New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-08-19
KzsslNG EVENTS.


into what proves very fair flour for
making pie crust and other light past
ries.
Hood River. Oregon. claims to pro-
duce the most lucious peaches in the
vest, and Will have an abunGunt crop
Of them this year.
Paper from cottonwood is being sue
1essfully manufactured at La Camas,
Washington territory.
Patience has a limit 4 French tailor
recently committed suicide after pay
ing forty-six unccessful dunning visits
to single creditor.
A small speckled.urout haveine been
found in the milk of. Il Plsilapelphia
mllkman, he has raised the price of
his milk to 40 cents a pound.
A rose bush in Chico, Cal. is be-
tween thirty and forty feet high, and
hfteen or twenty feet in diameter. and
!! the top is now mass of white roses.
Cincinnati stands fourth anaone the
publishing centers-of the country. her
annual product of books, and papers
amounting in value to more. than So
100000.
1t is singular fact that many of the
most popular hymns were written by
persons who were not religious, at all,
or whose claims to religion We're based
on very slight foundations.
There is a bill before the Massachu-
setts legislature to punish a. person
who makes noise in a. public library
and dlsturbs other people. Now for a
bill to punish persons who. talk at the
opera and the theater to. the. annoy
ance of others.
The latest novelty in, "gin@sr ice.
cream" in which the heat OF the pin-
/ ger counteracts the chill Of the. cream.
and the frigidity of the cream nullifies
the fire Of the ginger, producing, it is
said. happy medium most gratifying
to the eplcurean palate.
The schools established for bows and
Young men and young women by
Evangelist Moody, at Mortified and
Gill, Mass, cost S105. 900, and two
more buildings will soon, be completed
at cost Of 100000. The money was
obtained from rich friends of the dis
tlnguished evangelist.
Leaf-cftting bees cut cylindrical
and spherical patches out OF rose
leaves and seal up their nests to pro-
tect the young. The mason bees make
their houses from small grains of sand
and clay attaching them so soldly to
walls that hammer and chisel must
be used to break them of.
! The use of the railway on the Brook
lyn bridge is steadily increasing. About
tour-tltths OF the people who crossed
1t last month were carried in ears. AS
compared with March, 1884. the num-
Der of railway passengers increased
81 per cent. while the number of foot
passengers fell off per cent.
The president of Costa Rica lives in
the finest house in the capital CITY.
and his residence and the Palacio Fed
/ eral, which is near it, are about the
only tWo-story structures in the place.
He receives house-rent free, the use
OF two horses and a carriage. a salary
If $4,000 a. year, and uses soldiers
4 or his servants.
Chickens, two minutes after they
| 1ave lett the eggs, will follow with
/ heir eyes the movements of crawling
| insects, and peck at them, Judging
distance and direction with almost in
fallible accuracy They will 1nstinc-
i lively appreciate sounds, readily run
ming toward an invisible hen hidden
in box when they hear her .'call.n
An immense ledge of white metal
has been discovered in Antelope val
ley, Mono county, Cal, the nature of
which puzzles all mining experts to
whom specimens have been submitted.
1 The metal is fusibe at first, but after
the first time it yields to nothing ex-
cept a mixture of acids. A pound of
/ rock yields half a pound of the metal,
and there are millions of tons in the
plant. 1t contains platinum.
Statistics have been published de-
signed to show the increase in the
number of deaths in Massachusetts
from pneumonia. In 1857 there were
l,O75 deaths reported, and in 1888
there were 3,O45. But in estimating
the significance of these figures two
things must be kept in mind-frst,
the great increase in population, and
second, the Improvement during that
! period in the methods of collecting
such statistics.
An adjustable mirror has been pat
ented by an inhabitant of Charles
1 town, Mass. This invention covers
| the use of a specially contriyed frame
for holding the mirror, and in which
the mirror can be readily adjusted and
he'd in any desired position, for use of
either tall or short people, OF for chill
dren sitting on the floor, 50 that mir
rors of medium size may be made
more useful than large mirrors as or
dinarily hung.
The information may not be con-
tanned in works on natural history,
but it is asserted that the giraffe can
so closely immitate nature that the
most practiced eye has failed to dis
tinguish the animal from one of the
dead and blasted trees which abound
in it's haunts. Lions have been known
to gaze long and earnestly at a mo-
tionless giraffe, and, being unable to
decide that it was not tree, to turn
and skulk away.
Last fall small boy at White Plains,
n. Y, had his ears filled with oats nv