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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-09-26
Going tn Jericho.

! We had heard very little of the enemy
for several days. Where he was we did
not know. We only hoped he had At
last taken to his heels and run away,
and that we should never again see
anything of him but his back. Alas,
for the presumption; and alas! for tho
presumption of tho innumerable COM
pany and fellowship of cooks, camp.
followers, and mule-drivers, who, EN-.
boldened by tho quietude of the last few
days, had ventured to join each his re-
spective regiment, and were marching
along bravely enough, when, on the
evening of May 23d, we reached North
Ann river, which we were to cross at
place called Jericho Ford. Under the
impression that we would probably halt
there for the night, gathered a mum.
Der of the boys canteens and started in
search of water. But hardly had more
than half-iilled my first canteen, when
the enemy, lying concealed in the
woods, across the river, opened fire.
Boom! Bang! Whir-r-r! Chuck! I could
hear the sharp Mud of the pieces Of
shell as they tore up the meadow sod to
the right and left. Finding an old
gateway near by, with high stone posts
on either side, took refuge there, and.
feeling tolerably safe behind my tall de-
Tense, turned and looked toward the riv.
er. There was the bridge in full view.
crowded with a struggling mass of men.
horses and mules; the troops trying to
force their way over to the other
side, and the yelling crowd of camp
fOllOWpro o0n0llv honf ~, foroinn, <hoiv
way back; some jumping or being
tumbled off the bridge, while others
were swept irresistibly over the other
side, and there began to plunge forth
with into the dirty ooze of the stream,
with the intention of getting beyond the
enemy's range as quickly as possible.
while all the time the shells flew shrek.
ing and screaming through in pursuit.
-"Recollections Of a Drummer Boy"
in st. Nicholas for August.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-09-26
About College Honors,

There was some trouble at the last
commencement of the Vassar Female
College at Poughkeepsie, due to pro-
test from the members of the senior
class against the system of college hon
ors and awards. 1t is the custom in
many institutions to mark students for
their proficiency at the end of each
recitation, as we'll as in the closing OK
aminations, and the honors are given to
the students having the highest number
of marks. The Vassar students coli
tended that this system is wrong, that
itplaces the girls in hurtful competition,
puts a strain upon their nerves, often
Injuries their health. and in the end does
injustice to some of the best students.
This view is held by many distinguished
educators, and in the best universities
of Europe and America there is no
marking, nor are these so-called honors
given. The students who make tho
greatest success in their professions and
in life are rarely those who achieve dis
tinction in college. A good verbal men,
DRY, and certain nimbleness of wit
often puts shallow student at the head
of his class. The Vassar seniors were
quite right. Speaking of this situation,
by the way, how strange it is that
sitter seventeen years its faculty
should be composed almost entirely of
men. All the officers are of the sterner
sex. Yet Vassar graduates more teach
ers than it does any other profession.
They must seek employment, however,
outside their alma mater. But the only
distinguished member of the faculty is
a woman-Maria Mitchell, the astron-
omer.-Demaorest.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-09-26
The CONSERVATION an Owl Made,

The action Of the Washington monu
ment is watched most carefully and it's
every movement registered. Two plum
NETS arc suspended in its inside, one
from height of 26O feet and the other
from height of $50 feet. The move
ments OF these are compared many times
day. The movement of one should bo
about one and one-half times that of the
other if there were no irregular internal
movement on the part of the structure.
But the register shows that the move
ment is irregular in both direction and
in size. Sometimes the plummets move
in opposite directions and sometimes in
the same. Sometimes the top moves .
little, but its whole sway since the
foundation was strengthened has been
only one quarter of an inch. All Of
these movements are very slight, and
some of them can only be detected with
a microscope. The longer plummet line
is encased in a wooden box, to prevent
the atmosphere having any effect upon
it, and since the finding that the spiders
had once drawn the line out Of tho per-
pendicular, careful investigation il
made daily, to see that the lines are not
influenced by outside causes. Once,
whengreat CONSERVATION was caused BY
the irregularity Of the line, it was found
that an owl was perched upon tho top
of the line. 1t was caught, killed, stuffed
and given to Mrs. HAYES, and It Is now
probably on exhibition at Fremont
Cleveland Leader.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-09-26

