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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-08
Palsy Among the Veterans.

We are surprised at the number Of
veterans we saw in attendance at the
annual reunion who were more or less
afflicted with paralysis. Upon inquiry
among those present we were still more
astonished to learn that many of the
veterans of the adjacent counties were
confined at home with the same atfiic-
tion-too feeble to be in attendance.
We made diligent inquiry, and have be-
come we'll satisfied that the mortality
and suffering from paralysis among
Tennessee veterans of the Mexican war
is all this time greater than among the
men of the same age of any other pur-
suit. This presents grave questions
which are in the interest of science and
of general humanity, and of special i'm
pOrtance to the veterans of that war
perhaps the veterans of all wars. Among
other questions we present these: First,
is the tendency to paralysis among the
veterans of the Mexican war in Tennes-
see greater than among other citizens
OF the State of the same age and of SIM
liar habits? Second, does such tendency
extend to the veterans of that war in
any other or in all other localities?
Third, what are the causes which have
produced that tendency? and do they
still exist? Fourth, what can the veter-
an do in the way of diet, habit, or med
icine, to avoid this tendency or palliate
its consequences? Many other questions
will present themselves to the scientific
inquirer which, we hope, will receive
the attention which the Importance of
the subject claims. We raise these
questions not only in the interest of sci
ence in general. but of the veterans of
the Mexican war in particular. We
think they open wide field of investi-
CATION, which we hope some adven tur-
GUS man of sense will explore.-Nass-
Ville (1ena.) World.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-08
Hot and Gold Drinks,

A correspondent of the Kmowledqe call
attention to some of the disadvantages
of hot drinks. Cold drinks, he says, are
natural to man, though most people
nowadays are so used to hot drinks that
they do not feel satisfaction-reallv
stimulating unless they have them.
Hot drinks are injurious to the tongue,
for they deaden its sensation, and after
taking hot soup or drink, the tongue be-
comes quite dumb, and unable to taste
the finer favOrs of dish. The teeth
are greatly injured by them, and many
dentists say carries decay is due to
them alone. They crack the enamel,
and thus allow carries to set in. When
carries has once set in, hot drinks are a
common cause of neuralgia.
Hot drinks are especially hurtful to
the stomach. They cause irritation of
the nerves of the stomach, and conse-
quent mild inflammation of that organ,
so that after hot drink the stomach is
red and congested; in time debilitated
condition is set up. A temperature of
100 deg. Fahrenheit also destroys the
active ferment of the gastric juice
sin-and so leads to Indigestion. If the
stomach is at all disordered, hot drinks
give rise to much gripping pain, and in
many cases to vomiting. In cases of
diarrhea, too, hot drinks only increase
it, while cold ones tend to lessen it.
Thirst is not common in winter, unless
sugary, salty, or hot spiced foods have
been taken. In cold weather, the air
contains more moisture than in hot, and
in cold weather there is less perspiration
Hot drinks increase the volume of heat
in the body, and if that is not required,
it is quickly got rid of by the skin. Wa
ter is the best thirst-quencher, but if
simple food is taken, the need of drink
will be small. Many vegetarians drink
nothing from month to month, the only
fluid they get being the juices of the
fruits which they eat. But pleasant
drinks, like tea, coffee, ETC., may be
taken lukewarm for a long time with
little apparent damage. The least in
furious is cocoa, made with plenty of
milk, and allowed to stand until nearly
cool. A good test is to apply the little
finger to the drink, and if it be not hot
to it, then it may safely be taken.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-08
Ten Thousand Acres Of Ovsters-.

Two hundred miles Of oyster beds,
thirty to seventy miles wide, that is to
say 10000 acres Of splendid oysters, with
in easy distance of the British coast, is
a discovery to which all those of Stan.
ley and Livingstone sink into insignifi.
canoe. One curious feature about it is
that the oysters lie at depth of twenty
one fathoms, thus disposing summarily
OF the prevalent idea that oysters can
only be raised successfully in shallow
water. The man who invents a new
dish. according to some, the man who
plants tree, according to the Moham-
medans, deserves well Of mankind; but
what IS the reward of man who dis
covers 10, 600 acres Of oysters? And vet
all this is tinged with the melancholy
doubt whether oysters will be cheaper
IN consequence, 55.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-08
Mammoth Footprints.

