The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-05-19
NUMBER AZ.
GLEANINGs.

A $6O,0O0 statue to John G. Calhoun
will soon be erected in Charleston, s. G.
Candy pulls are known In Boston as
GLUCOSE tensions"
There are over 1000 insane people in
Texas. and only $50 in the asylum.
A pOmpano fish was exhibited at Sell
ma, Ala, a few days ago which weigh
ed six pounds and half.
The Rainbow Fire company, Of Read
ing, Pa, has celebrated the 109th ami
versary of its organization.
Mississippi has changed her lien law.
Liens on personal property for rent or
supplies are repealed.
A man in Knox county, Maine, who
wanted to vote against a projected high
school, wrote his ballot '.know."
A committee of councils estimates for
| needed sewerage in Pittsburgh, Pa, will
cost from $2,0O0,0O to $3,0OO,000.
The st. Louis grand jury recommends
that saloons be limited to one in each
block.
Gov. Crittenden, of Missouri. forcibly
says that parsimony toward education is
liberality toward crime.
Maple sugar is made by tapping ma
pie trees with a gimlet and grocery store
hogsheads with an auger.
1t takes 100000 elephants yearly to
supply the ivory of the world. When
the elephants are gone the cows will
have to lock up their horns to keep 'em.
The Unseen Hand is the title of a
new book. Probably the other man
didn't have anything better than pair
of trays. and didn't dare to call.
Some one who has been there remarks
that young author lives in an attic be-
cause one is rarely able to live ON his
first story.
A boy baby, recently born in Lancas-
ter county, South Carolina, has been
christened John Franklin Thomas Ed
man Andrew Calvin Wesley.
There are now in the three southern
provinces of Ireland as many troops as
Lord Ragland had when he landed in
the Crimea to fight the Russians.
A drive-well sunk at Vancouver,
Washington territory, was found to
bring up grain of coarse gold, so cents
worth being got in four barrels of water.
George Biggerstaff, of Glasgow, KY,
having lost an eye in an election day
row in November, 1880, sued his assail-
ant for 500, 900, and jury has just
given him $1,000.
Counsel for prisoner-"Did you see
the prisoner at the bar knock down the
deceased" Pat-''No, yir honour; he
was alive when 1 see him knocked
down."
John Miller bought planing-mill at
Dunkirk. N. T.. month ago. He lost
a finger the first week, two fingers the
second, and whole hand tho third.
The mill is now for sale.
Russia has 24,7 mobiles with an av-
erage of $4,000 per annum; $4,000
merchants with yearly income of ST.
500 each. and 16, 254.000 peasants with
an annual average of $3.50.
The Boston and Albany railroad has
begun work on four newly-designed post
al ears for the United States mail SER
vice. They will DO of the largest posi-
BILE dimensions.
Canada has l07, 722 Indians, for whose
-
apart. There are about 1000 Indian
children Oh the school rolls of the do
miniOn.
The young women of the sophomore
class of the Wisconsin State university
have determined to wear mortar board
hats, which would be great improve
ment upon the ''cart-wheel."
ID. l. X. Rine, well-known in Canada
as a somewhat eccentric, but at one
time popular temperance lecturer, is
now raving maniac in the dungeon Of
an insane asylum at Wayne, Mich.
A foolish man in Detroit removed his
front gate so his daughter and ten beaus
could not swing Oh it every night, where
upon twelve cows came into his yard,
broke down all his trees and ate up his
garden and kicked a twenty-five-dollar
watchdog in the ear so that he died
next dav.
There is lung doctor advertising in
the indianapolis papers. who displays
the most remarkable cut we have seen.
1t is portrait of himself with his coat
neatly cut away in front so rs TO show
the heart and its chief arteries. The
placid expression of his countenance,
taken in connection with the frightful
excavation his chest has undergone, has
something sublime about it, typical of
heroic suffering for the benefit of science.
He goes much farther than the man who
wore his heart upon his sleeve-he wears
his as bosom pin.-F'dt Contributor.