The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-06-25
PITHY PARTICLES.

FARMERS are harvesting wheat down
in North Carolina.
AN Able bodied man naturally likes
Cain bottomed chair.
In Carter county. KY, Green Bolt
has been confined to his bed for 3G years.
A MAN ON the Peninsula roilroad, in
Florida, gathered 10000 oranges from
one tree last fall.
IT doesn't take q schoolboy long to
evince love for division, provided anoth-
er boy owns the apple.
The Transcript says young Mr.. Pink
ington of Boston complains of taking
cold by leaving off his winter cane too
soon.
WHEN COWS have learned to read, and
not till then, it will pay enterprising
men to advertise on rocks, trees and
fence boards.
SEVERAL citizens of Marietta, Ga,
have united in sending to New York for
% white servant girls girls. The unre-
liability of negro servants has rendered
this step necessary. ..,. a...
Col. AUDENREID's grave at West Point
is near that of Custer, only q short
distance from the entrance to the
cemetery. A memorial monument is to
be erected on the spot.
The season has arrived when man is
expected not to swear when he finds, at
ter turning an ice-cream freezer crank
for two hours, that he has forgotten to
put the material into the freezer. And
the expection is invariably disappointed.
A FARMER in Dearborn Co., Ind, had
a roof IA feet square come crashing down
down into his orchard during tornado.
four weeks ago, and has not yet been
able to ascertain where it came from even
after dilligent inquiry into the track of
the hurricane.
AMONG lot of chairs received at a
furniture store in New Albany, was one
with the following written underneath
the bottom: "This chair was made by
a Michigan City life convict. My God!
this is the worst hell that ever was or
ever will be, I do believe"
A UNIQUE literary partnership has
been formed recently. Fourteen girls,
students in the Elmira college, are writ
ing continued story, which one of the
Allegheny county papers Is publishing
from week to week. Each girl signs her
initials to the chapters which she writes.
WILLIAM REYNOLDS was SO popular
among his fellow workmen, in an Ala
bama factory, that they bought watch
to present to him. Just before he was
informed of the matter he committed sui
eide, while laboring under the hallucina-
ton that they were jealous and intended
to ruin him.
Ar a theatre in Dublin, gentleman
requested man in front of him to sit
down, adding sarcastically: 81 suppose
You are aware, sir, that you are Opaque ?"
az shall sit down when it suits me, was
the response; and if you want to handle
my name, mind, its not O'Pake at all,
but O'Brien."
ALBERT HAUaER, who lives several
miles from Salem, Ind, got very drnrS
Monday and went into his stable loft to
sleep off his potions. He slipped Off the
hay and down through lot of harness
hanging ON the walls of the stable, one
of the lines noosing itself around his
neck and hanging him.
The first whale ever known to enter
the Black Sea was discovered on April
3Oth by the crew of the Russian steamer
Elbrus, He was treated to q shower of
bullets, nine of which hit him in the
head and killed him. The combined
efforts of two hundred men were needed
to drag him ON the shore. He measured
over thirty feet in length.
eyes," said fresh girl at show, 81
know my beau goes out between acts,
but he's nice and never drinks anything
but a cup of coffee, because can always
smell it as plain as day, and l know the
smell of coffee from beer or whisky, if /
am little bit green" 1t is very happy
thing for young man to have girls
confidence. -Stcu6enU Herald.
A sIx-YEAR-oLD girf in Breckenridge
county, KY, while crossing stream on
foot log recently, fell into the water, but
she had in her hands closely covered
tin pail, which she clasped close to her
breast, and it buoyed her up while the
current swept her down stream for con-
siderable distance. Finally she lodged
against a drift of logs and escaped by
crawling over them.
AN Englishman at hotel in New
York asked the clerk if there were "oys-
tiers in the hotel: "Oh, yes, was the
answer; "step right in the restaurant.
we don't keep them in the office"
"Egad !" said John Bull, 81 dontthink
you understand me, you know; ! mean
an oyster, don't you know, q 'lift'-a
bell elevator, maybe you call it in this
country"
WHEN man sees advertised "a four
bladed knife for ten cents" he should
not buy one for his little son. A four
bladed knife for ten cents is well calcu-
lated to convert nine-year-old boy into
a pirate, or a politician or a. Bob Inger-
soil in less than twenty-four hours. He
can't cut his fingers with such knife,
to be sure. but the blades turn and twist
into so many fantastic shapes that the
boys bosom is filed with anguish and
things, and his eyes with tears and re-
venge.-NOrr. Herald.
THERE were five of the Hammett
brothers, and they were the terror Of
Cross county, Arkansas. They frequent
" went on sprees together, and were at
all times quick to shoot or stab anybody
who resisted them. 1t became at length
well understood that, in case OF attack
by Hammett, an immediate use OF
weapon was the only practical mode OF
defence. Thus three of the brothers
were killed in as many years. and now
fourth has just met death IN the same
manner.
GEORGE w. ALDRIcH of North Rose,
Wayne county, N. Y, has an Indian
relic, plowed up on his farm, that has
thus far defied the guesses of all who
have seen it as to its use by the aborigi-
mes. 1t is of stone, nine inches in length,
two inches in diameter at one end and
running to point at the other. Thro'
the entire length of the thing is Agroove
one-half an inch across and the same
depth at the largest end, coming to q
point at the smallest end. 1t has high
ly polished surface, which. exhibits,
under a magnifying glass, various
hieroglyphics which are invisible to the
naked eye.
The bird-killing spider, a monster
from Rahia. with hairy body three
inches long and terrible claws, has re-
GENTLY been received in the Geological
Gardens in London. He hides under
bit of bark, from which he energies to
kill his prey, q mouse or q bird, or he
will eat dozen ship-cockroaches In an
hour. Unwarned by the fate of their
comrades, the cockroaches walk up to
fine great insect and stare at him, and
are caught up and devoured, one after
the other, as the followers of Ulysses by
the Cyclops. The animal has his uses,
and will at least serve to reduce the
number of cockroaches by which the
gardens are infested.