New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-06-18
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wear uniforms.
The City of Mexico will pave her
main streets with artificial stone.
The highly appropriate name Of .
Brooklyn beer saloon keeper is Mugge.
Michigan raises nearly one-half the
world crop Of peppermint, the annual
yield Of oil being 40, 600 pounds.
Campanini. the tenor. has only =
shadow Of his former voice, but he has
saved 500, 600 and lives plainly.
Twenty-eight Cleveland laundrymen
of the Caucasian persuasion have
organized to drive out Chinese cheap
labor.
"A walnut tree eight feet IN dame
ter at Fort Smith, Ark, is to be felled
to send q section to the New Orleans
exposition.
General Butler is credited with pos
sessing the power attributed also to N.
DeLesseps, Of going to sleep whenever
he pleases.
It is predicted that Northern Nebras-
ka will one day in the not very far fu-
ture be the finest blue grass region in
the world.
We have 89l consnlates, and the
fees they gather more than pay their
expenses. Last year the surplus was
over SAC, ZOO.
Joseph Fisher, Of Craig county, Va,
ninety four years old, weighs but fifty
pounds, is four feet and o half high,
and wears boys boots.
A four-year-old boy at Felicity, Ohio.
can OF is alleged to be able to read
books and papers at sight, though he
never was instructed. s
Douglass Jerrold was keen obser-
yer. He once said: Fix yourself up
on the wealthy. In q word, take this.
for golden rule through life: Never
have q friend that is poorer than your.
self. .
Philadelphia has 562 establishments
devoted to the making of mems and
boys clothing, in which are employed
9, 165 men, 10, 269 women and 934 chill.
dren, turning out goods valued at $751;
32O, 968.
An intelligent Chinaman discoursing
upon Chinese names to q reporter of the
Springfield Republican says that Hop
Sing means deserving prosperity
and that Woh Long means success
through concord. "
A gallant policeman offered to escort
a young lady across Broadway, but he
became somewhat embarrassed when
she lifted up her pet dog, and said:
ooh! thank you; if you will carry
dear little Fido across / can go over
alone. !"
Baker Pasha's cheekbone was splinter
ed by q four-ounce iron bullet, which was
SO firmly fixed in the bone that it had
to be sawn out-a long and painful OPP
eration-which was endured without an
an@sthetic. 4.
Fortress Monroe, Virginia, is the lar
gest fort in the world, covering an area Of
seventy acres. It was built in 1917,
and to the uninitiated looks almost i'm
pregnable. In shape the fort is an ir-
regular hexagon, two sides fronting the
water, while the other four command
the land approaches.
A green snake was found by couple
of gentlemen in the Roanoke Valley
writhing and twisting at the foot of q
beech tree. 1t proved to be a horned
hoop snake, which in rolling down hill
after some game, had struck the tree
with such force as to drive the horn an
inch into the solid wood.
Mr.. Crump, formerly steward of the
White House, and now restaurants
keeper in Washington, says that Mr..
Hayes was far from being parsimon-
ious about expenses of the table. PERSON.
ally Mr.. Hayes was fond of pancakes,
coffee, duck, and candy. Mrs. Hayes
was especially addicted to the kind Of
cake called angels food.
William Heater, of Abbottstown,
Adams county, Pa, the owner Of forty
farms in Adams and York counties, be-
sides much other real estate, died re-
Gently at the age Of seventy years. He
began his career as a day laborer, and
at his death owned property valued at
$400, 600. He leaves one son,
Some boys, who were wandering ov-s
ar the marsh just south Of Avery, Mich
igan, discovered the tooth of masto-
don. A visit to the place resulted in
unearthing the skull Of the monster in
. fair state of preservation, and buried
three or four feet below the surface
The skull measured eight feet in longth
by three and one-half in width.
A confidence man thus explains why.
his business is always good: 1T does!
seem strange that people will never
learn. But do you know what old Pc
ter Pindar said. He said: People in
this world love dearly to be cheated
You need not smile; butt had col
.lege education when I was boy, and
used to know all about old Pindar,
johnson, DR.. Watts, and them plums."
Professor Bell found two torpid
coach-whip snakes, while in camp near
Santa Rosa, Fla. He put them in q
neat package and laid it on stump.
On the following day, which was warm
and pleasant, q young lady and gentle-
man out driving discovered. the pack
age and appropriated it As the young
lady united the string the coach whips
shot out like arrows. She tumbled out
OF the buggy on one side and he on the
other, while the horse ran away.
Colonel Hammet, acotton manufac-
turer, is in love with all his working
girls. He says the Southern cotton
mill operatives are far superior to their
sisters In New England, and describes
them thus: Tall, shapely; with we'll
,y;oised heads and faces which would do
for molds of beauty, they are as lady
like at the hearthstone as they are pro-
ficient at the loom. They are allunder
the salutary influence Of home and
church relationship, and are a class Of
whom any nation should be proud. = s
Drs. Richardson and Kerr remarked,
in connection with Weston's feat Of
walking, that q man may take SO small