New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-10-05
WAITS.

WAxfS
Louisiana has school population of
29O,O36. OF this number 130,657 are
colored.
Mrs. Curl, of Bourbon county. Ken
lucky, has clothes limo that has been
in use for over seventy odd years.
A Pottsville (Pa.) dentist in forty
minutes chloroformed three women
and pulled seventy teeth from their
jaws.
The crown diamonds of France are
to be sold in order to provide for the
better maintenance OF the public mu-
seums.
The members of tho New Hampshire
legislature drew pay for eighty days
work, and were in session total of
III hours.
Scotland derives 81 100000 per an
mum as rental from sporting grounds.
The Duke of Westminster pays $40, 900
for one track.
An Arkansas man rode three hundred
miles to shoot the chap who cheated
his father in q horse trade. Filial af-
lection can never die in this country.
The will of Horatio Foster, deaf
mute, was offered for probate at East
Machias, Me-, recently, but the judge
said his infrmity made him incompe-
tent to dispose Of his estate.
Near Blue Water, New Mexico, is the
crater of an extinct volcano. From that
point streams of lava have covered the
ground for many miles in extent aud
to considerable depth.
We have seen ladies who were insult
ferably shocked at the sight of a man
in his shirt-sleeves; and their own arms
were bare almost to the shoulders
Women are strange creatures.
Tourist-'Where is Block Islandp"
Polite American-"In Rhode Island"
Tourist-"But how can you put one is
ican-'O, that's nothing-we accom-
plish anything in this country"
There is no better way to live health
lily and happily than to cultivate tenn
permanent wherein the most contradio-
tory qualities and properties of tho or
ganism are perfectly counterbalanced
and controlled ..-
A remarkable discovery has been
made in Sweetwater county, Wyoming.
1t is deposit of sulphuric acid in q
natural state. The ground is impreg-
mated over large area-l00 acres or
more-and parties have filed claims
upon it.
Although it is more than twenty
years since tho Harvard University Mu-
scum of Natural History was founded.
there are apartments of its structure
which have not yet been opened, and
large quantities of collections that re-
main unassorted and unarranged.
The use of gas for cooking and heat
ing is making rapid Roadway in Eng
land. Gas is cheaper in England than
here, which may account for the more
general use of the clearly gas-stove
there than will be likely to be the case
with US. It is also claimed that if gas
could be substituted for coal in Lon
don there would be material improv.
ement of the atmosphere.
Calcutta, according to the recent
census, has o population of 6S4,658
souls, two-thirds OF whom are males,
and of these the greater part are in the
middle perad of life. The number of
young persons under 20 years of age
has Increased perceptibly, and from
this it is known that the resident pop
ulation is growing.
The Connecticut valley was formerly
the great broom region of the country.
Now the corn is chiefly raised on the
fertile prairies of the west, and Chica-
20 is the principal market. Once
Northampton, Hadley, Hatfield, and
many town in that vicinity did
thriving business in the production of
brooms, and largely supplied tho coun-
try with these articles. Before the
days of railroading it was not an un-
usual occurrence to send q fifty or sixty
ton load down the Connecticut on
fiat boat to be ro-shipped at Hartford
by steamer. A veteran in the business
says that he has sold as many as $4,000
brooms within q month. Massachu.
sets no longer monopolizes this. bust.
| ness; it is distributed all over tho coun.
Try, with perhaps the largest interests
conferred in New York state.
In the upper part Of Sonoma county
California, near the coast, may be seen
an actual road-bed in tho tree tops.
Between the Clipper Mills and Stuart's
Point, where the road crosses deep
| ravine, the trees are sawed off on q
level and the timber and ties laid on
the stumps. In the center of the ra-
| vine mentioned. two huge redwood
trees, standing side by side, form a
substantial support, and they are cut
off seventy-fve feet above the ground.
One more story about Dean Stanley.
mo one feels up to his work." he said
one day. II have always thought that
Dean should have three qualifications,
none of which possess. First, think
Dean should know something about
music; am absolutely ignorant of the
| subject. Secondly, I think q Dean
should know something about architec-
ture; I know nothing about it. Third
ly, l think Dean should know some-
thing about the management of busi-
ness; am always thankful when our
audit is over and we have not come to
some grievous mishap."
Ben Wood some years ago won, it is
said, 1925, 900 at single sitting at faro.
He borrowed $1,000 from Jud ge Nc
Cam to begin on, and he went away
with every pocket stuffed with checks
and bills. The cigar seller in the
gambling rooms says that Wood that
night smoked $40 worth of cigars. He
took cigars costing 81 each, and light
ing one end, began, in his nervous way,
to eat the other, and In about two min
utes he would take fresh one.
Colonel Dan Murphy, of Halleck
station, Elko county, came to Califor-
MIA in 1914, and may be said to have
made the country pay him we'll for his
time. He is now probably the largest
private land owner on this continent.