New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-02-01
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The acme Of politeness was reached
by the Nevada mining superintendent
who posted placard reading: please
do not tumble down the shaft"
Said the lecturer: The roads up
these mountains are too steep and rocky
for even donkey to climb; therefore
did not attempt the ascent
A fortunate fellow: Fogg says his
friend Pingry is so slow that he never
catches cold and couldn't get within
hailing distance Of the slowest of slow
fevers.
A cigar-dealer in Stockton, CAL, has
a pet tarantula which he has kept for
three years. When it stretches out it
is at least eight inches in circumfer-
ence.
A Brevard county, Florida, man has
been growing pineapples for market
for the past ten years, and claims to
realize from $500 to $1,000 per acre
therefrom.
A white oak tree recently cut in Sa-
lem county, New Jersey, measured six
feet and two inches across the stump.
Trees of this size are now scarce in
South Jersey.
According to Canon Gregory in the
church congress recently held in Lon
don. there is ''more juvenile prostitu-
ton there than in any other capital city
in Europe"
The sowing Of forest pine seeds has
been begun by the Shakers at Enfield,
Conn.,, and the state authorities are
considering plans for encouraging this
needed industry.
Their are over 1900 corporations
which pay tax into the state treasury of
New York, on capital stock and gross
earnings, which nets the state yearly
over 81, 100000.
The city of New York has been
obliged to pay for empty barrels taken
by mob of boys from a shopkeeper to
make bonfire on the night Of the cleo
ton in November, 1879.
A recent survey of the fume at Fran
coma, n. H., shows that many of the
lodges in the vicinity are largely COM
posed Of as fine quality of granite as
can be found in all Scotland.
A bridge company of Buffalo has
taken the contract for the construction
of the Ohio Central railroad bridge
over the Ohio river at Point Pleasant,
w. Va. It will cost $750.O00.
An old man of 80 died at Staten
island while waiting for the hour APP
pointed for his wedding. Nothing
strange in this; lots of old fellows dye
in anticipation of the event.
Indignant mother: '.Surely you don't
mean this for likeness of my son?
Why, the boy looks like an idiot. -
Photographer-''pm very sorry, but /
can't help that, ma ann
Toots thinks there should be four
ghosts in the play of Hamlet" quot
ing in support of his theory line from
Gray's elegy: THE rude four fathers of
the Hamlet Sleep
Lord Butte is about to build new
dock at Cardiff larger than any now
existing. He and his family have al
ling in docks. Cardiff must be going
ahead.
Spiders and their webs form the de-
signs embroidered on the founces and
waistcoats of some Paris gowns. Gold
thread is the material usually employed
for this work, but sometimes silk is
used.
The knapsack and accoutrements of
the French infantry weigh 573 pounds,
IA pounds more than is carried by the
German foot soldier. These odd pounds
may some day make all the difference
between victory and defeat.
A gentleman in conversation with
lady, Wanted the grace and wit of a
new acquaintance whom he had met at
q watering-place. rs she pretty?'
asked the lady. '.Not SO bad" he an
swered; Indeed, she resembles you
somewhat in look"
Said the teacher: IS .And it came to
pass when King Hezekiah heard it that
he rent bis clothes Now, what does
that mean children-.he rent his
clothes?'" And the boy with a big
brother said it was s'letting fellow
have the use of 'em for few dollars,
as brother Dave did with his ulster last
spring, and now wishes he hadn't
Perhaps the largest block of sand
stone eyer blasted in Ohio came from a
quarry at Logan. It was IS feet long,
Is feet wide, and ~ feet thick, and
contained 1,O71 tons, making 90 car
loads of stone.
Pensioners are proverbially long
lived. The London evening Ne,0s
says: ''The servants of Queen Char
lotte still draw E12O IS. I'D. from the
public funds. and G1O is paid to those
of George III, though that estimable
monarch died sixty-one years ago.
The punch Bowl" of Hamden
Plains, Conn.,, in the center of which
grew large tree, and which has been
thing Of geological interest to tour
lists, has been filled up by the change
in the layout of the track of the canal
road. The punch-bowl measured $50
feet across, and was 100 feet deep
A tame partridge has lived in the
woods at Parker's mills, Oakham, Mass,
siuce December, 1879. Coming at the
call of "biddie," or the striking of two
boards together, it will even perch on
the shoulder of a stranger, but any un-
due familiarity is promptly resented.
The sportsmen of the vicinity know the
bird and respect it's freedom.
John p. Mccain, married man of
Coshocton, O., was tried on two COM
plants made against him by Delila!, e.
Shroyer, charging him with being the
father of her two bastard children
one born Aug. Is, 1879, and the other
born March l. 1881. He was found
guilty, and ordered to pay $500 in each
case, which he refused to do, and went
to jail.
A young student was asked by his
sweetheart, who had an uncommonly
thick head of hair, what he thought of
it, and absently answered he thought it
would present fine field for the study
of natural history. They were never
married.