New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-06-15
ALL SORTS.

The estate left by the late Isaac Sher-
man is valued at seven millions of dol
lars.
The telephone has developed an en-
tirely new school of hello-cution.-PhiL
adelphia Bulletin.
Mrs. Robinson, of Boston, has applied
for admission to the bar, and is the first
Massachusetts, woman to claim the right
to practice law.
John Morden, Canadian farmers
boy, self-taught in the art of taxidermy.
has collection of 1900 birds, all
caught, stuffed and mounted by himself.
The Jew mechanics at Moscow have
protested to the governor general
against certain hardships to which they
are subjected. owing to the local laws
regarding the Jews.
The Russian Philanthropical society
has resolved to provide for the families
of all those who have been, or may be,
killed or injured in the struggle against
the nihilist conspirators.
The people of Sydney, Neb., were 80
they organized what is known among
the ranchmen as roundup. They drew
a Gordon around the town and drove all
the bad characters into Jail.
A Montreal thief had thrown a bundle
of goods out through the rear window
of store, and would have followed in
safety had he not stopped to read par
agraph which caught his eye in news
paper lying on the counter. The delay
caused his capture.
Out in Leadville, when one is intro
duced to stranger, the polite thing is
to ask, ''What was your name before
you came here?'' The next question,
according to the rules of etiquette, is,
''How did you manage to escape?'-
OIL CITY Derrick.
Superintendent Forristall of the Bos-
ton Health Department says that a pro-
portionate expenditure of money would
not keep New York streets as clean as
those of Boston, because cleanliness is
a Yankee trait and Yankee householders
do not throw refuse carelessly out of
doors.
Two men at Wayncsville. Ill.,, through
whose farm railroad had been built,
soaped the rails and thus delayed the
trains. Every morning they went out
with brooms and pals of soft soap to
coat the track for distance of half
mile. Their mischief was finally stopped
by arrest.
The report of President Eliot of Har-
ward calls attention to the fact that the
ten colleges in the New England Asso-
citation had 4, 544 students in 1856, and
have now but 4,512. Williams College
is the only institution which shows
large increase-from 40 to 277.
A Philadelphia society is wrestling
with the question, 'sWben q man has
his life insured for 800. 900, is his wife
justified in refusing to prepare mus
tard plaster for him when he is seized
with q sudden and severe attack of the
crampsp' = Philadelphia Chronicle.
Herald.
!. The lately burned '.Printempo'' dry
goods house at Paris was insured for
over 81, 600, 900 in twenty Offices. This
fire has ELECTED loud complaint against
the Paris fire brigade, which, having NO
nibusses and cabs, q cause, of course, Of
great delay.
Assistant United States Fish Commits
sioner Pierce has filed at Washington
nearly 200 applicati ions for the food carp
to be distributed tllis season by the Gov.
eminent. NeAl3Y fourth Of the APP
plications are 4fp1 citizens of Philadel.
phia who own places near the city. A
large number Of persons are making
elaborate preparations for carp culture
in various parts of the country.
The sita of An nneient camn of Indi.