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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-05-23
American Newspapers in 1889.

The newspapers and periodicals of all
kinds in the United States and Terri
tories now reach the imposing total of
II, 1876. This is an increase Of 585 in
twelve months. Taking the States one
by one, the newspaper growth in some
is very considerable. The present total
in New York State, for instance, is l 1899
"a gain OF 80 in the past year. The in
crease in Pennsylvania is 48, the exist
ing number being 943. Nebraska total
grew from IT'S to pol, and Illinois from
$50 to 9O4. A year ago Massachusetts,
had 42O papers: now the number is 1873.
In Texas the new papers outnumbered
the suspensions by 8, and Ohio now has
1913 papers instead of 692. The most re-
markable change has occurred in the
Territories, in which the daily papers
have grown from 43 to 63, and the week
lies from 100 to 243-Dakota being the
chief area of activity. The number of
monthlies throughout the country grew
from 796 to 1,OS4. while the dailies leap
ed from 996 to LOOP. The figures given
above are exclusive of Canada, which
possesses a total of COG. It is interest
ing to note that the newly-settled regions
of the Canadian Northern are produce
tive of newspapers as we'll as of wheat,
for the number of journals issued in
Manitoba was nearly doubled during the
year.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-05-23
Aphorisms From The Quarters.

Some pOcket-knlfeS mus a been made
to len out.
A man dat kin make libin' playin'
de fiddle amt APP to poster de hoe-handle.
'Casionally, a man wild right smart
edication can't find his knife when it git
in de wrong pocket.
A long spell O. roomatiz is APP to p'int
out your bes' friends.
De rainbow might be better lookin' eff
'twa'n't sech cheap show.
De bottom o de meal-box make
mighty po' music.
Big blaze OF fire can't roas' your 'taters.
De bes' seed amt bound to make big
water-milions.
lisa mighty rotten old house dat wont
make kindlin'-wood.
Bresh-firc soon gone.
Heap o. Mummy scaly-barks come orr
de top limbs.
Dc crawtish gifts into trouble by build
in too fine chimley to Il little house.
You can't take dc twis' out de era'-
vine by cultervatin' it.
Peacock can't hide his foots by spread
in his tail.
Green simmons amt 'fraid o. nobody.
Education don't come by bumpin' gin
de school ouse.
When de morkin'-bird try to mork
eb'rything, he boun' to let out some mu-
sic dat amt wuf much.
It's mighty lazy niger dat don't
keep his AK sharp.
A hole under de garden palms is a
hard secret to keep.
See wharyou gwine to hit TO you lif'
your hoe.
Sas'fus-root tea wont hut your 'spect-
erbility when de crap come out short.
Too much trabblin' on de railroad
make some folks lose de right lick for
de cotton-patch.
De young peaches safe when de martin
start her nes'.
You don't need much fence roun' dc
cowcumber vinc.-J. II. Macon in the
April Century.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-05-23
A Princess Not Afraid to Work

Prince Louise has been styled the
beauty of the royal family. But that
is only by comparison. She has regu-
lar features, an agreeable expression,
true and clean, no nonsense, no false
hood in it; fair skin, shoulders which
a sculptor would be under no tempta-
ton to correct in molding a bust of her;
an elegant figure, not light, not airy or
angelic; a little heavy, but pliable and
graceful, and a smile that lights up her
face. Her disposition is English; that
is, serious but capable Of humor, and
with keen appreciation of the finest
things and purest things in art and in
life. Least of all, Victoria's children
she resembles the old royal family, and
most of all of them the Gotha branch of
the house of Saxony. She thinks for
herself, is independent, original, sensible
and impulsive If she had not been drill
ed in the experience and restraints of
court life, her feelings would often run
away with her judgment. She has q
splendid talent for house keeping, with
out which no woman is fit to live, even
a princess. She served an apprentice
ship at Osborne cottage to a cook, con-
fectioner, laundress of fine things, seam
stress and dressmakcr. Every day for
years a dish appeared on the Queens
table at Osborne that was made by one
of Her Majesty's daughters; once a
week tin box full of cakes, which were
mixed and baked by them, was sent to
the German Crown Princess, with fruits
and flowers from the cottage garden.
Princess Louise started in married life
with the determination not to be the
rival, on their own ground, of plutocrats'
wives. There was to be comfort as well
as elegance in her establishment, but no
ostentation. At Rideau Hall, her Ca
madam official abode, she effects more
state. Louise entertains delightfully."-,
though she is liable to forget mere feath.
ers and flounces in company and be,
comes really absorbed in intelligent con-
versation with select few of her guests.
From the Scotsman.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-05-23
A Remarkable Woman.

