The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-12-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
MISCELLANEOUS.

President Arthur's life is insured
for 100000.
1t is said that Gen. Grants eye
sight is failing him.
Over three hundred presidential
post offices are vacant.
Paris is going to spend 500, 900, 900
to improve her water supply.
Col. John W. Forney died ut Phila.
delphia early last Friday morning.
There were 80, O2l paupers in Lon
don the first week in November.
Nearly 100000 canary birds are i'm
ported every year into this country.
The earnings of the Chicago Mil
waukee & st. Paul road will be nearly
$1S,OOO,OOO for the year.
Old members believe that the pres
ent session of Congress will be an ex-
tremely long and interesting one.
The United States Circuit Court
calendar for the December term con.
tains one hundred eighty.six cases.
Mr.. Vanderbilt's wedding gift to
his daughter will he a quarter of II
million in United States Government
bonds.
President Arthur transacted bust
ness in the White House last Thurs.
day for the first time since he became
President.
Wolves are ravaging the fOcks of
sheep at Waupaca, Wis. A bounty
of $ll per head is offered for the an.
finals dead.
The star route cases will not be
brought before the grand jury in
Washington until after the close of
the Guiteau trial.
There will be at least seventeen
contested election cases in the House
of Representatives, of which fifteen
come from the South.
On the Duke of Devonshire' estate
in Ireland, six hundred tenants have
refused to pay any more rent unless
they are reduced 20 per cent.
There are SIG men employed in
the copper mines of this country, and
the total yearly product of copper is
Il little less than sS,s5O,OOO.
Natal. a British colony on the south
east coast of Africa, about eight hun.
dred miles from the Cape of Good
Hope, is agitating for a responsible
ministry.
Five hundred bags of italian beans,
the first importation from Italy in the
history of the bean bushes in this
country, were received at New York
last Wednesday.
The wife of John Davis. the Presi-
dents private secretary, is to be the
lady of the White House. She is a
daughter of ex-senator Frelinghuy-
sen, the future Secretary of State.
A citizen of New York is the own.
er of twenty-five factories, and is one
of the largest cheese manufacturers in
the country. His annual products
amount to fOrty-five thousand cheese.
1t is curious fact that a ball fired
through glass may make hole enough
smaller than the full size of the ball
before firing to prevent an unlired
ball of the same caliber from passing
through.
Cannon, the Mormon Congressman
from Utah, who contests the seat
with Campbell, who has the Cover.
nOr's certificate, really got more votes,
but being unnaturaliZed is thereby
disqualified.
Isaac Bassett, the dOor.keeper of
the United States Senate, completed
fifty years of public service on Mon
day last, having been employed as a
page, on the recommendation of Dan.
iel Webster, on the 5th of December,
1880.
A Connecticut man is resisting the
payment of taxes on his house in Sails.
bury on the ground that it is a place
of worship, because he reads the Bible
and prays and sings psalms for his
own spiritual advantage and that of
his FAMILY.
One SanFranciscO firm has shipped
this year 4,240,O00 pounds of green
fruit, and paid in railroad charges on
it $l1S,O00, being at the rate of %
cents pound, or $55 ton, or $3.50 u
Car load. The bulk of the shipments
has been by fast trains, at the rate of
81 ,075 per car load, and it is estimat.
ed that the total amount paid in
freight charges this season is $500, 900.
John ID Ely, of Rome, N. Y, has
an old stove, just how old it is would
be impossible to say, though it is
marked "l7Sl." The top, ends and
sides are all one casting, which sets
down upon the bottom without fast
enings of any kind. The legs are
straight bars of wrought iron, which
pass up through the bottom of the
stove and are riveted in. Other parts
of the stove are in keeping with those