The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1879-11-28
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bones In obscuhty.
TEssysos smokes clay pipss snd the
poorest kind OF tobacco, but thinks that
better than not 10 amoks at all
TIE electric light At Nisgars fslls has
has nov 10 feel its way In the dark.
Az English clergy man recently com
mitted suicide on the Tale VI Wight by
sliding down . cliff 600 feet high Into
go.
"VorE a. you pray" shouted Tai.
mage from the Tabernacle pulpit. And
later on be urged his hearers 70 pray
often.
Ma. BPuI0EoN said the other day
that now, ~ In the days OF LuthsI, men
stand staring 81 the truth like COVE 81 .
new gate.
THE stFeet.rsilroad In Richmond didn't
pay any bFoGis and the cars were there
fore sold and the rails taken up. That
iAn't the way 70 boom.
The Psducah Asvs tells Of Q negro
farm laboser near that city who plosed
up . day OF Two since, Q stone jar contain
Ing ti 800 In gold coin.
A RurLAsD, Va, man ls after .
tobacco antidote 10 cure bis l6.yesr old
daughter, Who has chewed the weed
aimee shs VIZ. 3 years old.
A MAN In Lynn, Mas bought . lot
Of empty casks, intending 70 oil them
with cider. One Of them contained
$4,000 worth Of fur cspes.
COkCEkHISG the cause OF Nine.
GsTstsr's temporary retirement from the
operate stage and inability 10 Oil the
the American engagement there II much
that 10 interesting.
A BUTCHER in York county, Pa, while
cutting rounds from 4 slaughtered steer
recently, found In the beef gold dollar,
dated 1852, by the appearance OF the
space In which II was inclosed 10 must
have been there for some time.
THE owners of the wreath prepared
for Beacons6eld, and which the Willy old
premier had too much sense 10 accept,
now o6er IL for sale by private contract,
and In the advertisements say 10000
could be made by exhibiting IL.
An exchange gives an account OF
woman who had lsudanumed herself"
II this sort Of thing Ii 70 90 on We shall
bear Of persons prus.ic'acidating or
Paris greenifying themselves I'D In
fnitum. The language isgettipg scratch
ed.
TIE German papers announce that q
rich, childless merchant OF Tamboy, BY
name Ivan stephanoyiteh Karpoti, has
bequeathed his whole fortune, amount
ing 70 600, 900 roubles, TO Vera Zassu-
Itch, we'll known for her attack on Gen.
Trepoti.
A LEADvILLE newspaper says OF Q
clergyman who recently preached In
that enterrrisipg place: when he
went into the pulpit the audience
thought him q boy Of IS; when he came
out Of the pulpit they thought him a
man of 90"
The Great Eastern steamship, which
has been long laid up at Milford Haven,
IL about To be overhsuled, provided with
new machinery, and adapted 70 the con.
veyance of live cattle from Canada TO
the United States. She will be ready
for operation next March.
You never see q woman button any
thing that she can pin, and you never
see Z man pin any thing that he can tie
with q string. You would have trouble
making some men believe that they
couldn't tie button.hole into wrist.
band with q piece of twine string.
A CLERGYMAN in Monson, Mo-, re-
Gently gave his parish 8 surprise BY
finishing up in three weeks q courtshiP,
a marriage and q wedding trip OF two
weeks, his people knowing nothing OF the
matter until after the marriage. The
bride was young lady of the village.
SIGNoR DARIo MAZzEI, stenogrspheT
10 the Italian senate, has invented q ma
chine which claims to reproduce o speech
in the ordinary printed characters as
rapidly as 1t is spoken, q word of several
syllable being recorded by single touch
Of the keys. The Michels machine,
shown at the Paris exposition, had the
disadvantage of requiring the transcript
tions of its relief characters into ordina-
~ writing, or at least an acquaintance
with the former by compositors.
Two Lincolnshire farmers sailed for
New Zealand from England, the other
day, in compliance with Q requisition
from upward of 500 farmers and land.
owners, who occupy or own in the sRgre-
gate considerable more than 100000
acres, asking them to proceed TO that
colony, in order that, after personal IN
spection, they may report upon IL a.
Geld for emigration OF farmers OF means
and capitalists, with special reference TO
such as have had experience Of farming
in Lincolnshire.
A PHILADELPHIA correspondent says
that Col. Tom Scott Ii q total wreck
from his chin to his toes, one half OF his
body being 20 affected BY paralysis that
he IL compelled to walk supported by Q
secretary or q son on one side, while be
leans heavily on q heavy csne on the
other hand. His face is the hue OF q boil.
ed lobster, and he has an apoplectic look
about the eyes and throat. His brain,
however, Is not affected, and be retains
all the intellectual abilities for which
the great railroad president Is famous
A SWORD which once belonged To
General Washington is owned by DIR.
Spottswood, of Mobile. The swerd was
converted into a pruning knife by Gen.
Washington, who filed one edge OF II
into a saw. 1t was given TO the grand.
father of DIR. Spottswood, Gen. Aiexan.
der Spottswood, of Spottsylvsnia Court
House, Virginia, by Gen. Washington
himself. on the occasion Of the visit
made by Gen. SpottswOod to the father
of his country at Mount Vernon, IN
1889, one year before the death OF Gen.
Washington.
WoRSLEY, the colored restaurant
keeper of Washington, has coach and
four horses, which he lets out Cor coach
ing parties. He stipulates that the
driver shall have experience with four
finland reins. John P. ]. Augur took
the drivers seat few days ago, and the
coach was loaded with his fashionable
friends. The horses became entsngled
ut the outset, and Wormley irsisted on
sending his own driver along. Augur
objected, and finally laid the whip over
Wormley's head, and was fined $50 In
the police court.
TIE Boston Herald relates that Ben
Butler, being asked If he intended to
make another effort for the governorship
of Massachusetts,, said: "As was re-
turning to Lowell from Boston, the next
day after election, two individuals,
somewhat the worse for liquor, who oc-
cupied the seat behind me, were dis
cussing the results of the election,
evidently unaware of my proximity to
them. Finally one of them says. 'Jer-
~, do you think old Ben'll run sgainT
RUM Of course he'll run; he's only
been scoring 30 far" .
A LITTLE schooner, during the gale OF
the Goth ultimo, was anchored in the
harbor of Hawksbury, O. B., and was
observed to hold her ground while other