New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-05-28

trim uniforms, and gay badges are
decidedly picturesque. ~
MISCELLANEOUS.
No less than 1,1O2 persons met
with an untimely end ID Berlin dur.
ing the past year, 414 Of whom com.
United suicide. Of this last-named
figure 1872 died by hanging, Is by
shooting, los by drowning and 50
by poisoning themselves.
Not long ago q big whale got
stranded on one of the Shetland
Islands. A yenturesome small boy
thought he was dead, end sat down
on his snout. The whale showed
that he objected to this liberty by
giving a snort-sent the small boy
flying into the water fifty feet away.
When he swan ashore he knew
more about whales than he ever did
before.
4 correspondent who has passed
some years in Russia states that In
the village of Velkotti, in the st.
Petersburg government, an old
woman is living who has Just at
tanned her one hundred and thirtieth
birthday. The old lady Is in the
enjoyment Of good health, but com.
plains of her deafness. Her hair is
still long and plentiful, considering
her age. She has outlived three
husbands; and has had a family Of
nineteen children, all of whom are
now dead, the last one to die being
daughter of ninety. She lives
with one of her great. grandchildren,
q man of fifty.
The latest device to save lives at
tires has been put into practice in
st. Louis, where the German Tur.
ners have organized corps of ath-
letes, who will undertake to form q
living pyramid before burning
building Of any height and hand
down the children and women safe
".
The Count Zoraski, a native o1
Warsaw, who was with Napoleon
in many of his battles Ia the Polish
war of 1881, and a Union soldier in
the war Of the rebellion here, was
the guest Of the city of Hartford
and placed on the softest plank Of
the police station Friday night.
Of the 225, 600 registered voters
in New York City, 1881 admit
that they are liable for taxation on
personal property.
Recent advices tate that no rain
has fallen on the line of the Texas
Pacific Railroad west of the Colora.
do River since last August.
Dwelling houses in HALEY, Idaho,
are invaded by q stink bug an
insect which cmits an odor, it il
said, 50 sickening that call who
smell it want to de-
Marshall MacMahon lives now in
a very quiet, unobtrusite way in
Paris. He goes thence for . few
months every summer to his Chat
eau de Scilly, near Autun, where he
has rare collection of Irish relics
and memorials.
Oscar Clark, an Ann Arbor medi-
cal graduate, went to St. Paul,
where, falling 10 get any practice,
he went to saving wood. When
that gave out he found himself pen.
niless, and Friday evening, in the
presence of his family, be cut IN
artery and bled to death in a few
minutes.
Jack Wright, of Salisbury, Nd.
started to beat his wife, but she
turned on him and knocked him
down. After jumping in . pond
and standing in the water up to his
neck for an hour, be said he always
intended to kill himself if conquered
by woman. He went home and
hanged himself from Z beam, but
was cut down IN time to save his
life.
There is an invention spoken Of
which it IL thought may abolish the
bit. It is called the Garage. or an.
ti-horse torture. It is composed Of
q steel band placed over the front
bone of the horses nose, and to this
appliance the rsins are attached.
The inventor claims for this substi.
tute for the bit that it gives com.
plete control to the driver over the
horse without indicting the least
discomfort or torture on the animal
itself. 1t has been tried with salts.
factory results.