DR.. Abernethy, the celebrated physi.
clan, was never more displeased than
by hearing patient detail a long &C.
count of troubles. A woman, know.
ing Abernethy's love of the laconic,
having burned her hand, called at his
house. Showing him her hand, she said,
"a burn"
"a poultice,' quickly answered tho
learned doctor.
The next day she returned, and said,
''Better."
Continue the poultice,' replied
DIR. A.
In week she made her last call, and
her speech was heightened to three
words: '.Well, your fee?''
Nothing" said the physician. "You
are the most sensible woman lever saw"
-Harper's Bazar.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-05-23
One of Benton's Scenes in the Senate.

Uno OF 6ent0Q6 scenes IN the senate.
Inferior in intellectual ability to Web
ster, Clay or Calhoun, Thomas Hart
Benton had no superior as man of iron
will and naughty disposition, during the
twenty-nine years and seven months that
he served continuously in the United
States Senate. Aggressive, bold and de-
fiant, he would occasionally strike out
recklessly at everything and everybody
about him, like the huge wild buffaloes
Of the Missouri prairies, treading his OPP
ponents beneath his feet in his angry
rush. His greatest display of ungovern-
able rage in the Senate chamber was
when, in an angry debate, he advanced
with threatening gestures toward Sena-
tor Foote, of Mississippi, who, fearing
that he was to be attacked, drew small
pocketpistol. The sight of this weapon
made Benton uncomfortable, and, en-
deavoring to shake off the grasp of
friends who seized him, he shouted:
''The cowardly assassin, let him shoot
me If he dares. ! never carry arms, and
he knows it. Let the assassin fre!"
After quiet was somewhat restored. Clay
suggested that both Senator'S should en-
ter into bonds to keep the peace, upon
which Benton arose and exclaimed: 81
will rot in jail, sir before l will do it!
No, Sir! l will rot in Jail tirstp' and he
proceeded to pour forth torrent Of
bitter infective on Foote before he could
be quoted. Even when he was defeated
in seeking a reelection for the sixth
time in the Senate, and was forced to
accept seat in the House Of Represent
tatives, Benton failed to display q
chastened ambition or softened heart.
Ben Perley Poore, IN tie April Gen.
tnry.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-05-23
A Brave Chinese Baby.

He was very little more than q baby,
certainly not more than three or four
years old; and the queer, wide clothes
ne wore made him look SO short that, at
first sight, it seemed miracle he could
walk at all. He was all alone in the
house; in fact, he was all alone in the
village. Every other house but his was
shut up tight, the door locked, and all
the people gone away fishing. What a
predicament, to be sure, for four-year-
old boy to be left in! The more think
OF it, the more think he was one of the
bravest fellows ever born. Many man
has got great name for being hero
without having shown half the courage
that this little chap did when he toddled
out into the street to meet us.
1t was aChinese fishing-village, on the
shore of the Pacific Ocean, a few miles
from Monterey, in California. There
are several such villages on that coast,
and, to Americans, they are very curious
places to see.
The door of the Brave Baby's house
stood wide open, and, as soon as he heard
the sound of our carriage-wheels, he
came running to see what was coming.
We stopped the carriage and got out.
He looked at us for minute with a
steady gaze, then turned around, and
waddled back as fast as his fat little legs
would carry him into the dark recesses
of his house. We thought he had run
away to hide. Not a bit of it. In a few
seconds; back he came, holding up to us
q big abalone shell, tightly grasped in
both his chubby hands; then he laid it
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-05-23
She Doesn't Like Kissing.

