New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-12-24
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dnlged IN shortens lie by several years.
The London Economist says that the
loss of the British farmers in selling
wheat at the present prices IS $40 an
acre.
Idaho claims population of $1,000
and untold wealth, and she wants to
know if that isn't enough to entitle her
to Statehood.
In some parts Of North Carolina
candles and kerosene lamps are still
considered articles of luxury, while res
nous torches are to be had gratis.
Professor Tyndall, the scientists,
smokes pipe and wears cat-skin
lined night-gown. Science is sall very
well, but comfort is the professors
weakness.
A Pennsylvania village debating So
ciety has decided that single life is
preferable to married bliss. A MAORI
ty of the debaters are believed to have
been married men.
The free text book experiment. in
Massachusetts is said to be success.
1t has resulted in a larger attendance
in the schools, and it is more ecOnOmi-
cal than the old system.
Passengers on the Red Sea steamers
to India, were exposed, last summer to
a maximum heat of 1O5 degrees; the
winter temperature on these steamers
is never below 80 degrees.
A student of the university of Ge0r-
gia was given this simple sum: If the
third of six be three what would the
fourth Of twenty be? This bright stu
dent after figuring for half an hour,
gave it up.
Mrs. Frelinghuysen is described as
"a dear old lady in black, with full
puffs of soft gray hair on either side Of
a motherly face, a beaming smile, q
pair of gold-rimmed eyeglasses and a
gentle voice.
The bridge on the Baltimore and
Ohio Road spanning the Susquehanna
river will be one Of the largest and
most remarkable structures of its class
in the world. 1t will be 6,346 feet in
length, and built of steel.
In an address just delivered Profess
sor Tyndall says that high German
authority told him that the cry of Ger
man soldiers in entering battle during
1901 was not 1--WE must conquer, :"
but 1--WE must do our duty"
The school population of the United
States is 100000 OF this II, 600, 900
are enrolled in the public schools. The
public school system of the country
spends more than 1871, 100000 year,
and employs 900, 900 teachers.
An umbrella loan society has been or
ganized in Berlin. Offices will soon be
opened in various parts of the city,
where members of the society, ssfor a
moderate deposit and a trifing fee"
may procure an umbrella at any time
The price of natural gas has been re-
duced in Pittsburg from 40 cent to 80
cents per thousand feet, with a rebate
of 10 cents for prompt payment. This
reduction is said to make the cost about
equal to the cheapest coal that can be
bought.
A benevolent society called mouth
full of Bread,' has been started in Par
is. Its object is to render temporary
assistance to those who are out OF
work. A lump of bread and a glass of
water favored with vinegar are given
to all who ask for relief.
Strauss has received hundreds of let.
tiers from grateful young people who
have met their future wives and hus-
bands at the Venice dancing parties,
the formation of which has been stimu-
lated by his waltzes. The ungratefu)
ones should now speak up.
In the old records of the town OF
Clinton, Mass, a certain little thor
oughfare was called "Cat alley" In
the present book of tax registration the
name is euphonized into PUSSY ave-
nue." and it is supposed that the next
step will be Feline boulevard.
For several years the London street
cars, which run on more than 400 routes
and carry $4,000, 900 of people year,
have had texts of Scripture neatly post
ed up in them at an annual cost of
$3.50 each. This is the work of an as
ISOLATION formed for that purpose.
The signal officer on the summit Of
Pixies Peak says the highest velocity of
the wind ever recorded there was 10
miles per hour, when the instruments
broke and cordwood began flying down
the mountain. The guide adds that
seventy-five miles per hour would lift q
mule out of the trail.
One of the South American fruits
which are to be tried in Southern Cali
tornia next year is the melon shrub. It
is described as an evergreen, with .
beautiful purple and white flower, and
h00re a fsr,ik Tho 49, II,
about four inches long by from two to
three inches in diameter.
The greatest depth SO far discovered
in the ocean is 26,85O, five miles, or
about 1900 feet less than the height Of
the worlds Hottest mountain peak,
Mount Everest, one of the Himalaya
chain, which is found to be not less,
and apparently little more. than 49,
oo03eet above the sea level.
Twenty years ago the United
States had in them only 80, 600, 600 peo-
600 people. Now we are grown to over
54,O00,OO0. In 1860 we only had al
cities of over 5000 inhabitants, now
there are over 800 such cities. The total
population of this class of cities was
5000, 1000, now it is over IA, 0OO, 900.
It is an error to suppose that an ordi-
nary mind is the best administrator of
small duties, for this impression is,
alas! too strongly contradicted by the
fact that the many daily grievances,
the myriad of petty cares and details Of
family arrangements prove quite too
much for the generalship of feeble
minds.
There lives near Dahlonega family
OF people who have eyes scarcely larger
than pea, and so small is the opening
between the lids that person a few
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