New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-04-30
.GLEANINGs.

GLEANINGs.
The London Times has become CON
vert to cremation.
The savings banks Of New York State
hold over $3.50. O0O. 900.
a good-looking Cuban slave girl IL
years old Is worth 800.
Four hundred and eighty electric
lights illuminate the British house Of
commons.
Charles WEIGH will work seven years
for = Hillsdale. N. r. farmer, in order
to marry his daughter.
There Is man living in New York
who hopes to live TO see the time when
there viii be no more whisky. pistols,
OF dime novels. n #55
4 family 81 three b4othSrs .nl three
sisters in Auburn, Nc, IS notable for
longevity. the brothers being nged Is
u and Is years, and the sisters ~, 30
and IS years.
Captain T. II Dozier, who lives near
Winterville, Ga, has Is, 600 cigars that
his father made thirty years ago. The
Captain smokes only one . day, and
they arc expected to last him several
years.
John Nicholas Emerich died noarly
100 years ago in Philadelphia, and his
will has just been found Ia an old reg
lister In St Katrina's Church, in that
city. The estate has accumulated to
$40, 900. 600. and heirs are now putting
In claims for It.
The public schools OF New York viii
Il i proposed to instruct the pupils in
physiology and hygiene, with special
reference to the effects Of alcoholic
drinks, stimulants and narcotics upon
the human system.
Mr.. Henry Wheeler, Of Hickory
Fiat Ga. never saw . city. He has
lived on his own land for forty-nine
years. During the war he sold corn to
tho wives and daughters Of Confeder-
ato soldiers ct 81 Q bushel. He has
1872 grandchildren. He never drank
any rum.
All the old envelopes, newspapers,
wrappings. and scraps Of paper which
accumulate in the treasury department
ct Washington are carefully saved in
what is called the waste paper-room.
All this refuse is sorted out by mon and
women, and sold to ono firm in New
York. The receipts amount to quito .
handsome little sum.
!, The estimated total cost Of fires and
insurance companies in the United
States is $3.50, 600, 900 year. Com
msnung on tAis, the american, Archi-
1set says that every man or woman in
the community who is paid for his or
her labor works one week in every year
as q gratuitous contribution toward
paying the salaries Of insurance agents
and the fire losses caused BY careless
ness or crime.
New FORKS new water supply will
cost from 425. 600, 900 to $50, 600, 600.
The works will be located In Winches-
tor county, thirty-five miles from the
city. A dam $50 feet high will form 4
reservoir Of $4,000, GOO. 600 gallons ca
pacity. Now York City daily consumes
100, 600. 600 gallons Of water, and whom
tho now reservoir is completed the ca
pacity for storage will. resch 400, 000,-
600 gallons daily.
At the recent dinner Of tho British
chamber Of commerce in Paris Their
was much laughter whom NJ de Lesseps
mentioned that on his first visit to En-
gland the publisher who brought out
the report of his meetings charged, a.
tho first item Of this bill, ESQ for At
taoking the book in order to make it
succeed. ''Since then,'' observed M.
do Lesseps, II have been attacked
gratuitously, and have got on without
paying
According to an English lady now
travelling in Japan, every one, rich and
poor, in that country takes q dip at
least once q day in = caldron of hot
water. The rich battle before dinner
and at bed time. The whole household
dip in tho same hot water. A bath,
except ct thermal spring, is only an
immersion. Precedence Is given to the
elders when there are no visitors, then
to the young people according to their
ago, next to tho maidserYapts.
a veritable natural curiosity Is in the
possession Of ST. Louis editor. It is
tho head Of . two-year-old rattlesnake
preserved In spirits, the limos and trao.
ings on the back Of which formed 8
very vol defined picture Of the head
and bust Of : woman. Tho gentleman
states that he and party Of friends
were resting under an apple tree In
Cloburne, johnson county, Tex, when
they perceived the reptile on . branch
above them, and, knocking It down
with whip, killed It.
A solution has been attempted By
Mons. dc Gsrparin Of the remarkable
sunsets which have excited the wonder
Of the world. For many reasons be
discards the hypothesis that they wers
due to the action Of falling stars, and
considers that the luminous effects
we're produced BY tho light Of the sun
falling on IN atmosphere charged with
particles Of matter, in state Of minute
subdivision, ct great height above
the earth, tho exact nature and origin
Of which dust had not yet however
been determined.
Caleb Cushing personal habits were
peculiar. Although most charming
companion, an agreeable conversation
alist and fond Of the table, where he
Wa always delightful he was son-
tary man. His wife, bright and re-
markable woman, who entered into her
husbands interests in . way somewhat
unusual, died young, and no never
married again, and always seemed to
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