The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-12-15
GLEANINGs.


York Clipper. left personal property val
ued at $l50,O00.
McGill College, Montreal, is consider
ing the advisability of admitting youns
women to the department of arts.
1t looks suspicious to see man al
ways take Glove before answering the
telephone.
A Baltimore paper does not believe
that young lady of refnementis called
upon to take an Introduction to gentle
man wearing paper collar.
Miniature kitchen utensils are the
latest thing in cheap jewclry affected by
young women who cry themselves t.
sleep unless their names are used in de
scribing new fashions.
All Continental Europe wonders a
the reckless speed Of the train which rar
from Paris to Vienna, 900 miles, in 2,
hOurs-thirty-three and q third miles al
hour.
'D'ye moind the blag-gard atm the
boksyP" is the way Milesian woman
at an Oswego IN. ~ hotel called hel
husbands attention to gentleman par
taking of celery.
A Scotch Spectator in philosophers
curiosities has theory that strong
smell is nothing but silent noise, only
audible to the nose; and that loud
noise is merely an articulate smell, per-
ceptible only to the ear and not to the
nose.
A modern Solomon shapes the DIES.
TIMES of the Fort Worth (Tex.) Gazette,
Hear him: when broken pitcher, q
pair of boots and wash basin are seen
lying on the front steps in disordered
mass it is presumptive evidence that
there is little of domestic happiness in
the interior of the habitation."
Mrs. S. Treethy, of Syracuse, N. Y,
has cluster of locks of hair cut from
the head of Napoleon !. when he was q
prisoner on the Island of st. Helena. -
The hair was presented to her by an
English naval officer more than forty
years ago. A single hair from the head
Of Louis Napoleon is said to have sold
recently in London for one hundred dol.
lars.
Atlantic City is infested with cats left
behind by the thousands of cottagers
who have returned to their city homes
The island fairly swarms with them
Cats in the streets, in the houses, every.
where; SO great nuisance are they that
the employment of cat-catchers is seri
ously contemplated by the authorities Of
the place.
The abundance of remains of the man.
moth in Siberia is remarkable. From
the fact that at least a hundred pairs Of
tusks are annually put upon the market
Nordenskiold infers tha4 during the
time that has elapsed since the conquest
of Siberia useful tusks from more than
10000 of these animals have been col.
lected.
The university students at Syracuse
do not seem to dwell together in the
greatest harmony. Recently the Sopho
mores prepared banquet at enc of The
restaurants. A crowd of Juniors gath.
cred about the place and doubtless
would have broken in and devoured the
good things had not a posse of police
been called.
According to DR.. Haltenhoff. Profes.
sor of Ophthalmology in the University
of Geneva, there are in Europe 311,OOC
blind persons, who cost about 4,O00,-
900 year, and IS per cent of whom
have become blind through neglect and
carelessness.
Captain Webb seems to think that
the use of porpoise oil, rubbed all ovel
the body and even the face, prevents
the chilling action of cold water affect.
ing the vital parts of swimmers who re-
main long time in the water. AL
professionals, he says. now Use oil.
Laura Keyser, known to the world a
Louisa Montague. Forepaugh's $4,000
beauty, has begun in Philadelphia II suit
for divorce from her husband, p. Keyser
whom she married in Peoria, ILL.,, in
1877. 1t is somewhat remarkable that
"desertion" should be the complaint
made against her husband by the 'hand.
soonest woman in the world"
1t never rains but it pours. A New.
port visitor, after long struggle, man.
aged to get q foothold in society, and
an of sudden found that she had been
invited to nine dinner-parties, all on the
same evening. Utterly unable to decide
which to accept, she sat down and had q
good cry over it, and that made hereyes
and nose SO red that she was ashamed
to 60 to any.
Careful cooking of even the long.
est-used and best-known kinds of food
whether animal or vegetable, is the i'm.
portant rule to insure health and
strength from the table. No matter
what the quality of the food to begin
with may be, bad cook will invariably
incur heavy doctors bills and not less
/ ut
druggists.
At last use for the ugly dog-fish has
been discovered, and the fishermen are
Selling the chance to CRAFTY an old spite
by their capture. Somebody has invent
ed process for making out of them 8
fish scrap that cattle and fowl eat will
benefit. The scrap is 80 per cent. oil
/, and with the oil removed makes gooe
fertilizer. This evidently means all day
to the dog-fish, Maine vessel having
come in recently with six hundred o.
them.
r The skeleton of full-grown masto
don has been found in the Cowee tun
mel, on the Duckland branch of The
Western North Carolina railroad. Wher
. the monster was discovered the convict.
fed in terror, and it was by hard worl
that they could be induced to return t.
their picks. 1t was found six feet be
low the surface of the earth. 1t wa
In a perfect state Of preservation, ant
crumbled to dust as soon as exposed t.
the air.
From Washington comes the story o
great statesman, who was also grea
: Joker, who died not many months ago
His sick-room was full of ripping laugh
ter up to the day of his death, becaus'
of his witticisms. He had been expect
ing the final hour for several weeks, bu
yet chung to life with wonderful tenac
ity. When the end came, his wife salt
to him: do you fear the King OF Ter
rors?' "Why should I?' said the dyin:
man, II have lived with the Queen TO
!, twenty years"
Advice given by practical old fathe
to his son. just setting out for Paris:-
/, my son, never possess yourself OF tn
property of another; it is wrong to d
so, and, besides, You have ample mean
Of your own. Never conceal the truth
1t does not pay. Do not Cypress tn
feeble, but, at the same time, there is n
necessity for interfering in their behalf
!. you would only make enemies OF bot
, sides. And endeavor never to hav
any enemies, or, which comes to tn
same thing, any friends. Good by! Bles
your
81 An interesting point Of law has bee
raised and will be argued in Canada
It is on the power Of justices OF tn
\ peace to convict a servant for desertin
/ employment or disobeying the orders
his employer. Under one section OF Tn
consolidated statutes justices have tins
power, but motion is now pending :