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

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-
necticEt 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 as large as the Disraeli cartoon
collection Of Punch. s.5
The courts of Arkansas have decided
that a man who burns his own house
cannot be punished for arson. 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 person entering them will
Immediately become intoxicated unless
he fortifies himself beforehand with q
glass Of strong wine internally.
George Alfred Townsend (Gath) has
bought u 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. IS
In every tobacco factory at Key West
there is s.reader.'' Cubans cannot talk
without gestieulat;on, 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
dangersof fire, the houses arc built, .}e-.
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 81, 50 and 43
feet; those Of the Pacific sometimes as
much as 80 feet high; in the Mediter-
ranean they are Ia! feet, and in the
North Sen 134 feet.
Some dealer in old newspaper files
down in Maine has discovered that the
widow Ross, Of Lyman, advertised in
the Kennebnnk 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: 'sMany
women come to me at the Jail and want
to read and talk to the criminals; but i,
tell them to 60 and read and talk to the
same class that are not as yet criminals,
and keep them from being such. s
A remarkable instance of the ingenui-
ty developed by necessity is afforded by
q convict in a Louisiana prison, who
made a saw out of the buckle on his
trousers and constructed key from
splinter of wood, with which he unlock
ed the chain that bound him to the
floor.
More than half 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 15O,OO0,O 600 tons,
or more than twice that of the United
States.
A ST. Louis juror was taken sick in
the court room, but was not excused.
It 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
goto the sewing attics; you must go
where persons endure everything almost.
without q 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 q large and
very valuable lot almost in the center
Of the city of Providence, r. L, for
which no deed or title exists. 1t was
purchased from the Indians BY one Of
his ancestors in 1886. It came very
near passing out of the possession Of the
Bulls about 100 years ago through a
game Of old sledge.
A Cleveland lady. who has been
mourning the loss Of pup for some
months, met another lady in the park
the other day with the lost pug trotting
by her side. a dispute arose between
them about the brute, which grew very
hot and attracted quite crowd. Fin
ally, to end the matter, the ,possessor Of
the pup told the original owner that her