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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-08-26
How the Air Is Purified.

Motion, mechanical and molecular,
the great law of the universe, is first to
be considered as natural method for
the publication of the atmosphere. Its
power as a purifier of the air is shown
mechanically in the flow of rivers and
in the ocean currents. Molecularly it
serves the same purpose in the form of
heat, light and electricity.
When not in motion, air stagnates as
water does and becomes offensive and
bad, because it is easily impregnated
with fine animal and vegetable dust as
we'll as noxious gases. Certain physical
conditions are always necessary for the
continual movement Of the air. We
know that the diurnal motion of land
and sea air brings the warm days and
cool nights as we'll as the rain and
wind. In the tropical regions as the
run rises the heat of the day increases,
and the breeze sets in from the sea to
the land. As the sun goes down the heat
diminishes, and at sunset the tempera-
lures of sea and land are equal. Alright
again the breeze is from land to sea
until morning, when the temperature
may become equal and the sea breeze
return. -Chautauquan.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-08-26
Mice and Rats In japan.

There are small t'deer'' on the island
that arouse no poetry or gracious senti-
ments. The mice, those pests of Japa-
nese teahouses, raced through the doll
houses at will by dark, the ornamental
traceries and designs pierced in the
pretty wood panels above the screens
giving them free range of every room.
They ran over my face, scratched my
pillow, nibbled my fingers and kept me
awake night after night with their rus
thing and gnawing. On the third night
Of mouse carnival I called the servants
and had lights brought. The landlord
heard the sounds and hustled across the
court to see what the matter was. II
think there is a mouse in this house, I
said. ooh, certainly, certainly, honor
able lady, he said, bowling low and
proudly. Eyes, indeed, have many,
plenty Of rats at the Month";" And he
could not at all understand why we
should make such a trouble about SC
natural thing and object to these sure
evidences of abundant prosperity, these
companions of Daikoku, the god of
plenty.-Eliza Rhuhamah Scidmore in
Century.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-08-26

Everything has two handles-the one
soft and manageable, the other such as
will not endure to be touched. If, then,
your brother do you an injury, do not
take it by the hot hard handle, by rep
resenting to yourself all the aggravating
circumstances of the fact; but look
rather on the soft side and extenuate it
as much as is possible by considering
the nearness of the relation and the
long friendship and familiarity between
you-obligations to kindness which a
single provocation ought not to dissolve
And thus you will take the accident by
it's manageable handle. -Epictetus.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-08-26
.AGREAT HISTORIC TABLET.
Professor ReAeie Finds . Record II the
Crushing az Israel by Egypt.

Professor Refeie Finds . Record II the
Crushing ,m 1sraelEb Egypt.
was permitted to excavate along q
part of the ruin srewn desert at Thebes
and to examine the sites of temples
which stand there. On these few fnr-
longs found that ithere had been seven
temples of the kings of the eighteenth
and nineteenth ,dynasties, about 1850
1850 B. G.. Most ,m these I entirely
cleared out, the largest piece Of all
the great buildings around the Ramese-
um-being the clearance Of the Egyp-
tian research account worked by Mr..
Quibell. Each site gave as some return
in information or objects, but the most
valuable of the sites, as it proved, was
one of the least inviting. A field of
stone chips showed where the funeral
temple of Merenptah had stood, and,
left in the ruins, I found the great
granite tablet bearing the long inscrip-
ton of Merenptah about his Libyan war
and his Syrian war and naming Israel.
This tablet is over 10 feet high, over
feetwide and over a foot thick, of one
.fawless block of very fine grained gran
lite, or rather syenite. 1t was first cut
by one of the most sumptuous kings of
Egypt, Amenhotep III, brilliantly pol
ished as fiat and CLASSY as mirror and
engraved with a scene of the king offer
ing to Amen, the god of Thebes, and an
inscription Of about 5000 hierog]yphs
recording his offerings and clarifying
the god. His son Akhenaten, who
stroye after a higher faith, erased all
figures and inscriptions of Amen, and
so effaced most of his fathers fine
carving on this great tablet. This, how
ever, was all re-engraved by Seti I,
about so years later, as a restoration.
Then, some two centuries after it had
been erected in the temple of Amenho-
tep III, Merenptah cast an envious gaze
on the splendid stone and stole it for
his own purpose.
Not taking the trouble to rework it,
he simply built the face of it into his
own wall and engraved on the compar-
atively rough back Of the block At the
top he figured a scene of the king offer
ing to Amen, and below all inscription
very nearly as large as that of Amenho-
tep III on the other side. The painting
Of the sculpto1ed figures still remains as
fresh as on the day it was done, for, as
the tablet fell face forward when the
temple was destroyed, the side belong
ing to Merenptah lay downward, while
that Of Amenhotep III was uppermost.
In the runis, then, amid the frag-
ments of columns and foundations.
heaped over with foot or two of stone
chips, this grand block had lain since
about the time Of the Trojan war; All
Greek history, Roman and MEDIEVAL
the prophets, Christianity and ISLAM
have swept along while this was wait
ing unsupported, with it's story of the
wars Of PHARAOH of the Hard Heart and
his crushing of Israel.-Professor Film
ders Petrie ia Century.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-08-26
They Fear Nothing.

