New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-10-25

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and l gently crept nearly under the
window. 1t was opened.
s.Yes.''
..You're not afraid, dear?''
..Not very. I've tied the end around
the bedstead, and don't think can
slip out of the loops. Have youa bug
gy waiting?"
''Yes, dear; at the first turn Of the
road.''
very we'll. ! am going to try now.
She had launched herself off from the
side and was descending beautifully.
s'Don't come too fast, dear. Use the
check rope if you feel you arc coming
too quickly
She had got to the SECOND floor, when
there WAS an nnaccorntable stoppage.
whats the matter?" cried.
''It won't move''
''Shake the rope"
II have"
''Loosen the check"
''lt is quite loose
''Try to pull up q bit"
Il can't; I'm stuck fast
''Let me shake the rope"
''Try. Oh! oh! Its no use; it won't
move"
Bill Arp on Nature and superstitious.
There are some curious things about
Indian corn, and one is where do the
red ears and the speckled ears como
from when you don't plant any but
white corn; and another is, why don't
we find an ear with an odd number of
rows on it? You can find four-leaf
clover, but have never found the odd
row on an ear of corn yet. 1t is always
fourteen, or sixteen. or twenty, or some
even number, and would like to I'M
derstand what corn knows about mathe-
mates, and what objection nature has
to odd numbers. But nature is full of
mysteries. was looking at some hon
eycomb the other day. and wondered
how it could be made so true and uni
form and perfect even under micro
scope, and yet be all made in the dark.
And would like to know how the
lightning bug kindles the fire so
suddenly, and I've noticed that there is
not only light in it to show him how to
travel, but there is power in it that
pushes him forward and always up
ward. He rises rs he lights, which is a
good emblem. When i man sets him.
self up as a preacher, or a teacher, or
statesman, and undertakes to throw
light around upon the people he ought
to so live by precept and example that
he would rise higher and higher as he
Eliminated. And right before me in
front of the piazza are two vines climb
ing a cane-one madeira and the 9TH
era jessamine- and they cross each
other at every round climbing in OPP
posite directions, and l have tried to
make 'em reverse, but they won't. You
may tie one with string, but it will
squirm and twist out of it and go &C.
cording to its nature. This weather is
good for some things. l never saw as
fine a prospect for turnip and sweet po-
tatoes, and then the flowers keep on
blooming, and don't have to water
'em every day like did last summer.
But these dog-days are very unpopular,
for they say that fresh meat won't keep,
and milk turns sour, and children have
boils, grown folks have headache, and
mosquitoes sing around and snakes per-
ambulate. They say that aog-days be-
| gin when the dog rises with the sun
and lasts about month, and the an
clients who worshipped the stars believ-
| ed that when the dog-star and the sun
got so close together they went to fuss
ing and the mali gnant influence of their
quarrel was felt all over the universe.
This superstition has been handed down
to us from the generations who have
gone before, and it shows how long a
superstition will hang on to our nature.
1t is like seeing the new moon over
the left shoulder,o or through the brush of
a tree, or like beginning journey, or
to make new garment on Friday. 1t
is astonishing how we let these sense
less superstitiOns take hold of us, even
when we don't believe in them at all. l
stayed over night once with man of
more than ordinary sense-a strong
minded, well-balanced man-and when
I asked him why the carpenter who
built his new house didn't cell up that
hole overhead he said he wouldn't let
him, for it was bad luck to finish a
house, and that plank was left off on
purpose; and when that man forgot any
thing and went back after it he always
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spat in it before he turned round.
There is clever old woman living
near us who makes lye soap for my wife
and she makes it by the moon, and de-
clares most solemnly she can't make
good soap any other way. And Green
Foster told me that if man had big
lot of children and wanted his hog meat
to make a heap of gravy he must kill
his pork in the dark of the moon, for
then it would shrink and juice away;
but if he wanted it to swell up and
make big show he must kill it while
the moon was on the increase. I'm
sorry didn't know that when I was
raising my flock, for they were power
full fond of gravy, and it was trouble
sometimes to get enough for 'em with
out great sacrifice of meat.-Atla,sta
Constitution.
A Maine man has invented an cleo
trio automatic signal alarm for railway
trains. 1t operates as does the familiar