New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-07-29
PASSING EVENTS.

EAoSkN6 kyENYA
The total state school fund of Geor-
gia in 1884 was sos, 454.
/ One family arrived at Newport last
week with sixty-four trunks.
There is: an active demand for cot
tages at Long Branch this year.
Nearly one-half the entire popula-
ton of Buffalo of Teutonic origiu.
/ Corn has gone up 25 per cent. in
Monterey, Mexico, in the last few DAYS.
! One-fifth of the legal voters of Mas
sachusetts are vetrans~ of The civil war.
The construction of hotel costing
s75o,0oo IS on the taps in Washington.
1 The northwestern, lumber resources
have decreased % per cent. in the last
year.
A dude has been defined in an At
lanta court as ''a fellow who is mash
ed on himself
Mrs. Black Bear, Piegan squaw,
died at the Blackfeet reservation,
Montana, aged 124zyears.
The first bee-tree ever found in east
ern Washington territory was discov-
ed few days ago near the Toachit.
"a frisk,'' is, the fashionable
name for a ball in Philadelphia. and
theater party of buds is 'sdove
party
A lawyer named Scipio Africanus
kenner is under arrest at Salt Lake
City. charged with stealing ten thou
sand brick.
A statue of Moses in the Bullrushes,
! by Herman Klein, is to, be placed at
the lily pond in. Paramount park,
Philadelphia.
Large tlocks of blackbirds in Los
Angeles county, California, are PROV
ing check to the depredations of
grasshoppers.
The Dominion government has re-
duced the tax on timber IN British
Columbia to Is cents tree or 20 cents
per one thousand.
The Washington territory Grand
lodge of Masons has declared retail
liquor dealers ineligible to member
ship in the order.
The population of Macon, Ca, was
$4,000 according to the United States
census in 1880. and is now $4,000 ac-
cording to the directory census.
An italia liam ship has been sheathed
with glass plates, to take the place of
copper sheathing. The joints are
made tight by the use of mastic.
Bicycling is now utilized for wedding
Journeys. The bride rides the tricycle.
and the groom the bicycle, or, more
easily, both ride the sociable tricycle..
Next to Senator Stanford's large
vineyard at Vina, Cal, Los Angeles
claims to have the largest in the
world, covering three thousand acres.
An elevated railroad train was de.
layed a minute in New Yord owing to
the fringe on lady passengers dress
becoming entangled With the button
on brakeman's coat.
A novel game of baseball Will be
played at Carlton, Yamhlll county,
Oregon, at an early day. Nine young
ladies will play nine gentlemen. who
must be over 80 years Of age
An exchange states that if a castor
oil plant is kept growing in a room,
mosquitoes, flies, and other pests will
not enter, or it they should they are
soon found dead beneath the leaves,
Fifteen tons of grasshoppers, COM
prising, it is estimated, 10000, 900
/ separate insects, were captured at the
| Natoma vineyard, near Folsom, CAL.
by drowning in the irrigating bitches.
Strawberry shortcake has been
served out to all the prisoners IN the
Arkansas penitentiary, despite the
provisions of the constitution concern
ing cruel and unusual punishment.
One juror in Clarke county, Georgia,
has caused no less than twenty mis-
trials, and now it is proposed to leave
his name and those of other men who
have acted in the same manner out of
the jury lists.
The Columbia Indians in 7Harnev
valley, Oregon, are much incensed
over the recent killing by white men
of two Indian hOrse-thieves, and thew
are reported 10 be holding war dances.
The neighboring whites are alarmed.
In an account of the war between
the fishermen of New Jersey and Della
ware THE Cleveland Leader remarks in
an offhand manner that New JERSEY
had better annex the three counties of
Delaware, that is to say,-the whole
| state.
There Is Hotel Boston in New
York, opposite the Central park. which
has light sandstone front ornamented
with blue trimmings, as if to indicate
the blue blood which is proverblally
associated with the first circles of the
Club"
A New Hampshire court has lately
decided that physicians horse and
buggy are ''tools," and as such are
exempt from seizure for debt when
they are necessary to enable him to
practice his profession with reasonable
success.
A curious statistical TACT has been
discovered. There are twelve thous-
and stamp collectors among children
of the New York public schools, and
many dealers in stamps. The coilec-
tors of buttons, old coins, and other
small bric-a-brac were not enumer-
ated.
According to Bill Nye, the sign OF
distress for Maine man in search of a
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