New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-02-21

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from Germany, and was pronounced
very superior. The Germans Of Read.
ing. Pa, prepare it in way that many
consider far better than most other
methods. They cut the cabbage into
long, thin slices, removing the strinRy
core, and do not apply salt. but ram Il
down so tightly In stout barrels that il
is covered BY its own liquor. They then
head up the barrel. leaving ahole in the
top so as to admit of fermentation. II
Germany the cabbage is rammed down
by machine propelled by steam. That
received in this country last year came
in tierces holding sixty gallons each.
A woman who has been in the
Georgia penitentiary for eighteen years
on life sentence, is to be released by
Governor Aleck Stephens. He would
pardon her if he knew what to pardon,
but the fact is that nobody knows what
she is in there for. There is no record
of her misdeeds on the prison register,
and the woman herself does not know
why she is imprisoned.
Several broad columns of large type
with conspicuous head lines were re-
Gently devoted by the Pail Mall Gazette
to an account Of the Mollie Maguires OF
Pennsylvania, being for the most part a
narrative based upon Mr.. Devices book.
Old and getting to be forgotten as this
story is here, it was never before made
fully known in England, and the OBJ
ject for making it fully known now is
declared to be tits bearing on the
gangs who are now again at work in
Dublin" which is .:very evident and ex-
tremely interesting"
The importation of Samaritan tobacco
into the United States has increased
from 80 pounds in 1880 to 783, 76s
pounds in 1882. The Oriental kind is
used exclusively for wrappers, and fol
that purpose brings very much higher
price than any native sort. The tobac.
co-growers in this country, especially
those of the Connecticut valley, who
feel the competition most keenly, are
greatly disturbed by the rapid increase
in the employment of the stranger.
During the last years of his life
Thurlow Weed took great interest in
the controversies over the supposed con.
fict between science and religion.
Shortly before his final illness he lef,
this final record of the result of his
meditations upon the subject of future
life: Il cannot believe, and cannot be
brought to believe. that the purpose Of
our creation is fulfilled by our short
existence here. To me the existence Of
another world IS necessary supple.
ment of this, to adjust its inequalities
and Undue it with moral significance. y
The Japanese language has no good
equivalent for hell, and the translators
Of the New Testament are perplexed
One Of them discusses tho difficulty il
an article: ''Is Jigoku hell7'' Jigoku
consist of "Q) eight immense hot hslll
ranging one beneath tho other In tiers,
Each Of these bells has sixteen addition
al bells outside its gates, like so many
antechambers, so that there are in al
1856 hot bells. (2) There are eight large
cold bells, and (9) there are the same
number of bells Of utter darkness y
The translator concludes that Jigokr
will stand for hell.
Mr.. Samuel Sinclair, Lake Winnie
diverged from the trail to visit DER
Lake, shall sheet of water north O
Lake Winnepeg. When coasting alona
the shore he came to a ledge Of rocl
which jutted out into the water, j.
strange looking projection. The end o
the ledge attracted his attention, ane
he ventured out to see what it was. T,
his surprise he found it to be the skele
ton of large animal, somewhat resem
bling buffalo, petrified. The form O
the animal is almost as perfect, Mr.
Sinclair says, as if it were alive. Mr.
Sinclair has marked the spot, and in
tends to return next spring and remove
the relic for the purpose Of presentin,
it to the government for the Geological
Institute.
Some interesting statistics of street
car business were brought out at
meeting held in Boston, last week t
form national association of street-ca
officers. There are now doing bushes
in this country and Canada 415 stree
railways, employing about $4,000 men
They run $4,000 cars, and more tina
1000 horses are in daily use. Cal
culating that the average life of hors
in street-railway service is four years
it makes the consumption of horse
$500 per year. To feed this vast mum
Der of horses requires annually $4,000
tons Of hay and 11,000,00 bushels c
grain. These companies own an
operate over 5000 miles of track. Th
whole number Of passengers carried ar
nually is over 1912, 100000. Th
amount of capital invested exceed
$3.50. 900.