New Ulm weekly review., 1882-05-10
GLEANINGs.

GLEANlNGS.
Cincinnati rejoices in the possession
OF the handsomest morgue in America.
Fritz has named his dog Non Sequitur,
because it does not follow.
The fly who was invited into the spid-
er's parlor did not make his party call.
Ohio was admitted to the union in
1902. The first public school in Cincin-
natl was opened in April, 1929.
A young attorney at Brownsville, KY,
who failed to get license to practice
law, has gone to chopping wood for .
living.
A woman in Ell Paso, Tex, shot q
Chinaman for giving her some 'jaw,"
whereupon some of the citizens present
ed her with silver cup.
An Indian battle-ground has been
found on side-hill, overgrown with
vine-maple, at Eddy point, half milo
below Knappa, Oregon.
The German association of spelling
reformers has published the first of q
series of classical native authors in the
new photography.
Frost on the Comstock has penetrated
mining shafts seven hundred feet, freez-
ing dripping water at that depth from
the surface.
''Ever do any thing heroic?" said tho
Vermont man. II reckon did; once
went bail for a neighbor O. mine who
wasn't worth two cents.''
James B. Nance, of Nashville, Tenn
essee, is noted us the man who sounded
the last Confederate bugle charge of the
war. H.,
A Virginia turkey was accidently shut
up in a cellar for five weeks, without
food or drink. When liberated it was
terribly emaciated, but living.
A Kansas man and woman have been
married to each other once year for
four years, a divorce having separated
them after each union except the last
one.
The Chinese embassy's cook at WASH
ington buys canvasbacks often, and,
when he has got the birds, chops them
up carefully into mince and SINNERS it
slowly in sweet oil.
A grass widow, aged 81, has eloped
from Harvard, Clay county, with =
younger man, who sacrificed his prop
erty, and deserted wife and children for
her sake.
''Is he a good German scholar?" they
asked of the Washington belle concern
ing her lover. "Splendid!' she replied.
HE holds lady beautifully, and knows
all the figures"
1t was q good thing for the whalers
when Jonah blubbered in the marine
| monster that took him in. That blub-
ber has made the fortune of thousands.
Somebody has figured out that Van
derbilt's income would allow him to, in
| one day, visit 5000 circuses, eat 10000
pints of peanuts, and drink {, 900 glasses
of lemonade.
A girl at Carrollton, Ark. was be-
trothed to one man while she desired to
| marry another. She married the first,
but promised the second that at the end
| of six months she would elope with him.
This arrangement has been carried out,
The wife of West-end man recently
correcting little son at the table: 1T
isn't nice to say lasses,' darling,' said
the mother; ''you must say 'molasses.'"
'.And if you want it right bad, my son."
suggested the father. eating his turnip
greens with his knife, ''you must say
'morelasses.'
A Pacific coast paper makes the
alarming suggestion that the glorious
climate of California is changing, the
weather appearing to grow colder every
winter. The present winter has no re-
corded parallel there, either for the low
degree of temperature attained or the
number of days of frost.
An act is about to be introduced into
the French Chambers which may have
the effect of keeping alive great many
children who would otherwise die. 1t
gives the municipal authorities power,
which they never have had yet, to deal
stringently with parents who neglect
their offspring morally and physically.
A member of the New York Legisla-
ture returned his railroad passes. Hold
on-don't applaud. They were made
out in the name of his brother, and he
returned them to be corrected.
AS the outlook for grant of govern
ment or village aid to the Niagara Falls
worlds fair in 1883 is not as bright as
expected, the commissioners are making
an effort to organize stock company
to carry out the scheme. As yet the
number of shares and the amount of
capital have not been decided upon.
A deaf and dumb lunatic recently en-
tered church on the Esquiline hill, at
Rome, and going up to the altar COM
menced eating the sacred waters out of
the ciborium. The people who were at
prayers shrieked for the police, and the
madman was manacled. He had been
fasting forty-eight hours. -
Capt Percival, a Cape Cod mariner
OF the old school, was once awakened in
his bunk by shipmate, with the an
nouncement that the vessel was going
to eternity. ''Well," replied the captain,
1--WE got ten friends over there to one
in this world: let her CO." And he turned
over and went to sleep again. 5sss
What time is it, my dear?' asked