The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-09-22
GLEANINGS.

The newest canes for gentlemen hav
hammered copper heads
| Georgia has $500 fish ponds Stoke,
with carp.
| The electric light at Atlantic Cit,
costs $3.50 for sixty nights.
a marble query has been discovere,
near AipaSco. stale Of Mexico.
The little toy murderer. commonl,
called pistol, is chiefly manufactured u
Bridgeport. Conn.
make yourself good man." sal,
Carlyle. '.:tnd then you'll he sure there
one rascal less in the world"
In east Texas walnut lumber sells a
500 TO Si50 per 1000 feet. or 10 cent!
per foot.
1t is asserted that q large amount O
counterfeit small silver coin is now be
ing circulated in Mexico.
An Easton, Pa mule grieved so nj
the death OF its working mate that it re
fused to eat and starved to death.
In Tom Green county. Texas. a Mr.
Reed found large centipede in his hen
house. 1t had killed three hens.
Texas yet has $4,000, 600 acres of un
sold school lands. This will soon give
her the grandest school fund of any
country on the globe.
The school directors of Monongahela
City, Pa, require every lady teacher
employed to sign contract not to mar.
ry during the school year.
A Toledo patrolman, detailed to shoot
dogs, leaned his gun against the wall to
talk to n man. The gun fell down and was
discharged seriously wounding two
boys.
This queer item appears in New
London Conn paper: A camers-hail
shawl was found on Bank street side.
walk Tuesday morning. The owner
won't dare to claim it.
The burned district of Haverhill,
Mass, is being rapidly rebuilt, and it is
predicted that the shoe manufacturers
will all be back in new buildings on
their old sites by the 1st of September.
The Arkansaw Travellers aged col.
ored person says: ''My idea oh de bet.
ter worl is war dar is election goin' on
all de time, case den de white folks is
alters perlight."
j. ii. Plummer, of West Brattlebor-
Ough, VT, says there is a rose bush in
his pasture which is more than ninety
years old, and he furthermore AYERS
that two bushels of buds have been
picked from it the present season.
During the first half of the present
year there were fourteen fatal colliery
explosions in different parts of Great
Britain. The loss of lives amounted to
1SS-double the number killed during
She entire year of 1881.
One of the most instructive phases of
the Egyptian imbroglio is the evident
disposition of the sphynx to rest his
head on the shoulder of the American
eagle and let the old bird put his arm
around him. -Springfeld Republican.
Judge Tilden. of Cleveland. has given
a long decision to the effect that steal
ing dogs is larceny under the laws of
the State of Ohio. He fortified his po-
sition by quoting similar decisions in
THE State. Kansas and New Hamp.
shire. -
II is reported that Texas will produce
about 10, 000.0 900 bushels of corn this
year, which will be ready for market in
September. OF this amount it is esti-
mated that there will be surplus for
shipment mainly tn the other southern
and western states of $4,000, 600 bushels.
Last year Texas imported corn.
In several counties of Pennsylvania
the ..black-lcg fever UungariaEs have
become public charges at the aims
houses. The question has been raised
whether they could he compelled TO sup
port these emi9rant paupers. The mat
ter will be submitted to the courts for
decision in two or three counties.
The Rochester Post Express says that
the apple crop in Monroe county will
not average one-quarier the usual
amount. One grower who usually picks
three thousand bushels will not have
fifteen this year. Those that are saved
will be of poor quality. The failure is
due to the lOuse and the cold rains.
Jack Slater and Philip Mann, sailors
on Lake Erie, leaped from their vessels
at the same time at Erie to make fast
the hawsers. They were brought face
to face. and exchange of greetings took
place after separation of thirty years.
They are Englishmen, and were sepa-
rated during the SepOy war.
Magnificent are the presents sent by
King Alfonso to the members of the
commission that took the order of the
Garter to Madrid last year. The prince
of Wales received tapestries worth more
than $4,000. To the others are sent
some superb specimens of Toledo arms,
richly encrusted with gold.
A deadly enemy has attacked the tel
egraph cables in the Indian ocean. 1t
is slender, flesh-colored worm, from
II to 2! inches in length, and provided
with curved cutting tools, that speedily
eats its way through the hemp, sheet
ing, and gutta-percha. and penetrates
the copper wire, causinga "dead-earth''
fault.
Mrs. Kate Chase has succeeded in o
suit for Il division of certain property
on Pearl street, Cincinnati, o., once
owned by Chief Justice Chase, and ip
which she has an undivided half inter-
est, and a commission has been appoint
ed by the court to partition the proper
", or, in the event that it can not be
Justly divided, to value the same.
The khedive's wife. the vice queen,
rs she is called, is daughter of Ell Ha-
mid Pasha, and granddaughter of the
famous Abbas Pasha. She is a beauti-
full and cultivated woman, who tender
ly loves her husband and her four chill
dren, and takes an active part in the
education of the latter. The eldest boy
Abbas, and his brother are taught by. q
Swiss pedagogue, and the little girls are
under the care of an English nurse.
Adam Forepaugh writes to the Gin
cinnati Commercial that his big ele-
plant Bolivar is still growing, and as
elephants are said To increase in size I'M
til 100 years old, it will be impossible
for him TO travel Bolivar by railroad
| next season, as his car is already up to
the height limited by railroads. He has
therefore decided ut the end of this sea-
son to present the animal to the queen
of England, to take the place Of Jumbo
in the Royal Geological garden.
Giovanni Dominica, a wood-chopper
ut Antelope valley, Nevada, having
drank considerably, cut corn, which
was troubling him, so deeply as to sever
| a small artery. He then walked to his
cabin, about fifteen miles distant, in his
bare feet. and went to bed. His part
ner found n pool of blood ut the foot of
the bed in the morning, and awakened
Dominica, but neither did anything to
stop the hemorrhage, and upon his re-
turn at noon the partner found Domino
co dead. having literally bled to death
from the small cut.
Since the first oil well was opened in
1859 the product Of the wells has added
| 81, 500, 00O, 900 to the wealth of the
United States in the value of the crude
oil and its products. To-day the prod
uct of these wells, lights the cathedrals
of Europe. the mosques of Asia. the
pagodas of Japan, and even the huts on
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