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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-05-10
Experience.
BY EDITH FITZGERALD.

Why dost thou come when We are old and
And life has lost its GLAMOUR In good truth
= IKE 4k tnee not nor deem thee friend Of mine
ana taking my faint-pulsed hand in thine,
Strong with the confidence that knowledge
Hadst walked with me it's weary maze along;
Hadst pointed out the good, concealed the Ill,
A taper lighted in my heart of hearts
Whose sacred fire had burned for evermore.
But not thus thou. When Youth and did
start
After the butterflies of life together,
a @eIry.hearted, reckless pair were We,
be,
And Heaven was near, and every man q friend.
psn thou on who taught US that too far away,
Fair Heaven lies, and that Is we'll we might
Seek for tho rainbow's end. or crimson pearls,
Or red swans nest upon the ocean wave,
Below high heaven or above black hell,
Look for man worthy the name of friend.
, a6n tn and I'D parted 6S ma many year. ago.
With childish faith, and only vision-fettered,
through sunshine sweet, the self-sams winged
We two had loved. Alas for mel no more
We're they the same. Too oft saw truth,
Or what a. truth deemed, and held it tight
As stoutest shield 'sainst Doubts or Errors
Thou came With thy rude hand and drew away
Some kinder fate had placed in pity there,
And bade me write, though heresy It seemed,
Though fingers trembled and cen heart 70
belled,
Illusion where fain had written Truth.
Experience, thus seemeth thou to me-
When on dark and cloudy night man
Stumbling along an unknown road doth fall
And break his legs, and can no further 60,
Thou art the moon, which rising sudden shows
The rock Ger which he fell, and now that all
Is over, and he lies helpless mass,
An hundred ways around it.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-05-10
BE Won the Bet, but it Didn't Pan Out
Wall

A few days ago wag who was anx-
ious to test how much confidence GER
tain friend had in him, took q standard
dollar, and, coating it with quicksilver,
passed it at the others store. In less
than half an hour the dollar, whose Pc
culiar appearance had aroused distrust,
was brought back with:
Here, Billy, you have given me q
bogus dollar, and I came in to get it re-
deemed"
ut isn't a bogus dollar at all; it's as
good as any money ever coined in Amer
ica," replied the wag. Cant you be-
lieve me. No man has right to call
money counterfeit until he subjects it to
fire assay"
The other said that under ordinary
circumstances he would believe his
friend, but when it came to trying to
palm off lead dollars on him for silver
ones it was another matter, and offered
to bet $40 that the dollar was bogus.
The bet was accepted and the dollar
turned over to an assayer who pro-
n0unced it standard silver over 900 fine.
''Well, said the loser, '.you set up the
oysters and We'll 60 down to the store
and get the money"
The winner, whose conscience began
to smite him, spent exactly $40 in cham
payne and oysters and then walked
down to the store. The loser handed
him ten dollar bill, which he showed
into his pocket only to find . few hours
later that it was counterfeit. He went
back to expostulate but the loser insist
ed that it was genuine, and added sig
nificantly: If you have any doubts a.
to the correctness of my statement you
had better subject it to q fire assay
The smart Aleck wandered of BIAS
pheming and is now trying to figure up
how much he is ahead on his trick.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-05-10
Mr.. Sullivan.

''Not heard of Mr.. Sullivan!' exclaim-
ed member of the Cincinnati Ladies'
Literary association: ':Not heard of Bos-
toms blue-eyed boy of genius?" The
pork-packer's fair, but ignorant, daugh-
ter blushed at the implied rebuke, and
timidly asked: "What did he writer"
''What did he write!" shouted her COM
panion, with increasing surprise: lis it
possible that you have never heard of
s'The Mill on the Floss'q'' As the hog
merchants crest-fallen child entered her
palatial home that afternoon she wiped
the moisture from her eyes with pale
blue bandana, and whimpered: Il knew
I wolld never know nothing if pah re-
fused TO send me to Yurrup. "-Brook-
lYn EaQke.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-05-10
General Scott's Daughter.

