New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-07-09
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Ellen Terry says she considers Sarah
Bernhardt the greatest living actress
At a wedding at Lancaster. Pa, the
! groom was presented with a cemetery
lot by his father.
Ex-King Milan of Servia is the most
reckless gambler now in Paris. He viii
bet on anything.
Henry M. Stanley says that Emin
Pasha probably can not get used to the
ways of civilization.
Charles Hoover of Uniontown, Pa. is
Is years old, 6 feet 41-2 inches high,
and weighs 1913 pounds.
| The venerable Sir Edwin Chadwick,
the great sanitarian, uses no tobacco
and eats many green vegetables.
Sir William Gull. the famous London
physician, left a fortune, it is stated, of
considerably over one million dollars.
Mrs. Noble, wife of the Secretary OF
the Interior, has very unique collec-
ton of gold, enameled and silver
spoons.
Ex-King Milan of servia pays SIS, 900
a year for his residence in Paris. He
buys great deal of jewelry. What
becomes of it nobody knows.
Sardou, the French dramatist, started
out as surgeons assistant and be-
came professor of mathematics before
he took up play writing.
Joseph Cook and Oliver Wendell
Holmes sat side by side at the first ball
game of the season in Boston and ate
peanuts out of the same bag.
A Cleveland CO., parson advertises
in the local papers that his residence,
the address of which is printed in the
card, furnishes "a nice place for, we'd
dings." -.
The people of Independence town
ship, Warren county, n. j., voted to pay
a bounty of Is cents each for ground
hog tails, and now the township treasury
is bankrupt.
A. A. Anderson, the American artist,
will send to the Salon his fine portrait
of Mr.. Edison, which is said to be a
faultless likeness of the Wizard of
Menlo Park
Rochefort has taken the fancy to be-
come designer or sketcher, aud daily
passes few hours in drawing amateur
pictures of comic character akin to
political cartoons.
On tomb IN Blairville Pa.) ceme-
terry may be read this curious epitaph:
"A. B was good son, loving
husband, fond father, an able lawyer,
but an honest man."
Mrs, John McWilliams, a Nebraska
wife, prays the court to restrain her
lawful husband from patting her on
the head, poking her in the ribs and
talking baby talk to her." -.
William Schaus of New York has
bought for 81, 1926 the jewel casket of
carved ivory presented to Columbus,
according to the Latin inscription on
the lid, by Ferdinand and Isabella in
1901
James Pemberton Hutchinson, of
Philadelphia, of the class of &C., Har-
ward, has been unanimously elected
captain of the Harvard crew. He was
a member of the university crew last
year and played end-rush on last falls
eleven.
The car of Russia has ordered that
all clothes made for himself and family
shall be of Russian material and made
by Russian hands. His wife is much
annoyed at this decree. Her maiesty's
best dresses have always come direct
from Paris. ...
Queen Victoria's rheumatism, which
has become chronic, has caused con-
traction of the muscles of the leg. It
does not impair her general health, and
she looks well, but every one admits
who sees her that she has aged much in
the last two years.
Mark Kinney, an old Pittsburg
soldier, has recovered his voice after
being deprived of it six years though a
stroke of paralysis. He felt so happy
that he at once proceeded to paralyze
himself with whisky and was landed in
the station-house.
Rider Haggard, the famous English
author, has announced to friends in the
City of Mexico his purpose of going to
Mexico for a long sojourn in order to
gather material for new books. Re-
cent discoveries of hidden Aztec temples
will give him some interesting mater
ial
The Duchess of Marlborough declares
that she and the Duke can't live on
5000, 600 a year. So she has come to
New York for the purpose of selling
$2,000,O00 worth of property which
brings her no income. The entire
Hamersley estate is valued at $5.OOO,-
600, and at the rate at which she is 90
ing it won't last long.
The Duchess of Westminster. whose
husband is the richest man in England,
finds herself unable to give 500 year
for live years towards scholarship at
the Female School of Art, London.
She writes that she .shas so many
claims upon her that when she sub.
scribed to the fund she did not know
that it was to run five years.
General Dan Sickles, the new Sheriff
of. New York is still very young old
man, and is devoted to the opera and
the theaters. He seldom misses a per-
! Torrance of the German opera and
comes in promptly as the curtain rises
to his seat in the orchestra. During the