New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-01-25
WHOLE NUMBER 2l1

w AAO111 IN ~ NxO4I1k Ill
wego. N. T., are said to have 345 regu-
lar morphine customers. Many of
them are from the country round about
the village.
A clerk in q large down town hard
ware store, saws the Boston journal
has been unfortunate enough within two
years to sell pistols to six persons who
have bought them, as it afterward
proved, for self destruction.
A lady in Kinds county, Mississippi,
has been managing her husbands farm
during his absence for the past year.
She has paid all her supply bills and
also lifted q heavy mortgage off the
land with the proceeds of her crops.
Cooking up suddenly from her history
book: "Oh. mummy, darling, do
wish I had lived under James IL"
'Why?" Little Ounce: Because. I
see here that education was very much
neglected in his reign!''
IL your wife democrat or a republic
camp asked one Rockland citizen of
another in store this morning. '.She's
NEITHER" was the prompt response; and
then glancing cautiously around and
sinking his voice to hoarse whisper,
he explained, '.she's home rulers
A very absent-ninded man, who Of
ten asked a friend to dine with him,
but almost always forgot to be himself
at home on the day named. meeting
his friend in the street, said: Come
and dine with me on Thursday and
added. graciously: II will be there
A gentleman in conversation with
lady, Wanted the grace and wit OF
new acquaintance whom he had met at
q watering place. sis she prettyP''
asked the lady. ..Not so bad" he an
swered. ''indeed she resembles you
s0mewhat-in look"
A late French caprice is to wear ear
rings made of real Brazilian beetles.
Another style is that of tiny bird
about an inch long made of fine, beau
tiful dyed crimson and green. The
eyes of the bird are formed of dia-
monds.-Fashson Exchange. We have
ordered case of each-Ne,v York
Star.
A party of men at Milton, Oregon.
the other nj ght, took DR.. Rinearson
out stripped him, gave him coat OF
tar aud feathers, and ordered him to
leave. The cause was that he Dragged
about seducing mans wife. The doc
tor failed to leave town, and has been
locked up.
A survey shows that the first abut-
ment of the railroad bridg at Albany,
n. Y, is ten inches out OF plumb. Ali
freight trains have been forbidden to go
over the bridge. and fifty men have
been put to work upon it. The cause
of the settling of the abutment is
matter of conjecture, but it is thought
that the piles upon which the masonry
was placed when the bridge was built
in 1865 have settled somewhat, allowing
the current of the river to wash out thu
cement.
Isaac M. Phybe, an Old resident OF
New York, died in Brooklyn recently.
He remembered going hunting in the
woods near Canal street, and seeing a
whipping post in City hall park. He
enjoyed the honor of seeing every pres
ident from Washington to Grant, and
he was also one of the pall-bearers at
the funeral of Henry Clay. He was
captain in the war of 1912.
The San Antonio Times publishes an
account of the deliberate suicide of q
horse as follows: The horse was in
lot next to tile river. and went into the
water apparently to drink. Its head
was reined up with a check rein. and
the animal could not get his head down
to the water. 1t made several ineffect-
,o1 otf or 70 IN 1,.Sn foi1
]iberately laid down in the water and
was drowned.
Adam Boyle, of Battleford, Canada,
has hit on a new way Of raising pota-
toes. Being pressed for time in the
spring. he dug holes in the sod and
dropped in the cuttings, covering them
lightly with earth. This was all the at
teation they received, and he realized
heavy crop of large and fine looking
potatoes.
Few people, says writer, ''realize
what wonderfully delicate structure
the human ear isl 1t is remarkable
organ, that's fact. Ask man for the
loan of $40, and the chances are that
his ear won't hear you. Softly whisper
''come up and take something" and
the ear manifests an acuteness that is
really marvellous. No,vistown He,.
AID.
A letter from Niagara Falls says:
''The Oneida Community are moving
their works here from Wallingford,
Conn.,, the water power there not being
sufficient. They are going to manufac-
ture spoons of all kinds, and every kind
of chain, from the finest gold watch
chain to the heaviest OK chain. They
will employ about two hundred men.
They have already received $25, 600
worth of orders::''
The organization known as ''the Har-
monists." founded by Father Rapp at
Economy, Pa. many years ago, has &C
cumulated property TO the value of TO-
600, 900. There are about one hundred
old men and women belonging to the
organization, and in a few years at
most they will pass away. As there
are no legitimate heirs the State will
likely administer upon the estate and
inherit the wealth.
Ayoung couple in Trousdale county.
Tennessee, protested religion on the
same day in the same church; were
baptized in the same creek in the same
hour. by the same minister, and were
united in marriage before changing
their baptismal clothes, all of which
local paper prononnces progress.
It is estimated that the SUMS light is
equal to four hundred billion. billion
gas jets. But this is not q particle of
value to our people. To borrow the
idea of some other fellow, the sun
doesn't shine at night. when we most
need light, and in the day time it is
light enough without it.-No,yistoUn
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