New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-05-27
PASSING EVENTS.

Silver ore has been discovered near
Abilene, Tex.
American spruce makes the baskets
for the market gardeners in London.
Goldfish is 40 cents per pound in
Guatemala, AID is considered great
dellcacy.
Cornell university claims the best.
collection of shells in the
world. 1t has cost $4,000.
There are now but I, 400 residents in
the Virginia county where stood
Jamestown of early settlement fame.
A short time ago a miner in Tue
lumne county, California, took ten
pounds of gold from mine in that To-
cality.
An Indian doctor in Utah was stoned
to death recently by his tribe for bav-
ing failed to cure paticn5 placed
under his charge.
Mr.. George Riddle, of Carroll coun-
ty, Maryland, has under the same
roof with him no fewer than twenty
two unmarried daughters.
Electricity is now employed in ex-
tracing teeth, a recently invented
machine pulling, in an actual test,
seven teeth in five seconds.
A recent invention is a pocket for
coats which can be readily detached
and used as a cap. 1t is expected to
prove very convenient for travelling
men.
Stage robberies have become some
what numerous on the Pacific coast,
one stage alone having been pillaged
no less than four times within six
The cost of maintaining the New
York schools is rapidly increasing.
Twenty years ago it was S1,Sl7, 8l4.
ten years ago $3,753,000, aud now it
is 81. 6l6,S4l.
Some of the southern cities have
very capacious and comfortable club
houses. One of the newest is the Cap.
ital City clubhouse at Atlanta, which
is worth $4,000.
The current of Lake Erie has an eff
feet upon the adjacent shores sufficient
to make the spring season from two to
four weeks earlier in and around To-
ledo than at Buffalo.
France and Greece have one hun
dred holidays annually; Russia, sixty
six; Belgium, sixty-fve; England,
eighty-four; and the United States,
sixty. These include Sundays.
A large and valuable mineral deposit
has been discovered close to Bent noun
tain, near Roanoke, Va. An ANALYSIS
OF the ore shows so per cent. zinc, 1926
to $50 per ton silver, and 81 per ton
gold.
Liquor sellers are SAID to do good
business upon the grounds of the
United States at the Soldiers home in
Togus, Me. They claim that the state
has no jurisdiction over land coded to
the United States.
The operations of. the mechanical
appliances in a watch factory have be-
come SO rapid and systematic that it
is possible to take the raw materials
from stock in the morning and have a
watch running from them by noon.
1t is reckoned that the marble bust
ness of Rutland, VT, has trebled in the
last ten years in production and in
wages paid. The total amount of sales
in 1884 approximated 100000, and
this year it is likely to exceed that
A farmer near Macon, Ca, has AGO..
300 willows growing on his place. He
has set out $4,000 this season, and will
set his entire levee with them. A ton
to the acre is the average yield, and
when dried they are worth 5000 pei
ton.
It is told on the authority of the sup
erintendent of an ecclesiastical depart.
ment in a jewelry ablishment, where
the work was done, that a New York
gentlemen has baptismal font made
for each child born to him, the number
at the present date having reached five
Camphor gum is obtained by chop.
ping the wood and roots fine, and boil.
ing them until the camphor begins to
stick to the tool used for stirring the
mixture. The liquor is strained, and
the camphor crystallizes from it when
it is left standing. Crude camphor re-
sembles moist unrefned sugar.
A champion eater signalized his ar
rival at Hollister, Cal, by eating
twenty-seven raw eggs at one sitting.
After his repas. he offered to wager
that he could eat three of the largest
cans of oysters in town and seven
dozen eggs. Those who were present
thought he could, and his offer was re
fused.
In a Washington street (Boston)
window are five pairs of shoes which
look as if they had been made for as
many giants. They are thirteen inch
es long by five inches wide, and are
manufactured of stout pebble-grain
leather. The order for them came
from Nashville, Tenn, and they are
said to be intended for mother and
four daughters. They would be in
Keeping with the Tennessee noun
tains. and a AArge romance could be
constructed around them by a genius
like Charles Egbert Craddock.
A resident of Silver City,, New
Mexico, has. curious relic of the DAYS
of the Montezumas. 1t IS made from
what is called serpentine stone, and is
in the shape of a turtle with frog on
its back, and was worne as a charm,
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