The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-08-25
GLEANINGs.

and shipping large quantities OF orange
wine.
Sending fresh figs north from Florida
in refrigerating cars has proven dead
failure.
| Moss Point. Miss, ne9ress recently
gave birth to four babies-twO boys and
two girls.
The nickel mine on COwcreek, south
ern Oregon, is being worked with salts
factory results.
A little white dog at Chattanooga,
Tenn, is six months old, but only five
inches in height
The Quakers have raised 800. 900 to-
ward the erection of u new college at
| New Garden, GuilfOrd Co., N. G.
Bowdoin College has well-invested
endowment fund Of 100000. 1t had a
surplus last year of 81,
Rowland Hills famous Surrey Chap
ell" built just 100 years ago is to be con-
verted into a manufactory.
In lofty double house in Berlin L.
35S persons make their home. This
Outranks any New York tenement
house.
WOrkmen on the Kinzua bridge. Brad
ford Co., Pa, continue to climb heaven
ward. 1t is the highest structure of the
kind in the world.
No fewer than two German expedi-
tons will come to this country to OBJ
serve the transit of Venus next Deem
Der.
The only sensible strike we have
heard OF lately occurred in Chicago. A
lab0ring man knocked down con-
scienccless Spectator who was getting
up a corner on flour.
The trustees of Oglethorpe's colony
in Georgia legislatcd i'm 1888, and here
is what they did: Enacted that the
drink of rum in Georgia be absolutely
prohibited, and that all which shall be
brought there shall be STAYED"
A horse thief arrested in Greensburg,
Pa, astonished the Jail officials by
pointing out to them from his cell win
dow an underground stable, the head
quarters of a gang of stock thieves of
which he was once member.
A pensioner living at Manchester, O.,
has actually notified the pension agent
at Columbus, where he drew his stipend,
that he had recovered from his war
inflicted disability and desired that
his name be erased from the pension
rolls.
A Richmond (Va.) man spent ten
days at summer resort and gained 40
pounds in that brief time. Were the
name of the resort mentioned the item
would pass for an advertisements; but
the name is not mentioned, and so it's
nothing but lie.
The United States Circuit Court at
Boston has decided that the punctur-
ing of a coin and the subsequent filling
of the puncture with base metal consti-
tutes cOunterfeiting; but that the filling
of Il puncture not made by him who
does the filling is not punishable Of
Tense.
About one hundred miles above Php-
nix, Arizona, on Salt river, there is II
high bluff, composed almost entirely of
salt. From this bluff several springs.
highly impregnated with saline matter,
flow into the stream. The river above
this point is pure and clear.
A lady living in Los Angeles, Cal.
WIS tHt olltE udN. w SttlnS
a half grown tarantula walking across
the sitiing-room floor, where her baby
had just been playing. As soon rs she
could recover from her nervousness she
dispatched the hairy monster.
The Louisiana Legislature passed
bill appropriating S250.O00 to support
the public schools of New Orleans. BY
Il mistake of an enrolling clerk, the
amount was changed to $3.50 The bill
Was signed and promulgated, and the
Legislature adjourned before the mis-
take WAS discovered. There will have
To- be an extra session to rectify the mis-
take, or the city schools will have To re-
main closed for the rest of the year.
A boot-black. smoking "butt'' which
he had just picked up. is accosted by
comrade with: Say, what brand of
cigar is thatp' Robinson Crrlsoe."
why dyer call it that?' because it's
a castaway."
Old lady: "Oh carpenter-yes-while
you We're at dinner i-ah!-tied some
rags around the head of your hammer,
rs found the noise of it this morning
disturbed me very much. You will
find it much pleasenter now"
Cincinnati lovers are so ardent that
they will make love to the first person
who comes along; but an old man who
found that he had been embracing q girl
in Eden Park that had just broken out
with tho smallpox. concluded that he
had been little hasty.
Doctor" says the patient, meeting
him on the street, II want you to tell
me what is the matter with me. When
wake up in the morning l feel dull
stupid rs an IDIOT" ..Humph! And
how did you feel when you went to bed
the night before, eh?''
The Way We Live Now-"Well, old
chappic, what did tho doctor sayP"
''Oh-said was TO give up tea, and take
plenty of rest, and all that. Mean to-"
'But what did he say about big cigars
and brandies and sodas in the morning,
and all that?" "Oh. didn't mention It.
Fact is, never asked hint"
my frens," said the officiating
clergyman at the marriage of two col
orcd persons near Cincinnati, few
Sundays ago, my frcns, it am serious
thing to get married, specially bofe
parties is orphans an haint got no
parents to fall back on, as am de present
case"
When all the buffalo are killed off,
| il Uncle Sam can be induced to quit
| feeding the red devils ON canned goods
| and other government rations, they will
have to put up at an American boarding
house, and then dyspepsia will wind up
the noble red man. The secretary Of
the Interior should cut this out and
paste it where he shall see it again.
A contemporary asks: "How shall
women carry their purses to Illustrate
thieves?" Why, carry them empty.
| Nothing illustrates thief more than to
snatch a woman's purse, after following
her half mile. and then find that it
contains nothing but II recipe for spiced
peaches and faded photograph of her
grandmother.
| An Austin farmer started in the liv-
ery-stable business last week, and the
first thing no did was to have big
sign painted, representing himself hold
ing q mule by tho bride. 'ls that
good likeness of me?" he asked of an
adlmiring friend. "Ycs, it is o perfect
| picture of you, but who is the fellow
holding you by tho bridle?"
Clannishness in the Jewish refugees
Is one of the great obstacles that the
Hebrew Immigrant Society in New
| York have to encounter. Germans and
SWedes are willing'tO be separated from
their families and fellows. They will
60 anywhere to get work. Not so with
the Jewish refugees. They want to be
together and away from other people,
Hence the difficulty inifinding them
f, places to work.