New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-05-17
GLEANINGs.

GLEAN1NGs.
The latest anti burglar machine invent
ed in the South fires off young cam
non and lights lamp.
There is said to be a farm in Worces-
tershire, England, which stands in twelve
parishes and pays fifty different rates.
DR.. Strother, q Kentucky lecturer,
holds that the Garden of Eden was the
Mississippi Valley, and that Noah's ark
started from Manhattan Island.
Rev. Thaddeus Mathers, the first negro
ever admitted to holy orders in the epis.
copal church, has been ordained in st.
Marks church Charleston, S. G.
A man out in Denver has started
weekly paper which he calls Hello. All
the people who patronize the telephone
advertise for him.
San Francisco Cinnamon are far
enough advanced in the science Of bur-
glary to be expert chicken-thieves. The
capacious blouse often covers multi
tude of hens.
A man was afflicted with consumption
and his wife took him to Florida, where
he permanently recovered. The wife,
however, contracted the disease there
and died.
A New York man took 92O grains of
bromide and 412 grains of choral in
seventy two hours to getrid of the effects
of protracted spree, and suffered no
inconvenient results.
The students of Hazard College have
organized a cooperative society for the
purpose of supplying themselves at
moderate prices with books, furniture,
stationary, coal, wood and various other
articles.
A Georgia planter hires negroes who.
play the banjo. He says that negro
riding on the pillow, while playing and
smoking, will do more work with two
mules than three men who do not play,
but who have three mules.
The Princess Zenaide Yousopoff, now
engaged to Prince Soumarokow, is re-
puted to be the richest heiress in Russia,
being worth 100000 rubles. Her
father refused his consent to her mar
rage with the Prince of Bulgaria.
Finley McKenny, supposed to be very
poor, was dying at Morgantown, Ky.
With his last breath he told his wife to
break an old jug that had long stood in
the Crime of the smoke house. She did
SO, and 81 200 in gold and silver rolled
out.
Twenty-Five hundred games of crib
bage have been played at Albany, N.Y.,
in recorded match, with a result of L.
PSI and 1,249 games to the respective
players; and it is said that during the
entire contest not hand that was dealt
counted to exceed twenty -four.
A young imitator of Buffalo Bill went
into photograph gallery at Brownsville,
KY, to have his picture taken in border
costume, with big revolver in his hands.
The weapon accidentally went off just as
he had been heroically posed, and made
q hole through his shoulder.
In various parts of California reports
of the depredations by geese continue to
be heard. In many places whole fields
of sprouting grain have been completely
destroyed, rendering resolving necessary.
Several of the farmers have poisoned .
large number.
On the International train that left
one day for San Antonio there was q
negro who kept sticking his head out of
the car window. ''Keep your head in
side," said the conductor, angrily.
''Whafor?' ':For fear you will damage
some of the iron-work of the bridge,
you fool.''
Speaking of the proposed suspension
bridge at Lewiston, the St. Catharines
Journal says: There is no doubt of the
charter being granted both in Canada
and the state Of New York, and in all
probability work on the bridge win be-
gin during the present year, as the value
Of the Niagara Central railroad as a con-
Meeting link in this great through route
is too important to remain much longer
undeveloped. OF course the construc.
ton of the bridge is dependent upon the
building of the railway, and Judging
from the hearty manner in which the
latter enterprise is supported, both under
takings may be considered in a fair way
of accomplishment at an early day.
General Israel Putnam's grave Of
Brooklyn, Conn.,, bears evidence of both
neglect and vandalism. A small marble
stone, with an inscription by President
Dwight, of ale College, formerly marked
the revolutionary patriots resting place,
but this has crumbled to pieces, and is
hidden by weeds.
A prominent lady in London society
has put her foot down, and determined
that, at all events in her house, poker
shall no longer be played for high stakes.
The evil has lately become 50 serious
that, at recent. poker party given in
Berkeley square, each player-and ladies
were there-was bound to put ESQ into
the pool before the game commenced.
This is Point. 1t is not Sharp likes
Pencil Point. It is as Broad as It is
Long. Where did we get the Point? It
came from a Mining Brokers' Office. If
we take the Point what will it do? It
will 60 through us like q bad Story
through a clearinghouse What shall
we do with the Point? Let us Copper
it.-Denver Tribune Primer.
The aurochs, or wild oxen, which sur
vive only in the imperial forests of Lith-
uania and Poland, threatened, few
years ago, to become extinct, and strict
orders were issued for their preserya-
ton. Under imperial protection they
have multiplied to about six hundred
head, and hunt was recently permit
ted near Bielostoc. Two aurochs were
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