New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-07-06

OF the trOVlQolC0 NGlOS-Mf. Lincoln
looked out of the window and saw him
for the first time. ..Well,' said the
President with emphasis, ''he looks like
man!'
Miss Clara Barton. who devoted her.
self to the sick and wounded soldiers
and the Andersonville prisoners during
the war, is now at Washington. She is
a plain, sweet-faced, elderly lady, and
pins her lace scarf with the scarlet
badge of the society of the Geneva
Cross, of which she was member dur
ing the Franco Prussian war.
The London Times says: 1T can
scarcely be doubted that all London,
along its main thoroughfares, will dis
card gas for tho electric light within
the present century. The really eau
tious and hesitating progress of tho
invention must remind not few of tho
equally cautious and hcsitating progress
of gas"
A rich and eccentric old Kentuckian.
named Lewis Hamilton, who was killed
by a fall from his horse recently, is said
to have left five children bearing tho
surprising names of Avenue Belle,
young girl of IS; China, Figure, another
daughter of IA; London Judge, a SON
aged 21; Hebrew Fashion, daughter,
aged II, and Southern Soil, lad of
years.
Miss Elizabeth Thompson has written
a grateful letter to the New. Orleans
Auxiliary Sanitary association, thank
ing it for naming one of its public
squares in that city for her, and saying:
|'It contributes greatly to my happiness
to learn that any efforts l have made
for the promotion of the public health
in our beautiful city have been blessed"
There will be no college student
waiters'' in the summer resort hotels
this. year. Tho proprietors of the va
rious hotels where they have hitherto
been employed have unanimously de-
cided to engage them no more, princi-
pally on the ground that they failed to
give satisfaction, being disqualified for
their duties by the sedentary and stu
dious habits Of college life.
'.Americans are of practical ma
ture," remarks the Boston Post, and
proceeds to illustrate: ''When an ILL
nois farmer who had got rich was WIS.,
iting Switzerland, they dilatcd to him
on the beauty OF the surrounding seem
cry. Yes he replied, 'as scenery it's
very good. But it strikes me the Lord
has wasted lot of space on scenery
that might have been made level and
good farming land.' They wanted to
lynch him.
A man on trial for arson in Branch
county, Mich, showed that the house
| was owned by his wife, and the Judge
! ruled that as he occupied the house in
common with her, and the State statute
defines the crime Of arson to be burn
ing the dwelling of another, setting fire
to the building would not constitute the
crime. The accused was accordingly
| discharged.
Among recent inventions chronicled
in England are new balloon, and elas-
tic lining for beer casks, new process
for illustrating soap cakes, a method for
preventing collisions on railroads, an
apparatus for turning over leaves of
| music, a machine for cleaning and roll
ling up carpets, cof1in-handle applic-
able to other purposes, and self
emptying mouse-trap,
Boston has an Italian colony about
1900 strong. There are few wealthy
Italians there, but large majority of
them possess tho comforts, and many of
them the luxuries, of life. In small
houses, located on narrow streets and
alleys, rich Brussels, carpets and costly
walnut furniture may be found. Paint
| ings and engravings adorn the walls,
and tasteful articles of biiouterie
abound. Their moral character also is
good. Their church is regularly attend
ed by over three hundred families, while
the police declare them to be the most
orderly Gloss of the city's population. :
Tho only canal packet-line for pas.
sengers now operated in connection
with railroad in this country, is con-
nected with the Richmond & Allegheny
Railroad, in Virginia. The railroad
extends from Richmond to Scottsville,
seventy-fve miles, and on tho western
end from Buchanan to Williamson,
thirty-fvo miles, leaving gap of 118
miles, which is traverscd by canal pack
cts tri-weekly, averaging the terrible
speed of about five miles per hour.
A Cincinnati young woman killed her
baby by stabbing it thirteen times with
a knife. The only witness of the crime
was her lover. Ohio law does not COM
| pei husband to testify against his wife
in criminal trial, and therefore the
marriage of this couple was considered
a sure way of saving q prisoner. Tho
authorities undertook to prevent the
| union, but were not sufficiently vigil
liant, for marriage ceremony was sur
reptitiously, though, legally, performed
in jail.
The total area of the temperate re-
gion of South Africa is about equal to
l, 100, 900 miles, or one-third the size of
Europe, or six times the size Of France.
Sir Bartle Frere says that the climate
and general conditions of life are such
| as to suit men of the European race,
who can live and thrive there as tho
English and Dutch populations have
done in the Cape Colony. Almost every
part of the country is healthy for Euro
peans.
.'Why is it that that two souls. mated
in tho impenetrable mystery of their
nativity, float by each other on the ocean
currents of existence without being in
stinctivcly drawn together. blended and
beautificd in the essimilativo alembic of
eternal love ?'' sighed the fair Boston,
ian, gazing through the window at the
star-studded belt Of Orion; after which
she plunged her arms elbow deep into
the foaming washtub and wondered
what Ralph Waldo Emerson would think
Of her if he could see her now. Brook-
Ign Eagle.
Pastor P. S. Pratt, of Dorset, one Of
the lovliest and most picturesque towns
of Vermont, writes to the Advance:
Dorset has but few things keeps
right on in the old way. The old min
lister for Is years; the old chorister for
so and more; the same deacons. one Of
20, the other Of 40 years deaconate; a
Sunday-school superintendent for 16
years; Sunday-school teacher of So
years." etc. The most childish crea-
ture in the town is tho village belle,
who has been 81 years the last seven
birthdays.
Women are less piven to commit ami.