New Ulm weekly review., 1882-03-22

coming into the house. His little boy
George came in second or two after
ward, and said there was an end to one
'em, anyhow, and it was red hot, too. -
Boston, Transcript
Senator Anthony, Of Rhode Island.
lives when at Providence, in . wooden
house, externally of the plainest and
most ordinary appearance. The inter-
ior, however, is filed with rare paintings
and bric-a-brac. Once year the Sem
ator makes pilgrimage to his ancestral
village of Anthony and delivers q lecture
to the villagers.
A South American plant has been
found that cures bashfulness. ltshOuld
be promptly tried on the man who
leaves the hotel by the back window be-
cause he is too diffident to say good-by
to the cashier and clerk.
DR.. Hammond says when you stick
your finger in your ear the roaring
sound you hear is the circulation in your
finger. Probably when you stick in
lead-pencil the same roaring which you
then hear is the circulation of sap in the
pencil.
The late storm was simply terrific in
Los Angeles county, California. The
wind drove the sleet and snow with
such violence as to make it impossible
to walk or drive. Large numbers of
sheep were destroyed, many being
blown from the ground and rolled along
by the wind till they were dead.
Leonard Losee, Greenwich Point, L.
l., Tuesday morning, found his horses
legs bleeding near the fetlocks, and up
on closer examination he saw that the
flesh was lacerated. He subsequently
ascertained that rats had bitten the legs.
T The Saen says: The life saving crew on
the beach have to wrap their horses
legs up in cloths to keep the rats from
gnawing them.
When the Dunkers of Indiana made
up their minds that the study of gram
mar was frivolous, they protested
against their children being taught it in
the public schools. The teachers re-
fused to be bound by the protest, where
upon an appeal was made to the State
Superintendent, who has decided that
teachers may omit the offensive study.
He insists, however, that they shall inn
part orally to all bunker pupils "all
that is practical on the subject
A farmer living not many miles from
Toledo has the following warning con-
spicuously posted on his premises: If
any man or womans COWS or oxen gifts
in this here oats his or her tail will be
cut off as the case may be."-T0led0
Blade.
1t is said to be significant fact that
the Irish newspapers contain an average
of five advertisements each for energetic
young men to collect rent, where they
have no advertisements at all from en-
ergetic young men anxious to secure
those profitable and pleasant situations.
Mr.. Porter Rhodes is said to have
declared that f100, ,OO0wo not induce
him to part with his magnificent diamond
found at his claim in Kimberley Mine,
South Africa, although the stone is yet
uncut and described as looking like a
lump of alum, with weight of $50
carats.
Having a beautiful daughter to intro
duce, Gen. and Mrs. Mcclellan took the
fine house, No. II Gramercy park, New
York, and have followed up their hos
pitality of last winter by giving four
evenings, at which one meets all the
world, the army and navy, and the
literary set, the clergy and the pretty
girls.
Two mysterious attempts have been
made recently to assassinate DR.. Sim
mons, one of the most prominent
physicians in Walker county, Georgia.
The first time the bullets of the assassin
were buried in the wall above his head.
and the second time, while visiting q
patient, his horse was stopped and the
assassin took good aim and pulled the
trigger, but the gun missed fire, and the
doctor escaped by putting spurs to his
horse. He does not know why his life
is sought A number have been arrest
ed, but no light thrown upon the affair.
A new bridge, costing 81, 100000, has
been finished at Albany, N. Y, since
last June. The main span is nine hun
dred feet long, and there are three spans.
The draw extends six hundred feet. The
total length is sixteen hundred feet. 1t
is intended chiefly for highway traffic
on the lower floor, but it has provision
for double-track railroad service on
the upper floor, the total width being
sixty-one feet. Over one thousand tons
of iron were put into the draw, which is
the heaviest mass moving on a center in
the world.
Baltimore is threatened with m i'm
pairment of its large and profitable
oyster trade through the diminution OF
the oyster supply on which it is founded.
From 1865 to 1874 the beds in the neigh.
boring creeks and rivers were 80 well
stocked that they seemed inexhaustible,
and the oysters were large and well.
favored; now, they are SO nearly ex-
hausted that they hardly furnish enough
oysters for planting purposes, and the
hundreds of persons once engaged In
oyster-taking have been reduced in num-
ber to dozens.
One of the best photographs in exist
ence is that of Portsmouth harbor,
England, taken by the instantaneous
process. Six plates were used, and the
several sections united are about A. feet
inlength. In the immediate foreground,
just below the spectator, lies her majes-
tvs ship Scraps, which, with her white
sides partly in sunshine, and partly
shaded by the smoke of passing steamer,
forms striking centerpiece. The great
length of the harbor stretches out tc
rig hit and left. The foam and the smoke
of the steamers, the ripping of the
water, and the curling of bunting in the
breeze, are all said to be perfectly dis.
tinct and free from the smallest suspic.
ion of blur.
The commercial banks of San Fran.
cisco own bank premises worth $1,014,.
323.51, have $5,230,074.10 worth o1
United States bonds (cost price), have
loans on stocks and bonds So, ,791, ,313.71
on personal securities $10,799, 1929
other securities es-grain, etc.,-$10. 1884,
305.56. They have a combined paid uI
capital of $14, 102, ,216.30, of which $8,'
OBJ, 200 is of the home banks; and &c.,