The followers Of Menelek, king Of
Shoa, while not so large as the fierce
Zulus of the south, are about the tough
est warriors in the world. They do not
know physical fear. I have seen a man
jab burnt stick several inches in his
flesh without wincing, declares writer
in the New York Press. This apparent
insensibility to pain is accompanied
with a religious frenzy in battle that
renders the soldiers unconscious Of bod
lily harm. They have no fear Of death,
and their happiness is to kill.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-08-26
SOME LEAP YEAR LAWS.

A Woman Could Propose Six Hundred
Years Ago and the Man Had to Accept.
In two countries, at least, and more
than 600 years ago, laws were. passed
which gave women the right of propos-
ing marriage. These enactments went
even farther than this. They also stip~
ulated that if the man whose hand they
had sought should refuse he should in
cur heavy fine.
A searcher among the ancient records
Of Scotland has recently discovered an
act of the Scottish parliament, which
was passed in the year 1888, which runs
as follows:
cit is statut and Ordaint that during
the rein of his maist blissit Megeste, ilk
for the years knowne as Lepe Yeare, illz
hayden ladye of baithe highe and lowe
estaet shall haze liberte to bespoke ye
man she likes, albeit gift he refuses ia
talk hir to be his lawful wye, he shall
be mulcted in ye sum of ane dundis or
less, as his estait may be; except and
avis gift he can make it appeare that he
is betrothit ane ither woman, he then
shall be free
A year Or two later law almost sim
liar to the Scottish enactment was
passed in France and received the ap-
prevail Of the king. 1t is also said that
before Columbus sailed on his famous
voyage to the westward similar privi-
lege was granted to the maidens of &C.
noa and Florence.
There is no record extant of any fines
imposed under the conditions of this
Scotch law, and no trace of statistics 1e-
garding the number of spinsters who
took advantage Of it or Of the similar
regulations in France, but the custom
seems to have taken firm hold upon the
popular mind about that time. The
next mention of it is dated nearly 400
years later: and it is q curious little
treatise, called Love, Courtship and
Matrimony,' which was published in
London in 1906. In this quaint work
the privilege is thus alluded to:
''Albeit it now becomes a part Of the
common law in regard to social rela-
lions of life, that, as often as every leap
yeare doth return, the ladyes have the
sole privilege during the time it contin-
ueth of making love either by wordes or
lookes, no man will be entitled to bene~
fit of clergy who doth in any wise treat
her proposal with slight or contumely. !"
Up to within a century ago it was one
Of the unwritten laws of leap year that
if a man should decline proposal he
should soften the disappointment which
his answer would bring about by the
presentation of silk dress to the un-
successful sutton for his hand
A curious leap year superstition is
still to be met with in some parts Of New
England, and that is that during leap
year the 'beans grow on the wrong side
of the pod. ''-Philadelphia Examiner.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-08-26
AN ARTFljL APPEAL


