New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-09-10
WINGED MISSILES

An Englishman recommends tomatoes as
a remedy for dyspepsia and biliousness.
Six female doctors were received into the
faculty of medicine in Paris in one week
"A Philadelphia mendicant known as
Blind Johnny is said to be. worth $50, 900.
France has the accumulation Of ages,
and there. are seventy-six millionaires in
the republic.
The centennial of the discovery of coal
in Pennsylvania is to be celebrated in Sep
TENDER, 1891.
It's well enough for all to aspire.
.Thackeray used to say all claret would be
port if it could
A good many states have laws forbidding
the sale of cigarettes to boys, but generally
it is a dead law.
1t is estimated that fully 1000 Pennsyl-
vanians are in the employ of the United
States government.
It was John Henry Newman who said:
sSome mud sticks longer than other mud
but no mud is immortal. y
The Milwaukee Journal says: Mistakes
are gentle reminders that we are becoming
700 COuuUonG III ourselves.
The business section of New York is
growing so fast that the gentry are being
crowded out of Fifth avenue.
Men who are surly and are wot not to
speak to you, only show their boorishness.
Gentlemen don't do that way.
A boy in Peeksville, N. Y, is said to
have looked in succession two eels whose
combine length was seven feet.
Five generations of one family sat for
their photographs in single group at
Springfield, Pa, few days ago.
A military Gordon has been established
around Lisbon to prevent the entrance Of
any person from a cholera infected district.
The abolition of the slave trade at Zanzi-
bar, is the first good effect Of English influ-
ence there. Now let US see if it will stay
abolished
Germany has one doctor to 500 of popu-
lation, France one to 3,167, the United
Kingdom one to 1884, but the United States
one to 600.
It is claimed that Tulare county, Califor-
MIA, will lose round half million dollars
this year for want Of ships to carry it's
grain to Liverpool.
The long rains in France have ruined the
wheat harvest, and the farmers are greatly
depressed Fancy prices are paid for the
leftover grain of last year.
Many Settlers in the Big Bend, Wash,
country have been driven away by the
ravages Of squirrels that swarm in count
less numbers in that region.
The Russian government has made an
appropriation of 1900 roubles annually for
the maintenance of a Pasteur institute in
Tiflis for the cure of hydrophobia.
At L'Orient Arsenal, in France, great
ironclad war vessel of II 900 tons is nearly
completed. It IS strongly armed with i'm
mense cannon in revolving towers.
It is said that there are 1000 vacant
houses in Kansas City, Mo-, and that it
has lost many thousand of population the
past two years since it's 'boom" collapsed.
While sleeping in the railroad station at
Pittsburg a traveller dreamed that his father
was drowning before his eyes, and his pitt
full appeals for help almost created a panic.
An En- glish medical writer asserts that
cancer is not hereditary in the vast MAORI
ty of cases no less than 80 per cent being
caused by external influences upon the
sufferers.
recently purchased in England splendid
stallion named Melton for $4,000. It is
intended for the royal stables at Venaria
and Pisce.
The most valuable metal in the world is
said to be gallium, which is worth S., $50 an
ounce. Calcium brings s., 800 pound and
cerium s1,920 per pound. Gold is worth
s24O a pound.
An eighteen-y ear-old youth at Cleveland
went to the circus and laughed so much
that he has been unable to stop laugh
ing since. Doctors say the show at
fected his brain.
A faithful dog in Hamilton, Ohio, didn't
abandon its attempt to arouse it's drunken
owner who had fallen asleep on the rail
road track, until an engine cut off it's leg.
The man escaped injury.
A bookbinder in Vienna was called upon
to bind volume of 100 leaves worth 1OO,-
900 gulden. Each leaf was bond for
100000 gulden, the book being the owner S
gift to his only daughter.
J. w. r. Haley, of Gainesville, Ca, is
the champion fisherman Of that section.
He caught an eel from w. C.,Hall's carp
pond that was 3 feet 9 inches long, inches
in circumference and weighed six pounds.
Fifteen millions Of dollars is mentioned
as the value Of the art treasures accum-
ulated in Halford House by Sir Richard
Wallace, and it is rumored that all this
will go, under the will, to the English
nation.
Peter B. Sweeney is trying to get New
York to undertake improv ements along the
banks of the Hudson similar to those in
London beside the Thames. He wants a
grand driveway extending several miles to
be created.
Wilson Zackery, colored, of Summer, S.
G., had a leg burned when a child, but it
gave him no trouble until he severely n
jured it two years ago. The sore refused
to heal, and day or two ago it had to be
amputated.
negro drayman while driving a dray
heavily loaded with merchandise at Macon,
lost his. balance and fell off and the draw