New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-08-02
GLEANINaS.

49,
GLEANINaS.
The marriage insurance craze has now
infected sontherners.
Gustave Dore is sketching and paint
ing scenes among the Alps.
There are 5000 Cinnamon engaged
In making boots and shoes in this coun-
try.
Railroad property Georgia increased
two and a quarter million dollars in
value last year.
The abbey of St. Vincent, near Lat
robe, Pa, is the Oldest monastery in
America, having been established in
1890.
Oscar Wilde has unusual qualities at
''pOteen." Even in Colorado no one
could be found who could s'drink him
under the table,
A Boston millionaire recently said:
Thank God, although have been
very poor. never was so poor that I
was obliged to live out of town.
Gen. Joseph. E. Johnston says that if
he had staid in congress he would have
become beggar. He is an insurance
man now, and presumably makes more
than $1,000.
Some of the richest men in Boston are
said to be the ones who could close fast
houses and gambling-dens if they would
withdraw the capital they have invested
in them.
The sheriff of Chehalis Co., Washing
ton territory, advertises for sale all the
! Northern Pacific lands within his iuris-
diction, on account of nonpayment OF
taxes in 1881.
One of south Gcorgia's most popular
society ladies, resident of Lowndes
county, has cleared this season on an
acre and a half truck farm over $3.50.
She superintendent its cultivation in per-
| son.
Gold is coming in quite rapidly from
the mines in the foothills near Oroville,
Cal. The large amount of snow in the
mountains has afforded the miners an
abundance ofwater to work their claims
with.
Professor Schiff, the vivisector Of
Florence, has used up more than A.
600 dogs in his experiments, and in tr-
der to silence their complaints always
begins work by cutting their vocal
chords.
Capt. Constantenus, the tatooed Greek
Is soon to be admitted into the masonic
order. He will become a voter next
year, and means to take up his resi-
dence in New York, having amassed q
! fortune.
The queen of Italy has nice sense Of
the picturesque, and in summer never
wears bonnet if she can help it. She
takes her afternoon drives with her beau
tiful head covered only by the mlntilla
or the black lace veil.
A lady lecturer in Chicago asserts
that chicken should be boiled one
hour for every year of its life. The or
binary restaurant fowl would by this
rule simmer in the pot about twenty -four
hours.
Within less than four months of 1882,
1891 miles of new railroad have been
built. Only in one year 1856, was this
mileage exceeded during the whole IL
months before 1869. So many miles
were not built during the whole of any
one year from 1873 to 1873. It is COS
miles more than were constructed dur.
ing the same period of 1881.
The oldest deed in America is said to
be in the possession of Mai. Leland, OF
New York city. 1t was written eighteen
years after the discovery of the new
world by Columbus. This document is
q conveyance Of Fisher island, near the
mouth of the sound, from certain Indian
chiefs to the celebrated navigator, John
Cabot, whose signature it bears.
While DR.. Glenn, the great California
farmer, will not clear any money in his
farming operations, still he will realize
enough to pay all his expenses for the
current year. He expects to realize at
least 500, 600 bushels Of wheat from this
years crop. This will give him sc, OOO,-
600 pounds, which, if sold at II cents
per pound, will amount to $3.50, 900 for
the entire Gre p. He estimates his ex-
penses for the crop this year at some
thing near $3.50, 900.
Tho Editor, the HopperGrass and the
Snake.
The editor of the Swainesboro, Ca,
Herald went out hunting on Saturday
evening, and while he was chasing a jay
bird from tree to tree, large chopper
grass flew up in front of him and
frightened him very much, and he (the
editor) Immediately shot the poor little
thing; after he had killed the chopper
grass he, in q brave, defiant manner,
said:. ''Now, scare me again. He
walked on looking every minute for
another "hopper-grass'' to scare him
again, but he had not gone very far be-
fore he discovered large coach whip
had wound itself around his leg, prepar-
atory to giving him whipping. he got
scared again, he kicked and pranced
around considerable, until he got the
snake extricated from his leg, and i'm
mediately dispatched his snakeship.
He did not stop to look for any more
'jay birds" ':hopper-grasses," and
snakes" but struck bee line fol
town. where he arrived nearly out Of
breath.
In the Canadian Parliament.
They are little ponderous in their
ways up in the Canadian Parliament.
but the personal element of legislating
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