The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-05-12
GLEANINGs.
One must either grow old or die. says
George Eliot.

George Eliot.
A broken teacup may be said to have
retired from tho service.
It is estimated that in Great Britain
S78. ISL persons are engaged In under
ground work. conducted in galleries ex-
tending 5S,744 miles.
Respect every body's feelings, even
your washerwoman's. However much
you may want to know her address, new
er ask her where she ''hangs out"
Out of salary of $40 per week the
conductors of the Brooklyn City Rail-
way company will have to buy bright
clean uniform. else they will be dis
charged.
Since the discovery Of oilin Allegheny
county. New York. large number of
farmers, having sold their farms at
good figure, have migrated to the West
ern Reserve.
A San Francisco man has been arrest
ed for dcceiving o widow. While his
crime is to be abhorred. it must be adj
mitted that his genius commands admit
| ration.
"Yes," said lady, complacently, 81
expect Wen get rich now. My husband
has just been appointed one OF the re-
ceivers OF an embarrassed savings
| bank"
An Iowa woman wrote to Queen Vic
toria asking her if she intended to wear
hoops the coming summer, and she has
been to tho postoffice over twenty times
without receiving a reply.
Not an egotist: "Pa," asked little
Johnny, "what does the teacher mean
by saying that must have inherited my
bad temper?" ''She meant, Johnny,
that You are your mothers own boy"
Brown says he hates inquisitive peo-
pie; and the worst kind of inquisitivc-
ness, he thinks, is that exhibited by the
man who stops him in the street and
wants to know when he is going to pay
that little bill
A company is organizing to establish
an uptown restaurant in New York on
very large scale, where fifty-cent dinners
| will be served, with claret included, the
service being at tho same time uncxcep-
tionable.
Forty thousand acres of land in Ar
kansas have been secured for an Italian
colony. The immigrants are to come
from the Tyrol, principally, and will be
agriculturists. About a thousand Ital-
ians have already settled In that region.
The Brittany manufacturers warn for
eign buyers against buying sardines ex-
cept from houses of the highest repute.
Unprinclpled packers have been lately
putting up the poorest fish in vile cot
tOn-seed oil, expressly for expectation.
A London paper says that after the
present season the Prince and Princess
of Wales will visit Canada by the way
of New York. 1t is about twenty-five
years since the Prince, then little more
than lad, visited the United States.
Paterson, N. j.. Is supposed to pos
sess more one-eyed men than any other
city in the United States. except, per-
haps, Pittsburg. Nine-tenths of those
thus afflicted are workers In iron and
steel, and have been struck In the eye
with the metal clippings.
A Kentucky girl. describing visit to
iLongfeliow, saws there were two 81 his
own portraits in his library, one taken
when he was quite young and tho other
recently, and when they were alluded to
he playfully remarked: "Yes; am not
an advocate of self-depreciation."
John II. Austin. of Clifton, Staten Is
land, has a record showing the sales
made by his father and himself, since
1898, rs auctioneers. Since 1921, the
sales have amounted to $l04, 518, us. 80,
of which sum S1,0S4, 656.O2 was paid to
the State in duties.
| A remarkable rough diamond has
lately been brought into England from
India. 1t Is pure, white stone, sixty
seven carats, in form nearly drop. and
when cut and polished would DO about
the size of the Sancy diamond. The
surface is slightly indented, but there
are no marks of cleavage. The value
OF this precious stone is estimated at
$l75.OOG.
allow are you getting alongp" asked
. widow of her late husband, who up.
peared to her as ghost. Ghost: Every
well, indeed-much better than during
my twenty years married life on earth. v
Widow (delighted): Then you are in
heavenP" "Oh, no."
The emigration from Switzerland last
year was the greatest on record, the
number of emigrants who left the coun
try in 1881 having been 1885, against
1885 in 1880, and 4, 288 in 1879. BY fal
the greater proportion OF them were
from German Switzerland.
The Russian bath Is said to have or
iginated with Peter the Great. 1t is re-
corded that when he was advised by
foreigners to introduce hospitals anC
dispensaries into Russia he was wont t.
reply that "While Russians had baths
they needed nothing else as health
giving remedy against mortal ills"
Lord Cranbourne, an elder brother o
the present Marquis of Salisbury, WHIT
died before his father, was stone blind
but he could distinguish colors by thu
! touch rs accurately as others can by
the sight. He could also tell by souno
the extent and hight of any room he en-
tered.
A Rochester street-car horse shot on
with his heels the other day and hit tn,
| driver with one and the cash-box will
! tho other, and an investigation showe'
that he had kicked Sc into the driver
/ overcoat pocket. Such wonderful 81
, | Sacity on the part of the horse caused TIN
ulScnorSe Vi Ino uTiNeT.
, Miss Lillian Taylor, daughter Of Bay
ard Taylor, studying art in New York
says her father never wrote up plac
! without making careful study OF ii
' which studies were the origin OF tn
3 hundred and fifty sketches lately exhibit
J ed, which were surprise to those VIII
| did not know Bayard Taylor painte'
. with any other pencil than his glowing
( words.
, A mulberry tree at Griffin, Ga, acte
' in a very curious manner the other day
emitting what seemed to be puffs G
smoke at short intervals from all POI
tons of the tree. The smoke, or wha,
/! ever it was. was light and thin, like GIG
I ar-smoke, and scarcely visible to tn
3 casual observer. 1t was phenomena
that nobody could account for.
Bands Of music are forbidden to pla
: on most of the large iron bridges OF tn
a world. This is due to the well-know
phenomenon that constant successio
4 of sound-waves, especially such as com
i from the playing Of q good band. wi
excite the wire vibrations. At first thes
vibrations are very slight, but they II
crease as the sound-waves continue
4 come.
The receding of the ocean at Atlanti
o City, N. j., for many years past, hi
b left much fresh land above high waite
and litigation with regard to OWNERSHIP
q ia threatened. The lot-owDers clail
riparian rights, but tho Land compan
that sold the property claim that II
/, new lots should belong to the compan!.
:, The property in dispute is valued
70 e150.000.