Apropos of society, the death of Mrs.
Goold Hoyt, ''the handsomest Of the
four lovely daughters of General Scott"
as she is described by one who writes
about her, is a loss that it will remem--
Der for awhile anyway. It was so sud-
den that all who knew her were shocked
by its announcement. Mrs. Hoyt was
not exactly leader in the social world,
but she was well known and had many
friends. In her youth she was one Of
the most beautiful women in America,
and when Goold Hoyt secured her as his
wife he was accounted very lucky
man. She was blonde of the very
purest type, with features of typical
Grecian regularity and the air of love-
ly queen. Each of the hero's daughters
was an acknowledged beauty, but the
largest share of loneliness belonged to
Mrs. Hoyt. In her more mature years
she had certain dignity and even aus
tefity OF manner that repealed anything
like familiarity, but those who were adj
mitted to intimacy found her woman
of noble character and generous impul-
ses.-NeaO York Letter. Z.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-05-10
Millions Wasted Upon a Barren Rock.

A San Francisco letter in the Balti-
more San says: Half a million month
continues to be spent in barren rock in
vain search for bonanzas in the numer-
Gus mines on the Comstock silver vein,
in Nevada, below an average depth of
1900 feet below the surface of Mount
Davidson. The 100000 daily gallons
of water is very hot everywhere below
1000 feet, and, with a single exception,
no large body of paying ore has been
found below that level. AT this time
combined efforts are pushing explora-
tions with fourfold activity, and streaks
Of quartz are met in the dark porphyry,
giving hopes. But the stock market is
set back by the new theory Of expert
James Delevan, viz: mo bonanzas will
be found where the water has SO high
temperature, and all boring is money
thrown away" Scientific reasons are
given. Two Of the mines have reached
5000 feet in confirmation Of this theory,
and the bottom has dropped out Of the
mining stock market.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-05-10
In q Trance.

A young lady of Evansville, Ind, has
had an unplcasantly narrow escape from
being buried alive. On Saturday she at
tended . singing-school, and, after her re-
turn home, was seized with commissions,
from which she sank gradually into q
comatose condition, in which she lay four
days. Her friends, thinking her dead,
cut off her hair and prepared her for
burial. Her neck and limbs were stiff,
her lips were purple, and her eyes were
fixed and staring. Her body, however,
was not cold, and a physician prescribed
the application of hot lye to the body,
accompanied by vigorous rubbing. This
treatment was commenced on Wednes-
day night and continued without inter-
mission until Thursday morning about
10 o'clock, when her cheeks became
flushed and she began to- breathe and
show other signs of life. The young la
dy says that she was conscious during
the whole time her friends thought she
was dead, heard and understood every
thing that was said, and witnessed the
preparations for the burial. She de-
scribes her feelings as terrible in the ex-
trem0
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-05-10
Colorado Sunsets.

No such golden sunsets are seen in
Italy as battle the stupendous mountains
in sea of ineffable glory. The air is
clearer and purer, the stars at night
more brilliant, the sky more blue, and
every aspect of nature more wonderful
than elsewhere in the world. Properly
the name Colorado colored-wasg given
a country whose boundless plains as
shadows of clouds or of mountains
sweep over them, assume every possible
hue, and whose mountains are white
with snow; and when white clouds roll
over stupendous heights, the sheet of
snow is taken away as if lifted by ma
lures great chambermaid. Then ap-
pear the parti-colored rocks. white and
gray and red and yellow and brown, as
if all the paint-shops of the universe
had been emptied from heaven upon
massive mountains, that q wonderful
land might be named Colorado.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-05-10
How To Advertise.

