New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-07-13
It is related Of a certain minister who

It is related Of certain minister who
was noted for his long sermons with
many divisions, that ono day, rs he was
advancing among his teens, no reached
Mt length resting place in his dis
course, when, pausing to take breath,
he asked the question: ''And what shall
] ask morep" A voice from the con-
gregation earnestly responded, .'Say
Amen"
James Redpath the lecturer. says that
Capt. Boycott was one of the most
brutal and foul-mouthed agents in
Western Ireland He compelled his
tenants to stand bare-headed when he
passed, and never addressed poor man
without an oath. Redpath agrees with
Boycott that Ireland needs emigration,
but says it should be emigration of
landlords.
Tobacco has become an important
product of Wisconsin. Formerly on
inferior quality was planted and sold to
small extent as low as two to six cents
2 pound; but now that finer grade
known as WISCONSIN Havana" has
been substituted it has sprung into ia.
vor, and the demand for it at twelve to
fourteen cents q pound is rapidly in
croasing.
Mr.. Emerson is said by the Boston
correspondent of the Providence Press
to have not exactly approved Walt
Whitman's action in printing in Sec
ond work the Concord sage's praise of
Leaves of Grass" The correspon-
dent adds: w hen Whitman was told
of this disrclish, he made this noble re-
mark: I used it because l thought it
was the chart of an Emperor
Walker Lake, in Nevada, is about
twenty-nine miles long and fourteen
miles wide in one place and is 1000 feet
deep. The water is strongly impregnat-
cd with soda, and yet the lake at the
northern end contains trout in abun-
dance: LAT the other end of the lake."
as one of the residents remarked, "you
might fish till your hair on your chin
was mile long, and you'd never get
bite"
A significant but melancholy COM
ment upon the value of the work actu-
ally accomplished by the much-vaunted
Boston schools is found in the fact that
a prominent lawyer who wished copy
ist recently was forced to reject a large
number of applicants who had gradu-
ated from the High School for the SIM
pie reason that not one of them could
spell common words even tolerably
Thomas Sims, who, when slave, es-
capped from Savannah to Boston, and
whose case as q fugitive slave created
great excitement in the latter city thir-
ty years ago. was afterward sold in Mis-.
sissippi. Ten years afterward he es-
capped with bis wife in a dugout canoe,
and sought Grants army at Vicksburg.
He was given place in the Attorney
Generals Office in Washington by
Judge Devens, and is still there.
The natives of Terra del Fuego are
one of the most degraded among the
races of mankind. How could they be
otherwise? ':rheir country" says DIR.
Darwin, lis broken mass of wild rock,
lofty hills and useless forests: and these
are viewed through mists and endless
storms. The habitable land is reduced
to tho stones of the beach. In search
Of food they are compelled to wander
increasingly from spot to spot; and so
is the coast that they can only move
ADOut III tnelr WTeCcneu Canoes. 1h0y
are habitual cannibals, killing and eat
ing their old women before they kill
their dogs, for the sufficient reason, as
explained by themselves, "Doggies
catch others; old women, no."
When York, Pa, was invaded by the
Confederatcs in 1868, General Early,
who commanded, levied contribution
OF 100000 upon the city. As nearly
all tho ready cash had been removed
before he arrived. he only got $4,000.
So confident was Early in the success of
the campaign in which he was engaged
that he took the bonds of tho corpora
ton officers for the additional $40, 900.
He was beaten at Gettysburg, and the
bonds were never presented. There is
q story now in York that Early still has
the bonds and contemplates bringing
suit against the city to recover the
amount This would certainly be a
novel suit at law and raise some inter-
cstirg questions.
A lady about to remove from Hart
fore, Conn.,, to St. Louis had four pet
cats shipped to that city by express.