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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-02-16
REMARKABLE TOWNS.
One In En- sland That Is Maze of Railway
Carriages.

One In En- sland That Is Maze of Railway
Carriages.
Scattered throughout the area of
Great Britain are numerous towns and
villages of curious character One
large village actually consists of old
railway carriages, even the little mis-
sion chapel being built out of four large
horse trucks. Another village, with a
population Of LOO and ratable value
of e8, 900, has neither church, chapel
nor school, the only public edi6ce being
pillar letter box.
Villages with single inhabitant are
not unknown. At Skiddaw, in Cumber-
land, there is solitary householder,
who cannot vote because there is no
overseer to prepare voters list and no
church or other public building on
which to publish one, while the only
ratepayer in a certain rural Northum-
berland parish has recently declined to
bear the expense Of repairing road be-
cause he considers it quite good enough
for himself.
In the isle Of Ely there is a little
parish which has been somewhat con-
temptuously described as "a portion of
land, with three or four houses and per-
haps 10 inhabitants - This place has
no roads at all and is consequently put
to no expense in keeping them in repair
AS a matter of fact, there are no ex-
penses Of any kind and no rates.
One of the most remarkable villages
in this country is Kempton, near Bed
ford, which is seven miles long and ex-
tremely struggling. To walk from one
end Of the village to the other occupies
two hours.
Sometimes whole villages will prac-
tically disappear. A little Shropshire
village has gradually sunk, until now
it is almost out of sight. It is built on
disused coal pit, and the sinking goes
on steadily every year. Now aud then
a tottering house is propped up to keep
it standing, but in spite of all precau-
lions buildings are constantly falling to
the ground, and in course of time doubt
less nothing will be left but few
bricks to mark the spot where a village
once stood.
There are plenty of deserted villages
throughout the country. A diversion of
trade into other channels is sometimes
sufficient to produce this effect. Not
many years ago the proprietors Of an
iron works at a toWnlet near Sheffield,
being unable to obtain certain conces-
sions from railway company, removed
their works; Shortly afterward half the
place was to let, and the windows of
many Of the houses were boarded up. -
London Tit Bits.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-02-16
Felt Acquainted.

A Boston lady Of the most reserved
and exclusive type was waiting for he,
change at the glove counter in one OF
the. large stores when she was an.
preached by very large, gaudily dressed
and loud looking woman, who held on,
a pudgy hand in bright green kid
glove and said:
"Why, how do You do, Mrs. Blank?''
Mrs. Blank ignored the proffered
hand and, drawing herself up stifay,
said frigidly: - a.~' ~ @'..
II do not think that I know you,
madam ...., ......uA ~..5 b..
''No, l s'pose not, > replied the WON.
an, in nowise embarrassed by the cold
ness of her reception, 'but I've knowed
you by sight for a long time, and now
I've got hired girl who worked at your
house once year or two ago, and She s
told me SO much about you that I feel
reakwell acquainted with you. Pleas
ant day, amt it? Well, if she amt po-
lite to sail off without so much as q
word! Shows her raisin, anyhow !''-
Harper's Bazaar.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-02-16
Measures of Distance.

traveller in Florida says that on be.
ing asked how far certain place was a
native replied: "Waal, 1 reckon hits
bout two whoops P'r'ps hit may be
some furder,' he continued rehectively,
"but low hit ain t more'n two whoops
all a holler.' In Arkansas they will tell
you it is two looks and go by, mean
ing you are to pass two houses and find
your destination just beyond the next.
In other parts of the west, it is said,
the natives measure distances in
"chaws' of plug and will tell you your
destination is about 1.-TWO chaws'' away.
The Scottish way is to say, Its a far
cry meaning it is about as far as one
can shout, while in many cases distance
is measured in time, the German
"stunde" doubtless having its origin
thus.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-02-16
A Chestnut.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once told q
good story of friend who always car
ried in his pocket horse chestnut as
protection against rheumatism, just the
same as other people wear shields and
other specifics. Emerson thus testifies
to the results III Us friends case: ":He
has never had the J, 'omatism since he
began to carry 1t b Iced it appears
to have had re-. ejs,' operation
for he never had /: ~ =.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-02-16
a DEAD CARNATION.
Leonard Contemplates the Contents Of
TloeEl ~

