The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-11-17
GLEANINGs.
Constant Agony is the somewhat dole
full name of n Frcnchman at P~lattsburg,
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SoiStst1I FSOhy Is IIlc SOIicW ndI uOic'
full name of a Frcnchman at Plattsburg,
N. Y.
Some one, not an editor, has made
the novel discovery that the cat is no
where mentioned in the Bible.
A wealthy New York lady has paid
$3.50 for an oil portrait of her pet poo.
die.
A Hartford woman gave birth to a
child which weighed twenty-twop pounds.
The child died.
A Boston girl attracted a multitude
by having her shoes BACKED, just like 9
man in front of the Revere House.
1t is proposedt to honor the memory OF
Roger Williams by naming after him
the principal streets in the several towns
and cities in Rhode Island.
The ..genuine Nautch girls of a
western show have been identified us
dancers from London, where they are
known as the Vivian sisters.
1t is stated that three thousand de.
p~ositOrs in Connecticut savings banks
have not made inquiries about their
money in twenty years past.
1t IS estimated that there are about
2 5 1000, 600, 900 feetof lumber in the nine
states comprising the southern pine
belt.
The census for Victoria for 1881
shows a total population of 1862, 364, of
whom II, l2S were Cinnamon, and but
780 abOrigines.
According to the assessment roll of
California, there has been a dcprecia-
ton of values in that state the past year
of 1926, III, sos.
Seventeen years old, twice married,
nee a widow, and now deserted by her
second husband is the startling history
of a girl who recently attempted suicide
at Kansas City.
A boy in Taunton, IA years old, was
sent a poll-tax bill, and, feeling that the
assessors had made a man of him, de-
cided to act like one, and proudly paid
it.
Mrs. Tansy has a two hundred-acre
ranch near Compton. CAL, which is un.
der her own management 1t is sup.
piled with several flowing artesian
wells.
A machine for counting sheep has
been invented and put in operation in
California. 1t is placed in an opening
of a fence, and registers every sheep
that passes it.
A curious petrification recently ex-
hibited at Salt Lake City consisted of q
bunch of wheat heads upon which a
cricket had fastened himself. All had
been turned to stone in the short space
of six months by the action of a soda
spring.
1t is said that John Bright has given
up all idea of coming to this country,
Notwithstanding his great admiration
for it. The old lady who thought it
possible that he might bring his .'dis-
ease'' with him will therefore breathe
easier.
A waiter in a Paris restaurant was a
clever juggler. and his feats of tossing
plates gained him extra fees from the
amused guests. Stimulated to fresh en-
d~eavors, he acquired a trick of seeming
to swallow a fork; but ut this he was
not expert, and a spoon nine and one
half inches long slipped down his throat
in dread reality. A dangerous and diff
ficult surgical operation was all that
saved his life.
The Benton family, of Scarburgh,
Cal, have turned their farm into a sep
arate kingdom. The nine members
passed a formal declaration of independ-
ence a few months ago, and crowned
the husband and father as king. They
hoisted a new flag over the house, an
nounced that there hundred acres. were
no longer a part of the United States,
and refused to pay taxes. They are to
have a war OF their hands, for the sher-
lit intends to make an invasion.
Mysterious music in the air at 2
o'clock one morning at Madison, Ca,
started the Weakened residents ard led
them to believe that Gabriel was taking
his resurrection reveille. The sound
was beautiful and plaintive, resembled
the sighings of an eolian harp and con-
tinued for two hours. 1t is still a mys-
terry.
The largest chestnut tree in Lancas-
ter county, Pennsylvania stands within
a few hundred yards of the Mannheim
borough line on the public road leading
to Sporting hi,l. Its circumference is
twenty-tllree feet six inches, one foot
above the ground. The tree was meas
ured forty-five years ago, when its cir
cumference was twenty-one feet four in
ches.
A curious thing about cOr is the ORR
gin of the red and specklcd ears, when
nothing but white kernels are planted.
Another popularity is the mathematical
regularity of even numbers of rows of
kernels upon a cob. An odd number of
rows is a thing more rare than the four
leafed clover. What objection has ma
ture to old nnmbersp
A New Orleans man has invented q
device for opening iron shutters from
the outside In case of fire. Briefly, it is
an iron handle which, being pulled, ex-
plodes a cartridge on the inside of the
shutter aud at the same time draws the
bolt. The cartridge is designed to pre-
vent its being used by burglars.
The Cleveland City Council appoint
ed a committee to induce the trustees of
the Garfield monument fund to consent
W HI CtCCtlOtI VI tDO ilOIluIuCut III bHC
centre of the city rather than in Lake
View Cemetery, and one of the trustees
has said that he sees no way by which
the $40. 900 subscribed a be used for
the erection of the memorial at any
point other than Lake View.
A singular fact has been ascertained
by a mutual insurance company that in
Ohio, which is the largest consumer of
lager beer and malt liquors, the deaths
are annually over sixteen to 1000 in
habitants, while in Ontario, where
whisky is almost the sole liquor used,
there are six, and Kentucky, Tennessee,
Illinois, and Indiana, where more whisky
than beer is used, they are eleven. This
does not prove the claim that beer is the
healthiest beverage.
The thousands of doves in Milan
which have for centuries past made
their nests in the roof of the great ca
thedral are finally making sad havoc
with the artistic mountings of this beau
tiful tracery of architecture. Even the
interior is suffering, and Italian artists
are vying with each other for the finest
decorative inspiration to remodel the
ceiling.
The model of a ''Sun'' engine was
recently exhibited by Mr.. Gamble to the
Philosophical Society of Cape Town.
The apparatus consists essentially Of a
silver-plated parabolic reflector. adjust
able by simple mechanism and which
concentrates the SUMS rays on a minia-
ture boilor, raising steam in a very
short time. The engine is a new idea,
the value of which, however, cannot
yet be estimated.
A new use has been discovered for
potatoes. They a be converted into
a substance resembling celluloid by
naol;nn thon, and affar oakinu In wa.