The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-02-20
FOREIGN NOTES.
THERE are 100000 of Siberisns.

THERE are 4,UUU,UUo OF SlDerlans.
The Roumanian mint has issued lot
of two-centime pieces, a coin worth about
two-fifths of cent.
An English Journalist describes Berlin
as ostentatious and unprepossessing, pre-
tentious and mattractive, garish yet not
brilliant.
An octopus embraced a diver in an
Australian river, and it was twenty min
utes before the man could release himself.
He was nearly exhausted.
AT Lakeneath, England, "a, 900 larks
were captured and killed within three
days. England loses the birds but it
has the bonnets.
The family of an English farmer have
been seriously poisoned by mistaking the
root of aconite or Monkshood for horse
radish. The father died.
AT Gateshead, England, case has
come to light of a female Fagin, wife Of
clerk, who compelled her children, by
dreadful threats, to pick pockets.
IT is said that an alert Yankee is about
to publish directory of Honolulu, and
that he has obtained permission to put
numbers upon all the houses in the city.
THERE is" says an English critic,
little prejudice in England and France
against foreigners, Germans rising in the
one country and Italians in the other"
AT Burton-on-Trent lately a woman
got rid of q baby by drugging it, doing
il up in a parcel, and sending it by n
cabman to a certain address, while she
took railway train and "lit out"
The North British Railway company
propose 10 rebuild Tay bridge at lower
ievel-60 feet is suggested-if the requi-
site authority can be obtained from par
lament. The cost of rebuilding is esti-
mated at s65,
An English coachman Was asked to
tie up a dog, and he resigned ON the
ground that it was the buffers duty.
The butler declined and resigned, and
after six servants had left, the earl tied
up the dog himself.
THE tomb which is to be raised to
Michelet, the historian, consists OF three
marble blocks of different sizes placed
one upon the other, and bearing In the
centre two handsome columns supporting
IN architectural coronation, and inclos-
lug marble slab ON which statute of
Michelet appears in high relief. A figure
of Truth is writing at his dictation.
A FRENCH statist has come to the con-
clusion, after O very laborious examine
ton of the number of deaths from rail
way :acciaents in all parts OF the world,
that il a:person were to live continually
in a railway carriage and$pend all his
time in travelling, the chances in favor OF
his dying from railway accident would
not occur until he was go years old.
The description of the Thibctan tea
sounds uninviting. A whole cupful OF
tea is put into three pints Of water and
boiled with a spoonful of carbonate OF
soda. 1t is then chrIrned or milled with
n pound of fresh butter and salt, aud
boiled and churned again, and finally
strained through cloth till it resembles
chocolate. An Englishman, after long
and cold march, gave 1t the negative
praise If "not unpalatable. Saturday
ReriCU.
CuuLDREN's balls are now IN great
vogue in France. The latest novelty for
them is the ribbon dance. Eight RIB
bons of different eolors are attached to
ring in the ceiling. Four girls and four
bows hold the ends Of the ribbon. The
orchestra starts up and the eight chill
dren dnnce measure which enables
them to plat the ribbon. The orchestra
then starts another measure, the chill
dren another step, and the plat is un-
plated. Each Of the dancers may be
dressed according to the color OF the nib
bon that he or she holds, and the min
Cling of the color viii be all the more
brilliant. The idea might be easily
taken for cotillion figure.