New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-08-08
GLEAN1NGs.

N tue City OF Mexico.
The average salary of Methodist min
lsters in New England is $3.50.
A rock weighing three and one-half
pounds was thrown up by an artesian
well on farm near,old San Bernardino.
Nearly forty-thousand human lives
were lost on British ships in the last fif-
teen years.
Foolish men who want to carry pis-
tolls can go to Arkansas. There is no
aw against it there.
The Bessemer Steel Works. of Bethle-
mem, Pa, will go into extensive mining
operations in Cuba, with the intention
Of importing ore into this country.
! The Mexican revenues which, in 1879,
were but SIG, 128, 900 rose last year to
nearly $32,OOO.0OO, and are expected
co reach $40,O0O,0OO this year.
The dog tax nets the different state
governments about SIG, OOO, 900 per an
mum, and the Commissioners of Agri-
culture say it costs $50, OOO, 900 per an
mum to feed them.
j. w. S. Arnold, the noted physiolo-
gist, has become resident of Thomas
vile, Ca. where he has $50. 900 labor
atory. Some of the wondering natives
say that he 'sspends two weeks studying
frogs foot through microscope"
The flag which Commodore Perry
carried from the st. Lawrence to the
Niagara and flew at the time of his VIC
tory on Lake Erie is now in possession
of the Hungerford Collegiate Institute,
at Adams, N. Y.
The trustees of Columbia College,
New York, have prepared y plan tore
ceive young women for four years
course outside of, but under the super
vision of the college, graduates to be en-
titled to the same honors rs young men
who have taken the regular course.
The hurricane of 1866 blew bver hun
dreds of thousands of cocoanut trees in
che Bahama Islands. Instead of dying,
they not only kept on growing in their
horizontal position, but sent up. shoots
from the top. These shoots are now
forty to fifty feet in height and yield an
abundance of fruit.
A Scotch paper relates the following
story of q whimsical bequest: Some
years ago an English gentlemen be-
queathed to his two daughters their
weight in FL bank notes. A finer pair
If paper weights has never yet been
heard of, for the elder daughter got
f51,2 200, and the younger f57,344
Before cutting mans head off in
China the authorities considerably make
him drunk; and occasionally a rich con-
vict who has been sentenced to death
will hire, or rather buy, coolie to take
his place. The coolic leads riotous
life for some little time beforehand, and
at last, in state of besotted helpness-
ness, meets death without apparent suf-
fering.
Patti, at $4,000 a night, will get about
$5 breath in Lucia. She is on the
stage, by the watch, just sixty-two min
utes during the three acts. This gives
her $50 and some odd cents for every
minute. The average rate of respira-
ton is about eighteen minute, so that
for each breath is paid $4,44. In "Lu-
cia'' there are 1000 words and $500
notes, so that Patti is paid 81, Is word
and 81, IS note.
The eccentric goose of Stuttgart is
dead. When but gosling it left the
flock and took up its quarters with a
Uhlan regiment. The boys fixed up
shed for it, and for twentv-three years
it remained constantly with them, ex-
cept during the Franco-P russian war,
then it camped with battalion of in
fantrv. When the Uhlans returned it
met them, apparently rs much delighted
as the relatives of the men. She has
now been stuffed and placed in a heavy
glass case.
Persons sitting quietly in various
places of amusement in London have
lately been astonished at seeing young
gentlemen sitting near them suddenly
illuminated in u mysterious manner.
A moments inspection has revealed in
his button-hole atiny incandescent lamp
which is supplied with electricity by an
accumulation carried in his breast pocket.
This unique application of electricity to
the freaks of fashion suggests a new
field for the ambition of ''dudes.'
Jacob Schaefer, the champion bill.
HARDEST, may be a man with fair idea
of enjoyment, and may play the conviv.
ialist as ably as he does billiards, but
his electrotyped features, printed by the
newspapers, shows him to be a NAL
with 3 married lace, and altogether
tired countepanSe, No man, who cir
culates on his symmetry of outline,
should allow the newspapers to print
his picture, for there is nothing saddel
than printers ink.
John G. Whittier was so worked up.
on by the publication of the Carlyle let
tiers that he set to work and destroyed
the most of his correspondence for fifty
years, for fear the letters might be pub
lished after his death, and some one
made to grieve il consequence. Mr..
Whittier never had the Carlylean way
of calling those who honored him by
their attention hogs, SO that his request
that all who have letters of his writing
should burn them at once need not be
carried out.
The sister of Lady Florence Dixie
Lady Gertrude Douglas-who married
q baker last year and set him up in bus
mess, found that there are. drawbacks
to a Marquis sister selling bread. She
got plenty of business, but the custom
ers did not pay, apparently thinking
that peers daughter cannot want pay
ment for her loayes. So the business is
to be given up, and the aristocratic
bride, aged 40, is going to retire to the
provinces and live quietly with her pleb-
elan husband of 10.
Mr.. G. G. Torrance, of Savannah, Ca,
writes that he is in search of facts con-
corning the ram Manassas, and her ex-
PLOTS. her inventor and builder, as she
was the first ironclad ever constructed,
and the first ram. He says: 81 have
seen Captain Charles William Austin,
who commanded her when she attacked
the Federal blockading squadron at the
mouth of the Mississippi, Aug. IA, 1861,
and dispersed. them. His account is in
some respects different from the Federal
history Of the affair, which states that
the ram was aided by three fire RATS,
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