New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-10-18


H." a Siberian traveller recently rec0g.
nized at Yakutsk the Grand Duke Mich
olas Constantinovich. In 1875 he was
exiled to Orenburg for stealing his
mothers diamonds and insulting the
Gear. Afterward he plotted with the
Nihilists to assassinate the present Car,
and his Punishment soon followed.
A Brooklyn servant girl, mad aud re-
vengeful because she had been dis
charged. set fire to her mistress house
and then fled. Had not the mistress
been thoughtful enough to REPAIR i'm
mediately to the room just vacated by
the girl, the whole house would have
been ablaze, and doubtless two sleeping
children would have persisted. The
rash servant will get her just deserts.
All Florida hogs are not of the razor
back variety. The local of the Tallahas-
see Floridtass has found some in that
city which. for babies. are hard to beat.
One Berkshire Poland China pig, ten
months old, weighs 1928 pounds; one
Berkshire, II months old, weighs 46S
pounds, while another Poland China,
about the same age, tipped the beam at
547 pounds.
An Oswego man has peculiar kitten
which in appearance and habits partakes
of the character of the rabbit and the
kitten. Its headquarters are exactly
like those of the rabbit, even to the
short tail, and when frightened it sits
on its launches and erects its cars ex-
actly as the rabbit does. The hind legs
are long, giving it the peculiar gait Of
the rabbit family. It has the playful
habits of the kitten.
One of the hardest woods in existence
is that of the desert ironwood tree,
which grows in the dry wastes along
the line of the Southern Pacific Rail
road. Its specific gravity is nearly the
same as that of lignum vitm, and it has
q black heart 50 hard, when well sea-
soned, that it will turn tho edge of an
ak, and can scarcely be cut by u we'll
tempered saw. In burning it gives out
an intense heat.
Senator David Davis, though man
of somo broad characteristics, is an inn
patient mortal. One day this summer,
at White Sulphur Springs, Va, he u.s.
tonished the occupants of tho hotel
dining-ro room by arising with agility and
procuring a clean plate for himself.
The surprise was due US much to the
agility aforesaid as to the unconvention-
atty of the act. A tardy waiter is re.
sponsible for the exhibition of impa-
tience,
After the Ashantee war Sir Garnet
Wolseley received some additional let
tiers to his name and Parliamentary
grant of $125,000. He is now Knight
Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath,
50 that nothing remains to be awarded
to him in the way of additional honor
save peerage. This, if given, will
have TO be accompanied by a large
grant of money and pension, if the
dignity is to be sustained in the manner
additionally deemed BETTING, and all
the more SO in view of the Queens we'll
known dislike to creating poor man q
peer. 8
The town of Garfield, in the new oil
fields of Pennsylvania, is built on q
single street, and it looks as though il
came one night with the intention OF
moving on in the morning, but somehow
got delayed for want of water. A bar:
rel of water is worth 81; barrel of oil,
81 cents. A correspondent on the spot
says: There are no Coal Oil Johnnies
now, and probably never will be. A
man with = four thousand barrel well
may succeed, but two hundred barrel
well is considered a ''duster," dry
hole. In such prolific territory az
this, the extravaganza of ideas is simply
grotcsque.
There is kind of dwarf kangaroo in
the staked plains of northern Texas. Its
body is about eight inches long; its fore
legs are not more than an inch and q
half or two inches in length, while its
hind legs are all of six inches. 1t has q
tail about eight inches long, completely
bare except tuft Of long hair at the
end, and ridge of short hair on its up.
per part. 1t is also \ marcupial, the
pouch being we'll developed. 1t is of q
soft blue color. Its only mode of loco.
motion is by jumping, precisely like the
kangaroo. 1t can jump eight or ten
feet