New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-08
GLEAN1NGs.

"A morse at MONTICELLO, Fla. got his
foot fastened in his mouth last week,
and it required four men to extricate it.
The saw-fish now to be seen at st.
Augustine, Fla, weighs eight hundred
pounds and is fourteen feet long.
A Virginia physician says he has
never known an habitual consumer of
tobacco to have the typhoid fever.
The comptroller of Texas recently paid
into the treasury $4,000 to the account
of the drummers' tax.
A Florida gentlemanis alleged to have
refused an offer of $4,000 for twelve
acre orange grove planted five years
ago.
Baker SAM" wood-haulerof Eureka,
New, had put away, buried in stall,
the sum of $4,000 in 500 gold pieces,
and when he went to gaze upon his
treasure two weeks ago he found to his
utter dismaY that all were gone.
An Atlanta, (Ga.) man studied the
habits and the health of chickens, and
upon the strength of his observations,
tried diet of white sand as cure for
dyspepsia. In his case the remedy was
eficacious.
Greene county, Kentucky, boasts of a
citizen yet in the prime of life who is
said to be the father of twerty-seven
children, twenty-five of who are living,
and fifteen of whom are married. He
also has sixty-five grandchildren.
Mad-stones appear to hare a market
value in North Carolina where a local
paper records the sale of half interest
in one for SIS, adding that a clouded
title lessened the value of the share dis
posed of.
A lady performed in the presence of
DIR. johnson sonata on the pianoforte,
and after it was ended asked the learned
doctor his opinion of it. ''Madam,"
said he, 'of all noises I think music is
the least disagreeable.
The fish pond in Benton park, St.
Louis, was stocked last spring with
twenty carp, and now there are three
thousand Of them. A carp should be
two or three years old before it becomes
food.
No comment is necessary, but just see
what man can do when quiet is as
sured: Morse, who invented the tele-
graph, and Bell. who invented the tele-
phone, had deaf-mute wives.
The butler of Queen Victoria's house.
hold has a salary of $500 and four as.
sistants who do the purchasing of sup
plies and see that the widow is not
cheated in weight and measures by the
tradesmen.
A Victoria B. c., man is in quandary
rs to which he shall mourn the more
the loss of his wife or the loss of his for.
tune of many thousands of dollars in
cash, which his spouse hid so carefully
before her death that subsequent ex.
haustive search has failed to disclose it.
A beautiful white deer that makes
nightly visits to the cultivated fields
thereabouts is one of the sights on FL
dalgo Island, Washington Territory.
Attempts to capture it have proved un-
successful and a superstitious feeling
regarding it has saved it from the hunts
mans hand.
Judge Studley, of New Haven, has
throttled the Connecticut blue laws. He
has discharged the managers of a steam
boat who were arrested for getting up
Sunday excursions, on the ground that
something may be necessary and mer-
ciful in crowded city which would be
neither in farming district =
The scales for weighing gold in the
assay Office in New York are so delicate
that, when brought to q balance with
two pieces Of paper Of equal size in the
pans, the nero writing Of q name on one
Of the pieces Of paper will add enough
weight in the paper TO turn the scales in