The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-04-16
PITHY PARTICLES.

PITHY PARTICLES.
Politics and pork-packing rank as the
two great American industries.
IT is q ime-honored custom in Quincy,
Fla, to salute a new married couple by
firing q cannon.
A BOSTON man has invented q patent
for playing organs by electricity, one
operator running several organs.
LAsryear twelve ~personsin the United
States and Europe gave N aggregate of
s., ZOO, 600 to the cause of foreign mis-
sions.
A YOUNG son of P. Morse, living near
Breeds, ILL.,, shot at a r on his fathers
straw stack the other day. Result, row
killed, straw stack, barn, corn and hay
burned.
NNKTY-FvE mining companies have
been formed in Maine during the last
year. II the business of mining is as
brisk a that of getting up companies
there must be millions in it.
THOSE manufactures where old furni-
ture and ancient relics with histories at
tached, ara made, are not doing 80 well
this year as last, which seems to indicate
that the intense love for the antique is
simmering down, a it were.
BOGUS gold IS pieces are being circu-
lated in Sacramento. The coin has the
right sound, exact in weight and size,
very finely executed, gold plated, of the
dates 1874, 1S47 and 1875. These pieces
are the the product of a company which
executes its work in ships at sea, orig
inally of the Spanish coast.
NEAR Conyers, Ga, q dog entered q
flock of sheep and killed three of them
when an old ram came up and butted
him to death. The owner Of the dog has
entered suit for 800 damages, and his
neighbor has entered q counter suit for
the value of the three sheep.
THE two daughters of Mrs. j. B. Whit
comb, a former teacher Mt Bellows Falls,
were recently sitting in the woods neal
Oakland, Cal, when two hunters mis-
took the plume on one of their hats for q
wildcat and fred a double charge of
buckshot into the thicket. Harriet, the
oldest, aged %, was killed, but Alice, a
little girl, will recover.
Ii people care anything about know
ing whether milk is watered all they have
to do is to dip a well polished knitting
needle into a deep vessel of milk and
withdraw it Immediately in an upright
position. II the milk is pure some of it
will hang to the needle, but if water has
been added, even in small proportions,
the fluid will not adhere.
YES, the infant has genius. NOtwith-
standing all the care, trouble and anx-
iety it is to the happy possessors of the
article, it can warm up their hearts,
swell their bosoms with pride, and make
very wicked people thank heaven that
there is something worth living for. At
the same time we wouldn'ttake an infant
as a gift.-NcU Haven Register.
AT the close of the service at st.
Mary's p. E. Church, Brooklyn, on
Easter, when the contribution plates
were turned over to the rector, Rev. DR..
johnson, a package was discovered
among the others which, when opened,
was found to contain ten thousand dol
lars, q gift from Seymour L. Hustled,
Esq, for the extinction of the debt of
the society.
AN American lady in Paris, anxious to
inaugurate q novel entertainment, hit
upon the idea of a "soap bubble party"
The guests found tables furnished with
soap and warm water, and clay pipes
gaily bedecked with ribbons, and they
We'd with each other in the agreeable
pastime of blowing bubbles. The more
serious business Of eating and dancing
followed.
MILE. BLANC, the wealthy daughter
of the NJ. Blanc of Monte Carlo fame,
and sister to the Princess Radziwill, is
quoted as saying lately to a titled but
i~mpecunious sutton: "No, I intend
marrying a man in my own rank of life;
but, rs titles are still in fashion, l in
tend having a duke as my head cook,
and all my men-servants shall be mar
quises." =.
ANNA FRoLIcH, the last of the three
maiden sisters who made a home for the
poet Grillparzer during the latter years
of his life, and to whom he bequeathed
his fortune, has just died in Vienna.
She left all her fortune, amounting to
$4,000, to form a fund to be called the
Frolich Sisters Fund, for the benefit of
poor authors and artists. The furniture
and other articles in her possession,
which belonged to the poet, she gave to
the city Of Vienna, and they will be pre-
served in a apartment in the new town
hall called the Grilparzer room.