- sM0001c10es W NO 2u000001 In EE1D00 Netting
Silver FROM Rasanrx.
An illustration Of the depth TO which
sone woman has sunk Tor risen1 in the
art Of begging may be seen any evening
after dark on the down town streets Of
Chicago. This woman has no fayorite
street. She simply plays them all, usu-
ally side streets, where the yonng man
with his best girl as often glides
through because the crowds are not SO
dense or the lights SO brilliant. S
This woman has two confederates
who dress and act like laboring men.
Each carries his little tin pail. and each
shows evidence of having been hard at
work. A young society man and his girl
walk slowly along, Indifferent to the
world. Neither hears the almost inan-
dlble appeal for help. AS the young con-
pie pass the mendicant the men with
their tin pals and grimy hands stoT.
short and block the way. .-.=
"Let:s chip in a nickel apiece and.
help that poor, starving creature, = says
one Of them.
"AH right, Joe, I'll do it, 81 earned
an extra quarter today, and I can Just
spare a nickel.
This not only attracts the attention
of the lovers, but it brings tears to the.
eyes of the girl, and involuntarily the
thought flashes through the young mans
mind that if two laborers can give up a
portion Of their hard earned money he
can part with at least IS cents and Of
tener more, owing largely to what sort
of an impression he wants to make upon
his companion.
And SO bright silver coin drops into
the cup held by the poor, starving crea-
ture, a few muffled sounds of BLESS you,
my children, bless you,' come.from the
bunch of rags sitting upon the raised
step, and the little crowd of laborers,
sweethearts and object of charity dis
solves, each feeling happier and more
contented.
The young man never knows he has
been "worked," SO to speak, and neither
does the. next victim or the next, for
be it known that the programme related
above is repeated until there are no low
ers parading up and down the side
streets at ght.-Chicago Times-Her-
aid,
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-08-26
SUBLIME FOLLY.

.Suhainaest folly-from their. camps uprise
Two mighty armies eagerifor the fray.
The drum beat rolls, the ibrazen trumpets
bray,
And: guns and bayonets flaSh;against the skies.
Now shall be shown on which,side victory lies.
Swords CLEAN, the booming cannon hurl dis
may, -..-N ~ y
The quick, sharp rifle shots for, death make
way,
On high the bird of evil omen cries
Men fall as in the field the full ripe grain
Where bending reapers swing the sickle s
blade,
In ranks they fall, never to rise again.
But wherefore the dread holocaust thus
made3
That past all doubt man may make this truth
plain.
On honor more than life his heart is staid.
Bishop Spalding.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-08-26
A THRIFTLESS GENIUS,
The Hand to Mouth Existence That Was
Led by Leigh Hunt.

The Hand to Mouth Existence That Was
Led by Leigh Hunt.
Leigh Hunt had no sense either of
time Or Of money-a grave fault, per-
haps an objectionable vice, in man
who had wife and children depending
upon him. AS long as he lived he was
thriftless and needy, a lender and bor-
rover, so generous that he could never
afford to be just, bringing upon those
whom he loved sincerely a constant bur
den of debt and care. How reprehensible
this was he seems never to have felt,
though he blames himself freely and
light h9eartedly, and if the reader of
his autobiography is disposed to feel
sorry for Mrs. Hunt it is not because
her husband sets him the example. This
was Leigh Hunts one vice, never
amended nor actively repented of. Yet
he had had his warning It is pathetic
to compare with each other the two fol-
lowing passages and to see how clearly
Leigh Hunt foresaw his danger and
how incapable he proved of escaping it:
II have SEEM" he writes in 1908, $50
much of the irritabilities, or rather the
miseries, accruing from want of suit,
able income, and the best woman of her
time was SO worried and finally worn
out with the early negligence of others
in this respect that if ever was deter
mined in anything it is to be perfectly
clear of the world and ready to meet
the exigencies of a married life before
I do marry, for I will not see a wife
who loves me and is the comfort of my
existence afraid to speak to me of money
matters. She shall never tremble to
hear knock at the door or to meet a
quarter day"
! And in 1882:
II never hear a knock at the door
x :: but think somebody is coming to
take me away from my family. Last
Friday I was sitting down to dinner
\ X when I was called away by man
who brought an execution into my house
for 40 shillings. Temple Bar.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-08-26
To Take q Raw Egg.

