New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-06-27
GLhANlNGS.


$4,000.
The Marquis of Lorne is nearly SO
years old, and Princess Louise is just
over 50. :,
Princess Louise pieces out her hus-
bands $4,000 income with an income
Of 100000 of her own.
The novels of Miss Evans, Mrs. South
worth and Mrs Holmes have been.
banished from the Cleveland Public
Library.
''To add one mile an hour to the speed
of an ocean steamer you must almost
double your consumption Of coal" says
an old Cunard commander.
The Hon. Oliver Ames expects to
spend 100000 in building his new
house on Commonwealth avenue, BOs-
ton.
The Fox river region of Illinois, of
which Elgin is the center, is estimated
to produce 100000 gallons of milk
annually.
A Nevada Indian has just been award
ed $4,000 damages from the South
ern Pacific Railroad for the loss Of q
foot.
About one soldier in every five on
the frontier becomes a deserter, and
nearly one man in six of the army as a
whole.
Hops are now 50 dear that they are
called brewers diamonds, and $780,
600 worth is not an uncommon stock
on hand at q large brewery.
Schuyler Colfax says: 1T is my firm
conviction that many of the anecdotes
that are attributed to Abraham Lincoln
were never uttered by him."
Ex-senator Tabor proposes to build
house in Denver which shall rival
Vanderbilt's and the famed palaces of
California. SO his new wife says.
Alexander Mitchell, the Wisconsin
railway magnate, has in his house in
Milwaukee, probably the finest library
in the West.
. The money-order system will be ex-
tended to 1874 additional postoflices in
July next, principally in Western and
Northwestern states.
Eli Perkins says that liar who lies
to make his fellow-men happy is ben
efactor; but the liar who lies to make
the world miserable could trade seats
with the devil and cheat him.
Bi-Sulphide of carbon is attracting at
tention in England as new motor. In
ventors have been experimenting with
it for years here, but no one has yet
made it work, easy as it looks in theory.
Three thousand depositors in Con-
nccticut savings bank have not made
inquiries about their money for twenty
years past. The larger part of them
will never be heard of.
Sir Charles Dixie has a framed COL
lection of caricatures of himself, clipped
from the comic papers, which is already
nearly Us large rs the Disraeli cartoon
collection of Punch.
The courts of Arkansas have decided
that Il man who burns his own house
cannot be punished for arso.l. The Of
tense, to be criminal, according to state
law, must be committed on the property
of another.
The fumes from the Wine stored in the
great wine vaults in London are so
strong that a person entering them will
Immediately become Intoxicated unless
he fortites himself beforehand with u
glass Of strong wine internally.
George Alfred Townsend (Gath) has
bought II house in New York with the
proceeds of his pen, which, like a good
husband, he has promptly given to his
wife-and in which he expects to end
his literary days.
In every tobacco factory at Key West
there is Il ''readcr.' Cubans cannot talk
without gesticulat:oa, and in order to
keep them from talking a person is en-
ployed to read aloud to the 'hands'
during working hours.
In San Francisco, owing to the spring
fogs, winter rains, earthquakes and
danger OF fire, the houses arc built, de-
tached from other buildings, of the Sc
quoio, or redwood tree, which burns
slowly.
The waves of the Atlantic Ocean at
tain the various heights of 24, 50 and 43
feet; those of the Pacific sometimes as
much as 80 feet high; in the Mediter-
ranean they are l4a feet, and in the
North Sea 49, feet.
Some dealer in old newspaper files
down in Maine has discovered that the
widow Ross, of Lyman, advertised in
the Kennebunk Gazette, May 9, 1880,
for information about her son, Charlie
Ross, who had mysteriously disap-
peared.
The Boston Sheriff who made the an
nexed remark is level-headed ':Many
women come to me at the Jail and want
to read and talk to the criminals; but I
tell them to go and read and talk to the
same class that are not as yet criminals,
and keep them from being SUCH"
A remarkable instance of the ingenui-
ty developed by necessity is afforded by
a convict in a Louisiana prison, who
made saw out of the buckle on his
trousers and constructed a key from a
splinter of wood, with which he unlock
ed the chain that bound him to the
floor
More than half q million people are
employed in the coal mines of Great
Britain, and last year more than a
thousand were killed in them, the aver
age of accidents being about three for
every working day in the year. The an
nual product is over 150,000,0O0 tons,
VI UW1CC UuttG VI Ulc
States.
A St. Louis juror was taken sick in
the courtroom, but was not excused.
1t was mentioned by an attorney, who
said that he had tried the remedy, that
peppermint and whisky was good, and
this was ordered by the bailiff The
juror refused to take the prescription,
saying he had little faith in doctors, and
none in lawyers.
Henry Ward Beecher says: eff you
want to look for heroes in our day you
must go down to the kitchen: you must
30 to the sewing attics; you must 90
where persons endure everything almost
without a motive; when they divide their
penny with their parents and work on
through days and months and years,
and die in wretchedness and neglect. .
Major Henry Bull owns large and
n1,ro Ia lot n1,