''The operation to be undergone by
the patient is simple and practically
painless. For the convergent cases
there is no pain whatever, only little
annoyance while the operator is reach
ing the little muscle which has to be
divided. l have performed the opera
ton hundreds of times on other people,
sometimes giving anesthetics, and often
with no such aid. The patient is stretch
ed on the table. draw apart with my
fingers the lids of his eyes and insert
between them little steel instrument
shaped like the letter o. The sides of
this expand by a spring and force the
lids open, disclosing the eyeball and the
network Of muscles holding it in posi-
ton and directing its movements. When
this expansion is accomplished, I lift
up the muscle with small pair of
tweezers, and divide it with NV instru-
ment. When it is cut it feels to the pa
tient as if small band of rubber was
being snapped. There is no pain at all.
Very often, however, painful operations
are performed. The muscle has some-
times been divided too much, and the
error has to be rectifed. This requires
some stitches to be taken, and new
cut to be made. The patient must be
made unconscious while this is going
on
"Can you cure any case of strabis-
mus?''
II can benefit any ordinary case.
even when it can't be entirely cured. I
have often wished that I could operate
on Ben Butler. think I could give
him as straight eyes as have in half
an hours time. I'D doctor IN NesD York
Times.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-09-26
1ngersoll on Death.

The following lines are an extract
taken from a letter written by Col. In
gersol from Long Beach to a personal
friend who had suffered bereavement
in the death of his mother:
CATER all there is something tenderly
appropriate in the serene death of the
old. Nothing is more touching than
the death of the young. the strong. But
when the duties of life have ali been
nobly done-when the sun touches the
horizon when the purple twilight falls
upon the present, the past and future
when memory with dim eye can scarce
ly spell the records of the vanished days
then, surrounded by kindred and BY
friends, death comes like strain of
music. The days had been long, the
road weary, and we gladly stop at the
inn.
Life is a shadowy, strange and
winding road, on which we travel for q
little way-a few short steps, just from
the cradle with its lullaby of love to the
low and quiet wayside inn, where all at
last must sleep and where the only sal
utation is goodnight
Nearly forty-eight years ago, under
the snow in the little town of Cazenovia,
my poor mother was buried. was but
two years old. l remember her as she
looked in death. That sweet, cold face
has kept my heart warm through all the
years.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-09-26
The Vain Old Woman.

There was once an old woman so
very poor that she had no house, but
lived in hollow tree. One day she
found piece of money lying in the
road. Full of Joy at her good fortune,
she began to consider what she should
buy with the money.
'H get anything to eat" she said to
herself, II shall quickly devour it, and
that will be the end of tho matter. That
will not do 81 all. If buy clothes, peo-
pie will call me proud, and that will
not do; and besides I have no closet to
keep them in. All! I have it! I will
buy a broom, and then everybody that
l meet will think l have a house. A
broom is the thing. A broom it shall be. :"
So the old woman went into the next
town and bought broom. She walked
proudly along with her purchase, look
ing about her all the time to see if peo-
pie noticed her and looked envious
thinking of her house. But as no one
seemed to remark her, she began to be
discontinued with her bargain.
''Does every body have house except
me?' she said to herself, Grossly. II
wish l had bought something else!''
Presently she met 4 man carrying a
small Jar of oil.
''This is what want!' exclaimed the
old woman; anybody can have
house, but only the truly rich can have
oil to light it with
So she bartered her broom for the oil.
and went on more proudly than ever,
holding the jar so that all could see it.
Still she failed to attract any particular
notice, and she was once more discon-
tented. AS she went along moodily she
met q woman with a bunch of large
flowers.
Here, at last, have what l want"
the old woman thought. ''If can get
these, all that see me will believe am
just getting my house ready for bril-
liant party. Then they'll be jealous,
hope.''
So when the woman with the flowers
came close to her, she offered her oil
for them, and the other gladly made the
change.
'Now am indeed fortunate!'' she
said to herself. "Now am somebody!"
But still she failed to attract atten-
ton, and, happening to glance at her
old dress, it suddenly occurred to her
that she might be mistaken, for a SER
want carrying flowers for her master.
She was so much vexed by the thought
that she flung the bouquet into the
ditch, and went home to her tree emp
ty-handed.
~Now am we'll rid of it ALL" she
said to self.-Adapted from the Ger
man, By Arlo Bates, in st. Nicholas.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-09-26
Sunrise in England and America.

