The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1879-12-26

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from Ottawa. Unless the government
feeds them the Indians will either stsrve
or fight.
SAMUEL SHOOK got married at Hills
boro, Ohio, and took his bride to the
home that he had prepared. Two
rowdies the neighborhoOd, desiring to |
play what they conceived to be q good
Joke on the husband, broke into the
house that night while he was asleep. and
carried off the wife, frightening her into |
silence by brsndishing pistols. They hid
her for three days, and then returned her |
to the anxious Mr.. Shook. They said
they meant no hsrm, but be refuses to
regard the exploit as fun, and had them
arrested.
ONE Springfield, Massachusetts,. man
mourns, and will not be comforted. A
few months ago he was offered sixty
shares of Bell telephone stock for IS
share. He was not investing in tele-
phone stock that day, he informed the
would-bs seller. When the Edison COM
psny Joined the Bell company the shares
gently elevated themselves to s120, and
then q tinge of mild regret seemed to
suffuse the Springfield man. After the
union was perfected with the Western
Union, the shares oozed up to 81, 900
each. His $500 would now be worth
$4,000. This is why he weeps.
THE scarcity of money is -keenly
felt at Constsntinople," says the cor
respondent of London paper. alt is
said that sometimes there is not a single
para to be found in the palace, and yet
Osman Pashs has discovered how to OBJ.
tain his $4,000 francs per month. He
places q stout sergeant before the en-
trance to the finance minister's room,
with orders to confscate every sum
arriving until the amount he requires is
made up. The grossest corruption pre-
walls in department of state. The in
spectors of finance are expelled by the
respective pashss in whose favor depre-
dasions are carried on.
THE chronic ill-feeling between the
staff and line officers of the navy has
been reused into activity again by the
appointment of Medical Inspector Wales
as chief of the bureau of surgery and
medicine. This promotes DR.. Wales
from the rank of commander to that of
commodore, for the time being, which
the staff say is contrary to law and q
violation of established principle and
precedent. The senate committee on
naval affairs takes the same view, but
Secretary Thompson insists that he is
right, and that his action was governed
by desire to promote the best interests
of the service. There is q very bitter
feeling on the subject in naval circles.
TIE German traveller, Ernst Won Web
er, strongly advocates the acquisition by
Germany of certain points on the eastern
and western coasts of Africa. The
establishment of German colonies in
southern Africa is q favorite ides of
Herr Won Weber's, and upward of four
years ago he wrote a memorandum pro-
proposing q scheme by which Germany
should obtain possession of Delagos bay
and the Trsnsvsal, the German-Afri-
can empire of the future" which he sent
from southern Africa to the Emperor
William and Bismarck. The prince
thanked him for his patriotic proposal,
but added that he could not hold out
any hope of the realization of the
scheme.
PROFESSOR NoRDEEsKJoLDw was oddly
complimented at the banquet recently
given to him at Tokia. The bill of fare
had for foundation an ordinary fan, on
which was printed map Of the north OF
Europe, with an indication of the route
from Sweden to Japan followed by the
explorers. At the starting point the
first dish was inscribed, and the various
territories all along the line were marked
with the successive courses, terminating
with the desert of Toxic. The rivers of
Russia and Siberia were renamed &C
cording to the wines variously provided
st. Julien, Chateau Lerose, Johannis-
berger, Rudesheimer, ETC., flowing into
the Arctic seas, while in the frigid region
OF the Pole Clicquot trappe was stored.
EXPERIMENTS have recently been car.
ried on at Grenoble TO test the efficacy
of q new apparatus made by NJ. Lamarre.
The invention consists of balls to be pro-
jected by guns of fortress for the pur.
pose of throwing q strong light on the
enemy's position during the night; the
principal object being to prevent the
digging of trenches or the performance of
other military operations. Shortly after
leaving the cannon the Lemarre fre-ball
discharges light sufficiently bright, and
lasts long enough to enable guns to be
pointed at the works. The projectile Is,
moreover, provided with q grenade,
which explodes after certain time, and
is designed to keep the enemy's troops
away, and prevent them from putting
out the unwelceme light.
A REMARKABLE article on the military
colonies of the Cossacks is published In
the st. Petersburg Gazette. The writer
saysit Is high time to abolish the colonies,
as their organization is not in accordance
with the requirements of modern military
science, and that regular cavalry regi-
ments should be created in place of the
COssack regiments. The st. Petersburg
Gazette is, however, of opinion that such
q chsnge could not well be carried on
at the present crisis, when war between
Russia and some Of the other European
powers may break out at any moment.
No one, adds the Gazette, desires the out
break of q war 30 much as The 1O0, 900
Cossacks on the DON and Kouban, Tor
they have grown up in the tradition of
the PlQnderings and robberies which &C
companied the wars Of the beginning of
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