New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-02-25
GLEANINGs.

Steel needles, if delicately suspended,
even if not magnetic to begin with,
will become magnetized from the action
of the earth.
The Supreme Court of Iowa has de-
cided' that lghtning-rods put upon :.
building not paid for carry a mechan-
les lien the same as any other fixture.
Colonel Ingcrsoll is charged by the
Arkansas Gazette with stealing his lat
est expression in regard to women
from one of Henry Clay's speeches in
Congress.
'Rinkurating,' meaning to skate in
a rink, is the latest new word added to
the English language. The young man
who coined it received reward the
following day.
The prettiest woman in Washington
is said to be Mrs. Horace Hilyer, wife
of the Secretary of the English Lega-
ton. She is sparkling blonde, will
!owy in figure and perfect in complex
ion.
To get married before breakfast is
generally regarded as an evil omen,
and an observant iowa man says trou-
BILE and misery will surely come after
fifteen years of married life thus con-
tracted.
The besetting sin of the cultivated
American writer's in the present day is,
the London academy says: indirect
ness and allusiveness. There is more
truth in this than in most of the charges
made by our English critics.
The Worcester Spy reports that sew
eral foundries in that city have tried
the cheap Southern iron which is now
being pushed in the Northern markets.
and have found 1t SO deficient in
strength that they will not use it.
In 100000 years the mean annual
temperature of the earth will have de-
creased 80 degrees, and eventually the
terrestrial hemisphere will be frozen
up, according to the latest astronomi-
cal computations. It makes one SILVER
to think of it.
M. Jules Grevy seems to be a hui
morist. When deputation of unem-
ployed workmen approached him the
other day, he exclaimed: "What
grumblers you fellows are. Look at
me. haven't stroke of work to do,
and do complaint
Seventy-five years ago the first to-
matoes grown in this country were cul-
tivated as strange and snowy horti-
cultural curiosity in garden in Salem,
Mass. Forty-tive years ago, or little
more, they began to be used as veg
etable in the season.
BY her marriage the Princess Bea-
trice will become sister-in-law to her
own niece, the daughter of the Princess
Alice, who married the elder brother
of Beatrice's betrothed. So long as
she avoids becoming her own mother
in-law it is all right.
The legal profession in the State of
New York has increased in the last
seven years at the rate of II per cent,
whereas the medical has increased at
the rate of 3. Why the disparity is not
explained, except that the increase in
lawyers is about equal to the increase
of wealth.
Vassar College has had SOC. gradu-
ates in regular course. Since 1862
twenty-sevcn of these have died and 1873
have married. The number of useful
vocations pursued by many of the re-
mainder show that the remainder are
by no means to be placed in the class
of ''superfluous women"
At Toulouse it has been discovered
that woman supposed to have died of
cholera has been buried alive. The
coffin was temporarily placed in a dead
house, and when it was opened again
the position of the body was found to
be changed. A subsequent cxamina-
ton fully verified the suspicion.
There is but one place in the United
States where gun cotton is made.
Until six months ago the navy was
obliged to depend upon England for
all the gun cotton used, but q manu=
factory has been erected at the torpe-
do station, Newport, and now produces
all that is required for sea-going men.
of-war and torpedoes.
Fully quarter of the lads in some Of
the primary school rooms have con-
tracted the enervating habit of smoking
cigarettes and indulge in it furtively
upon every possible opportunity. Two
cigarettes are sold for cent, and while
some dealers refuse to sell to boys,
others do not, or older boys peddle
them among lads far below the teens.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican,.
Among the ladies of the Supreme
Court Mrs. Field is chief favorite. She
is young, with fine, fresh English color
ing, and is the soul of hospitality,
Their home is one of the three houses
that formerly made the old Capitol
Prison, and it is hard to realize that
the sunny rooms. lofty corridors. and
bright surroundings were once shad-
owed by the presence of captivity and
the gloomy seaffold on which Wirz was
hanged.
The great majority Of the Senators
and Representatives in Congress have
never had the benefit of college edu-
cation. The University of Virginia
has more graduates in this Congress
than any other institution of learning.
Harvard stands next, with fourteen
graduates. Yale has two Senators and
four Representatives. Union and
Princeton have five each, Brown four,
and the smaller colleges have sprink-
ling of Representatives.
Austria employs l4,45O officials In
her postal service; England. $1,000;
Germany, 1884; France, So, 299; Italy,
1890; and Russia, 1857. During
1888 Germany showed the largest
amount of business, and England the
largest surplus over expenses. The
postal receipts last year were as fol-
lows: Germany, $44, 488,00 !; England,
$39, $50, 900, France, $32,l45, 600; Rus.
STA, $12,13S,O00; Austria-Hungary,
IS, IA, 900; italy, $7,092,O 0.
The Irish poplin trade, which has
long been languishing, has lately shown
signs of revival. A Dublin manufac-
turer has just produced two of the fin.
est specimens of the fabric as dresses
for Lady Brooke, One is poppy color.
ed and soft and rich as the most deli