New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-09-27
GLEANINGS,

days recently died in Florence, S. c..
From an experimental acre in Belair,
Fla, SILL worth of fruit has been sold.
1t is proposed to make seaside re-
sort of stretch of Florida beach near
Jacksonville. 4. s,.ss
The directors of the east Boston fer
ries estimate the travel over the ferries
the present year at five millions.
Seventy mills in the south now work
up 2OO,O tons of cotton-seed, making
100000 gallons of oil, worth WORTH 1928, 000,.
600. y:
A new bullet-proof treasure car has
been put on the Southern Pacific rail-
way. One part is for carrying money
and the other for guards.
In the records of the old church at
Taos, N. M, it is shown that $4,000
600 was collected by the priests as tithes
from single mine in the Taos noun
tains.
A cargo of pig-iron sunk in Long Is
land sound, off Saybrook, twenty-seven
years ago, is now being recovered by
divers. The iron comes out from under
the sand in good condition. 4,
A drum, 20 feet Al inches and 10 feet
broad. weighing "a, 900 pounds, and be-
lieved to be the largest ever made in
this country, was cast at Pottstown, Pa.
TWAS ordered by Canada concern. "
The first balloon was invented in
1888. Of all inventions of modern
times those connected with aeronautics
have the least demonstrated their use
fitness to mankind.
A newspaper in Maine, in soliciting
donations for prison library. says:
"Anyone having a copy of Gates Ajar'
or Gates Wide Open will confer a
favor by sending it to the librarian OF
the prison.
Oak Hill, the old home of Chief JUS
tice Marshall, in Fauquier county, Vir-
ginia, is now the property of Mr.. Mad
dux, who made his money by keeping a
6ar-room in the neighboring town OF
Salem.
The twenty paper.making concerns
Of Holyoke, Mass, pay taxes amount
ing to over $45, 600, an indication of the
tremendous stride made in this industry
at that town since the first mill was put
up there, twenty-eight years ago.
Washington has cannibal in the
form of mnllatto nurse girl, whose
chief delight is to bury her teeth in the
tender flesh of the infants intrusted to
her care. She has been given chance
to gnaw the bars of the Jail for twenty
days.
A one-legged man carrying sack of
flour; his wife wheeling a baby in per-
ambulator; his father-in-law carrying a
codfsh-all drunk except the baby, the
perambulator and the codfish-was one
OF the sights on the streets of the civil
lied town of Fulton, N. Y, one day re-
Gently.
A man who has been herding sheep
near Dripping Springs, Hays county,
Tex, became suddenly insane, and
without known cause attacked lady 80
years old and literally tore her eyes out.
He then attacked two young ladies, but
they escaped him. He was arrested.
The Portland Press reports that
great falling off from last years work is
noticeable in the corn-canning industry
of Maine this year. The sweet-corn
crop in many sections of the state,
especially on light lands, is almost to-
tai failure, on account of protracted
droughts.
There seems to be no doubt among
experts that artesian wells will prove
successful at various mining-camps in
New Mexico, and will be q very impor-
tant agent in the development of the
mineral resources of the territory. Gold
en- is trying the experiment, and its ex-
ample will be followed by other camps.
). The gum-chewing storm has struck
Louisville, KY, with fury, and now
threatens to assume the proportions Of
an irresistible tornado. There have
heretofore been gates of similar kind,
but never before have street cars and
street crossings been besieged by ..tolu''
vendors, and the entire female popula-
ton turned into miniature wind-mills.
{ "A New I ork belle met with sad loss
while returning from summer resort
the other day. BY some means her diary
containing the names of all the gentle
men she had become engaged to-; drop.
ped out OF the car window, and now she
cant tell which of her mail friends have
. right to kiss her.
Between Fashionables. ..That infer
nal tailor Of mine has disappointed me
again, confound him! I wish. I could
find some way Of Furnishing the fellow
.'pu attend to that-he shall be pun
ished adequately-a fearful revenge.
He shall be ruinedr' ..How?'' 81 will
transfer my custom to him.
a mountain mule standing near q
magazine Of giant powder when it cx-
ploded was hurled end over end seven
ty-five feet to the bottom Of the dumlpr-
pile on which he stood. When the 4
smoke cleared away he stood quietly
picking the bunch grass, not IN the least
disturbed. He had lifted people like