New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-11-05

plOyed by the Hlghlanders in Scotland.
The position of some would indicate an
antiquity of at least 1000 years.
Pluck, enterprise and shrewdness,
with small sum of money, were the
capital with which Catherine Rementel
opened a market stall in Philadelphia
She was then IS years old. To-day she
is SO, and has $250,OO0 in the bank.
Large beds Of gold ore have been
found near Ouro Preto, Brazil. It's av.
erage richness is $40 per ton. Nearly
all of the territory has been covered by
concessions, which correspond tc
recorded mining claims, but are fa1
broader.
In regard to the discovery of silver
ore in New York and other Atlantic
States, Prof. Newberry asserts that sill.
yer is not uncommon along the Aappa.
lachian range, but seldom occurs in pay.
ing proportions. Nine-tenths of the
mines in these districts fail.
Students at several of the German
universities have taken to rowing,
under English trainers, who say that
the pupils utterly refuse to give up
beer or tobacco while getting ready fol
races, and therefore do not get into fiji
condition to accomplish much.
The Patent Office is preparing 2,5OC
India ink drawings Of models to rep
resent the mechanical and industrial
progress of the country for the New
Orleans Exposition. Thirty-eight
artists are at work making the draw
ings. Twenty-eight hundred models
will be sent to New Orleans also.
The remarkable petrified forests OF
Arizona are being worked by West
ern stock corporation that manufact-
ures jewelry, mosaics and other orna-
ments from the siliceous wood. The
colors include black, white, red, green,
yellow and brown, and can hardly be
distinguished from moss agate or
onyx.
Those who lament the decay of our
navy may take courage from the fact
that, according to the Pail Mall Ga
zette, the British navy is in the same de-
plorable condition. The Gazette in
sists that England's boasted supremacy
of the seas is but a fiction, and that it
would cost $500, 900, 900 toput the navy
in presentable shape.
A boy in New York swallowed toy
balloon. The doctor first tried to ex-
tract the object with forceps, but that
failing began to perform the operation
known as tracheotomy, but the father
and mother of the child interfered, and
would not let him proceed. When the
boy was almost dead they consented
to having the object removed in any
way it could be done. The first seal
pei used proving dull, he took another,
and got out the balloon. The boy was
in a comatose condition at the time,
and death resulted from asphyxia.
A Chinese pamphlet recently circulate
ed in Hong Kong against the Christian
mission work affirms that Europeans
do not belong to the human race, but
are descended from monkeys. This
race of wild beings worships neither
the heavens nor the earth; they do not
honor their parents nor have respect
for their forefathers. They come into
China under the pretense Of preaching
a religion, but really come to take the
eyes and the brains of dying people
and the blood of children. With these
they make medical pills which they
sell IN their country, and in this man
ner secure shrewdness.
A leading woman of fashion is rep
resented as announcing that she has
taken a census of one Summer resort,
and can count sixty girls who will never
marry. The cause of this destined
celibacy is explained to be that .sthey
are brought up to spend money, and
must marry it or remain single. But
The men OF their own set will not mar
ry except for some great advantage,
and they know to a dot that the sixty
girls have counted will not only be
poor themselves, but will have Door
sisters" Whether this condemns the
summer resorts, the young men, or the
young women most severely, is a
question.
''Did you ever notice what an awk-
ward, almost fearful thing horse is
when he tries to roll over?' inquired an
old railroad man. she is common.
place enough standing up, but tum-
ollng about on the ground, with his
Eggs flying and his head pitching Wild
y, none but those accustomed to hors-
IS like to go near him. Well, loco
motive is like a horse, only good deal
more SO. Did you ever see an engine
IN it's back? Ibid, and it is one of the
most impressive sights I ever saw. It
vas many years ago, down in York
State. A bridge had washed out and a
locomotive of freight train plunged in.
It turned over and lay on its back in
Xix or eight feet of water. When she
vent in she was going forty miles an
lour down grade, with a big head of
steam on. For ten minutes she kept up
Ter speed. The way those drivers went
ound and round was a wonder. The
water flew in torrents for rods around.
+ she had kept it up an hour / be-
leve there wouldn't have been barrel
+ water left in the creek. It was the
Oldest sight I ever saW-a locomotive
With her nose in the mud and her
rivers up in the air going it as if she
lad orders
NO, my son, these are not the good
Id days. Take it in politics, for
Instance. "A man concludes that he
rants to run for office. We will saw
or Congress, for instance. He begins
y staying out late at nights, seeing the
oys and fixing certain corner places.
hen he goes to church Oh Sunday
nth his wife, and as the preacher ex-
ounds this willy politician smiles ap-
royingly. At night he is out with the
oys. How he labors and pleads first
9 g. one foot and then on the other. The
rl u come around and he IS
round at the same time. Finally the
invention meets. He is not ia the