The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-01-30
Personal GOSSIP.

annual income Of $500.
PATTI is soon to begin nm engagement
at Paris in grand opera, nj 5000 per
night.
EDISON was born near Digby, Fova
Scotia, his parents removing to the
United States when he was very young.
MISS TmUgsEY, now one Of the most
brilliant vocalists on the stage, began
her career uS II choir-singer ut 80 per
week.
4 PORTRAIT of Andrew Jackson has
been placed in the white house, where
are now portraits Of all the presidents
except buchanan and Johnson.
Il NEVER saw man, said Mr.. Bell
tlcy, "who cared so little for money and
No much for science as Il. A. Edison. -
ThiiUdiphiu BoNctin MtcrricW.
EDMUND YATES thinks that jealousy is
II mental disease which should be resisted
as earnestly as hystcria or II taste of alcO-
hol, and he adds that il il IN lmgraceful
vice.
WAsHNGToS passed through the upper
part Of South Curolina III II private car
riage during 1897. Since then no OK
president has visited the region until
Gen. Grants present trip south.
Nix. BENJAMIN FTCH, OF New York,
who recently presented s25, 900 worth Of
property to the charity organization of
Buffalo. has added another large piece of
property adjoining the tormet :" his
gift.
In has just come to light that William
NiblO, who died i'll August, 1878, left
$l5u, 900 of his estate To found Il library
to be called by his name for the Young
Mems Christian Association of New
York city.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN sent money to erect
Il stone over his fathers grave at Mat
toOn, but the grave is still unmarked.
The great presidents mother was buried
in Indiana, while his fathers remains
rest III Illinois.
MATTHEW ARNOLD has face some
what spare of flesh, with large features,
His chin, lips and nose are large; he
wears mutton-chop whiskcrs, is near
sighted, and his somewhat wavy hair is
parted III the middle.
DELEGATE CANNON, Of Utah, counts up
his family as follows: first wife, Eliza
beth Hoagland Cannon, and six children;
second wife, Sarah Jane Jenney, and five
children; third wife, Eliza Tinny, and
two children; fourth wife Martha Tilley,
and five children.
BISHOP HAVEN leaves mother ninety
three years old, two sistcrs-Miss Haven
maiden lady, and Mrs. Cox--a married
son, Mr.. W. j. Haven, at present i'll the
theological school, and daughter, Miss
Mary Haven, employed in the Boston
university.
THE late Count Johannes is described
MS II guant and stately person, with the
mein Of Il soldier. He wore dropping
black moustache, and, although, 90
years old, his hair was as black as the
plume of Richard of Ashby lie In
Xouche. 4 struggling lock fell over his
brow.
OURAY is not understood by the army
officers with whom he has been dealing
for the last month or 80. He put his
face close TO that of Lieutenant Valois
recently and Kissed out" Vermos 81 no
nor remos" I've shall meet if we
the next instant WIS smiling.
Nalois was scared
Mr. ERNEST HART, the advocate of
kitchen economy, gave i'll London din
ncr recently. He had n clear soup,
roasted behring's with mustard sauce,
curried eggs, scallopcd lobster, beef with
beans, turnips with gravy sauce, mince
pie and an ice. The whole dinner,
which was excellent, cost for each person
sixteen cents.
"OLIvIA" writes that Senator Booth is J.
such hardened bachelor that L" n sigh
drawn fresh and pure from the deepest
and most capricious female bosom and
applied to the right place will have no /
more effect than Holman liver pad adj
for lock jaw, while n glance .
from the most brilliant eye falls like Il
sunbeam on an alligator's back.
w. w. CoRcoRAN, the well-bnown
Washington millionaire, has recovered .
from disease after his doctor and friends .
had given him up. His pall-bearers had |
been selected, and every arrangement ,
had been made for his funeral. He raj ,
lied to the amazemcnt of everybody, and .
got better, 80 that within two or .
three months he was going about on foot /
md attending personally to his aifnirs.
He is now much stronger than he WIS be- I
fore his illness.
WHILE lectliring on snakes before the
London Institution on the LIST of Decem-
Der, Prof. Huxley said that there are
few animals endowed with 80 many
A snake can stand erect,
limb as well as an ape, swim like fish,
lart forward and do all but fly in seizing
It's prey. The destructiveness of snakes
10 man was illustrated by the fact that
20, 600 lives nre yearly lost in India by
heir poison,a nd it might safely be said
that they are Il more deadly enemy to our
race than any other beasts of the field.
The reason there are no snakes in Ire
and was the multiplicity Of its other
oIaouas