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

on that instrument.
A late survey OF the Colorado river found
salt, coal, fre-clay and copper in abund-
lance, with some horn and ruby silver,
quartz and placer gold.
There are two birds at the London Zoo
that have great regulations as ventrilo-
quests. One is crane like bird called the
trumpeter and the other is the emu.
The women Of Milford, Me-, have built a
town hall. They were two years getting
the money together, which they collected
by giving fairs, oyster suppers and other
entertainments.
A British captain claims that he saw &
vessel go through Newfoundland fog and
leave an open space like a tunnel. Another
ship was able to follow, keeping the other
i'm sight all the way
+ The ex- Empress Charlotte, widow of the
unfortunate Macmillan, has nearly recov-
cred from the insanity which has afflicted
her since her misfortunes with her royal
husband in Mexico.
On branch road of the Canadian Pa
cific, near Sudbury, Canada, is a nickel
mine that produces more nickel than the
worlds market calls for The output is
stated to be 1000 tons annually.
The belle of recent dog feast on an In.
dian reservation in Dakota wore a jacket
trimmed with teeth from $50 elks, which
she herself had slain. She is the grand
daughter of the chief of the tribe.
# Experiments have been made in Germany
with torpedoes made of paper, loaded with
a charge of twenty-five pounds of dynamite
and fired by electricity Very satisfactory
results are said to have been obtained.
The Prince of Wales when going on a
journey always takes along whole boxes of
hats and huge trunks of dress suits, morn
ing coats and other changes. He makes a
point when visiting anywhere of not being
seen twice in the same coat.
A lawyer in Pennsylvania was badgering
a woman during cross examination when
she charged him with having sent his
father to the poor house, robbed his mother
and deserted his first wife, and the lawyer
grew so quiet that pin could have heen
heard to drop
e Pope Leo uses a gold pen for is CORE
spondence, but his signatures are always
attached with quill fro1ithe wing of
dove or stormy petrol, opinion is divided as
to which This pen he.s been in use by the
pope for forty years, and is kept by him in
a case of ivory.
The daily rations of pair of ostriches
ION the F-ilbrook farm in San Diego coun-
ty, California are forty pounds of beets for
breakfast, and for dinner a gallon or two
III grain. For dessert the birds are given
bits of bone. 'Gail Hamilton the pride
OF the farm, is two years old and stands
nine feet i've inches high,
Mary Frances Augustin, who died in
Philadelphia the other day at the age Of
ninety. two, was for many years the most
noted caterer Of that city. She was always
especially proud of the praise bestowed
upon her by General Lafayette for tho
cuisine of banquet given him when he
passed through the city in 1924.
The Watsessing IN. " Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union has decided to boy
colt all grocers and butchers who sell cider.
:. The question Of making 1nince pies with
outeider was also discussed. Many of the
members said they could not make good
pies unless they used cider, but this was
contradicted by the conservative members
of the body.
Two mammoth red bats, of the species
Identical with the vampire bat of the Bra
zils, have just been captured in Tensas
Parish, Louisiana. They are in shape like
bats, but many times larger, measuring
twenty-five inches from the tip of one wing
to the tip of the other. In color they are
arevolting blood tint, and are Of snap
ping, vindictive temper.
The White House stables are a pretty
group of brick buildings situated on lot
south of the mansion and sheltered by q
row of box-trees., There are four horses
for the use of the presidents family, three
bays and gray One of the bays is named
John and he is of remarkably gentle ma
ture and extremely fond of eating sugar
from Mrs. Harrison's hand.
When the late Cornelius Vanderbilt
built his summer residence at Hartford al
an expense Of over s1OO,0O9 the decorators
I covered the walls of his dining-room with
ordinary brown paper, such as is used by
butchers to wrap meat in. There was q
cherry wood dado and a rich frescoed
frieze This room was considered one OF
the handsomest in the wealthy town.
The government printing Office is nov
engaged in filling one of the largest orders
in its history. This is for 10, 00G 800 blanks
for the use of the 10000 enumer ators OF thu
eleventh census, who will begin work il
May. 1t will take 5000 reams of paper
Z y ssud twenty presses will have to be worked
twenty. two hours each day for six week
before the order will have been completed
Burial reform in England contemplate
the prohibition Of leaden and other solidlJ
constructed collins, the effect of Whichgi:
thought to retard complete decomposition,
and so prolong the period during
which the dead are not only estheticall.
Objectionable, but are an indisputabl
source of danger to the living. 1t is pro
posed to use, wickerwork or papier macht
receptacles.
The Piccadilly swells appear to- hav
agreed upon new way of carrying thei
canes. Heretofore it has been the fashio
to wear the stick directly in front of an
parallel with the body, the head of the site
bsing upward and pointing forward. Blu
the latest style is to carry the stick ferrul
end upward, the head turned toward tn
body and the stick held stiff1y at at al