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New Ulm weekly review., 1882-04-05
Poisonous Soaps.

Mothers and nurses cannot be too
careful about the soaps they use on the
little ones. Few but physicians know
how many of the so-called skin diseases
among children are caused by the use OF
adulterated soap. An analysis of several
cakes of the pretty and perfumed toilet
soaps that are sold on the streets showed
the presence of soluble glass, ground
glass, silex, pipe clay, rotten stone, bo-
rax, plaster Of Paris, tin crystal, magne-
sia, pumice stone, oat meal and other
substances, which are added to give the
soap weight, hardness, toughness OF
clearness. The common colorings are
vermilion, Venetian red and carmine,
ultramarine green, pot-pigment green;
copperas, Spanish brown, ultramarine
blues, yellow and scarlet anilinec and
burnt umber. Many Of the perfuming
ingredients, though harmless in them.
selves, become chemically poisonous by
admixture. Adding the dangers from
all these to the rancid, diseased, putrid
qualities of the grease used. and mothers
may well be appalled, at the permanent
evils these neat looking, delicately scent
ed blocks of toilet soap contain, ready
to be released whenever moistened and
applied to the baby's body.
New Ulm weekly review., 1882-04-05
He did not Mince Matters.

A representative of the Lynn Mass
Item, in late ramble throughout that
city, gathered, among other scraps of
interest and information, the follow
ing: The first place visited by the re-
porter was the fruit store of Mr.. !.
Levett, No. SO Market street, in re-.
SPONGE to rumor that the proprietor
had been cured of the rheumatism by
the great remedy. MI. Levett not
being in, the reporter had a>talk with
his son. MIR. Levett stated that his
father had been cured of an exceed
ingly bad attack of rheumatism by the
st. Jacobs Oil. He had the disease in
his right arm and shoulder, which be-
came perfectly helpless after being af
fected a few hours. His pain was so
great that he could not rest in COM
fort or attend to business with any de.
gree of satisfaction. After enduring
this sort Of thing for some time, he
purchased a bottle of the Great Ger
man Remedy and began to apply it.
He did not mince matters at all, bat
just used the Oil for all it was worth.
After pursuing this mode of treat-
ment for three days the pain was ban
ished and his father was in perfect
New Ulm weekly review., 1882-04-05
Chemicals for Household Use.

1t is surprising, considering how many
women have been instructed in chemist
ry to find how few housekeepers make
any use of chemicals in any household
processes. Especially is this the case in
cleansing processes. The washing OF
clothes is accomplished by rubbing them
on board, without any other detergent
than soap. The rubbing of the clothes
wears them out far more than use, and
if housekeepers but knew, or if knowing
would take advantage of the fact that
many washing compounds will almost
entirely cleanse clothes which are soak
ed in them over night, and thus almost
entirely do away with the labor and
wear of the washboard, wash-day might
be robbed of half its terrors. Some re-
cipes for washing fluids, the principal
ingredients of which are soda, ash, am
monia and lime, can be found in nearly
every household recipe book, and they
are very cheap and harmless. Such
compounds are useful and convenient
for cleansing paints and carpets in
house; also in washing dishes and Sc
curing that desideratum of housekeep-
ers, clean dish-cloths. Ammonia is q
oA1APACs OuCnp oASA unA LAACSc C11CAAACSSAs
and should be bought by the quart and
kept in every family. A few drops ad-
ded to water will cleanse children's hair
and make it soft and sweet; it is an ad-
mirable disinfectant to remove the odor
of perspiration; it will remove grease
spots from clothing, and often restore
color to stains. It's common and fire.
quent use cannot be too frequently urged.
Borax is another chemical that should
find common use in every family. For
cleansing teeth and sweetening the
breath few grains of the powder is un-
excelled. 1t also softens and whitens
flannels.
Salicylic acid is perfectly odorless
and harmless yet powerful disinfectant,
and for disinfecting uses is invaluable.
1t is very cheap and convenient in form.
In these days, when to stay various
forms of disease is so important, moth
ers and housekeepers would do we'll to
give study and thought to these things,
and try to make their knowledge of
science practical 1t it very encourage
ing to note how many women are at
present turning their attention to stud
les in general and applied science. Let
us have its benefits applied in the house,
hold.
New Ulm weekly review., 1882-04-05
The WAY It Struck Her.

