New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-04-25
CLEANLINESS,

A Tennessee schoolmaster kissed the
girls as a punishment, and before the
trustees put a stop to the practice it
took him about an hour per day to re-
quite their disobedience.
If Mrs. Carter, of Bellair, Ohio, had not
applied for divorce no one would have
suspected that her husband had com
PEELED her to swallow spools and buttons
to punish her for smiling at a railroad
man.
Rutland, VT, elected Miss Isabella M.
Brown town clerk at the recent election.
She is the first woman ever elected to
office in Rutland. The office has been
virtually in charge Of her family for
nearly quarter Of a century.
Large baskets of artificial violets are
now used to decorate the center of the
table at dinner parties, and are sprinkled
with perfume somewhat like that of
violets to heighten or make better the
fraud.
1t is said that Mr.. Burnand, the editor
OF Punch, has been married twice, is
the father of fourteen children, and is
an incessant jester. Herein lies an ex-
PLANTATION of the righteousness of that
alleged funny publication.
When Gen. Spinner was asked by a
Florida man, few days ago, how old
he was and if he was in good health yet,
he said: II am 81 years of age, still in
good health, and believe can whip men
Of my size yet.
Hoodlums in New York are said to be
thieves and villains, and hundreds Of
them are growing up to be our worst
criminals. Here is a chance says the
Boston Globe, for missionaries from the
South Sea Islands.
The late Col. Gilmore met Gen. Grant
in New York, and approaching the ex-
President, saluted him and exclaimed:
General, I suppose you forget me?''
"No, replied Gen. Grant, ''you are one
Of the hornets who stung us so badly
during the unpleasantness.' -
A two-year-old girl fell fiat while play
ing with her little brother, and she
thought that a sharp stick punctured
her neck. So did her parents; but, af-
ter the wound refused to heal, and a
physician had extracted bullet, the
boy confessed that he had shot her with
toy pistol.
The Prince Of Wales is, it appears,
to be held responsible for the popularity
of the cigarette. Fifteen years ago they
were not only questionable, but were
considered s'fast." Albert Edward con-
tracted the habits of smoking cigarettes
in his travels, and, presto, it became the
fashion of Pail Mall and St. James.
According to the Boston Herald, it was
at firstproposed to sentence young Cush-
man, who swindling the wise men of
Concord, to attend three full terms of
the Concord School of Philosophy.
After mature deliberation it was decided
that the proposed punishment would be
altogether too severe, and Cushman was
sent to States Prison for three years in
stead.
New England thrift is highly COM
mendable in many respects, but when it
embraces the cleaning of ordinary wood
en- toothpicks, that they may be used at
the next meal, as is done by St. Al
bans, VT, housewife, the average man
will discard it for the reckless extrava-
gence of the community where napkins
are used at every meal and butter may
be had at dinner
1t was not many years ago that the
best American dictionary defined the
familiar word s.boil' as scircumscribed
simultaneous inflammation character
lied by a pointed pustular tumor and
suppurating in a central core; q per-
uncutus. > What was simple and famil-
lar was made ludicrously complex. In
the "1mperial' the same word is dis
posed of satisfactorily as ':an inflamed
and painful suppurating tumor.'
Some time ago gray squirrels placed
birds. Neighboring cats made nocturnal
warfare on the squirrels. Next day the
policemen killed the cats. Then the old
maids who owned the cats invent for''
the policemen. TWAS like ssThe House
that Jack Built. = a regularly ascending
series. How the war came out the Bos-
ton newspapers never reported.
There was servants ball at the Angel,
and Mary Jane went. Pretty early in
the evening she founded in with an in
famed countenance. ''Why, Mary
Jane, SAID the mlsSuS, 'Surely II not
all over yetp" ''No, mum, but I've been
insulted! AS I was comm out of the
supper the bakers young man he says
to me, i hope, miss says he, your
programs not quite full, and me that
had eaten hardly anythink!!,'
There was once in Georgia most re-
markable old man who, at the age OF
h,1pI Nhc
father of a boy whom he lived to see
cast a ballot. This son is now seventy
five years of age, is as full of vim and
energy as q person in the prime Of life,
can split rails as well as anybody. and is
said to be able to outrun any man Of his
age in the world. His oldest brother,
were he living, would be one hundred
and fifty years Of age.
Experiments lately made at Leipsic
with n GlliVaSs made IF steel. the fOrmnia