New Ulm weekly review., 1883-11-21
GLEANINGs.

An Akron, Ohio, physician is still in
active practice at the age of ninety lone.
Mrs. Bonanza Mackey will reside in
Washington during the coming winter.
The Popago Indians are bringing
quantities of gold dust into Yuma, Ari-
Zona.
The worst thing that can be said
about Henry Irving is that he looks
like Oscar Wilde. A
New Hampshire has a law providing
penalty of $50 for selling or giving
away a toy pistol.
One cypress tree in the Ogeechee
Swamp, near Egypt, Ca, measures
thirty-one feet in circumference seven
feet from the ground. At the ground
it measures thirty -nine feet in circum-
ference. ta
A Glendale on. -T.) jury hung for
two days, but when the Sheriff told
them there would be q horse race out
on the street in an hour they agreed in
exactly seven minutes by the foreman's $
watch.
Two boys, each about ten years of
age, made their appearance at school
at Fergus Falls, Mimi, in an intoxica-
ted condition. The teacher sobered
them up with a pine slab Whitfield off
at one end. 46
In spirit of rivalry two Indianapo-
lis clothiers went to selling jean pants
cheaply, SO that one finally put his
goods down to 10 cents a pair, the other
following to 5, when both let them 90
at last-about 5000 pairs in all-at 1
cent a pair.
The term ''masher," which has been
regarded as slang expression, employ
ed by the careless for an elegant young
man, has been rescued from it's vulgar
position by Charles Mackay, who pro-
nounces it both appropriate and an
tique. 1t is derived from the Gaelic
1',atse, pronounced naasl,er, and signi-
fies fine, handsome, and was originally
applied to a dandy. .'5
The Royal Humane Society's medal
has been voted to young English lady
named Lloyd, for saving a boy aged ten.
The boy fell off the quay at Cowes into
deep water, and was being washed at
some distance into the heavy sea and
strong tide, when Miss Lloyd, who was
walking on the sea-wall, plunged into
the sea with all her clothes on, swan
out to the boy, and, with great difficult
ty brought him safely to the shore.
The principal idol of Chinese women
is the God of the Bedstead, which they
worship religiously until the youngest
child is fifteen years of age. This god
consists of a rice bowl, with two pieces
of red ribbon laid on the bottom Of it,
two cakes Of yeast, and twelve leaves,
eHllea from as many different trees.
Tho god ia EQpt on q nhQlf, Qlth9r ab0Ua
or UNDER the bed, according to the fan
cy of the worshiper, and is appealed to
at least twice month by the woman
and her children.
No street in the world, perhaps, pos
sesses more value to the square foot
than Fifth avenue, New York, the abode
of so many millionaires. The figures
rs taken from the tax books of the cur
rent year show that the city derives a
revenue of over 81, ,OOO, 900 a year from
this one avenue, between Eighth and
eighty-second streets, the value of the
property being about $4,000, 900. The
Vanderbilt palaces, which occupy an
entire block, are assessed at $780,
600.
John Newton, of Ledyard Center,
Conn, died recently, owning $4,000
in cash and half the swamp land and
brush pasture in Ledyard. He lived to
four-score, and his bent and beaten
form and his patched garments were
familiar objects to his debtors for miles
around. MIR. Newton was an eccen-
trio character. He never had a debt
He EARNED it, with all his might in
his youth, and his first earnings he lent
on mortgage. This he kept up, until
at his death most all of his property
consisted of mortgages on the barren
farms throughout the town. He had
hundreds of acres that cost him little
if anything, and SO much land that the
Collector never knew whether he was
paying his full tax or not. He married
Charity Norman, because, among other
good traits, she could turn out such a
prime article of butter. Once he began
building new house, which cost him
thousands of dollars. But just before
completing it he got angry at something,
and he at once nailed up the windows,
and now it is rotting down unoccupied.
He spent his days in a hovel. He has
given his property to Pennsylvania rel
atives, first setting out $4,000 to Char
ity, his butter-maker, to keep her from
fighting his will.