New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-03-28
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company and to cost ss66, 937.
q Paintings Of ragged streeturchins find
{ the readiest sale in New. York art gal.
tleries. sss .5a ~ g.ss "a
Since 1852, forty-two different liquor
regulating acts have passed the Legisla-1
4 t,,rc of Maine.
5s Cats and parrots arc the favoritc pets.
of the Portuguese. The people cannot
be happy without them.
The bill prohibiting the employment.
OF children in workshops. has passed the
New Jersey Legislature.
Out OF 5000 patent devices for coup
ling cars Judge Russell says only half q
dozen are practicable and the work goes
brayely on.
Canadian papers report the arrival Of
q new bird in considerable numbers,
which preys upon the English spar
rows.
The Anmas Forks Pioneer, Colorado,
holds the highest position of any news
paper in the world .4S0 feet above
the level Of the sen.
An infant in Natick, Mass, has met
its death through the mistake OF a
drug clerk. The doctors certificate says
it died of 'icony,llsions and misadven-
tire.
Four New York school marms caught
q burglar in the house, threw him down
on the floor and sat on him and scream
ed until policeman arrived upon the
scene.
a man in Lawrence, Mass, offers a
prize to any one who will decipher alet-
ter he received years ago from Horace
Geeeley, and has never been able to
read.
The well-known elephant in the 20
ological gardens at Berlin, which is
generally used for the conveyance of
children about the grounds, has justkill-
ed his keeper.
Billerica, in Massachusetts has the
proud distinction Of being the only town
five hundred more inhabitants than
it had in 1916, and is proud Of its
growth.
The late Marshall Jewell directed in
his will that fresh flowers shall be sent
every Saturday to his daughter Florence
Mrs Strong, Of Detroit) so long as she
lives, and has set aside sum of money
therefor.
A Minneapolis lady recently gave q
small dog six grains Of morphine, with
the intention Of killing the animal. The
canine went to sleep, and it was sup
posed had died. Three days later, how
ever, he awoke and ever since has been
as bright and lively as before.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has done q good thing. It has begun to
build hospital cars, to be placed at con-
venient points on the main line and
branches, in which injured employees
may be placed until they can be removed
to their homes.
Twenty years after an execution had
been issued against Thomas Gushing, of
New York, that execution was served q
few days ago and Thomas was placed in
jail. In court he claimed that the plain
tiff's attorney had been dead for years.
He was discharged.
A lady advertiscs that she has q .sfine,
airy, well-flrnished bedroom for {; gen.
tleman twelve foot squire" another has
"a cheap and desirable suit of rooms for
q respectable family in good repair"
still another has 50 hall bedroom for q
single woman SKIP. !
The doorkceper on Change at St.
Louis is an observing mortal. He says:
II can tell a Chicago man as soon as he
stairs. They are so snerYy and fresh,
and most Of them think that no rule
in the world was made for their observ-
ance.
NJ. lie Vicomptc d'Haussonville. who
has written q book on America, says that
even the tbird-ratc papers in the United
States are better than the leading jour-
nails of Paris. With carnestness he adds
that the so-and-so (meaning a disgrace-
full police weekly sis not found on the
tables Of ladies in good society.' =
An innocent young couple at Chagrin
Falls, Ohio, got q marriage license,
which they supposed was all that was nee
essary. Afterhavings been keeping house
for several weeks they found ont better,
and went to the Probate Judge and told
him the story. He forgaye them, and
had them properly married.
The Patent Office at Washington, last
year, granted about 1920 patents in
electricity. Most of them are unimport-
ant, and consist Of Improvements affect
ing details. Inventors arc now seeking
to find a cheap method Of storing cleo
tricity, but find little encouragement to
perseyere. CT s
Baseball players, actors, and gam
blers are not the only persons in the
sYorld who have uperstitions. A Georgia
merchant always carries in his pocket
for good luck, the fore foot of q rabbit.
A billiard player of the same state has
always with him an opossum's ear,
with which he rubs his cue before en-
gaglng in game.
A Minnesota school teacher asked the
committee if they would sustain him if
he thrashed an obstreperous young lady
pupil, and they said they would. Then
lie went for her and when the fight was
over The girl ran home laughing and left
HIN standing there with nothing on him
but one boot leg and q subdued express.
sion.
The Canadian customs authorities
have seized Tom Paine's cage Of Reas-
on and gVoltaire's Philosophical
Works from two complete sets Of thei1
works which q Montreal storekeepel
was importing. They refuse to return
them to the Boston publisher, and when
asked what they were going to do with
them Collector Ryan replied: II ought
to make q bonfire Of them. !
In the markets of Irkutsk, the Siberian
town whose name has grown so familiar
to American readers through the story
of the Inflated Jeanette, milk is sold b.
theblock. being hard-frozen. Each block
has astring or stick frozen into itfor con,
yenience in carrying, and the purchaser
takes his milk by the stick or string
sings it across his shoulder, and walk:
off with it.
"A little batch of brick and iroI
dumped down in q narrow space facing