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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-07
Diamond Out Diamond.

A good joke is told that was played
by an employee of the cartridge shop on
friend Of his who lives in q neighbor-
ing town. 1t seems that some time
ago the Bridgeporter received batch
of snakes eggs from his rural friend.
with full directions how to cook them
in order to make them palatable. The
Bridgeporter "tumbled to the racket"
and kept quiet. Soon after the sender
of the eggs sent to Bridgeport for the
use of his gun, saying. 'he was both
cred to death by woodchucks, aud
wanted to kill EN-" The gun was for
warded as desired. and with it q box of
cartridges, containing wooden bullets
that had been turned and colored to re-
semble lead. A few days after word
came from the woOdchuck hunter that
he hadn't killed any of the id cusses,
and would like some more ammunition.
bridgeport (COnn.) Standard.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-07
American Sheen.

It Is a reproacli to the farmers of
America that we are compelled to i'm.
port much Of the wool with which to
make our necessary wearing apparel.
We want more and better sheep than
we have ever had before, and instead
OF this being market for foreign wool,
the current should be turned the other
way. The best we can do, however, it
will DO long time before we can spare
any OF our wool in foreign markets,
and. indeed. we may feel proud when
our production is sufficient to fairly
meet the home demand, which 1t must
be remembered is being very material
ly augmented by immigration TO our
shores, while upon the other hand
there is q corresponding decrease in
the demand in the countries from which
these immigrants come, owing to the
same cause. Ono obstacle to q more
general sheep-raising has been tho
seemingly depressed condition Of the
wool market for many years. In view
Of the fact, however. that the losses of
sheep during the last winter were great
or than of any other kind Of stock, and
the gradually strengthening demand at
the present time would seem to war;
rant the general belief that fOck-mas-
ters will not have to accept mean CON-
pensatiOn for their labor: DrOUe,'s
Journal.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-07
Woman's Resources.

The shop-window beauties. says a
correspondent, are to be entirely ex-
cluded from the balls and receptions of
tho princess of Wales this season. Not
a single professional beauty is to be al
lowed to participate in the amusemonts
of tho annual garden party given by
the princess to the queen. But COM
pensatiOn has been found already by
one of the most fashionable of the
beauties in her voluntary retirement
from the gay scenes in which sho played
SO conspicuous part last year and to
which she would be no longer welcome.
She has taken q villa on the bank Of
the Thames, to which all tho best men
in London are anxious to be invited.
She knows we'll that the mothers and
daughters will not be long in seeking
for Invitations likewise. A clever wO-
man is that identical professional
beauty.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-07
His interest in the Bow.

A negro boy in Galveston came very
near being run over by the locomotive
of the special train. Had it not been
that an old negro. at the risk of his
own life, seized tho boy by the collar
and jerked him backward just as the
cow-catchor reached him, he would
undoubtedly have been cut to pieces.
A gentleman, who witnessed the heroic
act, said, to the old negro
II suppose you are the father of that
boyp
mo. san his fodder Ibis out in the
country. and sends de boy to town to
get his edification. De boy boards wild
me, sah."
"You seem to take great deal Of
interest in him."
"Indeed, 1 does, sab. His fodder
owes me fOah two mumfs board oh dat
boy so you see dis amt de right time
fOah him to be run ober by de kears."
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-07
A Simple Disinfectant.

A cheap and simple disinfectant
which promises to be useful, is solu-
ton of chloride Of lead, which was first
brought into notice by the late DR..
GoOlden, of st. Thomas's Hospital.
London. 1t is inodOrous, effective, and
its cost infinitesimal. 1t may be pre-
pared as follows: Take half y drachm
of nitrate of lead and dissolve in
pint or moro Of boiling water. Now
dissolve two drachms Of common salt
in pail or bucket OF water, pour the
two solutions together. and allow the
sediment to subside. The clear super
natant fluid will be q saturated
solution of chloride of lead. A
cloth dipped in solution Of chloride
of lead and hung up in q room will
sweeten q fetid atmosphere instanta-
neously, or the solution thrown down
o sink, water-closet or drain, or over
a heap Of refuse. will produce a like
result.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-07
Tea Picking.

