The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-01-02
FOREIGN gossip.

ihh Alta 1lAiiA railway, itkiy,
recently advertised for 1000 employees,
and $4,000 applied for places.
ACCORDING 10 the last census there
are 1874 men in France over 100 years
old, and 1918 between IS and 100.
The Australian world exhibition has
proved gigantic failure, involving a
loss of 81 900, 900 TO the government.
THERE is an extraordinary fight OF
quails to Italy this year, and they are
s.ld for five cents in the streets of
Naples.
EVERY householder in st. Petersburg
is compelled TO hang out = red lamp at
his door at night bearing the number of
his house.
The city of London has the exclusive
right of building q market within seven
miles OF st. Pauls, and of collecting tolls
for the same.
The Duke of Norfolk is expanding
more than q hundred and fifty thousand
dollars on improvements at his grand
ancestral home, Arundel Castle.
AN English physician reports many
instances within his experience where
the boxing of children's ears by parents
and teachers has resulted in deafness.
1T is decreed by the Prussisn military
authorities than any officer who shall be
struck by a civilian must forthwith
draw upon that civilian, though the lat,
ter is unarmed and defea ssless, and cut
him down upon the spot
THE jury appointed 10 examine the
works OF the various comps sitors for the
prize Of q, 900 francs oiers,i by the king
Of the Belgisns for the best agricultural
treatise have reported that no produc.
ton of sufficient merit has been pre-,
sented to then.
The Waste Not" society is composed
of Sunday school children at Brighton,
England. Its members saved in IL
months about $l'5 worth of refuse
paper, and sold it for the benefit of two
little girls, who were thus supported q,
the orphanage.
THE Duke of Rutland recently accept
ed the notices to quit their farms sen,
in by fifteen of his tenants, and when
rent day came directed his agent 20 ne.
turn the whole of the years rent 10 every
one of his tenants except the fifteen who
had given notice.
KING kALAKAUA il using his best
endeavors to induce Portuguese immi
grafton to the Sandwich islands. Thi,
Is said TO be the outcome of a positive
belief on the part of Kslskaus that his
government il gradually passing into
the hands of the Chinese.
1T is stated that DR.. Gerlsnd has dis
covered in the Cassel State library, and
in the archives of Hanover, = series oi
important original letters hitherto un
known, from the pen of Leibpiix, and OF
Pepin, one Of the inventors of practical
applications of the power of steam.
OF the six hundred Russian exile,
transported to the Island of Saghalien
and who were on shipboard fully twelve
menths, only three suffered from sea
sickness, according TO the report of the
captain TO his government. 1t would bt
of interest to travellers to ascertain what
means were used by the captain TO bring
about such wonderful result.
A RECENT traveller in the West Indies
describes the accommodation of the
hotels as even worse than that of coun
try inns in New England: "At st
Thomas, TO reach the cobbwebby anC
tarantuls- occupied bath. rooms, il is ne
cesssry to descend flight of dirty stone
steps and pick your way across cour
yard that is never swept. At Martiniqu,
there were no bath rooms in one hotel
At Barbados the hotel boosted of on,
small shower-bath taken on the bar,
bricks. At Trinidad a green Shiny tank
never emptied."
AN inhabitant of Palermo, Cstafalms
da Cefalu, who was captured by fiv,
brigands, has been found dead in a cav.
of Monte Peilegrino, his head cut of
and his body shockingly mutilated
The brigands had demanded 200,,
900 francs ransom, but on the
family declaring their inability to collec
more than 1000 francs, they ultimatel,
agreed to take $500 francs, which wa
accordingly sent; but the recipients kept
kept it all to themselves, whereupon the
sccomplices who guarded the prisoner
resolved 10 murder him. Nearly all tn,
culprits are in custody.
Mr.. JOHN 7. DRLANo, the former ed
itor of the London Times, was buried OF
the 30th of November with extrem,
simplicity in ga pretty rural spot" a,
Essthampstesd, Berkshire, England
"He had" says that Journal, eth.
strongest aversion to parade, and thi.
feeling no doubt led him to desire thai
his funeral should he of the simplest
The anxiety of his family to give effect
to his wishes will be understood and
appreciated. His body was conveyed in
plain hearse drawn by two horses. There
were no plumes, no stavemen, scsrfs
nor hatbands. All the undertaken,
trappings of mourning were disposed
of"
AMONG curious visnds and medicine,
largely consumed in China are severs
varieties Of fungi, which are considered
to be, If not actually poisonous, at least
worthless in other countries. Some col
onists in New Zealand have turned their
knowledge of this fact to good account
by collecting and exporting to the Ce
lestisl land species Of fungus growing
abundantly on decaying timber in al
tho forest districts of the colony, known
as Hisneola polytrichs, and much re
sembling the variety commonly known
as Jew's,ear. It's used by the Chinese
rs medicine, being administered in the
shape of decoction, and 1t Ia supposed
to purify the blood. It is largely con-
sumed in soups, and as an ingredient In
various farinaceous dishes.