The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1879-11-21

An eel ~ inches long and ~ Inches
thick choked the hose of steamer ut .
fire In Albany night 30 two ago.
WHEH Q man In sick and inAgines he
IL going TO die he calls In 70 nasy doc
tors that they tread on one anethsrs
heals.
Ten acres of coal burning fercely Hn-
der ground and miners working calmly
In vein beneath Is among Pennsylvania
cprioeities.
DECKS are very abundant up0s the
Upper Chesapeake, but . hunter has 70
have letters Of introduction before he
can get anywhere near them.
WHEs Douglas Jerrold heard s'society
bore speaking Of the song that always
carried him away" when he heard it,
Jerrold simply asked II some one present
would please TO sing Il.
IT 10 rule with ell railroad comps~
niles, and one that cannot be broken
under any circumstances, that all trains
must stop at O certain distance from
point at which another line Of road
crosses its own.
Two Ohio farmers worked side BY side
In peace and harmony for three month";.
Then the question Of how Noah got all
those animals into the srk came mp and
one Drained the other with hoe TO de-
eide the question.
A NEW use has been found for many
q youths headpiece, the utility Of which
has heretofore been questionable. II 10
discovered that such young mems heads
are primarily intended 20 keep their
neckties from slipping of-AeG,e9or
Nevs.
A NEW substance, named Virginia."
has been extracted from the residues of
petroleum after distillation, by Prof.
Sonnepschein. 1t is fatty, and nearly
transparent. When heated it gives blue
fuorscence. 1t melts at AZ Cent?
grade, and is partially soluble in ether.
JAMES KEvEsY, an actor In q variety
show at Denver, being arraigned in .
police court for stealing diamond ring
from an actress, made the following ex-
PLANTATION: 81 did it at the girls own
request. She wanted to get IL into the
papers that she had been robbed. They
all do it that way-au the big sctresses."
A YOUNG lady, Miss Caledonia Linton,
Texas, residing on Cottonwood creek,
while walking in the woods met large
alligator. She got rope, tied il around
the alligators neck, and dragged Is two
miles to her home. The brute came
near striking her several times with his
tail.
A GOAT and q dog in New Orleans are
excellent friends and take frequent in
vestigaiing tours together over back lots,
where oyster cans and other rubbish
abound. Recently the goat attracted
the family's attention by piteous whines,
until he induced somebody to follow him
to q well, where the dog was found near.
ly drowned.
A MAN who loves his dog a. himself IL
w. q. NJ, of the Guards Club, London,
who advertises that he will pay the ex-
penses of his collie dog which has Gan
affection of the lungs and 10 recommend
ed a warmer climate" If any one
wintering in the south of France would
like q pleasant companion" will take
the dog out there.
ENToMoLoGIcALLY speaking, the but
terfy gets up from his grub and floats
the air with the greatest of ease.
speaking, the boy makes
the butter fly by putting it down with
his grub, with the greatest OF grease.
considered, both are clims-
tological. Please pass the butter, my
well bread friend.-HacEensucs Repu5k-
can.
THE true way to make the dreary
of parlors disappear 10 for the
family to live in them, TO pass their home
hours of rest and recreation in them.
Whatever Is too good for family use h
too good for its company. Or, TO put 10
another way, give the family the best
and let the company share 1t, and all
will be happier for it.-Batim0re Ameri-
can.
Two weeks ago Mr.. Levy, . store
keeper in the city of jackson, in the
state of Michigan, felt very much Ike
"Stop thief!' BE bought
forty pounds of honey and put it in
box in his store. When he went TO lock
at the honey two days afterwards he saw
the bees had stolen every ounce OF IL,
More than one hundred Of the heavy.
winged thieves were biting the side. OF
the box when he looked in.
A CONFEDERATE cap-machine has
been unearthed in Danville, Va. In
May, 1861, W. b. Wash, q miilwright,
invented q machine that would make
80, 900 caps in ten hours. He sold It 70
the government for $l5, 600, returned TO
Lypchburp, made another which had
capacity Of $4,000 per day item hours)
and sold It for $1,000. He subsequently
smother with capacity
of $4,000 caps per hour. When kich'
mond was evacuated this last machine
was put on q heavy wagon ana carrieo
to Dauville, where 1t has remainea In =
rubbish heap ever since.
Ex.MINIsTER WAsHBURNE's latest
public appearance was as q defender OF
mule meat. During the days OF the
commune, he said, "for months there
was no meat in Paris but horse meat and
mule meat. never ate horse, but j
confess to have partaken freely OF the
mule. and / will say to the credit OF that
much. abused animal, that ] found him
quite good. Ny secretary assured me
that of the many animals he had assisted
to deyour during the siege, the elephant
WAS best of all. The stories Of people
eating cats, rats, dogs and other animals
in Paris are literally true"
In Colusa county, CAL, there is wild
man." who lives in the woods, obtains
food by robbing sheep herders' cabins,
and wears no attire except bfeech csout
He Is described as 35 OF 40 years OF age,
apparently, with q long, shaggy beard,
long and irregular hair, and body
burned by the sun to a coffee color, sno
in many places covered win 'n, ZIG.
growth of hair. No one has been aole
to learn his history or who he Is, Occa-
.iobally he meets hunters or travellers.
and asks for tobacco, but he refuses 70
answer any queetions, and as soon rs ne
gets his t,bacco starts back for the brush.
It In supposed that he was originally
fueitiye from justice, and that he has
become 80 accustomed to solitary NE
that Il is second nature to him.
THERE was an interesting event in the
family of Jones month ago at Oil City,
and one day last week Jones told FUR
niture man to take cradle to his mouse.
On the same day this order was given Q
wedding took place in the house adJoin'
ing Jones' residence, and it was Just as
the assembled friends were congratulate
ulatipg the happy couple that the furni-
ture man, who had mistaken the number,
deposited the cradle in the middle OF
the room and said: "Mr. Jones sent
this up, and he told me to hurry, for he
thought you'd be needing it." Since
that eventful day Mr.. Jones has been
Obliged to enter his house BY the back
alley to escape a wrathtul youth next