New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-12-27
GLEANINGs.

Man proposes, God disposes-but it
takes woman with her hair down to be
indisposed when anybody calls.
If many American ladies took more
outdoor exercise on foot great many
doctors would have the blues.
Sardines and toast are said to have
been Herbert Spencer's chief food while
in the United States.
The King of Spain is reported to have
relieved his mothers heavy embarrass-
ments only on condition that she will not
return to Paris.
Gov. Blackburn, of Kentucky, has thus
far, it is said, pardoned every man con-
victed in that state for carrying conceal
ed weapons.
Building operations in St. Augustine,
Fla, are unaccountably active, nearly
everyone being engaged in putting up
new houses or altering old ones.
The new Bey of Tunis is described
"a short-legged, obese, little man, near.
sighted and deaf" who, when he de-
sires to review the troops on horseback,
must be lifted into the saddle.
A foreigne on German line, whose
hat had been blown off, pulled the string
and stopped the train. On reaching
konigsberg he was sent to Jail in default
of $40.
In Naples are dug annually 800 buri-
al pits, one for each day in the year.
Daily the pauper dead are gathered by
the city authorities and thrown into the
pit opened for the days use.
The London Lancet says that people
who sneeze often are the healthiest.-
A sneeze sets the blood circulating, and
throws off q cold which is trying to
settle.
Two years ago Wesson, Miss, was a
pine forest. It now has $500 inhabi-
tants, cotton-mill which employs one
thousand hands, and several smaller
factories.
The London Diapers Journal says
that there is scarcely a better market for
lace, rich silks; etc., than Greece; but
some economical Athenian ladies have
now formed league to wear woolens
instead of silks.
While blowing near Montgomery,
Ala. q negro unearthed pot contain
ing several hundred dollars in gold.-
Such occurrences are calculated to en-
courage the habit of industry in the col
ored race.
The Texas and Pacific machine-shops
at Marshall, Tex, contain q working
force of about six hundred men-the
largest it is said, of any similar institu-
ton in the south. The monthly payroll
is nearly 100000.
Ostriches are worth 81, 400 each, and
there is q duty Of 20 per cent. on their
feathers. A man from Buenos Ayres
has just brought twenty-five of the birds
to this country and will establish a farm
in the south.
A Charlottesville, Va, printer has &C.
complished the feat of putting 2, 452 leg
ible words on postal-card with lead
pencil, reserving in the center Of the
card circle the size Of a gold dollar,
in which is inscribed the Lords prayer.
The recent fashion among surgeons
OF employing kangaroo, tend0ns for liga-
lures Is said to be giving way to the
superior excellence of the sciatic nerve
of the calf which is now used for that
purpose.
A little girl of Glendale, Mo-. has re-.
ceived pass good for life on the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railroad. Seeing two
trains approaching each other on q
curve, she stopped one by franticallY,
waving her apron, thus avertipg 9 dis
aster. y
To many Americans the magic word
imported coming from selesman's
mouth is sufficient to cause them to
choose the foreign article in preference
to an American article of equal merit
which could be obtained for .two-thirds
the price.
A Hartford clergyman, the Rev. NJ.
D. Buell., has been preaching against the
evils OF cigarette smoking. He took for
his text the passage, Behold how great.
. matter little Ere kindleth," and. to
illustrate his discourse, exhibited and
dissected a mammoth cigarette.