New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-09-13

dillingham; immense cattle ranch,
4 seventy miles or 20 due east of Las We
S gas, ~. NJ, known % the Montoya
grant, has been sold. It Is twentY-nine
miles wide and thirty-fiyo miles long
lish. syndicate, which planks down 81
4 6OO. GOO for the property and all that
goes with the ranch. 81
Near Kingston. N. G., 4 negro boy, 6
ss years old, shot his sister. aged 4 years,
in house. dragged the body into 9
field, and hid it in the rows Of cotton.
/ He said the child began to cry, and TO:
hush it he snapped = gun at her, as he
had been in the habit Of doing. The
gun went of, and the charge nearly
blew off the child's head.
A curiosity in the fruit line is on ex-
hibition at Tampa, Fla. It consists Of
five distinct, fully matured pineapples
on one stem, touching each other st the
sides, and spread out in the shape Of o
fan, and around the top of the fan, like
. handsome fringe, are nineteen crown
lets, which will each make distinct
plant.
Portions of the old elm which stood
on Boston Common have been placed
as relics in Independence Hall, Philadel-
phia. They were presented by the
Board 81 Alderman Of Boston, and con-
sist Of large section of the tree and .
polished veneer of the wood, upon
which is photographed q picture Of the
tree as it stood before its fall.
Asparagus to obtain the highest price
in the New York market must be
bleached like celery. TO make it white
the earth is thrown over the beds early
in the spring, and the stalks are cut
with long knife. It is known as
| '.white-grass, and sells for twice as
mach as that which grows in the sun
and is called '.green-grass.
Jack Lincoln, son of Secretary Lin
coin, is very bright and interesting
little fellow, and affords considerable
amount of entertainment to the clerks
and visitors to his fathers office. The
other day he was amusing himself by
copying the names Of the Presidents,
and, pausing, looked up from his work,
and, with great naivete, remarked:
why, ever SO many Of the Presidents
we're named after streets in Chicago"
Some twenty years ago, Daniel Coe,
of Durham, N. T.. gave 81, 500 for the
purpose OF Presbyterian education in
Iowa. One thousand dollars of this was
used in the purchase of eighty acres of
land near what was then the village of
Cedar Rapids. The village has grown
to q city, and the city has taken the col
lege farm into its plat, which makes it
very valuable. It is worth now $3.50, 900,
and on it has been put a building which
cost $4,000. From small beginning
has grown up Coe College, an institu-
ton of which Cedar Rapids is very
proud.
The following effusion is pretty good
for Dakota orator: mo sharper, no
bier, wide-awaker, straig hter-tobacco-
splitting, more enterprising, whole-soul.
ed, generous, true-hearted, and public
spirited men than ours ever left their
stoga footprints on the golden sands
of time. And no brighter, dearer, love-
lier creatures ever fitted through ORR
entail poets raptest dream of paradise
than our blessed dimity divinities, our
homemade calico seraphs, our patent
inflatable-crinolined darlings, ourDako-
ia sweethearts, wives, mothcrs-in-law,
and Mariannes, who are creations
special pets and prides, fitted to bear
queenshfp in any realm
The late Bishop Scott was strongly at
tached to outdoor sports. In early
youth he was forced by poverty to fish
for a living. and to the latest years of
his long life he retained a fondness, which
he frequently INDUCED, for the hook
and line and net. He was expert atthe
tiller and at the oars, and was also q
crack shot with fowling- piece or rifle.
After he had risen to the highest honors
of the church, he often took delight in
roaming through the fields and woods,
and sailing on the streams or the bay,
accompanied by his grandsons and 9th
er boys of the neighborhood, who found
him genial comrade and an apt in.
structor in thesportsman's arts.