New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-04-04
GLEANINGs.

nearly 32,OOO.
The man who is always behind will
have no followers. Boston Transcript
South Carolina young men carry the
left forepaw of rabbitin the left breast
pocket for good luck i'll love affairs.
Mile. Leo d'Ascot, a Partisan actress,
mas two big lions for pets in her bou-
doir
Miss Laura Bridgman, of Boston, the
deaf and dumb mute, is still living at
the age of sixty.
Richard X. Fox, sporting editor OF
New York, has given bond in $1,000
not to repeat within q year the offense
Of promoting prizc-fight.
In Bengal alone there are 10000, 900
people who suffer hunger when the
harvest fails, and 100000 more who
know not what it is to have q full
stomach.
I have no enemies but the people who
abuse animals, and the men who abuse
animals are never dangerous to any
body else. They wouldn't even hurt
the animals if they could defend them
selves. Henry Bergh.
The daughter of Texas cattle king
has Just returned from Paris, where she
says she walked through the Tooraloo-
rails, and visited q shottoe where she
saw the statutes of Physic and Catherine
lie Medical.
Snackles says his wife hasn't been shop
ping for some time-as much as two days.
The last time she went down town she
bought a pair of terra Gotta gloves, and
a sealskin muff-':just to keep her hand
in.'-ChqE
a woman lay three days in trance
at Big Rapids, Mich. On recovering
she believed that she had died and come
to life as another person. This delusion
cannot be dispelled, though in other re-
spects she is sane.
Mr.. Lane-Fox, of London, has con-
structed a lightning beef killer. The
instant the animal is touched with
little brass knob an inch spark of cleo
tricity passes into the brain, producing
instant and painless death. It is equally
effective on murderers.
twas Boston lady who, when asked
if she really liked the new Corot which
she was showing with such great pride,
had the courage to reply: "If it is a
Corot, it is perfect lovely; but if it isn't
well, if it isn't, I don't think care
for it much.'
An Iowa bank closed its doors in con-
sequence of the sudden and unexpected
departure of the cashier, The next day
the local paper announced the event in
the following headline: "Another Pho
ncer of American Civilization Lights
Out for Polynesia.
The bell boys in St. Louis hotels are
talking of organizing union in order
to be able to successfully combat the
female boarders who ring for them to
know the time of day, to tie their shoes,
stir their fires and all such tritling
things.
A wood carver declares that those
things representing Indians, and which,
from long time back, have been the in
sigma of the tobacco trade, arc rapidly
going into disusc, although a few bat
tered members of the tribe still linger
about here and there.
Handsome girls make successful
thieves, for no one likes to suspect them
of wrong. A bright brunette illustrated
this at Astoria, N. Y, the other day.
She went into the choir of church dur.
ing service and walked off with the seal.
skins and gear of the singers.
Trains on the Northern Pacific are
supplied with ''grub box" to be useC
by the passengers in case the trair
should happen to get showed in on it;
journey. The box contains bread
crackers, canned beef, fish and cameo
baked beans.
A Pennsylvania man who was NEAR
enough to rob his needy family of foo(
to buy rum was lately horse-whipped by
the vigilants. A Connecticut man for /.
similar offence was spanked with a red
not ,novel IN the nands OF squad OF
indignant women neighbors.
There is charming frankness about
the reply made by New York boy t.
Police Justice, before whom he had
been arraigned "When did you last
wash your face?' asked tho Judge,
ebay before Yesterday promptly re-
piled the boy. His honesty secured his
discharge.
The ideas of some rural folks as t.
the business Of the Mayor of a large
city are shown in letter recently re-
ceived by the Mayor of Cleveland A
good, honest and ignorant country
- dame wanted him to send her a list o
the dry goods, boots and shoes and no
ton stores in the city.
During the past five years the average
of export of umbrella sticks from
Jamaica has been more than 5000
bundles, each bundle containing from
500 to 800 sticks. The sticks are made
of young pimento or pepper trees, ane
the demand is likely to cause q scarcit,,
ofpepper
It was smitten swain at Omaha
who induced the postman to put 1-cen
stamp on his cheek on Valentines da
and lead him up to the mansion of hi
adored one as valentine; and it wa
his adored one who rejected that Valen
tine and told the postman that it wa
missent.
A Philadelphia philanthropist ha
begun crusade against the use of tc
bacco among the public school children
and will direct his especial attention t
stopping the smoking of cigarettes. H
is a principal in one of the schools, an
has petitioned the Board of Educatio
to take official interest with him.
A Baltimore gentleman writes that h
knows young man who addressed
girl by letter asking her to be his n, an
she answered on postal card declinin
the honor; whereupon he placed 1-ce1
stamp and her address on the back
her photograph and returned it by mai
He was shockingly ungallant, but sti
it was tit for tat.
Colonel Arson Mills, who manufa,
lures 10000 army cartridge belts ft
the Government every year, is going
buy the old Harper's Ferry propert
and move his factory machinery frol
Worcester, Mass. thither. The citize,
Of Harper's Ferry have agreed to CO.
tibute $4,000 toward the purcha
money.