New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-03-25
PASSING EVENTS.

VIVA
there to starve.
Robbery has become so common in
Cheyenne, Wyoming, after night-fall
that it is dangerous to traverse the
streets. A number of vicious elements
have been notified by the authorities
to leave the place.
The president of Hartford fire in.
,surance company, being impressed by
the evils Of over insurance, ask for
legislation to forbid the payment, in
any case, of more than three-fourths
the amount of the loss.
By order of the city authorities, every
saloon in Abilene, Kas., was closed a
few Sundays ago. The saloon-keepers
promptly gave expression to the gen
erai feeling of woe by hanging heavy
folds OF Grape on their closed doors.
A shark measuring fifteen feet four
and three-quarter inches was captured
by an italian fisherman in San Fran.
cisco pay. Upon being cut open it waa
discovered that it's stomach contained
a boot, an old hat, and a number OF
bones.
A hog was recently killed at Bloom
ing Grove, Sullivan county, New York,
and when dressed thick wire four
teen inches long was found in the
lights and pressed against the heart.
Though twisted and coiled in different
shapes and forced into the vitals, the
hog was apparently as hearty as ever.
According to the United States sur.
geon generals annual report, the
death rate for colored troops has, for.
the first time since their organization,
fallen below that for white troops.
Their mortality from respiratory af-
ENTHUSIASTICALLY pneumonia-is more
than four times as great as that Of
white troops.
The Indiana Pharmacist says that a
woman, who has her letters directed
TO the New York post office, claims to
cure cancer by means of a direct rev.
elation from her ''dear Lord.' Her
circular winds up with 'Praise God
from whom all blessings flow; four.
ounce bottles, SIS; eight-ounce, 49,"
The editor says: 1T will be seen that
the financial part of the business is the
big end of the log"
An ingenius contrivance for pre-
serving the records of ships lost at sea
has been invented by Mr.. Duncan
Sinclair, a re~ident of New Zealand.
1t consists of an inner and outer case,
the lower ends of which are open and
connected by a plate in the form of
ring. This has cork filling and q
separable tube attached at its lower
end to a cap plate screwing into the
bottom ring-shaped plate.
A person writing to an advertiser
of "a lot of stock cheap for speculative
or schedule purposes" was informed
that certificates representing an origin
al investment of $4,000 in a mining
failure could be bought for 800, and
1.-THE purchaser, in case he deemed it
Iiworth while to turn bankrupt, .1might
put them in the place OF their face
amount in cash. and then inform the
creditors that they stood for loss of
cash.
Lovers of shell fish ought to emf
CRATE to Toronto. A gentleman Just
come from there says that he saw an
English officer give his servant half
sovereign, with instructions to ''bring
up some lobsters'' to Ills temporary
quarters. where he purpesed making
merry with some friends. In due
time s. cart arrived laden with the
desired orustacea. which the servant
proceeded to bring by basketfuls into
the house. ''Why, what is all this
aboutP'' inquired the puzzled provider.
The servant touched his ihat, saying.
please, sir, l am desired to say the
other cart-load will be UP by and by"
One of the United States topograph-
ical engineers says in The Carson Ap-
peal: @Attention Was attracted to-;
ward the hot springs at Steamboat by
the discovery that cinnahar was being
slowly deposited 10y chemical action.
The government accordingly sent out
four OF us to make % Typographical
survey of fhe locality The survey
will embrace tract three miles wide
by four in length. The length runs
east and west, and the wonderful
springs are an the center .G the area.
Wei nd tibet cinnab2r is being depos-
tied, and this Is the ONLY hnown place
in the world. where the interesting pns-
cess is still going on
Some day,;writes a Washington cor
respondent of The Boston Post, Lieut..
Garlisgtsn will be found to have done
brave deeds AID to have made more
successful fight against the elements
than any one, else who has been con-
nected with the signal-serviee Arctic
expeditions. His retreat eyer six
hundred nailesin open boats, and the
consequent saving of the Lives of all
! his men, was spluckier and.showed
more judgement than anything done
10y lhe last expedition. He was prac-
stically in the sane situation aRd was
further north when his ship was lost
sthan Greedy was at Cape Sabine.
fGreely, too, had boats, as Darlington
had, but the latterrtook to them. made
Ibis journey and saved his men, while
Greely knocked his boats to pieces for
fuel and lost most of his party by
atary
Va New York there is not much in
auenee attached to the stage. A play
is locked on as advertisement. There
is no doubt that good plays create a
good ,tone of thought, iEalt they are not
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