New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-04-09
WINGED MISSILES.

trio bell in cabinet containing poisOns.
When the door is opened the bell rings, re-
sninding the compounder what he is hand
ling.
Secretary Tracy has. sight in one eye
only. When young he taught school in
northern New York, and an unruly pupil
threw slate at him, striking him in the
eye and destroying the sight.
John Jacob Astor owned 2, 200 high class.
dwelling houses, rented at an average of
$1,000 year each. He owned besides tene-
ment houses in untold number and no end
OF real estate devoted TO business uses.
The emperor of China visits the empress
doWager at the Nanbai palace every five
days TO inquire after her majesty's health.
The visits are always made early in the
morning, attended by vast retinue Of
personal followers. r"
1t is said that four years after the fight
at Chickamauga the battlefield shone like
bright moonlight, even on the darkest
nights. The light came from the phosphores-
cent exhalations Of the decaying bones Of
the heaped-up dead.
Dora Labouchere is lively and spirited
child of six years, with raven black hair,
dark eyes and olive complexion At the
private view of the ''Truth Toy Show she
acted as hostess to some hundreds of visit
ors with perfect ease.
Joseph Switzerland who was the powder
boy on the vessel which first brought to
England the news OF Nelson's victory at
Trafalgar, attained his Tooth year at Milton,
Slttingbourne recently. He has GOOD
health and has all his faculties intact
English without the slightest accent and is
very fond Of English customs. She has an
EnglishWoman for one of her ladies in
waiting, and especially invites English
ladies visiting Monaco to call upon her.
Near Cold Springs, Harnett County, N.
C., lives remarkable old lady. Her name
As Mrs. Phoebe Wilson, but far and wide
she is known as Granny Wilson," She is
one hundred and nine years old and has
been twice married.
Bushyhead the Cherokee chief, now in
Washington, is TALL with a brown skin,
but with the features of Caucasian. It
is said that he is not more than one-eighth
p Indian. Some years ago he married
"'ece Of Senator Butler, of South Carolina.
f5%aunounced that e. III. Barney the
:, 4lilonalre skate manufacturer of Spring
field, Mass, will present to that city his
entire estate of 200 acres at UPecowsic, to-
gether with his residence-one of the finest
in Springfeld-to be added to Forest park.
Somewhere in the West Indies an Eng
hshman claims to have discovered what he
calls the 'Wnistling tree" It has, he SAYS,
peculiarly shaped leaf and split pods
opened, the motion of the breeze through
which causes peculiar whistllng sound
That can be heard at a great distance.
A new York bank president says that
during the past twenty eight years the
amount OF money lost by all the national
banks through dishonest practices does not
exceed ST,OOO,OJO. In view of the vast
sums handled by the banks during these
years, he considers the amount small.
a Michigan paper tells of a farmer catch
ing a fellow going out of his pasture one
night with a sheep on his back and blazing
away at him with a shotgun. The paper
naively adds that the fellow dropped the
sheep went to Ann Arbor the next day,
and when he returned he had a glass eye.
Uncle Joe Haddon, who is still living in
South Carolina, was sent out to America in
1893 by an English company to take charge
OF the first locomotive on the old South
Carolina railroad. He is now eighty-six
years old, and still does hard days work
as miller and machlnist on Carolina
plantation. -r
A Canton, China, paper estimates that
10000 people die every year in China by
fire and flood, but it is not satisfied 1.-THE
fact is" it remarks, with cold blooded
cynicism, ''the great need Of China is the
sudden removal Of 100000 Or 100000 in
habitants to make elbow-room for those
who are leftn
The prince Of Wales is patron of COM
bination fair and military athletic exhibi-
ton which is to be held in May for the pur-
pose of establishing at the posts Of the
British army clubs to be known as soldiers,
Institutes, which it is believed will greatly
improve the social condition of the rank
and file. ~.
Says the Sci [ kwai Medical Journal:
Apropos Of the suspected. influence of the
climate of Japan in ths causation Of rheu-
matlsm and neuralgia In resident foreign
= crs, it is Interesting to note that horses i'm
ported into Japan from China and other
countries are soon more or less disabled by
rheumatism. ...-
The usher of the English court of pro-
bate and divorce has just died, leaving
fortune of 100000, accumulated from a
salary of $3.50 per year for thirty three
years, and from the tips that flowed in up
on him in a stream, averaging nearly
$4,000 per year. Suitors, jurymen, wit
nesses, reporters, and lawyers all have to
tip the usher in the English courts.
Of the 1900 kinds Of flowers which grow
in Europe, only 420 are odoriferous. The
white flower is the most common, there
being 1884 kinds Of that color. Less than
one-fifth of these are fragrant OF the
951 kinds of yellow flowers seventy-seven
are odoriferoas; of the S23 red kinds.
thirty one; of the 30S violet-blue kinds
with combined colors, twenty eight are
fragrant.
Frances Berry Whitcher is scarcely
known by name to the present generation of
American readers, yet she wrote one of the
most popular books of her time s.The Wild
ow Bedott Papers, She was born in
Oneida county, New York, in 1911, and
died there in 1852. In 1S47 she married Mr.