In Chinese tea garden the first duty
for which female cooperation is in de-
mand occurs in leaf-plucking,. on the
careful, intelligent and conscientious
performance of which much of the
subsequent high character and value of
the finished produce depends. Where
ignorance was rampant. as in the early
days of some of the Indian tea planta-
tons, the blamewOrthy habit of strip
ping the branches-that is, grasping
them ut their junction with the main
stem and drawing the closed fingers
sharply along. thus clearing them at
one sweep of every bud and leaf-was
frequently practiced. 1t was q most
reprehensible custom, as the planters
soon discovered, and was INDUCED in
by inscriptions pluckers, when safe
from the eye of supervision, in order
to save themselves trouble and quickly
augment the contents of their baskets,
thereby completing the days ''task" in
the shortest space Of time. The prac-
tice was physiologically damaging to
the tea-bushes and fatal to the value of
the finished tea. turning out, as it did
with such rough manipulation, a mere
confused aggregation of leaves of all
ages and sizes-a piebald and harle-
quin-lOoking mixture, badly pluckcd.
unevenly fermented. and pleasing
neither to palate, nose. nor eye. In
China, the home of tea-farming and
preparation, such serious, but quite
preventable, practices could scarcely
happen; and we think we may venture
to assert that where British ladies and
girls of even the most ordinary educa-
ton were employed, such willful bung-
ling would be next TO an impOssibility.
On the arrival of the tea season in
HOu-nan and Hu-peh, and doubtless
also in the other districts. the more eX-
perienccd among the leaf-pluckers-
who have previously undergone sys-
tenn of dieting and sanitary supervis-
ion, so as to avoid the risk of cOmmu-
nicating and faint to the delicate how-
cry pekoc they are about to handle
are marshalcd in select companies and
taken to the scene of their pleasant
labor. by dawn, day or two after
ward perhaps, hundreds, sometimes
thousands, OF merry, black-eyed, we'll
dressed girls may be observed tripping
gayly along the raised banks of the
paddy-felds to the gardens. situated on
the hill-slopes beyond and Enthusiastically
evincing the keen interest they feel in
this agreeable and healthful work 10
which they are fastening. Reaching
the gardens, each observation-disclosures
panied by coolies to bear away the
pluckings to the central drying-shed or
manipulating 4hOng-begins upon a
separate plot of tea-bushes. and in
few hours two of every three leaves
have been carefully removed, the tor
minal leaf of every branch or twig be-
ing usually allowed to remain. CHAM
6el's journal
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-07
Immodest Toilets,

At a soirec, the other day, says Ed
mund de GOncOurt, saw q young wO-
man in the most charmingly indecent
toilet imaginable. She seemed to be
dressed in corset and a skirt, under
which there was no chemise. / Twas
talking about this toilet, when an old
woman began to say that hydropathy
had killed modesty in the younger gen.
Grafton of women; that splashing about
in water like q duck, and the daily
habit of showing themselves naked to
their chambcrmaids. was every day d.
minishing the horror that women used
to have of showing too much of their
skin or their forms. There is some
truth in what the old woman said.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-07
--
Visitation.

The twilight falls and tho shadows come.
Aud hardly sound ON the silence Jars
Az ! sit aud dream while the world grows
dumb
In the pallid beauty OF moon and stars
And pure and holy and fair your face
Comes floating cut or tho golden gloom
With a radiant smile and u Rhostly grace
Aud nameless glory about the room.
The tender look and the loving light
In the earnest depths OF your azure eyes
Are here tn gladden. my soul tonight
With the sudden thrill of u sweet surprise.
Your lips have never wOri to say,
But my heart divines what your thoughts
may he,
And Il seems that tho angels far away
Have sent my darling To comfort mol
A dream perchancei Yct I hold your hand
As I'm vanished days that are spent and gone,
Aud feel your kisses and understand
How tho beautiful love OF the Past lives on
A the perfume tells, whom 10 flower 10 dead
or something too precious and sweet to die,
Tho thought endures or each word yOu said
In tho awful hour of our last goodbye"
We have lost forever tho olden time,
We have lost, my darling, the hopes VIC
know,
Aud tho path Is narrow and hard to climb
To tho shining gates that have closed on
you;
hut love can tighten the lonely way,
Aud rest Il waiting for weary feet;
On the night IL dawning an endless day,
Aud Joy shall come when ut last We meeti
4. FERGUSON.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-07
Kossuth AT Home" to Americans.

