New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-09-19
GLEANINGs.

One seasons bearing of an apple tree
at Fauquier, Va, has made forty-gal-
lon barrel of brandy.
A circus billboard at Bowling Green,
KY, fell and killed a man, and the jury
has assessed $4,000 damages.
Nearly one hundred lady teachers in
Philadelphia entered the matrimonial
state this summer.
There are about 1000 Christian In
dians in the United States, and one
half of these are Baptists.
Chicago is spoken of as ssThe Mush-
room City of the Lakes yet it is about
to celebrate the fftieth anniversary Of
its incorporation as a city. How old
must city be to get by the mushroom
charge, pray?-Bafalo Express.
Cucumbers, according to M. Deliee,
caterer of the New York Club, should
be peeled and put to soak in ice-salt
water at least an hour before served.
The salt extracts the poison and the ice
renders them brittle and easier to be
digested.
A telegraphic cable to be laid between
Cadiz and the Canary Islands is now in
process of manufacture by an English
firm. The Spanish government has or
dered the work, which is expected to
be finished this Autumn. The length
Of the cable is about one thousand
miles.
H. H. Cole. of Sandy Creek, Oswepo
county, N. Y, has invented flying
machine by means of which, he feels
sure, q man can fly as nicely as a bird.
The wings are made of the lightest kind
OF muslin, and are fastened to the body
near the hips, and extend ten feet each
way from the body.
A few years ago two of the bellies of
Newport were the twin daughters OF
Maturin Livingstone, of New York.
One OF them married an English lord.
The other is the wife of son of D. O.
Mills, the millionaire banker of New
York, and she has recently presented
him with pair of twins.
A little old lady of Davenport, Iowa.
Mrs. Mary Kenny, is 10 years of age.
and walks two miles to church once a
month. Her hearing and eyesight are
good, and her family expect her to live
many years longer: She is a native Of
County Mayo, Ireland, and came to
this country forty years ago.
The Kaw Indians in the Indian Ter
ritory are disappearing with strange ra-
pidity. There were fully ten thousand
OF them in 1870, and the tribe was not,
ed for the physical power and Warlike
disposition of the men, but since then
the smallpox and other malignant dis,
eases have done the most deadly work.
1t is said that only about three hundred
now remain, and these are diseased and
likely soon to die.
The square pianoforte appears to be
doomed. In Germany and other Euro.
pean countries it is seldom seen, and in
America it's place is being rapidly taken
by the upright, ''pianino,' as the Ger
mans more POLITICALLY Gall it. One Of the
leading piano firms in New York re-
Gently announced that it had eliminated
all styles Of squares from it's catalogue,
and would henceforth manufacture on
y nprieg,hhts and grands,
An exchange Says s.Giye your wife
a vacation, . There is no doubt that
she needs one as much as q man.
While he can throw aside his work at
the expiration Of office hours, her work
is never done. She lives in the midst
of it constantly. There being no sur
cease from cares and anxieties, it is no
wonder that she gets nervous, and would
TAIN ty to the -utterm0st parts Of the
land and sea. When she feels ID that