New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-08-06
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GLEANINGs.
Whalebone is now selling at the rate
Of 81, 250 per ton.
New Mexico embraces 1855. 600
acres Of land. on which are about $780,
600 head of cattle.
The Brazilian government has just
spent $40, 600, 200 upon the new water
supply of Rio.
A Boston correspondent calls Long
Branch "a long lie with yawn on
each end of it.''
Kentucky has law prohibiting the
sale of illustrated police literature
within its borders.
Cuba's entire sugar crop this year
will not be sufficient to pay the govern
ment taxation on population.
The new mode in Paris of disposing
of babies not needed is to take them to
church and leave them under a seat.
Judge Devens is the proud possessor
of Daniel Webster's recipe for making
punch, in the statesman's own hand
writing.
A horticulturist says there are 209
varieties of cherries, sixty of apricots,
239 of peaches, 1,087 of pears and 297
OF plums.
John L. Sullivan wants to be made
professor of athletics in Harvard. Hav-
ing attained to wealth John wants re-
spectability.
The sales of tho great breweries Of
Milwaukee for the year ending in
April amounted to the total of 1,066,-
O30 barrels of beer.
The great tunnel under the river
Mersey, England, will be three and
one-eighth miles in length. Work on
it is progressing rapidly.
Dakota farmers plow their lands by
means Of broad traction engine,
which drives the pillow at cost of less
than 81 per acre.
Miss Jennie Ballentine, of Rochester,
and Mrs. Palmer, of Utica, are mem
toned as lady shorthand writer's at
Washington who earn IS, 900 and S.
600 per year respectively.
An English physician has been num-
bering the hairs of his own and other
heads, and comes to the conclusion
that the average man has between 49,
600 to $50, 600 Of them.
The Duke OF Rutland has taken so
heavily to heart the removal Of the
Duke Of Wellington's statue from Hyde
Park that no writes: sH it were posi-
bic, would resign my peerage. !"
s. B. Adkins. Of Hawthorne, Florida,
has three trees twenty-five years old,
which yielded 80, 600 oranges this year.
Last year one tree was sold for 800,
and the purchaser realized $3.50.
Not very long ago tomatoes were
known as love apples, and were re-
garded as poisonous. Last season tho
canning establishments Of the United
States put up 81. 1922, 952 cans Of toma-
toes.
A large pond, near Monticello, Fla,
suddenly emptied itself q few days agO
and q deep vent was found In the bot
tom. It is said that this pond empties
itself regularly at intervals Of six and
seven years.
A few Sundays ago black bear
swan from the mainland to the San
Francisco peninsula, distance of more
than q mile. and is now prOwling
among the foot hills in sight of the
Golden Gate.
The chief attraction Of Winchester,
Va, is the double cemetery in it's
suburbs. On one side Of stone wall
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while over 8, 600 Confederate soldiers
lie on the other.
Toronto is the best Sabbath keeping
city in, the world. The only stores
open on the Sabbath there are those
for selling milk and medicine, and
these for only an hour or two in the
morning and evening.
The consumption of beer in Italy is
growing to enormous proportions,
while that Of wine is yearly lessening.
The reason is believed to be the heavy
authorizations to which Italian wines
have been subjected.
An English naturalist asserts that
the focks of swallows which return to
the British shores in the spring are 20
large that when they reach the land
and alight TO rest they cover the beach
for q distance Of half mile.
The London Telegraph, rejoicing in
the decision Of the University Of Ok
ford to admit women to degrees, says
the life Of married homes will be hap
pier when equal intellect and culture
are to be found in husband and wife. !"
In the city Of Glasgow. with its half
million Of population, forty-one fam
lilies ont Of every hundred live in
single room, and large number Of
these families have . father, mother,
six or seven children, and several
dodgers.
Krasczewski, the Polish poet, who
has just been sentenced as an anarch-
list. says he believes the truly happy
man is he who has no material desires,
who connects himself with nothing
earthly, and who loves his neighbor
better than himself
he reason for requiring lawyers IN