New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-09-20
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York Custom House.
Hypocrisy is the cloak that little souls
wear to conceal their meanness.
There is tannery in Reading, Pa,
which has been in active and generally
successful operation since 1852.
1t is said that there are $1,000 bear
ing peach trees on the Maumee PENN
| sula.
The wooden-plate factory at New
berne, N. c., turns out 100000 of the
plates each week.
A ge0logist predicts that Montana
will become the greatest coal-producing
state in the union.
The cornet fever is raging at London,
Ont, so savagely that young ladies have
formed cornet band.
Tobacco is not known as field-crop
in Kansas, although it does we'll in near
~ every county in the state, as is shown
BY the plants raised in gardens.
A Memphis court has decided that
municipal authorities have no right to
lease the labor of persons convicted of
petty offences to private individuals
I. S. Crayton, Jr., of Anderson, S.
c., sold recently $500 confederate note
for $50. It is said to be the only note
OF that denomination issued by the con-
federate government in 1861.
The amount of buckwheat raised in
most of the western states is verv small.
and is generally decreasing. Kansas has
put 1928 acres in this crop, decrease
in one year of IS per cent.
! A weed far superior to oakum has
been discovered in Putnam county, Fla.
and stock company is being formed
for the purpose Of utilizing it. The weed
is found in abundance.
The Chinese have legend that tea
leaves are the eyelids of pious hermit,
who, being too frequently overcome by
sleep, cut them off in despair and threw
them from him. .
It is estimated that the wool clip of
Texas this season will amount to $4,000,
600 pounds, which, at an average OF
224 cents per pound. will bring Sc, $780,
600. The number of sheep in the state
is placed at 100000.
A Pennsylvania girl was bitten by q
cOpper-head snake. She was stupefied
with liquor, and q live toad was fast
ened on the wound. The toad absorbed
the poison and died, and the girl recov-
cred.
The largest cargo ever carried on our
fresh-water seas is that of the iron steam
ship Onoko, from Chicago to Buffalo
los, 600 bushels of corn, weighing 1924
tons. It is larger than the average
carried by ocean vessels.
A paper states that an Arkansas rifle
man exhibited his skill by breaking the
point of lead pencil. Any body can
accomplish that feat, and every body
who does it get mad as blazes about it,
too. .--.....-.
"A farmer near Liverpool, England,
has invented q self-acting ventilating
apparatus which prevents hay or grain
put into stack quite wet from being un-
injured by heating, thus rendering the
farmer comparatively independent Of
the weather in that moist climate.
San Francisco has recently had q
spelling bee. s'Glylognose," ''Tolyly-
lycocine,' ..Dichthylphospine," "Diar-
sentetramethide, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
zene," Observation-Disclosures"
and Observation-Disclosures
are some Of the words given out.
The Gonzales, Tex, Enquirer says
that the country editor who accepts ci-
CARS and beer from political candidates
ought to be expelled from the Press AS
ISOLATION. The Galveston Nesus verv
pertinently asks if the Enquirer wants
to break up that Press Association.
A Los Angeles jury, engaged in try
ing man for cruelty beating his wife,
has brought in the following verdict:
I'VE, the jury in the above-entitled
case, find the defendant not guilty as
charged in the complaint, for want Of
evidence, but are morally convinced of
the truth Of the charges"
The. habitues of bar and billiard
room in Eureka, New, the other morn
ing were startled by loud report, fol-
lowed by shower of fragments and q
pungent smell, as of camphor. It ap-
peared that one of the billiard balls.
made of celluloid (or gun cotton), had
| exploded itself in the rack.
Hawthorne, on the Carson and Colo
RADIO railroad, is the hottest place in that
section of Nevada. The thermometer
shows from 100 to 10 degrees of heat
in the shade right along in that town.
It is said that the lizards can not get
over the rocks without wearing mocca-
| sins.
A Wyoming man who recently went
to American Falls, Idaho, writes back:
''Stop all from coming out here that
you can. They try to keep it quiet and
not let it get out, but it is wrong and
| everybody should know it. This is a
tough country. There is killing af-
fair here every day, but the small pox is
the worst of all.
A chemist of Vienna has invented a
glass which contains no slick, potash,
soda, lime, or borax. In appearance it
is equal to the common crystal, but
more brilliant; it is transparent, white,
and clear, and can be cut and polished.
1t is insoluble in water, and is not at.
tackled by fluoric acid, but it can be cor
roded by hydro chloric and nitric acid.
When in q state of fusion it adheres to
iron, bronze, and zinc.
Mention is made of the fact that q
cOl0red man died in Wilkesbarre on
whose life at one time death-rattle in
surance companies had $2OO, 900 but he
outlived them all. In Harrisburg yet
lives an ancient colored man on whose
life there was $4,000, and he can get
around very lively yet. He attended the
sale of the effects of an Insurance. com.