Kossuth is still living at Baracc0ne in
Piedmont. not very far from Turin.
He leads most retired life, visits no.
body, and cares to see no visitors but
Americans. to whom he Is always ''at
home" In spite Of his advanced years
-he was born in Aril, 1902. and 10
consequently we'll on. toward 80-hs
still retains largely his extraordinary
powers of work and can even read
without spectacles upon bright days.
He has lately been painfully bereaved
in the death of his longtime compan-
ion and faithful friend, Gen. Ihasz.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-07
Superstitious Brides.

Some of the saperstitions about Irish
brides are amusing. It is an Ill omen
to rise before the sun the marriage
morning to dream Of the croaking Of
a raven, or to see the shadow of his
wing fit by in the sunshine or to hear
the knock Of an invisible hand. which,
however. should be listened for. or to
note winding sheet in the candle. 1t
Is still more ominOus to meet red
haired woman ON the 1st of May il the
welding is to be the following month.
or TO tread upon the poisonous beetle,
whose death BODIES fire or pestilence,
or to speak with her lover before meet
ing him 10 church and there are many
other equally mysterious saws that are
only not alarming because there are as
many favorable omens on the other
hand to contract them.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-07

Inc popuiaJlOn VI orOtlanu, lnciuu-
ing the seamen belonging to the mer-
camille shipping in Scottish ports or on
Scottish waters, amounted in April last,
according to the census returns just
made public. to 1874. AL persons. Of
whom l. 797, 562 were males and 1885,
$40 females. Comparison with the con-
sus numbers of 1871 shows an increase
of 1874, 449 males and 1884 females.
or q total increase of 374. 1923 persons
in ten years, /. g.. an increase of Ill
per cent. The population of Scotland
has grown more in the last ten years
than in any decennial period since
182l-3l. Glasgow has increased from
49l .846 In 1871 to 81, 1892 in 1881. or 4
per cent; Edinburgh from 1883 to
228. 1870. or 1913 per cent; Dundee
from 120, 724 to 142. 454, or Is per cent. ;
Aberdeen from 88.l8l to 105.O54. or
10. IS per cent; Greenock from SO. 1874
to 68,897. or 1922 per cent; Leith
from As. 434 to 81. 168. or 3l.73 per cent,
and Paisley from 4S. 257 to 90. 342, OF
1873 per cent.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-07
Catching Herring in Winter.

In winter there is a different and =
novel method Of capturing herring.
Like mackerel. they 60 in schools, and
for some reason they will always fol-
low q light. Two or three fishermen
provide themselves with torches made
Of birch bark or cotton batting, satu-
rated with kerosene oil, and ON dark
nights row along the shores with .
torch in the bow Of the boat. The boat
is rowed as swiftly as possible. and
when Q SCHOOL, Is struck the chase be-
gins. The herring dart after the boat.
coming close up to it in swarms. and
while one of the men rows tho other
dips up the herring with . dip-net.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-07

Five men from Bedford went fishing
at St. Armand, Canada, just across the
Vermont line, recently. William Orris
and Frank MARCEL went out in q boat,
while the rest stayed on shore, and af-
ter while the boat drifted back with
MARCEL alone. He first said Orris had
gone home, but afterward remarked:
1--WE got log or dead man on my
line" It was pulled in, and Orris was
found tied to it, dead. His skull was
crushed, his face cut, and his beard
pulled out MARCEL is held for MUIR
der. Both were crazy drunk, and Mar
cell Is supposed 10 have killed him with
an oar.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-07
Odd Origin Of Fires.

