New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-01-11
GLEANINGs,

Hannibal Hamlln IS aStOnlshed
to find that there is no Maine law in
Spain.
1t is said that Mr.. Morley, the Eng
lish philanthropist, gives away, on an
average $500. 900 every year,
A vignette of President Garfield will
appear on the checks for the per cent
bonds continued at 81 per cent.
There were present at the Yorktown
centennial generals and colonies
enough to command an army of 1000
600.
There have been set up in the Grand
Opera House 1t Paris number of
mirrors, measuring 45x52 feet, and
weighing from 1900 to 1000 pounds.
OF the 1917 male teachers in the
public schools of Maryland. 232 are
colored men. and of the 1.775 female
teachers, 157 are colored women.
"That prisoner has very smooth
countenance," said the Judge to the
sheriff. '.Yes.'' said the sheriff, che
was ironed just before he was brought
in"
A lady called at drug store where
they also kept hooks, and inquired of
one of the firm: ''Have you 'Grote's
Greece?' ''No. mum; but we've got
some excellent bears OIL"
elbow is your husband this afternoon
Mrs. Quiygs?' ''Why, the doctor says
as how if he lives till mornin', he shall
have some hopes for him; but if he
don't, he must give him up
The building boom has struck WASH
ington. More than $50 new buildings
are in process of erection. >Forty-one
of them represents and aggregate cost
of 1862. 600. Secretary Blaine house,
which will cost $48, 900, is the most ex-
pensive.
At Adrian. Mich, cake baked
twenty years ago at the birth of c. G.
Hulelt and Theoretically sealed in tin
can was opened and eaten, it being Mr..
Hulett's twenty-frst birthday. The
cake was found sound and sweet, though
it had an old taste.
Solvent Iowa farmers are taking
loads of spring beds from glib agents,
merely for storage. OF course they
gave receipts for the property, and, of
course, the receipts turn up in the hands
of third persons as regular promissory
notes.
Secretary Blaine now has in good
position on the wall of one of his par
Tors fine engraving of Gladstone, sent
him by Mr.. Gladstone himself, with an
autograph. The large photograph of
General Garfield, which was displayed
on the catafalque in Cleveland, now
hangs in Secretary Blaine's parlors.
A recent traveller in Germany and
Switzerland says that thousands of girls
in those countries cultivate their hair as
carefully as farmer does his crops,
and once year it is cut off and sold to
the hair merchants. Swiss girls have
the finest hair, and the prices vary
from Is cents to 1856 an ounce.
A company of Davenport, Iowa, sent
an agent to invest its $50, 900 capital in
Leadville mines. He put all the money
into seven ventures that yielded moth
ing. while three others that turned out
we'll proved to have been made on his
own private account. The company
has voted lack of confidence in him.
Christmas cards grow larger, more
artistic, and more expensive. In few
years q young man that has only a
couple of hundred dollars to spend
during the holidays will be undecided
whether to buy his girl . Christmas
card or gold watch and chain.-Noy.
sSst0,vn Herald.
There is a dentist uptown who ad-
vertises that he can make set of teeth
for . person in ten minutes. Double
sets are set on hinges, and if they do
not happen to fit the owner, all he has
to do is to grab them and chew his
l>ouds wh;oh = MT on1, . nnvo1 ;uvo,r
ton, but one that is very saving on tho,
iaw.-Puck.
George Bancroft, the historian, is at
homo 1t Washington. He breakfasts
at 8 o. clock, dictates history to his pri.
vate secretary until 2. then lunches,
and rides horseback. rain or shine, .un.
til 8 o'clock. He then comes home.
takes nap until dinner. and during
the evening entertains biz friends. 10
: 10 79years old. 1890 ~ ~