New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-07-13
ALL SORTS.

OF the fifty eight mon who framed
tho Constitution and declared the indie
pendence of Texas, March 2, 1886, one
is still living, DR.. Chas. 3. Stewart. of
Montgomery County.
Most of tho heather temples in Siam
arc going to decay, and thcro are only
one-fourth as many Buddhist priests in
Bangkok, the capital as there were
thirty years ago.
''The greatest burd to foight," says Pat,
Barring the agile, is tho duck;
He has foino large bill to peck,
And plinty OF r0le Irish pluck,
And thin, dye mind, the fut he has,
Show mo the fowl upon two legs
That's able fer to thrip him up"
Ya,Ccob Strauss.
Tho late Fernando Wood was an act
or fifty years ago. 1t is discovered that
he quit the profession about 1882, while
he was playing at the old Marshall
Theatre, Richmond, Va, as member
of Richardson's Travelling Combine
ton.
At parties and receptions in Florence,
according to correspondent, "there is
seldom q mirror before which belle
can pose and cXasperate her escort by
OBTAINING him in the draughts of the
corridor to take tho chances Of catching
a severe cold"
Gen. Logan is fond of showing two
card photographs of his only grandson.
In one he is sitting on his fathers knee.
with his two grandfathers and two great
grandfathers beside him. In the other
he sits on his mothers knee, and is sur
rounded by his two grandmothers and
his two great grandmothers.
In some of the rural districts of Italy
q lover who wishes to make a DECLARE
ton of his passion places rose leaves
before the door of the lady. If she
rejects them she sweeps them away,
but if she accepts him the rose leaves
ROMAN.
The following is placardcd in the the
atre at Durango, COL: "From and after
this date all persons who wish to gain
admittanco to the auditorium of tho
Coliseum MUST leave their weapons at
the front bar, where checks will be CIV
On for them"
A woman writes to the Cincinnati
Enquirer that she doesn't like the Rus
sian bath, because she ''can't see tho
scrubbed, kneaded, slapped and denied
from head to foot by q woman 80 stall
. wart that one can't get quite out of
the suspicion that she is man in dis
guise.''
Mount Baker, w. T., has shown slight
symptoms of volcanic activity for sew
eral years. An unmistakable eruption
is now in progress. causing some little
CONSERVATION among the scattered set
tiers of that region. The display of
fire and smoke is said to be magnificent
as seen from Upper Summas. about fit
ty miles distant.
DR.. Crosby has for thirty years occu-
pied himself with study of the nation
atty of street beggars in New York,
and has during all that time failed to
discover among them native Ameri-
con. He says that he once devoted .
whole month to inquiries of this char
acter, personally hunted up hundreds
of cases and found the petitioner in
each case "a liar and foreigner"
Tho majority of the women in COM
hitting suicide take poison, while only
very small portion of them-38 in 285
shoot themselves or cut their throats.
Men do not like to poison themselves.
The deaths of mon from gunshot
wounds are sixteen times those OF
women, from the razor over four times
as many, and from tho rope nearly five
times.
Gambetta, when presiding in the
French Chamber of Deputies, always
keeps q glass of red wine on one side
of his desk and what appears to DO q
glass of lemonade. He drinks from
one or the other every few minutes.
Besides this occupation, he is ringing a
big bell or rapping with . heavy paper
cutter every minute or two, to keep the
noisy Deputies in order. he has on op'
era-elass on his desk. and now and ther
takes . long and sweeping look into thf
crowded galleries.