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

This country consumes IA, $50 barrels
of kerosine every day. The proportion
of servant girls to the barrel has not
been determined.
Rubbing it in: "Oh. you are too self
conscioasr' exclaimed Adolcsccnce; al
am conscious of nothing" "Ihats
what said" replied Fog.
Nearly all the ice imp"ric | intoGreat
Britain comes from Norway. When
the business began it was in Wenham
Lake ice, sent from Boston.
Extract from Nine. dc Ps album
MADAME is thirty-ive-or thereabouts.)
"Womcn are like roses; they are most
beautiful just before they begin TO
fade"
Thirteen female physicians are prac-
ticing in Clayton, Iowa, and at re-
cent fire there were not we'll men
enough in the town to run the engine
out.
A merchant died suddenly just after
finishing a letter. Tho clerk added, III
postscript: "Since writing the above ]
have died. Tuesday evening. the Ith
inst"
Dialogue at the Newport Casino. -
Swell American. just returnrs from
England: Il say. doctor. Is there
much asthma herep" Doctor: Very
little; more jack-ass-mia.'
TIE WAGES of n labarcr in Russia is
8 cents for days work Of fifteen hours.
and he ..iinds' himself. II is nul STAGED
where I've finds himself mt the end oi the
month, hugh.
lratc sportsman. 'CnntoHnd IL!
you've sh0, tho dog! l thought YOU
told me you could hold n gun. Pat:
"Shurc. and SO can. your honor. IL
tie shot. sor. couldn't h0uI''"
..What an observing man that Brown
is" remarked Jones. who had been
reading some of Browns latest writ.
inms; .'wliat ewes tina man has! Yes,
sail Fogg, ''plagiarize."
The manner in which Connecticut
courts and jurics are run has provoked
critism from every state in the Union.
A man who commits murder IN that
state has cot to own it and prove it be-
fore q jury will believe it.
Year bv year the British army, once
the most beautifully clad aud Brilliant,
equipped in the worlt, los netting
in picturesqucneSs. Feathers and cpau
lettes are gone. and, except with thu
hussarS. lace of gold or silver has nj
but disappeared.
The case of the state against Hall TO
wife murder. in Cherokee county, Ala
bama. has been pending for liteel
years. and is Il romance III Itself, TIT
testimony of which would fill larg
: volume.
Mason Wins, who was u few year
ago regarded rs a young man OF rar'
, promise. is now roaming the woods il
y Monroo comfy, Tennessee. and j
. called ..!he wild man" His head wa
| turned a few years ago, when lac foil j
love with q girl that didn't rccirrocale
The smal! amount Uf Transatlantic
travel from Boston Is accounted Tor b
, the fact that there isn't iirst-ciaSS pas
! sengcr steamer plying between Boslo
: and Liverpool. Boston steamers ar
. half the power, half the tonnage, an
,, iwice % old as those falling from Ne,
, York.
q A sleepy passenger. who allowed hi
, hat to fall from tie window OF tn
smokinr-car while II western expires
train was going at the rate Of fort
=, n,l,o. 80. hour, near Hancock, Md
pulled the bcll-cnrd aud stopped tn
train. lie wanted the conductor 10 g
back after his hat, and was indisnar
:, when he mo with 4 refusal.
l There are $50 educated female ply
s;Gians in active practice in twenty-si
: s.ateS %. our Union Ing majority
Massachusetts. New York. ami Penn
;. s,iyamia. Tic figures above give
) show marvellous growth. PerSo!
\ not very far advanced in years can II
/. member when there were no womc
claiming to practice medicine who WI
worthy of public confidence: II
;; change that has already taken place
probably only the beginning OF he
era. In a few years the number
women who are crcditab!e doctors WI
be so great that their sex will cease
be matter of comment
A person who speaks bluntiy usual
has u sharp tongue.