The Virginia City Chronicle says that
since Professor lie Conte visited the
State Prison at Carson to examine the
fossil tracks on the floor of the quarry,
Warden Garrard has developed three
additional series of human footprints,
He turned stream of water on the
quarry floor. at the western side, where
the walls are about thirty feet Ugh,
and was rewarded by more than doz-
en- footprints. Coming west are the
prints of the feet of man who was APP
Parently dragging heavy load after
him through the mud. The tracks are
turned sideways, as if the man had
sought the strongest purchase to pull
along behind him his load. Even in
the smallest of the tracks the No. 9 Of
the Chronicle reporter looked like .
baby shoe. On the east side of the quar-
~ little tunnel was run in about six
feet in the presence of Professor Le
Conte, and three fresh human foot
prints were disclosed. Evidently the
owner Of the feet was plunging through
deep and thick mud, for around each
track was forced up ridge several in.
ches in height.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-08
Patent Barbed- Wire-Fence Oorsets.

We more than half expected that if
the deacons and elders throughout the
country were not more quiet and reserv-
ed and less ostentatious and bold in their
hugging of the girls, someone would be
getting up an arrangement for putting
the kibosh on their funny business. And
at last it has been done, and some scien-
fist has invented patent corset with a
paddock on it, and all around the usual
path of mans arm is filled up with
sharp-pointed spikes. The corset re-
sembles the muzzle used for weaving a
calf, and is said to be equally effective.
1t is mighty tough for the men Of the
country to be broken of their hugging
propensities by the means of a loaded
corset, but we doubt if this new scheme
will prove satisfactory. You would have
to stand over the girls of this city with
club to compel them to wear this new,
patent OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES corset = Chic0-
40 Times.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-08
Another Iowa Cyclone.

DAVENPORT, Iowa, Oct. 3O.-One
OF the most destructive storms ever
known in this region passed through
the central part Of this county, FIVE
miles north of here about 4 o'clock
this afternoon. 1t was varied by
hail, rain lightning and at last a
tremendous cyclone. The cyclone
swept up the Mississippi river in a
northeasterly direction, and for five
miles along the Iowa shore tore ev.
erything to pieces in its path. At
Valley City two houses were dis.
mantled and generally scattered,
and from that place to this city the
line of the storm is distinctly traced
by wrecked houses, barns and fenc.
es. Two miles below Valley City
the house Of Mrs. 6. w. Fenno,
two stores and barns were blown in.
to little pieces, scarcely a fragment
two feet in length being found. It
contained three inmates-Mrs. Fen
no, her son Fdware, and carpenter
at work on the stairs Edward and
the carpenter miracuously escaped
with their lives, but Mrs. Fenno's
dead body was dug out of the ruins
two hours afterwards. The other
two received injuries, the extent of
which caunot yet be ascertained.
The doctors are at work upon both
and fear serious internal injuries.
The next house south, that Of Ed,
ward Fenno, the son of the lady
killed was also completely demol-
ished. Next also on the south was
the house of Mr.. Stark, which was
likewise leveled to the earth, but
the inmates Of both happily escaped
with some bruises. Thence on
down to within four miles of this
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-08
30 Was Dead Gone If BE Couldn't Get /.