Leonard Contemplates the Contents OF q
I Desk Drawer.
The desk drawer, opened, exhaled an
odor of faded flowers. (.
| ''Let US plunge into the atmosphere
Of sweet memories, y said Leonard.
Wife absent, Leonard, addressing
Bayard, his most intimate friend, indi-
Gated withered blossoms. Faded and
grown musty in the lapse of years, they
feposed at the bottom of the desk
drawer.
"This lily said Leonard, signing,
"was the flower given me by Blanche,
my first love, when l took from her
lips timid kiss She was as white as
its impeccabie petals, fragrant as it's
pure corolla, graceful as its dropping
stem, and who knows what might have
happened had she not died in the bloom
of youth?''
| And the ros;:'' asked Bayard.
| "Ah, that was later!' said Leonard,
with a burst Of laughter "Rosette gave
me that when she first brushed my lips
with her own. The petals were once
rosy as her warm being, and the flower
beauty was radiant and amorous as her
young womanhood. If she had not been
tickle, she might now be my wife,
| And the orchid?" queried Bayard
"Hippolyta presented me with that. -
said Leonard, thoughtfully, "when she
saw me trembling in alteration at her
feet. Time was when it had the MYSTIC
charm OF her own perverse personality,
and If a Russian nobleman had not
eloped with her I should still be her de-
voted slave -
Bayard discovered bunch of faded
violets.
"And these?" he Intercepted.
"They were the fowers,'' murmured
Leonard sadly, (which Etienette sent
me when l had treated her brutally, be-
lieving that she had deceived me. She
was demure and tender as the blooms,
and, after the storm Of my passions, she
came like peaceful sprite to pour
beauty and love into my life. Had she
forgiven me, it might have BEEN
At this point Leonard interrupted
himself Selling angrily dead carna'
ton.
"Why is this flower here?'' he cried.
1T has no place among the precious
memories. Away with it at once!'
In moment the unresisting carna.
ton was reduced to dust under his pitt
less foot.
"Why do you destroy it?'' questioned
Bayard.
because it is the carnation Emilia
gave me when she said she would be
my wife, said Leonard, cynically,
land 1 married her. ''-Philadelphis
Bulletin.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-02-16
Hard to Beat q Boy.

A cigar dealer in the west end said
to reporter for the Cincinnati Com
mercial Tribune: "It takes a mighty
sharp man to get ahead of a boy, for
fact. One Of them came in here not
long ago, and he -vas old enough to buy
cigarettes and wanted package. I sold
them and got the money. In a minute
neighbor came in and wanted to know
what the boy bought. I told him.
WELL, said he, that beats the
devil! Do you know what that boy did?
He was in my store about five minutes
ago and asked me to buy pamphlet
that is issued by the Anticigarette
league, whatever that is He told me
that the boys in the public schools were
trying to sell them everywhere to do
away with the bad habit of cigarette
smoking among the schoolboys.
thought it was a good thing, and
bought one from him. He sold some
others III the same neighborhood Now
that little rascal comes in here and
spends my money for cigarettes, and
LII bet dollar that you'll find him
around here somewhere near smoking
TOR all that's out. I'm going to look
him up.
1.-THE next day asked him if he had
caught the kid and he said:
1 did. He and some chums were
having a good time of it, and, more
than that, all Of them were in the same
business. They thought it was {. good
joke, and l suppose it was-on me-but
1t they come around my store again
they'll get booted out.
'But,' said the cigar dealer, "they
are too sharp to get caught. They only
work one man at a time, and none of
the gang ever goes back again. They keep
list, and expect an examination will
show that they have been to every store
IN that whole neighborhood. Where
they get the pamphlets l do not know,
but 1 imagine some of the good people
of the league had them printed for gra-
tuitous circulation, and the boys con-
cluded to sell them. They're pretty
Slick
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-02-16
THE SUDAN SPIDERS.
To Live Happily In the Sudan One Must
Get Used to the Insects. .ss

