The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-09-28
GLEANIves.

JOJ,VUU, win Z4O dentists. VINO nave 10.
zoo, 600 teeth, or an average of 10000
to look after.
A lady travels for u furniture estab-
lishment in New York and makes =
good income. Her husband was in the
employ of the same concern, and upon
his death she solicited the situation aud
gotit.
A Boston woman has hired orators
for series Of lectures to boys and girls.
in the old South Church, having for
their object nothing else than to .'excite
in the minds of the young the proper
love OF freedom, of their country and
their city"
The w.,od pavement is to be given up
in London. 1t has not only failed to
realize the promised advantages, but
has led, according to Professor Tyn-
dall's report. to serious affections Of the
eyes and lungs.
OF 400 white si,Oemakcrs in San Fran
cisco nearly one-third are Germans.
Very few are English or native Ameri.
cans. Germans are said to ike the
craft, because the princes III the Father
land, who have TO learn some trade.
prefer to serve apprenticeship either at
shoemaking Of book-binding.
The Supreme Court of Indiana has
decided. in reviewing the proceedings
in Il murder case, that the mere fact OF
man having read newspaper accounts
Of crime, and having an opinion
thercfrom, but one which could he re-
moved BIZ the evidence. does not neces.
sarlly render him incompetent TO serve
on juries.
II is to be observed as 4 feature of the
tcensils that the aumber vi people whose
ages are represented by even tens is
greatly in excess Of the number repre-
sented Is of other ages. The number
who are of ages that are multiples Of
five is also large by comparison. and
there are more people whose ages APP
pear as even numbers than odd.
Kate Field SAYS: ''rhe way women
travel with miserable little bulldogs
fills me with amaZcment. Men don't;
and when | think of the pampering
these creatures get, and what Il nuisance
they are to travellers. and how the same
amount of care bestowed upon children
"ottlft IcSuit u1tol't DcucHt W IudIl-
kind, become cynical. The affection
upon pOOdles would. if properly dis.
,ributed. supply poor orphans with
homes.
When John $. Barry was Governor OF
the State of Michigan there was about
an acre of ground around the capitol
building upon which the grass had been
allowed To 30 TO seed every year. Gov.
Barry took great pains to have the
grass cut ut tine proper time, and when
properly cured he sold the hay and put
the money in the State Treasury. There
was only half Il dollar in the State
Treasury when Barry took the chair,
and it was a bogus coin.
Captain Ericsson is Il widower and
childless. He is now just 50 years OF
age, and, if there is anything in appear
ancc, he looks good for 80 more. His
children, if one may so call them. are
his inventions. and this last child, the
Destroyer, is to be put to the severest
tests at once. Its father believes that
ten OF his offspring in the bay would
protect the whole of New York from the
largest invading force that could be got
together.
Man. born of woman. is of few days
and no teeth. And. indeed. it would be
money in his pocket sometimes if he
had less of either As for his days. he
wasteth One-third OF them; and for his
!ccth. he has commissions when he cuts
them, and rs the last comes through,
10, the dentist is twisting the first one
out. and the last one of that mans Jaw
is worse than the first. being full of por.
blackberry seeds.-Robert j. Bmrdehe.
George o. Herman. of Newport. has
just finished a wonderful clock. after
LOO hours labor. The clock has one
movement which runs nine dials, in.
GLIDING the time at Newport. New York
st. Petersburg, San Francisco. Boston,
Geneva, Mecca, Rome and London.
The mechanism is very intricate, and
the works of each dial can be removed
without disturbing the others. The
woodwork is carved to represent the
order of the Odd Fellows.
A very pretty little story is being
printed in some of the newspapers. tell.
ing that General Jubal Early picked up
from the field of Manassas tiny blue.
eyed girl whose parents had both been
killed in trying to escape from their
house during the progress of the fight,
and that this '.waif of the battlefield is
now the sole support of General Ear
ley's two aged sisters, who cared fol-
her and brought her up. There is not 3
word of truth in the romantic story,
General Early says.
Thirty-eight years ago Louis Weber,
a native of Wurtemberg. emigrated tc
America and settled as farmer in Ken
lucky. Lately, having amassed COM
potency. he started for his native place,
intending to visit his sister, who was the
only surviving member of his family,
and who had not seen him since he left
home in his youth. He hoped to give
her ajoyful surprise, and looked forward
with pleasant anticipation TO the rem.
ion. On arriving at his native village.
he learned that his sister had :wa DAYS
before been buried. The news amman.
ned him. He was taken sick. and a
week after his sisters death was laid in
a grave beside hers.
The manner in which Barnum first
introduced Tom Thumb was ingenious.
The Snowman had large pocket made
in his coat, and ut = certain hour every
day Tom would get into it. Then Bar
mum would enter the museum halls and
mingle with the crowd People would
press about him soon al ask where
Tom Thumb was. Rarnum would pre-.
tend Ito be astonished and inquire:
"Why, isn't he here?'' Then he would
call out: Genera! General! where are
you?" Tom would instantly pop his
head out of the pocket and shout:
''Here am, MIR. Barnum!'
There is won :. in San Francisco.
according to tn Washington Capital,
who is creating :;;lnS, israble interest in
aristocratic circles. She is worth sew.
eral million dollars in her own name,
owns house n Paris. plays billiards
like y master, is crack shot, swims
and rows like Sandwich Islander, and
has half a dozen aristocratic lovers in
different parts of the world. An Eng
glish Lord became infatuated with her
while on visit to San Francisco two
years ago. The strangest thing is that
her husband is well-known citizen,
and he is one of the quietest, thriftiest,
most influential men on the coast. He
thinks his wife perfection because she
wears u No. shoe and is good to the
Door. -Erchan0c.
A Michigan cyclone swept through a
streak of timber, gathered up several
cords of wood, carried it six miles across
a prairie and deposited it on the prem
iseS of n moor widOw who was too nOOr