The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-01-02

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NEW ZEAiATD - aahpa CalifuGniass
snrplus crop Of aPPass this year.
Az explocatioa of Gseat Sit late
shows that In gssaAs& dePth b thirtg1ix
feet
IT currsnfly believed that Q woman
il . hard thing 10 re through. And 70
Q her hat 1t the Opera
A RuiA~FsoG feoent'y caught at West-
el.~~AR. xhe~-speassd ~As tonnd tAAkana
swallowed . fulierown nOuse.
SENATORS AHfH0HY and BurnaiAe
live In the came house In WashiAgton.
They are called the twin senators
81 WOULD take . trip around the
world" said Mr. 6hoddy, "n il want
for theexpense of returning home again. !"
A COUNTY In Texas In said 10 have
expended Lest year %, 600 for preaching,
500, 600 for tobacco, and SS00, 600 for
whisky.
TEE American Union Telegraph com
psny continues TO employ Q mounted
patrol to guard the poles and its wires in
New Jersey.
TIE new Dakota Salt springsare forty
Eve miles from Deadwood. The sup
ply of salt 10 immense" says the Dead
wood Press.
PROMISES for tomorrow are all right
in their way, but the man who sneers 1t
mush and milk to look for chicken pie
may have 10 gil up on cold water.-Ds-
trOif Free Press.
TRAnPs shot at q IA year old Somerville
Mass, school-boy recently for amuse-
ment, and % he shielded his head with q
book bullet buried itself in il, which
probably saved his life.
WHILE Q 2oorhouse YVES Burning NJ
Colchester, Conn, an idiot girl ran back
deliberately into the flames after she
had safely been carried out of the build
ing, and was burned 10 death.
70 An orchestra consisting of two violins,
q cornet, o base vol and an organ, all
played by convicts, and 9 chCir of IL
prisoners, il q regular accompaniment Of
the Sunday services in Auburn prison.
BY means of the phonograph, an sp-
parstns invented by O Russian, sixty
copies Of any written document or draw
ing can be made in an hour, and the cost
of material for the sixty copies lie only
two cents.
A DRUGGIST st Csneyville, KY, can
neither read nor write. he keeps q few
drugs and q great deal of whisky. Gus
TONERS who want to buy medicine hsye
70 point out what they want by reading
the labels.
A MAINE man says: "a national
bear bounty law must come. This
driving bears from Maine into New
Hampshire in order 10 secure the bigger
bounty which the Granite State paws is
demoralizing spectacle.
An antique plate isexhibited at Hart
ford which was used by Napoleon at St
Helena. At his death in 1921 part of
his effects were sold st auction, and this
plate was secured by Q woman who sub
came TO this country.
An orange raiser in Louisiana has
began cultivsting q new species of the
fruit from seeds sent from the Emperor
Dom Pedro's botanical garden. A
popularity of this new fruit lie that it
rarely contains Q seed. Ii has o very
high favor.
A BINGHAMProE Sunday school
teacher was recently serenaded by his
class, who sang, Lord, Hear of Show
ers of Blessings" The Joke of IL was
that the wife Of the teacher only the day
before presented him with twins. APP
propriate song that
NEAR q blast furnace al Carondelet,
No, lie q reservoir into which the ex-
hsust steam and waste water from the
boiler are sent from underground pipes
A tramp fell into this terribly hot place,
and was boiled 10 death SO quickly that
he did not stir or utter q cry.
ex-senator sTocKLEy, Of Sussex,
recently killed black snake, half way
down toward the tsil of which was Q
black lump. The reptile was cut open
and found TO contain q porcelain egg,
which il had stolen from nest during
the summer.-P kidadstpkia TSmes.
THAT isa remarkable fact announced
by Mr.. Edward Atkinson, that there are
more people in the world clad in cotton
fabrics spun and woven by hand, thAn
made BY machinery in the factories of
America and Europe. Ii seems that
there il still room for expansion in the
business of cotton mannfacturing.-B0s-
Eoa Herald.
A PrTTsBuRG, Penn, millionaire was
not sharp enough TO escape the snsres of
New York banco men, but he got the
better of them by Q pretty bright
thourht- They forced him 10 give o
,hecf for 81 SEQ by threatening his life.
but he gave them one on Q bank where
he had no account, and Of course IL
wasn't paid.
SAMUEL NEAT, one of Boston's
wealthy young men, was mnlcted y, goo
in o breach Of promise suit, and SUBJ
iecfed, besides, 20 the reading in court
of mis- love letters, which wefe adcrcssecA
like this: 1My own and only precious
sweetheart" Ny own dearly beloved
loved one,b my only beloved one"
and "Sweet, precious darling"
MISS KATE FELL broughtfrom STRAIT
ford Q slip of Shskespears's mnlberry
tree, which she has presented to the
Central Park commissioner. IL il 10 Be
kept m q greenhouse until April and
then planted with proper cerenoay-l
probably upon the poetis birthday. LIE
Park commissioner sent Tor the slip On
Miss Fields arrival. and Is isnow In their
care. II
Two men we're driving along road
that skirfnd a pnecipice near Crawford,
Iowa. and rain and darkness came npon
them. They had heard that hor.ss conl1
see In he DARK, and therefore LET % q
the ruins, trusting % fhsir brnteSs N
stinct: but IL happened khak tnis hoUs
- Mind. which fsct fhey id mt know
until after Q gsezt mary of fheir bonss
had been hroken.
Mr. Vas DuFFx 3 . hachelsE. resid-
inn nc San Joe, Cal, with xAom lbs MR.
red sister 1T her haby for : few hours.
He had hard work amnzing Re cid
and ~ lenr<h Lit npon TIE expedient q
wing Il . one end Ct . long pole ard
halding e up . krse, Mhese i could
enck fhe Diana g they hing O thel
lracs.eA fhe infant died firm eRniiew-
ipr fhe stoneu, an6 - fnEen13ge uocle q
bsing prosscntsd 81 malieisns n'seA'ek'
AmRANaEcass accurzsd II Rehoheth.
No.. last week. Mx. WekherelI Na<elle1
,sith Mz. Kent. 81 inRaIi1 1he 60
Isay sronnef hersslf end sid: s6azas-l
hing drsa1fnl rs happenea.A hoon