New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-08-06
WINGED MISSILES.

One OF the highest students at Cambridge
IS blind
Christy, the London halter, died leaving
assets Of nearly 81, 500, 900.
The constant kicker can always be trust
ed. You can always depend on him to
kick. 6s8s r. 81
a young woman at Madison, Ind, being
frightened, screamed loudly and dislocated
her jaw.
London has cartoon genius. ElHeis only
10 and already draws with the master
strokes OF maturity.
A surveying party has discovered that
one Of Hudson's Bay Company's stations is
on American territory.
Some enterprising southern men propose
to give an exposition Of southern products
in some northern city.
The city Of Hamburg has surplus of
SO, 25o, 900. OF this amount 81, 100000 was
from last years receipts.
A miniature whirlwind carried off the
clothes Of three boys while they were swim.
ming near Lane aster, Pa.
Baltimore hackmen have raised the
price for attendance upon Sunday funerals,
which they wish to discourage.
A hungry horse tied in front Of dry
goods store at Norristown, Pa, devoured
part ola box Of cheap straw hats
In San Francisco the eight hour system
is pretty thoroughly established. The
bells ring when the day begins and ends.
The women of Russia are progressive.
Schools are to be established in Moscow
and st. Petersburg for instruction in COM
MERGE.
The wholesale firms Of cultured Boston
prefer help from graduates of the high
school rather than those from the grammar
departments.
The Portuguese nation is one of the most,
illiterate in Europe the illiterate inhabi-
tants being officially stated at 80 per cent
of the whole
1t is said that fair hair is rapidly disap-
pearing in the British Isles and that the
darkening Of hair is more marked in males
than females.
Rude Russia sends one good lesson out to
| the more civilized lands. Children under
y years Of age cannot be employed in any
kind of labor.
A new style Of mourning paper drops the
band of black all around the sheet, and
has it drawn diagonally across the Left
| hand corner only.
The decline Of English beauty is assert
| ed, Of course, with serious regret. Bad
teeth, short sight, and round shoulders are
the increasing faults
| A swarm of butterflies halted near Pla-
cerville, Cal, the other day, and for time
| they were 80 thick about the springs and
| most places that transfers couldn't see
their leaders.
| Civilization is old in England and
Wales and yet there is one pauper to
every thirty seven inhabitants Is this the
best English civilization can dos The
| facts are {. bold answer
There are twenty seven cities in the
country each Of which has 900 inhabi-
tants or more, and the total number of
| Inhabitants in ali of them is ], $3.50, 4S5, and
the average is over 35S 500.
A traveller in Japan writes that the Japa-
nese pay more attention to personal cleanli-
ness than any other people in the world.
High and low battle all over at least once
day and sometimes ostener
| Col. Cal Brice speaks from large ex-
perience when he says: II never helped
! any man set up in business with good re-
suits Still there are some brilliant ex-
ceptions to the senator's experience
Barnum is so years old and is worth IL
million dollars, all made out Of the show
| business Soon in the nature of things he
will sleep under the sod and the biographer
will say, HE was very rich man-once'
Photographs of seventy eight old couples
and the same number of pictures of
1 brothers and sisters of similar age are
said to show that the former are more like
one another in appearance than the broth
ers and sisters.
Iennyson, in sLocksley Hall" speaks Of
men, the workers. but the industry Of
women has never been duly celebrated in
song or painting. There are some butter
fly oilers in the sex, but the great majority
of them are toilers.
Labor is making its demands one by one
| This year the carpenters of the world tried
for eight hours and in many instances they
have been successful Next year the
miners all over the world may ASH for the
same limitation of time.
A Virginia woman who has had thirty
seven children was found by the census
man. Her mama is Martha Gray, and her
record is thus given: Six triplets, eighteen;
six twins, twelve; seven singles, seven;
total, thirty seven children.
A new and popular development of
electrical science is the electrical hair
curler. It is said to be equal to the most
exacting demands of the feminine couture,
! and the beard or mustache can be curled
in any style in two minutes.
A bridal couple in Springfield, Mass,
were so anxious to avoid the curious
glances of the neighbors on leaving the
house that they climbed over the back
yard fence, entered the carriage, which
was waiting on the next street.
The long distance telephone is making
Its way radidiy everywhere in Europe.
London and Paris are shortly to be united
by telephone, and Prague and Buda-Pesth
are already united. Brussels and Paris
have long been in telephone correspon-
| dence.
There is 9 very curious stone about which
| very little is eyer heard. 1t is called the
| ssAlexandrite, = in honor of Alexander Of
Russia, who was very fond OF them In
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