It was not England, neither was it
quite France; yet like enough either to
seem natural in my eyes. And it was
in the sky, and not upon the earth, that
[ was surprised to find change. Ex-
plain it how you may, and for my part
cannot explain it at all, the sun rises
with different splendor in America and
Europe. There is more clear gold and
scarlet in our old country mornings;
more purple, brown and smoky orange
in those of the new. It may be from
habit, but to me the coming of tho day
is less fresh and inspiriting in the latter;
it has a duskier glory, and more nearly
resembles sunset; it seems to fit some
substantial evening epoch of the world.
as though America were in fact, and
not merely in fancy, further from the
orient of Aurora and tho springs of
day. l thought 50 then, by the railroad
side in Pennsylvania. and have thought
so dozen times since in far distant
parts of the continent. If it be an illu-
sion, it is one very deeply rooted, and
in which my eyesight is accomplish.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-09-26
WHOLE NUMBER 4lB
NY Cabinet.


l have made small collection OF
wild, Western things during tho past
seven years and have put them togeth-
or, hoping some day when get feeble.
to travel with the aggregation and erect
a large monument Of kopecks for nv
executors, administrators and assigns
forever.
Beginning with tho skull of the old
Jack-and-the-game, Sioux brave, the
collection takes in my wonderful bird
known as the Walk-up- the-creek, and
another rara avis with carnivorous bill
and web feet which has astonished
every one except the taxidermisr and
myself. An old grizzly bear hunter
who has plowed corn all his life and
don't know coyote from a Maverick
steer-looked at it last fall and pro-
nounced it a ''kingisher;'' said he had
killed one like it year ago. Then I
knew that he was pilgrim and .
stranger and that he had bought his
buckskin coat and bead-trimmed moe
casins at Niagara Falls. for the bird is
constructed of an eagles head, a can
vas back ducks bust and feet, with the
balance sage hen and baled hay.
Last fall desired to add TO my rare
collection large hornets nest. l had
an embalmed tarantula and her porce-
lain-lined nest, and desired to add to
these the gray and airy home of the
hornet. procured one of tho large
size after cold weather and hung it In
the cabinet by a string. 1 forgot about
it until this spring. When warm wealth.
er came. something reminded me of it.
l think it was hornet. He logged my
memory in some way and called my at
tention to it. Memory is not located
where thought it was. II seemed as
though wherever he touched me he
awakened a memory-a warm memory
with red place all around it.
Then some more hornets came and
began to rake up old personalities. I
remember that one of them lit on nv
upper lip. He thought it was rose
bud. When he went away it looked like
gladiola bulb. l wrapped wet sheet
around it to take out the warmth and
reduce the swelling so that l could 20
through the folding doors and tell my
wife about it.
Hornets lit all over me and walked
around on my person. I did not dare
to scrape them of because they are
so sensitive. You have to be very
guarded in your conduct toward =
hornet.
remember once while was watch
ing the busy little hornet gathering
honey and June bugs from the bosom
of rose, years ago, stirred him up
with club, moro as practical joke
than anything else, and he came and lit
in my sunny hair-that was when I
wore my own hair-and he walked
around through my cleaning tresses
quite awhile, making tracks as large AZ
a watermelon all over my head. If he
hadn't run out of tracks my head would
have looked like load of summer
squashes. l remember had to thump
my head against the smoke-house in or
der to smash him, and l had to comb
him out afterward with fine comb and
wear waste-basket two weeks for .
| hat.
Much has been said of the hornet, but
he has an odd, quaint way after all that
is forever new.-BiW Nye.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-09-26
Doing a Smart Thing.

