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

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years ago.
Az advertisement In the Newspaper q
worth two on the side of m Old shed.-
Noyyistosoa Herald.
THERE ID no country In the world In
which 20 much care and expense are
put on children's publication q In Amer
lea.
THERE are at present 100, 900 tele-
phones In use In the United states, and
200 have already been introduced In
Lsndon.
TIE propeller of the Batavia Of the
Cunard line has twice suffered from
coming In contact with o whsle at 50,
though In both instances the whale Jared
the worse of the two.
A NORWICH, Conn, naturalist, has
one OF the largest butterflies known 20
the entomologistz- Il measures nine and
half inches across the wing, and II
five inches In breadth.
TEE smallest paper In the south is the
Petite Anse, La, Amateur, printed By
two school boys, and It's articles, besides
news matter, are mostly the efforts Of
children from to II years old.
TIE large iron builaing At Philadel-
| pkia, know ~ the coliseum, and brouxhf
to the city from New York, during ths
centennial, has been sold 70 Boston par
ties, and win be removed to that city.
DAVID X. ADAhsos carries the mail
on foot betseen Ridgway and LeaksyilIe,
Va, distance of twelve miles. He has
not failed TO make . trip for several
years, and receives 20 cents for Cd
roundtrip.
THERE was an all nights hog and dos
fight 1t Dover, n. II, recently, In which
the former got the worst Of II. The hog
was finally finished with o knife, and Q
charge of buckshOt was put down the
dogs throat.
they tell Of q wealthy member Of the
Union club who has spent 1850 &C tie
Seventh regiment fair, and it is consid-
cred dgni6eant that he has made al
bis purchases from one young lady-
Rea0 York Times.
Miss MARY WAITE has presented a
fine oil portrait of her father--the Chief
Justice-to Ohio. The picture % Of life
size, and is regarded as very artistic BIT
OF work. 1t 10 accompanied By q letter
l.oAu 1AAS " aA1C aAo OA&c Ahom pkt1Aoe1b
Hayes.
A CONDUCTOR out In MEXICAN, i'm
pressed with the idea that he was sure 70
be killed or injured BY an accident II he
remained On the road, left and went into
the grocery business. A week or two
sfter9ard be had his hand snashed M
In Q coffee mill
The twin daughters born 70 the Wis
countess Vaudeville, formerly q New
York belle, have been duly named and
baptized, Mrs. William x. Vanderbilt
standing a. godmother to the Lady Alya
Montague, and Miss de Rothschild of
London, as godmOther TO the lady Alice
Montague.
A DEETAL journal says the reason 20
many men fall as orators IL became they
have lost some of their teeth. Boshl
Look AZ ben; hasn't and never had q
tooth in her head, and did the dental
editor never hear q hen mount the fence
and deliver two hours Fourth of July
grafton over one egg no bigger than
lemon?
A LITTLE Mexican girl three or four
years old partly swallowed Q nickel this
morning, and was saved from choking 70
death by o gentleman who seized her BY
the ankles and shook her violently, head
downward, till the nickel was dislodged.
When the nickel rolled away among the
chips il was momentarily lost, and the
little one waited till it was found and
returned to her, whereupon she inime-
distely put it back In her mouth.
A STATUE of Hannah Dustin has lust
been unveiled At HayerhiIl. Mas. Il
represents the heroine of ContOOcook
ISLAND with one foot shoeless, a. she was
when captured by the Indians, from
whom she afterwards escaped BY slaying
them in their sleep. There are four bss
relief panels, portrsying incidents In the
tragic history. The whole monument
cost sc. 600, and was erected through the
muni6cence of E. ]. n. Hale.
TIE extent to which water mingles
with bodies apparently the most solid, il
very wonderful. The glittering opal,
which beauty wears ss an ornament, IL
only flint and water. Ofeyery I 200 tons
of earth which Q land-holder has in his
estate, 400 are water. The snos-capped
SUBMITS of Snowdon and Ben Nevis
have many million tons of water In Q
solidi6ed form. In every plaster of
Paris statue which an Italian carries
through the streets fer sale, there IL one
pound of water to every four pounds of
chalk.
A JUvRHILE Lothario, who makes O
pfsctice of ogling the girls and flirting
on the highways Ct Troy with the craft
of youth OF twenty, albeit he has barely
passed his twelfth year, was sorely dis
comfted on Tuesday evening. He met
o gentleman and two young ladies, and
with q knowing wink exclaimed: "Catch
q girl for me, win yGf" The man
stopped, caught the lad BY the neck and
held him in the air, while each Of the
young ladies kissed him. When the lad
was released he ran away - fast a. ever
he could.
Two young Frenchmen at Dover, n.
H., are engaged In business as soap,
makers. Friday morning one Of the
partners went to the shop, built Q FIRE
under the boiler, and went out; return.
ing half hour later he was astonished
at hearing tremendous rumpus In the
boiler, and on taxing of the Lid discoy-
cred his mate therein and very uncom-
Portable. The parboiled man explained
that he went to Salmon Falls on Thur
day evening, got drunk, and in some
way blundered home, into the manufac-
tory and into the boiler, where he went
TO sleep, only waking when the boiler
to heat up.
TIE owner of Q hotel mp on Mount
Tamalpais has Q property catamount
rugged up in o tree about half Q mile
from the house, and employs an old half
breed to sit under bush near By to growl
and work the dummy's paws BY means
of o couple of cords or pulleys. The
young hunters from the city invariably
come across the painter" FIRE one
volley, hear q blood-curdling yell, and
make three minutes dash back 10 the
cabin again, where they sit and outlie
each other for the rest of the day. The
hotel keeper says that by the time the
fraud is shot all TO pieces he expects 10
have enough money to run daily news
paper.
"WHERR is our American nayyf"
shrieks an exchange. If this excited
editor is lsboring under the impression
that it Is concealed in this town he n
mistaken. We haven't seen anything
of the American navy, and We are In
the vicinity of the Schuylkill canal Q
good deal, too. IL the navy Il Loaf, the
price of It should be deducted from Sec
Rotary Thompson's salary. We told him
six months ago that IL he did not put
bells on the necks of our steam rams,