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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-09-07
Touching Eyidauca of Instinct.

One of the most touching incidents
on record illustrative of animal instinct
and affection occurred during recent
bear hunt in this vicinity. The parties
who vouch for the truth of then arrative
arc all we'll known ut Santa Barbara.
Ono of them shot a small cub through the
head. killing it instantly, the ball enter
ing tho skull just back of the eyes.
Something called the attention of the
hunters away from the spot, and when
they returned half hour afterward;
they found the mother bear standing
over her lifeless cub. apparently en-
gagged in licking and caressing its head.
A couple of well-directed shots soon
stretched the she bear by the side of
her dead offspring, and the hunters ap-
preached to secure their game. To
their surprise they found the bullet
wound in tho cubs head partly filed
with finely chewed grass and leaves.
The mother had evidently seen the
blood oozing from the wound and had
endeavored to do what she could to-
ward stanching the flow. Santa Bar.
bu1u (Cul.) Press.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-09-07
The step-Mother.

Disdained, unloyed, save at times to creep =
10 her husbands heart, and thero cloak the
Sad pangs that came Of their studied slights--
His childron, whom she had life laid down
TO win to herself, and kiss of tho frown
For imagined theft Of anOther's rights
She had pinned and dropped till the end had
And t my grouped at her deathbed, erioved
"Ah! your tears are soothing" she murmured.
You had understood me. But, pray, be good
To this now, frail pledge of my lifel" And
They placed on nor bosom the child just born,
AT ite-cost out of the flint and thorn
or her wifehood's trials. SO brief and serc.
"Bo good to my babe. did so try
TO DO good to you, though you passed mo by.
Whose mateless heart must again be dim
At my souls swift passing. Was Ito blame,
Whose W. years but little exceeded OK yours,
His in the hope which lures
AS second wife. and should then have striven
To replace her who had been called to heaven!
"a step-mother! Az, how tho hated word
Had frightened me from the first, deferred
My reluctant Yes. and then ncrved my will
With tho hope to soften its harshness down
by new, sweet mOthcriness, whose crown
Should be bribed to my brows out Of oil tho
anu cnptlncsS you n0O known! But no:
It was SGT that We would not have 1t DO.
"You will take tho will for the deed, though,
dears,
Now that I'm dyin92 Too lato these tears,
If this budding life, to your care consigned,
Thrive not In tho fondness to mo denied.
It ia darkcning! Husband, your hand-nor
chide
These dear ones. Quick-let my neck be
twined
by the soft arms! Thcrc-bid them kiss my
brOWl
They cannot hate their step-mother now"
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-09-07
Strange Phenomeus.

Many strange sounds, real or imag.
mary, have been heard in the working
of Natures processes. There has been
reported to exist On q distant island in
the Bay Of Bengal phenomenon
known as the ''Barisal gums" which is
often heard at the beginning of rain
fall, and is like the sound Of the firing
of q cannon. An observer has decided
that these sounds are atmospheric and
in some way connected with electrici.
ty. Mr.. Horne. reporting on the VII.
lagos of the Himalayas, describes ox.
ceedingly powerful noises heard in the
highest mountain peaks, to which tho
natives can ascribo no cause. Above
the town of Koimbatur, In Madras, Is
q pond which the natives carefully
shun because frighttul noises issue from
its depth.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-09-07
Hints for Housewives.

