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

This was the shrewd dodge of west
ern one-legged man who went on
crutches: Hopping along on . Lead
vile street, he suddenly caught ono Of
his clutches in q hole. He fell, he rose,
he sued the city and recovered 5000
damages. He did likewise in Kansas
City, and recovered $500; in Terre Haute
$500, and in St. Louis $500.
The annual production of Canada
malt is about &C, 900 pounds. OF
this nearly 23,OOO,OOO pounds are ex-
ported to the United States. The inn.
ports-almost wholly confined to Bitish
Columbia, barely exceed $50, 600 pounds.
In Toronto alone there are 1900, 900
gallons of beer brewed, while the CAPT.
tai employed amounts to %, 600. 900.
Part of the tusk of mammoth I'M.
earthed in Box Elder is on exhibition in
Miles City, Montana. It is said the en-
tire tusk was about twenty feet in length.
On Powder river, sixty miles from Miles
City, it is reported, whole skeleton Of
mammoth has been brought to light,
and party of scientists are organizing
to visit the spot to secure it.
the Chronicle estimates the number
OF Chinese in SanFrancisco at thirty
thousand. A large number of surplus
Mongolians are reported to be looking
for work, the organized effort on tho
part of the whites to stop the purchase
OF Chinese-made goods having had the
effect to throw many of them out of en-
ployment
The publishers of q German novel
scored hit recently in the line of ad-
vertising. They had inserted in most OF
the papers notice stating that . certain
nobleman of means, anxious to obtain :
wife, wanted one who resembled the
description OF the heroine in the novel
named. OF course every manageable
woman who saw this announcement
bought the novel to see how much she
resembled the imaginary beauty.
Concerning the death of his wife, Fred
erick Douglass recently wrote to friend
in the west: ''The main pillar in nv
house has fallen. Four and forty years
have passed siuce our union. Lite can
not hold much for me, now that she has
gone, Still I feel that the lesson taught
by this death, as by all such, Is silence,
A~SA5 AssoAOA3 Au"AAty 6UO we
are all strangers and sojourners.
American vines are not, after all, proof
against attacks of phylloxera. On the
Island of Monte Cristo. where the Italian
government established q depot for the
growth OF American seeds and trans.
planting and accumulation of American
vines, seven hundred vines out Of the
first years shoots were found to be "a
tally affected with phylloxera.
On the farm of Judge Bronson, Of
Seymour, Anegany county, New York,
is natural curiosity. A maple tree ono
foot in diameter grows out of solid
rock, three feet from the ground and
out of this tree about q foot from the
base of the tree is cedar limb about
two inches in diameter, which is as -FOUR
ishing as any of the branches Of the pa-
rent tree.
The eye of steer. when prominent,
bright and clear, with mild and gentle
expression, is an indication of health.
with quiet disposition and good feed.
ing quality. If the eye is dull and sunk.
en- the capillary circulation will be de-
fective, and the functions of nutrition
imperfectly performed, and there win
not only be deficiency in the ability to
fatten, but lack of strength and con-
stitutional vigor. A restless and wild
expression of the eye indicates q pre-
dominance of nervous action and UNI
quiet disposition that is not compatible
with good feeding quality.
''Old Bach, " who writes to the New
York Sun, gives reason why he is not
married, which is q reason. II amt
he says, ':35, an old bachelor. they say;
and have been wanting q wife these ten
years. Some of my friends suggest that
l want to marry rich, and am too pecu4
liar. Now do not object to riches il
other things are all RI ght. But. honor
bright, if were to find woman who
would bring nobler thoughts, make me
a better man. think less Of gossip about
her neighbors, and more ..bout her own
home affairs, q woman we'll educated
and not helpless, should like to marry
her, even if she did mol own copper"