Egg oysters are very good ifswallowed
like native and form an excellent
way of taking raw eggs. Arrange them
thus: Break new laid egg into glass
containing half a teaspoonful Of vinegar
and season with pepper and salt.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-08-26
Velocity of Insects wings In Flight.

E. J. Marcy Of The Science Record
has been studying the flight Of insects,
with the object in view Of ascertaining
the wing strokes per second in the diff
ferent species. Those upon which the
record is complete are az follows: Wing
strokes per second in the house fly, $50;
drone bee. 24O; working bee, 100; wasp,
ITO; hawk moth, 70; dragon fly, %, and
cabbage butterfly, 9.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-08-26
The Jeer of a Plebeian.

Laura-Miss Backdate is awfully
proud of being eligible to membership
in the Daughters of the Revolution.
Flora-She has right to be proud.
Just think how narrowly she escapes
being old enough to be sister instead
of a daughter. -Cincinnati ENQUIRER.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-08-26

Men spend their lives in anticipations
in determining to be vastly happy at
some period or other when they have
time. But the present time has one adj
vantage over every other. 1t is our own.
Cotton. .-
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-08-26

The $40 goldpiece was authorized by
act of congress April 2, 1899, and its
coinage was begun in 1894.
The morning times., 1896-11-01
Offered a Square Game.

A young attorney. just starting out i'll his
profession in Chicago, was commissioned
collect a number of bills by prominent
tailor OF the town. All these accounts were
against gamblers. Some OF them had been
sued on, aI-.l Judgment had been obtained.
These judgments, however had not been col
iected A liberal percentage was offered the
la " ) yer If he could succeed in collecting any
OF them. The attorney had his own notion as
Ia how to go to work on these accounts. and
listened to the tailor's advice about going
for them hot with a dubious smile.
He selected bill of ST5 for one suit OF
clothes against a quite noted knight OF the
green cloth. and proceeded to try his plan.
Calling on this man he told him that he had
not come TO threaten him with lawsuit or
to bluff him; that if the bill was correct he
would call at any time the debtor would des-
ignale for a part of the whole OF III e bill that
If the debtor would say he would not pay the
bill, the lawyer would not call again; that all
he asked was u square deal; that he would
call only when the debtor made an appoint
mcnt to pay money as he did not propose to
lnaugurate system of ''dunning."
The gambler heard him through with a
perfectly impassiye face and then said
That's fair. The other collectors didn't
know their business. They tried to bluff me
and they 'dunned' me. Your game is a
square one and II give it a whirl Here is
my card. Call Tuesday and will pay you
half. Have you got any more bills against
the boys?'
on being told OF the other accounts he sat
down. took a dozen of his cards, wrote
across them 80. x said to the attorney,
Hand one of these to each man you go to,
tell him your game and you will get your
money"
The lawyer did So. In not one single in
stance was a bill repudiated and in every
case all appointments and agreements to
pay were kept with scrupulous fidelity Ev-
penny and the tailor wondered at the col
lection of these. to him, desperate accounts.
Chicago Chronicle.
The morning times., 1896-11-01
DANGER OF HAND-sHAKING.
Actors Believe Il Man Loses His Per
sOnality by the Custom.
Mem York journal

