New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-08-15
GLEANINGs.

GLEANINGs.
The MormOns ridicule the Edmunds
bill, and boast that they will make TO-
600 converts this year.
It is estimated that the miners and
mechanics of Butte, NJ. T., have on de-
post at the three banks of that city
about 100000.
Mammoth City, in the Yellowstone
country, hardly comes up to its name.
It has fifty buildings log cabins, slab
shacks, and canvas tents. Half of the
structures are saloons. There is q pop
nlation of about $50.
Boston is said to be one of the three
places where the business of counter
teiting postage stamps, expressly to de-
Jude collectors, is most largely carried
on. Glasgow and Hamburg are the 9TH
er members of the trio.
The famous mud hole at Hot Springs,
Ark, will hereafter. by order of the
government authorities. be free at all
hours to pauper bathers, and the pro-
posed erection of hotel over the spot
is prohibited. Heretofore paupers have
been excluded at certain hours.
They are selling in Georgia this year
q great many farm bells Of large size
for use in country neighborhoods as
alarms in case of tramps. Neighbour
hoods are thickening so in the best To-
calities that a farm bell would summon
a dozen families.
Mrs. Francis Hodgson Burnett, the
novelist, is reported to have said that
the three things necessary for writing
q novel are pen, ink and paper; the first
to be used with brains, the second with
imagination and the third with generos-
| ity.
Alabama has fourteen iron and steel
manufactures, eighteen cotton factories.
eighteen foundries and machine shops,
807 Touring and grist mills, and 384
lumber mills. The capital invested in
these industries is $8,842, 223. Employ
ment is given 6,536 hands, who receive
! $3.50, 179 wages.
What is known in insane asylums as
"the Utica crib, is large crib bed
stead, very strong and with massive
slat cover closing down upon it, inclos-
ing the frcnzied patient. The victim
lies on y mattress with bed clothing.
but is allowed ample room to turn over,
and suffers nomore real discomfort than
if in an ordinary bed.
The latest report of the British consul
General at Havana expresses the opin-
ion that, although the definite abolition
of slavery in Cuba will not be accom-
plished until 1888, slavery will have
practically ceased to exist before the
end of 1885. In 1880 more than 6, 1000
slaves were freed, in 1881 more than
10000, and in 1882 about $4,000.
The dispute about the boundary line
between Massachusetts, and New Hamp-
shire, which has been in existence since
1740, is in no fair way Of being settled.
The error of boundary gives to Massa-
chusetts $4,000 acres that properly be-
long to New Hampshire. The error
was made BY the agents of New Hamp-
shire appointed to act with like agents
on the part of Massachusetts to run the
line.
Christopher NJ. Spencer, the million
aire inventor of the repeating rifle, last
year employed nurse from a hospital
in Providence to attend his wife, who
lady's name is Georgctta Rogers, and
she is the daughter of retired sea cap.
tain. She was so attentive to the invalid
as to excite first Mr.. Spcncer's gratitude
and then his love; and the other day
the millionaire and the nurse were mar
ried. He is fifty years of age and she is
twenty-five.
For mice-gnawed trees, correspon-
dent of the Germantown Telegraph rec
ommends covering the wounds with
grating wax at once, then pile earth
and pack it around high above the place
to keep covered, as it will settle and
wash down some. This, ii done early,
will save thousands of trees that have
been injured bymice and rabbits. Make
wax of one pound bceswax to foul
pounds resin and Il half pint Of iinseec
oil. If too soft. add more resin; if tot
hard, more OIL The wounds must not
be neglected until they are hard and
dry.
Mrs. Margaret Haughery is to have a
life-size statue in New Orleans. For
forty years she was the most self-sacri-
ficing philanthropist in that city, Many
instances of her hefoism are borne in
mind by her admirers. On one occas-
ion, when she applied at large grocery
for provisions, she was laughingly told
| by member of the firm: "We'll give
you all you can pile on wheelbarrow,
if you will take it to the asylum your
self" She accepted the offer and rolled
the barrow in triumph through The
streets.
The Gwinnett (Ga. Herald says that
when DIR. Moore removed the rope from
Stevenson neck at the Lawrenceville
hanging, a woman who had pressed her
way to the rope asked permission to
enter. She hurried to the Sheriff, and,
Selling the moose which had just been
removed and was still warm, rubbed it
rapidly across a goitre on her neck.
There is a superstitious idea in the
country that rubbing the unpleasant
protuberance with rope with which
a felon has been hanged will remove it
Proctor Knott, candidate for Govern
or OF Kentucky, is man of medium
height, and is quite stout. His head is
large and we'll covered with good
crop of silver-gray hair, cut short in the
neck. His mustachc is snOw.white and
small, curling in Mt the corners of his
mouth. The lower part Of his face is
smooth shaver. His complexion is a
fery-red, making a marked contrast to
his white hair, mustache and blue eyes.
His face is very full and well rounded.
Mr.: Knott has peculiar rasping voice
and drawl.
Pet phrases which we hope never to
see again in the columns of our esteem
ed contemporaries: Sickening thud. The
happy pair. Wee sma' hours. Speckled
beauties. Regardless of expense.
Launched into eternity. The immediate
vicinity. Disciples Of Izaak Walton.
The extreme penalty of the law. A re-
voting spectacle was witnessed. The
house was crowded to the doors. A
wealthy and public-spirited citizen. The