The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-11-25

Alb. Bill, good day. Been away?
Yes; but didn't stay. Some future day,
when get more pay, then l may stay.
Day-d"y.
\ letter preserved in the New York
Historical Society has the following
sentence in It.: MY sons wife is late
" dead. and is very much lameUtcd by
all who knew her; | could have wished,
had it pleased God, that his mother-in-
law. who is ripper for the other world,
had gone before her."
Andrew Plagnor, of Louisville, was
81. His practice for many years was to
read his Bible two hours every Sunday
morning. and hard all the rest OF tue
dav making wooden spoons, which he
peddlcd during the week. He lately
became convinced that he was Sab
bath-breaker. His offense seemed to
him enormous, and he drowned him.
self,
Rather novel decision was given in
Branford, Conn, by justice before
whom q boy charged with stealing haz-
elnuts was recently brought. After
hearing the case patiently, the justice
said to the culprit: eff it was not so
hot. and was not so utterly exhaust
ed, would give you sound thrash
ing"
A valuable property in tobacco is the
rcsinous gum which the leaf freely eX
udos during the process of ripening.
and which, being soluble in water, may
be waste OF by heavy rainfall. For
this reason tobacco should not be cut
IL,
is postponed for few days after rain
fall, the leaf has time TO again srcrete
the nece ,sary supply Of gum. Neither
should tobacco be cut when wet, FOR if
laid upon the ground in this condition
dirt will adhere to the leaves, causing
damage 10 the crop.
The receipts at the fairs are the prin-
cipal, and often the only. sources Of
revenue to American Agricultural So
cieties. In Great Britain the member
ship fees of the breeders agricultural
societies are high, aud the list of men,
berS long. In tho case of the Royal
Agricultural society of England, which
has 5000 or 10000 members, the an-
nual subscription is FL. OF the forty
two annual shows or fairs held b. this
society, only ten have been source of
profit. The net losses up to the present
year are given as f46,5 64; the Kilburn
or London show, in 1879. alone caused
u loss of Gl4,056.
There is = constant tendency of ami
mails to revert to the characteristic points
of their even distant progenitors. Such
reversion Is often the case when low
bred animal has been allowed to cross
with thoroughbred stock, and may crop
out again in the third or fourth gener-
alton. Agassiz once made this remark:
mo offspring is simply the offspring of
his father and mother. 1t is at the
same time the offspring of the grand
father and grandmother on both sides;
In fact, this dependence of offspring or
liability to reproduce family character
istics extends much further up the an
ceslral line"
Caponizing fowls is practiced to a
great extent in Pennsylvania and New
Jersey. It's effect upon the fowls is
that they grow one third beyond their
otherwise natural size, fatten more east
ly and rapidly on less food, and their
flesh is of finer quality, the price they
command in the market being so per
cent. higher than that of ordinary
fowls of the same age. As an illustra-
ton of their superiority, we quote from
an exchange of recent date the state
mont that "a man in New Jersey has
Just sold lot of $50 capons, averaging
10 3-5 pounds each, tho heaviest pair
weighing 90 pounds"
A commission was appointed In Bel
gium, lately, to test the comparative
merits OF Swimming milk after standing.
following the ordinary method, in por-
celain pans, or in specially constructed
pans immersed in receptacle contain
ing running water or susceptible of re-
ceiying ice. The same quantity of milk,
thirty quarts, was placed in the pans,
and allowed to throw up tho cream
during twenty-four hours, the pans
were then skinned and the cream
churned. Therswas invariably II per
cent, more buffer, and OF superior
quality, obtain3d from the milk artifi-
cially cooled i ban that treated in the
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