New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-04-09
GLBANINGs.

spring have tiny stuffed cap on top
the latest thing in millinery.
Five men have disappeared from Bay
City, Mich, in the last three years, and
nothing has been heard from any Of
them.
jefferson Davis has erected fine
monument over the grave of Mrs. Dor
sey, the New Orleans lady who willed
him. fortune.
During the last year Mrs. Horace
Turner, of South Adams, Mich, has
broken one of her legs twice and made
600 yards of cotton.
The Niagara Suspension Bridge is
2,260 feet long, that of Kief, Russia, is
1862 feet, and that between New York
and Brooklyn 1880 feet.
do not think it would be wrong for
me to say that the religion of the Uni
ted States is the worshiping of the
golden calf Mgr. Capel.
Vandals have much mutilated the
soldiers monument on Boston Com
mon, and loud demand is made for a
close fence to protect it from further
injury.
1t has been figured out that there is
enough railroad travel in this country
to give every man, woman, and child
in the United States ride of ia miles
each year.
The New York Hour says: The nov
elites for next season here will be Mr..
Barnum's elephant, which is sacred but
not white, and Sara Bernhardt, who is
white but not sacred. +"
The Man, a curious New York publ
cation, demands that all women, on ar
irving at the age of twenty-one, be per-
mitted to use the prefix "Mrs. to their
names, whether married or not.
The proposed Constitution for the
State Of Montana provides that the
Governor shall be paid So, 600 per year,
. the Secretary of State So, 200, and the
other executive officers $1,000 each.
Nearly $4,000 gallons fewer of sher-
ry and claret were imported by En-
gland last year than the year before.
But the figures for port show a total of
65,788 pipes, which is the largest on
record.
Francis Parkman, the historian, says
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women who want the ballot in Massa-
chusetts have standing quarrel with
the Almighty for not making them
men.
Twenty deaf mutes in Norwich,
Conn.,, are members of Congregations
al Church, and they have formed q
Bible class under the charge of a teach
er familiar with their method of con-
versation.
The counterfeit presentiment' of
General Hancock is to be found in the
Philadelphia Rogues' Gallery, the pho
tograph being that of John Clark, the
shoplifter. The likeness to Hancock
is startling.
Fifty cartridges Gagged in Charles
ton, S. c., restaurant window are a
constant nuisance to hunting dogs, who
stop and '.point" the birds. and bump
the window glass when they try to
s.aush'' them.
Mr.. Dimitry, of the New York Mail
and Erpress, has captured the $500
prize offered by Swinton's Story Teller
for the best story. The author is the
son of the lato Professor Dimitry, of
New Orleans, long one of the most
prominent educators of the South.
The man whose ''heart is in the right
place" has been frequently heard from.
But Philadelphia has a man, a Major in
the United States army, whose heart is
on the right side. 1t is the second case
of the kind known to medical men.
According to Japanese custom, age
is counted from the first day of the
January succeeding birth. At that
date child is one year old, whether
born the previous January, at mid
summer, or on the 31st of December.
Eighty-three per cent of the popula-
ton of the United States is composed
of white natives and the immigrants
from Germany and Great Britain, leay-
ing per cent from other countries
and IS per cent for those of African de-
scent.
L. @. G. Lamar is said by his Miss
issippi friends to be one of the few poor
men in the United States Senate. OF
late years most of his salary has gone
to pay old debts, obligations of a ma
ture that only man OF scrupulous in
tegrity would think Of paying.
In Henry James, recent article on
Turgenief the personal pronoun, first
person, singular, occurs seventy times
on the first four pages. The average
is certainly no lower throughout the en-
tire paper, the writer using ..I' fifteen
times on the last page, always in allu-
sion to himself.
England's wealthiest heiress now is
Miss Hamilton, a lady of about4O. She
has some $3.50, 600 year, and fine res
licences in Scotland. The great heir
esses are not prolific. Lady Holmes
dale, the last CORVALLIS, died childless
last year. Lady Lindsay, who Inherit
ed Lord Overstone's millions, is also
childless, and Lady B. Coutts has not
yet become mother.
Missouri is making rapid progress in
wealth and industrial matters. The
statistics for last year have just been
made public, from which it appears
that the taxable property in the state
was $656, 250, 419, an increase of &c.
983, III over the valuation of 1882, and
$54, 528, 900 over that of 1881. The
state taxes collected last year amount
ed to $s,345,378.
No bureau of the Government ex-
ceeds in Importance the United States
Patent Office. From the start it has
been selt-snstaining, and now has an
unexpended balance to it's credit of
about $4,000, 600. This money is the
result Of fees paid by inventors to se-
cure the patents which protect their in