New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-04-16
SUPERFICIAL SURVEY.

And must De Soto go, tooa In his leo
ture at st. Louis, Prof John F,iske ascribes
the discovery OF the Mississippi river TO
De Pineda, in 1919.
Mrs. Burnete's new infantile drama IS
to be named 'Nixie.n This will afford a
dread ul temptation to those who are asked
If they are going to see it.
Miss Veazey, daughter Of the inter state
commerce commissioners, is named Anna
Gettysburg. She was born on one of the
days Of the Gettysburg battle.
At Salamis, on Cyprus, big capital of
marble column has been unearthed bearing
q winged bull emerging as far as neck and
wings. The latter form part of the archi-
tectural motive of the capital
Admiral Albini of the Italian navy saws
that the man.of war Of the future will have
double screws and helm at each end, so
that 1t can turn around without losing any
time. Its sides, he says, will be unarmor-
ed.
A huge squash that has been exhibited
in an Auburn, Me-, store window for sew
eral months, being cut open, it was found
that the seeds had commenced to sprout.
and there were a number Orwell formed
leaves.
Although Connecticut is but ninety miles
long and seventy broad, it is 50 we'll sup.
piled with railroads that you can travel in
its cars close upon one thousand miles it Is
said, without crossing its borders and
without repeating
1t came out in an English court few
days ago that 100 WORKOUT horses had Just
been shipped from that country to Germany
and Belgium to be used in the manufact-
ure Of sausage, and that such shipments
were a regular thing.
A citizen of Addison, Me-, has the re-
mains OF an ancient Walrus that was wash
ed out of clay bank near his home. The
bones were at least fifteen feet underground,
showing that the animal must have died
many years ago and that the walrus once
inhabited the Maine coast.
A man OF Morgan county, Ohio, has
cat which is known by the neighbors as
the sssolar spectrum From the tip of its
Tail to the end of its nose there are dis
trlbuted all the colors of the rainbow. It's
nose shines like carbuncle, and there are
several shades of violet on the fore legs.
Wilkie Collins strange creation in his
novels some years ago is paralleled by Will
liam !. Smith OF Dublin, Laurens county,
Ca, who has turned ultra-1n arine blue,
with greenish reflection, all over. be-
cause Of the immoderate doses of nitrate
OF silver given him by physicians during
childhood to remedy epileptic affections.
Tamagno, the tenor, was a baggage porter
before his remarkable powers of voice were
revealed. He does not favor his former
craft, however, when he is on his travels.
II porter demands what he regards as too
much for carrying his trunk, he calmly
shoulders it himself with all his old-time
skill
During storm which recently ragged in
the canton of Neurchatel, Switzerland. q
shower of living caterpillars fell on the hill
of Cretes. They were in myriads, and of
three species some yellow, the others
black, and varying in length. Among the
3caterpillars were many other insects. The
source from which the gale conveyed them
rs unknown.
The corsets worn by Mrs Langtry. are of
plain satin, in pink, mauve or white. They
are extremely long, and have two very
broad bones down the front that are under
faced with plush, SO that they may not
hurt her. The only opening is in the back
where the corsets lace, and this has to be
done every day exactly as our grandmoth-
ers did it many years ago.
Advices from Johannesburg, in tho
Transvaal state, are that persons arrested
there for taking part in the demonstration
against the government, during which the
flag OF the republic was hauled dowh. by the
mob, have been taken to Pretoria They
are charged with treason. There is intense
excitement throughout the republic. A
reform association has been formed.
M. Fouque, the mineralogist, claims to
have discovered in mixture of silicate of
copper and lime the beautiful color s'azur.
rino," the composition Of which has long
puzzled artists His tint, he says, is per-
fectly interchangeable, and is Identical with
the Alexandrian blue which was known to
the Ptolemies and imported into Italy in
the first century of the Christian era.
The personnel of the Presidents cabinet
is as follows: James G.. Blaine, secretary
Of state; William Window, secretary of
the treasury; Redfeld Proctor, secretary
Of war; w. H. H. Miller, attorney general;
John Wanamaker, postmaster general;
Benjamin F. Tracy, secretary of the navy;
John w. Noble, secretary of the interior;
Jere N. Rush, secretary of agriculture
Perhaps the most famous of all matadors,
the espada primero of the world, is Fran
cisco Sanchez (alias Lagartijo) He is pro-
badly the most daring, skillful ull-fighter
that ever lived. His handling of the wild
and savage bulls of Jarama is something
marvellous. He now seldom appears,
$4,000 being the price demanded and
secured in advance for each performance.
One million young whitetish were let
loose recently by the United States fish
commission in Lake Ontario. tt is not
many years since this lake abounded in
this valuable fish. Of late it has been
greatly Trimmed out, but with state and
federal fish commissions co, operating TO re-
stock the lake, it will not be long before as
good catches as were formerly common can
again be made
An electrical instrument has been invent
ed which is designed to remove the pain
incidental to the extraction of teeth. It
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