New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-06-06
GLEANINGS.


While nearly all other royal families in
Europe are dying out the Guelphs are
increasing.
A class of Italians have belief that If
any one touches the body of man who
is killed instantly the person so touching
+ will meet with violent death within q
year.
So great success has attended the la
bors of Mormon missionaries in and
around Chattanooga, Tenn, that twenty
additional convert seekers have been
put to work in that field.
Sydney, Australia, has the largest
daily newspaper in the world. In a
single week the Herald issued 1888 col
umns, the paper containing twenty
pages of Australian news on three days
in the week and sixteen on the others.
The president of the Bootmakers' In
stitute of Vienna has brought to light
the fact that the inventor of backing
was one Urban of Budweis, Bohemia
(now associated in the American mind
with beer). He is now to have monu-
went. Let no inventor despair.
A California ostrich farmer went to
Africa to buy stock, and while admiring
some fine blooded specimens one Of
them kicked at him, but missed and hit
a horse and broke its neck. He says
they kick with as much grace as awo-
man throws a stone.
Daniel Webster is not loquacious,'
Carlyle wrote to Emerson in 1889, .'but
he is pertinent, conclusive; dignifed,
| perfectly bred man. AS logic fencer,
| advocate, or parliamentary Hercules one
| would incline to back him at first sight
against all the extant world
A Turkish pasha has shown his ap-
probation of the work of our mission
schools in his country by the following
remark: s'When a girl has come back
from the American mission school, YOU
should not say a girl, but a school has
come"
A Kentucky whisky dealer, who had
been arrested for failing to stamp the
barrels sent out from his distillery,
proved by ocular demonstration that a
goat licked off the stamps as fast as the
barrels were rolled out Of the establish
ment. He was liberated.
The following modest item appears in
a Kentucky paper whose editor has
been instrumental in obtaining relief for
the sufferers by the floods: s'Too much
praise cannot be awarded our editor for
needy population"
A half-starved cat in New York, on
| being placed before a generous meal,
ate a little, went away from the bowl,
| sat down, washed herself, waited for di-
gestion to set in and do it's perfect work,
then ate little more, retired, did the
same thing over again, and SO occupied
a couple Of hours.
Another poor girl has been killed by
She was known as .'Old Betty Morgan, :"
and she lived in Wales. It is related of
her that up to the last she was fond Of
the pipe, and would even smoke cigar
! with numerous tourists by whom She
| was visited.
Four years ago a party of heartless
Southern men caught an alligator and
so bolted his jaws with iron bolts that
he could not open his mouth They
then returned him to his native element,
expecting him to die Of starvation.
When again caught recently his alliga-
torshipw was found to have grown larger,
though his jaws were closed as tight as
ever by the iron bolts.
One of the best workmen in Cali
fornia mine is man who, in 1876, lost
by fall of rock a piece of his skull,
covering an area of 34x23 inches. Flesh
grew over the aperture and he is now
hearty as ever, and carries his skull in
his pocket to exhibit to inquisitive peo-
pie who notice the peculiarities of his
head.
Columbia College will not undertake
to graduate women, because the institu-
ton cannot bear the expense II can
not bear Children said Miss Prim to
Mistress Darlington. ''May be if you
could, y replied the dame, .syou would
like them better The college is troubled
very much after the manner of Miss
Prim.
The Sherman CTex.) Courier is au-
thority for the statement that among the
Chickasaw Indians it is customary to
release cOnvicts under sentence of death
on parole of honor until the day of exc
cution. It is a tradition among the
tribe that no one, under such circum-
stances, has ever failed to appear at the
time and place appointed for the execu-
ton.
It has been discovered that there is
less potash in the leaves of diseased
grape vines than in healthy specimens
The lack of potash is made up by an ex-
cess of lime. It is possible that lack of
mineral fertilizers may be the cause of
many diseases of trees and other plants,
and that farmers and gardeners may vet
have to consult the grain and vegetable
doctor.
Mixed husbandry is the only sure way
to success in farming. Repeated crop
ping with a single cereal will bring a
waste of the plant-foot elements in the
soil that will, in the end, so reduce the
yield as to entail certain loss upon the
land owner. This fact will do more
toward forcing the Dalrymples to cut
up and dispose of their immense land
areas than anything else, though they
may not now see it in that light
The latest story of canine intelligence
comes from San Francisco. A gentle
man, fond Of whisky punch, on one oc-
casion, after taking his third glass, in
cautiously trod on his favorite dog,
which usually lay on the hearth-rug in
front Of him while he INDUCED in his
potations. After that the dog carefully
watched his master after dinner, and the
moment the second tumbler was finished
gravely left the room.
A singular story comes from the Pa
cific Coast concerning small tribe of
Indians in Washington Territory, known
as the Sanpoels, who are building an
ark in expectation of another flood, in
which they are to play the part of Noah
and his family. After the flood they
alone are to be left to inhabit the earth,
on which they will dwell in perfect
peace and luxury, with neither white
man nor hostile red man to make them
afraid.
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