New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-04-30
SUPERFICIAL SURVEY. .

presented the public school with a clock.
This was followed by more expensive one
by rival jeWeler, and by the time the
enthusiasm had subsidized every room III the
school had clock.
General Sherman is an enthusiastic spec
tator OF theatrical performances. He has
the entree to every theater in New York
city. He likes a seat well down in front,
for his eyesight and hearing are not as
good as they were.
Thesstudents cf the Northwestern Uni
yersity Evasion ILL.,, have life-saving
crew which has become famous. Lately
the crew have won new glory by saving
eighteen lives from the wreck of the Calu-
met on Lake Michigan.
The grave of Nathaniel Harrison, the an
cestor of President Harrison, was desecrat-
located on the north side Of the James
River road, near Sunken Meadow, in Sur
rey County, Virginia.
The results of recent experiments in the
Mediterranean showing how far daylighs
will penetrate the water were found with
gelatine bromide plates. The greatest
depth was 1878 feet, or 327 feet short OF
the limit assigned some years ago.
By the will of the late President Dodge,
Madison University, the income of his es-
tate goes to Mrs. Dodge during her life,
and at her death one.half of the state is left
to the university to which the president
gave the last and best years Of his life.
Whenever William E. Gladstone catches
cold he at once goes to bed. This has been
his rule for fifteen years. It is an inter-
estlng fact, mot generally known, that he
wrote his election address announcing the
dissolution of Parliament in 1874 in bed
A Belgian has lately invented musical
shirt On the cuffs of which fragments of a
score are printed, SO thati the instrument.
alist be hutist, harpist or cornetist he
has his entire part under his eyes, and
need not carry any further music about
with him.
Emile Zola's next book will be called
Money and will deal with the Paris ex-
change and the many wild speculations
which have world wide celebrity .'The
Breakdown descriptive of the fall OF
the Second Empire and the Franco German
war
The young Ladies of Ba tn, England, now
give a german and invite no gentlemen.
Part of them take the gentlemen's place,
being dressed in black with white shirt
front, high collar and white necktie Odds
are offered that there will be very few Civ
en-.
M. Rouvier, the French minister OF
finance, is about to contract a marriage
with his niece, Mile. Cadiot of Dieppe. M.
Rouvier lost his first wife abouta year ago.
She was wellknown in the literary world
as a novelist under the name of Claude
Vignon.
Mrs. J.. c. Croly denny June), founder
OF the New York Sorosis, has presented
each member of the latter with a photo
graph of the members of the Sorosis club
of Bombay, most of whom are native
Indian women, in the costume Of their
country.
The supervisors of San Francisco have
passed an ordinance for the removal of
Chinatown from the heart of the city It
provides that after sixty days it shall be
unlawful for Chinese to reside or do bust
ness in the locality where they now have
their quarters.
A Philadelphia chemist says of the rise
in champion: "Not long ago it could be
bought at As cents per pound by the barrel
now it is selling at Is cents. The cause of
the increased price, is owing to the fact
that camphor is being used for making
! smokeless powder"
The food of a "Zoo'' hippopotamus is es-
timated to be about two hundred pounds a
day in weight, and consists chiefly in hay,
grass and roots. The daily provendcr of a
| giraffe weighs about fifty pounds. The
lions and tigers obtain about eight or nine
| pounds of meat a dav
The possible annexation of Lower Cali
| fornia is still taken very seriously by the
people of the southern section of California.
The press demands it, the politicians see in
it great future. The peninsula at present
has only 3d. 900 population, large proper
ton of which is indian.
There is perch fish in we'll at William
| Ayers near Nashville. Ga, known to be
thirty five years old. When the well is
being cleaned "perche'' is taken ut,placed
in bucket of fresh water and kept until
| the work is completed. The fish keeps the
water clear of all insects
For nearly century there has exis ted in
| New York City society for the "relief Of
| poor widows with small children" It was
| formed by some of the foremost people of
the city, and for three generations the
daughters have taken the place of the moth
ers in its management.
The Ladies' Hollywood Memorial associa-
ton of Richmond, Va, will petition the city
council to have the house occupied by JEFF
ferson Davis during the war preserved
| from destruction and turned over to the
association, to be used as museum of con-
federate relics and memorial hall
An autograph letter Of Richard III was
sold in England recently for about S. 25 per
inch of surface 1t was written at Ber-
nard Castle, in Durham, Aug, 4, 1850, or
about three years before the crook back
duke of Gloucester, then constable and adj
miral of England came to the throne
There are indications that poor Ca rlotta,
exEmpress of Mexico, may soon be restored
to complete mental health. She is now
able to keep up voluminous correspond
ence with such OF her old friends as have
survived, and can approach the story Of
her husbands execution with compare tive
calmness