The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-01-30
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IL soon.
FORTY graves have been robbed in
lakewood cemetery, ut Richmond, Va.
since October.
The memory of Tom Moore is to be
honored by the setting up of his bust IN
New York's Central Park.
TRAVELLERS have frequently noticed
that they get the poorest dinners ut rail-
road stations where the dinner gong
sounds loudest.
India to Hudson, N. Y, through loan
of 5000 by brother, has eloped with the
brothers daughter.
ONE day recently weather phenome-
non occurred at Deadwood, Dakota Ter
ritory, when tho mercury rose from eight
degrees below zero to forty above i'll half
an hour.
A New York philosopher has discov-
cred that the best dressed men and
women are those who are obliged to hide
natural defects.
Mr.. GENERT has offered to ship dried
sugar beets from California to the Maine
sugar works for loss money, according to
saccharine contents, than local growers
get for fresh bects.
GOETHE once presented set OF his
works to the Harvard library-a fact
which has just been brought to light i'll
the process of recataloging the German
literature Of the library.
To GIVE m idea of the ravagcs of
diphthcria in Southern Russia, it may
be mentioned that in the one province OF
Pultava about 1000 persons have died OF |
the disease i'll each of the last three
years.
New York is to have skating rink
prepared for the exhilarating sport all
the year around. In warm weather ice
will be made and the temperature of the
rink kept ut the requisite lowness by the
use of chemicals.
| AT Jackson, Tenn, n few days ago, a
coulpG serving Il sentence in the Jail were
| joined in marriage behind the prison
bars, and ut the close of the ceremony
they were separated, each being placed
in their respective cells.
ONE of the largest private collections
of ancient Roman coins in the United
States liz owned by II resident of Detroit,
who inherited most Of them from his
grandfather, who was known as one of
the most prominent numlsmatists in this
country.
A RUMsELLER at Allegheny, Pa, sus-
pected his barkecpcr of pilferinG, and
got into the ice box, intending to keep II
watch through small spigOt hole. He
gained the desired information but soon
found himself suffocating. When taken
out he was nearly dead.
HENRY CLAY has an Office. He has
been appointed postmaster at James
town, Virginia. This is the Oldest post
Office in the old thirteen states. Letters
have been delivered there i'll some form
or other for 23S years, and yet the salary
is only $5l per annum.
The tar got cold while the mob was
getting ready to punish james Clayton,
at Warren, r. l. They were ont of
doors on cold night, and nobody had n
match to light Il fresh fire under the kct-
tie. So they rolled the naked man i'll
the snow until he was chilled almost to
death, and let the outrage go at that.
New YEARS afternoon in Branford,
Ct, singular turnout made its appear
ancc. A hearse OF the last century's
style, driven by a acknowledged man
!. wearing white hat of the "bell crown"
| pattern, with two Anticipated looking
mourncrs on the top of the vehicle, car
, ried Il figure with the inscription 1879,
! Et. | year "a pantomimic reminder
that 1879 had become n thing of the past.
, Ir has been thought TINT forks were
J used by mankind in eating food Mt II very
|, recent period in history. But the art of
eating with a fork is proved TO be Il
, revival of very ancient one. The fork
il by no means m invention OF modern
times. Lately, in the debris of the lake
| DWELLINGS,, forks evidently designed for
{ table use have been discovered. They
were made of bone. The spoon is still
more ancient instrument.
METEOROLOGICAL observations have
now become so extended that evidence is
rapidly accumulating to enable us to de-
: termine positively the source Of the cold
aerial waves which sweep over our coun-
try during the winter season. The indi-
cations are that we owe them to the great
, area of high barometer in Northeastern
: Siberia, where the pressure sometimes
exceeds 3l.50 inches, and the tempcra-
, ture falls rs low rs rs degrees below zero.
: For the first time in the history of
Washington, says an Iowa correspond
ent, Il member Of the house has come
here with his wife and they have gone
into the lucrative business of taking
boarlers. Not merely "few friends
for company" They have gone about it
in the most cold-blooded and business
like way--advertising It is all right,
: of course, and much more reputable
:: than some of the ways congressman have
of killing time here, but it strikes WASH
ington tritie odd.
The woman who has invited SO many
guests that i'll order to make the table
: long enough for them she is obliged to
have one seat come over the furnace reg
lister, may think that if she lays Il light
rug over the place, the fat man who oc-
, cupies the seat can't understand what
she has done to him, but you bet lie will
: and he'll recollect it, and when the long
repast is finished and the part that hasn't
: melted goes off on the piazza to cool off,
he will swear great oath that when
their birthdays come he will give that
woman's children fourteen horns, po-
licemans rattle, parrot that swears, n
> drum and monkey.
A FEW days ago novel battle was
witnessed in Pennsylvania barn yard
between steer and a gander. The
; latter was staggering through the yard
when the steer thrust his horns Mt him
and battle was at once offered. For sew
cral minutes the fighting was fierce and
exciting, with all the odds on the side of
the goose, who tapped his great wings
in tho fnce of his enemy and drove him
back. Finally the gander was backed
into corner where he could not use his
weapons, when he was speedily con-
quercd.
EMERSON is beloved by every one in
his ripe old age. He lives quietly and
dislikes being annoyed by lion hunters.
Here is M anectote of him which has
never been in print: When he was trav-
cling i'll Egypt with his daughter they
met m Englishman who did all i'll his
power to make it pleasant for them, and
when the time came for their separation
said: "You may wonder, sir, at my
having overstepped my usual reserve So
far as to become SO intimate with you,
but il is for the sake of countryman of
yours, one bearing the same name
Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson. He
has done me much good, and l hope some
time to cross the ocean to meet him."
And Mr.. Emerson never told him it was