New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-03-22
aLEANINes.

a western paper describes woman suf-
fage as ..the right Of females to coerce
males by law-making.
Liberia has population of about
twenty thousand American-born negroes,
who exercise control over million ma
tive blacks.
Swedish matches have attained great
popularity all over the world. In the
year 1880 about nineteen million pounds
were exported.
1t takes about six million barrels of
crude petroleum to supply the world
one year. About thirty million barrels
are now stored in Pennsylvania.
The tall son of President Arthur, is
said to be as fond of dancing as was
Nellie Grant when she was a belle of the
white house.
And now they say the Chinese are re-
sponsible for the smallpox. If people
could be made to believe this, it would,
so to speak, knock Johns laundry bus
mess.
New Workers feel rather ashamed to
talk about polygamy in Utah when they
recOllect that the Oneida community
does not reflect much credit upon their
state.
II love diamonds" says Alphonso
Karr, ''but I have horror of those
which show me woman carrying in one
ear the bread of her children and in
the other the honor of her husband.''
The managers of the Garfield monu-
ment fund for the Pacific coast have in
vited designs, accompanied by plans,
specifications, and an estimate of cost,
not to exceed $4,000.
Miss Blanche Roosevelt tells New
Orleans reporter that she has life of
Longfellow nearly ready for the press,
and that the poet has promised to revise
the proofs. She used to be newspaper
correspondent.
Mr.. Francis Wise, distiller, and the
richest man in Ireland, has just died.
He left no will to dispose OF his wealth,
which amounts to $l5,000,O0O. A rea-
sonable share of this is in American
securities.
Within the presbyterian synod of
Kansas the Gospel, or something else, is
preached in eight different languages
English, German, Bohemian, French,
Welsh, Cherokee, Choctaw, and Nez
Perces.
In the Bay State mine, Newark dis
trict, Nevada, at depth of 204 feet be-
low the surface some bones were recent
ly discovered that SO far no one has
been able to classify. How they came
there is puzzle.
A young man, recently from Manito-
ba, is commissioned by number of
bachelors to offer such inducements to a
like number of manageable young la
dies as may induce them to leave On
tario and accept a home and a good hus-
band in the great northwest.
There is ayoung man travelling around
in eastern Texas vaccinating the negroes
with bees-wax. He charges dollar a
vac, and represents himself as being
appointed by the United States govern
ment, and threatens that dire penalties
await those who refuse to be operated on.
A Boston florist says that for a year
past the ladies of the best society THAT
city have affected aesthetic flowers, pre-
ferring anything of yellow tint. At
this season the lighthouses are taxed to
their utmost to supply lilies and French
marguerites, which latter are sold as
'.daisies.''
At Palouse Ferry, Washington terri
tory, an old Indian died. recently, who,
according to all accounts, was Ito years
old. In the memory Of the oldest set
tiers this old man has not been able to
walk. He was blind and almost deaf,
and remembered Lewis and Clark on
their remarkable tour through the coun-
try.
A correspondent of the Boston Jour-
nal says: "A young lady in Paris was
recently fined so francs and sentenced
to pay 50 francs damages for rushing at
another young lady who was walking up
to the altar of a church on her BRIDE
groom's arm and tearing the crown of
orange blossoms from the brides head.
You don't deserve to wear it; you have
done me too much harmr' shrieked the
girl, after which she tainted away, but
was picked up by the beadle and handed
over to the police"
A Pennsylvania firm is manufacture
ing paper at Savannah from what is
called ''the saw palmetto" material
heretofore regarded as nearly useless.
The paper is said to be of superior quail
ity, and especially useful as transfer pa
per, which has heretofore been import
ed.
| Paul Boyton, in his rubbers, floating
down the Arkansas, stopped at Ozark in
passing to light his pipe. A little lower
down he came silently up to skiff con-
tanning three negroes. They set up a
yell when they saw the paraphernalia,
padded rapidly to shore, and then made
hurriedly into the woods.
| An out-of-town druggist entered a
Boston apothecary shop and had sim
| pie prescription put up. The charge
was $3.50. He remarked that it was
rather dear, because, as he was a drug
gist himself, he knew the price of the
ingredients. ''That alters the case,''
was the response; seventeen cents,
please
A Troy mathematician has figured
out the amount of gold and silver found
in the sub-treasury at New York by AS
sistant Treasurer Acton on assuming his
Office. If a train of wagons were loaded
with ton in each, the horse touching
the tailboard of the preceding wagon,
the precious caravan would extend from
Troy to Albany.
James Dunlap worked for farmer Ed
rage, IN LanSdale, Pa., and wanted to
marry the farmers pretty daughter; but
the farmer, with mercenary preference
for a rich son-in-law, said nay. Then
James went into the far west and sought
a fortune. Thy farmers daughter re-
manned constant through ten years, and
last week the long waiting ended in a
wedding.
One mile below Downieville, CAL, on
the Yuba river, is apparently thrifty
pine tree about three feet in height,
growing out of solid rock. What is
curious about it is the fact of it's making
no perceptible change in size since it
was fret nntioad t.uont1. 11oore ano.