Get Used to the Insects. .e-.
If one wants to live happily in the
Sudan, one must get used to spiders.
They crawl into your dressing bag or
come upon the table while you are wash
ing, taking great interest in soap and
tooth powder and all toilet requisites.
Disturbed, they retire into your sponge
and remain there till they are drowned
out. One must also become accustomed
to sand or dust storms, for they are fire.
quent and terrible disturbers of your
comfort. They come upon you suddenly
when you are quite unaware of their
close proximity, just as express trains
at busy junction surprise the passenger
uninitiated in the mysteries Of signal.
ing. There is distinct sound like the
coming of a train, then rush by and
the after draft. Palms sway and bow
their rustling fronds to the earth, and
eddies Of dust buffet you Oh all sides,
lifting you from your feet. Tents are
turned inside out scattering their con-
tents to the winds, or every thing is ill.,
crusted with an impalpable powder,
which seals up ones eyes, plugs ones
nose and ears or chokes one with the
nauseating sweepings of foul camping
ground. AS I am writing this dust
hurricane which has been making life
miserable for the last three days is still
blowing.
The fierce blast of the wind makes
metal so hot that the heat from the nib
carrying the ink to paper dries up the
fluid before line can we'll be penned
The sweat Of the hand, too, mixed with
the layer of dust on the paper, so soils
the manuscript that one feels loath to
send it. The flies, seeking your tent for
shelter from the cruel blast without,
cling to your nose and eyelids with a
tenacity which is almost maddening.
At meals each dish is covered with grit
before it can be consumed, and one has
to nurse odd corners of the tent to shield
ones cup from the puffs Of dust beating
up from under the canvas before one can
get drink that is not absolutely mud
dy.-London Standard
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-02-16
Perfumed Cloth Is Now Sold.

Druggists in New York keep per-
fumed cloth that is sold by the yard. 1t
is imported and is by some process
known to perfumers saturated with a
sachet powder or essence that is very
strong and lasting. 1t comes as high as
So and $40 yard, but is very wide,
and one-fourth Of yard is generous
supply. Small pieces, three inches
square or less, are sewed in hats, dress
waists and skirts and are laid in glove
and handkerchief boxes and chiffonier
drawers. When it is considered that a
fine sachet sells for 81, these perfumed
lengths are really economical. =
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-02-16
Informal Receipt,

Uneducated people sometimes have a
happy knack in coming to the point.
Here, for example, is a story from the
Boston Herald:
Dan and Nose, neither of them noted
for erudition, were partners in an enter
prise which it is needless to specify.
One morning customer called to settle
a small bill and after handing over the
money asked for receipt.
Nose retired to the privacy of an
inner room and after long delay re-
turned with slip Of paper, on which
were written these words:
We've got our pay. Me and Dan. !"
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-02-16
THE SU::,l DIAL.

Ton which was written, II mark only the
bright hours.']
I mark the bright hours, and only the bright
dwell not in darkness, but ever in light;
garner the sun sheaves and dream not OF
night.
Fast, fast fades the brightness, the bloom O.
the years,
And life seeks the light while the darkness it
fears.
IT'S too swift for c~ur signing, too sweet for
your tears!
mark the bright hours The shadow is cast
So soon on life's morning-the MONDAY is past.
Treasure light for re night-treashre light to
the last!
Atlanta Constitution.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-02-16
Modern Methods

Diggs-I just finished reading an ac-
count Of how they burned heretics at
the stake in ancient times. Such bar
barism would not be tolerated in this
enlightened age.
BiggsNo, indeed The modern
Esretic is let.of with roast in the re-
ligious journals. Chicago News.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-02-16
Welcome Home.

Peddler-Wouldn't you like some
notices for your house, mum" !. 5 very
cheering to husband III NICE
motto on the wall wher tsholne.
Mrs. Dagg-Y You one
if you've got one "a iate
tllan never p l.. H.. ~
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-02-16

A plant grow
the pecul liar pr,
temporarily neutl:
taste as regards sW.
The Hindoos clam
antidote to snake I
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-02-10
PARIS.
An Extraordinary Example of Out
ward Beauty and Inward Filth.

