New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-07-26
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nlng ana killed while dressing for her
wedding.
The New York Observer is inclined
to think that the church-bell nuisance
should b. prohibited by law.
A West Hoboken man has fallen upon
the most effective way Of reducing a re-
fractory wife to submission. He burns
her face with red hot poker.
Piano keys, door-knobs and varie-
ty of knick-knacks are made in Ger
many of sawdust and glue pressed into
shape.
Bricks from the late residence of
Wendell Phillips, in Essex street, Bos-
ton, are in great demand among relic
hunters of that city.
A robin has built her nest close by
circular saw in q mill in Fitchbnrg,
Mass, and has laid four eggs undis-
mayed by the buzzing of the saw and
the whir Of the machinery.
Nine. Materna is said to be liberal
giver, and is immensely popular with
the chambermaids wherever she stops.
Not so with Gerster, whom they c0nsid- /
er perfectly despisable."
Humboldt told Sir John Bowring that
all the dahlias in Europe were the de-
sccndants of q few seeds he had gath
cred in Mexico and sent in Il letter to
Lady Holland.
A Dubuque man who found wallet
containing $500 in cash, refused to give
his wife SIS to buy hat, and she peach
ell on him and made him restore the
whole sum to the loser.
"A new kind of English, glass is made
by taking it before it is fairly melted
and while it is full of bubbles, and shap-
ing it while it is half liquid, half solid.
It is not peculiarly fragile, and appears
Venetian.
Detroit is all storm up over the dis
covery that the collections of drop let
tiers in the boxes around the High School
Block indicate that the young lady pu-
pills are engaged in desperate clandestine
correspondence.
Mr.. H. NJ. Stanley, the discoverer of
Livingstone, is now in command of the
Belgian West African expedition. He
has again surmonnted the Congo Falls
and reached Stanley Pool, where he is
building Belgian station.
The Amalgated Association of Iron
and Steel Workers shows that this body
has $4,000 members in the United States,
and that its actions ''govern the affairs
of over 100000 people engaged in the
various iron industries"
Strikes are not, as rule, successful.
The statistics reported by the Bureau of
Labor of Massachusetts, show that, out
of 1853 strikes, only Is were entirely sue
cessful; 100 were unsuccessful; 1G were
compromised, and 6 were declared to be
partly successful.
Jane Swisshelm, having mauled Abra-
ham to her vindictive hearts content, is
now engaged in pulling down the Pres
byterian Church. There will not De
much left of this universe when Jane
concludes to take rest. COurier-Joasr-
nal
In reply to question from Postmas-
ter Hunt, of Rochester, Treasurer Gil
fillan has written that United States
coins, affected by natural abrasion only
and not multilated in any way, must be
received by the Government officers at
their face value.
A new departure has been made in
the attire of ballroom walters in Lon
don. An association has been started,
all the members of which adopt neat
livery of black with gilt buttons, and
knee-breeches with silk stockings. Dress
ed thus the walters will not be mistaken
for honored guests.
Guntersville, Ala, is the most fortu-
nate town in America. 1t is absolutely
without any local government. 1t had
been managed by Mayor, Aldermen and
Marshal, but there was so little t. steal
that they lost interest in the city affairs
and finally ceased paying any attention
to city matters altogether. Oh happy
Guntersville, how art thou blessed.
A cool Philadelphia bigamist got his
wife to dress him to 60 and marry an
other woman.
A use has at last been found for the
Canada thistle. A shepherd in South
Australia declares that they furnish
more and better food for sheep during
protracted drouth than any plant that
grows. The flower buds are eaten by
lambs in preference to any kind of
grass.
During her recent visit to Barcelona,
Sara Bernhardt submitted her head to
the examination of a local phrenologist
of repute. The man of science, after q
long and careful scrutiny, declared that
the conformation of the great actress
head was rather that of a mans than of
a wOman's.
The home for working girls in Lon.
don, called Garfield House, ut the form.
al opening of which Minister Lowell pre-.
sided, contains thirty-nine bedrooms, q
dining-room, sitting-room and a H.
brary, and each occupant will pay for
her accommodation from IS cents to 81
week.
A house painter Of Morgan City, La,
fell from a church steeple, slid down the
roof. bounced off the caves, crashed
through q scaffold, and fell ker-thump
on the ground. Despite dislocated
SHOULDER, two broken ribs and score of
cuts and bruises, he rose to his feet,
gazed heavenward and exclaimed, SWELL,
I'll be DID,
A shrewd lawyer of Baltimore en-
ploys lovely girl to do bis jury pack
ing. Her bewitching glances, smiles,
and, finally, her fascinating company,
quite caught a Young juryman, and he
swung the jury to her side in contest
ed will case. Now the other side are
bowling for new trial for the reasons
given.
Blood has often been seen on the face
of the moon, but it remained for John
G. Jackson, an astronomer of forty
years standing, in Hockessin, Del, to
discover cloud 100 miles long and for
ty miles broad just over the westerly
edge of the mare catsi.tns.e He advises
astronomers to examine the same spot
about two days after the next new
moon.
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