New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-03-28
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itlltt 10 COST fTo'l. Joi.
Paintings OF ragged street urchins find
the rcadicst sale in New York art GAL
lcrics.
Since 1852, forty-two different liquor
regulating acts have passed the Legisla-
nlc Of Maine.
Cats and parrots are the favoritc pets
Of the Portuguese. The people cannot
be happy withon, them.
The bill prohibiting the employment
OF children II. workshops. has passcdthe
New Jersey Legislature.
Out OF 5000 patent devices for coup
ling cars Judge Russell says only half 4
dozen arc practicable and the work goes
braFcly on.
Canadian papers report the arrival Of
Il new bird in considerable numbers,
which preys upon the English spar
rows.
The Animas Forks Pioneer, Colorado,
holds the highest position Of any news
paper in the world Ill $50 feet above
the level of the sea.
IN infant in Natick, Mass. has met
its death through the "mistake' Of q
drug clerk. The doctor S certificate says
it died OF 'sconvulsions and misadven-
turc'
Four New York school marms caught
II burglar in the house, threw him down
on the floor and sat on him and scream
ed until a policeman arrived upon the
scene.
\ man in Lawrence, Mass, offers q
prize to any one who will decipher let
ter he received years ago from Horace
Geeelcy, and has never been able to
read.
The wcll-known elephant in the 10
illogical gardens at Berlin, which is
generally used for the conveyance of
children about the grounds, has Just kill
cd his keeper.
Billcrica, in Massachusetts has the
proud distinction of being the onlytown
of it's name in the world 1t has now
five hundred more inhabitants than
it had in 1875, and is proud Of it's
growth.
The late Marshall Jewell directed in
his will that fresh flowers shall be sent
every Saturday to his daughter Florence
(Mrs. Strong, of DetroiD so long as she
lives, and has set aside q sum of money
therefor.
A Minneapolis lady recently gave q
small doc six grains OF morphine, with
the intention of killing the animal. The
canine went to sleep, and it was sup
posed had died. Three days later, how
ever, he awokc and ever since has been
rs bright and lively as before.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has done good thing. 1t has begun to
build hospital ears, to be placed at con-
vcnient points Oh the main line and
branches, in which injured employees
may be placed until they can be removed
to their homes.
Twenty years after an execution had
been issued against Thomas Gushing, of
New York, that execution was served q
few days ago and Thomas was placed in
jail. In court he claimed that the plain
lifts attorney had been dead for years
He was discharged.
A lady advcrtiscs that she has u ''iine,
airy, wcll-furnished bedroom for gen
teman twelve foot squrc;' another has
"a cheap and desirable suit of rooms for
:, respectable family in good repair"
still another has so hall bedroom for q
single woman Sx12.'
The doorkccper on Change at St.
Louis is an observing mortal. He says:
II can tell a Chicago man as soon as he
puts his face around the corner OF the
stairs. They are so ncryy and fresh
and most of them think that no rule
in the world was made for their Obscrv-
ancc. -
NJ lc Vicomptc d'IIaussonvillc. who
has written book on America, says that
even the third-ratc papers in the United
States arc better than the leading jour-
nails of Paris. With carncstncss he adds
that the so-aud-so (mcaning 4 Disgrace
full police weekly us not found on tho
tables of ladies in good society,"
An innocent young couple at Chagrin
Falls, Ohio, got Il marriage license,
which they supposed was al that was nee
essary. ALTERNATING been keeping house
for several weeks they found out better,
and went to the Probate Judge and told
him the story. He forgaye them, and
had them properly married.
The Patent Office ut Washington, last
year, granted about 1920 patents in
electricity. Most of them are unimport-
ant, and consist Of improvements affect
ing details. Inventors are now seeking
to find cheap method Of storing cleo
1rcity, but find little encourag cement to
pcrscvcrc.
Baseball players, actors, and gam
hlers are not the only persons in the
merchant always carries in his pocket
for good luck. the fore foot of q rabbit.
A billiard player of the same state has
oil l, noy
with which he rubs his cue before en-
gaglng in game.
a Minnesota school teacher asked the
committee if they would sustain him if
he thrashed an obstrcperous young lady
pupil, and they said they would. Then
I've went for her and when the fight was
over the girl ran home laughing and left
him standing there with nothing on him
but one boot leg and a subducd express
sion.
The Canadian customs authorities
have seized Tom P;inc's cage of Reas-
on and Voltaire's philosophical
Works. from two complete sets of theil
works which Montreal storclcepel
was importing They refuse to return
them to the Boston publisher, and when
asked what they were going to do with
them Collector Ryan replied: II ought
10 make q bonfire of them
In the markets of Jrkutsk, the Siberian
town whose name has grown SO familiar
to American readers through the story
of the Inflated Jeanette. milk is sold by
the block, being hard-frozen. Each block
f,as astring OF stick frozen into it for con-
yenience in carrying, and the purchaser
takes his milk by the stick or string,
sings il across his shoulder and walks
off with it,
Il little batch of brick and iron
dumped down in q narrow space facing