New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-02-27
GLEANINGS.

United States Senate are graduates of
colleges and universities. Forty-eight
ore not.
England allows children to work in
stores when 10 years old, but from that
age until IA they must 60 to school half
the day.
A hundred years from now, says a
tiresome man of figures, the United
States will have a population of $780,.
100000
The town of Lexington, Mo-, has an
"Old Mems Club with twenty-four
members, to which no one is admitted
under seventy years of age.
The Yuma Indians, on the Colorado,
bury watermelons in the dry desert
sand, and preserve them all winter,
fresh and crisp.
Household servants get 81 q month
in Mexico. They require no days out
or company in, and treat their mistress
es with becoming decency.
From the published reports of the
various asylums in the United States it
appears that within the last ten years
the number of insane persons has near
ly doubled
Some thieves stole $500 India
shawl from Mrs. James Turner, in
Brooklyn, and on examining the plum
der, saw from it's coarse texture that it
wouldn't sell for dollar, and threw it
away.
The new Mayor of Baltimore seems
to bear no ill-will to the Britishers. He
has ordered the lions that adorn CAL
vert street to be re-tailed at cost of
$50. An unknown hater of Great Britain
twisted them off recently.
An old colored man in Cincinnati
has made himself rich in curious way.
Whenever man bought building lot
the darby would buy strip of ground
next door and begin to build cabin.
The rich man would buy the darky's
land for ten prices.
''On Wall street." writes a New
York correspondent, "'Gould is an OBJ
ject of alteration and admiration; Van
derbilt is looked upon as lucky dog
and good fellow; Sage as a miser;
Kcene as a typical gambler and Willard
as sharp man. "
There are thirty EIGHT large volcanoes
in Java, some of which are more than
10000 feet high. 1t is popularity of
the volcanoes of that region that they
seldom eject lava, but enormous mass
es of mud; ''rivers of mud" as they
have been called, flow from them.
Kansas bids fair to become an active
competitor of the South in the raising
of cotton. Quite a quantity of this
staple was raised the past season in tho
southern counties of the state, and the
cotton gins at Oswego and Indepen-
dence have plenty of material on which
to work.
1t is a curious and important fact
that pieces of wire cable of the Fair
mount suspension bridge, recently TAX
on down at Philadelphia, after being
in use some forty years, were found to
be fully equal in tenacity, elasticity,
and ductility to the best wire of that
size now in the market.
OF the seventy-six United States
Senators twcnty-one are accompanied
by their wives, seventeen have each q
wife and daughter, one has a daughter
and one a mother-in-law. OF the $50
representatives and delegates ninety
five are accompanied by their wives,
tifty-three have each wife and daugh-
ter, and nine have only their daug Oh
ters.
Garland, the learned Senator from
Arkansas is teetotaler. He says: Il
was passing by the cemetery near my
home one day, and saw the graves of
dozen brilliant men who began life
with me, every one of them fastened
to his end by whisky. made up nv
mind that had drunk my share, and
stopped
1t is promised that the ice palace to
be built in Montreal for the carnival
this winter shall DO larger and loftier
than that built last season, but some of
the Canadians are protesting against
the whole business, saying that it will
tend to represent Canada to possible
European immigrants as a fearfully
frozen region.
Leo XIII. is almost constantly en-
bellishing the Vatican in some way,
and superintends all work in person.
Recently he had some frescoing done.
and he clambered up to the top of the
tall scatfold to inspect the work at close
quarters. Finding it not up to the
standard, he ordered work stopped and
all that had been done effaced.
OF the six largest sugar producing
countries of Europe Germany this year
carries off the palm, with 100000 tons,
or 80 per cent. of the whole. Next
come Austria with 5000 tons, France
with 425, 900, Russia with 100000, Bel
gium with $4,000, and Holland with
$4,000. Germany has not only the
greatest number of refineries, 357 out
Of 1904, but the largest also.
The printing Of the new English die
ti0nary; which is in preparation in Lon.
don. has proceeded to the end of the
article ''alternate," and at that point
there are over 5000 entries, as COM
pared with under 5000 in Webster.
The statisticians connected with the
project have calculated that the work
will contain nearly 200, 900 entries, and
the quotations will reach more than q
million in number.
The library of Harvard College con-
talns the nrSt TWO drafts OF LOngfel-
lows Excelsior - The first is written
on the back of a note addressed to
Longfellow by Charles Sumner, and is
endorsed 'Sept. %, 1841, $3.50 o'clock,
morning. Now in bed" The second
shows variations and erasures. For
instance, the line "a youth who bore
mid snow and ice'' was written four
times before decided upon-"A youth
who bore in snow and ice,' "a youth
who bore pearl of price," and IA
youth who bore above all price" The
inception of the line "a tear stood in
his bright blue eye' was "a tear stood
in his pale blue eye
German newspapers are finding
something to console themselves with
in the statistics of emigration from
the Empire. They reason, in fact, that
Germany, in the matter of population, is
better off than most other European
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