New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-22
GLEANINGs.

The Lord Chancellor Of England re-
ceives salary equal to that Of the Pres
ident of the United States.
Horseshoes ofsteel, gold md diamond
for earrings and brooches, are all the
rage in Paris.
Fire lays agrieyOus tax upon London.
The losses from it amount to $500, 900 a
month.
There have been 1874 women students
at Michigan University during 1882. OF
this number ITO were in the library de-
partment.
Crime is said to be increasing at q
frightful rate in France. During the Is
years ending 1880 it is said that 10000
murders were committed.
1t is said that the invention and SUBJ
sequent Improvement of the American
plow made a saving on last years crop
in this country of 500, 100000.
Mr.. Bennett of Mississippi, felt that
his cook had done more for his happi-
ness than his wife, and he therefore left
her $1,000 and his wife 5000.
The grand staircase in the new Hotel
de Vile, of Paris, will have 100 steps
of Carrara marble, each of which will
cost $50.
A certain draWing-rO0m on Fifth av.
enue, New York, has ceiling of cathe-
dral glass, said to have cost $4,000. It
is one of the oldest ideas of very odd
year.
Milwaukee claims to have the largest
brewery on this continent and the Sec
ond largest in the world. This estab.
lishment turns out 500, 900 barrels of beer
per annum.
Scientific men can tell us within a
few million years the age of the earth;
astronomers have weighed the sun; but
the man isn't born yet who can tell why
q tailor charges as much for a suit for q
little man as for big one.
A Syracuse servant girl collected bel
wages from the hotel proprietor by
standing with a knife and a cleaver over
the baked meats prepared for dinner
and refusing to- allow anybody to
carve.
DR.. Agnew charges $500 day when
he ''devotes all his energies to case.
The patients bank account, when DR..
Agnew is done with him, must look as
if cyclone had passed through the
money vaults.
Bismarck's parents intended him fol-
the church. ..Don't you think would
have been better man?' he said once
to his wife, who was present at the time
he told his story. ''Well." she replied,
II think you would have been happier
man,
Mr.. D. L. Allen, of Bandenburg, Kv.,
and Miss Mollie Westfall. of Leaven-
worth. Ind, were married at Wyandotte
cave, a few days ago. The couple
stood on top of Monument Mountain,
IT'S feet high, surrounded by 800 lighted
candles, and in the painful stiffness
which prevailed, were married by Rev.
Morris Woods.
The Hon. Leland Stanford has Just
enlarged his estate by purchasing the
celebrated Coutts farm, at Menlo Park,
CAL, consisting of about !, 400 acres. 1t
was formerly the property of P. Coutts,
somewhat eccentric Swiss millionaire,
who is now in Europe, but intends soon
to revisit this country and make some
large purchases of land on the Pacific
slope.
A new building material, called '.fos-
sill coral" has been discovered in a
small island in the Bay of Suva, Fiji
When it is first removed it is not soft
and easily cut into square blocks or any
other desired shape, but when it is ex-
posed to the open air for some time it
grows very hard and assumes some OF
the characteristics of friedrich. What
the actual origin of this substance may
have been is uncertain and will form an
interesting problem for biologists. At
any rate it has been found so useful for
building purposes that the Fijian Gov
eminent have given a large order for
cubes of it.
The slender waist of the French officer
is a thing of the past. Having regard
to comfort rather than appearance the
authorities have replaced the tight-tit-
ting garment that has SO much amused
foreigners by what is called the Austrian
tunic, comparatively loose and easy
affair, and certainly more becoming
than the former vestment. The power
full protest of the corset makers was I'M
availing.
Too good to be true is the news from
Berlin that barber's congress there
have unanimously resolved that the
operation of shaving should be begun
on the left cheek; that the lather should
be applied with brush; that the nose
of the customer must not be pulled dur
ing the treatment, and last, but not
least, that conversation on the part of
the operator must be confined to the
business in hand. 1t is again evident
that some of the institutions of the effete
monarchies of the old World are worthy
of imitation.
John A. Cockerill, who shot Colonel
SlaybacK in St. Louis is not entitled to
the rank of Colonel" and never claim
ed it. His father was Colonel in the
Union army during the war, and John
A., then lad of IA or Is, was drum
mer boy in Sherman's army. Once on
being asked if he served in the Union
army, Mr.. Cockerill replied in his in
imitably droll way: eyes, sir; / wore
out four drum-heads in the cause Of the
Union.'
In the past summer one Cleveland
man fell from boat and, being seized
with cramps, sank twice before being
rescued; afterward was struck on the
head and nearly killed by piece of ma
chinery in the mill where he worked;
thereafter was thrown out of buggy
upon his head and his body was run
over by the wheels; recovered from that,
he caught his foot in railway track
and broke his ankle Now he is out
again, in readiness for anything that
may be in store for him.
A mechanic in San Francisco, CAL,
mas perfected an arrangement to be at
tached to railway cars designed to pre-
vent anybody lying on the track from
being run over by the wheels. 1t is
plow-shaped and automatically arrang-