UlV0rC0. "
s.Jedge,'' said colored man to an
Arkansas jurist, ..'wid some powerful
facts in my favor ken get q divorce
Immediately from 4 mighty bad wo-
manP''
You can, by the production Of cor
tain evidence and due legal course, Sc
cure dissolution, replied the Judge.
Dissolution" repeated the dissatis-
fed husband. sDissOlution. OATS one
oh de fines words I eber heard. Eff
had been in possession OBJ dot OBSERVE
ton. sab, I wouldn't hab been beat for
Justice of de peace. But, ledge, / wants
de dissolution right now.''
What has your wife done?''
sShe's been actin like white 'oo-
man, an is gittin' above me. OATS why
yer hears my voice in dis wall OBJ COM
plaint.''
.How has she acted like white wo-
manp''
.'Why, she kisses adog, sab. It was
all right SO long as she simply went wild
white wimmin. an tried to run away
wild q preacher, but when she tuck up
wild dat dog gun ter get sick. Now,
jedge, 'sposen yerself wus ter 60 home
an fin yer wife huggin' and kissin' a
dog, wouldn't yer sorter look out fur a
solution, as yer in high strung 'strono-
my termed it jist nOW?''
II think that would" replied the
judge.
''An' den, eff yer wife wuster set de
dog up ter de table an chaw beefsteak
fur him, wouldn't dat seem sOrter out
rageous ter yer legal UNDERSTANDING
Il quite agree with you, old man,
..Wall, den, write out a divorce fur
me now"
81 can't do it,
But, jedge, Use gone ef yer don't. y
'Why?''
''Case Use dun married anudder 'om-
an. '-Ark0nsaU Traveller.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-08
Mistaken,

Thong n we may pity near-sighted
people, it is almost impossible some
times to avoid laughing at their ludi-
erous, though unconscious, plumbers.
Perhaps the most considerable of gentle
men could not have helped smiling if
he had witnessed either of the following
scenes"
A lady while riding recently with a
gentleman. in strange city, exclaimed,
''How strange to lay out a new GENE
terry in the crowded part of city!'
''Oh," replied the gentleman, ''this is
not q cemetery it is park
II thought those signs on the posts
very singular for a cemetery, but they
are stranger still for park said the
lady.
''Why what is on them?" asked her
friend, greatly surprised at the remark.
''Why," she replied, .'you certainly
see those little signs all along, Weep
DER the Graves ?''
"No." replied the gentleman, ..but
see on them, Keep off the Grass!'"
A Boston minister was walking down
Washington street just after the assas-
sination of Gen. Garfield, and overheard
a man, who was trying to read from a
paper in shop-window, Garfield
wOrds,-
''God reigns. and the Government at
Washington still lives.''
''Why! Why! This is blasphemous!
Seer' he exclaimed, to his companion.
1T says, God resigns His government
at Washington.
u11iot 1tt1o cuhurhon 1odx, r>,,o dow
stopped another lady on fremont street,
Boston, and said, "Oh, I'm glad to see
you. want to make some inquiries
about poor person in whom you are
Interested
The lady addressed looked as much
surprised as if she had never been in
terested in poor person; but taking the
profered hand, said, ''You surprise me;
l thought you had left town. Let us
step into this doorway"
As they stepped in,'' they came
very close together, and the philanthropy
ic lady stopped, flushed, and said, ..Praay
excuse me, Pm mistaken; l am very
near-sighted, and thought you were
Miss A, the City Missionary
.'Indeedr' answered the lady With
big white puffs. swell, [ am mistaken,
too. l thought you were my neighbor
in Beacon street-till took q good look
at you. am also near-sighted.'
The two looked a little mortified, and
Beacon street-of the new style smiled
family and moved on; and the quiet lit
tie suburban lady smiled and moved on
too.
Serious results sometimes arise from
near-sightedness, and itshould be looked
after somewhat and carefully treated in
young people. Have our schools any
responsibility in this matter?- Youths
Communion,
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-08

In accumulated wealth Great
Britain stands at the head of all ma.
tons, France second and the Unit
ed States third. In annual earnings
and income this country takes the
lead, with Great Britain next and
France third. In less than a de-
cade the United States will be the
richest nation on earth, and in less
than a quarter of a century New
York is likely to be the financial
centre of the earth.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-08
Spectacles Over the Mouth.

An elderly gentleman, accustomed to
indulge" entered the room of GER
tain inn, where sat a grave Friend by
the fire. Lifting pair Of green specta-
cles upon his forehead, rubbing his in
famed eyes, and calling for hot brandy
and water. he complained to the Friend
that ''his eyes were getting weaker and
weaker, and the spectacles did not
seem to do him any good.' .'I'll tell
thee, friend,'' replied the Quaker"
''what think. If thee was to wear thy
spectacles over thy mouth for few
months. thy eyes would soon get well
AGAIN.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-08

Since the lynching Of that color
ed man, Thurber, for rape, the
sheriff at Grand Forks has received
q notice from the warden Of the
Wisconsin State prison that Thur
Der had served two terms in that
institution for rape. He gave him
a hard name, and said he deserved
his fate.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-08

There are some 100000 acres of un.
designated oyster lands in Connecticut,
about tw0-thirds of the whole amount,
and the oyster commission are at pres.
ent very busy considering applications,
Engineers are now surveying the sound
at the expense Of the commission and
the government.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-08
Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, D. G.. Oct. 81. 1882.

