New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-04-23
WINGED MISSILES.

Horace Greeley's sister, who died recent
~ In Pennsylvania, was the mother of
eighteen children.
Ex-king Milan is said to be anxious to
relieve his chronically impecunicus condi-
tion by marrying the wealthy widow
Barrios of Guatemala.
King Menelek of Abyssinia has had
crown made IN Milan, Italy, for S. 600.
Ig'ls IS very cheap crown but perhaps
Menelek does not expect to wear it long.
General Beale has sold his ranche.in Cali
hornla to the inevitable Englishs syndicate
Tor S2OO, 600, 600. This comes from locating
an extensive farm in the early days of the
gold fever
The British war Office has decided that
Wnen 1t becomes necessary to handcutf a
soldier in uniform he must not be- marched
through the streets, but covered convey
ance shall be provided.
A Russian officer has invented aluminous
prolectile to be fired from gun 1t is
claimed that it will be ,extremely.useful for
discovering the movements, of an enemy in
a naval contest at night
~ Charles John Gay, an English cartman,
after good record of fourteen years, has
Just been sent to prison for month for
stealing two oranges worth penny. from
some goods he was carting for a. largo firm
Of lawmakers. ~.
Columbus sailed on his first expedition
from Palos on Friday, Aug. 3, 1892. He
sailed from Cadiz on his second expedition
on Sept. "a, 1893; sailed on his third svoy-
age on May 80, 1893, and on his fourth uoy-
age on May 9, 1902.
The Gar of Russia has promised to lis
ten at St Petersburg to glee club COM
posed of Americans studying at German
universities. He had much better listen to
the voice of the American people. inrregard
4 to the Siberian exiles.
Lord Salisbury, who in his younger days
was as lank and abnormally thin as his
nephew Arthur Balfour, the secretary for
Ireland, has now become exceedingly stout,
e.. and even unwieldly. His weight is now
e, stated to be 23O pounds
The earth's diameter at the equator is
, 1925 miles, at the poles 1899. Its mean
, diameter is 1916 miles; circumference at
the equator 24,S99 In round mum bers there
. are 54,50o,O00, square miles of land, and
142, 0OO,O)O square miles of water.
Doctors, us rule, are reticent about
IT, their fees, but DR.. Willard Parker was
paid 100000 for the successful removal of
, an eXcrescence from the face and neck of
1.-the son and heir of one of the wealthiest
, families in the vicinity of New York.
l. Rev. Carrie Bartlett, who is becoming
:. widely known as successful preacher in
the. unitarian ministry at Kalamazoo, is
young and more than commonly attractive,
with an oval face, regular features and
large, soft eyes and curls about her face.
An elephant at Philadelphia died sud-
denly the other day from enlargement of
the heart Its heart was found to be alb
normally large. It more than filed a wash
tub and weighed 1O2 pounds. The big heart
ed but. unfortunate animal was one hun
,dred and fourteen years old.
Bishop Mackenzie, of Zululand, who died
Ion Feb. 9, of enteric fever, gave instruc-
tions previous to his demise that his corpse
should be buried in Zulu fashion. Accord
.ingly no coffin was used, but the body was
[ tied. up in a blanket in a kneeling position
.'and,was thus placed in hole.
A Bridgeport. Conn, newspaper recently
printed the following advertisement aChu
.Fong would likee smally nice Mclean Lady.
She no have to- work, as Gnu Fong got big
lot of money Gnu Fong will do the washee
and the coQkee; wife she can dress up every
day. Prize. $40 for best girl. Chu Fong."
The Nonotuclz Silk company generates
power from a water wheel at its low est mill
in Leeds, Mass, then turns in into cleo
ftricitY,, conveys it to the mill thirty
mods above, where it is converted into mo-
tion by means of q, dynamo, and thus do
the work OF a sixty-five horse power engine.
The matchmaker Goering, of Otterson,
near Hamburg, Germany, is the oldest vet
eran of the Napoleonic wars He will be
lone hundred and five years old on the 18th
of this month. In 1912 he took part IN the
retreat of the French over the Beresina,
and witnessed Napoleon's flight from Rus
STA. s.---.'.
LAGOON was a Trojan patriot and priest :;
he opposed the Introduction Of Sinon's
wooden horse into the city of Troy and was
- slain with his two sons by two great
serpents from the sea- Get translation
of Virgil's Hneid and read the account
given therein. Read also Lessing's La
COCOON, translated by Ellen rockingham
Santa Cruz has horse that is 6fty-three
years old. He came to California in 1913
with William Handley, and was called an
old horse then. For many years Jerry
worked in the brewery. but was TUNED out
to rest last year. Ills favorite food is the
refuse malt from the still, and he does not
disdain to wash it down with bucket of
warm beer.
Jane Hading's chief points of beauty are
Gxher eyes and hair; for the latter she has
used for several years q certain chemical
&water which does not dye the hair, but
which makes it more brilliant and has the
effect of making it wavy with a tendency
to curl Her hair is never curled with
frogs, and the arrangement of it has long
been subject of envy among the ladies in
society.
TWO large buck deer in Michigan fou ght
until their horns became interlecked, and
they were so found by Mrs. L. w. Trewa-
yry and her eleven-year-oid son. It took an
hour to kill them with knife and club The
fight between the deer had ragged over
three acres of ground, and the small
trees looked as if a tornado had been at
work. The gross weight of the, deer was
= .435 pounds
The question of the wholesale destn,c-
tion of swallows by electricity has at last