The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-04-23
PERSONAL.

elgnt years OF age.
FATHER BEoKx, the general of the
Jesuit order, is So.
SENATOR MCPHERSON, of New Jersey.
made his money at cattle dealing.
JOHN PAYNE COLLIER is the oldest lit
erary man of the present century. He
is 81.
INGALLS, is the thinnest man in con-
gress and wears q big red handkerchief
around his neck.
A. s. ABELL, of the Baltimore Sun;
has bought ten thousand acres of orange
lands in Florida.
IRA CURTIS, an oysterman of New
Haven, has taken more than sixty drown
ing persons from the water.
PRINCE OSCAR, of Sweden and Norway
is youth of 20 years, whose beardless
face looks even younger than that.
GEORGE w. WOODWARD, at a lecture
i'll Boston, wrote French letter with his
left hand and an English letter with his
right hand at the same time.
Mrs. GRossMAM, of Berlin, Canada, is
twenty-six years old, and in seven years
of marital life has given birth to twelve
children, in ones, twos and threes.
SENATOR HENRY G. DAVIS, the richest
man III West Virginia, did not inherit Il
cent. When he was II years old he was
brakeman on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad.
DANGERFIELD STANLEY, the chief of
large Gypsy tribe in Missouri, has pur-
chased Granger supply store near st.
Louis, and will make that city his home
hereafter.
Mrs. GEN. FREMONT, who is in Wash
ington, has white hair and a complexion
like girls, with sparkling eyes and a
merry laugh. An eminent artist says
that she has the prettiest hand he ever
saw.
The Hon: Hester Clymer, of Penn
sylvania, is about to marry n widow lady
of st. Louis. Clymer is an old bachelor,
having been born in 1927. He has
always been the best dressed man in con-
gress.
JOHN ID. GoUGH recently sent to Mr..
Spurgeon, the London preacher, an eb-
ony walking-stick, with q massive gold
head elegantly chased, the center being
inlaid with piece of California quartz
dotted over with the precious metal.
GENERAL LoRIs MELIKoFF, the "dic-
tator," is said to be exceedingly popular
in st. Petersburg society. His wife was
one of the greatest beauties of her day,
and his oldest daughter is q remarkable
pianist. His two sons are pages at court.
PRINCE HAssAN, who accompanies his
father, the ex-khedive, in his travels,
was educated at Christ church, Oxford.
There is story told of his remarking,
when an august individual presented
him to his wife and daughters, "Ha
So this is your harem! Well, con-
graduate you!"
HARvARD's Chinese professor is very
much entertained at Cambridge, al
though he cannot be said to be as yet
sparkling talker. His knowledge of Eng
lish is still small, and he extremely dis
likes to he addressed in "Pidgin Eng
lish." He appears Mt dinner parties in
charming attire of silk and satin.
H. j. LUK1Ns of Rock Greek, Ill. was
driving hogs to market and one that was
wild and unruly rushed upon him with
fury, catching him in the thigh with his
long, sharp tushes, severing an artery.
Medical aid arrived too late, rs the man
died in short time after the wound was
made.
JUDGE DAVIS says of Lincoln, that
while nearly all the lawyers on the
Wabash circuit were in ecstacies over
Macaulay's history, then just published,
Lincoln was absorbed in the study of
Euclid. Night after night he spent over
tho ,,rnhloN,C onl anollx, al
all of them without the least assistance.
Mr. MCCLELLAN owns the actual Cape
of Good Hope and much land adjoining,
whereon he has large ostrich farm. A
kick from an ostrich is well-known to
be very dangerous. Mcclellan said that
the only thing to do when attacked with
out any means of defense was to lie fiat
down and let the bird walk ON you until
he Is tired. The business is profitable.
From ten pairs of full-grown birds,
which one man could take care of, an in
come of $4,000 or $4,000 may be
reckoned on.
Mr. HoPKINsoN, of Chicago, who owns
property in Oswego, is, with other par
ties in the latter place engaged IN an ex-
periment-the manufacturers Of some
kind of oil. He told gentleman recent
ly that if the experiment proved success
full company would be organized and a
large building for the manufacture of
the Article would be built on his Oswego
property. He will probably be one of
the principal men of the concern. This,
he said, would furnish work to one hun
dred men or more.
Dnyc,Dr~,r t., snxS L., l.l.a,a I,a
fore the New York State Dairymen's as
ISOLATION, remarks: In 1910 the exports
of cotton from the United States aggre-
gated S84, 0O0,000 equal to $4.1S per
capita of the population, and that all the
other products of agriculture amounted
to ST., ZOO, 900, an equivalent of Shopper
capita of population; while in 1879 there
were S179, 900, 900 of cotton, equivalent
to So. 81 per capita, and all the other ag-
ricultural products were $412, ZOO, 900,
equal to 1896 per capita, showing, in
less than forty years, an increase of
more than 800 per cent. in agricultural
products other than cotton.
The leanness of which Mile. Bern
ated willfully by the costume she chooses,
and gloves too full are deliberately
wrinkled along the arms to increase the
attenuated impression. In all the reck-
lessness of character, in the sudden freak
for sculpture and for painting, in the
balloon trips described by herself ut
length in volume profusely illustrated
by NJ. Clairin, in the hastily dictated
articles contributed to newspapers, in
the eccentric caprices which give rise to
strange tales of skeleton III her studio,
and of coffin in which she sleeps, in the
willingness to sacrifice to the impulse of
the moment the demands of art, which
must be steadily sought and long wooed
ere it be won-in all this there is evil
dence of conscious acknowledgements,
not to say distinct trace of charlatanry.