The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-03-10
Miscellaneous Clips.
has 5000. 900 sheep.

There are 4,377 notaries public In
the state.
Chambers is killing off the horses
around Tecumseh, Neb.
Two carloads of jack rabbits were |
shipped from Alma, Neb., one day
recently.
Wood.sawyers charge $3.50 II cord
TO. saving up wood in Deadwood.
The Sheridan house in Bismarck
uses $50 barrels of water week. ut
twenty five cents per barrel.
The richest man in Russia has only
about one.third the wealth of Van.
derbilt.
During 1880, 1926, 2s2 pounds of
military freight were shipped from
Bismarck.
The United States troops ut Fort
A. Lincoln have used up 1000 cords
of wood so far this winter.
Notwithstanding the flood, New
Orleans is making magnificent pre-.
partitions for the Mardi Gras festivi.
ties.
Mrs. Grant made calls in Washing.
ton the other day dressed In purple
brocaded velvet and furs, with a
cream.white bonnet and gloves.
A barbed wire company Of Des
Moines made sale of ten carloads
of wire on the 18th, which amounted
to $4,000.
A black walnut tree of average
size, cut in Iowa. shipped to England
and reduced to gun-stocks is worth
81 900 to 81 800.
Senator Don Cameron's new resi-.
dence at Washington, which is the
finest in the city, has been completed
and transferred to its owner by the
architect.
A Philadelphia authority says that
a lady can hold her own in society on
$500 Il year for dress, "if her position
be assured and if she have STYLE"
The late Thomas Carlyle left sew.
eral thousands of letters and mass
of other papers in the hands Of James
Anthony Froude to be arranged. re.
vised and published.
The Des Moines Register condemns
the price, IS cents to 81, charged by
the physicians of that city, for vac.
cinating, and estimates that the doc.
tors will realize from $4,000 to
$4,000 by the vaccination boom.
A Western cattle man says that he
thought he was safe in saying that
10 per cent. Of the cattle on the
ranges in the western part Of the
state were dead, or would be before
grass made its appearance in the
spring.
A man out in Leadville tied his
wife to the bed-pcst and whipped her
nearly to death, and yet he lived. A
neighbor of his who stole mule left
IA widow and two small children and
died-at the end Of rope.
A Roman correspondent writes that
everyone is astonished ut the steady
mildness of the season. Sunshades
have been more in request than UNI.
brellas. Street.cars are the novelty
of thc season in the city. The OUR.
inal hill is now assembled by them.
The wide distribution Of plants
over the earth is largely due to birds
who carry seeds from one country to
another.
Spiders will live great length of
time without eating. One lived and
appeared healthy for eighteen months
! without food, enclosed in a glass case.
Mount Ararat, on which the Bible
says Noah's ark found resting.place
is l7,ll2 feet high, and is covered
perpetIally by ice and snow.
In Greenland, beef. mutton. pork
and fowls are preserved for any
length Of time by merely freezing
them. When used they are thawed
in cold water. and when cooked. they
taste exactly as if recently killed.
Prof. De La Banta, of Chicago,
will wager anywhere from 1000 to
So 900 that he can and will "make
the face of colored women as white
as the Average white person, and will
10 it chemically, and within reason.
able time. and before the public"
The worst gale in sixty years is
reported from the Newfoundland
coast. 1t is feared that the loss of
life has been very great.
The postage on the letters mailed
by Gen. Garfield at Mentor since his
nomination has been 1904, an equiva.
lent postage for about 10000 letters.
In France the damage caused by
the ravages .of wolves, has been
roughly estimated to reach sum of
100000 OF francs year.
Mr.. Edison departed from Menlo
Park, the scene of his toll and study
on the electric light for the past two
or three years, and transported him.
self, his family, his machinery and
his inventions to New York city.
De Lesseps says the Panama canal
will certainly lie finished by 1883, at
the estimated cost Of flve-hundred
and twelve million francs. The work
will not require more than eight to
ten.thousand workmen in the most