The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-06-23
eLEANINGs.

"Shillymahoyne'' is contribution
made to the English language by Gin
cinnati lawyer. 1t Is synonymous with
''shenanigan."
The people of Prince Arthur's Land
ing, Canada, wish to drop that name and
call the place Shuniah, an Indian word
for silver.
While blowing at Wartsboro. near
Middleton. N. T., last week, Chester
Stanton turned up gold ring belong
ing to his aunt, lost thirty-five years
ago.
Emerson's memory had failed good
while before his death. After Longfel-
lows funeral he said to lifelong friend:
''That gentleman whose funeral we have
been attending was a sweet and beauti-
full soul. but forget his name"
Pluto John. of Empire, New, was re-
Gently bereaved by the loss of his wife.
He swung her body over his shoulder
and went to the foothills, where he bur-
led the remains in hole about two feet
deep, covering the grave with q pile of
boulders. He returned to the lodge and
joyously selected a shapely squaw, to
whom he was Immediately married.
Tennyson is fond of the seashore; but
not much so. The lights arc too bright
and the mood is too even. He likes
drowsy, brown Autumn hillsides, SOM
nolent sheep. and deep, dark inland
lakes. not easily accessible or too near.
Sheep are his especial pets, and he likes
to lie in high-backed chair smoking
pipe while he looks ut them.
A sad story of desolation comes from
the west side of the San Joaquin river,
California. There tho crops have failed
entirely, and there has been an unheard
of extent of sickness among the people,
measles and pneumonia being the prin-
cipal ailments, Scarcely family, it is
said, has escaped, and everybody is de-
pressed and discouraged.
The whipping post was established the
other day at Lexington, KY, by consent
+ of colored man named Eph Woods,
| who stole goods from B. +. DAWSON
Go to Jail or take cOwhiding was the
slate fixed up for the negro, and he
chose the latter. He unshirted himself
and took forty lashes on the back, draw
ing the blood freely.
Miss Ella Crane, of Manahawkin, N.
j., has a curiosity in n cat, which has
adopted two young chickens, which fol-
low her about through the day and at
night sleep with her in box. The cat
has several times taken the chickens
carefully in her mouth and deposited
them on bed in tho house.
A little romance in real life occurred
in Tacoma, Washington territory, q few
AaN, 81, in, hn urrta nf
who had been divorced from each other
year or more ago in California. The
reconciliation was cOnsummated at the
death-bed Of an only child, a beautiful
boy, tho father going from Portland at
the summons Of the mother to assist in
nursing him.
Two ash knots, weighing 1,150 and
l. 400 pounds, were recently shipped to
New York. They arc steamed, which
softens them and develops their color,
and then used in exceptionally fine We
neering. Persons who are experts in
judging what knots are of value. make
considerable by going about looking for
them. These two were from Caledonia,
N. Y.
The Worcester Spy says that from
Oxford, Mass, comes the story that
short time since dog caught wood
chuck, but owing to poor teeth, could
not bite him sufficiently hard to cause
death, whereupon the dog took the
wookchuck to pool of water short
distance away, and with teeth and paws,
held him under water until drowned.
A newspaper correspondent who sat
by Lieutenant De Longs side at the
hotel table during the last few weeks of
preparation for the Jeanette expedition,
said one day to that Inflated officer that
the little family he was about to leave
was worth more to his life than all the
glory he could hope to gain. would
you then let the bachelors have all the
gloryp" asked De Long, pleasantly; and
his wife, who, with her little daughter,
sat by his side, added: Il want him to 90,
am as enthusiastic for him rs he isl
Quite an unusual occurrence took
place near Bellevillo, Ga, one day re-
Gently. A mare with her colt by some
means gained admittance to lot in:
which were several gums of working
bees. The motherly animal, in her in
designations Of the surroundings, unfOr-
tunately upset bee gum, when the lit
tie busy singers fastened punctuation
points on the young colt, in o little time
infiicting injuries from which the animal
died.
Oscar Wilde should lay to his heart
Emerson's dictum on the arts. He said:
1T never was in tho power of any man
or any community to call the arts into
being. They come to serve his actual
wants, never to please his fancy. The
arts have their origin always in some
enthusiasm-as love, patriotism or re-
ligion." This is true. Yet this beardless
STRIPPING talks about creating art.
The suspicious Quakers at Jordan's
meeting house over in England have
been keeping guard over the bones of
William Penn, least adventurous Ameri-
cans might steal the same, but that has
been given up at last, and now tho good
old woman who has charge of tho bury
ing ground only keeps aneye outfor the
grave, ready to call In the constabulary
If any suspicious persons appear with
spades.
Daniel Killeen. q lad of Is, came to an
extremely painful death in the IRON
works at Albany, N. Y, few days
since. He was snatching few minutes
of much-needed sleep upon aplank near
the 'train rollers" from which was is
suing an iron rod heated to white heat
and forty or fifty feet in length. These
rods move at the speed of fifteen feet
second, and their direction it is impossi-
bic to control or determine. This one,
after twisting about for an instant, shot
toward the sleeping boy and burned its
way into his body. The next moment
it withdrew itself. With cry of agony
the boy jumped up, and in fifteen min
utes was dead.
Edward Ankeny, who lives in Beaver
creek township, near Xenia, O., met
with singular and painful accident re-
Gently. He was out near his house shoot
ing owls, and had killed female and
several young ones, and was on the look
out for the male, when, quicker than
thought, at an unguarded moment, the
Infatuated owl, made desperate by
the loss of its mate and young ones,
flew into Mr.. Ankeny's face, tearing an
ear badly and thrusting one of its talons
into his eye, pulled that member from
its socket, and the doctors say he will
lose his sight
When in Paris recently the Duchess
of Edinburgh went about shopping q
good deal. One evening ratherlate she
called ct q milliner's shop which was
tust being closed, and was refused adj
mittance, the bonne saying that her
mistress had retired for the night. Next
morning the bonnie reported that one
MADAME d'Edinbourg" had called late
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