New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-02-21
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China gets its early European news
from American papers.
A burglar at Ovid. Mich. used 50
cents worth Of chloroform on man
from whom be stole IS cents.
The boss pension agent has turned
up in Natchez. He secured negro
widow pension Of 81 900, and handed
over $3.50, taking the remaining $3.50
for his fee.
It is said that Flipper, the negro
West Pointer, who was cashiered for
alleged stealing, and who joined the
Mexican army, is now . brigadier gen
eral in that service.
The pupils in Philadelphia institu-
ton for feeble-minded children gave q
performance of .'Pinafore,'' and, it 10
said, proved equal to the require
ments.
The greater part Of cargo Of sound
cocoanuts shipped from the West Indies
were found, upon arrival At Philadel-
phia, to be worthless. Rats had gnaw-
ed out the eyes, drank the milk, and
thus ruined the meat of the nut.
OF the large number Of persons
whose names appear in the Philadel-
phia Directory, fifteen are Large, six
Bigger, fifty-five Small. and one hum
dred and thirty-two Little, but there
are only two Littleboys.
It struck a Colorado Springs CORE
spondent Of the Springfield Republican
40 a ls%<lo al; thot tho man rl,h0
described the place As "a paradise for
invalids'' was making living by bury
ing the invalids who died there.
Railway travelling is safer in Norway
and Sweden than elsewhere in Europe,
year often passing without single
fatal accident in either. In England
and France one is killed out Of every
100000 passengers. Spain and
America have the worst record.
An original idea is that Of the Mis-
souri, apiarist, who took carload of
hived bees to Florida. He expects
them to make honey all winter, and
hopes to return to his Missouri home in
the spring at least 1000 richer than
he was.
Lord Melbourne, on being pressed to
do something for . journalist, on the
ground that he always supported his
lordship when In the right. retorted:
That's Just when I don't want his help.
Give me q fellow who will stick by me
when am in the wrong"
An Ohio editor who Is down among
the orange groves Of Florida, describing
his visit to one Of them, says that zap
petite seemed to feed upon inexhausti-
bic supplies, and the sweet succulence
Of the golden bulbs spurted in shining
sprays from pressing lips pouting With
pulpy fragrance.
Ten years ago, George A. Gordon,
nineteen years OF age, went from . lit
tie town in Maine to learn . trade in
Boston. Somehow or other he was in
duced to take to the ministry, studied
and in 1875 graduated and begun to
preach. He has just accepted an 98,-
Observation-Disclosures call from the
famous Old South Church, Of Boston.
A western cattle-breeder reports that
the greatest profit is made IN the first
year of an animals growth. This is in
creased, but in less proportion the Sec
ond year. If kept year longer not
only is there no profit, but all the clear
gain of the second year is wasted. This
Is a striking commentary on the advan-
tage of early maturity.
A four-valve speculum has just been
found in Pompeii, where two-valve and
three valve specula had been before dis
covered. The last of these ingenious
instruments for looking into orifices OF
the body in surgery is said to be of a
construction so uniform and well pro.
portioned, admitting the expansion OF
valves, as to be superior to modern con.
struction.
The Rev. r. W. Hill, who has been in
Alaska, draws gloomy picture Of the
intemperance of the natives. 1.-THE In.
dams will give away wife and children y
he says, ito obtain liquor, and thei,
carousals are 80 fierce and reckless that
murder and suicides are frequent results
He believes that If the progress Of ruin
Il not stayed the end of tho Alaska In.
dian is not far of.
An Anti Vaccination Society has been
formed at Cape Town, Africa, where
the negroes are bitterly opposed to vac
eination. The population of the town
Is about 900 people, and during the
last two months 5000 of them have
been afflicted with smallpox, and 2,4O0
have died from the disease. It will take
| great deal of characterization Ntera-
t',re to confute such an argument as this.
The daughter of Covington, Ky.,
woman, who was worth $50, 900, was SO
badly treated that she went to Cincin-
natl and hired out as house servant.
When her mother found out where she
was she went to her employers and babe
them beware of her. The girl was dis.
charged. She sued her mother for
Islander, and the old lady compromised
by promising to settle half of her estate
upon her willful child.
Mary Anderson, the actress, was, it is
said, really mashed on Oscar Wilde.
They met at fashionable reception in
New York, and she became q victim.
Mary's mamma and papa objected to
bis calls. Mary, grown self-willed, met
Oscar by appointment at Long Branch,
and spent one whole day wandering up
and down the pebbly strand with Him.
This all happened last summer-if at all.
The new penal code in New York has
alarmed the Chinese washerwomen,
who have been notified BY the police
that they must close their shops on Sun.
day, or else be fined and 70 to Jail So
they make virtue of necessity and say
that they are going to close anyhow,
for they ''go to Mclean mans Sunday
School," Then they put on their doors