The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-08-25

autNOIity Cduie upon Cne scene anu
commenced vigorous fire from the
rear with one end of the tragical
hemp. boys is boys"
A young lady from Boston, who is
visiting here, narrowly escaped death
from burning last week. She was a,
party in the evening and having OH
II dress made of very light material
it took fire from a partly extinguishe,l
match and she was severely burned
before ii could be extinguished. She
Is improving.
John Z. West, present proprietor
of the Nicollet Hotel, has commenced
the erection of Il large hotel at the
corner of 9Th street and Hennepin
Avenue. 1t will be l0Ox172 feet and
seven stories high. The basement
walls are ready and the structure will
soon be under way. The whole base.
ment WAS eXcavated to a depth OF
nine feet.
The government officials were here
last Saturday, to select Il location for
the new postotlice to be erected here.
The gas complications are still rife
and there is much wisdom being dis.
eminated OH both sides by legal vota.
ries.
The latest novelty here is a patent
horse cleaning machine, which was
introduced into the street car stables
last week. 1t requires the power of
two horses and services of four men
to clean one horse. 1t consists of
two cylindrical brushes, four inches
in diameter and five inches long.
filled round with very stiff bristles.
They are fastened to portable shafts,
which are connected with the drive
shaft and thence to the tumbling rod
of the power. The horse is led i'm be-
tween the brushes and il strong frame
gate closed behind him. 80 he cannot
get away; then man ut each brush
applies it to every part Ofhim and the
rapidity with which the job is done
is marvellous. The brushes make
fourteen hundred revolutions per
minute, and it takes about two min
uteS to give horse a thorough clean.
ing.
A new street car line has just been
put into operation here, which makes
about seventy-tive cars running in the
city, beside the motor line. This re.
quires the use of five hundred horses
and over one hundred men.
y man with telescope and two
large magniliers, has been on the
streets for several days. For ten
cents he gives view of Venus and
an opportunity to see the real Gin.
wardness" of vinegar. and Mississippi
river water. We could see nothing
interesting about Venus, only it was
the shape of a half moon, and moves
very rapidly. 1t crossed the barrel
of the telescope in about twelve sec.
onds. Here, then. is proposition
for the geometers to consider.
Giren.-The distance of Venus from
the earth. If she moves over an area
whose cord is four inches long, and
slant, distance from the ground ten
feet, in twelve seconds, what is the
length of the area she travels over in
her orbit in the same time?
We saw nothing interesting about
the vinegar and water either; but
something very disinteresting when
we consider the use we make of them.
They were magnified fifteen hundred
times, and each was geological gar.
den of itself. Animals of every
specie were there. Quadrupeds bipeds
and other peds of every imaginable
shape, age and color. Horned ami.
mails, winged animals and cloven-
hOOfed animals that leave all ancient
and modern caricatures of his Satanic
majesty in the shade. 1t is not to be
marveled at that pickles are sour and
water sometimes creates disease.
We had a $4,000 fire here last
Saturday morning about three o'clock,
taking the hardware establishment of
Furguson Bros. The fire departments
were prompt, but could not save the
building, and had all they could do to
keep it from spreading over the whole
block. The proprietors roomed in
the building and at one time seemed
to be doomed to cremation, but the
hook and ladder company arrived in
time to rescue them. The location Is
No. ll9, Washington Ave. South.
Minneapolis has eighty boarding
houses, forty-seven hotels, thirty
restaurants and seven lodging houses
and to get room now, is next to
impossible. What will be done fair
week
Our dispensation of bric-a-brac is
not as interesting this week as it
might be owing to the extreme heat,
and an innate reluctance to leave the
inviting retreats of a shaded and
breezy room. None but those who
have experienced it can realize the
depression and misery 1t causes to
walk along dry, paved street he.
tween high store buildings when the
thermometer is in the nineties. Ow.
ing to this we have neglected to do IL
sufficient amount of scOutings after
items. AS the weather grows cooler
we may be more active and Observ-
ing. MISCELLANEOUS.
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE
.tuds0n.
Harvesting is done.
Wheat and oats are yielding good this
year and the wheat is all No. /.