The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-12-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
MISCELLANEOUS.

Short-horns are fetching higher
prices in Australia than in England.
There is a larger amount of coal now
in Milwaukee than ever before at the
close of navigation.
Secretary Lincoln recommends an
increase of the army to thirty thous-
and men.
The pension payments at the Mil
waukee agency amounted to $44, Ut
during November.
The assassin's trial will cost, &C.
cording to the estimate of Marshal
Henry, round $l50,000.
During the month of November re-
auctions in the star route mail SER
vice amounted to over 1000.
A matchmaker at VOuvry, in
Switzerland, claims to have made u
watch which will run four years
without winding up.
1t is reckoned that 6 ,000, 900 pounds
of caouchouc will be taken this
season from the new India.rubber
region discovered on the Benz river
in Bolivia.
Colonel Stanley, u retired officer of
the British army, and IL relative of
the late Dean Stanley. committed
suicide yesterday at Windsor, Eng.
land.
They are burning brick in northern
Dakota with twisted hay. 1t is
claimed that u kiln of brick can be
burned in twenty-fOur hours by the
use of this material.
A new and fatal disease has made
its appearance In the vicinity Of Du-
buque. La. The animals are seized
with rigors and trembling, and death
ensues in a few hours.
The largest liquor bar i'm the world
is the one at the Astor House, New
York. 1t is a bad days business
when over its counter is not sold
500 worth of "liquid hardware"
G E Williams, South Deerfeld,
Mass, from a dairy of ten Jersey
cows, between Oct. 3. 1880, and Aug.
l, 1881, Il period of ten months, oh
tanned butter product aggregating
about 1888 pounds.
With a population of but 25.OO0.-
900, England annually consumes 50O,.
600. 900 pounds of cheese, while the
United States, with population of
so, 200. 900, consumes only 275,O00,000
pounds of cheese annually.
The British Minister of the United
States has been, it Is said, directed
to call attention of the American
Government to expressions in some
IriSh-American newspapers favOring
the assassination of British rulers.
A correspondent. writing of the
leaning tower of Pisa, says that,
whether by accident or design 10 one
can now tell, the inclination of the
structure makes it look and feel to
the visitor as if it were about to fall.
1t is $50 high and is IL feet out of
the perpendicular.
The excellence of flax grown in
Oregon and Washington territory,
has been SO well demonstrated by
several invoices sent 10 Belfast, that
a movement is made to extend it's
cultivation by Irish linen men, who
propose to manufacture linen OH
Puget Sound.
The sheep-raisers in the states west
of the Mississippi, complain that the
railroad managers refuse to put OH
doublc.decked cars. They state that
Il car can not be loaded with sheep to
its full capacity even when it has
two doors. and that sheep are shipped
at loss when put in common caars.
An Illinois farmer who keeps 20
horses, some of them worth $l.500
each, writes that he pastures them
all at times in fields fenced with
barbed wire, has done it for years,
and had no harm result from it.
Before turning them out he first
leads them to the fence and lets
them rub their noses against the
barbs, and the hint is sufficient.
They know enough after that to keep
away from the fences.
The extent of the oyster trade of
Baltimore, which is the great center
of the oyster.packing business, is
shown by some very remarkable
figures. During the years 1879 and
1880, 9,545 vessel brought 1882, 972
bushels Of oysters, besides $4,000
bushels brought by steamers. Of
this number 2,7o6, 1858 bushels were
packed raw. and 1,8S8,939 bushels
1 4.
total amount of capital invested is
81 .606,o76 and the wages earned are
Sc, 1855, 444. Some places along the
shore Of Maryland are built upon
oyster shells, and in the lower part
of the state oysters pass current as
money.
G0Od Adrtce from a Leading Med
tc0t Professor.
The learned doctor says keep some kind