New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-08-09
GLEANINGS.

quiet for the next year.
No fewer than two German expedi-
tions viii come to this country 20 OBJ
serve the transit of Venus next Decem-
Der.
4 A New York doctor says there is an,
unusual amount Of ozone in the atm0s-
phere this year, but that's no excuse for
= man to steal fellows umbrella.
It is now announced that no elephant
ever lived to be more than 100 years old,
but yet they have lots of fun while they
do hang on.
There is danger of a corner in sar-,
dimes, as the fish have disappeared from
the coast of Brittany. in France, as well
as from the coast of Maine. rs
Three thousand tons of sand are an
nually dug from Neversink mountain,
near Reading, Pa, for use in the found
ries of that place.
The mayor of London has to pay dear
for the honor. One who gets through
on 500, 1000 over and above salary is do
ing well.
The project for establishing a grand
camp-meeting ground at Tallulah, Ca,
like that at Chautauqua, is being push.
cd by Atlanta capitalists.
Some of the seaside fans this year are
large enough to cover one side of u
girl s face in case she bushes. Arrange
ments have been made to report a blush
by telegraph if one occurs anywhere.
The fool goeth out in a sail-boat when
he doesn't know boom from break
er; but the wise man picks up pebbles
on the shore and firts with the girl in
the pink dress.
You may have read a dear little para
graph two years ago about Bob Inger-
soil making 100000 in a silver mine.
You can now have another to the effect
that he never made a dollar, but was
swindled out of $4,000.
That men do not, in this. world, al
ways find their proper calling is shown
in the autopsy on the body of Lead
vile gambler. His brain weighed six
ty-two and a half ounces. What bank
cashier he would have made! M
1t is estimated that the South has this
season paid to the North $55, 600, 900 for
wheat, $4,000, 900 for corn, 1872 ,OOO, 900
for meats, and about $25, 900 for
hay, butter, cheese, oats, apples, pota-
toes, etc. 1893
Squire Mayes, of West Alexander,
Pa, has held his Office of justice of the
peace since 1862, and in the interval he
has married over two thousand couples.
AS no license is required in Pennsylvan-
ia, all the runaway couples from the
L.
his house is sort of Gretna Green.
Female diamond exhibitors are now
to be seen in considerable numbers at
Long Branch and Saratoga, and the
precious stones are more than ever re-
markable for size and brilliancy.
"Adolph, I tole you how dat vas. Dia-
monds, my tear poy, ish peter as real
estates" .e
Very fine glass has been manufacture
ed from sand found in the vicinity of
Carrabelle, Fla. The discoverer took
this sand north several weeks ago and
had it tested in a glass factory in New
Jersey, where the manufacturers were
highly pleased with the quality Of the
sand and the glass. - r.@a
Ada Dcyo, niece and adopted daugh-
ter of John H. Deyo, of Gardner, Ulster
county, n. Y, the white girl who mar
ried the negro, John Wesley Sampson.
something over a year ago, is now an
inmate Of the Sullivan county poor
house. Miss Deyo is handsome young
lady, and her father is rich.
A Darwinian primitive man, who is to
be seen in q cage at the Cincinnati Zoo
logical Gardens, demonstrated his kim
ship to humanity by abstracting watch
from a lady bystander's pocket. He
opened the case, gazed thoughtfully at
the dial as if trying to determine the
hour of the day, and then methodically
laid the instrument away and began his
evening meal. The next advance Of
the monkey family will be to acquire
the art of building fire. That accom-
plished, the origin of the human race
will have been determined beyond cavil.
Lillian Russell, the Patience who has
turned the heads of half the young and
old New-Yorkers by her beauty, is =
married wOmar., who owes her success
to her husband. But her own head is
turned by her successes and the atten-
lions of the gilded youth. So she is
seeking divorce from her husband, an
honest, Woodworking, and thorough
orchestra leader.
The papers are publishing Geographic
cal sketches Of the Mr.. Raymond who
married Annie Louise Cary. This IS
giving the gentleman more attention
than he deserves. What Mr.. Raymond
wants to do is to skin around and try to
do something that will entitle him to 20
down in history as somebody else than
Mr.. Annie Louise Cary.
The saddest commentary yet made
upon the character of school literature
of the present day is attributed to War
den Croker. He is represented as say
ing that Guiteau's poem beginning with
Il am going to the Lordy, am so
glad" was plagiarized from child's
primer given to the assassin by some
misguided persons who visited him in
Jail last March.
The market value of New York re-
porters is shown in an item lately pub
ished in one of the leading dailies of
that city to the effect that dollar was
thrust into the hand of one of it's report
ers by the superintendent of street
railway company whom the reporter
was interviewing about an accident on
the road. Either street railway super
intendents are generous or New York
newspaper talent is costly.
A physician ia rasnOnsihla frr tho