New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-06-29
NEWS BREVITIEs.

The new editor of tho atlantic, I. B.
Aldrich, wakes his moustache down to
u sharp point and wears colored shirts.
Mrs. Margaret Fox Kane. one of tho
original Rochester spirit-rapping me-
diums, is still alive. She is not a spir-
itualist.
A Western editor reminds his readers
that it is getting almost time to pawn
the family cook stove for ticket to tho
circus.
There are two States in the Union in
which there are no Chinese, Vermont
and North Carolina. But they have
plenty of maple sugar and whisky.
Vennor says the winter of 1882 prom
Uses to be open and generally mild.
This is some consolation. However,
tho citizens of this country can stand
most any kind Of weather.
An English soldier costs his country
twice as much as q Russian soldier,
nearly three times as much as Ger
man, and four times as much as an
Austrian.
Says Murat Halstead: If theatrical
people read the barometer correctly,
there is impending tremendous storm,
in which the star combination business
will disappear like chaff in whirl-
wind"
Spread a report through an Austrian
neighborhood that Satan would appear
on certain corner at a certain time,
and a crowd of several thousand peo-
pie would assemble to see how the old
man looked.-Detsost Free Press
1t is stated that the statue of Liberty
to be presented to the United States by
tho French people, and intended for
Redloe's Island, in New York harbor, is
progressing well. M. Bartholds pro-
poses also to erect plaster model Of
the statue in Paris, which will tower
above Notre Dame.
1t is said that $50, 600, 900 hard earn
ings of the country are invested in fin
ger-rings. Well, that is a good way to
make money 60 round.-Neeo HAGEN
Reqister. The fountain cannot rise
higher than the stream. The biggest
fortunes como through rings, and to
rings let them return. Boston I1'a1a-
script.
A lawyer in Plymouth, Mass, has
filed bill praying for an injunction to
stop the ringing of a mill bell at 5
o'clock in the morning, alleging that
lit Injuries and depreciates his property
and estates, disturbs the quiet OF our
homes, and molcsts us in our engage.
ments of business, amusements, and
devotion"
Tea, crackers and sponge-cake were
the fare Gen. Joubert set before English
visitors to his camp. II cannot offer
you champagne, as Sir Evelyn Wood
did to US last week. We don't take
such things with US when we 90 to
fight" Here is Boer who is no boor,
but in tho language of the Arkansaw
Traveller "a perfect gentleman"
A Vermont clergyman makes the fu-
ture of good Christians clear by saying:
'.After crossing the mystic river, we
shall 60 on from the man to the angel,
from the angel to the archangel; from
the archange1 to the celestial, from the
celestial to the divine, and then, gath
ering the stars in clusters about our
heads, dream out the endless dream Of
eternity"
Angry wife (time 2 a. m. )-"Is that
you, Charles ?" Jolly husband-':Zash
me-" Angry wife-"Here have been
standing at the head of the stairs these
two hours. Oh, Charles, how can your
Jolly husband (bracing up)-'.Shtan-
din on your head on t'shtairs Jenny.
I'm Surprised! How can I By Jove'
can't. Two hours, too? 'Stronary
woman Cincinnati Gazette.
Frank Bush and his wife, of Clarion,
o., agreed at their marriage that if any
quarrel ever. arose between them it
should be left to the decision of three
referees. Mrs. Bush lately visited her
mother, and refused to return home.
The case was fully presented to the ref.
erees, who decided that the wife was
wrong, and must go back to her hus.
band. They also voted to censure the
mother-in-law.