New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-09-21
ALL SORTS.

ALL SORTS.
A Kentucky girl promised herself in
marriage to two young men, and ap-
pointed the same day and hour for
both. At the last moment she made
her choice.
The whole of Russia is to subscribe
to the expiatory church to be built on
the spot where the car was assassin
ated, and ST. Petersburg has thus far
given $50, 900.
In the vicinity of Big Hole, NJ. T.,
the bears unearthed large number of
Indian skeletons, and have strewn the
ground with bones. 1t is probably the
scene of an old battlefield.
The apartments of the Princess Jur-
jewska, in St. Petersburg, arc hung
with black cloth, and she is said to dino
off black porcelain. Tho princess
drives daily to the fortress of Peter
Paul to pray at tho tomb of the late
emperor.
The famous old English schools,
Elton and Harrow, Rugby and Win
chester, arc constantly full to overflow
ing, although their cost constantly in
creases. Oxford and Cambridge were
never so crowded with students as now.
Saratoga complains of legion OF
genteel loafers, who spit over the ver-
andas, stare at ladies, occupy tho best
seats, and constantly remind decent
people Of tho fact that the American
loafer was never matched for impu-
dence.
On Dec. II last, at Stockton, one An
tone Paravagnia shot himself in tho
head. The ball lodged in his brain,
and has never been extracted, but, con-
trary to all surgical predictions and ex-
perience, he still lives and is in good
health.
Mrs. Catherine Hall, of Louisville,
KY, is suing for divorce and alimony,
alleging that her husband, who is worth
$4,000 and has q large monthly in
come, refuses to supply her with suf-
ficient food to support life. They were
married in November, 1877.
The church organ at Primghar was
taken to dance and made to grind out
terpsich0rean music, and upon its re.
turn to the church Preacher Beebe
bounced it out, declaring that the in
strument had been defiled and could
no longer do duty in the sanctuary.
Tho work of education in Armenia
will hereafter be promoted by special
society. This society has just been
formed in London, and has a numer-
Gus and distinguished committee. The
first meeting was held a few days ago
under the presidency of the late dean
of Westminster.
The Shoshone fails of the Snake riv-
er are two hundred feet high. A few
days since boat containing one white
man and two Cinnamon was caught in
tho rapids and carried like an arrow
over the cataract. Of the boat, splint-
ers of wood were afterward found; but
of the men nothing.
One thousand two hundred employees
of the Old Colony railroad have been
examined for color blindness, in COM
plianoo with the Massachusetts law, and
over forty engineers, tiremen, conduc-
tors, and others have been dismissed
because they have defective sight. OF
this number is Conductor Cowan, who
has taken tickets for thirty-two years
and never had an accident happen to
his train.
A member of the Carleton Club, of
London. was SO uncivil to the club
servants that they appealed to the
Governing Committee. The member
was censured, and not expelled. One
gentleman who took his part said
chat no member of the Carleton Club
should be expelled unless he cheated
at cards or was follower of Mr.. Glad
stone.
A month before the Guiteau crime.
the Mobile Register gave utterance to
| the following - what must now be-
looked upon as startlingly prophetic
words: ut may not be inappropriate
to seriously advise Mr.. Garfield to see
to thorough cleaning of the drains in
the White House, to q vigorous scour-
ing of all copper cooking vessels,
and to tho prompt confinement of all
insane persons stirring around with
firearms, and so cut off any pretext for
too sudden qualifying Of his sue
oessor."
The passage on the fino clipper ships
from Melbourne to London, seventy to
eighty days, is only $3.50, and writer
in a London paper suggests tho oxcur-
sion as mode for families with fixed
incomes to retrench, as the living is
good, the trip health-giving, and there
is no means of spending money. It is
further suggested that girls might thus
pick up husbands. ~==a .:---ac.<"
Prof. Unthank. of Tucson, is alleged
to have in his possession a brick taken
from the great wall of China. The
TREASURE is 4x12x16 inches, is composed
of gray clay, and is as hard as granite.
There are said to be several similar
bricks yet remaining in the wall for
any hardy antiquarian who can obtain
them, but as there is a rigorous Chinese
law against the demolition of the an
Gent barrier, the only way to smuggle
q brick out of the country is to bring
it in ones hat. For this service some
Americans are peculiarly we'll fitted by
years of daily training.
In 1870 George Miller died in Sacra-
mento. His widow held tho title to q
cemetery lot, and the body of the dc.
ceased was buried in that vicinity.
Later it was found that the grave had
been dug on the wrong lot, and the
owner of the latter tract, under direc-
ton of the proper officials. had Miller's
body removed to another part Of the
cemetery. When this occurrence be-
came known, the widow, Feronica
Miller, sued the city of Sacramento for
$50, 900 damages. The case dragged
its weary way through the courts for
several years, and recently decided in
favor of the defendant.
The silver plate for insertion in tho
granite panel which will represent Me-
vada in the Washington monument is
one-sixteenth of an inch thick, about
six inches wide, and twenty seven inch
es long. It was rolled at the Carson
mint, and its silver value is that of six
ty-four standard dollars, Nevada"
will be engraved on it in large sunken
letters. The polished granite tablet is
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