New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-11-11
FACTS IN A FEW ri ES.

An average size cocoanut produces q
pint Of milk.
ALI fees Of the patent Office must be-
paid in advance. 5sg. @ U
The expense Of obtaining . patent in
Switzerland is 800.
Certain parts Of the hippopotamus'
hide attain thickness Of 2 inches
In proportion to its size ~ walks
So times as fast as q human being.
Fifty-two per cent 81 the United
States population are engaged IN farm
ing s5
An infant weighing : pounds at birth
will weigh 7 Is ON the tenth day and IL
on the thirtieth.
Ii Hung Chang has never been out
OF China before, and the only language
he knows is Chinese.
During the Franco-Prussian war the:
cost to the French nation Of each~Prus-
sian killed was 500, 600. 5
A Burlington (Vt. man gives his
baby an airing by towing the child's
carriage behind his bicycle. Ri.
The standard dollar was authorized
by act of congress, Feb. %, 1878, and
coinage was begun in the same year.
Three crematories are in operation in
England-one in Manchester, another
in Woking and the third in Liverpool.
It takes the moon exactly ~, 524 min
utes go days, 10 hours and A. minutes)
to make its revolution round the earth.
Jefferson is said to have been the first
American statesman to suggest the dol
lar as the financial unit of our currency.
S. McCaughey' of the Coonong station,
Jerilderie, New South. Wales, has
5000, 1000 acres Of land and 1000, 900
sheep. @4,s
New Zealand is not only more sober
now than at any other period, but it is
also one Of the most sober countries in
the world.
In 1886 congress provided for the is
suing of four coins-a $40 goldpiece, a
dollar Of silver, 10 cent piece and q
copper cent.
Sir Henry Bessemer has paid upward
of $50, 900 in patent stamp duties alone
on his various inventions, according to
an English exchange.
The fern is Indicative of fascination.
In Saxony the present by lover to his
sweetheart Of handful of ferns is
equivalent to proposal.
A recently opened guano cave in
Georgia was found to be inhabited by
great swarms of white flies, with yell
low legs and pale pink eyes.
Alice Bradley Haven, once editor of
Godey's Lady's Book, chose the name
Of Alice G. Lee It is said she once had
an acquaintance Of that name.
Besancon, Victor Hugo's native town,
will forestall Paris in erecting statue
to the poet. The municipality has head
ed a subscription with 5, 900 francs.
The K rays have shown that the tibia
and femur in Justice Stephen J. Field s
knee have almost grown together. and
that the hinge has partially solidifed.
The secretaries of state, if of the de-
gree of baron, follow the English and
Irish bishops If these secretaries are of
the degree of baron they take precedence
of all barons.
The bank statistics of Ireland for 1895
are the most satisfactory ever recorded
and show that Ireland has but to be let
alone to attain thoroughly sound eco
nomic condition.
The village of Vienholz, near Brienz,
in the Bernese Overland, has been part
~ destroyed by subsistence and land
slips, caused by natural springs. The
inhabitants have been compelled to de-
sert the place entirely
The Eskimos have queer custom in
regard to doctors. At each visit the doc
tor is paid. If the patient RECEIVERS, the
physician keeps the money; if the pa
tient dies, the money is returned to the
family of the deceased.
The statistics of life Insurance show
that in the last 25 years the average
woman's life has increased from nearly
40 to nearly 46, or more than s per
cent, while mans life average has in.
creased from nearly 40 to a., which is
5 per cent.
The cancels foot is a soft cushion, pe-
culiarly well adapted to the stones and
gravel over which it is constantly walk
ing. During a single journey through
the Sahara horses have worn out three
sets of shoes, while the camels feet are
not even sore.
An old historian tells that a people
living in Asia used to draw socks over
the feet of the horses when the snow
lay deep upon the ground, and away
off in Kamchatka they cover the feet
of the dogs in the same way. It seems
as if all ancient shoes We're put on the
horse and held there by some sort of
lacing or strapping. : ~:
In an inventory of the effects of Sir
John Fastolfe, drawn up in 1859, is
mentioned lone hat Of beaver, lined
with damask gilt, and also two straw
en- hats. - The plume of feathers,
however, was the chief mark of rank.
Henry VIII had one plume, consisting
Of eight Indian feathers, which he con
sidered almost Invaluable. Ink.
The Hebrews originally made their
shoes of rOuol1Iv, nranarad Skinc and