New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-07-22
General ParaRraphs.

! There are three mountains of alum
and one Of alan and sulphur mixed in
lower California. The amount of alum
is estimated at 10000, coo tons, and
sulphur at 1,0OQ. 600 tons.
Florida manufactured last year co.
/ 298, 1872 cigars, an increase of Is, 500, 900
over the number made there in 1888
There are a57 factories in the state.
One farmer in Qaeen Anne County,
Maryland, las recently planted 700
peach trees, his orchard now containing
$4,000 trees, covering $50 acres.
Twenty feet square of soil is devoted to
each tree.
| A prominent New England farmer
predicts that Massachusetts farms,
which were titled with success bv the
Pilgrims and their immediate progeny,
are tending toward wildness, and may
some day form a proper field for the
new settler.
Fresh mackerel were so plenty in
| New York last week that they were
sold at l or 2 cents each, and thousands
were given to the poor.
Canada, with one-twelfth of the pop
ulation of our country, pays public debt
interests equal to one-fifth the interest
charged upon the United States debt.
i Taxation has increased from 174 per
cent seven years ago, to IS per cent.
now.
The total value Of orchard products in
this country in 1880 amounted to $47,-
1856, 189. OF this sum over So 900 900
! worth was raised in New England while
/ New York alone produced $4,000, 900.
In the Middle and Western States
peaches form an important branch of
profitable fruit culture, but in New
York and New England over ninety
per cent. of the whole is the apple crop
According to Professor Taylor, of the
Department of Agric ulture, the sim
plest test of pure butter is;sulphuric acid.
A few drops combined with the butter
will turn it first whitish yellow and in
10 minutes brick red. Oleomarga-
rine, treated in the same way, turns at
6rstto clear am Der and in 20 minutes
deep crimson. Use q glass rod in
mixing the acid with the butter.
Nearly two Thousand girls, most Of
whom are French, are engaged in max
ing artificial flowers in New York, ac-
cording to manufacturer of that city,
who says that he believes the metropo-
lis furnishes about half the stock con-
sumed in this country, which formerly
came from Paris. Only the cheaper
varieties, he adds, are manufactured in
New York.
A lady writes from Kansas concern
ing the grosshopper: IF you are
quite sure that they are not intending
to 'light,'a flight of grasshoppers is a
beautiful thing to see. All day they
foated over us; millions upon millions
Of airy little creatures with their white
gauzy wings spread to the light, mount
ing steadily toward the sum- as it SEEM
ed. It was like snow storm in sun
shine, is you can picture such a thing,
with the fakes rising instead of falling. u
Should all the graduating class at
West Point receive commissions in the
army, there will be yet fourteen vacan-
cies to be filed by the President. It is
to be hoped that he will resist the pres
sure that is being brought to bear on
him to make number OF congressman
pets second lieutenants, more especially
as several veteran non-comm issioneo
officers are recommended for promo.
ton.
The extraordinary fatality of measles
of late years is attracting the attention
Of the public, and calling for the com
ments of medical men. Since January
last $50 children have died of the dis
ease in New York city, while in 1884
the number of deaths for the same
period was only IA, while the total fo
the year was 1852. The doctors say tina,
the same causes which have recently
carried off so many grown people will
pneumonia have made measles unusual
~ fatal-sudden and violent changes il
temperature. They say, moreover
that measles are treated too lightly b,
mothers, nurses and caretakers O
children in general, and in many cities
of Europe and America kills as many
children as does any other contagiou.
disease.
A New Orleans letter says pecu
iarity Of the young Southerner, NAL
or female, is their early betrothal ant
eventful marriage, condition that us
ually h1nders undue dissipation, even i
the desire exists. As a rule fewer d1
vorce suits cucumber the records Of on
courts than in the North, reason TO
which I am at loss to give, not be
Eeving that climate has any infuenc
oyer it whatever.
What the Governor of North Caro-
lima Said.
Providence Journal.