The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-01-06
ALL SORTS.

1t is always fall election for the de-
featcd candidate.
Worth fastens his long winter cloaks
with elaborate frogs and cords.
A petrified egg has been found in
What's going and what's past help
should be past grief.
A night-gown is nothing but a nap
sack.
Some of the Egyptian mummies are
encased in bandages more than one
thousand yards long.
The government of Vera Cruz is be-
sieged by persons claiming the 800, 900
reward for q cure of yellow fever.
A quarry of variegated marble equal
to any in Italy was recently discovered
in Fluvana county, Virginia.
The product of the gold, silver, and
copper mines of the southern states for
this year promises to be above the
startling figures of 500, 900, 900.
There is great excitement in the 10
cality of the zinc mines. in Tazewell
county, Tennessee, over finds" sup
posed to be silver.
In Marion county, Florida, orange
groves near lines of transportation are
valued for taxation purposes at $500 an
acre.
Tenders wife's uncle on her mothers
side is so scrupulously temperate that
he won't eat cider apples nor patronize
. mosquito bar.
A thief in Rochester robbed seven
contribution boxes. and got twenty
cents. And he thought that for con-
tribution boxes they PANIED out well.
ut is fine morning." as the judge
remarked when he mulcted the prisoner
at the bar to the tune Of twenty dollars
and costs.
us your daughter at home. Mr..
Bruskp" Eyes. sir; and so is her mo-
ther." Callow said he'd "call some
other day." but he never did.
Blessings brighten as they take
their Highland so do summer visi.
tors" remarked farmer Jones, as he
saw the last of his city relations skip
for home.
Philosopher Shellman remarks that
"a good many people who are always
ready to amen during service In
church. are not quite SO ready to amend
after it.
The most horrible case of insanity In
the Massachusetts, Asylum Is that of q
man who imagines he is a Chicagoan.
He gets up in the middle Of tho night
to brag. Post
The canal around the Muscle shoals.
Tennessee, will be completed within
two years, when the Tennessee will be
navigable from Paducah to Knoxville,
some $50 miles.
The Methodist Episcopal church win
establish q magnificent university in
Chattanooga, provided that city will
give the ground for the structure that IL
to be built.
If man declares himself to DO so
thoroughly religious that he has not
committed sin for twenty years, you
are safe in concluding that he does not
regard lying as sinful.
A firm at Augusta, Ca, received q
cablegram from London for q bottle OF
medicine. The message cost $3.50. the
medicine 81. and the express charge to
London is $3.50.
During the White Pine excitement OF
1866 Hamilton, New, had population
of thousands, two large daily news
papers, and all evidences of prosperity.
To-day it does not contain sixty souls.
The gunpowder plot at GAINESVILLE,
O., wasn't plot at all. The roll OF
dynamite found on the railroad track
proved to have fallen out of poorly
nailed box containing the blasting ma.
terial.
1t is reported that prominent east
ern firm of silk manufacturers are
negotiating for valuable property in
San Bernardino county, California,
with view of starting colony of silk.
raisers.
The governor of Texas has called the
regents of the state university to meet
at Austin for permanent organization
and TO take the necessary steps to erect
the buildings. They are supplied with
$3.50, 900 for that purpose. and $40. 00C
with which to purchase furniture.
library, apparatus, museum, and Other
appliances.