New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-09-19
GLEANINGs.
Georgia has about 100000 people,
of whom only $4,000 are white.


Rochester, N. Y. is said to have a
new public park ut a cost of $3OO,OOO
Rev. DR.. j. D. Fulton, of New York,
says he found in Wisconsin a thirty-acre
beer garden, in which every Sunday
10000 people gather.
Bishop Williams, OF Connecticut, is
reported as saying that the Pilgrim
Fathers fell upon their knees and then
upon the aborigines.
Men who can swim easily elsewhere
are often drowned in the lakes of Wyo-
ming Territory, where high altitude
reduces the buoyancy of the water.
The Portland Oregonian says that
persons accustomed to the climate of
Oregon no more expect rain there in sum-
mer than they look for dry weather in
winter.
The Davenport Brothers were once
noted as Spiritualist mediums. One
died few years ago, and the other re-
tired from business; but now the survi-
vor has started out again. He will
travel in a gorgeously painted car.
The Cunard Steamship Company has
contracted with the Clyde firm of John
Eldred & Co. for two steamers of 5000
tons for 100000, being the largest
price ever quoted. They are to do
nineteen knots an hour aud accomplish
the Atlantic passage in six days.
A poisonous gas hole among the stall
actite caves in the Yosemite is called
Stygian Cave. Birds drop dead flying
over the mouth, and small animals en-
tering perish at once. 1t is filled with
crystalline pendants Of deep emerald
hue.
General Thomas +. Eckcrt, the real
executive officer of the Western Union
Telegraph Company, is an Ohio man,
who began at the bottom of the ladder,
and was once on = country newspaper.
His countenancc is of q boyish cast and
his address pleasing.
Munk Murphy, brakeman, with q
claim to eccentricity, has established it
by riding into Boston coiled up on the
truck under car, to win a bet that he
could not steal a passage. Lacking 4
flag to wave in token of victory, he took
off his shirt and flung it to the breeze.
There are now in England and Wales
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who possess the franchise is to say
one woman to every seven men. More
than 1OS, 900 women possess, as house.
holders, the municipal franchise. The
number of women landowners in Eng
land and Wales is 1896.
The consumption of coffee in this
country in 1882 was S.25 pounds for
each person, and of tea, LAG pounds.
In 1879 the French used only 3. OF pounds
per capita, and the English but 80 of a
pound; but the people of the Neither
lands consumed 1890, those of Belgium
9.13, those of Norway S.73 and those of
Cape Colony 7.72.
A report that there are no state lands
for sale in Florida is contradictcd. 1t APP
pears that there are from 100000 to
1900, 900 acres of swamp lands subject
to sale to actual settlers. These lands
have been granted to railroads, but un-
til the law granting them has been com.
piled with by the companies they are
still for sale.
The famous ''Sun Cholera Mixture"
is said to be IN excellent remedy for
ordinary summer complaints, but will
probably not do to depend on in case OF
Asiatic cholera. 1t is as follows: Equal
parts of tincture and opium, red pep
per, rhubarb, peppermintand camphor.
Dose, five to twenty drops in three or
four teaspoonfulls of water.
Father Bosco, famous Italian Cath
Ole missionary is now in Paris. He has
erected scminaries which contain 10000
poor boys. He furnishes 600 priests
every year to the church. Over 10000
priests educated by him are now preach
ing in various parts Of the world. He
is almost blind and very feeble. In
manner he is child-like, simple and
gentle.
Speaking of Henry Rochefort, .
writer from France says: '.An odd face
is h;s-long, thin, eager, cranky; no
beard except 4 light mrstachc and goa.
tee; an eye like the headlight of II loco
motive, the white showing all around:
a high brow and turbulent grayish hair,
tumbling in cataracts over his ears and
rising in geyscr on top.
A Charleston church steeplc finds it.
self suddenly in commercial demand
The owners of few tug boats in the
harbor learned that IN incomin" bark
could be sighted from its summit while
yet affair Oft. Business prospcrcd with
them, while their rivals. despite indus.
trious cruising OF the bar, could get nc
vessels. At last the secret of the look
out was discovered and now the steeple
is to rent to the highest bidder.
The inhabitants of Rugby, Tenn,
seem to have acquired the American
power of invention. One of them says
that he was out in thunder storm,
wheeling wheelbarrow, when there
suddenly descendeda ball of fire. When
his dazzled eyes could see there was
nothing left of the wheclbarrow or its
load but twisted tire.
A citizen of Boston, whom the Ga
zette of that city does not name, but
loosely describes as ga well-known gen.
tleman," has made three wills during
the last twenty years, appointing three
| different sorts of executors-ninei in all.
One after another every one has in some
way or another shown himself unwor.
thy of an important trust, and the tes-
tator now finds it necessary to select q
fourth set of executors.
The Rev. John Jasper, who still in
sists that ode sun do move" is so pop.
ular in Richmond, Va, that when
stranger inquired the way to his church
the directions are to take car to
certain corner and then follow the
crowd. DIR. Ludlow describes him as
one of very few of the old-time color.
ed preachers left in the South. 'As
such he is an historical study. But he
| is of still greater interest as showing
the capabilities of the negro mind. 4
forceful oratory, such power to sway
! men of his caste, be compatible With
utter ignorance, what might not Jasper
have become had he been educated in
the forms of truth and trained in the
arts of expression?'' These impress.
sions were given by sermon On Jas.