A few days ago an eminent citizen of
Detroit, or at least one eminent enough
to own 81 umbrella, left the article in
store on Gratiot street and some one
gobbled it. Eminent citizen was thor
oughly indignant, and he went to de-
tective to see what could be done. As
there was no clue to pick up and follow
to success, the detective could do moth
ing. All of a sudden bright thought
occurred to the loser, and the next day
an advertisement appeared as follows:
''The man who took that silk umbrel-
la from store on Gratiot street last
Thursday will save himself trouble by
returning it, as he is known"
Eminent citizen was chuckling over
his smartness when man dressed like
laborer and having an umbrella care
fully tied up in a paper entered the Of
fee and said:
$50 you knew me, eh?''
eyes, SIR was the prompt reply.
Somebody must have seen me take it
and told you?''
eyes, that was the way
.'What would you have done if l had
not shown up?'
Secured warrant and made it hot
for YOU
''Well. give me a receipt and I'll
leave it and never try to get away with
another mans umbrella"
A receiptw was written and passed over,
and the man seemed so contrite that he
was handed half dollar besides. It
was full day before the parcel was I'M
wrapped for q look at the umbrella,
and then eminent citizen kicked up
row to alarm the whole building. The
umbrella was old, faded, rib-broken and
worthless, and it was evidently a put-up
job to take the smartness out of the man
who thought he had hitit.-DetroM Free
Press,
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-09-26
The Last Great Eclipse.

The astronomers of al! nations who
went to observe the eclipse of the sun
at the Caroline Island in the Pacific on
May 6, had the rare good fortune to
have a cloudless day on which to make
their observations. The results are said
to be very important. They found no
trace OF planet between Mercury and
the sun, which it was suspected existed,
and which had been named Vulcan
The outer corona of the solar photo
sphere is now found to be due to refrac-
ton. It is said the spectrum revealed
lines which where undistinguishable by
the astronomers, and this means that
there are metals or other material sub
stances in the body Of the sun which are
unknown to our planet, at least SO far
as the discovery has gone. Demovest's
for august.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-09-26
The Farmer and Farming.

Every reasonable man knows that on
= prosperous agriculture depends the
wealth, the vigor and the virtue of q
people. The farmers are in the main
the bulwarks of liberty and good gov
eminent. Simple in habits, industrious,
humble, dependent more upon God than
orous and their daughters modest and
virtuous, and are not carried away with
the fashions and temptations of life. A
dollar made upon the farm by farm
er's boy is a very different sort of dol
lar from one made in speculation or
clerking in a store or travelling as a
drummer or from five dollar fee in q
justice court. 1t lasts longer and has q
more solid ring. One Sunday suit is
enough for = farmers boy year or two
and one hat, and one parasol and one
pair of gloves will keep his sister or his
country sweetheart happy just as long.
There is a freedom about farming that
no other occupation can boast. His
time is his own. He has no employer
and belongs to no man and can come
and go when he pleases. The pure air
and water are his, and the sweet south
wind and the creeks and branches and
flowers that perfume the meadows and
fields. I read the other day that Jay
Gould's son said the old man was going
to take little trip around the world to
look at it and if he liked it he intended
to buy it. Well, of course, that was a
kind of a joke, but Jay Gould, with all
his money, can't buy contentment nor
create one gushing spring like mine.
But still the farmer is long suffering
man. He gets no encouragement ex-
cept what nature gives him. He gets
less protection and consideration than
any other class. He makes scanty
living by sweat and toll and gets pow
er of advice. He tries cotton and wheat
and fruit and truck of all kinds, and
the editor keeps telling him exactly how
to get rich, and he keeps pegging away,
but can't. The editors knows exactly
how to do it, and wish some of 'em
would come out and show us. Farming
beats a saw-mill on paper, but somehow
it don't pan out in the pocket. Arp
in atlanta Constitution.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-09-26
A Change Of Sentiment,

