New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-07-11
GLEANINGs.


100000 during his life.
The late Surgeon General Barnes, of
Washington, in will of fifty words, left
all his property to his wife.
The annual cattle sales in the United
States are reported to amount to $780,
100000.
Twenty-Five pounds of unmarked dy-
Mantle were found travelling alone in a
seat in q Western railroad train.
In Rio Janeiro they cover their bur-
ial caskets with black, red or velvet ma
terial, bordered with gilt tinsel.
The first metal found in the ruins of
the Tuileries was coined into a medal
and presented to Victor Hugo.
The Kansas man who was blown off
the roof of his house by tornado
says he doesn't want any more wind
Fifty thousand dollars is the estimated
annual income in rents for the arches
at the New York end Of the East River
bridge.
The late A. H. Stephens, of Georgia,
loaned money to 120 young men, to en-
able them to get an education. Most OF
the money was repaid.
Interest in Emerson is constantly in
creasing in England. Cheap editions Of
his works are beginning to be printed
there.
Mr.. James G. Flood, of bonanza
fame, will build 100000 house on
the top of the highest San Francisco
hill.
Jefferson Davis, told an interviewer
the other day that John Quincy Adams
was the most genial gentleman he ever
knew.
San Diego is pronounced the best Of
the health resorts of the Pacific Coast,
as far as dry and equable climate
is concerned, by a recent investigator.
Many farmers who secure for them.
selves all the labor-saving improve
ments are slow in arranging similar
helps for their wives.
Thomas McElrath, Horace Greeley s
first partner in the publication of the
Tribune, is said to be writing history
of New York journalism.
All the locomotive manufactures in
Prussia cannot make twice as many en-.
gines in year as the Baldwin Locomo.
tive Works alone.
BY the order of Prince Alexander, OF
Bulgaria, an official history is being
prepared of the part played by the Bull.
garian volunteers during the Russo
Turkish war.
Rattlesnake skins are much used in
Florida for ladies' belts, and slippers
are also made of the same material, the
rattles serving as ornaments thereon in
stead of bows or tassels.
In recent letter to the Ohio State
Forestry Association, Mr.. John G. Whit.
tier says that he is panied and indignant
at the wanton destruction of the forests
in the New England States.
Young Daniel Boone, great-grand.
son of the explorer of Kentucky, de.
livers parcels for one of the gleat Broad.
way firms of New York on salary OF
$3.50 a week.
Four convicts in the Ohio penitentiary
have each chopped finger off in orde1
to enjoy rest in the hospital. Another
poured melted lead in his shoe, and will
probably lose his leg.
The Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milh
Company founded by United States
Consul Page in 1866 with ST., 900, has
now capital of 100000, and turned
out 100000 cans last year.
The modern philosopher who declared
that 'the men of isms are the men O.
genius will, on second thought, find al
exception to his rule in the man will
the rheumatism.
Professor E. Stone Virgins, of Can
ada, who doesn't know much about thu
weather of the future, is about to star
on lccturing tour. He has already
been well advertised.
A man in St. Tammany, La, freed a
wildcat, and set fire to the underground
to smoke him out. The fire got away
and burned forty panels of fence for a
neighbor, and the wildcat got away also.
The Norwegian Storthung has re-
solved that every able-bodied adult in
Norway shall receive musket and
be taught to use it, at the States ex-
pense.
The block from which was cut the
pedestal for the statue of Peter the
Great at St. Petersburg weighed about
1900 tons, and yet it was transported
four miles.
II issaid that when General Diaz learn
ed what a programme of entertainment
had been prepared for him in Boston he
gasped-in Spanish: .Great heavens!
If l only live through it!''
A slab of marble, marked &C. Gross
Brock" has remained in the freight Of
flee at Greenville, Ala, for the past
seventeen years. It was originally in
tended to be erected over some soldier
grave. Whose? Where?
Chinese cheap labor turns out not to
be so cheap after all. The railroad con-
tractors of the Pacific coast have now
discovered that Scandinavians and men
of other nationalities pay better than the
Chinese.
A scientist makes out that it is not the
sound of sweet music that entrances the
lizard, but the pleasing sensation of the
sound waves on their cutaneous surface.
A double chord struck violently on a
piano will kill them dead.
Gas far as we know says Texas
Siftings, ''there is not a single instance
on record in Texas of a murderer OF
means having been punished by law, no
matter how many homicides he COM
mitted.''
The Oldest person in Norfolk, Conn.,,
is widow of 81 years. She was the
sixth wife of man of whom it needs to
be said that mo woman in Norfolk
need despair of getting married as long
as he lived"
Too Sudden.
Prot. Tonkay Williams, Chairman O
the Committee on Astronomy, introdue.