WASHINGTON, D. C. Oct. 81. 1882.
The city is just beginning to re.
ceive it's winter complement and to
look once more like the Capital OF
the United States. Many of the
fashionable people, who have been
away during the summer, have re-
turned, and familiar faces of sudden
statesmen alone are wanting to re-
mind US that this is the seat of gov.
eminent of the most gigantic young
nation in the annals Of the planet
called the Earth, the only plant
and annals, by the way, about
which either Mr.. Beecher or Mr..
Ingersoll knows much.
The first thing that strikes the
five months absentee ON his return
to the Capital is the Washington
Monument. Fortunately it only
strikes him fguratively; if it should
strike him square, the hypothesis Of
physical indestructibility might be
proven absurd by melancholy ex-
ample. This monument that is in.
tended to overtop every monument
in the world; already overtops every
thing in Washington and is still
climbing skyward. It promises to
realize all that its projectors design
ed, and will doubtless lie the most
impressive beautiful, and, I must
say astounding, piece of architecture
in the world. I, of course, do not
mean to say that it will reflect as
much genius in design, or science
and labor in execution as many 9TH
other architectural triumphs Of the
world, as for instance St. Peters,
st. Pauls or the cathedral of Co.
logne; but for awe inspiring gran.
deur and chaste sublimity, this plain
white shaft, it's base on level with
the ocean and it's head in clonds, ex-
cells them all.
Another third has yet to be added
to its stature, and then will come
the question of it's surrounding fig.
ure. What shall it be? Various
designs have been suggested by the
native and foreign artists. No de.
sign has been definitely adopted. A
statue of Washington, in order to
present recognizable Likeness from
such an altitude, will have to be
Of more than colossal size, and a
horse, and all that the horse typi.
fies, less We have already a glut
of colossal bronze equestrian stat.
ute in monuments to war; so many
indeed, as to be out of accord with
our peaceful annals, and the genius
Of institutions which are not mill.
tary, but civil.
The monuments to peace in the
United States are sufficiently vis-
able to the student and the philoso.
pher aud to any one in fact who
reads and reflects. But it were bet
ter that the triumphs of peace and
industry, craftsmanship ana science
should be so symbolized and honor
ed, as to make them palpable to
fools.
| would like to see on the top of
this monument a statute of Wash.
ington as he stood at the close of
his presidential term, willing to
leave his exalted station for the
farm; and by him, with an electric
light in his hand, to make them Wis.
ible IN the darkest night, his dis
tlngulshed cotemporary, known in
both hemispheres as the first to ap-
ply electricity, Benjamin Franklin.
Such a group would be sugges-
tive and an impressive history. It
would be thoroughly modern aud
American. It would speak more
eloquently OF that which is greatest
Z "a J. ~ = Hl-ss5
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-08
The Toothpick Question.

Translated from the Omnibus? Guest,
to the landlord Landlord, the
box with toothpicks stands again not
upon the table,"
Landlord 'Toothpicks there are
with me no more"
Guest ''Why them not?''
Landlord-''Know you, in former
times, then were the guests so cultured,
and stuck the toothpicks, after the use,
again in the box. But nowadays takes
every man one with him. So much the
business can't Afford
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-08

Elk. Gov. Hendricks, of Indiana,
is seriously i'll and his recovery is
considered doubtful. Erysipelas in
his feet shows signs of developing
into gangrene, disease that killed
his father and grandfather.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-08

