New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-07-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

OF their f91Cn.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Bricks made of cork now consti-
tute one of the new German Indus
tries. The usual size is ten by four
and three. fourths and two and a half
inches. They are prepared from
small corks, refuse, and cement,
and have not only been used for
certain building purposes, on ac-
count of their lightness and isolat.
ing properties, but are also en-
ployed as covering for boilers, in
preventing the radiation Of heat.
A medical paper warns young
doctors against prescribing ''shot.
gun mixtures" too freely during the
summer months, as certain COM
binations of drugs are apt to de.
compose each otherin hot weather.
a shotgun prescription is made up
Of many different drugs, in the ex-
pectation that one of them may hit
the mark and cure the patient.
The present crop of blne grass
seed now being gathered in Ken.
lucky is estimated at 500, 900 bush
els, 40 per cent greater than any
previous season.
Snow is fifty feet deep in some Of
the gorges Of the San Francisco
Mountains, Arizona, which rear
their proud heads higher than H..
600 feet above the sea level.
Ten years ago woman of Her
lem, N. Y, ran needle into her
foot, and last Saturday physician
removed it from her breast. When
the needle was removed it was as
brightas the day it was turned from
the factory.
Pat Malloy, known to all the
world from the song bearing his
name, has just died in louisville.
He was a railroad man, remarka.
bic ;. for his wit and genial DISPOSE
tion, and the song in his honor was
written by Charlie Ward.
It has recently been proposed to
prevent petroleum fires by placing a
bottle of ammonia in each barrel of
the Gil. On ignition, by accident
or otherwise, the bottle would
break, and the effect of the ammo.
niacal vapors would be to extineu.
ish the fires.
An old man named Sampler, who
was q fifer in General Jackson's ar.
my at the battle of New Orleans. is
still living near that city, aged
ninety-four years. He still possess
ses the instrument he played on dur.
ing the battle, and plays the same
pieces he played then.
A gullible youth who maile;, a
dollar to a lottery concern, recently
received it in letter from the
Dead Letter Office, on which was
Endorsed IN Postmaster General
Gresham's handwriting: "Youpg
man, the advice of a Postofice off.
clal is if you earn your money keep
It,"
The other day in London two men
who sold a painted sparrow for a
canary were sentenced to three
months imprisonment at hard Ia.
Dor, and just afterward two wo.
men who had beaten and half
starved three, little children were
sentenced to one weeks imprison-
ment.
A man during a lifetime of fifty
years, according to a paper recently
read before the Academy Of Scienc.
es, Paris, sleeps away an aggregate
Of 5000 days, works away the same
period, eats away 1900 days, walks
away 800 days, is i'll during 500
days and amuses himself. with the
remainder Of his half.century on
earth.
A committee of some of the best
surgeons in France has been APP
pointed to verify, at NJ. Pasteur's
request, the success of his inccu.
lation Of dogs with rabies. .Twen-
ty healthy dogs are TO be inoculated
with the protective virus, and TWEEN.
ty moreto be kept uninoculated.
The whole forty are then to be Bit
ten by mad dogs and the results
noted. The anti.vivisection socie-
ties are furious, but the French PEG.
pie are not squeamish in case like
this.
A young Jerseyman sued young
lady who rejected him for the en-
gagement ring he gave her, where.
upon the maiden's father sued the
youth for the frewood and oil that
were consumed during the court.
ship, also for the meals the wooer
ate at the house and for the fod-
der the horse consumed during the
same time. The most discourag-
ing part of the affair is that the
father Of the tickle maiden won the
suit. But it must be remembered
that this happened in New Jersey.