Ne,D York Journal.
Did 1t ever occur to you that when you
shake hands something goes out OF you and
into the other person? What nonsense you
say; what could possibly be by shaking
hands? Nobody can tell exactly what il Is.
Perhaps it Is personal magnetism or some
kind OF psychic atmosphere This fact has
long been recognized by great actors, to
whom IL is all important. Edwin Booth
thought So much Of il that before going On
the stage he would shut himself up for sew
eral hours and not allow anybody to see or
speak to him. Any contact with others de-
tracted from his own personality. He would
not 20 in Il horse car to the the eatcr, because
merely brushing against people seemed to
make difference.
Other famous actors think Just as much OF
this as Booth did. Joseph jefferson always
formaDce. What a thrill goes through the
audience when he appears! Frederic Bond
is another who believes in being alone and
thinking of nothing but the character he is
to represent before going on tie stage, so
that when he does appear the people feel
that he is him self the individual he Is play
ing.
dchard Mansfield is another actor who
believes in solitude before appearing on the
stage. He thinks that if he plays his part
after being with a lot of people he is Mans
field, but If lie shuts him self up for while
beforehand his individuality is lost, and that
of the character he represents takes its
place The create est of all art is the art that
disguiSes art.
The morning times., 1896-11-01
READY FOR THE HORSE SHOW
Next Week Will Usher in New York's Great
Annual Equine Festival.

never large. There are not many coaches
in this country, and those who own them
are not always willing that they should
be sent to a place of exhibition. The con-
fines of a place like Madison Square Garden
are limited, and unless there S mighty
good whip op-the box the horses cannot
make the turns with credit to themselves
and safety tonne Coach. This keeps away
many. More than one four in hand has been
tooled too close to the circle, and when
the leaders have swung around, the
"wheelcrs'' following after, found them
selves dragging n coach stuck in the railing
or ropes.
WOMEN WHIPS.
A prodigious effort has been made this
year to get some OF the famous women
whips TO drive their own four-in hands
around the tan bark. The women who
might do this are Mrs. 7. Suffern Taller,
home this year for the horse show; Mrs.
Frederick Gebhard, always at the show,
and Mrs. o. II. T. Belmont, a regular in
habitant OF a lower box. But the ladies
hesitate, and il may he, after all, that the
men will have to drive their own double
teams. Mrs. Gcbiard, one Of the most re-
markable women whips in the world, could
easily tool her coach over the tan bark.
There Is one reason why the men are glad
TO drive their own teams at the horse show.
Admittance to the Coaching Club, as is well
known, depends upon Il mans ability to
drive a four-in-hand. John Jacob Astor
was refused admission To the New York club
because he could not manage his leaders.
His wife could easily have taken the reins
from him. The best test is the tooling
around the ring at the horse show, and the
driver who can do that is eligible to the
coaching club OF His Royal Highness Albert
Edward, or the hunting club OF the kaiser.
Though there may not be an exhibition OF
women four-in-hands at the horse show,
there will be some such exhibit in Central
Park; ;unannounced, ii is true, but fine ex-
hibitiun OF horscwomaRship. On the days
after the horse show il will be worth while
TO take trip to Central Park to see the
four-in-ha nds and the women who can drive
them. Many OF these come froma long way
off as the Widencr coach of PhIladclphia;
| and it would disappolnt horse show goers
beyond expression il no public open air
exhibit were made.
The Hobart four in hand from California
is regular feature of the horse show. This
is a wonderful thing. Its owner spent a
fortune getting the horses together; and
| TO this four-in-hand hangs tale as inter-
esting as any told.
a FOUR=IN-HAND STORY.
Young Hobart, it is said, disch arged
groom, u faithful man, who had long been
in his employ. The groom said nothing,
but prepared for revenge. Coming to a
horse-owner in the East he said: Il hear
you are going to try for the four-in-hand
price,
Il am replied the HORSEPOWER.
Aren't you afraid Of young Hobart?'
asked the fellow. Il have been groom
in his stable for ten years. He can beat
you. But If you will allow me, l can select
The morning times., 1896-11-01

small evergreen cultivated in several
parts of the East and West Indies. In GER
tain parts Of France clover blossoms are
eaten as salads, while the flower buds OF
the capparis, a plant which grows on walls,
are picked in vinegar and form what are
commonly known as capers.
''InIndiat the caSsia tree blossoms are held
in high esteem notw witlista nding their sweet
ish taste and are frequently served ON the
tables OF the rich. Really, it is nothing
new to use flowers as edibles. l admit a
taste must be cultivated for these foods
before they can be appreciated, but so III ust
you cultivate n taste for olives"
And then he hurried to wait on a lady
who had come to price a jar of fringcd
gentianS.