New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-08
its favor.

The body of every spider is furnished
with four little Jumps, pierced with tiny
holes, from each of which issues single
thread, and when thousand of these
from each lump are joined together they
make the silk line of which the spider
spins it's web. and which we call spi
ders thread.
An Indianapolis woman has brought
q somewhat novel suit against the estate
of dead man, who, just before his de-
mise, cut and carelessly placed upon an
open common lot of poisonous vines
and shrubs. Four of the plaintiffs cows
ate the noxious vegetation and died.
Now $500 is wanted as damages.
In New Orleans lives Creole woman,
now ninety-two years old, who was once
the nurse of General Beauregard. She
tells many interesting "reminiscences
about the city, and takes great pride in
the fact that one of the greatest leaders
in the Confederate army drank from
her breast the nourishment of infantile
life.
Prof. Ponfck, of Breslau, has been
clearing up some of the popular doubts
concerning mushrooms. He says that
ell the common ones are poisonous, but
that cooking deprives them of much of
their poison. though the water in which
they are boiled should be carefully
thrown away, and the esculent washed
in two or three waters. Dried mush-
rooms are only safe after four months
keeping.
An English chemist, who had been
called :lpon to analyze several socks and
stockings of a red color, which had been
found to cause great irritation of the
skin of the wearers, discovered the
cause of the trouble in the tin salt used
as a mordant in fixing the dye. He sue
ceeded in obtaining over twenty-five
grains of tin in the form of the dioxide
When acted upon by acid perspiration
tho tin oxide forms an exceedingly irri-
tating compound.
The late Moses Williams, of Boston,
bequeathed all his property to his fam
lily, and advised them to retain it invest
ed as he had left it, rather than to ex-
change it for other property that might
seem to promise greater returns. IL
now AOFVA AOOhCu All
he said in his will, ''but have sought
the greatest security of the principal.
Governed by this rule have met with
few losses, and to this l owe my large
estate.
The Texas rangers are home guards
peculiar to themselves. There are two
hundred of them in all employed by the
state government to ride rough-shod
over lawlessness. They enlist for
year, and are required to furnish their
own horses, saddles, brides, rifles and
pistols, and clothing, not uniform. The
dress is go-as-you-please. They get $50
month and rations, and do good SER
vice.
Maurice Welsh, of Norwich, Conn,
earns his living by manual labor, and is
SO willing to do 50 that he voluntarily
gave up his pension of 81 a month. He
wrote to the pension agent that his
wound, received in the war, had ceased
to trouble him, and that he could not
conscientiously receive any more help
from the government. An agent was
sent to find out whether Welsh was sane.
He was.
The oldest twins now living in the
United States, it is said, are Bernard
and John Kepler, who still live in the
quaint old hillside house in Plumstead,
Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where they
were born on March ~, 1892 They
never have been parted for day, and
have only been out of the county once,
when in 1860, they visited Philadelphia
for short time. They voted for Presi-
dent Madison for his second term, and
have voted at every presidential election
since.
The first public protest ever made on
this continent against the holding of
slaves was made April 10, 1858, at Ger
mantown, Pa, by the members of the
Mennonite church of that settlement.
It said: There is saying that we shall
doe to all men lick as we will be done
ourselves; macking no difference of what
generation, descent or colour they are.
And those who steal or robb men, and
those who buy or purchase them, are
they not all alicke? Here is liberty of
Conscience, wch is right and reasonable,
here ought to be likewise liberty Of ye
body, except Of evil doors, web is an
mother case. But to bring men hither,
or to robb and sell against their will, we
stand against .
In cave in the mountains of Vir-.
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