New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-11-01
aLEANINas.

GLEANlNG8.
Buffalo are becoming numerous again
in the Black Hills A drove Of 10000
was recently seen there.
At Oakland, Cal, the cost Of feeding
the prisoners at the City Prison is l31
cents per day, or AZ cents per meal.
Florida claims to own mule 40 years
OF age that served CALAMITY in the Mex
lean war.
HALEY, Idaho, town SO small that it
has no place in geography, finds motor
icty as the place in which nine men are
locked up for as many murders.
Geo. T. Reynolds, of Griffin, Tex, has
just had cut from his back the steel head
of an Indian arrow that was shot into
him sixteen years ago. @''
Irving Whitford, who lives near Ad-
ans Centre, N. Y, has bull weighing
900 pounds that he harnesses and uses
to draw milk, cultivate corn, and do
general farm work.
Twenty-one canary birds, three-quart-
ers of cord of wood, and four cans OF
raspberry jam were replevined by an in
jured husband from his wife, who mad
gone to her father.
y A patent. has been issued from Texas
land Office to Richard King, the cattle
man, conveying to him title to 1876
square leagues, or over half million
acres Of land.
While ringing the school-bell in
Franklin county, Georgia, the teacher
was instantly killed by the bell falling
from the tower and striking him on the
back of the neck.
A man in Delaware County, Pa, has
600 hens which produce GO, 600 'chicken
buds per annum-an average lay OF
105 eggs each. His profits amount to
about 81 900 year on eggs alone.
Chief Justice Coleridge of England
says that four-tifths of the crime that
comes into court results from drink, for
which Britishers pay over $500, 600, 600
a year.
New York Custom House officials are
becoming suspicious of modistes re-
turning from Europe. Recent discov-
cries are that too-ample costumes con-
ceal silk, laces, hose and dress goods.
A Michigan woman made a claim for
a fourth interest in an Irish estate val
ued at $500, 900, but failed to establish
it, and is grateful for the $1,000 which
the heirs have sent her to pay the cost
of her effort.
A recently superseded foreign minis.
ter, while passing through London on
his return to this country, registered
himself at Bowles' American agency as
''Col.@, American minister in
rough for home.''
The smelling furnaces at the Ely cop
per mines near Waterbury, VT, have de-
stroyed the vegetation in the vicinity of
the mines, and the farmers Whereabouts
have brought suits for heavy damages
against the mine owners.
A small boy of London. deeming him
self ill-used by his parents, waited until
they happened to be simultaneously sick
and then took a safe revenge by stab
bling the father, clubbing the mother
and smashing the furniture.
A book agent had the misfortune to
break his leg at camp-meeting in But
ler. Ga. the other day, and while the
sympathizers were gathered around as
two surgeons set the limb he sold three
copies Of his book.
A man who was too old for military
duty at the breaking out of the war Of
1872 is still living near College Mound,
Macon County, Mo. His name is Robert
Gibson, he is said to be 116 years old,
and he recently rode in wagon eight
miles to church.
Egypt, with population of 5,OOO,O 900,
with 100000 acres of tillable land,
with a tax revenue of $4O,OOO,OOO, half
OF which goes to pay interest on the
public debt, has had to expend $4OO, 900
per annum for many years on foreign
officials.
A Minneapolis cab-driver has been
searching for several days for the man
who gave him two 500 gold pieces in.
stead of two silver dollars. This re-
markable occurrences accounted for bv
the fact that ''he is not long in the bus
iness."
The pleasures incident to life in Ari-
IONA are shown in the experience of
the young woman of Tucson who,
when disrobing for slumber, discovered
a huge scorpion so securely fastened in
her corset strings that it bould not in
jure her.
Among the astonishing performances
of persons deprived of sight that of the
man who assembled Mont Blanc is
worthy of mention. England has
blind Postmaster General who manages
the department with unprecedented sue
cess.
More than 100 per cent. of the school
children of Pittsburg are afflicted with
myopia. or near-sightedness. Faulty
constructed school buildings, fine print
in text books, pale ink, greasy states,
and poor blackboards are some of the
causes. In other cities the percentage
is equally great.
The perverse use of words is well IL
Illustrated in dialogue between an Eng
fish lady whose little three-year-old boy
was playing.!on the deck of a Cunarder,
and an American lady who, desiring to
compliment, said: ''What q cunning
child you have.'' ''Not at ALL" CURLY
replied the mother, ''he is as frank and
honest child as you would meet"
M. Verestchagine, the painter of bat
tie pictures, has recently had two sin
gular compliments paid him by CONT
mental governments. So wildly has he
depicted the horrors of the battlefield
that in Russia the public exhibition of
his paintings was altogether interdict-
ed, while at Berlin the military author
tiles forbade soldiers to pay them a
visit.
A few months ago man by the name
of Warner was found dead in or near
spring in South Canaan. Conn. It was
supposed that he had died in an epilep-
tic fit. His neighbors thought he was a
man in moderate circumstances, but
while the administrator was recently
looking over his effects in an old tool
chest, which stood bY an open window.