New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-10-24
GLEANINGs.

Darlington, recently, for which they re-
ceived So ton.
The assistant chief engineer of the
Jersey City fire department lost his eye
sight by coming in contact with some
red hot telegraph wires.
There are three negro preachers in
the Henderson, KY. county Jail. One is
charged with adultery, one with burg
larry and one with grand larceny.
A Camden, N. j. man put an iron
weight on his cows tail. 1t was not
heavy enough to keep the tail down,
but it broke his jaw when she reached
for q fly.
With the exception of few years,
Madagascar's rulers since 1928 have
been women. A niece of the late Queen
has just succeeded her to the throne,
making fifth Queen since that year, and
the fourth in an unbroken line.
Joseph Reefe, a farmer living near
St. Louis, has complained to the author
tiles that an invisible wagon and =
team ratified up to his gate in the even
ing. He wishes to have the spirits ar
rested who are thus annoying him.
The Philadelphia patent medicine
man who agreed to pay $3.50 to have an
advertisements of his nostrum painted on
the great pyramid of Cheops in Egypt,
now refuses to settle with the man who
did the job, and a law suit will be the
result.
Relatives of Martin Luther are being
discovered in great numbers. Among
the earliest found are book-keeper in
q circulating library, policeman, and
a registrar in the Ministry of Public
works, all in Berlin. They are direct
descendants of the Reformer's younger
brother, Jacob. Some descendants of
Martin Luther's youngest daughter,
Margaretha, are living in Denmark,
and bear the name of Wagner.
A respectable colored man in Wind
sor, Ont, has raised commotion
among the equally respectable white
people of that conservative town by in
sisting on sending his child to the white
school instead of to the colored school.
The dispute has been referred to the
Canadian Minister of Education, and
the father meanwhile threatens legal
action against the school trustees to
compel them to admit the child.
A veterinary surgeon says the cutting
away of frogs of the feet of the horse
in shoeing should never be permitted.
Nature has placed them there for use
full purpose. They are elastic and give
the animal light, springy step. Be-
sides they aid the horse very materially
in keeping his footing on icy roads. The
frog should be permitted to remain in
Ton TO lofo
diseases of the foot incident to use on
hard roads.
A story is told of certain political
caucus in Maine which was attended
by only two persons, Hannibal Hamlin,
and one other. Mr.. Hamlin elected
the other man chairman and proceeded
[ to transact the business in hand. But
the credentials of the delegates certi-
! fed that they were elected at large
and respectable caucus of the Repub-
licans Of, because, as Mr.. Hamlin
explained to the troubled chairman,
you are large and am respectable.
Some of the tradesmen of Indianapo-
lis are very cute. A tag on pair of
boots in front of an establishment on
South Illinois street reads: 1925, not
each. " The strange device was only
clear after the contcmporaneous histo-
ry of mercantile life on that thorough
fare was learned. A rival of the above
house advertises boots at $1,25. A Gus
toner makes a purchase and the guile
full shop keeper demands $2,50-$1, %
for each boot. ..
Tho engineer of q train running be-
tween Norristown and Philadelphia few
nights ago was Mortified to see just in
front of the engine the body of y man
lying on the ends of the ties outside of,
and parallel with the rails. The train
apparently passed over him before it
could be stopped. But on going back
J to find his mangled body the engineer
found him entirely unframed and sound
asleep. On being awakened and told
of his narrow escape from death he ex-
hibited no emotion but grumbled at be-
ing disturbed. The engine must have
passed within one or two inches of his
body.
The country has been badly imposed
upon by alleged imitation of the style
of dress of the English nobility and
gentry. An American who desires tc
look like real English lord, will dc
we'll to follow these directions: Lei
him get friend two sizes larger than
himself to order three suits of tweed OF
different colors: let the large man veal
them till they bag. Then let the small
man put on the coat of one suit, the
vest of another, the trousers of thirc
and with silk bandana for a necktit
q ruff1ed plug hat, red face, wal
eye and big stick, he will look as i
he had come over to join the Northern
Pacific excursion.
An officer of a school in Boston fol-
the blind says that sightless person.
may become the most expert piano tun
ers. Through its constant exercise thu
faculty for hearing becomes so acute
that intervals in the scale of sounds
which are so slight as to be unnoticet
by other persons, are readily detected
by the blind. The slightest imperfec
ton in unisons is discord to them
Their knowledge of the mechanism o
pianos is obtained through the use oil
models and the dissection of old instru
ments. Besides they are thoroughly
taught in that branch of physics which
treats of the nature of sound and tn,
laws of its production aud transmits
sion.
Telephone consolidation in New Eng
land has been for the present defeated
not through any virtuous repentance q
any drawing back from the gigantic
stock watering and public swindiing in
volved in the scheme, but through tn,
greed and quarrels of the interested
parties. The Bell Telephone Company
1t seems, wanted the earth. It was K
take one-half of the $16,000,000 stool
of the consolidated concern at the out.
set, and 81, 900, 900 more as construc
ton fund, besides generous Fraction
of all new issues in stock. The Con
necticut and Providence companies de-
INJURED, the stock of the individual