fafSlcy eaten Win vinegar Will re.
move the unpleasant effects of eating
onions. So will a pinch of green tea.
To cure warts, cut a slice from a raw
potato and rub the hand each night:
let the water dry on the hand. It will
need but few applications.
IT little vinegar or some cider is
mixed with stove polish, it will not
take much rubbing to make the stove
bright, and the backing is not likely to
fly off in fine dust.
When washing fine laces do not use
starch at all; in the last water in which
they are rinsed put a little fine white
sugar; dissolve it thoroughly and the
result will be pleasing.
Ten cents worth of coculus Indicus
berries, stepped in pint of cheap whis-
ky and applied by feather in every
crack OF corner of the infected bed
stead or walls will prove too much for
the bugs.
Gargle for sore throat: Take one
tcaspoonful of cayenne pepper, one
teaspoonful of salt, one pint of water,
two tablespoonfuls of vinegar; sweeten
to taste with honey or loaf sugar. Mix
COgeCnor anu OOCCle.
Silk ncckties can be washed in rain
water to one pint of which add q tea
spoonful of white honey and one OF
hartshorn. Do not squeeze but let them
drip and when nearly dry press between
folds of cloth.
After buttering your cake tins scat
tor little flour over them and the cake
is absolutely certain not to stick to the
tin. If your oven is likely to bake
hard at the bottom put paper in tho
bottom of the tin. Butter it well first.
Nothing is better to clean silver with
than alcohol and ammonia; after
rubbing with this take little whiten-
ing on soft cloth and polish in this
way; even frosted silver, which is so
difficult to clean, may be easily made
clear and bright.
TO remove proud flesh pulverize
loaf sugar very fine and apply it to the
part afflicted. This is new and easy
remedy, and is said to remove it with
out pain; or burnt alum pulverized and
applied is an old reliable remedy.
For the violent internal agony termed
collie. take a teaspoonful of salt in q
pAAG VI COAO "AlCl NAAuh ~ tsAu ~ W
bed. It is ono of the speediest RENE
dies known. The same will revive q
person who seems almost dead from q
heavy fall. ~
For hoarsoness take the whites OF
two-cggs and beat them with two tea.
spoonfuls of white sugar, CRATE little
nutmeg, then add q pint of lukewarm
water: stir we'll. drink often. and Il
will cure the most obstinate case Of
hoarseness in o short time.
By using syrup or molasses for mus;
tard plasters' they ~, will keep soft and
hard, as when mixed with water.
thin paper or fine cloth, should come
between the plaster and the skin. The
strength Of the plaster is variod by the
addition of more or less hour.-N, y
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-09-07
Ths Defendant Pan, Of Oou1,e

A novel point was recently raised as
Thompsonville In this wise: A man
was sued, aud ON the day designated
in the writ for trial the Justice forgot
about the matter and neglected to at
tend. Both plaintiff aud defendant APP
peared and waited the full hour. As
the law provides the Justice issued no
tice, had the case reopened, and after
q hearing by jury, judgment was rem
dered for the plaintiff for the debt and
all costs. The query was whether the
defendant was liable for the extra costs
of service for notice. The case was
submitted by only the plaintiff and de-
PENDANT, and ably argued on both sides.
A decision was rendered that a. be.
tween those two the defendant should
DO held liable. II the Justice had been
included as party to the arbitration.
no doubt the extra cost would in equi-
ty have fallen upon him. Hartford
COu9QNE.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-09-07
Love at First Sight.

Sitting in my window,
Pointing my thoughts in lawn, I saw god,
(! thought, but it was y0uO enter our gates.
As had pressed it forth, and sucked 1t in,
Like breath: then was called away in haste
To entertain you. Never was man
HcaVed from sheepcOt to q sceptre, raised
So high in thoughts as I. You left q kiss
Upon these lips, then, which I mean to keep
From you forever. did hear you talk
I grow acquainted with my heart, and searched
What stirred it so. Alasi found It love.
BEAUMONT AND FLHTCHHR.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-09-07
Chinese Pirates.

The towns contain due amount of
tame cheats, but tho bold hectoring
highwayman, the truculent sea-robber,
must be sought elsewhere. All along
the Blue and Yellow Rivers are found
retail buccaneers, who hawk at tri-
fling quarry and fatten on slender prof.
its. These poor rogues do not aspire
to ship of their own; they come pad
ding out of muddy creeks in the small
est Of sampans, alarmed, ill-clad, but
plentifully smeared with fish-oil. II
manfully confronted, they fly; if Crap
pied by the crews of the fourth CLASS
junks, which they select as prizes, they
slip like so many cells through the
hands that grasp them, and their
swimming makes amends for their lax
courage. Seldom do any very sinister
results follow one of these attacks. II
the fresh-water pirates prove victorious
they are mild conquerors, and only too
eagcr to be ashore again with their
booty of rice and corn, stray garments,
odd fragments of chain. bits of copper
and brass hastily ripped from the poop
and cabins, and perhaps the glorious
trophy of a few rattling strings Of cash.
The dollars and silver bars are gener-
ally too we'll hidden to be detected by
such hurried searchers; food, rather
than fortune, is the object of the foray;
and, except in rare cases ofremarkable
temptation, no life is attempted and no
torture resorted to, with these amphib.
ious petty-larceny rogues the magis-
trates deal mildly, according to the
traditions of Chinese justice. Three
hundred strokes OF. the bamboo may
be endured by the human frame. Four
sleepless weeks in the ''cangue," or
bamboo pillory, may fail to madden q
stOlid, unimaginative coolie. A few
minor tortures need only be added to
these two tirst-named infections, and
the culprit is thought to be tenderly
dealt with. Pilferers in fair or the
streets of a town are considered as still
more venial offenders. A vigorous
bastinado and week of the pillory is
tho laws award in such trivial cases.
Potty assaults are as leniently disposed
of, but tire-raising is a sin of deeper
dye; and the malicious piercing of q
neighbours dixie, to let in = devastating
flood, is. punished with extreme rigor.
Murder and reasonable practices.
wholesale piracy, and armed brigan.
dage, all cry aloud for death. more or
less slow and painful, and parricide
evokes the sternest chastisements Of the
Chinese, as il once did az the Roman,
law.-AN the Year Round.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-09-07
What's in 4 Name.

