New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-09-17
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
! It cost an American a fine Of $25 to
rush through the streets of Vienna
crying Fire" There was fire,
to be sure, bat they didn't want any
fuss made about it.
An alligator with two heads and
four eyes was found recently near
Pensacola, Fla. The heads are
attached to one neck and are each
as perfect as nature could make
them.
Rev. DR.. Hicks, the spiritual
CONSIDER, conddant and corpse.leg-
atee Of the assassin Guiteau, has
given up the care of souls and be-
taken himself to the cultivation of
oranges in Florida.
A cunning little toddler of six
years convulsed the passengers in a
Third avenue, New York, car by
throwing down her doll and declar-
ing that she wanted real "meat''
doll like her mother had in her
arms.
The Dakota farmers are having
bad year in the midst of good crops.
They say It costs one bushel of
wheat to send three to market, and
it costs ], 900 feet of lumber to get
1900 from Minnesota. These are
only 9 eneral results.
Forty years ago there was not
telegraph office in existence, and
the telephone as a medium of com.
munication was undreamed of. To.
day there are 81, $40 telegraph offic.
es in various portions of the world,
and they are constantly increasing.
The cholera panic in Italy has
become very distressing. The ig-
norance and superstition of the
people increases the difficulty Of
dealing with it. In some instances
the populace hold the doctors and
priests responsible for the scourge
and make war upon them.
''Stonewall" Jackson's war
horse, a sorrel gelding, once fiery,
but now with less oxygen in his
windpipe, is cared for at the Vir-
ginia Military Institute, to which
he belongs. The other day lock
of his name was presented to the
Tennessee Historical Society. Not
since the war has the old steed worn
a bit, nor has he carried a shoe.
Fifty years ago there was a boy
in Africa who was taken prisoner
in one of the fierce wars between the
tribes, and was carried away from
his home to be sold as slave. AT.
ter being sold and re sold, now for
sugar and again for rum, he was
finally carried away in slave.ship.
A British cruiser captured the slav.
err. The boy is now Bishop Growth.
er, England's black Bishop Of Afri-
ca.
What is claimed to be the largest
grain elevator in the world has been
erected at Newport News, Va, by
the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Company. It is 80 feet wide, 1856
feet long and about 1854 feet high,
with engine and boiler rooms
40x100 and 40 feet high. The stor-
age capacity Of the houseis 1000.
600 bushels, with receiving capa.
city Of 80, 900 and a shipping capa-
city of 10000 bushels per hour.
Mr.. E. William Nye, the famous
humorlst, appears to be in hard
luck. During the cyclone in Wis.
consin last Tuesday evening he was
thrown out Of a buggy and had his
left leg broken. This accident will
probably keep him abed for month
or siz weeks. He had but re-.
Gently recovered from a
sixteen months siege with cere-
bro-spinal meningitis. We shall
await with pleasurable anticipa.
tions Mr.. Nye's narrative Of his
wrestle with the cyclone. If he
doesn't get grandly even with the
remorseless hurricane we will be
very much disappointed.
An Italian doctor has adopted a
new and successful method of treat.
ing dlphtheria. His treatment con-
sists in wrapping the patient IN q
cold wet sheet, repeating the pack.
ing three OF four times a day, ac.
cording to the height Of the fever.
Cold congresses are kept continual
ly at the throat. He uses gargles
Of the alkaline sulphites, carbolic
acid, ETC., as disinfectants, but ney-
er caustics. In 1875 six cases so
treated all recovered, the disease
lasting Oh an average ten days. This
treatment is well borne and much
liked by the patient. Stimulants at
the same time are freely admins.
tered.
80 ',sss KANSAS FRESHMEN.