New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-07-15
General Condensations.

General Condensat1ons.
The increase in the value property
in the business section of Boston dur
ing the past fifty years is shown in the
recent sale of the United States Court
House, at the corner of fremont and
Temple place. The Masons purchased
the land In 1880 for $13, 900, and in
1882 the Masonic Temple was COM
pleted, making a total cost ofland and
building of $4,000. In 1853 the Uni
ted States Government bought it for
$lO5, 900, and in 1885 sold it for
1855, 900.
Trainmen on the Chicago, Vincennes
and Cairo Railroad tell wonderful
story concerning the falling of a gigan-
tic meteor in field near the cailroad
at New Burnside, johnson county, III.
The weight of the meteor is estimated
at about a ton and half, and it was
Embedded in the ground several feet.
The phenomenon excited the denizens
Of the village to a high degree, and
CICdCCu Ct
OF people visited the spot.
Recently workmen on the Northern
Pacific Railroad, near South Prairie,
Washington Territory, came upon a
fir log eight feet in diameter ffty-six
feet below the surface OF the ground.
1t was in a soft state, but after being
exposed to the air for short time be-
came nearly as hard as a stone. The
grain of the fr-wood remains plainly
to be seen, but in color it might easily
be taken for walnut. While the wood
was yet soft some made pipes of it,
which after hardening became very
handsome.
1t us reported from London that
valuable pictures by Sir Frederick
Leighton, Tadema, Millais, John and
Thomas Faeds and other celebrated
artists, now on exhibition at the Royal
Academy, have been cut, scratched and
otherwise mutilated. The outrages
are supposed to have been prompted
by malice, but no clue to the perpetra-
tors has been found.
The idea that fortunes are made in
Florida without sweat of the brow"
is justly charactized by the New York
journal of Commerce as IA Fiction of
the Spectators" and the writer be-
lieves it could be demonstrated that
good apple orchard pays larger in
terest than the best orange grove.
The latter produces fruit only at the
end OF Hyears of hard work, much
money and much impatient waiting"
And after all may come killing frost.
Professor Newton, OF Yale College,
computes that 100000 meteors fall
on the surface of the earth each hour.
Professor Alex Herschel has shown
that the average weight of meteor
may be taken as five grams, whence it
follows that the earth receives hourly
not less than $3.50 Kilograms, or d.
$50 pounds of foreign material depos-
tied upon it from the celestial spaces.
Protection. in the way ofmail sub
sides, cost Great Britain, last year,
nearly $1,25O,OOO more than the
amount received forpostage.
The collapse of newspapers on the
Comstock has been very marked. The
Virginia Enterprise has become reduced
In proportions, although at one time
it did the largest business of any paper
on the Pacific Slope outside of San
francisco. In those days it's editors
were paid princely salaries, and the
compositors thong hit they were doing
a poor days work when their string
would not measure $40.
Every army has it's particular mode
OF payment. In France, Italy, etc., the
men are paid every five days; in Ger
many every ten days;in Spain-seldom,
and in Turkey on still rarer occasions!
In China soldiers are paid monthly.
Out OF his monthly pay of 3 1-2 taels,
ab0ut30 francs, he sets aside one-third
for his keep; the rest goes for cloth
ing, equipment and pocket MONEY!
should anything be left.
0fNaples' 4e5, ooopopulation, $780,
600 live underground in noisome cei-
lars that extend far back from the
street Crime is SO rampant that in
many thickly populated quarters of
the city highway robberies are of fire.
quent occurrence in broad daylight.
The natives feel that the world owes
them a living, and they are going to
get it. Defending the criminals gives
occupation to II, 1000 lawyers Of the
Italian school, who work forfees rang
ing from cents upwards.
The inventor OF barbs on fence wires
receives $4,000 royalty a month, or
$l2O,O00 a, year.
He Married his Sweetheart's Sis
ter.