New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-04-22
Things in General.


The actual cost of the Suez canal, ac-
cording to report of the year 1877, was
Ell, 51S,7 29 exclusive of 81, 1850, 900
bonds issued to pay for coupons, on
shares in arrear during part of the peri
cd for construction, It was projected
by Ferdinand de Lesseps. and built I'M
der his supervision. Its total length is
miles, It is now controlled
by the British government.
The total population of the Russian
Empire is given in the s'Statesman's
Year Book" for 1883 at 9s, 267 ,407. This
is not the result of an actual census of
the whole empire, but of such data as
makes it reasonably accurate. The
same authority puts the grand total OF
population of England and her posses
sions at over 3OO,O00,0O0. India alone
has more than double the population of
the Russian Empire.
The reindeer skin suits for the Gree
" relief expedition were made IN Nor
way at cost to this government of 500
apiece. At recent sale Spectator
of New York city bought them for S.
apiece, and it is said he has now sold
almost all Of them at from $40 to $50
apiece. They have been bought as Gu
riosities, and also to be converted into
rugs.
An English physician reports case
Of persistent headache cured by the dis
continuing of meat diet, and even now
q single meal Of butchers meat will
bring on arecurrence of the old trouble.
In that case the meat diet caused head
aches because in that individual the di-
gestive processes were not sufficiently
powerful to disintegrate the meat in the
natural way and its elements went into
the blood in the form of poisonous
properties. These impurities resulting
from imperfect digestion Of meat caused
headache. In other cases they may
cause biliousness, diarrhea, skin erup
tons or asthmatic troubles. When one
is sick and doesn't know why, he might
we'll ask himself the question whether
he may not be eating too much meat.
Love rules a kingdom Of contrasts.
Heine, dreaming of angels, married
grisette. Freytag turned from courts
to a kitchen, and espoused his house
keeper. Bacon, master Of philosophy,
was joined to woman who had loud
voice and dressed like chambermaid
out on holiday. What is more pite-
GUS than poor Keats pouring out all the
typical luxuriance of his soul at the feet
Of Fanny Drawn. He poet, she
feminine commonplace. Idolatry on
the one side; mingling Of curiosity
and vanity on the other.
There are about twice as many white
people as colored people in the city Of
Memphis, yet the record of mortality
almost invariably shows more deaths of
colored than Of white persons. The
cause of this excessive mortality, is said
to be traceable chiefly to quackery.
The negroes there are naturally super
stitious, and believe there is more vir-
tue in coniuration than medicine, and
they cling to their superstitions and
seem to learn nothing by the fearful
mortality among their race. The negro
quacks reap rich harvest onthis cred
ulity. They have specific for every
ailment, and. knowing nothing about
the disease, their remedy aggravates in
stead of curing.
Cheap sugar, the New Pork Confec-
TONER thinks, is not likely to, result at
once from the recently promulgated
conclusions of an experienced chemist,
who announced that sugar can now be
made from sorghum at an expense not
exceeding I cent per pound. It says:
'tFor the past twenty years, this won
derful sorghum, or rather its friends
and advocates, have been promising to
revolutionize the sugar trade, but as
yet the promises have not been fulfill
ed. The realization Of the doctors
dream, il not the learned gentleman
himself, to our unaided vision, appears
to be "a long way off. /"
Carrara, Italy, furnishes the statuary
and other better qualities Of marble for
the world. Six thousand men work in
the quarries. They are hoisted 700
feet in the air, and then moved horizon
tally to the quarries. Hundreds of IA
tai accidents occur every year. Chill.
dren scarcely out of their swaddling
clothes work amid the glare and dust
and die with sore eyes aud stifed lungs.
The food is dry bread. a raw onion and
dirty water. It's the only place in
Italy where wine is not drunk. Fully
$500, 600 worth of marble is quarried at
Carrara annually. The violet hued is
the most valuable.