The newspaper editor who has been
vexing his soul over the way the youth
Of the land gluped down dime novels of
the blood and thunder sort can feel bet
ter. A change of sentiment has already
betrayed itself, and there is reason to
hope that ''One-Eyed Dick and dead
Shot JIM will soon be out of print
Yesterday a lad of II, who has devour-
ed about q thousand five and ten cent
novels during the last year, entered a
Woodward avenue news store, and when
the clerk handed him down ''The Black
Demon of the Prairies'' and other late
publications of the sort he turned away
with a sigh and remarked:
Il don't care for 'em any more.''
''Why, what's the matter?"
''Well, l read Injun stories and run
away to become an Injun-slayer. Dad
brought me back and whaled me half
to death. I read pirate stories and
shipped on schooner for Buffalo and
almost died of sea-sickness. l read
hunting stories, but there's nothing to
hunt around here except cats. I've
tried to be a trapper, but the only
game [ ever caught was the milkman,
and he's laying for me yet. l kinder
wanted to be a train-robber, but the
trains wouldn't stop to be robbed, and
when l read of boy heroes and looked
around to save rich girls in a runaway
coupe or old men from the river there
never was any chance. I'm going to
change and read something else.'
''Well, what shall it be?o
II want something about boy who
began low down and worked up. He
mustn't rush into any burning houses,
save any stores from being robbed, dis
cover any plots to blow up steamboats,
or save any old woman from mad dogs.
He must be just like the rest of us
have headaches, get licked, hate to get
out of bed, fight his brothers and steal
sugar and take it to bed to eat.
The dealer couldn't find such book,
and the lad went out with the remark
that nobody seemed to care to write
anything for boys, and that he guessed
he'd have to get a pair of bones and a
song book and become a song and
dance man. Who can write a bows
book which will reflect the character
istic. and adventures of the modern
b0V?--DetrOit Free P,.oeo.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-09-26
Bill Arp Talks of Bows and Trades,

believe in these schools where boys
can learn trades. Peter the Great quit
his throne and went off to learn how to
build ship, and he learned from stem
to stern, from hull to mast. and that
was the beginning of his greatness. I
know young man who was poor and
smart and friend sent him to one of
these schools up North and he stayed
two years and came back as mining
engineer and bridge builder and last
year he planned and built q cotton fac
tory and is getting a large salary. How
many college boys are there in Georgia
who can tell what kind of native timber
will bear the heaviest burdens or why
you take white oak for one part of
wagon and ash for another, or what
timber will last longest under water and
what out of the water. How many
know sand stone from lime stone or iron
from manganese? How many know
how to cut q rafter or brace without
a pattern? How many know which
turns the fastest the top of the wheel or
the bottom rs the wagon moves along
the ground? How many know how
steel is made, and how q snake can
climb q tree?
How many know that horse gets up
before and q COW gets up behind, and
the COW eats grass from her and the
horse eats to him? How many know
that surveyors mark upon a tree new
err gets any higher from the ground,
or what tree bears fruit without bloom?
There is q power of comfort in knowl-
edge, but q boy is not going to get it
unless he wants it and wants it bad, and
that is the trouble with most college
boys. they don't want it. They are too
busy and haven't got time. There is
more hope of q dull boy who wants
knowledge, than of q genius, for gen.
Jus generally knows it all without study.
These close observers are the world 8
benefactors.-BiW Arp IN atlanta Con-
StiLutiOu
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-09-26
Foul Air in Houses.

1.-THE air of a room smells sweet there
is apt to be no consideration of the dan.
ger which may still Turk in the atmos-
phere in gases and organic impurities
whose natural odors are subdued by
something stronger. When foul gases
cannot be detected by the nose, defective
drains will not be repaired, much less
examined for hidden defects. The only
safety from sewer gas is to bar it out of
the house; and when this can be done
so easily and so positively, it is fairly
criminal that it should not be done. As
to foul air, there need be none in a
house except such as comes from the
breath, and caused by the excretions of
the skin; this may be, also, quickly and
easily removed by a simple ventilation
through CRATE or stove. There need be
no refuse within the four walls of q
house, nor, indeed, near it, without the
walls, if people would respect the plain
requirements of deccncy. AS to the
Fungus germ" --whatcver they may
be-dry walls. dry foundations and dry
rooms will prevent their growth. As to
ditfusing "disinfecting agents." disin-
lection in the sense Of DESTROYING the
germs of disease means the destruction
of human as well as germ life. No
vapor will destroy the germs, or poison,
Of smallpox, scarlet fever or diphtheria,
which may be supported by sewer gas,
that will not also destroy the person
who brcathes it. = Chicago Sanilarv
NeVs.