king, the wrestler. had fight with
driver on transfer wagon in front Of
the Weddell House, yesterday, and got
the worst of it. Both parties were ar
rested"
The above little paragraph, which
was clipped from the Cleveland Sun
day Voice, reminds US Of an adven-
ture which befell the celebrated prize
fighter Tom Hyer. in Albany, good
many years ago. Hyer was an Amer
ican, and it was just after the famous
battle with yankee Sullivan" the
Irish champion, in which the former
was victorious, and when Hyer's name
was in almost everybody's mouth.
Hyer was the worse for liquor, and in
passing along the sidewalk he jostled
rather roughly . countryman who was
minding his own business. The latter
said little savagely, Come, what are
you about?" Hyer turned and slapped
him in the face. The countryman, like
the prize fighter, was of large stature.
and, not knowing who it was that had
insulted him, fell atoul of Hyer with
great fury. The prize fighter found
himself doubled up so quickly that no
had no time to display any Of that sci
ence which had used up Yankee SulN-
van. Hyer. after the first onset, picked
himself from the gutter where he had
been hurled, and struck an attitude
which might have appalled, scientific
opponent, but to the aroused country
man it was Ike shaking . rcd flag in
the eyes of an enragsd buI, and he
went Tor him again Ike o hurricane.
Hyer . second time went down under
the furious onset, aud the oouhtxyman.
determined to follow up tho advantage,
threw himself upon the PROSTATE form
OF his gigantic antagonist and COM
menced to pound him numerically.
In the meantime largo crowd had
gathered, and one man who knew Hycr
sang out: "Hyer! What the h are
you doing to let countryman lick
yerP''
The victorious yeoman heard the
name, "Hyer," turned pale to think Of
his peril, and springing to his feet.
leaving hid. hat in the street, took to
his legs end ran at : headlong pace %
though pursued BY something worse
than Tam OShanter ever fed from.
He LEFT Albany BY tho leg express,
and did not stop 1t the way stations.-
Hart ord Tones. :
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-09-07

a minister breaches on tho question,
What Is the Sabbath ?'s Around here
the Sabbath is the day when you IL 81
bed longer in the morning. and Wrestlo
with your collar button until It IS too lato
to 60 to church. -
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-09-07

At fancy ball the mistress of tho
house stationed servant at the door
to announce the guests by their cos
tunes. At last arrived two ladies in
plain walking costume, who had only
come to glance at the gay and dazzling
scene. "What costume shall I announce
ladies?" asked the servant, courteous
~. ooh, n0ne-mercy, we haven't
anything ON at ALP is the response.
1.-Two ladies without anything on at
all!' beloved the faithful domestic.
Sensation
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-10-09
PangeHt Paragraphs.