A correspondent Of London paper
warns people against throwing broken
bottles among sun-dried grass or peat
at this time Of the year. IS the bottoms
Of such bottles frequently act as burn
ing glasses. The Australians know
that extensive and damaging bush fires
have taken place in Australia in conse-
quence Of broken bottles having been
carelessly thrown down among the
dried scrub.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-07
A BOwERY ROMANCE.

"Oh, come to the bower have shaded for
thee"
SO sang fair maiden, as fair as could be;
And he came, with Q heart yelling up 10 tho
brim,
And sat in the bower she had shaded for him.
But he sat down, alas! on a half-concealed
nest,
Wherein some tired hornets were taking their
rest,
And though It was something unc0mmonly
big
To see those tired hornets forget their fatigue,
Twas bigger to see as he fell where he rose,
How he wiped up the ground with bis new
Sunday clothes.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-07

Paterson, N. j., il q circus afflicted
city. It Is estimated that In the stop
page Of mills and loss Of time whenev-
or one Of these tented excrescences
puts in an appearance the manufactur.
Ing interest suffers to the extent OF ct
laaat 40. ON.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-10-07

What shadows we are, and what
shadows we pursue.-Burks.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-06
FRENCH DISASTERS.
a Terrible Railroad Accident.

The Paris papers yesterday report five
murders, a suicide, al attempted murder,
two bad cases of arson, four accidental
deaths and a great fire. The latter broke
out in a Diapers shop in the Rue Port
Mahon. OF course no water could be got
when it was wanted, and in three hours
the whole interior of the house was con
sumed, and three unfortunate persons lost
their lives. These repeated disasters are a
disgrace to Paris. 1t is proposed to close
Mabille shortly and to build Oh the same
site an immense variety palace, which is
to cost 81, 600, ,O0O, and to be called the
Palais du Rendezvous Universal.
On the heels of these comes tidings Of a
terrible accident on the railroad. An ex-
press train from Marseillcs came in coils
ion at Charaton with all ordinary passenger
train from Montargis. The slow train from
MOntargis arrived at Charcnton 12 minutes
late, and before it could be shunted the
express train pushed into it. The travellers
on the slow train, saw the express ap-
preaching and some tried to jump out Of
the carriages, but many were crushed and
according to the latest reports, 19persons
were killed and 2j iniured-sevcral, it is
feared, mortally. The accidant is at
tributed to the failure of signal man to
block the line against the express train.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-06
PERSONAL.

Mrs. b. NJ. HARVEY, a we'll known and
well connected, pretty young widow and
country storekeeper, has mysteriously dis
appeared from James City, Va.
STURGEON was once addressed in the
street by a person who, with the briefest
of introduction, called him a very great
humbug." 81 am only too happy. sir. ~
was the preachers reply, to be very
great anything"
The approaching celebration at York
of fCORNwALLIs, will be attended by many
direct lineal representatives of those who
fought against him. but the famous mar
quis himself has to-day no representative cf
his name.
J. O. SETON, the we'll known actor,
has died from al internal rupture received
while sparr;ns with a fellow actor at Lex
ington, KY, last week, where he was play
ing his first weeks engagement. No evil
results were experienced until Friday
night, when he became seriously i'll, and a
doctor was called in, who prescribed for
cholera morbus.
Among the guests entertained by LOTTA,
the actress, at her Lake George villa this
summer are fifteen Or twenty young ladies
from different cities, bright, pretty girls
who had not the means to spend the sum-
mer at favorable resort. So Lotta brought
them up into the green hills, and took
them riding in buck-bcards and rowing
in canoes, and blackberrying and bathing,
and gave them a regular good time.
DR.. E. LLOYD HOWARD, quarantine ply
sician, and in charge of the quarantine
hospital at Baltimore for the past six years..
was accidently drowned in the harbor, at
Commercial wharf, yesterday. He was
on his boarding Sit am tug, and as the tug
neared the wharf Dr.. Howard attempted
to jump on the pier. In the effort it is
supposed he made misstep and fell be-
tween his boat and the pier, striking his
bead and sinking in the water.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-06
STATE ITEMS.

