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


Paris theatres closed their doors.
AN electric bit il used in Paris 80 fixed
that when horse gets skittish an cleo
trio current il sent into his mouth and he
il stunned.
SWITZERLAND is this winter almost ono
of SNOW, trains, steamboats, and
telegraphs have been in chronic state
OF interruption.
The theory that the hydrophobia is
disease Of the imagination and can be
cured by force of will is advanced by an
English magazine.
NINE hundred aud nincty-cight spade
gnineas were recently found under the
doorstep of house belonging to Lord
Longford i'll Dublin.
KING HuMBERT has been able to take
q sleigh ride ut home for the first time in
nine years, there having been no snow in
Italy before since 1871.
BRIG. GENERAL SIR EVELYN WOoD
one Of the commanders in the Zulu
war, by the queens wish will accom-
pany the ex-Emprcss Eugene to Zulu
land in February.
iUhp >AIhthhI tOllliTlllb ttlt tucpTy Vi
lady Westminster, the authoress, that
the horse of the Russian stcppes practices
phlebotomy on himself by biting vein
i'll his leg in the spring, when he goes
from sparse feeding the flush pasture.
A NEW use for ice-making machines
has been suggested, and is about 10 be
put i'll operation in Paris, namely, that
of freezing dead bodies in tho morglle,
and keeping them frozen for number Of
days, to increase the chances of identif-
cation.
The valuable majolica ware recently
sold for $4,000 ut the papal castle of Gan.
dolio, near Albnno, by permission Of the
pope, has been contiscated by the Italian
government, ON the ground that all the
property allowed the pope in the various
papal palaces was alienable under the
law.
THE helmet which the late prince i'm
perial of France wore when he met his
fate ut the hands of the Zulus, has, it is
said, been found, and il now in possession
of IN English officer. The assegai of the
savage who killed the prince is also said
to have been given up by one Of the
Ltllu Dfotner.
KING ALFONSO may see, in Prince
Mctternich's recently published "Me-
moirs," that Napoleon Bonaparte is quot
ed as saying: - committed an enor-
nous piece Of folly when l took IN Aus
trian archduchess to wife" The same
author represents the emperor as assert
ing that he lost 300, 900 men in his Rus
sian campaign, only 30, 900 of whom were
Frenchman.
Insurer was sought in marriage by the
parents of Il woman he had never seen,
his father told him to ask $4,000 if she
was young and pretty, $4,000 if she was
old and ugly, and if there was anything
queer about her family to demand 800,
900. A few days after came telegram;
"rhe girl has assassinated her father.
How much am to ask"
LAMARRE has stated, in commumica-
ton ut the French Academy of Sciences,
that ut the beginning Of violent snow.
storm he saw small tufts Mt the ends OF
the steel ribs of his umbrella, and heard
ut the same time sort of hrlmming
sound. When he brought his hand ncal
|
II slight shock, and the lights then disap'
peared. This electrical display is rather
exceptional.
AMONG the autograph letters contribu
ted by distinguished people to the fail
of the Paris journalists for the relief o.
the sufferers by the inmdation i'll Muir
cia, was one from Emilio CASTELAR,, con
tanning this pretty pOetical sentiment
"To believe that happiness consists il
feverish ambition rather than in ten
der and simple affection is to believe tina
the immensely of the sea will more read
ily quench thirst than the pure, limpi.
water of an humble fountain"
ACCORDING to the Giasch,tfC, temper
ed glass, though it has fallen into dis
credit i'll Germany, is i'll growing deman,
i'll France and Holland, as is proved b,
the establishment of new manufacture
and the improvements in the process
The bursting of tempered glass may b.
owing either to the original mixture hay
ing been melted mt too low temperature
or to the fact that the heat of the temper
ing bath is not duly proportional to tn
weight and thickness of the articles.
NORWAY must be Il sort of sportsman
paradise. Among the game which hi
gun can bring down are the tydder, roer
ryper and jerper, which are sufficient,
Outlandish to English ears. The tydde
is the bird known of old in Scotland b.,
the name of capercailzie. The cock is
noble bird of the size of turkey cock
with bill and claws of great strength
The roer is the female, and i'll size plll
mage and appearance unlikcthe male tina
it has received different name. TIL
ryper is the Scottish ptarmigan, bu
larger and better clothed. The jerper i
a delicate bird for tho table, of tin
grouse species, and about the size of
full grown pigeon. WOodcocks are ais
abundant and of delicious flavor.
NoRcIs CASTLE, Isle of Wight, which
was lately put up Mt auction, has beel
purchased by the Duke of Edinburgh a
n marine residence. 1t is handsome
mansion in the modern castellated style
standing on high ground between Osborn
and East Cowcs, and commanding fin
view of the Solient and Southampton
water 1t was built somewhat less thai
a century ago, from the designs of j
Wyatt afterwards Sir Jeffrey Wyatt
villc), the a.chitcct, for Lord Henr,
Seymour, from whom it was rented 70
some years by the Duchess of Kent, ant
her majesty spent n part of her CHILDHOOD
there. 1t was purchased about fort!
years ago from the Seymour family b,
Mr.. Bell, whose family have since occu
pied it. 1t is understood that the prize
given by his Royal Highncss for til
mansion and its adjacent grounds VII
ESQ, 900.