The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-02-06

DOUBLE THE CIRCULATION
OF Any Paper Published In Blue Earth COUNTY.


Iy for charitable purposes. II in estimated that
the private contributions to charitable societies
IN the city amount TO as much more.
The Sunday question has for several years
been discussed at Zurich. committee al
pointed by the grand council Of the canton has
finally drawn up law, after years of study and
Investigation. licnceforth Sundays and rcli-
gious fote days are 10 bc considered Us tlay Of
public rest; shops and public offices must be-
shut before midday, and all noisy work il pro-
hibitod. The committee allegc that by this they
do not desire 10 introduce the English sun
day, but merely such a SUNDAY that people NAV
pray IN quiet.
Tar service of a citation of the Probate court
can be made by telephone in 81. Louis. In
case decided last week the sheriff testified that
he read the citation TO two Of the four parties in
action through the telephone, and took from,
each Of them an an acknowledgment OF service.
Tie did not know the parties by their voice, and
made the return On the faith given 10 the IT.
sronsos Of those who represented themselves. in
answer TO his interrogatoiics, to be- the per-
sons mentioned in the citation. The court
deemel it reasonable to presume that il il had
no notice, OK il any one else had answered the
proved the fact On the trial The return OF the
officer was accordingly taken 10 he literally true.
Az apprentice Ia horse slocr last week sued
his master in Philadelphia for damages. CON-
planning that "hilc he had been sufficiently
Taught ns TO tI.y fastening of the shoes and the
welding Of the toes, he had not been instructed
IN the making aud faShioning II In, shoes.
which the craft call taking n fire." The
master obtained II verdict, having pleaded that
the youth received the CUSTOMARY instructions
and was given the usual opportunities 10 learn
the trade; that he proved stirring and likely
young fellow, and when his apprenticeship cx-
plred was above the average run Of apprentices
~ skill, hut entertained the absurd notion that
he should possess the skill and ability Of mas
cr workman Of many years experience.
ACCORDING 10 the Scientific iu,sI'iram, a
misconccptioa exists IN regard Ia dynamite cx-
citing greater force downward and gunpOwdcr
upward when exploded The fact is, nitro
Elycoi1nc explosive agent III dynamite
Yields on exploding about 800 time, It's volume
of gas; gunpuwdcr about 500. This gas. sud-
denly liberated, must displace a portion OF the
atmosphere, which presses with n weight Of
about nine tons upon each square yard Of sur
face. To lift such q weight in the exceedingly
short space Of time occupied III the explosion Of
charge of nitro-glyc cring-iu the form OF dy-
Mantle or otherwIso-would require force
greater than 10 spit q rock and the rock Yields.
Gunpowdor Yields but onc-third as much gas ON
exploding, and the complete combustion Of it,
grains requires an appreciate amount Of time.
Nltro-s lycCrne cNplodcs all hut iustantaueously
M English judge las made ruling 10 decide
What shall h, understood as personal bag
gage for which railway travellers can demand
transportation. In this action the plaintiff sued
the Southwestern Railway company because
their servants had lost q hamper belonging e.
him, winch contained hiI shooting boots, two
fowls, and some vegetables. The company did
not object g. pay for the boot, hut rcpudiated
ali other claims on the plea that thC fowls and ,
the vegetables were not personal luggage"
The judge declared that the company was IN the !
wrong, and held that the articles did come
within the category uf personal luggage" !
Even although they were meant 10 bc given 10
third party a. u present, his honor maintained
that until the intention az presenting them n Q
i;ift lad hccn carried out. and - long as they
were III the passcngrr'S iosscs-.om the fowls
and the vegetables were luggage
THE prcreut condition Of the Pacific railroads
may lo summed up u, follows: Conn let" or IN
more or less advanced stages Of construction
art: First, the Union aud Central laciiics, from
OMAHA 10 San Francisco; second, th" Tcxas and
Southern PacilrS, from ICNarhaHa TO Los /
Angeles and san Francisco third, the Atchisuu,
Topeka and Sauta f., from KsIsas city 20
Guaymas; fourth, the N"rth,m Pacific, finn
Duluth TO Puget Sound and Portland; lifth, the I
Canada Pacific, extending through the British
Territory from Fort William on Lake superior, /
To some point on the GU!f Of Georgia. To !
these may be- added two other important outlets !
10 the Pacific. VIZ: Jay GoulG's Northwestern |
line from Ogden Ia the Columbia river, and the !
proposed branch Of III" Atchi-Un, Topeka and
Santa L. from the lio Grandc 20 the Pacific, on
4 line at or near the thrty-hith parallel, after
possible extension 81 the KANSAS Pacific from
Denver 10 Ogden City.
THE London Building N,'rs says that the ex-
trnordinary demand for Italian marble has
raised question rs (" how long the quarriCs
are likely to hold ont. According 10 report
Of the French geological commission there yet
remains 4 considerable surfarc and depth u
the true Pcutclican marble untouched, but no
specific statements are given "n this heap. At
Carrarp q dreadful vast" 81 material goes on.
4 late trayol,r was assured ON IL" spot that
hundreds IT tons are nccdlccsly thrown away
through sheer caTclcssurss and the clnnisincSs
Of workmen. Much Of this exquisite materla
j. removed in enormous masses FOR the decora-
ton Of commonplace eiiiiccs. The Italians nlc
az length becoming alive TO this. The quar1ieS
have been worked almost without intcrTnission
since the DAYS Of the Roman cmpororS. 4
little community Ot scup tors II established
around the quarTic-, aud the aItist's chiscl IN
Piled almost lido by side with the marble ma
sons saw. The marble goes everywhere.
THE general opinion Of scientific men as TO
tho possibility of a change III tho position Of tho
oarth's axis has undergone. roccr.tly, nodiica-
tions somewhat analogous III character to those
which, in the opinion Of some gcologsts, the
I.osition Of the axis itself has undergone. In
stead Or fixed law or rules rs to tho imposai-
bility Of change, there is now divergence OF
mathematical opinion-all agreeing in the thcO-
retical possibility Of change in the geographic
cal position Of the carth's AXIS of rotation being
effected by Il redistribution OF matter TN the
,urfacc but, as 10 the extent Of such changes,
there are different opinions. Some hold, for
instance, that the elevation % 4 belt twenty do
,,rccs IL width would displaco the axis by abUut
Ten miles only; others maintain that the elcva-
ton Of two such continents ~ Europe and Asia
would disIrlace il by about siXty-nine miles,
and hOme again, regard il AZ highly probable
that the poles NAV have been, ia ancient times,
very far from their present geographical posi-
ton, and many have gradually rhiftcd through
10, 20, 81, 40 degrees.
The London Echo las been writing about tho
new railroad from the level "f the bay Of Ma
ples 10 the edge Of the crater Of ScIuvius as
1.-the most extraordinary railway in tho world"
But the New York Ers7ti"g Post takes issue
with it, English Cotcmp0raiy, aud maintains
that the line NJ Mount Washington il "the
most extraordinary railway III the world" In
the road up vesuvius the ascent il gradual az
far a. the base of the cone which reaches
height Of $500 above u!9 level OF the sea.
There b. no locomotive, hut II powerful traction
engine i. SGT ut either end the power is applied
by steel ropes working On grOovCd wheels. In
the Mount Washington road the winding course
of tho line puts tho traction method out of tho
question: aud the ascent 10 height Of G293
feet above the level Of the Gea, il made by
means Of O moving engine. The locomotive il
made with ccgScd driving wheel which worksin
a cuggcd centre rad, aud the very means which
make the ascent possible furnish o safeguard
against too rapid descent ia care Of accident.