The articles of incorporation oil
the Central Railroad Company,
have been filed with the Secretary
of the State and published as the
law requires. Its object is to built,
maintain and operate a railway and
telegraph line from Mankato to the
western boundary Of the State by
such line as may hereafter be adopt.
ed. The principal place of business
is at st. Paul; the capital stock is
placed at four millions and the legal
limit made fifty years. The incor.
porators are j. r. Meagher of this
city, L. X. Seone, Monteyideo P. T.
Clements Faribault and NJ. D.
Flower, and R. G. Wright St.
Paul.
The purpose of this organization
is undoubtedly to extend the Can.
non Valley or Central railroad up
the Minnesota, south of that
stream, via New Ulm and Montev,.
veo, to the western limits of the
State. This road will be completed
early in the spring, and it is evi.
IDENTIFY not the intention of the com
pany to tarry long but to work out
its destiny by pushing out west
ward. A fact worthy of considera.
alton and greatly to the advantage
of this company in competing for
the trade of the upper Minnesota
valley is that its line of road will
be materially shorter than that OF
the Winona end St. Peter, as by
the route proposed a saving of some
twelve or thirteen miles will be
made between Mankato and New
Ulm, while the route is of light
grade, we'll sheltered and the cost
OF grading will not exceed the mon
ey paid out for bridges alone on the
WinOnO road. Rtyip,p.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-08

From the annual report of the
British postal department. it appears
that nearly ten million American
newspapers entered England last
year.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-08
Learn to Swim,

Every man, woman and child should
learn to swim. It is not difficult art
surely we can learn to do what all ami
mails accomplished without teachingP
{ Paddle gently with hands and feet, the
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-08

The Largo Iron works are engag-
ed in the manufacture of stoves, and
the product is claimed to be of a
very superior kind.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-08
We wonder if anybody everpicked up
q tear that was dropped.

Lord Chesterfield, noticing a very.
grave and awkward couple dancing q
minuet, said they looked as if they were
doing it for money, and were doubtful
about getting paid. =.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-09-06
Frugal Diet.

Cyrus, King of Persia, according TO
Xenophon, was brought up on diet of
water, bread and crosses, till up to his
18th year, when honey and raisins were
added and the family names of the
Fabn and Lentuli were derived from
their customary and possibly exclusive
diet. Eggs and apples, with a little
bread, were for centuries the alpha and
omega of Roman dinner; and, in
earlier times, even bread and turnips, if
not turnips alone, which the patriot
Cincinnatus thought sufficient for his
wants. 1t is singular that our temper
ance societies direct their efforts only
against the fluid part OF our vicious diet;
a league of temperate eaters would find
q large field for reform. But In Italy
the thing was attempted by Luigi de
Cornaro, a Venitian nobleman of the
fifteenth century, who restricted himself
to daily allowance of 10 ounces OF
solid food and six ounces of wine, and
prolonged his life to 102 years. Though
he did not organize his followers iIto a
sect, his example and his voluminous
writings influenced the manners Of his
country for many years. Cornaro would
not have gained many converts in Rus
sia and Germany; but throughout
Southern Europe frugality, in the trues'
old Latin sense, is by no means rare.
acour, a Marseilles longshorman, earn
ed from 10 to 90 francs a day. loaned
money on interest, aud gave aims, bu'
slept at night in his basket, and subslst
d Oh IA onions day, which preserved
him in excellent health and humor, but
got him the nickname of quatOrze dig
Mons
A pound Of bread with six ounces o
poor cheese, and such berries as tht
roadside may offer, constitute the dali,
ration of the Turkish soldier on thu
march, and the followers of Don Carlo
contented themselves with even less. 4
correspondent OF the Dd'ty Netcs wa
served with dish of radishes in Cata
Ian tavern, and ventured the rcmarl
that radishes were taken after meals ii
Northern Europe. You can get som
more after finishing these, was the re
ply. The rndishes constituted the din
lner.
Not that men should, but that the.
can, live on bread alone, is abundant
proved by the records of Old-Worl
prisons. Silvio Pellico, the Italia
patriot and martyr, subsisted for seve
, years ON coarse rye bread and watel
: which experience had taught him
prefer to the putrid pork soup of h
! Austrian bastIle- The prisoners of th
: Khedive were fed on rice and India
{ ccrn, til the prayers of the French re-
ideuts and his American officers induce