When an old maid takes to making
facetious remarks you can make up your
mind that her cat is dead, or something
has occurred to demoralize her aspira-
tions
Two of them were overheard talking
the other day, and one remarked to the
other:
''Don't you think Mr.. Briggs must be
a remarkably intellectual man? He has
such high forehead.''
"Why, his forehead isn't anything
compared to Mr.. Dood's!'' said her COM
panion, ''for his runs right up over the
crown of his head, swoops down the
base of his brain, and so on oyer the
back of the neck to his shirt collar.''
Seems to me-" was the retort," ssif
what you say is true, it must be more
back rd than for'rd.''
New Ulm weekly review., 1882-04-05
Secrets of Newspaper Men.

There is probably no newspaper man
of experience in the country who does
not hold secrets of Importance in hia
mind, which, if made public, would Gre
ate a sensation, but would stamp him as
being unreliable, and consequently unfit
for his profession. The great race for
precedence in the publication of news
impels him to do his utmost to outstrip
his contemporaries, but higher feeling,
a dictate of honor, keeps secret the trust
reposed. Frequently person would
like to know the authorship of certain
matters published, and whether his ef-
forts were directed to ''pumping'' the
managing editor or the galley-boy, they
are alike fruitless. Every compositor on
paper, as a rule, knows the hapdwrit-
ing he sets up, but if any other persons
think they can learn it from him-weu,
let them try it-Ioledo Telegram.
New Ulm weekly review., 1882-04-05
A Kiss Which Has the Snap Of Oorl

A Kiss Which Has the Snap Of Cork
Flying from sarsaparilla Bottle.
The Maine girl, tall and ruddy, kisses
as though she were taking an impression
on the chewing gum of her native State.
The Massachusetts girl kisses in tho
Greek style, favored with brown bread.
The New York girl goes at it as if she
were dabbling in Wall street specula-
ton. The kiss of the New Jersey girl is
fiery as taste of apple-jack, better
known as Jersey lightning. Little Del
aware's girls are as soft as the peaches
which grow there. A Maryland kiss is
rich and juicy as a terrapin stew. In
the Old Dominion you are met with q
genuine hospitality; the girls kiss as
though they wanted you to stay. The
Ohio girl is described as possessing the
comprehensive qualities of the Ohio man
she wants all she can get and gets all
she can. A Louisiana kiss is said to be
like eating sugar cane, while North Car
olina girls stick like tar. But the Penn
sylvania girls kiss has the snap and
force of cork flying from sarsapar;lla
bottle. 1t produces q sensation some
thing like that felt by a man with elas-
tic suspenders when a button tears off
while he is STOPPING. It kind-o'-makes
man wish his mouth was as broad as
a front yard, and that the kiss could
spread all over it.-NorristoUn (Pa.)
Times.
New Ulm weekly review., 1882-04-05
A Wonderful Man.

At the nobles' school in Toxic, Japan.
is physical map of the country 300 or
400 feet long, in the court behind the
school building. This map. or model,
is made of turf and rock, and is border
ed with pebbles which look at little
distance like so much water. Every in
let, rive, and mountain is reproduced in
this model with a fidelity to detail which
is simply wonderful. Latitude and longi-
tude are indicated by telegraph wires,
and tablets show the position of the cit
les. Ingenious devices are employed in
illustrating botanical studies ALSO For
example, the pine is illustrated by 4
picture showing the cone, leaf, and dis
sected flower. set in frame which shows
the bark and longitudinal and transverse
sections of the wood.
New Ulm weekly review., 1882-04-05

jects of interest in the various sec.
tions. The march Of improvement
in the manufacture of laborsaving
machinery becomes more evident
every year. Implements and ma
chinery are shown for perfec,ing
and accelerating the work of thefar.
mer, the wine grower, and the pea.
SAINT proprietor. The latter especi-
ally has been looked after of late
years. Small holders who count
their acres only by the score are Of
fered light handy threshing mach.
ines, driven by horse power, reapers
and mowers requiring the services
OF only one horse, where formerly
only large and costly ma
chimes were alone obtainable. Ano.
ther admirable feature is the grow
ing system of combining nipple.
ments hitherto sold separately at
high prices. Reaping and binding
are now carried on at one operation
with the rapidity of an ordinary
reaping machine. The Americans
continue to take the lead in the
manufacture of these ingenious ap.
paratus, by means OF which stand.
ing grain is cut and bound in
sheaves at the rate OF one acre per
hour, with no other assistance than
that Of one man and pair of hors.
es. The simplest implement of the
kind manufactured by Mr.. w. \.
Wood, and exhibited on the stand
OF MIR. Pitter among host of other
labor-saving inventions, forms a
centre of attraction as the sheaves
are turned out, securely bound wit h
twine, in almost mathematical or.
der, while the Mccormick Binder
also finds number of French ad.
mirers,
New Ulm weekly review., 1882-04-05

