New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-12-04
SUPERFICIAL SURVEY.

Lie car mas naQ an lTOQ.CldQ GTaln con
structed for himself
Massachusetts machines make pair OF
s hoes in twenty minutes.
The courts Of Berks county, Pa, have
decided that a type written will is Illegal
Persons living near the sulphur springs
of UWchland, Pa, have lost the sense of
smell.
1t takes twenty two servants to run the
w. K Vanderbilt house ana five to run the
stables
Settlers in the Big Bend country, Wash,
have to ride forty miles to get their mail
and to vote.
Having no tobacco, a Lancaster man
chewed camphor, and the trick nearly cost
him his life.
An expert can now s'reduce barrel to
six ounces of powder as easily as they can
condense milk.
f. G. Kant, who lives near Wheeling,
back to the year 1888
The University of Pennsylvania is about
to provide for the education of women, on
the same terms as men.
George Arnold, chief clerk in the Mis-
souri, Pacific freight offices at St Louis, is
6 feet inches in height
The sultan of Turkey borrowed 100000
with which to entertain the emperor and
empress Of Germany at Constantinople.
Henry Cabot Lodge expressed the opinion
at Boston club dinner that the one thing
in politics more unwholesome than spoils is
can't.
Formerly the French was the prevalent
language at Montreal It is so no longer.
The ever spreading English has taken its
place.
The Chicago woman likes rapid locomo-
tion. There are 500 women in that city
who own and ride bicycle. Chicago is
fast place.
At Pensacola, Fla, a mustang that was
abused by its driver rushed into the water
and held its head beneath the surface until
it drowned.
A Bridgton, Me-, man believes in the
honesty of postal clerks. He got a letter
one end of which was burst open disclos-
ing $40 bill.
A large bear was killed by some hunters
in Covington Township, Clearfeld county,
Pennsylvania, recently. It's carcass weigh
ed 40 pounds.
Mrs. Charles Kinia of Trenton, Wis, re-
Gently presented her husband with three
fine girl babies, their combined weight be-
ing 81 pounds
The following sign does its part in keep
ing good order in a Reading (Pa.) saloon:
mo ickers sold to miners. Cart playen
not allot hear"
Oliver Wendell Holmes says he feels
that it is time for him to stop wiling poems.
It is wise author who knows when he has
written enough.
The big tree of California had better lie
down and be measured Thirteen cords of
wood have been sawed from single tree
in Pennsylvania.
A recent number of the Wittburg
(Wash.) Times had the following ad:
"Wanted, saddle horse for woman
weighing $50 pounds
OF the 81, 20O,O 600 in gold produced in Mon
tana last year fully Is per cent was taken
from the quartz mines. The output of the
placer mines is declining.
Philadelphia aspires to be the carpet city
of the country There are $4,000 carpet
workers in the city. Nearly half of the
number are women and girls.
OF the twenty-one young women now at
the Brussels university ten study phar-
macy, seven physical science, three gen
eral medicine, and one philosophy.
There is but one great violoncello school
in the world; the institution conducted by
David Pepper at Pesth. Many of the stu
dents come from remote parts of the globe.
Wealthy men are usually overrated.
When Allen Thorndike Rice died he was
thought to be worth over a million Now
it is said his estate will not foot up over
$50, 600
The largest catch of muscalonge at the
Thousand islands last summer was OBJ
tanned by Will Carleton, the poet, who re-
turned with 10s fish as the result OF sin
gle days sport.
Cardinal Gibbons not only favors capital
punishment, but thinks there is entirely too
much leniency in the treatment of murder
ers, altogether too much delay between the
sentence and it's execution.
The eight standard chants Of the Russo
Greek church are original Byzantine airs,
which have been preserved unchanging for
at least seven hundred years, and probably
one thousand.
Senator Stanford, of California, has
finished with Cinnamon in his Vina vine
yard. The superintendent says that white
labor is much more profitable than Chinese,
even at far higher wages.
Extensive forest fires have recently been
raging in Spain. Although the country has
fewer trees than any other in Europe, the
government does nothing to restore burned
forests by planting young trees.
A cherry tree at GAINESVILLE, Tenn, is
reported to shed drops of water continu-
ously. 1t is located about three feet from
wall. but none of the roots are visible in
the curbing. The tree bears large crops Of
fine cherries.
Anger destroys and hastens old age.
George Bancroft, the historian, told a bevy
of young girls that the secret OF long life
lay in never losing ones temper. eff you
will never get angry said the historian,
tsyou will live To he 9O;,