It has occurred to young woman to
ask whether she can safely marry man
whom she now dislikes to kiss. She
explains that she is engaged to him and
he rather likes the kissing himself. He
is SO persistent and Industrious in this
part of his love making that she has lost
her patience and seeks advice.
The circumstances are quite peculiar.
It is very difficult to undertake to advise
a young woman who doesn't like kissing,
because without any kind of doubt there
is something wrong about her. She
ought to come out where the other girls
can look at her as at curiosity. They
wouldregard heras very funny and won
der where she got her taste. Truly and
honestly, this is probably the first case
of girl who didn't want to be kissed
ever made public. 1t is a case as sad as
it is unnatural. -Philn,ieiphiG Times.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-05-23

The manager received notice from q
society that it was immoral for Aggie to
act Then her father took her back,
and she's in the tobacco factory again,
I believe. tried to explain it to her
that it was wrong for me to help her
in my way, that to earn $12 a week by
her natural grace and beauty was wick
ed, and that she must try and do right
and 60 back to her tobacco for S2a week.
But don't think she understood it. -
And here ends the romance of Aggy
Maglone not according to the methods
Of fiction but according to the inscrutible
programme of facts.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-05-23
CAPTURING the Gar.

Minister Hunt and his family rented
their trim little home on Long Island
avenue and went to St. Petersburg. The
story goes that Hunts first few months
at the court of the Car made him home
sick. Everybody was wonderfully polite
to him-almost as polite Us himself, in
fact; but he didn't seem to get on. Per-
haps it was his own frigidity, intensified
by the Russian atmosphere. At any
rate, our Minister could MT get into
confidential relations with anybody, and
the story goes that it frettcd him. He
was growing thin and pale, when, one
bright morning, he received cable
gram from New Orleans informing him
that Don Jose Domingo, rich tobacco
importer who had been his client and
friend, had died leaving him his entire
estate. Hunts heart leaped for joy.
Not because he was to receive legacy
in money or lands, although he knew
very well the Importance of such an adj
dition to his slender fortune; but be-
cause he remembered Domingo's wine
cellar and some particular wines that
slumbered in its recesses. The Car
loves rare old wines and so do all the
Russians. Minister Hunt recalled gold
en- days at the dead Senator's house,
when he had seen on the table wines
that were more than century old. He
smiled all over as he thought of the sher-
ny made on Don Domingo's ancestral
estate in Spain, which he had brought
with him when he was exiled for his adj
herence to the Pretender; sherry fifteen
years old, mahogany colored; sherry
fifty years old, olive colored; sherry 100
years old, pale and clear as amber, and
with a bouquet that filled the room with
romance and poetry. Then he sat down
at his desk and replied to the cable
gram in some such terms rs these:
";send me cask of Domingo's lG0year-
old sherry" Then he waited sm:l;ngly.
Presently the sherry arrived and was
bottled. Then the Minister gave one of
the incest dinners ever given in St. Pc
tersbarg. He got the best wines he
could, and he got together number of
prominent d;gnitaries, including some
of the cron;es of the Gar. At the
proper moment he made the guests &C
quainted with Don Jose's century sher-
ry. They were perceptibly pleased.
They were kind enough to compliment.
One OF the crOnleS remarked half audi
bly, that the Car must hear of this.
When the Car had heard of it, and had
expressed or intimated half desire to
hear more of it, Minister Hunt contrived
to get bottle of it to him in a very
pleasing way. It was not long before
the Car gave the Minister a special
audience, and the latter had the pleas
nre IF receivinp graceful commitments
on his ability as connoisseur. His
Magnifcence was kind enough to ask
half facetiously if the world beld any
more of that wonderful wine. And then
the conversation drifted to other mat
tiers, and every minute the Minister got
nearer to the Gar. The Gar has tasted
the century sherry since, and our re!a-
tons with Russia continue to be of q
character that is mutually satisfactory.
Philadelphia Record.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-05-23

