New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-07-23
SUPERFICIAL SURVEY.

Beef loses Is per cent Of its weight when
baked.
There are forty-nine Jewish synagogdes
in New York.
The word s.its'' only occurs once in the
whole Of the Bible.
London consumes over one hundred mill
ION pounds of butter year.
One hundred and fifty million corkscrews
are made yearly in New Jersey.
halter at W ilkesbarre, Pa, has made a
straw hat with the brim fourteen feet in
circumference.
q cargo of alligator hides arrived at
Galveston, Texas, a few days ago en- route
from Mexico to New York.
Mrs. Henry Mullen, of Middleton Cor
ners, Ohio, has given birth to the second
pair OF twins within a year.
The barge Office in New York City is now
Kept open on Sundays for the reception OF
the incoming throng of immigrants
a tea trust has been formed in Toxic,
Japan, for the purpose of restoring the
declining tea trade in that country"
turkish engineers say that the river
Euphrates might: be made navigable the
year round by an expenditure CT 100000.
Mrs. Anna Roush, of Letart, Ohio, has
T fully two thousand living descendants She
was born in Morgantown, Pa, June 4, 1857.
A colored woman Of Adairsville dropped
dead from heart disease from the effects Of
applying snuff to her gums with tooth
brush
In selecting the names of jury to try a
man for murder down in Georgia the name
OF the murdered man was drawn out of the
box along with the others.
Speaking.of brief names, there is a family
IN France named B, one in Belgium named
Q, a river in Holland called the Y and
village in Sweden named A.
The explanation of the peculiar density
OF thunder clouds is said to lie in the fact
that the yapor is partially condensed into
drops by the electrical action.
a colored thief at Bridgeport, Conn.,,
jumped into the canal, and the policeman
who was chasing him followed suit and
arrested the fellow in the wate-.
One hundred boys and girls of Wood
land, CAL, whose ages range from twelve
to nineteen years, have formed Co-opera-
tive Fruit Canning and Drying Union
Shade is such a rare thing in Pasco, Ore
gon, that the Pilot remarks: The shade of
the radish and lettuce leaves is noticeable,
and has cooling effect upon all passers. by.
1t is said that from the summit of Mount
Blanc one can see the Tyrol, portions of
France, Germany and Austria the Nett
terranean and italy as far as the Apen.
mines.
A Georgia youth who nswered (tnclos-
n o. Wy cd of
make money without work got in reply
piece Of paper inscribed: "Catch suckers.
as we do''
At Chisamba, Africa, the young people
have asked the missionary to raise flag
Saturday evenings that they may know
that the next day is Sunday and come to
the meetings.
Out in Nevada telegraph poles in low
places, where water stands in winter, are
said to have taken root and are covered
with foliage. The poles are cottonwood
and were planted with the bark on them.
A diver, who was working at the founda-
ton OF railroad bridge near Boise City,
Idaho, gave signal to be hoisted quickly.
When he got to the surface he held fast a
sixty-fve pound salmon that he had caught
by the gills.
Precious stones are much more widely
distributed than formerly. There are
many families who own jewels to the value
of half million, while few wealthy peo-
pie had even 100000 invested in diamonds
ten years ago.
A dispatch from Ohio tells of one of the
shortest courtships on record The groom
was guest at a Canton hotel He became
infatuated with the cook on the day of his
arrival, proposed, and, being accepted mar
ried her at once
Mrs. Lille Devereaux Blake is one of
the best-looking Of the women suffragists.
She is tall, and she has delicately posed
head and soft gray eyes. Her hair is turn
ing gray, but her hands and her throat
have the pretty plumpness of youth.
A fellow calling himself John the Bap-
list, but who is probably some other person
altogether, has been swinging around the
circle in Sanilac county, Pennsylvania,
warning the people to flee from the wrath
to come. He carries a blue cotton umbrella
and wears a cockade
It lis stated that German artillery officer
has succeeded in making a new explosive
from carbolic acid and that shell filled
Will Gu1S udGCl4dl pOSScSS0S d E)OW0E Hull
erto unclaimed. Experiments made with
these shells, thrown from mortars, have
all, it is stated, proved highly successful.
There are only five states in the union in
which a schoolmaster can now legally fog
a pupil In all other states pupil men,
aced with corporal punishment can arm
himself with any secret weapon and use it
as best he can. Massachusetts teachers
fog an average of two boys per day per
capita.
A curious fashion has come into vogue in
Paris. In all the cemeteries metal boxes
with slit in the lid are placed on the
tom bstones to receive the cards Of visitors.
The relatives of the deceased are thus en-.
abled to see who among the living still
cherish the memory of their departed
friends.
During dispute over calf at Camas
Prairie Oregon, recently Ed Rinehardt
hit Helm Mcconnell on the head with a
heavy plug of tobacco. In order to prevent
a suit charging him with assault with a
deadly weapon, Rinehardt paid $40, be-
sides giving over the calf and the Mug of