New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-10-16
SUPERFICIAL SURVEY.

Inc Bellaire Steel Works, Ohio, have
gone back to coal from natural gas
Inc agricultural products of Colorado
exceed the output Of the mines, $4,000, 900.
France proposes a universal telegraph
language. What is the matter with VIOLA
puk?
Blood must be degenerating BARRIERS
say more leeches are used now than for
merly.
Silk factories are projected at Newark,
DEL; Guadalajara, Mexico, and Fredericks-
burg, Va,
ALI of the Browning clubs are smiling.
Their idol has thirty new poems ready for
publication.
What is slower than "waiting for the
train"' "Sweet Patience is seldom seen
at the depot
Losses by fire continue up to the average,
Notwithstanding all the tre-preventing ap-
planes in use.
Capitalists are about buying the Cumber-
land rail mill from the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad company
The project to erect monument to Sena-
tor Leland Stanford near San Jose meets
with favor in California.
The majority of people would rather be
cunning and unfair than foolish Few
sympathize with the FOOLS
Mrs. G. F. Neggsmith, wife of Harlem
IN. ~ policeman, has fourteen living chill
dren and is but ~ years old.
A man in the French army can not be
accused Of being mercenary His pay is
only little over 5 cents per day.
Sir Henry Isaacs is the third Jew to serve
as lord mayor of London. The others were
Sir David Salomons and Sir Benjamin
Philips.
When man has made his ssbarrel'' the
boys try to convince him that he is a politi-
clan. They are in favor of reducing the
surplus.
"a Georgia woman, aged 81, has never tast-
ed Water' This would not seem singular
if the geography of the woman had been
Kentucky.
Tobacconists notice that not one smoker in
fifty uses the machine to clip off his cigar.
He prefers to bite it. Man is a queer ami
NAL any way.
Canine gloves are popular in St. Louis.
At least a Philadelphia journal says: ''Dog
skins for gloves are largely shipped from
this city to St. Louis.''
Seventy five steel oil tank cars are being
made to carry oil from Pittsburg to Cali
fornia, where it will be refined and shipped
to the Sandwich Islands.
Edinburg Scotland, is poky old city on
Sunday. It is a place of 300 900, but on
Sundays no street cars are allowed to run.
The Scotch mind is conservative
Is the age of steam passing away? Every
electric motor in the United States is said
to be crowded to its utmost capacity to
meet demands for electric power
Robert Lincoln is modest man so far as
never been known to publicly refer to a
single event in his fathers career
The New England boot and shoe manu-
facturers find it difficult to keep up with
their orders. The iron and steel manufac-
turers are over crowded with work
Nine. Patti announces that her absolute
~ farewell concert tour will take place in
1891. She should then write a book en-
titled 1.-THE Decade of Farewell Trips''
Frank B. Carpenter the artist, who
painted the portrait of Lincoln, is now at
work On large picture which he calls
'Arbtration.'' 1t is fine theme for the
brush.
Ferry Hanshaw of Portland, Ore, has
gone into the business of raising Monaghan
pheasants. He has score or two that were
Matched by an old black hen They are all
doing finely.
The congress of orientalists at Stock
holm went lately to the grave of Odin at
Upsala, where the minister of the Interior
drank to the health of the congress in the
regular old Viking mead.
The various labor associations will prob
ably take action soon as to what advantage
they can possibly get out of the Worlds
Fair, to be held in New York in 1892 Pow
derby is anxious to have labor represented.
Edison's inventive genius has not been
asleep. He has been granted 4O3 patents
and has over 800 other applications pend
ing. Is there any inventive genius of this
or any age that will begin to compare with
him?
Labor organizations are holding their own
in numbers. The recent strikes have been
dscouraging on the whole. The percentage
of unemployed labor is lower than for m any
years. More WOrkmen are arriving from
abroad than can be employed.
Massachusetts makes many more books
than South Carolina, but it doesn't begin to
compete with the latter in the way of
watermelons Of this dewy vegetable the
Palmetto state sent to the Bay state no
less than 100000 this season.
Confidence may be dangerous. Three
girls in East Liverpool, Pa, agreed to let
each other read the last love letters they
had received. Great was the excitement
when it was discovered that all were
written by the same young man.
T., har lotar 1ifa Georpe Eliot ,no1inad
towards agnosticism. Her latest biogra-
pher says she was so religious when a
young. woman that she would not go to the
theater or opera or even an oratorio, al
though she was devoted to music
The desire manifested by the fair sex for
miniature paintings set as brooches amounts
to almost craze These paintings are i'm
ported, and leading manufacturers claim