New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-03-12

counterfeit sovereigns afoat in Great
Britain.
Mount Jefferson Davis is the highest
peak in Nevada, it's altitude being 49,
O75 feet.
New York girls of the period, it is
said, drink goats milk for the complex
ion.
The author of '.See that MY Graves
Kept Green and "When the Leaves
Begin to Turn" is an inmate of the In
diana State Prison.
Mrs. Theodore Moreno, of GAINESVILLE,
Ga, has a baby dress $50 years old It
was worn by her children's great great
grandfather.
A Colorado rough proudly wears a
ring through hole which was made
in his ear by the bullet of bar-room
adversary's pistol.
Really beautiful women are said to be
scarce in England. When the Ameri-
can girls. now there come home there
won't be any at all.
Parnell has decided to decline the
many invitations he has received to Wis
it America, and will remain in England
during the next year.
Captain Roach, of Austin, Tex. had
a game cock training for a cooking
main, but an envious hawk swooped
down on the poultry yard and made a
breakfast off the rooster.
A Northern man on a Southern train
was astonished at seeing South Caro-
linian catch tleas from under his arm,
wrench off their heads and throw their
bodies ont of the window.
1t is not generally known that the
Duke of Connaught, Queen Victoria s
third son, was refused by Princess
Thyra, of Denmark, who married the
son of German nobleman instead. :.
The cars of one Baltimore street line
have this astonishing placard: Drivers
must not over crowd their cars. When
a car is comfortably filled they will po-
litely refer persons to the next.
There is a justice Of the peace in Banks
County, Georgia, who has held his Of
| flee for eight years and has never tried
a case, always getting the litgants to
compromise.
The Count de Chambord's widow has
decided to take the veil, and will spend
| the remainder of her days in a convent.
Her immense estates are to be given to
the church.
Georgia disputes with North Carolina
| the title of 'Tar-heel State.' The total
value of the formers product of resin
| and turpentine for the past six months
exceeds that of North Carolina by over
$1,00O,0O0.
A party of nine gunners who started
from Salt Lake recently for the Sand
Ridge just south of Ogden, which is a
| notorious haunt of the long-eared Jack
rabbit, returned in three days with 500
head.
j. L. Lewis, of Putah Canyon, CAL,
has killed a squirrel that was snow
white and had pink eyes. The squirrel
had often been seen in that vicinity, and
one man said he had spent three months
in trying to capture it, as there was Il
reward of $75 for it alive.
A French sailor died in San Diego,
CAL, some time ago, and on his breast
was tattooed an ingenious illustration of
the crucifixion. The skin, about twelve
inches square, was cut from the body,
sent to San Francisco, tanned, and is
now on exhibition in San Diego
Bob Toombs furnishes another funny
item for the Atlanta Constitution.
Some one asked him if he thought the
inspection of fertilizers WIS a pro-
lection to the farmer. ''I'll bet $lO,"
he replied. shat can take bag Of
sand and drag polecat through it and
fool the best inspector they have got.
Mrs. Scott and Mrs. Carr, neighbors,
who lived near Hogan's mill, in Steward
County, Tennessee, died within an hour
Of each otherand were buried at the same
time. This coincidence is more striking
by reason OF the fact that the ladies'
were married on the same day some
years ago.
A Massachusetts woman who had
not been able to stand upon her feet
was miraculously cured the other day.
bad boy threw mouse into the room
and in less than eight seconds the inval-
id had hoped across the room on three
chairs and was standing on top of the
bureau with her clothes wrapp ed
around her ankles.
The ashes of Columbus, which have
been shifted about repeatedly and are
now in the Cathedral of St. Domingo,
are to be taken out OF their resting
place and inclosed in plate-giass urn.
This urn is to hold the casket contain
ing the original ashes in such y man.
ner that the remains will be plainly Wis
IDLE.
II was suffering from thirst on a
train of the Eastern Railroad of Massa-
chusetts,' writes a correspondent, land
went through all the six cars of the
train, including the baggage-car, in a
vain search for glass of water When.
| asked the conductor why they had no
water-coolers, be did not deign to reply
his look of astonishment implying
that he had never heard of such a
thing. 1t is hoped that no one will ac-
cuse the managers of the road of vast
ing the company's money
Some Montana people say they do
not care for the railroad now that it is
finished. Helena is rich town, and
insists that it is the richest in the coun-
try in proportion to its population.
There are many young men from the
East there, and the society is good.
These Young men are growing rich by
mining and stock raising, and thew say
that they do not like to see the railroad
bringing ID capitalists 10 compete With
them. The Bonanza farmers also look
with apprehension on the road, because
they have been prosperous without it,
and apparently anticipate an increased
supply Of agriculturists without cor
responding increase of consumers.
Some poetical joker at Humboldt
Wells, New, stood up. railroad con-
ductor and despoiled him of his valu-
ables. Instead of ..babying' over it,
like Mark Twain, under similar cir
cumstances, he got even. He took q