New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1882-07-12
WHOLE NUMBER 227


out giving notice, his picture of Sarah
Bernhard from the Vienna salon, and
in it's place hung the portrait of Wen
nese belle, Nine. De Teschenberg. Wis
itors unfamiliar with the actresses face,
not knowing of the change of pictures,
were thereafter frequently heard to ex-
claim: each, Colt! How fat Sarah is
is growingr'
An enterprising justice of the peace
in Russell county, Alabama issued
warrant of arrest for freedman, charg-
ing him with stealing rations, breaking
his contract, and living in adultery with
woman. This j. P. is an honest, clever
colored man. He framed his warrant
so as to cover accidents and found
the prisoner guilty of living in adultery,
and thereupon committed him to jail.
The Russian newspapers announce
that the Holy Synod is contemplating
the necessity of reducing the number Of
religious holidays, observed by the
Greek Church. The number Of saints
days upon which workmen have hol-
iday in the course of the year is 16O, SO
that, instead of doing about 800 days
work in year as in other countries, in
Russia they hardly do more than 200
days. tJs
Notwithstanding the volumes which
have been printed and published con-
corning the capricious and gifted Sarah
Bernhardt, the fact of her real name not
being Bernhardt has escaped the notice
OF her biographers and critics. Her real
name is Sarah Ker-Bernhardt. and she
dropped the Ker at the request of her
family when she went on the stage. Her
mother, now dead, was the most dread
full old woman imaginable, and would
have delighted the diseased imagination
of Eugene Sue; but with this exception
the Ker-Bernhardt family is worthy
one, and looked at first with great dis.
taste upon the unsuccessful debut of
Sarah. London Life.
Hank Blodgett, who for the past twen-
ty years has followed sea-otter hunting
on the coast of Washington territory,
above Gray's harbor, says that he now
averages hundred shots for every otter
obtained. In early times, when an Of
ter was shot it would come ashore. but
the animals have become so shy that
unless killed instantly they put out to
sea. They car, not be approached now
nearer than six hundred yards. Blod-
gett uses a Sharp's rifle, As caliber, car
rying 12O grains of powder: The fur
of the sea-otter sells from $75 to $3.50,
and is becoming more rare every sea-
son.
Beer of German manufacture has for
some time past been conveyed in large
quantities by steamer from Adriatic
ports to Alden and other towns in Arabia
but so fond have tho natives become of
the beverage that temperance move
ment has been started in various parts
OF Southern Arabia. The religious au-
thorities have been prominent in further
ing the agitation. At Muscatit is said
that all the mosques have publicly con-
demned German beer, and pronounced
direful future punishment on all who
partake of it. The Sultan, however,
permits Jews and Hindustanees to sell
the drink, on condition that the object
is medicinal. The number of the sick
has accordingly increased in very per-
ceptible proportions.
A very interesting lecture on appli-
ances for working under water or in IT.
respirable gases was lately read before
the Institution of Mechanical Engineers,
London, by Mr.. w. A. German. The
first account of the use of diving-bell
in Europe is given by Tasnier, who says
that in 1888 he saw two Greeks at Toie-
do, Spain, in the presence of Charles w.,
let themselves down under water in q
large inverted kettle without being wet.
From this primitive contrivance to the
apparatus invented by Mr.. Fleuss, of
London, year or two ago, indicated
the progress Of diving, or going with i'm
punitY into places charged with suffo-
eating gases. The Fleuss .'dress," it
will be remembered, renders the wearer
quite independent of any communica-
ton with the outer atmosphere, and he
can thus breathe with safety while sur
rounded with most nOxi0us atmosphere
in mines, or explore q wreck for several
hours under water.