New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-08-10
WHOLE NUMBER 1877
ALL SORTS.

ALL SORTS.
President Garfeld's life Is insured
for 1926, 900 for the benefit Of his #ife
The evidence in San Francisco d.
vorce suit was all found in diary
which tho defendant kept.
Field Marshal Won Moltke has very
small feet and narrow, long hands;
Prince Bismarck has large feet and
big, fleshy hands.
The Japanese stage is made to re-
volve. While one scene is before tho
public another is in process Of arrange
ment.
The wife of an old col0red man in
the eastern part of Georgia recently
presented him with the sixth pair of
twins the family having been previous
~ endowed with two pairs of triplets,
all flourishing.
Texas is the greatest cattle raising
State in the Union, yet the beef eaten
there by the fastidious is chiefly brought
from Kansas. The reason is that Tex
as cattle arc fat only two months in the
year, when tho grass is green.
In Belgium, postage stamps of two,
five, and ten-centimes are to be receiv-
liable as savings banks deposits, but the
two-centime stamp is to be available
only by school children, and postage
stamp deposits are limited to ten francs
month.
At a recent half yearly rent-day din.
ner in England the tenants of q Ger
tain peer were intensely disguised to
find that they were being RECALLED on
timed beef and mutton. One of the
farmers declared that such meanness
would make the old lord turn in his
grave.
A recent visitor at Cologne asked
what the curious figures on some beau
tiful carved oak stalls depicted, where
upon the guide. evidently rather proud
of his English, replied: ''Oh, Mr.. Samp-
son." Further questioning elected
that they mean Samson and Delilah.
Tobacco is prohibited to the students
of Oberlin, College, Girard College,
and the Naval School at Annapolis. A
similar rule has been recommended for
West Point by the Board of Visitors.
At Cornell University nearly all the
students have voluntarily signed q
pledge of abstinence.
A London paper says that American
agriculturists are we'll enabled to COM
pete with tho British farmer when the
rate Of freight on wheat from New
York to Liverpool is $1.2O per ton,
while the railroad rate from Liverpool
to Birmingham (about 100 miles) is
&3. Is per ton.
.'Now I've fixed you" said Jim Ho-
gan to his wife, at Monticello. Ohio.
He had good reason to think so, for he
had shot five bullets into her body; yet
he was mistaken, for she revived soon
after he had killed himself with the re-
naming charge in the revolver, and is
now as well as ever.
A Washington girl has highly inter-
esting' hair. Its color used to be . light
blonde. DR.. D. w. Prentiss reports to
the Smithsonian Institution that he
gave her jaborandi, Brazilian plant,
as q cure for blood poisoning. Her
hair soon began to darken, and in four
months was almost black.
Pixies Opera House, Cincinnati, is to
be put to mercantile uses. Itwas when
first erected, if not still 30, the hand
soonest and costliest theater in the
United States. The owner was the late
S. n. Pike. very wealthy distiller.
who also erected the Grand Opera
House in this city.
After Capt. Fritz, San Francisco
politician Of local prominence, had
committed suicide, the police found
him hanging with his wrists fastened
together with handouts, while on his
ankles were shackles. The keys were
produced by his wife, who explained
that the irons had nothing to do with
the suicide, but had been habitually
worn. Politics took him away from
home great deal at night, and in or
der to compel himself to stay in occa-
sionally he would thus manacle him.
sell, give Mrs. Fritz the keys, and tell
her to keep him prisoner till morn
ing.
y 1ndecilon.
Ihave long thought that there are
three things in the universe whose prob
able course can never be forecast with
any certainty-a woman, 3 locomotive
off the track, and COW. Whenever I
meet any one of these uncertainty dan
gerous objects, stand still and let it
60 around me. 1t is always to be pro-
Vided, however, that If you get directly
in front of locomotive, you will bo
knocked down; if you get in front of q
woman upon q crossing, you will DO
showed of. Tho first of these I have
not experienced; the second I have.
One of the most disagreeable features
of meeting woman is this: you will
occasionally (mark mel say occasion
ally) meet sensible woman; if it DO
upon q crossing, you will of course turn
to the left, where, she having turned to
the right, you will collide. Sho will
then fix her eyes upon you with an OK
preston of gentle, not to say contempt
uous pity; and, if you be a man hav-
ing any regard for the laws of the road,
you will wish that you were dead or
something. For contemptuous pity in
the cold eyes of a thoroughly sensible
woman is not pleasant.
A Cannon Twenty Five Feet Long.
An enormous cannon, called the Ly-
man Haskell Accelerating or Multi
charge Gun. is to be made in the Scott
foundry Of the Reading Iron Works.
It is to be twenty-five feet long and
have bore six inches in diameter. It
"a oa1o,,1afo6 thok fo,,r ~. two voou<ha