A Hartford, Conn.,, man was denounc-
ing newspaper advertising to crowd Of
listeners.
''Last week." said he, II had an UNI
brella stolen from the vestibule of the
church. It was gift, and valuing it
very highly, I spent double the worth in
advertising, but I have not recovered
it."
''How did you word the advertise
ment?' asked merchant.
"Here it u.s." said the man, producing
q slip cut from a newspaper.
The merchant took it, and read:
''Lost from the vestibule of the -
church, last Sunday evening, a black
silk umbrella. The gentleman who
took it will be handsomely rewarded by
leaving it at No. -, San Fernando
Street,
t.Now," said the merchant, II am q
liberal advertiser, and have always
found it paid me well. A great deal de-
ponds upon the manner in which an adj
vertisement is put. Let us try for your
umbrella again, and if you do not then
acknowledge that advertising pays, I
will purchase you new one"
The merchant then took slip of pa
per from his pocket, and wrote:
IF the man who was seen to take an
umbrella from the vestibule of the -
church, last Sunday, does not wish to
get into trouble, and have stain cast
upon the Christian character which he
values so highly, he will return it at
once to No. = San Fernando Street.
He is well known"
This duly appeared in the paper, and
the following morning the man was as
tonished when he opened the front door
of his residence. On the porch lay at
least dozen umbrellas, Of all shades
and sizes, that had been thrown in from
the sidewalk, while the front yard was
literally paved with umbrellas. Many
of them had notes attached to them,
saying that they had been taken by mis-
take, and begging the loser to keep the
little affair quiet.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-05-10
Worse Than Burglary.

just as the train was entering . tun-
mel on Missouri Railroad, stout wo-
man opened the window. In came the
gas and smoke which alarmed her and
she began to screech frantically:
':Murther! Murther! I am kilt In q
moment the car filed with smoke and
gas and came very near smothering
every person in it. She couldn't under
stand where the smoke came from, and
yelled, "Fire! fire! murther! we're all
kilt! For Gods sake, help! Don't let me
burn up" BY this time the passengers
were coughing and tumbling over each
other, rushing to the car doors in .
most ludicrous manner. The car doors
were locked; the old lady tainted, while
other passengers yelled for help, carried
on like madmen, and by the time they
reached the end of the tunnel were ex-
hausted and almost sufiocated. The old
lady told the conductor that she would
never travel through an underground
gas works again.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-05-10
American Ideas About Land in ENGLAND.

Now, it never enters the mind of an
American that there is anything pecu-
iarly sacred about property in land;
that in free country one cannot buy
and sell land precisely as he could q
horse or consols seems proposition too
ridiculous to talk about in thenineteenth
century; nor is he up in the beauties of
entail and primogeniture. He hears of
Scotch .:hypothec" as the woman at
church heard of Mesopotamia, that
strange but comforting word. And, I
assure you, he learns with annoying
slowness, how man renting land is not
allowed to clear it of game if he wants
to do so. That large number of those
who cultivate the soil of England are
only tenants-at-will seems to him the
worst business arrangement he ever
heard of; and as the discussion goes for
ward, he not only hears Of .'tenant right,''
but is more surprised to hear the heir to
dukedom interpose and say he had an
other right to urge-''landlord's right"
which was SO severely interfered with by
the system Of entail. Here again our
friends are brought face to face with the
fact that not only is the existence of the
British Senate menaced, but that the
laws governing the very soil Of Britain
are seemingly unsatisfactory to all class
es concerned, landlords and tenants
alike, and that it is confidently expected
that Mr.. Gladstone, in the very next
session, will be forced to introduce bills
radically changing the condition Of land
tenure throughout the realm. These
Americans are inquisitive, and wanted
to know why England could not fix tho
land question and be done with it, by
letting it fix itself as in America; for
here there is no land question to wrangle
over, nor has there ever been any. 1t
seems so simple and easy just to follow
Americas lead; but nevertheless how
many bites of this cherry will Mr.. Glad
stone have to take before the English
people are at rest about their soil. Sew
eral bites, at least, I opine.-The Fort
1liQhtlv RevieU.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-05-10
WHOLE NUMBER 924
Norwegian Conservatism.

