The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-12-30

Work Is suspended on all branches
or the Milwaukee & St. Paul road,
except the Council Bluffs & Black
Hills.
Congress has passed a bill granting
the franking privilege to Mrs. Gar
field, and it has been signed by the
President.
a number Of young Englishmen of
Denver have bicycle races on the ice.
II Is said they can make mile under
two min utes.
The New York police commits.
siOners modestly ask for SO, 402, 100 to
run 5000 policemen during the year
of grace 1882.
A catamount weighing 1872 pounds,
and measuring nine feet from nose to
tip Of tail, was killed at Bernard. VT,
by two hunters.
A kind writer says: "You can trust
man who loves a dog or a horse"
A livery stable man who has tried it
says there is no money in it.
The Emperor of Brazil has sent
some toys to the two grandchildren
of Victor Hugo on the occasion of
the approaching New Year.
Pennsylvania has q law requiring
that requests for religious purposes
must be made, to be valid, not less
than 30 days before death.
The telegraph was first exhibited
in New York A years ago. At the
present time the Western Union oper-
ates $4,000 miles of wire in the
United States.
1t is reported at Chicago that
freight rates to New York ON grain
have been cut to ten cents per 100
pounds. The report is not fnlly con.
firmed, however.
The Jeannettee was crushed at the
seventy-seventh degree of latitude.
she did not get 80 near the pole as
several other expeditions that went
up by Greenland.
Senator WINDOWS new house in
Washington Is built of pressed and
moulded bricks, with brown stone
trimmings. All the interior fittings
are of native woods.
A New York men recently dreamed
that he was Texas desperate in a
town threatened by Indians, and
when he woke up he found that he
had crawled under the bed.
JEFF. Davis AYERS positively that he
didn't have penny of the 81 SOC, 900,
the remains of the confederate treas.
ury. There were no pockets in the
shirt wherein he was captured.
Ballot boxes in which each ballot
was passed around a glass cylinder by
means of a crank, which also rang a
bell and recorded the vote, were
used In the recent Boston municipal
election.
Benjamin Harris Brewster, the
new Attorney General, Is badly
SCARED in the face, having been ter.
ribly burned when a child. He is,
however, q large pOrtly man of strik-
ing appearance.
The interior department declines to
pay the per cent. from sale of gov
eminent lands due Wisconsin by
virtue of the act of admission as a
state. having applied the same on a
claim against the state growing out
of the war.
At the moment of greatest infia.
ton, January, 1855, there was only
$3.50, 000, 900 greenbacks and bank
notes in circulation, or something
like S2S per capita, while our present
circulation Of coin and paper Is over
$24 per head.
DR.. Meyer, of Vienna, who has re.
Gently spent some time in Utah, ex.
presses the opinion that 1t would take
an army Of $50, 900 men for the United
States to put down rebellion Of the
Mornons, and that the conflict would
probably last several years.
The present crop of growing wheat
in Indiana Is exceedingly promising
indeed, too promising; for many
farmers assert that the stand Is so
thick that 1t will be an advantage II
such weather as will kill q portion of
the stocks should come, and thus thin
1t out.
A New Jersey farmer has dis.
covered on the schoolby mountain, u
hard maple tree that never casts its
leaves. They remain the same through
Winters blasts and Summers heats.
The tree affords an excellent quality
of sap, and easily converted into good
maple syrup.
The largest steam boiler in the
world was recently finished at Wei.
seminal, Baden. The proprietor Of
the works gave his workmen a lunch
inside the boiler, which was brilliant.
ly lighted up, and in which there
was a staging with table set for
thirty people.
There is q superstition among Penn.
sylvania coal miners that IL any per.
son whistles In mine some disaster
Is sure to follow. The theory is that
whistling drives away the good luck
spirit, leaving the miners to the
mOiCy VI cpIIltb VI cNIis n Wnl6Cl6T
was recently mobbed In q Lakawanna
mine. 1850
The independence of the press in
the German empire Is not very con.
spicuous. A dispatch from Berlin
states that Mr.. Sevesohn, editor Of
the Berlina Tdgeblatt. has been sen.
fenced to prison for three months for
suggesting that the threatening let.
tiers that were received by Prince
Bismark during the recent elections
were bogus. tt-
In the senate one day last week,
the bill to ascertain the amounts due
citizens for supplies furnished the
Sioux Indians Of Minnesota, before
the massacre of 1862, and to pay the
same, was reported favorable and
calendered. Bills were introduced to
regulate the pay Of pension agents
and shorten the period required in
demonstrating public lands to two
years.