The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-09-16
VARIETY.

arc leaving New NleXlcO anu Arizona
for the northern states of Mexico.
A distemper has broken out among
tho canaries ut Montreal. Several
hundred birds are said to have died.
The eggs sold in Cincinnati will this
year undoubtedly reach the figure Of
5000, 900 dozen. or GO. 600. 900 eggs.
The trustees of the University OF Ten
nessee, ut Knoxville, have finally de-
cided not to admit negroes as students.
The New York companies, anticipat-
ing n light ice harvest next winter, will
hold their stock until another season.
Some 81, 900, 900 have been added to
the wealth of the nation by the mines
of North Carolina within the past five
years.
Coal has been discovered in excellent
quality and large quantity in the State
of Oajaca. Mexico. along tho route of
General Grants new railroad.
A MAJ recently sold the timber-right
on a tract of land in Cambria county,
Pennsylvania, for $i5. 900. lie bought
the land and trees q few years ago for
81, 200.
A new oil field is anticipated in Elk
county, Pennsylvania, where the oil
bearing rock is found in abundance.
Fifty thousand acres have been leased
for oil purposes.
A barrel of lager contains about
thirty gallons. There are sixteen half
pints TO the gallon. Retailers. how
ever. get about twenty glasses from the
| gallon. For n barrel of beer which
costs SO the retailer receives about $50.
This woman had outdoor nerves,
| didn't want to vote, and would hold q
husband with n firm grip: 81 beg your
pardon, madam" said he, ''fOr the
smoke in the room" mot at all. l
rather like it. 1t smells as if there was
a man around"
Tho 14-year-old daughter of Sitting
Bull is called Observation-Disclosures at
You-as-Shc-W Walks" This is better than
having n girl who chances at every ice
cream saloon between the theatre and
the home of her proud sire, who keeps
a dog.
'.Fm sorry TO have to say it of a
woman ut her time Of life Mr.. Brudder-
ly, but rs we're talking confidentially
now, I'll confess my wife uses powder"
''Lucky man." innOcently returned Mr..
b.; ''if Mrs. Brudderly ever felt that
way toward me. she'd use dynamite"
There is an awful state of affairs in a
Michigan town where a type-setter SUBJ
stituted the word ''widows" for ''wind-
Ows." The editor wrote: "The wind
ows of the church need washing badly.
They are too dirty for any use, and are
u disgrace TO our village"
sThn Ralrn d.la.nl covc that
the %blue-eyed, black-eycd and violet
eyed darlings of the college call it Vas
s%ar-accent heavy on the last syllable.
When the violet-eyed darlings desire to
partake of the tinted cream that goes
by the name of ice, they call for a sas-
S0t.
Four years @ n young man, without
4 cent on his back and only one suit OF
clothes to his name, entered Denver
and begged his supper. Recently he
elOped with his employers wife and
$40, 000 of his cash. Close application
to business. coupled with pluck and in
dustry wins every time.
al never tire of reading Paradise
Lost" said Miss POsigush, her eyes
beaming with n dreamy languor.
don't you admire it, Mr.. Crab?"
"No, l don't" replied Crab crisply.
II used to read it before l was married,
but now"-casting a look toward Mrs.
c." | know what Paradise Lost is
without reading it,"
Henry Wat,crson says: "The grave
trouble is, public sentiment in Ken
lucky does not insist on the execution
of the laws; the Judges, the attorneys,
the Jurors and the executive officers are
most of them afflicted with a sentimen.
tai sympathy for unfortunate criminals
which pervades the atmosphere of Ken
lucky like a moral miasma, lowering
the standard of judgment and confusing
the distinctions between right and
wrong"
Eldest Daughter-I think you might
let me come out, mamma! I'm 20. you
know, and surely I've finished my
education! Festive mamma (by no
means prepared to act tho part OF
chaperone and wall-flower)-NOt yet,
my love. Society is too hollow! Ireal.
ly must preserve that sweet girlish
freshness of yours q little while longer.
The night had suddenly overloaded
and become quite stormy. Being of a
sentimental turn she accordingly took
her seat at the piano and began to sing.
''lntO some lives the rain must fall"
But he was entirely practical, and,
clutching her arm. said tenderly,
''Sing something else darling; you
know | didn't bring my umbrella"
A romantic maiden was rescued from
drowning at Nantasket by her lover.
When she had sufficiently recovered
from the shock and fright to feel like
talking, she overwhelmed him with re-
proaches. "My darling" he replied
in establishment; ''you surely did not
wish me to let you perishp" NO." she
exclaimed angrily, ''but why didn't
you let me 60 down for the third timer"
The salaries paid the Missionary
Secretaries are as follows: Presbyterian,
North, $1,000; Presbyterian, South,
$4,000; Congregationalist. So. 500; Bap-
fist Missionary Union, $4,000; South
ern Baptist Convention, so. 900; Metho-
dist. North, $500; Methodist, South,
81. 800; E~piscopalian, s. 5000; Disciples.
$500: Cumberland Presbyterian, ST.
800.
''Why do you wish to leave school Mt
your ageP" sadly asked the principal
of a country school out near Danville,
demonstrating with a sa~ndv-haired
pupil of IL years; '.you have learned
comparatively nothing up to this time"
'Tve learned one thing mighty solid.
anyhow" persisted the student" And
what is that?" asked the teacher. '.Tve
learned that a mistake in spellin' that
ntIxr fnt.hnc IN Inu n arH np fIn nor
keeps a big girl in two hours after
school," young man." said the
principal, handing the boy his books,
''you should have left school three years
ago"
A leafy background. two noble trees,
hammock swinging beneath, and she
on whom your heart is fixed lazily
swinging in the same, is a very pretty
picture, young man, very pretty, and
we don't blame you for being attracted
by Il magnet of such wOndrOus power.
But consider if your means will enable
you to keep that picture all your days,
or whether in the coming time it will
not be s%upplanted by u chrome of a
wornout, jaded woman frying dough-
nuts Over q hot fire in the middle of a
hot summer day. The two pictures IRE
intimately connected.
An inc 1rpOrated company for sheep
breeding has been formed in South
Missouri. $50 miles from st. Louis.
They propose. to locate 80. 900 acres of
land on the side of the Ozark noun
tains, and to start with 1900 sheep.
fenced in Mt n less cost than herdsmen
Gun be employed. They expect TO bring
the land under cultivation at an early
day. and to Craze in blue and tame
grass instead Of bunch grass, and to
provide shelter and Winter feed for the
locks, and other improvements when
needed.
George Augustus Sala declared that