The traveller in Norway is often struck
with the strong conservatism and tho
hatred of any appearance of pride
which mark the farmers. One of their
customs prescribes that the guest shall
eat alone. The purpose of this singu-
lar etiquette is to show the visitor that
the meal has been specially prepared for
him. In one of his excursions, Paul Du
Chaillu stopped for several days with a
Norwegian farmer in whose veins ran
the blood of King Harold the Fair Hair
ed, who ruled thousand years ago.
After several remonstrances, the guest
prevailed upon his host to sit at table
with him. But he noticed that he was
never hungry.
"Why do you not take your meals
with me?" asked Du Chaillu. ''You
certainly can't eat two dinners within
half an hour of each other.''
'tOh," said the farmer, ssif did SO,
I'm afraid the servants and my neigh
bors would call me proud. They would
say that am ashamed of them before
strangers, and would think 1 sighted
them.''
''Why don't you paint your dwellings
"AASO' AACy "Ouu AOOA ~ HT6G>
tier" said the guest, one day, to the
rich farmer
II would like to do So" he replied,
..but what would people say? They
would think I wanted to appear better
than they are, and was trying to initiate
the city people,
This intense conservatism preserves
primitive forms of society, which have
been lost in more progressive communi-
ties. The maid-servants have an indie
pendent air, which proclaims that
though they worked for the farmer,
they, too, were Norsemen's daughters,
the equals of the farmer 8 wife and girls.
The farmer sits at the head of the ia
BILE, and on each side are his family and
the maids and men-servants. He is the
patriarch, and they look up to him as
the first among equals.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-05-10
They went. The room was thronged.
At the time appointed the lecturer
made his aDDearance.

They went. The room was thrOnged.
At the time appointed the lecturer
made his appearance.
Eunice had expected to see gentle
man somewhat advanced in years; but
instead a tall, slight, youthful figure
stood upon the platform. With an un-
comfortable start the girl recognised in
the lecturer, whose rich eloquent tones
were already enchanting the attention of
that large cultivated audience, the lover
who had gone from her in anger four
years ago.
A film came before her eyes, and she
trembled in every limb; then stilling,
with great effort, the tumultuous throb-
bling of her heart, she sat quietly until
the lecture was over, and then mingled
with the going throng. But their seats
had been far in the front, and some time
elapsed before the door of exit was reach
ed.
Then Eunice found that though she
had not met his glance Claude had seen
and recognised her.
After a cordial hand-shake from Mr..
Grey and his wife, Claude turned to their
young companion, exclaiming:
''This is truly most delightful sur
prise! did not expect to meet an old
friend here tonight. Miss Ray, if you
will permit me Would like to accompa-
ny you home.'
That evening Mr.. Grey's parlor wit
messed scene of happy reunion as, I'M
rebuked, Claude clasped his recovered
treasure to his heart.
''Eunice, he said after a while, ssthe
anger with which 1 left your presence
was short-lived. When it Gained,
thought over your words, and though
they wounded my pride, I could not help
but see that they were only just and
right. I determined then to do as you
had asked me-to pledge myself in my
own heart to abstain from any further
indulgence of the wine-cup, but that I'M
til time had proved the reality of my
reformation would not return to you.
The year that followed, in distant city,
I devoted my time and my means to
seeking out and striving to redeem cases
of intemperance. AS the days went on,
my love for my self-imposed work grew
upon me, and with feeling of abhor-
renee towards the habit which hitherto
had looked so leniently upon. When
I returned to your home to plead for my
old position in your love and esteem, I
found you somewhere, I could not
learn. But my darling, we will think
of the past no longer, but of the bright
future in which, thanks to the kind Prov
idence which has reunited us, we may
live and work together"
Thus we will leave them-the man,
strong against temptation, devoting all
his noble talents to the fight against the
powers of evil, and the gentle girl who
had saved him from himself.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-05-10
An Incident Of Wall Street.

