New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-12-13

mus Sinistrum." A very free lnterpre-
tation makes it 'It's q cold day when
we get left"
1t is said that there are 375 naphtha
wells on the Apsheron peninsula of the
CaspianSea and that they yield annually
9,6OO,O cwt.
The German Government has adopted
a new regulation on its lines of railway.
In future the carriage will be painted OF
the same color as the tickets of the diff
ferent classes first, yellow; second,
green; third, white.
A Montana wife recently sued for d.
yorce on the ground that her husband
made practice of kissing the hired girl.
The action was dismissed by the judge,
who held that the kissing was justitia-
BILE because of the wife's extreme home
illness.
Miss Gabrielle Greeley has begun
making Improvements on the Greeley
swamp at Chappaqua, and has given a
plot of ground to the Episcopal So
ciety of that village on which to erect a
chapel.
A book has just been issued in Ver-
mont entitled 1.-The Resurrection of
Christ from Lawyers Standpoint" 1t
is an investigation conducted according
to the laws of evidence, and it ends with
full acceptance of the resurrection OF
Christ as historical fact.
You will not annex us with bayonets,
you will annex us with the dollar" was
the prophetical observation of an intel.
ligent Mexican gentleman 20 an Ameri-
can newspaper correspondent recently.
The prophecy will be unerringly fulfilled
within the next thirty or forty years.
Burlington, VT, stands good chance
of getting large factory for making
paper from wood pulp. The concern,
with $250,000 capital, proposes to put
up buildings costing, with machinery,
$l5O,OOO, and Burlington is asked to
give 500, 900 worth of help.
An Italian named Conte is said to
have invented an artificial graphite Of
great purity. 1t is of the same density
throug hout, of a crystalline black, and
with metallic luster. 1t is very dura-
BILE for electric lamps. No description
is given of the process by which it is
made.
Professor H. j. Rice, of the Mich.
gan Military Academy, is trying tc
propagate oysters artificially, and hopes
to make these bivalves the cheapest ar:
ticle of food. A single oyster deposits
100000 to 20,0OO,0O0 eggs, but ordi
narily only 5 per cent. of these are pro-
ductive.
The McAllister gun, invented and
patented by DIR. A. II. McAllister, o.
Union. county, Mississippi, has twenty
four rifle barrels and discharges five
hundred cartridges in a minute, greatly
exceeding the Calling gun in execution
and reliability. The entire work of con
struction was done at the blacksmith
shop on his plantation by DR.. McAllis
ter and machinist of his own neigh
borhood
Says the San Francisco Post: "A
young lady created considerable COM
ment by appearing at a Los Angeles
fancy ball recently in the character of q
raw OYSTER" Her costume was a
sprinkle Of red pepper, and she carried
a cracker in one hand and half lime in
the other. Well may the anxious NOR
alist ask: "Whither are we drifting?'"
''This is your BROTHER" said a St.
Louis hotel clerk to one of the guests. at
the same time presenting another guest.
Recognition was mutual, though thirty
five years. had ell. sed since their last
meeting. Moses Hilliard, of Texas, was
one brother; Fred. Hilliard, of Califor-
mia, was the other. They had both
prospered.
Victor Hugo once stopped in the
streets of Paris and wrote upon q plac-
ard hanging upon blind beggar's neck
verse of such touching beauty and
sympathy that it drew from the bystand-
ers a shower Of small coin such as the
beggar had never before known.
Mrs. Cupley broke her right leg in
two places at Salt Lake City recently
The lady's residence is some distance
out of town, but she has three married
daughters in Salt Lake, and she was
conveyed to their homes, but no one of
the ungrateful children would receive
her. and she was compelled to seek shell.
ter in the house of stranger.
A young man of Kenton County, Ken
lucky, has applied for patent for de-
vice to telegraph train, running at the
highest rate Of speed, at any point on
the road. He is also at work on safe
lock, to be operated by electrisity, and
which win require no key hole in the
door. A burglar could by no POSSIBLE
ity open the safe by operating on tho
lock.
Mr.. Oscar Wilde seems to have had
more than one string to his bow when
he determined to visit America; for be-
sides his lecture, or lectures, on sesthet-
les, he brought with him volume of
manuscript verses by young friend of
his named Rodd-Mr. Renell Rodd. The
verses are said to denote on the part Of
Mr.. Rodd q softness of intellect as mark
ed as the asinine idiosyncrasies of Oscar
Wilde are prominent.
IF hell hath no fury like woman
scorned,' what must that New York
candy factory have looked when It's of
the big armed young women employed
there conferred their angry attentions up
on the foreman! ''He bossed us around
too much," the leader of the Amazons
explained after her cohorts had chased
the foreman into tho street. The fore
man, by the way, forgot to return.
Publishers have their grievances rs
we'll as other people. A representative
of this class told the New York corre-
spondent of the Philadelphia Press that
he found authors difficult persons to deal
with. Some of them were sharp, and
drove hard bargain; others got adj
vances ON unperformed work, and then
were reluctant to comply with the terms
of their agreement; and finally, still
others are downright dishonest and inn
pudent, and refuse to do the work that
they have bargained to perform.
Corporations that disregard the rights
of the public are getting . setback now.
adays. Recently the elevated railroad
in New York, which had injured q