New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-08-10

Trent invited Strickland to take 8
drink of peace at Scott, Mo-, and there
by settle a long-standing quarrel; but
at the same time he laid a big knife on
the bar, and said that he was ready to
fight instead of drinking, if the occa-
sion demanded it. Strickland chose
the duel, and they fought until he was
mortally wounded.
Canadians would not consent to let the
United States take any of the glory Of
Hanlan's victories abroad, because his
home is in Canada, and now the Toron-
to Globe reminds the Yankees that the
winner of the Derby ''is the son of the
famous English horse bennington, and
his dam was the daughter of the no less
celebrated English horse Australian y
At the Moody and Sankey meetings
in San Francisco, ''in the front row,
with those who responded most prompt
ly in soprano to Brother Sankey's We
will now sing always sat Mrs. King,
while opposite her, on the row Of chairs
most affected by those who sang bass,
sat Major Ranlett." These points are
recalled now by tho elopement of Mrs.
King and the Major.
Some of tho travelling shows that
visit Texas are wofully bad. Fernan-
dina, particularly, has suffered from
these swindles. To guard against them
a reporter of the Banner, goes to
Branchville to see a performance by
each approaching company, and it de-
ponds upon him whether any audience
is drawn at Fernandina.
The sea lion business has become
quite an industry. They are distrib-
uted among geological collections in all
parts of the. world. They are caught
by lasso when summing themselves on
the rocks. It is risky work. Tho high
price paid, and the fact that few die
while being transmitted to distant des-
tinations, make risk and trouble worth
taking.
John Reynolds, wealthy resident of
Lackawanna, Pa, added to the deser-
ton of his wife the meanness of con-
verting all his property into cash, and
taking it along. Mrs. Gladstone, the
woman with whom he eloped, was
meaner still. Although her husband
was comparatively poor, she stole the
small amount of money which he had
saved by years of frugality
When Gambetta was speechifying at
Cahers recently, cafe-concert song
stress was engaged by an energetic
manager to sing at the same time to
the citizens. This lady, Mile. Gambet-
ia by name. moreover claims to be q
cousin of the ex-dictator His friends,
aware that riiicule kills in Franco, be-
sought her to leave the city, but she re-
piled: ''No, I am earning my bread,
and will not leave. Besides, what do
you take me for? l have been engaged,
and when l sign q contract I never
break it!''
So greatly did Queen Victoria admire
the wedding dress of Lady Brooke (the
beautiful Miss Maynard, recently mar
ried to the Earl of Warwick's eldest
sony, that she insisted on her dining in
it at Winsdor Castle, and, after dinner,
told the bride to walk about, that she
might see it better-the result of these
peripatetic movements being that her
ladyship was ''commanded' to be pho
tographed therein.
Haverly's new theatre in Chicago is
to have q peculiar feature, which the
owner thus describes: II have con-
structed two fashion boxes, which are a
novelty, and which 1 think will take
well. These are one on either side of
the stage, built level with the floor, and
so arranged that tho ladies occupying
them may be seen entirely. BY this
means they are enabled to display their
toilets. This is the purpose of tho fash
ion boxes
Mr.. Laboucherc, who owns Pope's
Villa, on the Thames, where he resides
during the summer, writes.the follow
ing as among the annals of tho boating
season on that classic river: IA friend
of mine, under the influence of spring
evening, moonshino, and other roman.
tic surroundings, was led on to ask q
pretty but somewhat strong-minded
young lady to row in the same boat
with him for lifo.' On one condition.
she answered promptly, and that is that
steer.'"