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

flood.
A wash of equal parts of 81 ycerine and
tactic acid will remove moth and freckles
from the face.
Colonel Ingerson says '.epithets are so
cheap that you can make money on, Lies at
fifteen cents a hundred
The Indianapolis News: cit is only a
question Of time when the wisest of us
will make foolish break
The steamship Savannah made the first
ocean voyage in July, 1919, sailing. from
New York to Liverpool in twenty-six
days.
Mrs Elizabeth Thompson Butler, the
artist, will paint an eviction scene. She
has gone to Ireland to study the surround
ings.
When one is fatigued and sore from much
walking, it is very refreshing to battle the,
feet in warm water and rub with extract
of arnica
The Alexandrian Library was in Alexan-
dria, Egypt. 1t is said to have contained
100000 valuable books (mannscripts.) It
was burned A. D. $40.
There are dozen factories in Amster-
dam kept busy night sand day making
genuine old spoons, knives and forks for
idiotic American tourists
Andrew Carnegie having founded free. Ii,
braries in all the places he made his money.
has started to build mammoth hotel at
Braddock, to be occupied solely by his EN-
ployes and their families.
A silk handkerchief, SO often. recon-.
mended for wiping spectacles or eye.
glasses, is not good for this purpose, as it
makes the glasses electrical, and causes
the dust to adhere to them.
The Russian government has ordered the
planned great railway Line across Siberia
to be begun When she line is COM
pleted it estimated that the tour Of the
world in fifty days will be feasible.
The Russian government will attempt;
to lift two English steamers which,
were sunk off Balaeaava during the Cri-
mean war. 1t is believed that in one of the:
vessels is chest containing $4,000.
Bordered glngharns are so wide that the,
width serves for the length of the skirt.
the border forming the skirt trimming The.
borders are wide; and are of Scotch plaid,
or have graduated stripes of hhe new chine
designs in vines
Tamagno, the great tenor, who gets $780,
OOO for fifty performances and has other
valuable perquisites, including eight seats
every night he sings, has a brother who
sings in the chorus for the affluent income
of sl7 per week.
George a. Pillsbury, of Minneapolis.
who was fos twenty seven years a resident
OF Concord, N. H., has given $50, 900 to the
Concord Hospital Association fer new
building, to be named the Margaret Pills
bury Hospital, as a memorial to his wife.
Captain. E. B. Alien, of Harwichport,
has ipvented fire escape by which, as he
claims, seven persons, can be rescued every
minute. One of tha features Of the inven-
tloa4 according to the design, is. the arrange
mont for rescuings from the flames uncon:
scsous people, children and lnvalids.
A new explanation of short-sightedness
comes from Braslau, Germany. A director
of the Ophthalmic University there de.
clares that in 300 cases that he has studied
the presence of tight cellars upon the mus
cles of the neck has so disturbed the cir
culation Of the tblood as to affect the eye
sight
To prevent your glass jars from crack
ing when putting in hot liquid stand a ia
blespoon upon them. There is prevail
ing idea that this process has something to
do with electricity, but the true solution
is that the spoon absorbs some of the heat,
and also carries some of it out into the
open air.
Nine de Mendonca, wife Of the Brazilian,
member of the Pan-American delegation,
talks politics as well as weather in the,
best OF English. She is pronounced by
strangers "a perfect type of Spanish
beauty" Both her beauty and her English
are indigenous, however, as she was born
in Maine Of generations of Yankee an
cestors.
King Leopold, of Belgium, speaks and
writes English with ease and accuracy.
He never lets Sunday pass without writ
ing an autograph letter to his friend and
ally, Queen Victoria. Whenever he travels
he takes with him his confidential English
attendant, Mr.. Charles Murray, who has
been in his service nearly quarter of a
century.
1t is related of Bishop Potter that he was
once taken to task by a few of his denomi-
national brethren on the charge of exhibit
ing conceit of himself atvariance with the
spirit of humility. cit is not conceit,n
said the bishop, with that ponderous bear
ing that silenced opposition, sit is not con-
ceit, brethren; it is the consciousness of
superiority
The advent of lot of ballot girls of
Barnum and Baily's circus in Bridgeport,
Conn, has caused two corset factory girls
to loose their situations. DESTROYS of
emulating the high kickers they practiced
during lunch hours and were surprised by
the shocked foreman He dismissed the
offenders with the remark that mo kick
ers were wanted there"
Sir Julian Pauncefote and Secretary
Blaine have become warm friends. They
liked each other from their first meeting
and further intercourse has strengthened
their regard for one another. Sir Julian
has even gone so far as to read Blaine's
Twenty Years of Congress- Whatever
may come between them automatically
they will always be well disposed toward
each other.
There ara allowed at the United Naval
Academy at Annapolis one naval cadet for
each member or delegate of the United
States house of representatives, one for the
District of CoIum bia and ten at large The