A number Of people in New York and
vicinity have been very much exercised
because of certain national bank bills be-
ing dated on Sunday. It seems that tie
charters Of number Of banks expired
on the 25th of February, and the new
bills were given that date. It was not
noticed at the time that the day fell on
Sunday. Some of the holders Of these
bills were so firmly convinced that they
were worthless that they got the opin-
ions Of legal gentlemen. They ascer-
tanned that there is no Federal law
affecting contracts made on Sunday, and
the bills are just as good as il made on
any other day.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-05-23
Fashions for Gentlemen.
Linked sleeve buttons are the thin,

Linked sleeve buttons are the thing.
Silk neckerchiefs are of white pongee
silk.
English tweed hats will be worn to
match suits.
Brown is the prevailing color for over
coats.
Colors and designs are more subdued
this season.
Twcnty-six inches is the size of fash
ionable umbrella.
The high-buttoned style of dress is
rapidly going out of fashion
Malacca OF bamboo walking-canes
should have curious design for top.
Cuffs have square corners that meet
when fastened by linked sleeve buttons.
The frock coat will be worn to some
extent with a low roll to show the shirt
BOSOM
The new standing collars are higher
in front and cut away, and are called
the Myron.
Olive, gray, and brown are the fash
lonable colors worn by young men in
business suits.
Spring and summer overcoats are
long, single-breasted socks, with fly
front, and shaped to the figure
The hat for general wear will continue
to be q black, blue, or brown Derby of
medium height, with slightly wider brim
and binding.
A new style of overcoat is between an
overcoat and an ulster, with the side
seams left open at the bottom from eight
to ten inches.
Silk handkerchiefs, worn in the breast
pocket, are cardinal, blue, olive, mand-
arin yellow, or polka dotted, with q wide
hemstitched hem.
For silk hose black is still preferred
for dress, with colored clocks on the sides
or wrought in small designs on the front
of the leg and the instep.
The Germanic turned down collar is
most comfortable, and has now more
than an inch Of space open at the throat
and widen further to the pointed ends.
The ''dude' should provide himself
with Il hat having low bell-shaped
crown five and five-eighths inches high,
and u brim one and seven-eighths inches
wide.
Scotch homespun plaids, worsted and
cassimeres, of neat small checks and
mixed threads of color, are used for the
entire suit. coat, vest, and trousers, worn
by men during business hours.
The stylish silk hat for a middle-aged
or elderly gentleman has a crown six
and one-eighth inches high with a rolling
brim two and one-eighth inches wide
The brim has light standing curve.
The cheviots, melton, and soft goods
generally are double stitched on tho
edge three-eighths of an inch, but the
worsteds and finer goods are bound with
wide braid laid on flat, which produces
good effect.
Gloves are almost universally worn
on the street for walking, for driving,
and at church, but it still remains mat
ter to be settled by each individual
whether or not they are worn at we'd
dings, the opera, etc.
The double-breasted Prince Albert is
always appropriate for evening wear,
but some, with propriety, prefer the
single-breasted, or what is known as the
Broadway coat; the latter is especially
suitable to slender figure.
The shoes for men who prefer comfort
to style have wider toes and broader
soles than those worn last season, but
those who wear closely fitting trousers
that do not spring over the ankle and
make the feet conspicuous wear walk
ing shoes with pointed toes and narrow
soles, as these have the apparent effect
of diminishing the size of the feet.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-05-23
There is a Philadelphia organization

There is Philadelphia organization
composed of some of the most promi-
nent ladies and gentlemen Of that city
which is known as '.The Public Educa-
ton Association. The object Of the
association, as stated in its first annual
report, is '.to promote the efficiency and
to perfect the system of education in
Philadelphia by attracting general at
tention to its errors and defects through
appeals to the local authorities and to
the Legislature when needful, and
through such other means as may from
time to time be deemed expedient, be-
coming thus u medium for the express
sion of public opinion; finally, by taking
such measures as may be best calculat-
ed to bring under instruction the thou
sands of children now growing up in IS.
norance.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-05-23
All!

