The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-09-30
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A girl 3 years old, ut NewburypOrt.
Mass. got mad because her mother
wouldn't give her two cents recently,
and shot at her with pistol. The ball
struck tho stove pipe and tho mother
tainted.
Tho wild blackberry crop of Clarke
county, Washington Territory, has
been immense this year. II is csti-
mated that no less than ten thousand
bushels of blackberries were picked in
Humboldt county, California.
George Smith of New Brighton, Sta
ten island, recently returned from
four years whaling voyage. lie re-
ports that his boat captured nincty-iive
whales. which made $500 barrels of
oil. worth about $40, 600.
The wife of the Rev. Bryan OMalley,
Church of England divine, has OBJ
tanned separation because he kicked
and beat her. During the trial il trans
pired that the clergyman's mother I'M
derstOOd no language but Irish.
At Omemce, Canada. they have a
curious plant grown from Il seed sup
posed to have been turned up with the
earth taken from well ut tho depth
Ol I
plant, and Is nearly seven feet in
height.
A policeman saw woman digging
in her garden at Paris, KY. before day
light She was not noted for indus
trious habits, and therefore he cOvertly
watched her until she brought out
box containing $50, 900, the proceeds OF
a recent bank robbery.
There is speculative feeling among
oil men in Sarnia (Ont.) and vicinity,
owing to the superior quality Of oil
which is taken from the new oil well.
The company have already been of
fcred contract nj 81 per barrel for all
they can produce of the same quality.
Trouble is likely to arise between tho
town of Niagara Falls and the Canada
Southern. The railway people are ac-
c,lstomed to transferring their passen-
gers directly across the river. thereby
dcpriving the town of II great amount
of money that otherwise would be spent
in Canada.
Several iin-back whales have recent
ly appeared in the bay of Monterey, Cal
ifornia. and the Whaling company was
at last accounts preparing to resume
operations. The fishermen are having
great luck in the bay at present, more
than a ton of rock cod being shipped
to San Francisco daily.
A bunch of wheat grown on the farm
of Jerry Despair, near PcndletOn. Ore,
apparently from single seed. consists
OF 1872 stalks, each bearing full head
of wheat. What was taken TO be an
average head shclled out sixty-three
well developed kernels. Hence that
mother grain has yielded 8.3l6-fold.
Two negro women living ut Sharps-
burg, COwatta county, Ga, lately
whipped three children, aged 5, 8, and
2 years, until their little bodies were
frightfully laceratcd from head to foot.
Two of them have died, and the brutal
women, who are aunts of the children,
have been arrested under charge OF
murder.
A Girl of 16, while on her way to
church at Preston, England, to be mar
ricd, was murdered by her betrOthed.
She was induced by him to go into a
public house. He there cut her throat,
nearly severing her head from her
body. He was at once arrested. She
WAS pregnant by him.
The returns of the five emigration
agencies OF Ontario show that for the
first six months of tho current year 49,
O34 immigrants have settled in the
province. as compared with 9,142 fol
the corresponding period of last year.
For the seven months ending with July
the total humber was 12,065, as com.
pared with 1l,0S2 for the correspond
ing period of last year.
Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott, in thu
christian Union, advocates that the
State of New York purchase tract il
the wilderness lying Immediately wes
of the Hudson river, and extending
from perhaps five miles above Yves,
Point, and give it, untouched by land.
scapc gardening, to the people for O
park. The tract designated is part o.
the Hudson highlands.
There is IL parish in London which
consists for the greater part of thirteen
houses on each side of BishOpgatC
street. The income is nearly S., 500 q
year. The rector has never done duty
for the last three. or four years. living
peacefully at st. LeOnar,rs. But he
pays curate $500 year, out of which
that gentleman has to pay for gas, fol
the organist, and other expenses OF
conducting divine service.
An invention for easing the strain on
horses in starting horse-cars has been
i'm six months successful service in
Boston. A little pedal touched by the
drivers foot puts the device into opera
ton. 1t connects the tongue of the
car with lever. which operates a
latchet, taking hold of cogwheel on
tho axle, thus easing the dead pull
nearly One-half.
Careful observations have shown the
following to be about tho average
growth in twelve years of several vari-
cites of hardwood when planted in
groves and cultivated: White maple be-
comes one foot in diameter and 30 feet
high; ash, leaf maple or box elder.
ono foot in diameter and 20 feet high;
white willow, IS inches i'm diameter and
40 feet high; yellow willow, IS inches
i'm diameter and IS feet high; Lombar-
| dy poplar, 10 inches in diameter and
| 40 feet high; blue and white ash, 10
inch. in diameter and % feet high; black
walnut and buttcrnut, 10 inches in di-
ameter and 20 feet high.
The performances of Fritz Kapcr-
nick, the Berlin pedestrian, are attract
ing considerable attention in scientific
circles. Professor Kirchoff. of Halle,
compares them with the feats of the
historical pedestrians of the ancient
Mexican postal service, known rs the
Tschaskis. 1t is recorded, he says, thai
the foot messenger constituting the
Aztec post not unfrequently traversed
distance equivalent to 1886 yards per
minute. This statement has generally
been regarded as mythical, but Kaper-
nick has demonstrated its credibility,
for his race from Berlin to Potsdam has
matched, if not exceeded it.
Some time ago an Austrian chemist
is said to have devised new sOpOriiic,
the action of which is so rapid and
powerful. that few drops Of il sprin-
killed. on the head and face will effec-
tually stupefv man in u sow seconds,
aud render him utterly defenseless. He
gave it the name of Bandigcr, or 'tam-
en-" and offered the secret of its sale
to the Austrian Governm mt. Bat the
Government has not only refused to
purchase it, but has ordered tho police
authorities to formally notify the in.
ventor to discontinue his experiments,
and to abstain utterly from using in any
way his invention, or communicating
it to others, under pain Of bein, Grim.
inallv dealt with.
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