An Extraordinary Example of Ont
ward Beauty and Inward Filth
''For month";" says Miss Lillian Bell,
writing of Paris-one Of her bright let
ters of travel-in the Ladies' Home
Journal, II have been in this city Of
limited republicanism; this extraordin-
airy example of outward beauty and
inward uncleanness; this bewildering
cosmopolis of cheap luxuries and ex-
pensive necessities; this curious city of
contradictions, where you might eat
your breakfas- from the streets-they
are SO clean-but where you must close
your eyes to the spectacles of the curb
stones; this beautiful, whited sepulchre,
where exists the unwritten law, Com
NIT any offense you will, provided you
submerge it in poetry and flowers;;' this
exponent of outward observances,
where a gentleman will deliberately
push you into the street If he wishes to
pass you in crowd, but where his &C
ton is condoned by his inexpressible
manner of raising his hat to you, and
the heartfelt sincerity of his apology;
where one man will run a mile to re-
store lost. franc, but-if you ask him to
change a gold piece he will steal five;
where your eyes are ravished with the
beauty, and the greenness, and the
smoothness and apparent ease of living
of all it's inhabitants: where your mind
is filled with the pictures, the music,
the art, the general atmosphere of cul-
ture and wit; where the cooking is so
good but SO elusive, and where the
shops are so bewitching that you have
spent your last dollar without thinking.
and you are obliged to cable for new
letter of credit from home before you
know it-this is Paris"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-02-10

chairs-perhaps a wooden chest. I
erything should be formal in desi
and treatment, suggesting rest, not
pose. A mirror is useful and lends
parent size.
If it be desirable to carpet hall, a
if the carpet possesses border,
whole will be better in the form Of
rug rather than cut to the irrgulart
Of the room. If the stairs have GOV
ing, the color should be strong, and II
desirable that there should be no
structive pattern. A hall should
cheerful and bright, but at the sal
time dignified in appearance. Attr'
tiveness but not familiarity is Its b
attribute.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-02-10
QUEEN OF HANOVER.
A UNIQUE DISTINCTION.

Daughter of a Revolutionary Hero
and Widow of a Veteran of 1872.
Mary Forbes Cobb, Of New London,
Ind, enjoys the distinction OF being the
daughter of a revolutionary soldier and
the widow of a veteran Of the war Of
1912. She was born in Frankfort, KY,
Jan. II, 1903. Her father was an Off
Ger in the revolutionary war, serving
five years with distinction and being
several times wounded in battle.
Mrs. Cobb's father was Capt. Daniel
Gano, whose father and four brothers
also served their country faithfully and
well at that critical period. The senior
member of this fighting family, John
Gano, was chaplain Of Washington's
favorite company Of arehers.
Mrs. Cobbs first husband, Louis III.
Bryan, the great-grandfather of Will
lam Jennings Bryan, whom she mar
ried in 1920 in Clark County, KY, was
widower, veteran Of the war OF
1912. The elder Bryan was private
soldier in company of Kentucky mil
tia mustered by Capt. Isaac Cunning
ham. Louis Fl. Bryan died in 1884, and
a few years later the widow was mar
ried to Elisha Cobb, who died in 1914.
Mrs. Cobb's last widowhood has ex-
tended over period of fifty -four years.
Mrs. Cobb has lived in the times of
all the Presidents since Washington.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-02-10

sion. Take a round piece Of pasteboard
and on one side of it draw a canary
bird. If you cannot draw you can cut
a small bird out of picture and paste
it On the card. On the other side Of the
pasteboard draw a cage.
When you show this card to the au-
only upon which the cage is drawn, yet
do it in such way that they imagine
they have seen both sides of the paste
board.
Tie piece of thread through oppo-
site sides of the card and twirl rapidly
before the eyes of your audience. The
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-02-10

bird and the cage will move so rapidly
that the audience will see bird in it's
cage where before they saw an empty
cage.
The simple trick of putting a needle
through a nickel can be done without
private rehearsal. Take a cork and
run needle through it, leaving the
point flush with the cork. Now place
nickel between two blocks of wood, put
the cork upon it and give the top a
sharp blow with hammer When you
have pulled the cork off the needle the
point of the needle will be found to
have penetrated the nickel. This is
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-02-10
Natures Balloons.

