New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-10-20
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GLEANINGS.

The University at Oxford has appli-
ances for printing books in $50 Ian
guages and dialects.
The number of medicine-supplying
plants in the world is nearly double
that of fruit-yielding.
The Mormon temple at Salt Lake will
yet require more than four years for
its completion, and will cost SO, OOO,0
Charles Dickens used to say that he
judged the quality of housekeeping by
the conditions of the casters on the
table.
A New Jersey town has fitted up the
| Town Hall as skating rink for the
purpose of raising money to pay off its
| debts.
| If the day is not cloudy on Aug. II,
1899, England may view total eclipse
of the sun, the only total eclipse in the
next $50 years.
Irregular eating at restaurants is be-
coming fruitful source of dyspepsia
in our cities, according to an eminent
writer on hygiene.
! Newfoundland dogs are better for
sledging in the arctic regions than ma
tive animals A man, however, can do
more work than any dog in proportion
to the amount of food consumed.
Tablecloths, one would almost
imagine. are entirely out of date, for
everything in that line appears to be
called a ''scarf.' ''Jane, be sure and
put clean scarf on for dinner to-
night"
Spurgeon has turned out 6SS preach
ers from his ''Pastor's College, in the
twenty eight years it has been estab-
lished. Spurgeon's theory about learn
ing to preach is ''as dog learns to
swim; jump in. .
The London DAILY Telegraph nets its
owners a million dollars year, and
runs ten Hoe presses. OF the four
original proprietors the sole survivor is
the owner Of 8 country weekly, and
another died in q poorhouse.
A machine is in use at Melbourne,
Australia, for shearng sheep by steam.
It operates in the same manner, as the
ordinary shears. but cuts much quick
Ell and cleaner, without the least dam
ger of injuring the fleece or the sheep.
It is a remarkable distinction to be
the father of eleven daughters, but
much more remarkable to be the father
of eleven married daughters. This is
the privilege Of Mr.. Burnand, the edi-
tor of Punch, who has not been in good
health Of late.
For long time past the head man
of the Paris Petit Journal, who used to
be workman at three francs a day,
has made an average Of two million
francs year. 1t is claimed that the
! Petit Journal has u circulation of $780,
900 copies day.
Map publishers have about all they
can do to keep up with the times, be-
cause Of the progress of exploration
the changes in frontiers, and thu build
ing of new cities and towns. Afries
calls for more changes than an; oshc
part of the world
In the Russian town of Sysran there
is now living a man whose age is 127,
fact of which there is said to exist in
dubitable proof. He was wounded in
the battle of Borodino and afterward
entered Paris with the allied army. He
is supported by charity.
The average number of eggs laid by
an ordinary flock Of hens is eight and
| a half to the fowl, yet instances are re-
corded where hen has laid $50 eggs
in one year. From sixteen to seven.
teen dozen is considered a remarkable
yield by poultry raisers.
An Illinois philanthroplst wishes u
benefit the poor by teaching them tc
eat their bread with the buttered side
down. The sense of taste. he asserts
is most acute on the tongue, and that 8
very small amount of butter is satisfac
tory. if put in the obviously right spot