every Little helps" said Mr.. Lit
tie, when Mrs. L. presented him with
twins. Boston Bulletin.
The tobacco crop is very poor in
Connec icut. We shall have large
falling of in the.importation of Hsv-
ana cigars in consequence.
Professor Harris says 'there is o
coming of the macrocosm into the
microcosm. Time for some folks to
take to the woods when this happens.
Traveler-"How do you brokers
manage to undersell the railroad com.
panies?" Scalper-"Vell, you see
We don't get so much expenses. Dose
railroad fellers haf to keep up the
rollin' sock an pay 70 hands. We
don't. It's all clear profit Wit us!''
A Jolly Dutchman, when the steam
boat was about to sink, succeeded,
after much trouble, in finding life
preserver large enough to fit him.
While trying his best to blow it up a
young fellow standing by said: You
can't fill that with wind; it leaks
Don't you hear it sizz?" "Ish dot
SOP" he 1eplied. "Vell, I dinks
den, I peter keep de Wind in myself -
I declare ifthere isn't the Deacon's
daughter out with new shawl.
We'll. I never" ''Hush!" said a
better informed female; "tisn't hers.
It's one she borrowed from the COM
pany that's visiting overt the Dea-
CONS" swell, there's one thing,
I know. She can't depend on Dor
rowing to look we'll in heaven. She'll
have to wear her own angel plumage
when she gets there" And they
bowed their heads as the minister
opened the services.
An Ohio naturalist claims TO have
discovered that ''crows fly zig-zag.
and not. as has been generally be-
lived, in 8 straight line." o we'll
may be they do fly Gig sag" in Ohio.
1t depends great deal on the condi-
ton of the man who is looking at
them. Now, in Texas they fly round
and round, and round and round; in
Missouri they fly about five miles
going across twenty-scre field; In
Mississippi they can t fly rod after
four O'Clock in the afternoon, while in
Iowa and Kansas they fly az straight
as G chalk-line any hour between
twelve and twelve.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-11-04

occursso s6y a. usat my moment. Why
is a Ne instinozvelg consider il unsafe for
woman to pass through a lonely. street
after dark, unless accompanied by some
male friend? Simply because every one
knows that the thugs of society are always
on the watch for opportunities, aud when
such present Themselves, the most So
ciety's appointed guardians can de is to
punish the criminal-they cannot prevent
the preparation of the crime.
The reader of the daily press can. ifshe
so desires multiply such eases indefinitely,
cases in which the presence of the little
denizens Of, the hip pocket would accom-
plish ga power Of good" The cases in
which it has done harm; viz: Those pas
sionate quarrels in which men have impul-
sively drawn and used their, weapons be-
fore fully realizing what they were doing,
on which so much stress is laid by defend
ers of the laws in question, are mot near
50 numerous as the others, and when they
do occur, furnish no pretext for such laws
as those.
- & zt 80 -'t Cry RIVERS
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-11-04
. IMnIaRArIoN sTATrsT1cs.
New York Sun. ]

\
| immigration continues TO be greater than
ever before. On Tuesday two thousand
| foreigners, who have come hither to find
permanent homes, were landed at CAST e
| Garden, and during July, August and Sep
TENDER the total immigration to the United
States was III, SOB, against 155, 234 for the
same quarter last year.
Yet 1880 was year of unprecedented
| immigration. The arrivals were more nu-
merous even than in the days when the
| Irish were f1ocking to this country after
| their famine. During the twelve months
which ended last June, they reached nearly
| 700, 000 and during the two years then
closed, the aggregate was /, 125, 600. total
greater by nearly quarter than the whole
| immigration for the preceding five years
Between 1920 and 1860 the total inn
migration to the United States was
about ten millions. If the foreigners
continue to come hither during
the whole decade at the rate of
tween 1880 and 1890 alone more than
half as many as arrived during all that
long period Nor is it improbable that we
may see an immigration so unprecedented.
OF these foreigners about one third at
present are Germans. More than two
hundred thousand Germans were landed
in this country last year, while the, ar
rivals from ireland were less than seventy
five thousand, The Germans already here
have greatly changed abe tone and charac-
ter of our society. They have introduced
new ideas and new customs, The Puritan
ism which formerly was dominant in the
redublic has found in them persistent if
not contemptuous, enemy. They will not
accommodate themselves to do it. They
have also seized whole departments of
trade. and their greater thrift is winning
for them many advantages over the whole
native population. How will it be in ten
years from now, when two or three millions
viii have been added to their number?
But we have good reason to welcome
the additions to our population. that are
now coming from abroad. The emigrants
as whole, are the best We have ever re-
ceived. They bring with them capital,
and are prepared to spend At, and their in
dustry is bringing new land under cult
yatiOn
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-11-04