Probably the richest individual in the
world, to-day, is W. H. Vanderbilt, who
on the death of his father Cornelius
commonly known as Commodore Van
derbilt-inhcrited his vast wealth, and
has by successful speculation become
the possessor Of q fortune estimated at
from 5000, 100000 to 5O,OOO,OOO.
In person Mr.. Vanderbilt is apparent
ly few inches less than six feet tall,
stout and heavy. His features are large
and expressive. He wears long black
whiskers and black clothes. He was
born in 1921, but a stranger would Judge
him not to be over 1ifty-five years old.
The lines Of his face are deep and when
in repose he has an expression of 'grit''
and determination which gives way be-
fore smile that seems based in kind
ness and a general condition of content.
Mr.. Vanderbilt is president of q large
number of the principal railroads of this
country, and his large fortune has been
the result of railroad enterprise. He
has contributed handsomely to the Van
derbilt University, at Nashville, Tenn,
founded by his father, and is patron
of the fine arts
New Ulm weekly review., 1882-04-05
Improving the Figura.

The proportion of my sex with aslight
curvature of the spine, one shoulder or
hip higher than the other, or some 9TH
er irregularity, is so great, that any
dressmaker will tell you, says . New
York letter, that few dresses have two
sides exactly alike in shape. On this
basis of fact an enterprising woman has
undertaken to build up business-not
by padding and pressing to force SYM
metry, but on the theory that gymnas-
tics will remedy the fault if properly en-
ployed. She has opened small private
gymnasium, in which light Indian clubs,
dumb-bells, trapezes, ladders, and other
appliances for exercise are provided.
The candidate for shaping is first care
fully examined, in order to determine
exactly her departures from true grace
and accuracy. Then the kind of oxer-
else to develop the lacking spot is pre-
scribed. If one hip is out of plumb,
swinging from the trapeze by the legs,
accompanied by swaying from side to
side, is recommended. If round shoul-
ders are the blemish, club-swinging and
hanging by the hands from rings are
the proper exercises. How much real
improvement can thus be accomplished
l do not know, but have no doubt it is
considerable. The exercise is good, at
least; and it would be wise for every
girl or woman to swing light pair of
Indian clubs in her room on getting out
Of bed in the morning, before putting on
any clothes to interfere with the free
movement of the arms and shoulders.
This practice is coming into vogue a
little, but nowhere near as fast as it
ought to. Let any vigorous young wom-
an try it, and find out how good It feels
to get herself into state Of glow and
expansion, and she will continue it if
she has half an ounce of vim. After
getting into q perspiration, flop into a
bath-tub full of warm water, rub your
self dry with coarse towel, and there
you are for a day free from headache
and lassitude.
New Ulm weekly review., 1882-04-05
Not Unhappv.

Brown is,( to speak it politely, an in
sufferable bore. As soon as he stepped
into Fogg's Office, the other day, Fogg
took his heels off his desk, grabbed up
his pen, and began scratching for dear
Life. ''Good morning, Charley" said
Brown. Morning" replied Fogg, with
out looking up. "Busy this morning."
asked the intruder. Fogg grunted out
':No," and kept at work. "NoP" ex-
claimed Brown in astonishment. ''You
seem to be full of business Another
negative grunt. ''You surely are not
out of work?'' eyes," says Fogg.
''What! Out of work. = Then you have
something in view?' Fogg dropped his
pen, gazed long and earnestly at Brown,
and then calmly replied. ''Nothing
worth mentioning" 1t might have been
a mistake on Browns part, but he de-
clares that that scoundrelly Fogg meant
to insult him. He swears he viii never
set foot in Fogg's Office again. And yet
Fogg is not unhappy.
New Ulm weekly review., 1882-04-05
PARIS LETTER.
PARIS, FEB. Doth, 1882

AND, l. Ed AVCII, 1000
The cattle show at the Palais de
L Industrie continues to attract
large numbers of visitors, To the
true Partisan, for whom the outside
world scarcely exists, there is a
strange facination in the long rows
Of sturdy cattle, the pens of neatly
clipped sheep aud the cages of NAM
moth poultry. He gazes on the
specimens with something of the
awe with which he regards the wild
ANIMALS in the Jardin des Plantes
and fairly stands aghast before the
enormous beast from Normandy,
standing as it does more than six
feet high, and weighing nearly a
top and half. The Machinery ex-
hibits also attracts large crowds of
admirers. Among the visitors to.
day was President Grevy, who, &C.
companied by NJ. and Madame Will.
son and General Pittie, was received
at the entraace by N. de Mahy, the
new minister of agriculture, and Sc:
veral officials connected with the
department. The President spent
some Time insnectinq the many Oh:
New Ulm weekly review., 1882-04-05
IT'S easier for the generous to forgive
than for offence to ask it,-IHonso11
The Ages Before Ice,

