The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1879-11-07
GOSSIP OF THE DAY,

MIDSUMMER In October has promoted
tbs growth Of q second crop Of various
kinds Of fruit. In Maryland strawber.
ries and raspberries have been picked
and sent TO market, and cherry trees
have borne fruit q second time.
THE Russian government Is aboat to
intro luce one more penalty against jour
mails which may DO published without
preliminary censorship. They are now
prohibited FROM publishing business ad.
vertisementA The Ruszkaia Picarda
says that the measure will prove . pun
ishment not only for the editors, but
also for the advertisers, who, being In.
nocent, may suffer moro than the guilty
editors themselves.
BIsNARcK's victory in the recent
Prussisn election was complete. or 1874
seats in the parliament, the conserva.
tives captured about l67, or 100 more
than were occupied by them during the
last Legislative period. By forming .
coalition with the Ultrsmontane Centre,
they will have an absolute majority.
The Liberals although prepared for q
numerical loss, are quite stunned by its
extent. In the face of the results Of the
general elections, Bismarck need no Ion.
ger fear any opposition to his favorite
schemes. One Of these is the transfer Of
all the railways TO the state.
The governor Of the Indian settlement
At Pete Dans's Point, near Canada, Me-,
has been married in state. Two of his
tribe were constituted 3 committee to
provide him with q wife. He braided
together seven strsws and gave them TO
the committee. They went to Pleasant
Point and arranged all the squaws in a
q circle. One of the committee marched
around the room shaking a hoIn Allied
with shot, while his asso ciate droned q
solemn song and carried the braided
straw. After y while the braid was
presented to a maiden, but she tossed It
on the door, thus indicating her refusal
OF the governors suit. A second choice
was then made and the governor was
happy man.
THE apprentices who travel over Ger.
many on foot have had hard times amid
the general distress, and it is now re-
ported from various localities that dis
ease called "the beggars' plague "a
kind of typhus resulting from insult.
Gent and innutritious food, excessive
indulgence in alcoholic drink, and con.
slant exposure through sleeping in the
open air-has broken out among them.
Like most tramps who have not money
enough to get food and lodging, they
spend the little they have on alcohol.
Systematic efforts are being made by Or
ganizations in various cities to help
these poor wretches in rational way, By
providing them with warm meals and
other necessaries, and discouraging CON.
tributions Of money.
BERLIN is largely furnished with an
asphalt pavement, which to pedestrians
and sidents has been agreeable, but
which has had the effect Of causing
horses to slip and thereby giving rise,
particularly in the last year, to a large
number Of accidents; at least 80 say the
police authorities. Other magnates of
the city government being of the opin.
ion that accidents have been owing to
the c&relessness of drivers and not TO the
paVements, q commission has been ap.
pointed TO inquire into the question;
but meantime the further laying OF the
pavement is to be suspended. The OBJ
Jections Of speedy decay, swelling under
the heat, and the like, that have made
asphalt payements in New York failures,
have not been urged against them in
Berlin.
The agitation against viVisection has
taken . deep hold in both Germany and
Switzerland. Numerous anti.vivisection
leagues have been formed, and the coun-
tries have been flooded with pamphlets
on the subject. So intense q degree of
feeling has been aroused against the
leading vivisectionists, and their names
have been so covered with opprobrium,
that they have found it necessary to
defend themselves earnestly in public
addresses. One of the leaders In the
movement against them Is Ernst Won
Weber, the South American explorer,
who wrote book in which he portrayed
experimentation upon living animal IN
such forcible colors that q thrill of hor.
ror ran through the reading public of
Germany, and thousands were straight
way ready TO take up arms in behalf of
the tormented brute creation.
THE details of the remarkable conf.
dence game in Leadville, whereby one
Lewis and his confederates were enabled
TO get $l4. 900 out Of Mr.. Clark, president
of the Fret National bank OF Ravenna,
Ohio, by selling him q lead brick for
gold one, shows that it was a shrewdly
conducted robbery. 1t is now said that
Lewis carried the brick from Kansas
City in his carpetbag, and ingratiated
himself into Mr.. Clark's confidence on
the cars till the latter consented to buy
for about half its value this precious
brick, from q confessed murderer, who
alleged that he dare not offer his brick
in open market for fear of arrest, but
was eager TO make any sacrifice In order
TO go home TO see his dear mother"
before consumption claimed him for It's
own. Mr.. Clark does not see any fun
in it.
The wholesale and Wsnton destruction
OF walrus by the whaling-ship crews in
the Arctic ocean, which has been going
on for some time and Ii increasing every
year, Is likely TO result in their practical
determination unless 1t Is speedily
checked. The captain of q New Bed
ford whaler estimates that no less than
10000 walrus have been killed this sea-
season, only about third Of which were
secured. One Of the results Of this need.
less and useless slaughter Is the death
through starvation Of many of the na.
tives Of the Arctic regions, who depend
upon the walrus for food. In one village
of 200 people all but ne man died last
winter, and in OF .r villages from q
third to half of the population perish.