The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-10-22
MISCELLANEOUS CLIPPINGS.


GREEN SMITH, the sOn Of Gerrit Smith,
left $780, worth Of property, almost
all to his wife.
IT is estimated that visiting Americans
have expended within few months not
less than $3.50, 900 in Europe.
A MASSACHUSETTS husband and wife
werc one day recently travelling ON the
Old Colony III lroad with their twenty
one children, and were proud ~ could
he of their little flock.
An ingenious prisoner in a western Jail
c0ntrived to make watch ont Of 81 broom
that had been left in his cell. The
'room's tick probably suggested the idea
to him. ,Pbiia. Bniieiin.
ANOTHER pastor having been accused
of kissing the lady members OF his flock,
the Philadelphia Chr0oicie.Hcratd
thinks that preachers will have to wear
mlizzles when not on duty.
4 RATHER curious contrast il to he
seen Mt the White mountains. The en-
tire range il covered with snow half the
way to the base. Below the snow line
the trees heve on their brilliant autumn
foliage.
In 1867 Syracuse man died and left
II diamond to one of his daughters. She
has had several chances to sell it for
81 900, but took it to New York the other
day to find that il was only paste, and
not worth So.
They have machine ut work IN New
York that turns ont 300 cOrnucOpias IN
minute, such us are used in putting up
! candies. This is mt the rate of 100, 900 II
day, and one cOnnot help wondering what
il TO be done with them all.
SOME Arabs have offered to present T."
President Grevy pair Of white horses
The president has refused to accept
them. His representative tried to buy
them, but the reply was that ARABS
never sell their horses.
The remains of John King, the keeper
of animals in John RobinsOn's Circns,
who was recently killed in Charlotte, n.
G., by one OF the elephants, were fol-
loved to the grave by his two pet
elephants, "Mary and "The Boy"
The stone to be erected over the grave
Of the late Commodore Josiah Tatnall Of
the United States navy by subscription
| from his many friends has been received
/ in Savannah and will soon be placed in
position Mt BOnaventure cemetery there.
AMONG the exhibition pieces in the re-
cent Indianapolis parade was an Immense.
rooster in effigy, full feathercd and
gatfed, and moving with such grace anu
spirit an to win loud applause for the I'M
seen boy who was personating the bird.
! BosToN is importing 1000 tons Of
Maine hay weekly. The quality and
quantity 81 the crop there is superior to
last year. Shippers of cattle to Europe
prefer Maine hay to that from any other
source, and some weeks use more than
! 100 tons.
/ some Cinnamon fitted mp boats and
made contract with the canning firms
70 fish for salmon of British Columbia.
/ The boats drifted empty ashore on the
day after, and the Cinnamon were never
nfterward seen. The white tishermcn
had murdered them.
THElang,,age Of inscriptions On ancient
Irish monuments il, contrary to the GUS
tom in other countries ut the same date,
Irish, AMI Irish can claim to be one Of
the oldest written languages extant IN
Europe. II is still spoken by several
thousand persons, but their number de-
creases every year.
THE lord mayor and sherIffs 0f London
have received their usual present OF veni-
non from Windsor. These gifts Art.
regularly sent annually to a long list OF
official personages - ministers 81 state,
chief justices, &c. Great disgust Is ex-
perienced by those who find themselves
treated merely to doe venison.
The White House is literary torn to
pieces, undergoing repairs. The main
entrance to the builning is closed, and
persons who have occasion to visit the
presidents secretaries are compelled to
enter through window, which has been
bridged over. The front vestibnle has
been newly tiled, and the woodwork
generally is being newly painted.
In nothing is a purchaser so easily de-
ceiyed as in cabinet work. Ii a piece Of
cabinet furniture il well made, 1t Will
last hundred years OF more and still b'
in fair condition. But If badly made
in the first instance, it will be source
Of annoyance from the day it is pur-
chased to the not distant period when 1t
il fit only to the attic or lumber room.
As souvenirs OF complimentary enter
tainments, which ladies now give to 1T
dies exclusively, there are many pretty
tnfies used. Tinted gilt-edged tablets,
large enough to show Il flower spray, II
n bit of water-edge scenery, with sedges
aud n fly. bird or butterfly are en-
ployed. These the hostess sometimes
prepares herself and, as far as possible,
chooses each persons favorite bird or
blossom.
A YOUNG woman who died at Washing
ton, Pa, the other day, was buried with
services performed jointly by Cathonc
priest and Lutheran clergyman, as she
had requested. Her father is Cathode
and her mother Lutheran, but she be-
longed to neither church. This IL be-
lieyed to he the first instance in Penn
sylvania of Catholic priest and q L'ltli-
eran clergyman conducting services TO-
gether.
THE construction Of the new postof-
flee in Paris has made it necessary to
abolish the long and narrow Rue jean
jacques Rousseau, but it has already
been proposed that Il handsome statue
should still associate Rousseau's name
with the district in which he lived. BY
Il singular coincidence 20 years before
Rousseau's residence in this street, when
he paid his first visit to Paris, it was III
an adjoining street he lodged. That
street also became Rue Jean jacques.
The house, No. 81, still stands.
BEN ZENcHER was an only SOIL, and his
father owned one of the best farms Ill
Belmont county, West Virginia. The
old man was past 50. During seyerai
wears his health had declined, and it was
supposed that he would speedily die.
Ben was 30 confident of this that he be-
gan to buy stock for the farm, and made
other preparations to take possession OF
the property. But the octOgenarian sud
,.enly recovered from his illness, AMI
took to counting neighbours daughter.
This exasperated the impatient heir, ana
he shot his father dead.
The 100-ton gun at Woolwich was
tested by one discharge ON September
-. in the presence OF large number oil
officials aud other visitors. This huge
weapon, which, to be exact weighs lOi
tons, is "a feet long with diameter at
the breech of 6 feet inches, taperinS
off 2 feet 6 inches at the muzzle. When
lever was touched the gun rose above
the parapet and swung around to the
opposite point of the compass. The
charge was 425 pounds of pebble powder
and the proiectile weighed 9, OH pounds,
was l74 inches in diameter, and nearly
three feet long. This first OF series ol
tests was perfectly satisfactory.
The Rev. 7. De Witt Talmage, in O
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