New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-02-20
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Samuel Blodgett, the ancient Provi-
dence defaulter, cheated his widowed
daughter out of $4,000.
A Philadelphia lady gave party
her pet poodle, all the other dogs in
her set being invited.
Lorillard's horses won him $58, 295
last year. The largest winnings were
by Pizarro, $12. 435.
Minnesota butter product for 1885
will nearly reach 100000 pounds,
worth SIS, 100000.
Latest estimates put Leadville's
output of silver this year at $18,000,-
600.
London has 100000 houses and near
~ 100000 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. seven
people to each house.
1t is London fashion to get up and
see the sun rise, and then talk about it
for q week.
A black lizard nearly six inches long
was found in the boiler OF q locomotive
at Altoona, Pa, the other day.
Abe Buzzard, the Pennsylvania out
law, has escaped from that state and is
expected to settle in Missouri.
Beethoven became deaf in 1901, blind
in 1928, and died in 1927, after compos-
inc 1877 different works.
The new speaker of the Kentucky
legislature is but twenty-seven years
old, but he studied law under Speaker
Carlisle.
j. w. Wright, of Addison, Vermont,
freezes 400 tn. keys daily, and will keep
them frozen for the New York market
next summer. 49, ..
A cage containing twenty convicts
fell 2O4 feet in the Pratt coal mine at
Birming cham, Ala, and but one man
was killed.
The telephone system of London in
cludes seventeen stations and 5000
subscribers. There are 10000 tele-
phones in use in the United Kingdom.
The meanest, lowest tenement houses
in New York pay their owners from
fifteen to twenty per cent. annually on
their value.
Foridians complain that cores
pondents are trying to ruin Jack
sonville by calling it 1.-The Saratoga of
the South.''
Two hundred and sixty millions
acres of public lands have been given
away to corporations within a score of
years.
Several valuable diamonds have been
found in Montana, aud many gold
hunters are turning their attention to
the precious pebbles.
Another alleged cousin of the late A.
Z. Stewart has just announced himself
at St. Adams, VT, and he proposes to
appeal to the courts for share of the
millionaire's estate.
Oscar Wilde first saw his affianced
at Liverpool, where he delivered his
lecture in St. Georges hall, she being
one of the three that composed his au-
dience.
MI. King, of Middleton, Mass, is
one hundred and three years old. His
eldest daughter is seventy-six, and his
two sons are respectively aged sixty-six
and forty.
General Sheridan, Colonel Taylor,
Coionel Benjamin., and DR.. John Bill
ings. all of the regular army, stationed
at Washington, arc the happy fathers
of twins.
the Minnesota Historical Society at
St. Paul, has a library valued at $780,
900. 1t includes 1900 bound vol
umes and a large number of maps,
pictures, manuscripts, historical relics,
etc.
Such is the location of Eagle City,
New. in the Ceur d'Alene mountains,
that the sun does no; shine upon it un-
til II q. M, and then only for an hour,
disappearing behind the mountains at
noon.
There is {: one-legged Confederate
soldier in Georgia who has never drawn
any pension from the state, because all
OF his command were killed and there
is no one to certify to his having been
in the army.
Mr.. Tyler, the Zulu missionary, SAYS
that when he first went to South Afri-
ca. thirty-four years ago. the people
wore nothing but the skins of cows
and other animals. Now few OF
i, appear in town without civilized
dress.
Oliver Dalrympie, of the famous
Dairymple wheat farm in Dakota, is
described as a typical .'Uncle SAM
in appearance. His face is ''peaked'
and his hair long. He wears big
white hat and old-fashioned farmer
clothes.
An Iowa Judge has decided that the
verdict of guilty against defen 'ant
indicted for stealing money. and who
was proved to have stolen silver certifi-
Gates, should be set aside, on the
ground that these certificates are not
money.
The colossal statue of John C. Cal
houn will be fifteen feet high, and,
when set up in the city of Charleston,
will be, with its pedestal, forty-five feet
high. At the base of the granite rests
will be seated life-size figures Of Truth,
Justice and History.
General Neal Dow says that a gen
tleman told him in St. Louis that he
remembered the time when Alton, in
Illinois, twenty-one miles away, was a
more important place, and letters were
sometimes addressed to St. Louis, near
Alton, Ill.
BY six qualities may fool be known
anger without cause, speecl. without
profit, change without motive, inquiry
without an object, putting trust in a
stranger, and wanting capability to
discriminate between a friend and 4
foe.
Minnesota sends to congress this
year the first Sc ndinavian ever elected
to the national legislature. His name
is Knute Nelson. and he represents a
race OF men who are fast gaining
prominence in the politics Of the north
west.
Calamity Weller, one of the Iowa
congressional delegation, has. had a
varied, if not brilliant career. He sums
it up as follows: II titled the soil in
the day time and studied law and poll
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