The Ages Before Ice.
What was done before ice came into
use. In Oriental countries the devices
were few and simple. A low tempera-
ture was attained by the evaporation of
water through porous jars, the articles
to be cooled being placed inside. The
waters of deep wells were eagerly sought
for, and are to-day as much in demand
as they were in the time of Christ. Aside
from these, there is but little comfort in
tropical countries where ice ID yet un-
known; and the pious Mussulman resigns
himself to fate with much more philoso-
ply than Christian shows under tho
same circumstances. Here, even at the
present day, in many parts of the coun-
try, the customs of our forefathers are
followed. Articles to be preserved are
suspended half way down the wells, or
cellars are dug deep enough, with the
aid of thick stone walls, to defy the heat.
When once mountain stream can be
diverted to supply the house and dairy,
ice can be dispensed with; but at the
present time, the large cities would be
almost as deserted and panic-stricken,
should ice disappear, as they would with
= failure of water. Ice is the glory Of
the summer; it is January pitted against
July; an equilibrium of nature establish
ed by the genius, labor and foresight Of
man.
New Ulm weekly review., 1882-04-05

The Attorney General has recent.
ly given the following opinions:The
person designated to convey an in
sane prisoner to the hospital need
not be a sheriff. His compensation
is fixed at 50 per day for the time
necessarily employed, and all neces-
sary disbursements for travel and
support of himself, the in-
sane person, and his assistants.
The sheriff is entitled to no greater
compensation than would be any
other person designated for convey
ing an insane person to the hospi.
1al for the insane-Nofees are earn.
ed in collecting delinquent taxes un-
less a levy is made. The treasurer
is bound to receive the taxes. ifprop-
: ~>..l., ,~a.l ~
New Ulm weekly review., 1882-04-05

At meeting Of the Republican
State Central committee last Thurs.
day, the following COMPRESSION al
committee was appointed for the Sc.
cond district.
=. P. Freeman, Mankato, chair.
man; G. W. Thompson, Wells; W.
G.. Ward, Waseca; G.. G.. Case; LIE
Sueur; W L. Coupl;n, Nicollet; j
T. Kirby, Sibley county; John
Swenson, Yellow Medicine; Col, w.
Pfender, Brown; Daniel Shell, No.
bles; Alex Fiddes, jackson; B. G.
Yates, Watonwan and Cottonwood
1t was also recommended that in
the Senatorial districts comprisin g
more than one county the chairmen
Of the respective county committees
shall form the senatorial committee
the chairman from the senior coun
by to be chairman Of their senatori
al committee.
New Ulm weekly review., 1882-04-05

A lady put her watch under her pill
low the other night, but couldn't keep it
there because it disturbed her sleep.
And there, all the time, was her bed
ticking right underneath her, and she
never thought of that at all.
American Women the Best Dressed.
American women are unquestionably
the best dressed nowadays, says the Lon
don Daily Nea0s. Why it should be 50
is question too profound to enter on
here. Much and subtle analysis would
have to be expended on that problem.
One explanation which seems to lie on
the surface may be that while deciding
with authority on questions of taste, and
fully competent to Judge them, they
bring to the business a certain original
ity of conception and national freshness
of idea which pervades the result, maxi
ing it not only charming in itself butex-
actly suitable to the wearer. American
women-those at least who visit Europe
have generally the pull over English
women in money matters, and, as We
said before, they not only have the mon
ey to spend, but like spending it on
VI ACoos ouV3 OCoAuCS GudUs GucIe Is q OlS-
cernment of the fitting, happiness Of
choice, which they bring to, rather than
find in, the studios of high art in dress.
High art, by the way, is woefully want
ed Just now to ward off certain deform-
tiles the feminine part of the human
race is threatened with. Tight lacing,
a vice always lying in wait, is now
openly advocated and enjoined. Tho
waist is to resemble in roundness and
>harshness the mainmast of ship, only
it must not be thicker than a spar. High
square shoulders are s'in;" and ladies
whose graceful sloping lines were once
the admiration of the world, now insert
hoops of whalebone in their sleeves to
preserve unbroken the straight line
from the neck to the top of the arm.
New Ulm weekly review., 1882-04-05
healty condition. He has never since
felt any rheumatic pain.
The Harvester War.
BEGINNING OF A GREAT HARVEST
Fer THE LAWYERs-BIND1N WITH
TWINE,