.'Mr. Howard, what was the smartest
thing you ever did?" asked Mrs. Lang
try the first evening she met him.
''The bogusproclamation, !" responded
the dark-haired Brooklyn gazelle. Il
did what Lincoln should have done.
Seward called it Impcrtinent,' Stanton
said it was premature"
What was the wickedest thing you
ever dido" added the lady, with . Jersey
twinkle in her eye.
..The Chum letters
'.And the best thing" continued the
beauty, teasingly.
''To mind my own business" said
Joseph, handing her an ice on silver
shield Washington Herald.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-05-23

General Nathaniel Greene has q mon.
umcnt in Savannah, but strange to say
there is nothing on the shaft to tell in
whose honor it was erected. 1t is sug-
gested by the Georgia Historical Soci-
ETY. that an appropriate inscription be
engraved upon it.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-05-23

Fire-proof cars especially sleeping
cars are anecessity. Car-makers have
reached a maximum of comfort; can
they not turn their ingenuity to secure
a maximum Of safety? Or is the fire.
fiend unconquerableP Philadelphia Bal
kEin.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-05-23

According to recent speech in the
Cortes, the Spanish army is surprising
" ..oyer-generaled," having General
to every 518 men. In France the pro-
portion is ! to 1866; in England, / to
1859, and in Germany, / to i,514. ~
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-05-23

A 16-year-old boy has applied for .
divorce in the Superior court in New
York city. That boy viii make his way
through the world.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23

stance, from 100000 to 81, zoo. 900 worth of
foreign wines are imported annually. Prob
ably double that amount of costly French
and German wines are drank in New York
and Washington every year 1t is estimated
that at least $50, 000 600 worth of foreign wine
Is consumed in the United States every
twelve months, and as so or s5 per cent. of it
is manufactured right at home, it would
not seriously tax the capacity of American
manufacturers of imported wine to be re-
quired to make the other 10 or 20 per cent.
They could stand the draft nicely. French
silks and laces, and German hosiery and such
things, are also manufactured in large guam
titles in this country, and all we need in our
business could be supplied the same way.
Hne oes an rule can be applied to the prOduc
Every board of trade and commercial
body in the land should, and 1 have no
doubt will, take this question up during the
season and adopt resolutions calling on Con-
gress to adopt measures to protect American
commercial interests abroad"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23
BUTLER AND HIS COUNCIL.
The Governors Nominee for Insurance Com
missioner Rejected by Party Vote.

BosToN March 22-The Herald says of the
meeting of the executive council to-day:
Governor Butler and his constitutional ad-
visors had short but lively matinee over
the Governors nominee for insurance com
missioner. The present nomination was taken
from the table and rejected by a strictly
party Vote to 1.-The Democratic councillor,
Mcguire, of Boston, voting yea. Then the
Governor is said to have remarked, rather
grufiiy: ut becomes my duty to nominate a
new candidate for insurance COM
missioner; 1 therefore, nominate Noah A.
Plympton, of Worcester" So saying, the
eGovernor withdrew. 1t is said by the manag-
ing Democratic politicians that the Governor
will stand by Plympton, and an eminent Re-
publican authority assures the Herald that
the seven Republican councillors will never
recede from yesterdays vote. A city Demo-
cratic politician, who has always been classed
as an old-liner, says the Governor will find
there is better luck in nominating genuine
Democrats
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23
INTERNAL REVENUE.


Receipts for the Last Fiscal Year-Esti-
mates for the Current Year.
WASHINGTON, March PA statement has
been prepared by the Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue which shows the receipts of
that office for the last fiscal year to have
been SAG, 100000 The receipts from July l.,
1882, to March 81. 1888, exceed the receipts
for the corresponding period last year by
S2,2oo,o00 1t is estimated the receipts for
the current fiscal year, if there had been no
reduction in taxation, would amount
to $148 625, OCG; deduction on account
OF changes in the revenue laws,
$5,0O0,0O0; total estimated receipts
for the current fiscal year, $143, 625 900. The
estimated increases or decreases of revenue
for the remainder of the current fiscal year.
compared with last year, are as follows:
Increase on spirits, 81, SOC, 900; decrease from
banks and bankers, 81, 400, 900; decrease from
special taxes, 81, 800 600; decrease from ad-
hesive stamps, 100000; decrease from to-
bacco, s., 100000; total increase, 81, 800, 600;
total decrease, $6500,000; net estimated de-
crease, So 600 600