There are many mysteries in Wall
street transactions which will always re-
main such to the uninitiated. Occasion
ally some of them are explained, but the
public continues to be deceived as much
as ever. A writer in Truth, explaining
how quotations donot represent transac-
tons, and that the amount of sales re-
ported has very little to do with actual
business, gives q good illustration of
this fact, which would-be spectators
will do well to remember. A gentleman
of ample means left an order with q
broker for the purchase of 1000 shares
of an active stock. and deposited &c.,
600. The stock which had been firm
Immediately declined, while others adj
vanced. The quotations were getting
down to his margins, when hewas called
on for more money. Not satisfied that
his judgment had been at fault, he re-
solved to purchase stock and take it
home. He received the second note
from his broker, with notice that he
would be sold out at o'clock that day.
Putting the money in his pocket he
walked to the Office and begged for q
little more time, as 5 per cent. of the
margin yet remained. He simulated
poverty and professed to be q ruined
man. The broker was memorable, and
smiled at his pleadings. ''Well," said
the investor, ''I'll take that stock home,
please pass it out" at the same time
taking the currency from his pocket.
The broker was dumbfounded at this
unexpected outcome, and asked for time
to go over to the board, for he had new
er purchased the stock. The investor
objected, and having learned the effica-
cy of revolver as revenue officer dur
ing the war, he took a ''navy six'' from
his pocket and said: Gentlemen, it is
my turn now. want that stock this
very minute or every cent Of the money
left on deposit" It is needless to say
that he received a check for the full
amount. -Boston Globe.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-05-10
The Lessons Canal.

Our correspondence from Panama
shows how the money subscribed by the
public that has faith in the interoceanic
canal is squandered with lavish hand
on the isthmus and little left to show for
it in the way of progress toward the re-
alization of the great canal digger's
visions. Costly machinery is strewed
over the country, $500, 600 is paid for .
house that could have been built for &c.
600, and it is not true that the company
that has the labor in hand has agreed to
construct the canal for 100000, 900.
These are points in the story of the
canal finances that indicate the spirit
which controls and which seems to in
volve the necessary occurrence of cat
astrophe one of those days.-Neso York
Herald.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-05-10
How Vaccination Affects Some People,

how vaccination A1eCtS Some People,
There is something about vaccination
that is peculiar. At Norristown, Pa, .
young lady was vaccinated with virus
taken from the arm of . young man, and
after it worked she could never be near
him a moment without wanting that arm
of his around her waist or neck. A
gentle at Salt Lake city was vaccinated
with virus taken from the arm of Nor
mon neighbor, and the gentle has en-
braced Mormonism and married three
wives, and is looking for more. It beats
all how vaccination works. A man in
Milwaukee who always paid his debts
promptly, was vaccinated from virus
obtained from the arm of friend who
was considered q little slow about pay
ing, ard now the vaccinated man, though
well of, stands off his creditors and acts
like . dead beat, compelling collectors
to call at least q dozen times before he
will pay.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-05-10
Persian Politeness.

Correspondents say that q club is
about to be organized in Paris whose
object will be to revive the old customs
of gallantry and politeness. Paris is
declared to have wofully degenerated in
this particular Of recent years, and re-
form is imperatively demanded. One of
the writer's walls with evident agony,
that in the lobby of the opera he often
sees gentlemen passing before ladies
without word of apology or q touch
Of the hat. This abominable custom he
believes to have been imported from
America and England. Progress.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-05-10
Its 0ririn,

The Chinese are very expertin telling
the time Of day looking in the cats eyes.
They will run to the nearest cat, open
her eyes and at once tell what time it is;
all depending upon the size of the aper.
'ture of the pupil of the eye, which is af-
fected by the position Of the sun and the
character Of the light, even when the
day is cloudy. This method probably
gave rise to the wen-known nursery
rhyme:
Hickory. dickory, dock,
The mouse ran up the clock.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-05-10
Very Choice in the Use Of Language,

The Rev. Arthur Anniceseed, Of Utica,
is disciple Of Wilde, and pronounced
BY his lady parishioners very zephyr
Of poetic piety. His preaching is very
delicate. Last Sunday he read . por-
ton Of sacred writ detailing rehearsal
Of Jonah submarine adventures. 1--WE
come now to Jonah, = said Arthur, .'who
passed three days and three nights in
the whale s-ahem-soc iety. 81 Water
totOn Times. -