ST. PAUL, MIMI, March 23.-The
visit of Mr.. William Lathrop,of Rock.
ford, III, and Mr.. Charles Callahan, of
Chicago, to this city and Minneapolis
to-day, was, it is understood, for the
purpose of demanding of the Minnea.
polls Harvester Works, in the name of
C. H. Mccormick, of Chicago, and
Norman G. Thompson, and Helen A
Gorham, of Rockford, ILL.,, royalty
of $40 upon each twine-binding har-
vester that said company has made or
will make. This claim is based upon
the patents which, after several ears
of controversy in the Patent Office,
were, in 1880, granted to Marquis L.
Gorham, of Rockford, and it is claim
ed by the parties who demand the roy.
ality that they own and control all the
patents relating to the automatic
binding of the bundles of grain. The
Minneapolis Harvester Works, and
the William Deering Company of Chi.
cago, the Champion Reaper Company
of Springfield, Ohio, the Easterly Har.
vester Company of Whitewater, and
all others that are using twine.binders
made under the .Appleby patents are
to be proceeded against by the parties
controlling the Gorham patent
attorneys who have been engaged by
the latter or Mccormick faction are
George Harding, of Philadelphia; E.
n. Dickerson, of New York; M. D.
Leggett, Of Cleveland, and Parkinson
& Parkinson of Cincinnati.
The above, taken from the Chicago
Tribune of the Oath inst, is matter
of great interest to the farming com.
munity. The fact that Mccormick
and his associates in the Gorham Bin
ders have commenced suits against
the manufacturers of the "Appleby
Twine Binder is strong presumptive
evidence that the Appleby is an in
fringement on the G0rham, and if as
stated in this article, the matter con.
tested at the patent office has been de.
cided in the favor of the Gorham' s
claim, then there is strong probaMl.
ity that the suits will be decided in
favor Of Mccormick, in which event
all firms, except the Mccormick, who
manufacture the Appleby binder will
be compelled to pay to the owners of
the Gorham patents such royalties as
they may ask; and as purchasers of
machines using patents that are in
Engagements are also liable in case of
inability Of the manufacturers to pay,
there may be trouble ahead for those
who purchase and use the Appleby
binder made by such manufacturers.
Ma1atato Revieav.
New Ulm weekly review., 1882-04-05
Money for a Rainy Oay.l

8" For six years my daughter was
sick from kidney and other disorders.
We had used up our savings on doc.
tors, when our dominic advised us to
try Parker's Ginger Tonic. Four
bottles effected cure, and as a dol
lars worth has kept our family we'll
all over year, we have been able to
lay by money again for rainy day.
A Poor Mans Wife.
New Ulm weekly review., 1882-04-05
Breakfast Cures,

There seems to be rage just now
among people who are afflicted with
dyspepsia to drink glass of hot water
before breakfast. Astonishing cures are
reported; but on the whole, it seems
that the dyspeptics who are loudest in
their praises of the hot water cocktail
are the ones who have not yet tried it.
They are about equally divided with the
people who praise the juice of two
oranges in the morning. The man who
praises the juice of apples before break
fast and all the time lives numerously in
New JERSEY,
New Ulm weekly review., 1882-04-05
Oral instruction q FailnrA.

A teacher in one of the public schools
was giving an oral lesson to her class
one day this week, and having minutely
detailed the characteristics and appear
ance of a bear, she asked the children if
they knew the name of the animal she
had been describing. Many hands were
raised, and little girl with animated
tone called out ''a duck" That teach.
er thinks oral instruction failure.
New Ulm weekly review., 1882-04-05

levy is made-The fees before ius-
tice in criminal case are not q
county charge. board has no
authority to make an appropriation
for public library.-The county
commissioners have no power to al
ter or change an independent school
district'-A district treasurer is liable
for district money stolen from him.
The board cannot discharge the
claim Of the district against him for
the reason stated,
New Ulm weekly review., 1882-04-05

The Government finds it very
difficult to hold its soldiers against
civil life. It is charged that a
good many enlist as private soldiers
in the eastern cities simply for the
chance of getting an outfit of clothes
and free transportation to the west,
and they desert to the mines from
frontier posts at the first opportuni.
ty. The statistics show that about
eleven per cent. of the whole army
is deserving every year.