New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-04-05
GLEAN1NGs.

OouCuWesC virginia IS every year rap
ldly increasing in Importance as a to-
bacco section.
1t is estimated that more than zoe, 900
cattle will be driven north from Texas
this spring.
A woman may not have so much hair
as comet, nor so many belts as Jupi-
ter, but she stands at the head of the
mysteries of the universe.
A lady, in reply to some guests who
praised the mutton on table, said: ooh,
yes, my husband always buys the best;
he is great epicac.''
There has been $1,83O,OOO actually
put into the Canadian Pacific railroad,
which is 80 per cent of the capital
| stock subscribed for.
Sunday-school teacher: 'You must
recollect that all I am telling you hap
pened one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-nine years ago. '.Lor, miss,
how the time do slip away"
''Did understand you, sir, to say
that Senator VOORHEES, is in the habit of
tripping the light fantastic?'' 20, no.;
not at all I only spoke of him as the
famous Dan, sir.''
Goods at half price," said the sign.
CHOW much is that teapot? asked an
old lady. Fifty cents, num-" was the
response. Guess I'll take it, she
said, throwing down quarter. The
sign was taken in.
my dearest Maria, wrote a recently
married husband to his wife. She wrote
back: dearest, let me correct either
your grammar or your morals. You
address me, my dearest Maria Am
to suppose you have other dear Marias?''
Is there woman in all this broad,
sunny land of ours who doesn't believe
that carving knives are created and
kept sharp and nice for the sole purpose
of splitting kindling and opening fruit
| cans?
The newest fashionable shade is of
golden brown. between the tints of old
copper and old gold. For dress it is
trimmed with beaver, and the bonnet
has pale blue flowers. The wearer is q
blonde.
There is a colored boy in Accomac
county, Va, who is feet inches high,
weighs 234 pounds, and wears sixteen
inch shoe, and whose principal diet is
sweet potatoes, of which he can eat q
peck at meal.
A crow that could speak a dozen
words plainly has just died at Bedford,
Mass He might have become famous
but for his shocking profanity, which
made his seclusion necessary. His ear
| ly education had been bad.
The Jewish refugees at Philadelphia
were astonished the other day to see q
son OF Africa come into their quarter,
and wanted to know ''what made him
so black The most of them had new
er heard of negroes, it seems.
| The beautiful in our homes and
schools and sanctuaries is also the USE
full. 1t is the smile upon the face of the
hard experiences of the world, the mu-
| sic that comes from heaven amid the
discords of human life.-W. f. Balm
bridge.
A fireman in Toronto has invented a
dumping Sheet for the use of those
obliged to jump outof windows in case
OF fire. 1t is made of sail-cloth, pre-
senting surface of about twelve feet
square, and attached by iron rings and
strong springs to two fire hooks.
Servant, who was called to see about
a place: swell; yes'm, my eyes are not
so good as they were, IN. Not that
there is anything wrong with them, but
whenever I clean the pots and tins I
shine 'em so bright they dazzle my eyes.
It's my only defeck M
Sophia Bernina is said to be the only
| woman who ever succeeded in escaping
| penal servitude in Siberia. She was
condemned to twenty years hard labor,
| but by some means made her way to
Switzerland, where she is now living in
safe seclusion. 1t is said that she brib-
Ell her way to freedom.
A finely dressed lady slipped and fell
near the post-oflice recently, and the
! gentleman who helped her to rise in
CURED, did you break any bones,
MADAME" mo, guess not,'' she re-
piled, ''but I am just as mad as if I had
| broken dozen of 'em''
The remarkable feature of Nicodemus,
a negro colony of 367 families, in Ora
ham County. Kas., is the entire absence
OF money. There are churches, school
houses, and stores, but the trading has
to be done by bartering the produce of
the farms.
The English critics are very severe on
Mr.. Tennyson's new national song. and
regard it has a manifest effort to revive
a dying jingoism. Parodies already ap-
pear, and one Radical journal offers
prize for others. Mr.. Tennyson, though
not i'll, seems to be in unusually feeble
health.
From the old bronze and lead found
about the base of the obelisk now stand
ing in New York there have been made
twenty-five models of the monument,
each fifteen inches high, and two of
them were month since presented to
the khedive of Egypt.
A pamphlet has been sent out by the
medical department of the Detroit Uni
versity, setting forth its facilities for
graduating its students" to whom it
promises diplomas of great beauty and
utility. The Detroit newspapers say
that the President, named Thomas, is
an old chum of DR.. Buchanan, the Phil
adelphia bogus diploma convict, and
that the concern is a fraud.
Professor Bernstein demonstrated the
fact by experiments before the members
OF the Massachusetts Insurance Com
pany, at Boston, last week, that when
electric light wires are perfectly insulat-
ed by thick coatings and are carefully
strung there is no danger to life or prop
erty if they are cut by an ak or if they
fall across a telegraph or telephone
wire, or even if man takes hold of
them to make connection with lamp.
Bank bills ranging in denomination
from So to 500 have been accepted at
the banks in Troy, N. Y, which it is
discovered are an inch short of the rega-
lar size; Persons engaged in the fraud