The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-05-07
PITHY PARTICLES.

Mrs. HUFF, of Coburgh, Ont, is said
TO be 102 years old.
eyes, dear, we've got a gem of q
house, and only moving from Is to h."
In Augusta, Ga, there's sunAower
plant that has been in bloom in the open
air constantly since March.
GOVERNOR GENERAL LoRNE's ink-bot-
tie was made from the hoof Of the
charger that carried Lord Give through
the Crimean war.
CAPTAIN HowGATE is building In
Washington a wooden house for use In
his proposed Polar expedition. The
sides and windows are double.
SOMEBODY must have hung a horse
shoe on the limb of tree at Council
Bluffs, Iowa, many years ago, for it was
lately found imbedded out of sight in
the wood.
A NEW YORK letter carrier was found
wildly intoxicated in the street and
throwing the letters at the crowd which
He was taken into custody
and $500 found on his person.
On train on which there were four
carloads of French emigrants, which re-
Gently passed through Concord, N. H.,
there were eighty-six little Frenchmen
not old enough to pay any fare.
A oNE-LEaGED New Haven man re-
Gently stole O picture of his wife, from
whom he had separated, and she retail
ated by stealing his wooden leg, which
soon soon brought him to terms.
The Oakland jute grain sack factory
has evaded the California law prohibit
ing corporations to employ Chinese by
giving up its charter and prosecuting its
business as private company, with $50
Cinnamon as employees.
MUST even preachers pay commissions
out of their salaries to middlemen? A
man claimed in court in New York that
he procured for an eminent divine the
position which the latter now holds, and
suit is brought for large sum in pay
ment for the service.
A COUNTERFEIT of the standard silver
dollar, made of brass, heavily plated
with silver, was detected at the SUBJ
treasury in New Orleans recently.
The Democrat says that it was fine
copy of the original, but weighed about
less.
A DOG at Herman, Ill, had caught o
mouse, when another dog disputed pos
session and in a few moments the first
dog fell dead. 1t was found he had
swallowed the mouse, which lodged In
his windpipe and strangled him. The
mouse was taken out alive.
"No admittance" is the inscription to
be found on American iron works, but
Herr Krupp "warns off" the inquisitive
visitor in this smooth fashion, in three
languages! "The public are informed
that, in asking to view the establishment,
they expose themselves to refusal"
The large white owl that boarded the
Celtic about 800 miles from
some months ago has
itself in that vessel, ap-
approaching the kindness shown
It when it went on board in a starved,
exhausted and weather-beaten condition.
A FIRM in Philadelphia which have
purchased the house which William Penn
built for his daughter Letitia, have offer
ed it to the Pennsylvania Historical 80
ciety, and Mr.. Geo. w. Childs has
agreed to bear the expense of removing
It and setting it up III the park in its
original style.
A MAN bought COW cheap because
The had swelling on one side Ut her
aw, which prevented her eating hay or
much of anything else. He finally ex-
.mined her mouth and found the sole Of
! boot wedged in next to the jaw. The
removal of the sole left the cow all right
md doing well.-Fredonia Censor.
The editor of a newspaper that has
adopted phonetic spelling, in measure,
postal card from an old sub
,criber in the country, which read as
ollows: 81 hev tux your paper for
even yeres, but if you kant spell emmy
better than you have been dom fur the
as to munths you may jes stoppit. -
Saturday Night. .s
GENERAL WASHINGTON III q letter,
which is now published for the frs ime,
.efers to Lafayette as follows: "He
possesses uncommon military talents, is
# quiet and sound Judgment, persever-
ng and enterprising, without rashnees,
md, besides these, he is Of very con-
,iliating temper and perfectly sober.
qualities which rarely combine in the
,ame person"
CAPTAIN MARTIN, of Nashville, Tenn.
WINS q piece of the dress that was worn
~ the wife of President Washington
N the day of her husbands Inauguration,
ogether with the fan she used on the
anne occasion. The dress was light
ilk,. with stripes, embroidered with
lowers and needle work. The fan is
plain white, on which the only ornament
8 q silver-spangled wreath. .
A SINGULAR story is told of Man
chester IN. H. man, q mill overseer,
Who received his pay the other evening
md started for home. He remembered
nearly reaching his house, and thinks
hat something must have happened, as
Re found himself on q railroad train ct
Jhicopee, Mass. the next morning with
,ut knowing how he came there. His
watch charm and ten dollars IN money
we're missing, and he had confusion on
me side of the head, from which he in
ers he had been assaulted, though not
obbed, us the missing money was about
'qual to his railroad fare to Chicopee.
A SINGULAR discovery wds recently
made in Syria. Some woodcutters felled
venerable oak in the forest of Dromm-
ing. It was found to be hollow, and
vas soon brought to the ground with
rash. A human skeleton, in excellent
was disclosed. Even the
,oots, which came above the knees, were
llmost perfect. By its side was pow
Ter horn, a porcelain pipe-bowl and
liver watch on which was engraved the
lame I" H. Won Krockowitx, 1872" The
eeth were perfect. 1t was the skeleton
f man between thirty and forty years
# age. 1t is conjectured that, while en-
aged in hunting, he climbed the tree
or some purpose and slipped incautious-
y into the hollow trunk, from which
here was no release, and he probably
lied of starvation.