New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-05-02

y a correspondent of the New England
Farmer says that where the land is new
and rich in mineral elements there need
be no fear of black knot in plEm and
cherry trees.
The editor of a Sacramento paper was
such bad penman and so annoyed the
compositors with his microscopic hand
that the entire force of the composing
room joined in an s.elegant" drunk
when he. left for new field of labor.
There is to be pension list at last.
Under resolution by Senator Beck the
Census Bureau will prepare list of the
pensioners in the United States. It is
stated that this list will occupy eight
volumes, of over 500 pages.
Fulton county, Pennsylvania, has no
railroads, no county bridges, no aims
house, no distilleries, and no county
debt. The people ought to move out in
to the world. They do not know how
much fun they are missing.
There is negro boy in Macon, Ca,
with legs like whipstocks. He has
snaky- looking eyes and darts out his
tongue like a viper. He lies on his
stomach, wiggles his legs and has spots
on his back.
DR.. lockwood, in paper on minor
dyspepsia, read before the Philadelphia
Medical Society, states that good deal
Of the malaria so fashionable with the
fraternity and the laity is only one of
the forms of Indigestion.
The tunnel under the English Channel
has been finished to mile and quar-
ter from the French shore, and the
engineers say they can advance 1872 feet
day. At this rate the tunnel could be
completed to Dover in a year and a half.
A Columbus paper says the model of
the Garfield statue which Ohio is to have
made by Cincinnati worker for the
national gallery represents the President
as bow-legged, sway-backed and stoop-
shouldered, and doubts whether the
state will accept it.
During 1882 the murders committed
in the United States averaged two a
day, while the executions averaged only
two week. There were in the year
PIP murders and tifty-three executions
in the south. New York state had 131
murders and only four executions.
A suburban plumber, when called on
to stop a leak in a pipe, puts dried
apple in the hole. 1t swells in twenty
four hours, and then there is another
burst. A rival is then, of course, called
in, and they divide the bill Of expenses
between them
A fendish colored woman of Wash
ington arose from the bed in which she
had been only a few hours before de-
livered of child, and calmly held her
offspring over bed of Goals until life
was extinct, and the babe was so char
red as to be almost unacceptable as
human being.
One of the substantial farmers of
Sparta, Ca, when he was married,
twelve years ago, had to borrow money
to pay for his marriage license, and,
not having decent suit of clothes, the
young woman whom he was to marry
tore the wool from sheepskins, spun,
wove and made him suit of clothes.
A man in Denver has recently had an
experience which, in all probability, he
will never again undergo. He, with the
corpse of dead friend leaning against
him as he sat in the same seat with him
drove eighteen miles, from Plum Creek
Bluffs to Denver, the nearest point
where an undertaken could be found.
A new style of begging has been intro
duced by Pittsburg woman, who goes
from restaurant to restaurant and from
saloon to saloon, trying to sell her child
for 81. The persons to whom she ap-
rono1c of,1u 01vr 4n1o1I ho,.
tress and give her money, but refuse to
take the child.
Ex-Secretary Evarts turns his delicate,
thin-soled boots out when he walks; he
holds his hand against his thin overcoat
as if he would aid the buttons in hold
ing it together; his hat rests on the back
of his head, but not as far as Charles
OConor's famous hat; and he walks as
spryly as man of rs.
In return for the autographs which
Senator Tabor so industriously collect
ed, the thirty-days' senator gave to each
Of his colleagues a unique present. This
was an after wedding card, bound with
a heavy band of Colorado silver, and
costing $3.50 each.
Mr.. Edward Atkinson, illustrating the
advantage of machinery, says it, would
require sixteen million persons, using
the spinning wheel and hand-loom Of
less than century ago, to make the
cotton cloth used by our people, which
is now manufactured by one hundred
and sixty thousand.
Michael Loeman, the Australian
millionaire, who, it was said, had left a
fortune to little Tommy Loeman, cash
boy at Jordon, Marsh & Co.'s Boston
establishment, and his sister, has writ
ten letter to friends in Boston, in
which he says that the published sketch
of his career and of his intentions is
misleading and untrue.
A Russia pathologist, one DR.. Botkin,
while prying around, has made the
startling discovery that the onion of his
country is infested with parasitic ami
NAL, so like to the trichina spiralis that
he has named it trichiDa contorta. Who
ever eats of the bulb containing this
nimble insect is seized with violent dis
ease, suffers tremendously and possibly
dies.
Capt. Boycott few years ago dare
not go Cutslde OF MS GROUNDS without
body guard. He made visit to Amer
lea, and, finding no place like home,
returned to his boycotted house and set
about the work Of making his peace
with the people. He went at it so
earnestly, and with such honest inten-
ton that he is now free to go where he
pleases without police protection.
Some one suggests the plan Of putting
farm poultry houses on wheels, that
they may be moved from place to place
thus giving to the fowls fresh pasturage,
clean surroundings, access to the stub
BILE fields after harvest, plenty of pure
air, insects and other food. Only few
moments would be required for moving
the wagon from place to place; but There
might be times when tramping to dis
tant fields to attend to the poultry
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