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

You can almost measure n mans ntiu-
ence by his manners.
A BOY in Chester county, S. c., hos
caught 200 opossums this season.
The boys in Portland, Me-, have the
advantage of hill for coasting where
they can slide distance of q mile and
half.
The biggest moustache on record Is
the one Michael Angelo cut on his
statue of Moses. 1t weighs ton and
half
A DUCK that had been shot by Sodus
Bay hunter was seized by an eagle, and
the hunter had to shoot the eagle in
order to get his duck.
A YOUNG man ut Bozrah, Conn.,, owed
his death, recently, to the would.be
pleasantly of q companion, who pulled
away the chair that he was about to Sit
upon.
COLORADO has uncommonly big ava
lanches this winter, and one Of them
covered house with so much snow that
the men inside were ten hours digging
their way out.
A sAcRIFIcIAL service by Ira Stewart,
religious fanatic at Castle Grove, H.,
was interrupted just in time to save his
little daughter, whom he was about to
STAY on m altar.
Boston has begun distributing soup to
her poor from six depots, where fifty
gallon kettles are kept full Of what is
thought to be remarkably good article
for public soup.
THE pastor OF Il Catholic Church OF
Greencastle, Ind, publicly reproved and
discharged the choir because they had
perpetrated q fraud in the rafting of
piano Mt fair.
AT Jersey City Mrs. Tuite struck u
glass from her husbands hand as he was
drinking IN saloon. The glass broke,
severing the artery i'll Mrs. Tuite's wrist,
and she bled to death.
Two men, in their eagerness to be the
"next gentleman" ran to BARRIERS
shop in Kingston, on Saturday night,
and the one who came i'll second sank
into chair and died of heart disease.
A Norwich, Conn.,, bulldog took hold
of Newfoundland dog, and the latter
deliberately dragged his antagonist into
the water after him and held him under
until nearly drowned, when he let go.
The pistol with which Wilkes Booth
shot Lincoln is now in possession OF
Charles Z. Wing, the advance agent OF
"Stevens' Unknown Combination" and
was presented to him by J. T. Ford, the
theatrical manager.
| IT was Mt temperance meeting. The
speaker increased in eloguence and noise,
and he cried: eyes, my friends, well
lift our temperance vessel out of the mire
and mud on to hard dry ground, and
then sail beautifully along"
A RoNDoUT man writes to local
paper: 81 will bet 500 can furnish
man who will eat four pounds of pork,
four quarts of potatoes, one head OF
cabbage, one pound of butter, Que large
loaf of bread-all at one meal.
4 LARGE elm tree stood on the spot
where a man Mt Lewiston, \. Y, decided
to build q residence. He did not cut it
down but built around it. The odd
sight is presented of tree top growing
ont Of the roof of handsome brick house.
4 CANTON, Conn. man thought he had
the best of the ants that infested his
eatables, by putting his goods on shelf
swinging from tarred wires; but they
covered the tar of one OF the wires with
sand, and went up and down as before.
An old lady wearing pair of green
goggles stepped on the Sacramento tram
ut South Vellejo and knocked on the car
door, and actually waited till it was
opened OH the inside by passenger
For consummate politeness this has no
parallel.
A YOUNG mag in Hartford, who incur
red the displeasure of his kinspeople and
acquaintance 10y marrying u German
servant girl, now holds his head very
high when he meets any Of these critics.
His wife has fallen heir to an estate in
the fatherland worth 100000.
A MILITARY block-house is being
erected ut Erie, Pa, over the spot where
Gen. Anthony Wayne was burivu, sInIi-
lar to the one in which he died. Its
second story is already nearly completed
and ready for the roof, upon which n
flagstaff 40 feet in height will be erected.
A WOMAN has been committed to the
Middletown asylum apparently sane upon
all points except that she must Kill her
15-months'-old child. She begged the
superintendent few days ago to allow
her to go home and kill her baby, prom
ising to come back and stay contendedly.
The Cunard steamers carry small tim
cases the size of IN orange, full OF q
chemical preparation which ignites tho
moment it touches the water. When
man falls overheard in the night they
throw one over, and the man is supposed
to swim to it, enabling the boats to pick
him up.
4 MAN hunting near q stream saw his
bird dog suddenly make point from the
bank directly into the water. He saw
nothing but large pickerel swimming
leisurely away, which he concluded to
shoot. The dog instantly retrieved it,
and, OH opening the fish, fine wood
cock was found inside.
CHARLES YouNGswoRTH, OF Virginia
City, Nevada, has cooked thousands OF
frogs, vet has never tased frog. 81
dressed six frogs family, and after they
had lain q platter for half an hour" said
he "the legs were 80 full Of life that
they jumped around on the dish ivelierr
than any shrimps you ever saw, some OF
them hopping off on the floor. That's
the reason l don't like frogs"
A DOG was lying on the floor of his
masters shop when word Games that
number of sheep had broken out of the
coral, on the Napa, CAL, road and
strayed into the tules. In the morning
all the animals were in the enclosure,
and the dog was lying at the hole where
they had gone out. "Nig" is known
throughout that country as being the
finest shepherd dog i'll the section.
FIGARO has new version of the fable
of the dog who saw his visagc rejected
in the brook which is more applicable to
modern life than the original. A dog,
carrying stolen beefsteak in his mouth,
which reflects surrounding objects rs
clearly as a mirror. Perceiving the re.
fiected image of himself, he thinks OF
Selling the piece of meat it holds, which
he supposes to be real, but concludes
that it would be more prudent first to de-
vour his own piece. Then he LOOKS
again III the stream. The rejected dog
Inns nothing in his teeth, and expresses
the satisfaction OF q contented stomach:
cha % says the dog, "that fellow had
the same idea I had" And he runs
away laughing.
TALKING of weather, hear q man from
Bridgeport, New: A rancher just IN from
there says the night before last it froze
the water in his we'll, the water being
,twenty-seven feet from the surface.
"But this is not Us bad as the day be-
fore" he went on. 81 went out into the
chicken coop, which adjoins my house
and has n fire in it all the time, and most
80 Tho bapa ware nearly frozen One