New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-12-05

dered man.
Baltimore cooks have way all their
own of using bread crumbs instead of
cracker-dust to fry oysters in, and the
result is delicious. r..
A Kentucky paper has noticed that
insane murderers are always sane
enough to employ the most celebrated
lawyers to defend them.
A New York actress wore string of
cranberries around her neck, and the
papers the next morning referred to her
magnificent coral necklace
AS men were scarce women were en-
ployed to help the masons constructing
the bridge at Springfield, N. j., and
they did the work we'll and received
mems pay.
Conductors on the Denver & Rio
Grande railway are provided with med
icines and surgical instruments, with
case of accidents.
The school board at Kingston, Ont,
has replaced the straps long in use in
the schools with gutta percha ferules.
The feelings of the small boy appear
not to have been consulted.
"Plunger" Walton took a contract
for cleaning the streets of New York
last winter and made good job of it.
He is now rewarded by a London paper
which calls him a ''scavenger."
An eight-day clock belonging to
Thomas Shourds has stood in the same
place it now occupies in his home in
Salem county, New Jersey, for 1874
years.
In San Francisco recently man and
his wife. alleged to be worth about
$75, 900, were arrested for compelling
their children nightly to peddle fruit
| about the streets.
1t has been rashly said that women
never invent anything. At the Boston
| fair there were score of inventions by
women, among them a double piano
stool, carpet stretcher, stove damper,
etc.
Mrs. Labouchere is down on Mrs.
Langtry. She says she went out on the
street in London one night and collared
the first woman she met, and that she
is much pretticr than the Lily. She
will come to America with her next
| winter.
Whitelaw Reid sympathizes with W.
d. Howells, who can find no congenial
companionship with the human race,
| and says he feels that way himself. He
will pay a liberal reward to the discov-
erer of higher and nobler sphere than
this.
1t is a singular fact that, despite
Irish hatred of Chinese, in all cases of
marriage in California between Chinese
and whites, the women have invariably
been young Irish girls. This is an
anomaly which no one yet has been
able to explain.
DIR. j. V. Shoemaker says that
freckles can be removed by the careful
application of the ointment of the oleate
of copper at bedtime. He makes the
ointment by dissolving the oleate of
copper in sufficient oleo-palmite to make
mass.
A San Francisco paper says that the
fastest time ever made between that
port and Honolulu by sailing vessel
was made by the American bark Comet
in l861-1O days and 20 hours, and that
the quickest steamers time was made
by the Mariposa-6 days and 8 1-2
hours.
Jefferson Davis is not rich, but fairly
comfortable. He has the plantation his
brother ''Joe'' Davis left him below
Vicksburg, which brings him some
thing, and he has the cottage property
at the seaside which lady left him.
He is out of dependence, but has not
much money.
Americans who have recently re-
turned from Europe refer to the fact,
often mentioned, ''that the American
Consulates, abroad, with few excep-
tons, are very shabby and unattractive,
and Ivy no means consistent with the
dignity or Importance of the country
represented.
Professor Huxley said recently at the
London Hospital Medical College that,
IN granting DEGREES, the tripartite quail
lhcatlon OF medicine, surgery and mid
wifery should be insisted upon, and
that to allow anyone to practice with
out it at the present age of the world
was perfectly monstrous.' -
1t turns out fortunately that not so
many are killed at Ischia as was at first
reported. According to the official re-
turns, only 1000 lost their lives, and
1000 were injured. This death record
is, however, sufficient to make the
1schia earthquake one of the most nota-
BILE OF the many notable events of the
year 1888.
Wonderful stories come from the
Caspian oil fields. The Baku CORES
pondent of the London Morning Post
claims to have witnessed the striking
of well that throws it's oil to the
height of O0feet and produces 2, 900, 900
gallons, or $4,000 barrels per day. The
largest wells in Pennsylvania never pro-
duce more than 5000 barrels per day.
At the convention of the Poor Dr.
rectors in Philadelphia, alms-houses as
houses for pauper children were con-
demned. They were demoralizing. It
was stated that any house was better
than an alms-house, and yet the aims.
house is thought to be a wonderful in.
stitution, a blessed product of Chris
tian civilization. Is il possible that we
are laboring under a pitiful delusion7
There is boy living near Warnock's
in Belmont county, Ohio, who has q
penchant for tOrturing animals. His