The peculiar mining of Henry Jope
briefly indicated by LeadviI1e telegram
as swindling, yielded him $4,000 before
his system was exposed. Most of the ore
taken out of the Leadville mines is sold to
the reduction companies, who extract the
ore by means of improved machinery. The
price is determined by taking barrow
load of fair samples from various parts of
the lot, running 1t throughout the mill,
and submitting some of the powder to
two assayers-one in the interest of the
seller, and the other an employee of the
buyer. Jope took hundredtons of the
low grade to reduction factory. was
present at the assaying land managed to
drop some pulverized silver into the sam
pie powder. The assay was thus made to
fix $4,000 as the worth of the ore, and he
was paid that amount. Jope made haste
to attempt the same swindle in another es-
Enlistment, but in this case he was sus-
pected, watched through peep-holes. and
caught dropping the silver from the bowl
of pipe, which he had been pretending to
smoke. He had planned to clear 500, 900
by his swindle, and then quit Leadville
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-11-04

A German paper, comparing Germany
with France, observes that the former ma
ton is superior to the latter in political
and military power, and that the latter
surpasses the former in culture and mate
rial prosperity. This, it says. is chiefly at
tributable to the fact that the population
of France is almost stationary, while that
of Germany is rapidly increasing France,
which is, moreover, richer in natural re-
sources than Germany, is thus enabled to
provide for the wants of its people. Ger
many. naturally. a poor country, cannot
increase her production 50 as to keep
pace with the increase of her population.
According to the latest census the popula-
ton of Germany was 40, $4,000; it has
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-11-04

The London Economist says that while
the advantages of New Zealand are, in
point of climate and soil, incontestably
superior to those of Canada, yet, as the
former owes to England debt involving
an annual payment of $3.50 per head,
while Canada has to pay but $12,70 per
head annually TO England, the verdict Of
the London Stock Exchange in putting
Canada's four per cents ten per cent higher
than New Zealand tours is sound. The
Economist considers Canada's power OF
borrowing far from exhausted
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-11-04

increased by 4s9. 900 year rom 1871 to
1875, and since 1875 by 400, 1900 year.
Daring the past nine years the increase
has amounted to more than 4, 0O0, 900 per-
sons. which is more than the total popula-
ton of the grand duchies of Baden and
Hesse and the province ofAlsaee Lorraine.
1t is as if Germany had annexed the popu-
lation of these countries without annexing
the countries themselves. Such an increase
of population adds to the strength of the
empire. but it also imposes heavy burden
upon Germany for the maintenance of her
numerous children,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-11-04
Friday, November {. 1888!

The acoroner's jury now in session il
thoroughly investigating the cause of the
accident to the Jennie Gilchrist There is
one point that must be taken into consid-
Grafton, and unless it is, the inquest will be
farse; namely, what endeavors were
made to.save the lives of the passengers
That those lives could have been saved is
true beyond all doubt; the safety of most
of the crew proves that. There were on
board four women, only one of whom were
saved, and she by her own exertions.
Three were left to die, while the officers
and crew saved themselves 1t will be
hard to pursuade the relatives Of these
women; the connections and friends of the
done that could be to save their lives. The
fact stares them in the face that the people
who had them in their charge, who had
contracted to carry them safely to their
destination, did nothing to carry out that
contract. That their own preservation
seemed to be their only thought and these
helpless women were allowed to go down
to death with no aid given them. The
cause for this first assignment was the
drunkenness of the crew and one of the
officers; this reason, The crew and that Off
Ger are eager to repudiate. That thu
statement made at the time that they were
drunk is true is yet not successful disput-
ed, If they were not drunk they were GER
tainly cewardly, there is no escaping from
the conclusion. Terror seemed to have
taken entire control of them. The engin
eer stood to his post and did his duty, the
pilot deserted the wheel and looked out
for himself. He got from the pilot house
down on to the barge in time to save his
precious life. He left the passengers in
the cabin as he went down. The engineer
stood at his post until every hope of life
was past. There is a strong contrast here
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-11-04

Passengers carried on Freight trains M follows !:
EAST..... ....4:45 m WEST. 10 10 m
GEO. n. LOOSELY Agent, Rock Island.
A. KIMBALL. r. ST. JOHN,
Gen1 Supt. Gen. Tiki IL Pass, ACT.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-11-04
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