The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-12-02
miscellaneous Clips.

L
eral pension OF $1,000.
| Fourteen thousand emigrants left
Liverpool in October, chiefly for New
York.
| During the last year the valuation
Of the State of Georgia has increased
$l,000,000.
The Blue Grass section Of Ken
tucky contains 1000 square miles.
There have been 1924. 400 arrivals
Of migrants i'll this country since
1854.
The taxes paid the government by
the national banks for last year were
S7,50l,770.
Jay Gould has just paid $780, 900
for another railroad. How that man
does throw his money around
The Washington Republic says that
President Hayes has saved at least
Cwo-thirds OF his salary while Presi-
dent.
Robert Green. laundryman is the
first negro To serve as Il juryman in
the criminal courts of New York.
Two.lifths of the inhabitants Of
New York are of foreign birth, and
III Chicago the proportion is about
the same.
There seems to be general short
ness of fuel on the Minnesota and
Dakota prairies.
The first newspaper set up in North
America was in Boston, on the 25th
of September, 1890. II was named
Pnbtick Occurrences, both Foreign
aHd Domesiich. Only one number is
known to have been printed.
1t will cost the cotton planters
about $40, 200 coo to market their crop
this year, OF which $25 100000 will
go into the pockets of colOred labor
ers. many of whom are women and
children.
Since resumption of specie pay
ments all told but $ll .983.338 in
greenbacks have been presented for
redemption.
In the United States there are
10000 brokers' and 20, 900 BARRIERS, but
the census does not state which GLASS
does the most shaving.
The rose of Florida, the most beau
tiful of flowers, emits no fragrance;
the bird of paradise, the hands0mest
Of birds gives no song; the cypress of
Greece, the finest Of trees, yields no
fruit.
The United States Grand Jury for
Dakota has reported five indictments
for suhordination Of perjury, and one
for forgery in making homestead
entries in that Territory.
Fifty-eight national banks were or.
ganized during the past year; five
failed, and twenty.One went into vol.
nntary liquidation.
The receipt of the Methodist Mis-
sionary Society the past year, were
upward of $500, 200, Il slight increase.
The debt OF the society was increased
to $4,000.
ada gives TO the syndicate contracting
to build the Canada Pacific Railway
$25 600 900 in cash and % 900 900
acres OF land; finishes the portions
of the road at present being con-
structed, 10 the company when the
whole line Is finished.
The Methodist Episcopal church
nn ri l,t nc ia nj
ally nyenty-eight cents member, or
$203. 900. OF this amount $27 900
goes To Mexico and $30, 900 to Japan.
Captain Ericsson has invented
new torpedo-boat VIII ch is said To be
the most terrible instrument of naval
yet constructed. 1t carries
seven feet under water IA steel gun of
Is inches caliher, discharging projec-
tiles of $50 pounds each.
The sugar crop of Louisiana is esti.
mated ut $1,000 hogsheads. an
increase of 1900 hogsheads over
that of last Year.
The reduction in interest on the
public debt, effected during the past
year. Is shown by the report of the
report of the Treasurer of the Uni
ted States to have been So, 500, 1855.
There are over a quarter of a mil.
lion of recipients of pensions in the
United States, Commissioner Bentley
estimates that $50, 100000 will be
required to pay them for the current
year.
Officers in the lower grades of the
army are moving to get their pay in.
creased by Congress. First lieuten-
ants now get $1,000 a year when
81 800 when they march
afoot. and captains 81 800, and when
mounted $1,000, with ten per cent
added in each grade for every five
years service. They now want $25
Il month added to the pay of first
and $65 to that of cap.
tains who have served fifteen years.
Two drops laudanum in half.tea.
spoonful of warm water and dropped
into the ears will give immediate
relief to persons troubled with neu-
ralgia.
To cnre toothache. take of chloro-
form, spirits of camphor, laudanum,
of each one drachm. Apply on q
little cotton wool.
Recently Prof Huxley said that
ninety-nine men out of every hun.
drcd became simply obstructive after
sixty years old, and were not flexible
enough to yield to the advance of new
ideas. The world, he thought, would
he benefited by any man who had
taken part in science being strangled
after sixty.
A daryman created an alarming
sensation in Ottumwa, Iowa, the
other day. He drove his day through
the town loaded with kegs of powder,
and sat upon them indifferently
smoking his pipe.