New Ulm weekly review., 1882-04-12
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SGIACA 4OIs Stslu AES. MCdlOuo. g
niver cud thrust him out of yer sight, on
liss 70 was wild him.
When q mans chestnut curls begin to
turn gray, it means that he is so years
old. But when they begin to turn black
that means he is 60.
Physicians are at loss how to relieve
New York man who has swallowed
tack. Strange they did not think to put
. claw-hammer coat on him.
A Philadelphia coal dealer recently
received from a prominent shoddyite,
who had been to Europe, an order for
five tons Of coal delivered a Ia carte.
A homely but sensible Philadelphia
girl, who never wore big hat at the
theater, has been married three times,
and on each occasion married rich.
A priest asked condemned criminal
in Jail: "What kind of conscience
have youp' '1t's as good as new," re-
piled the prisoner, 'forI have never used
it."
A Wisconsin woman who was lost in
the woods for three days says she didn't
suffer SO very much, but was greatly an.
noyed by her absence of mind in not
bringing along small looking-glass.
Girls should be careful how they are
vaccinated with virus taken from low
ers's arm. One at St. Paul has taken to
swearing, sitting cross-legged and smok-
ing brier-root pipe.
Last summer the people of Greenville,
Miss, had to haul water from the river
at cost of 25 cents a barrel. Now tho
inhabitants are compelled to crawl out
on the housetops in order to keep dry.
Three years ago firm in Texas in
vested $4,000 in cattle; few weeks
ago lis stock and it's increase was sold
at $15 per head, end the sale amounted
to more than $4,000.
Twenty-Five dollars will purchase all
the materials needed for young lady to
90 into plaque painting, and if she has
any talent at all some of the plaques
can be warranted to scare cat to death
on sight.
The discovery of coalin Winston Co.,
Mississippi, is creating some excite
ment. A correspondent of The Macon
Sa1n says he knows that itextends twen-
| ty miles in one direction, and is fifteen
miles in width.
The oystermen of Oyster bay, L. l.,
claim that they hold their fishing rights
under patent or grant issued to the
town by Queen Anne, and that the New
York legislature has no right to inter-
fere with them.
The St. Paul Pioneer Press calls Fari-
bault the ''Eton of Minnesota" tits the
seat of three or four schools, under the
patronage of the Episcopal Church,
which stand very high in ability and
scholarship
| Wooden shoes are worn in the North
west and enough of them are sold to
| Keep a largo manufactory going at Green
Bay. They are cut out Of green bass
wood, smoked and dried like hams, and
sold at IS cents pair.
General H. H. Sibley has given So, 900,
! and ex-senator Alexander Ramsey and
E. F. Drake 81, 900 each, toward fund
to erect a fire-proof building for the
use Of the St. Paul (Minn.) Historical
Socie1.
The wife of Colonel r. G. Ingerson is
described as strikingly handsome, with
clear-cut, strong face, quick smile,
flashing eyes, and smooth black hair.
She is one of the finest looking women
in Washington
A tipsy Bostonian who was arrested
while making vain efforts to clutch at a
barber's pole, exclaimed, as the police
man drifted him in the direction of the
station-house: '.Stranch, I never saw'r
'rora borealish's near before"
Il tell you," continued Pingrey,
"Brown isn't fit for the place. In fact,
I don't know Of place that he is calcu-
lated to fill.'' '.Don't be Incorporate in
your remarks, Pingrey,'' said Fogg; '.you
forget his stomach"
A man accompanied by an undertaken
was seen entering Washington news
paper Office, the other day. It is sup
posed the mans business was to s'de-
mand satisfaction and the undertaker's 8
to take his measure.
There is pair of large white-headed
eagles that have made their home in q
grove called .'Small Gains" in the vii
lage of Hampton, N. H. They have be-
come quite bold, and when lighted on
the meadow near, in search of food, do
not appear disturbed when teams pass
along the road few rods from them.
A lady in Frostburg, Nd, the other
day, washed her sons mouth with soap
because he swore. A few days after
she found him in the yard with his
mouth and face full of suds. Peering
through h the foam, he said: "Swore q heap
of times to-day, mamma: getting them
all out now"
|
! In Duval county, Florida, dwells a
polygamist with three wives. A negro
deemed it duty to prosecute him, and,
after gathering the requisite proof, start
ed for the courthouse to make COM
plant. He had gone only few miles
when the polygamous husband overlook
and shot him.
A law of the United States, known as
No. 5,461 Revised Statutes, will make it
lively for anyone who fancies he can fill
up the holes in 3 punched coin for the
purpose of passing it off on his unsus-
pecting neighbor. The penalty is$3, 900
or imprisonment for Eve wears, at the
discretion of the court or both.
At dinner tho other evening, just as
an inspired young man had commenced
. poem with II stood before the tomb
| OF Ferdinand in the sunny land OF Spain,
q sober-faced individual suddenly start
ed into life and inquired .'Street and
number?" and then subsidized for the rest
of the evening.
Hoge, on trial for his life at Bellefon-
taine, Ohio, was q handsome fellow, and
women Of the place made much of him,
crowding round him in the court room,
piling his table with flowers, and some
Of them, though only slight acquaint-
ances, kissing him when q verdict Of ac-
! quittal was rendered.
A young man went to barber's shop
to be shaved. It was the first time that
any other hand than his had performed
that operation, and he had allowed his
beard to grow for week in order to ap-
pear as if he needed shaving. He sat
down in the chair. The barber nass-