The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-08-06
PITHY PARTICLES.

A TUB race is u funny sight, but the
racers ought to be good swimmers. A
disregard of this rule resulted in the
drowning of two men at Rock Island.
GEN. ROBERT TooMBs OF Georgia, re-
Gently gave to the state authorities for
distribution among the farmers as seed,
one hundred bushels Of rare kind OF
wheat worth $40 bushel.
A NINE near Ancona, Italy, was last
month exploded with so powerful a
charge of powder that a small yacht two
miles off was lifted out of the sea and
capsized by the conclusion.
A METHODIST missionary, sent from
Chicago TO Virginia City, reports as fol-
lows: 81 made canvass of the town,
and found everybody crazy for gold, but
l was unable to find Christian, though
the saloons were numerous"
The following is an extract from o
theatrical advertisement in Leadville:
Uninterrupted successful appearance
Of sixteen beautiful, dizzy blondes.
Scale of prices: To the near-sighted 81;
at IN altitude Toe; to the far-off 25c;
bald-headed association 75c."
The meteor which astonished Macon,
Ga, few nights ago was found, it is
said, embedded III the forks Of tree
several miles from town. 1t seems to
have fallen with great force, burying it
self so deep in the tree that it had to be
cut out with an axe. 1t is about the size
of mans head.
A. NJ. NORCROss, of Norwich, Conn,
is in dilemma. He can hardly accept
Garfield, and to vote against his party il
repulsive to him. He finally decides tho
matter by setting two hens with twelve
eggs each. One he has dedicated to
Hancock and the other to Garfield, and
the hen Matching the greatest number OF
chickens will decide his vote.
AFARMER at Akron, No., was attacked
by his savage bull in high-fenced yard,
and could not escape. A hired man came
with gun to shoot the beast. "Don't
kill him." cried the farmer, thinking of
the loss; "just hit him in the shoulder.
The man fred US directed, only infiicting
q wound that maddened the bull, and
melted him to gore the farmer to death.
The railroad monopolies don't have it
all their own way after all. A lady i'll
Chicago sued the Central Pacific for $40
damages for allowing q locomotive to
scald all the hair off valuable dog ex-
pressed her from this city. She obtain
ed Judgment and received the money be-
fore the company found out that it was
Japanese dog, and never had any hair
San Francisco Evening Post.
A WOMAN presented to the Rev. j.
Walker Gwynne, of COhoes, letter pur-
porting to have been written by the wife
of the Rev. DR.. Tucker, of Troy, asking
him to aid the bearer in raising 800 for
an urgent charity. Mr.. Gwynne knew
DIR. Tucker to be widower, and that the
woman was therefore fraud. He sent
for q policeman, and she leaped from
window fourteen feet to the ground, but
the minister chased and captured her.
PARKERsBURG, in West Virginia, has
ten.year-old hero. He plunged into q
river to save drowning play-fellOw,
came very near losing his own life
through the clinging of his terrified
companion, and dragged him up steep
bank, where both lay while, complete
Iy exhausted. Then the rescued one in
sensibly rolled back into the water, and
the brave little fellow again performed
the difficult feat of getting him out.
POSTMASTER PLArT, of Naugatuck,
counted out $500 for special purpose,
the other day, placed 1t in a pocket-book,
aud laid it in safe place. When he
looked where he supposed he had placed
the cash it was gone, and he supposed it
had been stolen. At midnight that
night he awoke his wife by singing out,
"By the jumping Moses, l know where
nv money is" He had just remember
ed where he placed it. The next MORN
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THE year in which Fillmore and Don
elson ran for the presidency and vice.
presidency was 1856. The other candi-
dates were Buchanan and Breckenridge,
and Fremont and Dayton. Fremont and
Dayton polled no votes in the southern
states. The following We're the votes:
Buchanan and Breckenridge, 1888, 1863;
Fillmore and Donelson, S74 ,534; Fremont
and Dayton, 1,341 ,264. Buchanan over
Fremont, 486, 1905; Fremont and Fillmore
over Buchanan, 377 ,629. Fremont car
ried only II out OF IL states in which he
ran.
A CURIOSITY ct Charter Oak park,
Hartford, Conn.,, is pair of suspenders
hung over an old-fashioned fireplace.
Some years ago heshy gentleman, we'll
known in turf circles, made frequent
complaints that he could "never find
any galluses strong enough to hold up q
strong mans trousers" His friends
presented him this pair-of leather as
thick rs wagon traces, with massive
buckles, capable of holding up five hun
bred pounds. The suspenders outlasted
the wearer
Ice melts much more rapidly in the
water tank than in the ice box, and dur
ing the season of scarcity many more
schemes for economy in the use of this
necessary article have been attempted.
The most successful is put to the water
desired for drinking in clean, large bot
ties, and place them on the ice, reflling
| them again rs fast as they are emptied.
In this manner all waste caused by chop
| ping is obviated, and the drinker is as
sured, provided the water Is OF good
quality, that no sediment from dirty
streams is taken into his stomach.
A BRooKFIELD, Conn, man is the
happy possessor of calf with three
tails, which hG is assiduously and care
fully raising. 1t would be q great pity
| if he should fail, for the capabilities OF
calf with three tails when it shall have
attained the age of cowhood can not
easily be estimated. A COW Win one
tail is able to drive the most even-tem-
pered agriculturist wild in the fly sea-
son, but when we consider the milking
of a cow with three cratic tails Tying
irresponsibly about, the thought becomes
bewildering.
The sheriff's Office in Philadelphia has
the usual gang of sharpers who live upon
the woes of insolyent debtors. A Turk
ish bath establishment was to he sold
under Judgment, and the creditors were
willing to let the owner bid it in at a
nominal price; but the sharpers an
nounced their intention, if they were not
bought of, of running up the figure by
bidding high. The auctioneer therefore
held the sale in the hot room OF the es-
tablishment, where the temperature was
1902. The gang wouldn't stand the
ordeal with their clothes ON, and the
owner had the bidding all to himself.
THERE is displayed in a glass case in
Baltimore living specimen OF guano
lizard, lately brought from the Nayassea
islands in the brig Romance. This hand
some crawler is three feet inlength, two
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