New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-02-08
WHOLE NUMBER 2l3

day. The water is strongly impreg-
mated with sulphur. The well will be
bored several hundred feet deeper.
A couple in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
who have been estranged seventeen
years, have recently become reconciled
and are abou, to occupy their old home.
which has been handsomely refur-
nished.
A party of German immigrants passed
west the other day, consisting of father,
mother, nine children, forty grand
children and eleven great-yranchildren.
Enough OF them were married to make
the entire party number ninety-tiye.
They were bound for northern Iowa.
''That dog of yours flew at me this
morning and bit me on the leg, and
now notify you that intend to shoot
it the first time see it, ''The dog is
not mall mad! know he is not
mad. WHAT'S he got to be mad about?
It's me that's mad.''
The total value of the foreign trade
of Japan during the year 1880 was
1854. 041, 1872, composed OF imports, $780,
662, 243; exports. $27. 419,629. showing
an increase of 81, O65, Ot8 over the value
Of the trade during the year 1879.
which amounted to-imports, 1872, 603,-
$50; exports, S27, 372,976.
A Brooklyn boy of Il, legally an in
FAINT, has been condemned to 500 for
damages resulting from the accidental
discharge of a gun. The friends of the
boy are not responsible, but the judg-
ment can be held over the youthful de-
PENDANT, and he can be kept in Jail un-
until it is paid.
1t is proposed among the students of
Brown University to introduce the Cox
ford'' or ''mortar board' hat. Prince
ton, Williams, Amherst, Trinity, Co.
lumbia, and others have already adopt
ed it. The hat will be black with col
ored tassels to distinguish the different
classes. The matter will soon come
before the faculty, and the president
has already expressed himself as favor
ably incliLed to the custom.
For more than year Mrs. Thorn,
of Canisteo, N. Y, has been unable to
speak above whisper. She became
incensed at seeing her husband, who is
a professed temperance man, standing
at the bar of saloon. tipping glass
of beer, and, believing that he was get
ting drunk, she rushed at him, scream
NY dG Cuo up VI ueI woe. one uSS
now full control CT it.
William Brown, q colored man, of
Richmond, Va, is mourning for his
daughter, Mary Saunders. who ran
away from home few days ago. He
inserted an advertisement in Rich
mond newspaper Offering SIS reward for
the apprehension of the girl, and gave
this remarkable description of the run
away: 1.-The girl is of dark ginger
bread color, about - years old, with q
bushy head of lair and full eyebrows"
The freshman classes at different col
leges the present year are $50 at Har-
ward (the largest class ever entered at
this institution), 81 at Amherst, IS at
Williams, 355 at Yale, 20 at Brown, 80
at Tufts, As academies and Is scientif-
les at Dartmouth, and first class of sc
at Smiths College. Seven of the Is
academies at Dartmouth are special
course. men, leaving but 50 to pursue
the regular and complete course. This
is the smallest class that has entered
Dartmouth in twenty years with one
exception.
Cincinnatians are now living who re-
member when the first key of oysters
was taken there as a wonderful novelty
and luxury one Christmas time. Other
aged citizens tell how, after making tho
then long and expensive Journey to the
East, they would bring home oyster
shells in their pockets to show them as
curiosities to their families and stay-at-
home neighbors.
The only lien on farm of which
| Norfolk, Va, man died seized, and
which he left to his two sons, was
claim of So. The heirs wanted d.
vision, so the court ordered sale of
the farm. 1t brought 5000, and was
placed in the hands of commissioners
for settlement. 1t took six years to
| close matters, when the commissioners
had absorbed the entire proceeds by ex-
| penses.
A gentleman from Ebert county, Ca,
and lady of franklin had agreed to
| become one. TIE license was pro-
cured, the minister present, and the
twain stood on the floor ready to join
hands matrimonially, when a former
flame of the lady stepped in and asked
the groom expectant if the lady would
any objections. He answered favora-
bly,, so did the lady, and the ceremony
proceeded with a new groom substi-
tuted. The Ebert man is still bach
elor.
An English paper tells this story:
':By virtue of certain capitulations with
the Sublime Porte, the United States,
in common with the other governments
| of FRANCISCAN, are entitled to keep
| gunboat in the Sea of Marmora, for the
carrying of dispatches, the protection
| of their citizens domiciled at Pera and
Galata, and so forth. In the winter of
| the conference year, 1876, there arrived
in the Dardenel!es magnificent Amer
lean corvette-English sailors would call
her a frigate-called the Vandalia. The
Pasha of the castle of Europe was terri
bly, disconnected. He went on board
the corvette and politely pointed out
that under the capitulations the gum
boats only of foreign powers were per-
mitted to pass through the straits. It's
the smallest we've got calmly replied
the gallant commander of the Vandalia,
and away steamed. the big ship for Con-
stantihbple."
P. S. Hewes, farmer living in
Doylestown township, Bucks county.
Pa, has constructed on his place
miniature railroad about $50 yards long.
The ties and rails are of wood, the
guage being A inches. A double track
runs distance of SO feet, and three
side tracks, seven switch posts, a trestle
work ten feet long, three turntables,
! depot, six locomotives and sixteen cars.
The locomotives average thirty pounds
each, and the cars ten pounds. The
! pay-car is especially fine, being up
hclstered and containing every conven-
fence. On pleasant evenings the neigh
bors are amused by seeing the road in
!