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

double barreIled shot-guns he would
have talked les of the slings ana a.
rows of outrageous fortune.
8. @. WsIsHT, of Boston, has sued q
barber for allowing man TO shave MN
who was 20 clumsy that be eut Wright
dangerously In four places. A phym-
clan pronounced 1t narrow escape from
death.
A pRuEKARD handed o bottle Of
whisky 70 his son for safe keeping, st
Stanford, KY. The boy dropped and
broke it, splitting TIE liquor. The lo.. 70
enrsged the man that he shot and killed
the boy offender.
THREE kittens have died of diphths.
ria In Ogdensburg. They contrseted
the disease from children affected with
II. The postmortem examination showed
plainly the diphtheritic membrane In
the kittens threats.
A FAMILY of emigrants were found
occupying Q tomb In Q Cemetery nsar
Providence, r. 1, that had been left
open. When discovered they had had
possession O week, and were using the
coffin shelves 10 put their dishes On.
"EODIE" REIHHARDr, a. his jsilor
afectionately calls him, who murdered
his wife on Staten IslaDd, barreled her
MP, and trundled her of in Q Wheelbar.
row to Silver Lake, doesn't sleep well o
nights, and sees " spooks"
A LIVE toad imbedded for 50 yeas In
the solid earth, under two large fat
stones, has Just been released at Gorhsm,
Me-, By woTkmen digging for founda-
ton. The toad croaked but could not
hop. The masons cemented him mp In
the solid wall.
Mr.. LOWE, n. p, of England, In .
recent speech, said that one result OF the
Afghan and other wars was that el6, 600
formerly given BY the government - q
yearly allowance to the British museum
for the purchase of books goes now TO
meet war expenses.
Coz, ma, did you notice that insult
ing puppy who Just passed usf !
looked at the wretch until he was out of
sight, and he had the impudepce to
stare at me, the horrid thing, and Just a.
he turned the corner he actually lifted
his hat and bowed
THERE Is an urchin In New Britain,
Conn, who will revolutionize the art Of
dentistry, if his muscle holds out. BE
recently succeeded in capturing neigh
bor's cat, and by some mesns best known
to himself, managed to extract every
tooth from the lower jaw.
TIE shrinking of the water In Tulare
Lake, Cal, has uncovered q prehistoric
stone buildings, traces of
canal once bordered with planted trees,
and other evidences of former occups-
ton by an unknown race are being
clearly defined as the water subsideG
"WoMEN or whisky, which winsf" Il
TO be the title of Eureka clergyman's
sermon In the near future. That's poser.
Both are 80 sdulterated nowadays that
hey aren't safe to bet on, but we'll take
whisky against the field, and If that
don't suit. we'll take whisky anyhow
Eureka Leader.
TIE wonderful success of the expert.
nents enabling deaf people to hear
'ounds through their teeth, that are
naudible through the ears, makes II
important for persons %
afflicted to take care of their teeth. The
plan will not work with false teeth a.
hey have no connection with the nerves.
~ WANT to sell you an encyclopedia"
aid q book agent to one of our foremost
PORK men, the other day, who, BY the
way, Is better posted on pork than he Is
IN books. "What do ! want with your
growled the pork man;
9 couldn't ride one if ! had it." He
hought it was q new variety of veloci-
Saturday Night.
GEN. GoBDoN was asked if he ever
aw the bayonet used in the war. he
'eplied that he only saw one man killed
,y bsyonet in battle, and that was at
he night attack on Fort Stedman, when
he sentinel bayoneted an sssailant.
1t Gettysburg, when the advance of the
,wo armies ran on each other, on the LIST
If July, he saw two opposing standard
bearers rsppiDg each other over the head
With their fsg-poles.
ACCORDING to the investigations of
Russian professor, DR.. Monassein, sing
ng is an excellent means of preventing
and for the development
md strengthening of the chest it is more
Efficient than even gymnastic exercises
The professor has examined 220 singers,
varying in age from nine to ffty.three
years, and found that the chest Is greater
md stronger among them than among
persons of any other occupation.
"ANxIoUs PARENT should say
It was safe for you to put hinges on the
front gate, as the cold season seems 70
nave come to stay. In regard to the
other matter, it will be perfectly safe TO
let the fire 20 out and put Q lighted
candle in the parlor stove on the nights
that your dsug hters young man Is due.
The candle viii glow cheerfully through
the isinglass windows of the stove, and
the young people will not suffer from
cold.
liz good society, We learn from an able
work on social customs published IN
Paris, people always fold their notes or
letters and fasten down the flaps of en-
velopes with the nails of the fingers.
Inquiries are frequently made as to the
reason why this should be done, and
why the tips of the fingers would not
answer as well. The explanation is very
simple: "a letter should be scrupu-
lously neat, and the tips of the fingers
are generally dirtyl"
WHILE riding in Union county, Ore
gon, recently, E. A. McAllister, q herds
man, came upon Q wild cat. Unslinging
his laseo, he slung the same and caught
the beast fairly around the neck, instead
Of pulling back, however, the wild cat
made for horse and rider with powerful
leaps. McAllister fed for his life, with
his end of the rope tied to the pommel OF
his saddle. He ran at break-neck speed
for O mile, and then, looking back, saw
that the animal was dragging dead BE-
hind.
In England, last July, one Harding
and his wife, while drunk, resolved to
drown themselves. She was rescued
and charged with numbering her hus-
band. Her counsel argued that she
acted under coercion, but the chief
Justice ruled it established law that II
two persons agreed to commit suicide,
and one lost life, 1t was murder on the
part of the survivor. The only question
was whether they were not overpowered
by drink. The jury took this view, and
recorded "Not guilty" .a.. >
THE other day George Heilig, of
Ephrsts, Lancaster county, Pa, was
walking along with double barrelled
gun on his shoulder, when the barrels
suddenly dropped down, behind him, the
pin which held them In place having BY
SEINE means become loose and dropped
out In falling the barrels were re-
and the tubes striking on Q stone,
both loads were discharged, one of them
taking effect in the young mans right
leg below the knee, producing an ugly
hesh wound.