The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1879-11-14
MANKATO FREE PRESS.
GOSSIP OF THE DAY.

GOSSIP OF THE DAY.
some years ago the Russian govern
ment exempted Siberian gold diggers
from taxation, hoping TO encourage such
ventures, but failed 70 do 50, and now
they are to pay again.
CALIFORNIA is fast finding out that it
easy work to adopt . constitution taxing
capital, but impossible to keep capital
where it is to be taxed. Ssvings-bsnk
deposits have dropped $500, 900 in six
months the Bank of California has re-
duced its capital from 5000, 900 to
$4,000 900, the Changers Bank from
$4,000, 900 to 81, OO0, 900, and real estate
is duller than for sixteen years.
MoRMoNIsM seems TO be unpopular in
Georgia, juding from the fact that the
trial of the men indicted for the murder
of Joseph Standing, Mormon elder, in
the northern part of that state q few
weeks ago, have been acquitted not only
of murder, but on the charge of being
concerned in riot. Three elders of the
church came on from Utah to help tn
prosecution, and they say they are going
TO stay in Georgia and continue the
work of proselyting despite the fate of
their predecessors.
THE Philadelphia " Permanent exhi.
bition is doomed. The main building
will shortly be torn down and sold. st.
Petersburg has ordered the framework
for its exhibition of 1881. The frame
work will weigh only 1000 pounds
The western fair, recently held st Lon
don, Ont, was q great financial success.
Cincinnati is already preparing for its
spring exhibition, which, it is thought,
will be even more prosperous than the
ouN Just closed. London, England, has
established 8 permanent international
exhibition.
The New York Sanitary Engineer, en-
coursged by the interest it excited by
its agitation of the model tenement
question, has now turned attention to a
new field, and one which will appeal TO
scarcely less class than does that of
the best house for the smallest sum of
money. This new field is the school
house. As in connection with the tene-
ment houses, the proprietors of this
journal offer premium of $500 for the
best four designs for q model school
house which shall meet the highest re-
quirements Of ventilation, heating, light,
safety from fire, and general sanitary
provisions
A YOUNG schoolmistress who peeped
has lost her certificate and the supreme
court of Iowa will give her no redress.
She had applied for 8 certificate and
during the examination was caught
CHANGING over the shoulder of another
applicant and getting answers to cues
tons Propounded in arithmetic. The
superintendent refused to issue the GER
tifcate, and the young Lady brought suit
in the circuit court to compel him to do
80. She carried her point in the lower
court, but the decision has been reversed
by the Supreme court.
WHEN Jules Ferry, French minister
Of educstion, was entering a railway
carriage at Toulouse, the other day, his
hat WAS blown of. A stranger seized it
and ran away. He was overtaken by an
officer, but held on to the hat with q
tenacious grip, declaring neither might
nor entreaty could induce him to part
with it. 1t was found that the fellow
was an eccentric Engliah man, who had q
mania for collecting old hats OF distin.
guished individuals. Ferry accepted
the explanation good humoredly, and
promised to send the fellow one of his
old hats for his museum.
IL endeavoring to find grounds for a
new trial in case before the city court
of Brooklyn, n. Y, the other day, the
lawyer of the defendant, who was beaten
in jury trial found, that one of the per.
sons claimed to have served on the jury
was not in court during the term. He
was drawn as a juror, but had not served
because the alderman of his ward prom.
ised to get him excused. Presumably
some of the hangers on" in the court
room-the so.called professional jur.
ors "-answered to his name and served
In his stead. The matter was called to
Judge Nelson's attention and he prom.
ised TO go to the bottom of the mystery
The substitution of a prisoner is an old
dodge, but that of juror is quite a new
trick.
A FAIR but corpulent daughter of the
sunny south was laid to rest beneath the
whispering pines in Westmoreland
county, Virginia, recently. Her name
was Mrs. Smith. She measured thirty.
six inches across the shoulders and
weighed six hundred and ten pounds.
1.-The coffin was necessarily immense"
says a press dispatch, "and before its
delivery two large men got in it and
laid on their backs side by side without
crowding each other in the least. When
the case was brought to the house it
could not be carried through the door.
way, and the corpse had to be carried
outside and placed in it." The spectacle
of "two large men" playfully getting
into the poor lady's coffin and "Iying
On their backs side by side without
crowding' il inexpressibly grotesque and
pitiful.
A NUMBER of medical students in In
dianapolis recently undertook to make
victim of professional resurrection
ist." They told him that they had &C.
cured body and asked him to remove
it from its hiding place. The supposed
corpse in the bag was live medical stu.
dent. The students pointed out the spot
where the bag was concealed, and the
professional threw the bag over his
shoulder and set out for the college. The
corpse, with no knowledge of his wherea-
bouts, Strengthened out just as his bearer
was crossing the canal. With rare pres