The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-01-16
FOREIGN WAITS.

ITALIAN lawyers will plead case last.
ing three days for S..
A VISITOR 10 Queen Victoria has To
be announced by five different persons.
In Europe, especially in Germany,
cremation il surely progressing in favor.
THE federal, provincial and municipal
debts Of Canada are estimated At $500,
000, COO.
Col. BuRNABY says that Europe has
less than $780, 900 soldiers and $50, 200
Of sea forces
THR queens bench prison in London,
where 80 many eminent men have been
confined, is 20 be taken down.
SPORTING guns are now made in
England with the hammers concealed in
the lock mechanism internally, 10 that
persons who prefer 10 handle their
weapons from the muzzle in going
through brush need not find death in the
gun.
SIX car losds of silk-worm eggs lately
came across the continent, having been
shipped this way from Japan to Italy.
They are in charge of Eve Italians, who
make q profitable business of buying
them of the Japanese rsisers and selling
them 10 farmers in Italy.
a SHOCKING spectacle was witnessed
at an interment at Kirkcsldy, in Scot.
land, a few days ago. Nearly all the
mourners had become so intoxicated that
one Of them, when lowering the coffin
into the grave, staggered forward and
fell into the tomb. He became jSmmed
between the descending corpse and the
side Of grave, and Was extricated with
difficulty.
AT the Walssll County Court in Eng.
land recently, q case was called ON, for
which plaintiff, defendant, and several
witnesses had been waiting all day.
His honor looked surprised on finding
that the amount in dispute was only Sd,
but having ELECTED from the litigSnts
that they were quite prepared Ia leave
the matter in his hands unreservedly,
he quickly brought the 81. from his
pocket and passed il TO the plaintiff, 20
the great amusement of crowded court
In the new prison at Milan, the pris,
oners at first made an incesssnt noise and
uprosr upon being separated from each
other in their respective cells. The
keeper ordered them On keep silence, and
was very much surprised 10 find that his
order WAS 20 well carried out that the
building became rs silent n a graveyard
At last he discovered that the prisoners
had started telephone communication
among themselves by speaking through
the numerous tubes by which the build.
ing was heated.
JAMES MACLEAR, Of the Saint Rollox
Chemical works, has informed the Glas.
cow Philosophical society that, after sx.
periments since 1866, he has succeeded
in obtaining crystalliEed forms of csr.
hon, which Professors Tyudsll and
Smith and Mr.. Msskeiyne, Of the British
museum, do not doubt are diamonds.
The diamond, when found in its natural
state, Is pure crystsliEed carbon. Scien.
lists have hitherto endesyored 10 pro-
duce it by chemical means, with only
partial success.
THE great tunnel under the British
Channel, with which it is proposed TO
connect England and France, has not
yet been really commenced, the only
step taken being that Of sinking q shaft
near Sangstte, in order 70 ascertain the
depth and currents of the water. This
shaft has diameter of about nine feet,
and is to 20 TO the depth Of 200 feet So
rapidly does the water come in, how.
ever, that machine capable of extract.
ing 600 gallons per minute has been
found necessary. The walls of the shaft
are lined with small oak planks, with Q
backing of concrete. The earth which
has been excsvated is of white, chalky
nature. and very hard,