New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-08-20
WINGED MISSILES


Turkish women eat rose leaves with but
ter to secure plumpness.
1t is stated that oysters ten inches long
are found in New Guinea.
Keep anything long enough and you have
use for it, is an old saying.
The Russian government has lust ordered
four new ironclads put on the stocks.
A citizen of Baker City, Oregon, paid
Sl2O freight on two terriers from England.
A limited liability company has been
formed in London to build a new crema-
tory
| The last eyewitness of the battle of
| Trafalgar, centenarian seaman, has just
| died in England.
A lazy man in the East has an alarm
clock which will also touch off the match
and light the fire.
| A London magistrate has decided that a
servant cannot be discharged summarily
for reading in bed.
The New York postoffce is good invest
ment. It Melted the government nearly
millions last year.
Prunes are very profitable crop in
California. One grower expects to get
S11, 900 for his crop.
The Car Of Russia INDUCES his youthful
| pleasures. He is still collector of postage
stamps and BIRDS eggs.
| The work on the Congo railroad is MAX
ing rapid progress. About one thousand
negroes are employed upon it.
Few large trunks are seen on the rail-
roads. 1t is evident that the baggage
smasher has little occupation.
There is a woman at Sedalia who becomes
thoroughly charged with electricity every
time she rides on the electric road
One car building company in Pennsylva-
MIA has on hand orders for $4,000 freight
cars. The largest order is for 10000.
Eighteen newspapers have been started
at San Diego, CAL, in the past three years,
and all have gone into the graveyard.
A South Carolina paper contains an ad-
| vertisement for bids from undertakers who
| will agree to conduct funerals ssreverently''
Whenever Potter Palmer patronizes his
own hotel and restaurant he pays his bill
| like any other man. He can afford to do so.
A newly discovered cave in Josephine
|
long and to contain several mineral springs.
The Chinese yellow table spreads are in
style They are in vogue in the east, where
many foolish fads have their rise and fall.
People who are carried away by their
own emotions are never reliable. You
never know how far they have been car
ried.
A sparrow at Colestown, Pa, built a
nest in the running gear of a farmers
wagon and makes a trip to market every
week. -.- ..-"...
Certain European noblemen-principal-
~ Engllshmen - are now the owners of
about 1000 acres of land in the United
States.
People who do great deal of moving
can do something toward solving the ques-
ton "What becomes of all the old news
papers"
! The Maori women in New Zealand are
| killing themselves in the efforts to wear
corsets since they have seen them on mis-
sionary women.
Guests at St. Louis help themselves since
the walters strike, and the best of it is
they are not so long about it and they have
no walters to tip.
Mr.. j. j. Cravens is the wheat king of
California. His possessions are in Tulare
county, and this year he will harvest II, 900
bushels of wheat.
The queen travels on a pass, and vet
every trip she makes to Balmoral costs the
English government S., 900 to defray the
railroad expenses.
The largest sheep ranch in the world is in
the counties of Webb and Dimnet, in Texas.
It contains 100000 acres, and yearly past
ures 100000 sheep.
The saloonlzeepers Of ST. Petersburg have
been warned not to sell liquors to factory
operatives on credit or to entice them to
| drink in any other way
Fruit raising in California is not all
! profit. Not less than 10, 900 fruit trees were
lost on ranch at Woodland last winter.
At the low estimate of $4,000.
During the marriage service in a church
in Virginia the other day, a goat walked in
and broke up the ceremony by summari1y
| ejecting the groom with his head.
The reason why firecracl1ers are always
covered with red paper is that red is the
festive color in China, and that firecrackers
are used chiefly on festive occasions.
Emin Pasha will write book. Ten Ger
man publishers have solicited his work. It
is not expected that his book will agree
with Mr.. Stanley's 'sIn Darkest African
! The bones of some prehistoric giants
have been unearthed near Admission, Ala.
One of the thigh bones was So inches long
and the skulls averaged "a inches in cir
conference.
1t is said that a bunch Of clover hung up
in sittingroom or bedroom will clear it
OF flies. This remedy must be equally
agreeable to the inhabitants of the room
and to the flies
Puck offers the following definition:
Liberty consists in being able to do as you
please yourself, while you see that your
neighbor does as. you please to think he
should properly do.
/ A poor washerwoman at Fayetteville,
Ark, who few days ago was notified that
she had been granted a pension and would
receive $1,000 back pay, was so overcome