The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-14
ALL SORTS.
Do not be astonished at anything.

Louis schools for the last year were
1888, 900, or about $239, 900 more than
in Cincinnati.
Thirty-eight recent eases of typhoid
fever at the Roman Catholic Orphan
Asylum in New York have boon attrib-
uted to impure milk.
Mr.. Evarts thinks that the delibor-
atoms of tho late monetary conference
have advanced tho prospects Of bimc-
tallic international arrangements con-
siderably.
An Albany jewclcr has on exhibition
large clock of ancient design. which
stands about six feet high, and is said
to have been made in Rotterdam PA
years ago.
Newport, KY. is briefly described rs
u town of 10000 inhabitants, without
a single bookstore, where boys of 5 or
years puff cigars with an experienced
air on every corner.
Americans visiting England will DO
glad to know that large hotol. to DO
conducted on tho American plan, is
about to DO erected on the site of the
late Dukes Theater, in HOlborn. Lon
don.
At recent wedding in Ottawa, Cam
ada, both bridegroom and bride re-
ceived checks for $4,000 from their
respective fathers, and the fathers uni
ted in purchasing and furnishing q
house for tho young couple.
A piece of rock. weighing four hum
drcd pounds, was thrown by blast
against the front door of the parsonage
of the Rev. DIR. iough. at Stanton.
Va. 1t crushed through the door, and
landing in the centre of the room.
broke through the floor. Mrs. Hough
was lying on u sofa in the room. and
was struck by several fragments of the
door. She escaped serious injury.
Galveston NeWS: Southern women
are working personally to improve tho
condition of colorcd females by in
structing, advising, and encouraging
them, and in circulating reading mat
ter among them. While outsiders are
discussing the Incidence of southern
women. they are moving on in the
even tenor of their way, quietly doing
the duty nearest them and preserving
the most admirable characteristics Of
the race.
Bert Harris camped out in Logan
canyon. u. r., recently. About II
o'clock he awOke and discovered that
he and his bedding were being dragged
down the mountain-sido by u huge
grizzly bear. Harris was almost para
lized by fear. but managed finally To
wiggle out of the quilts, drop to the
ground, and crawl away among the
rocks. The grizzly went some distance
with the bedding. but finding that his
expected prey had escaped. he SGT up
dismal howl. Harris stayed SILVER
ing in the canyon for the remainder Of
the night.
Prof Bcal. at the Michigan Agricul-
tural college, has ten hundred different
grasses and clOvers growin., each in
u separate bed, in the garden. attached
to the Michigan Agricultural college.
1t has taken several years to make tho
yearly. Each species is labeled with
both the common and scientific names.
enabling those who visit the college to
make their examination both useful
and entertaining. Six sets of seels
from the plats have been sent to as
many different colleges.
DR.. Nichols, in the Journal of Che
miStry tells how 10 reduce bones with
ashes for fertilizing purposes. He says:
Break 100 pounds Of bones into small
fragments and pack into a tight cask
or box with 100 pounds of good wood
ashes, which has been previously mixed
with % pounds of dry water-slackcd
lime and II pounds of powdered sal
soda. Twenty gallons Of water will
saturate the mass. and more may be
added as required. In two or three
weeks the bones will be soft enough to
turn out on the barn floor and mixed
with two bushels of good soil.
81 assure you gentlemen" said II
convict upon entering the prison. 'that
the place has sought me. and not | the
place. My own affairs really demand
all my time and attention. and m y
truly say that my selection to fill this
position was an entire surprise. Had
consulted my own interest, l should
have peremptOrily declined to serve,
but Us am in the hands of my friends.
[ see no other course but to submit. !"
And he submitted.
A great Protestant awakening is re-
ported in several Spanish villages near
Villafranca. In one place the entire
community. numbering about one hun
dred families is Protestant. and in an
other the Romish church has specially
painted and decorated to attract the
people, but the only attendants are one
old man. two old women, and five boys.
The government schools was closed for
Jack of pupils, while the one under the
auspices IF the Free church of Scotland
had sixty-iive pupils. Over thirty men
attend the night school, and some
children travel league daily in order
to be present.
Few people know that in bad season
honey is apt to be poisonous. This
arises from the fact that in such sea-
sons the bees are often obliged to
gather it from poisonous flowers. Great
care should be taken to remove all poi
sonOus plants from the neighbOrhOOd
of hives. A specimen of honey from
Trcbizond, gathered from the ZhObo-
deudron pOnticum. which is common
in that neighbOrhOOd, was sent in 1884,
by Mr.. Keith +. Abbott, TO the ZoOlog-
ical society of London, and in 1859 il
still retained its poisonous qualities
lu 1890 great many people in Phila-
delphia died from eat ing honey gather
ed from the flowers of the halmia lati-
fOtia. In good seasons the bees avoid
poisonous plants.
Reports of trouble in the armies of
Germany and Austria, caused by the
cruelty of the subordinate officers to-
ward the private soldiers, continue to
ln a,.v 4 Ia, fop IL hn aH. ,,gc
made by the higher military officials to
put an end to the barbarties. A cor
pOral was shot recently in Vienna by q
private WHO entered the service some
months ago, having previously been a
taiIor's apprentice. This man had
been ordered by the corporal to report
to him in full-dress uniform during the
evening. Instead of doing so he put Il
bullet into him, He said. on being ar
rested, that he had been ill-used by the
man he had slain. and that he had
made up his mind TO kill four of his
officers and then 90 to shoot himself.
There is baby in Philadelphia, the
pride and hope of a letter-carrier,
which was born on the day President
Garfield was shot. BY some mysterious
psychophysical sympathy the infants
health has closely followed the fluciua-
tons in the Presidents condition. The
psychological reporter of the Philadel-
phia Times thus describes the phenOm-
enon: "The day OH which the Presi-
dents physicians gave up his case
there was regular panic in the letter
carriers house. The letter-carrier's
baby had only been able to take liquid
nourishment, and on that day it soured
on its stomach and everybody began to
believe it was going to die. But the
President got better next day, and the
letter-carricr dismissed his doctor.
From that hour the baby became fam
GUS in the neighbOrhOOd. Instead Of