The island Of fire, known by the ma
tives as 1.-THE Home of the Hot Dew
u.s. is a recent discovery in Java. In
the center of huge Lake of boiling
mud and slime exists a phenomenon
absolutely unique, and so wonderful
that tourists brave the difficulties of
the long journey inland simply to see
it. Scores of enormous bubbles are
formed in the sticky slime by the gases
which arise from the lower depths,
and these grow and increase to an
enormous size, looking like nothing SO
much as the large model balloons sent
up sometimes to ascertain the direction
Of the wind. These bubbles, some of
them, attain diameter of five Or six
feet before they burst, which they do
with loud explosion. The sounds are
described as resembling a constant
series of heavy platoon firing.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-02-10
Absolute Truth.

The eldest son of a certain family is
devoted to worthy young woman
who has tendency to be exceedingly
stout. The suitor's younger brothers,
with a deplorable lack Of delicacy
chaff him upon his affection and the
absurdity of his appearing in public
with lady of twice his size. But their
mother, a woman of wit and hMnor,
not only takes his part, but does 1T with
weapons SO sharp that sometimes 1T is
hard to tell whizea way they cut. One
day the young man announced his in
tention of going to a lecture that even
ing.
who's going with your called the
most unbearable of the boys.
''There, my DEAR" said the mother
''don't ask questions. It's very ILL
bred"
But | want to know! I want to
know awfully. Say, Harold, who is it:
One, or more than one?"
Don't notice him, Harold" said the
mother, with dignity in her voice, but
with merriment in her eye. ''I'I an
swer for you. Harold is going with d
large party"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-02-10

It is mounted a little to one side, but
that makes no difference. He now
twirls the card by pieces of string, and
the delighted audience sees two Pho
tographs side by side, one of the young
man and the other of a pretty young
woman. OF course, the young woman's
picture was mounted on the reverse
side of the card, but when twirled rap
idly they seemed to be side by side.
These little tricks are enough 20
amuse a parlor full Of people, and
when you have done your share OF the
entertainment you can step aside for
the next one to take your place.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-02-10

1t is only logical that the tramp who
starts out simply to enjoy idleness
should gradually and almost insensibly
degenerate into theft and thence to
burglary. The dividing line between
begging a living and stealing living,
and also between petty theft and petty
burglary that always endangers the
comfort Of families and at times their
lives is so narrow that the transition
from the tramp to the burglar is hard
" perceptible to himself, and the only
way to halt the professional tramp is
to punish to the utmost the crimes his
calling logically leads him to commit
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-02-10

In most matters Of serious moment
Americans are no laggards. AS rule,
except in the punishment of murder
ers, they are not sluggish or apathetic.
But the methods in most of the courts
in this country in criminal proceed
ings are a reproach to American civil
cation, whenever wretches of the Dur
rant type are allowed to live for years
after conviction. Is not the lawyer
who seeks by every INSCRIPTIONS de-
vice of trickery to prolong lives which
are justly forfeit to the State con-
scienceless rascal who ought to be in
cell?
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-02-10

and then at his occupation, was
tain Robert Paterson, who, as
stone commentaries, was born at
giesha, in 1912. Paterson was little
than a beggar, receiving such cna
as was given to him from day TO-
by the kindly people among Who1
moved. He Travelled about WltnI
little pony from churchyard to ch1
yard, interesting himself IN 'a'
away the dirt and moss WIllcn aoe
lated on the other tombs, manI
which were those of famous cover
ers. 1t was the knowledge Oh lni'
which, undoubtedly, inspired soy
tell the story which common Assem-
placed in the very front OF Dis
works,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-02-10
There was talk of duel recently be-

There was talk of duel recently be-
tween residents of Southern city.
Then it was announced that experts in
the code duello had decided that the
principals in the quarrel could not
fight, because one of them had killed a
man, had been tried for murder, and
had barely escaped the gallows. The
grounds for this objection were not
good. The men would have met ON
the field on even terms, each with
murder In his heart. The one who had
killed a man, and meant to kill an
other, and the one who had not killed
Q man. but meant to kill one, should
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-02-10

Books as well as nations have their
statistical revelations. One Of the best
selling novels Of last year, '"The Chris
tian," contains, according to the Attain
dc Monthly, one suicide, three murders,
two deaths in bed, one bloodhound, four
reductions, ballet-girls, gamblers, music
halls and thieves dens. The old style
Of fiction. wherein Macaulay counted
twenty-seyen fainting-fits in single
romance, is humorous in comparison
with the modern realistic novel.