The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-02-27
GOSSIP OF THE DAY.

GOSSIP OF THE DAY.
THEkR are more than twelve hundred hills bA-
fore the United States senate, and between four
and five thousand in the house. Bets on the
time Of adjournment ar, now in order
IHERE il Of colleges IN the United States q
alto Of one to every 100000 inhabitants, and
there has been an increase Of siXty-eight in
seven years. II is maintained that there should
be fewer OF such institutions and better ones.
lHE Tennessee Supreme Court has decided
that il policeman or other civil officer shoots
an escaping prisoner held for q misdemeanor,
when the prisoner might have been held with
the exercise Of diligence and caution the officer
commits murder and is responsible for the crime.
The national debts of Europe have risen from
in 1865 Ia "a, s24, 600 900 in 1879.
Retrenchment or bankruptcy is the alternative
before the old world. II is a curious fact that
England spent more money on her army and
navy last yesr thsn either France or Germany
An effort L. making IN Iowa 10 induce the leg.
islhture TO repeal the usury Law. II is shown
ten per cent. in the absence of special contract
below that figure, has been practically inopeia-
tive, as persons having money TO invest for long
time loans have found il difficult 10 do 20 ut
eight or even six per cent. interest.
The word telegraph was first brought into
Use about 1898 or 1874, when the French direct
DRY established machines for communicating
intelligence between Paris and all the principal
towns Of France. The British government
soon after adopted the same measure. Tie
authority Of this assertion will be found in
Dce's Encyclopaedia, 1919, volume IS. The
word does not appear in Johnson's dictionary
until the edition of 1915, aud neither does il
occur in the Grand French Encyclopedia Of
Diderot Of l77S
SESAroR PApDocK's bill for the equalization
q homesteads will shortly be taken up in the
senate. II provides that every person entitled
70 enter a homestead, WHO has entered less than
l6o acres Of land, shall be permitted to enter
enough TO make mp that amount. When such
additional entry cannot be made OF lands con-
tiguois TO his original entry he may select other
lands elsewhere, but he shall not be entitled to-
patent therefor without satisfactory proof TO the
PNhSia4 A@Aiu VI anu
cultivation of forest fruit trees on an area 81
the same equal 20 one acre for each forty acres
thereof during period Of three years.
BY the vii OF gentleman who died in Balti-
more some time since, house and lot in that
city was left 10 his two sisters. 10 hold as joint
tenants a. long as they remained single, but, if
one married, the property was To 60 10 the
other. One Of them did marry, and thea
brought suit against the other for half the
property, claiming that the provision was against
the policy Of the law on restraint Of marriage.
Judge Gilmore, however, has just decided the
provision Is be- valid as limitation which. Ter
minated the estate. The Jury, under instruc-
iions, rendered verdict III favor Of the unmar-
Tied sister, who is thus secured the entire inter-
'St IN the property.
INF manufacture OF tobacco on al extensive
scale has recently been introduced into India,
and an English paper states that tobacco Of the
hnest quality can he made, superior in every
respect 10 the American, and cheaper. Accord
ing 10 . contemporary, the experimental planta-
tons at Ghazipur, which embrace 239 acres,
have this year yielded 10000 pounds Of the
cured leaf. Tobacco Eas been sent 10 New Zea-
land, Australia and France. Tie French gov
ernnIent, having had one sample, gave an order
for further and larger one. Natives are being
trained in the various processes, and those who
know most about the subject are confident that
in little time Indian tobacco will ~ fully equal
20 any competition.
IHE supreme Court " Indiana, in u late
decision. sayS: "Sleeping car companies are
-laa,N l.,,t
they are bound. like other bailees, to use ord
nary care, which must be in proportion to the
danger, and consequently greater i'll the night,
while the passenger is asleep, than ia the day
time. The fact that articles and money lost or
stolen from the passenger when carried by him
about his person VI under his personal super
vision, dOer not eNUncrate tie sleeping car COM
pany from the duty 10 use ordinary care in
respect 10 them; but the right 81 recovery is
limited 10 such articles Il If usual and proper
for Z Traveller 10 carry about his person, and to
ruch O reasonable amount Of money il may
he proper for him to carry for travelling pur-
pOSes.'
TaE appointment of Governor-General Of
India in place 81 Lord Lytton, who desires to
retire, now that the triumph Of his admiIistra-
non III AleuhHlnlan II ~ Vfusl dh-
sured has been rendered 81 the Earl Of Duffer-
in. who has neither accepted o. declined, but
merely wrote 10 Lord salisbury that ho feared
the climate would not agree with II man Of his
age. Ar n mater Of fact, Lord Dufferin is only
53, and many Govcrnor-Gencrals going out 10
India were older. The truth l., Lord Dufferin
las a numerous young family, 10 whom he IL de-
SUtedy attached. and these wOull, for many
I-aznns. have 10 remain at home. The Viceroy
during the five YEAR, he holds Office, can save
10000 without undue economy: and ~ Lord
Dufferin, who, without being personally extray-
agant, has teen most lavish ia hospitality and
kindness to others, this would be much.
The San Francisco BuiLfin SAYS that that city
has no authority under existing laws to receive
the late Henry Z. Robinson's bequest Of 40, 900
NJ q fund for destitute women and children.
There are some public institutions in the city
empowered To receive donations and requests,
the public library being one Of them, but there
il no general law empowering towns, cities, and
counties III the state, or the state itself, TO
receive donations and bequests for public CHAIR
U"s and uses. About year ago Samuel j.
Bridge gave e, 900 % the board Of public edu-
cation 10 form medal fund, for the decoration
uf certain public school pupils, and the board
accepted the donation, although without legal
authority to do 80, and when :. c. Hastings
desired to found the Hastings Law college with
donation 10 the state in trust 81 200, 900. the
Bu1etin says he had actually 10 log-rOll a bill
through the legislature r. compel thu state to
receive the money.
vIcroRIA, near Kansas City, ~ known local.,
"A "DeadLead Eden" few years ago Sir
,ieorge Grant visited Kansas 10 HINT. and whcr
h returned to England his stories excited tho
hearts OF forty young sPrigs Of nobility, and {
short time since they entci ed Kansas with
flourish and founded the Victoria colony, wher,
An elegant saloon il now maintained by draft
moon titled fathers on the other side of tn,
Atlantic. The spirit Of boon companionshiJ
woes 20 far that the barkecpers have standin;
orders to furnish " drinks free IN all visitors.
Ihe folks 81 the ncighborhood appreciate tn,
kindness Of the young noblomen who spent
about 10000 year each, and Victoria is saic
~ be on a neyer-endng, never-fagging lark
Lord LOTUS IL the possessor Of large estates il
IipperaIy, and his profcssed object in Leaving
London was 10 get away from Wild associations
How well he has succeeded il shown by tn
fart that his lordship spent II, 100 for liquor
ut the bars in that city during weeks visit Las
month. The colonists hunt great deal, bu
most of their days are spent in card-playing an
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