The Democratic county convention of
Carbon nominated Harry E. Packer by ac-
clamation for associate judge.
Colonel James Young, of Middletown,
recently received from Pittsburgh the
finest lot of stock cattle ever seen in the
vicinity. 1t would be hard to find 172
head in the state in one lot, equal to them.
They weigh III, 2S5 pounds.
The Altoona daily San gets in its work
on the thrilling adventure Of two ladies
and Il boy from that town, who went out
to a clearing to gather fruit. Tho horse
rolled and got his head down and fast in
tho fence, when huge rattle snake
crawled to within few feet of the pros
trated and helpless horse, coilcd himself
into circle as large rs tho top of piano
stool and eight inches in height, raised his
head and prepared to strike any one who
would approach him. lie WAS disloged
with stones l.: nd dispatched with shot
gun and twenty rattles taken from him.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-06

THE journey of the president from his
bed chamber in the White House to the
better air of summer city by the sea is
marked 10y an attendance of all the ap-
pliances for comfort by the most adj
vanced modern science and mechanism.
A special railroad track was built for
nearly a-sixth of mile over the rough
cobble stones of Washington street !;
the car for his accommodation is pro-
vided with all the comforts of a perma-
nent residence and moved so gently that
his bed is nearly as free from vibrations
as his couch in the executive mansion,
while the complete arrangements for his
reception in one of the handsOmest of
the many palatial houses at Long Branch
will render his stay there as comfortable
rs in any house in the land.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-06

CHARLIE BURKE" notorious and
depraved rough, is a member Of the
Democratic city committee Of Philadel-
phia and enlivens its meetings with ex-
hibitions of his besotted blackguardism
and pugilistic propensities. That he is
allowed to do so is evidence that some
other members of the committee are not
much better. We fear that as whole
this committee is not any better than
its predecessors which so long disgraced
the city organization i'll the eyes of the
party in the state. When will the de-
cent Democrats of that town decently
organize their party
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-06
Burned by ISenZine,

Yesterday afternoon, at Millcrsville, 5.
Il. Haines, of that place, brother of a
-. Haines. the dru 'gist at the corner of
Prince and Chestnut streets, this city, was
engaged in cleaning Il hot air engine. He
mounted ladder for the purpose, and
with a sponge saturated with ben
zine was vigorously rubbing the
inside of the hot air chamber. He held
a small lighted lamp attached to long
stick in the cylinder, IN order to have a
little light Oh the subject, when the ac-
cumulatcd gas from the benzine in the
bottom of the chamber ignited, and the
flame bursting up, the young man was
very severely burned on one side of the
face, which, rs were likewise his hand and
arm up to the elbow, was badly blistered,
though it is bclived no permanent injury
will result.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-06
The PRESIDENT.

The departure Of the president from
Washington makes it plain that the sud
den call of Gov. Ioyt for to-day as Il
time for the people of this common
wealth to meet and offer prayers in his
behalf, was based on private information
that at the time he would he subjected
to the risks involved in this journey.
That his removal has been undertaken
with some reluctance by the physicians
is very manifest, and that they have not
been without fears of y fatal termina-
ton to the trip Of over two hundred
miles, by an invalid in his condition, is
all too plain. On the other hand they
were confronted with an increasing vi
tiation of the atmosphere in Washing
ton, with the ardent desire of patient
to get away, and with Il universal ex-
preston of popular opinion that he ought
to he removed. Had he remained in
Washington he would most likely have
died, and even should he die by reason
of his removal the public judgment upon
the physicians will not he nearly so hard
as lla / they failed to get him away.
The prayers of millions ascend to day
from church altar and hearthstone that
he may endure without danger the re-
moval and speedily be restored to health.
The response to the short call upon the
people has been general and earnest, and
whatever the prayers of the faithful can
effect to make his recovery accord with
the Divine dispensation or to bring
about Il right state of popular feeling the
people of Pennsylvania and other states
are to day doing.