragged him up a steep
baAk, where both lay a while, com.
pactoly exhausted. Then the rescued
one insensibly rolled back into the wa
ter, and the bravo little fellow again
performed tho difficult feat of getting
him out.
The smallest lovers on earth were
united at the altar at Odessa in Russia
few weeks ago. The marquis" a
native of Kiel, is thirty years old, and
weighs only nineteen pounds, while his
fairy-like consort, a young lady, born
in -Neumunster some tvo-and- twenty
years ago, just turns the scale at thir-
teen pounds. At a first glance this tiny
pair, it I. said, might be taken for a
couple of scarcely-weaned babies,
dressed up for joke in the garb q
adults.
For years railroad companies, in
making up their passenger trains,
placed the express cas- just after the
locomotive, and now do, except where
postal cars are RUIZ; in this case the lat.