The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-08-20
MANKATO FREE PRESS.
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i Any Paper Published In Blue Earth Counts.
GOSSIP OF THE DAY.

GOSSlP OF THE DAY.
| THE fact that quarter Of beef cannot be kept
for fow hours in warm weather without spoil
ing Is considered by the London Times to be ga
reproach to science" there being known no
easily applicable way of preventing it.,
MORE percons are killed ON the streets OF
London every year than on all the railroads Of
Great Britain in that time. During the last ton
years 2.l95 persons were killed, and 2s,G7l
severely injured. Last year 23l were killed and
5000 wounded.
The manufacture of bottle corks il consid-
cradle source Of wealth in France. The annual
production amounts to |, 2S3, 0O0, 900, valued ut
about 81, 900. The value OF the raw mate
rial IN about SG00,00O. The French govern
ment has formed many plantations OF the cork
oak III Algicrs. Parts of the United States aro
well adapted for the successful cultivation of
the cork oak.
An interesting poSta! congress will be held in
Paris on the LIST Of October, under the presi
dency of VI. Cookery, the minister of posts and
teicGraphs. This congress will discuss and de-
eide few questions left in suspense by the con-
grcss held in Paris in April, 1878. All the pow
err having adhered to the universal postal union
Will send delegates to represent them at the
coming congress.
NEW YORK paper remarks oditorially that
"t IL safe prediction that the ocean steam
ship Of the futsre, with its improved compart-
mcnt build, its perfected code of sigma Il, its
electric lights, its buffers, its apparatus for
deluging fire M soon IN il shows itself its inl-
proved hfeboats and raftS, ready for use al a
minutes warning, and its thoroughly-tirilled
clcw, will make our children wonder at the
steamships TO which their rash parents were
wont 10 intrust their lives"
OK the other side of Jordan is the town Of
salt, asccrtainod TO be tho al, lent Ramoth
Gucad, containing population Of about eight
thousand nominal Christians and Mohomctans.
There arc upwards Of one thousand eight hun
drcd vineyards III this town and ncighborhood,
and also large fields of corn land. II is sin
Sular fact, H. crcdibly reported, that these peo-
pie know nothing Of intoxicating drinks, and
make then grapcsinto raisns, honey and a kind
Of sweeunuat called milhan.
Miss Don, YorSo, daughter of the late
Brigham Young by his eighth wife, has left
Utah. hating the doctrines of pelygamy, and.
with considerable money, will make her home
IN one Of the states. She says the law against
lwyGamy Is nu!hty, because tho elders can
arrange that no ceremony can be- proved within
two years. after which nothing can be done
with the offender. She says that proof Of per
sons living together IN p.lygamous relations
should be sufficient 10 convict. Mormon women
are working against the admission Of Utah Us u
state until aitcrp"ygany Is abolished.
RECENT statistics show that agriculture IL not
making much Progress i'll the United Kingdom,
and that considerable portions Of former plough
land are now devoted 10 grass and mcadowa.
Ii 1870 fully ll,755.00O acres were devoted to
grain; Ill 1879 loss of S.3 per cent. was ascer-
tanned, chiefly III wheat. At present England
requires 2iIs million quarters of wheat, but ten
Of which are produced within the kingdom
There Is a loss also i'll oats, but a gain in bar
ley. Horses cattle and sheep have but slightly
increased. American agriculturiStS will be- in
tcreStcd III the detailed researches of Graigie.
SENATOR SHARON, OF Nevada, has recently SC.
cured the title of the Grand Hotel property ut
San Francisco. lie already controls the Palace
hotel, which stands on the other side of the
street. To make ore great hotel by uniting the
two hotels is now his plan. The dividing street,
some seventy-iive feet i'll width, will be bridged
by massive iron structure thirty feet from the
pavement. Suites of rooms in both houses will
be made into connecting corridors, and the
bridge will be rooted with glass and windows
put in TO correspond with the connected build
iugs.
The American consul at Geneva says Amcri-
can beef and live stock have penetrated as far
as that region and the value Of choice cattle
raised in large numbers in Switzerland for
Paris and the French markets has been scnsibly
diminished by the importation from America.
Preserved meats and fruits from the United
States are so we'll established and advertised
that they may be left TO take care of themselves;
but butter and cheese could be sold in much
larger quantities in central and southern
Europe aud profitable market for more
nutritious brand of American flour could bo
found.
Mrs. PARKER, Of Glastonbury, Conn, whose
famous cows used 10 DC sold every year for
taxes writes to the HOmGn's JOWTdl signing
herself Julia L. smith, and says that her hus-
band not only paid the tax this year without
lrotcst but went to the collector to pay il, and
then told her that at was his tax and not hers,
and that as he could vote he had no reason 10
go contrary TO law" Mrs. Parker saws: ~
want TO take my own stand and fight it out, ~
long IA men make laws 30 unjust that women
cannot say how their own property shall bc dis
posed OF, but men can Use it AZ they please,
without any ifs or ands about it,"
The New Jersey gold digging mania which
broke out AT Paineld several months ago, has
spread far and wide, and the soil of the state il
now turned ever with zeal and perseverance,
that no merely agricultural enthusiasm could
account for. Many people are quietly digging
holcs who would he puzzled to invent other
reasons for their industry than the true one.
II seems n pity to thus distract local attention
at this season from the unadventurous but
safe cmOmmcnt Of the summer boarding bust
hess, Ia which rural New Jersey should now be
dcvoting large part Of her energies How
ever, people who have real estate To sell in the
neighborhood Of the alleged gold-bcaring region
will not object TO the boom.
4 COMPANY, the capital stock Of which is
chiefly owned at Cincinnati, in negotiating with
the cable companies for the lease Of line for
the purpOfc Of testing experiments for tclc-
phone communication with Europe. The tests
will be made from New York. The Orangbough
invention Of 1863 aud the recent Klcmm patents
will lie tested to the exclusion Of the Bell, the
Edison or any Of the instruments now in active
use, az the new company claim that they arc
actually Infringing upon Il priority of invention,
and the question will probably be tested in the
courts. Six Of the most eminent patent lawyers
IN the United States have been already retained
by the CincinnatIans. The capital raised for
the experiment is about $4,000.
Ar the meeting Of the German American
teachers in Newark the other day, Director ii.
Won der Hede read an interesting paper adj
wishing the abolition, in this country at least, Of
the present German alphabet, both in writing
and printing, and the substitution Of the Roman
letters. He pointed out the consequent adyan-
tageS III the Simphfcation Of the language and
the saving Of time; aud added that it was
wrong in this country to compel the children to
learn the two alphabets, while they could study
the German language az well with the Roman
letters. He referred to the fact that this change
in the alphabet has already many friends in
Germany, and hoped to see the day when one
alphabet will be- in rIse all over the world. The
association adopted resolutions acknowledging