The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-07-20
GLEANINGs.

every bond and warrant being redeeme
h 1t is estimated that so. 900. 900 wor
q of small fruits are sold annually in d
d city of New York.
g Miss Emily Faithful says of Americ.
s women: 81 am satisfied that most
s them have pretty good time of it,
e A correspondent of the Brookly
u Edgie says that there are l3.OOO. 900
= Spiritualists in the United States.
> Thaddeus Fairbanks, of st. John
!. bury, VT, the inventor of the celebrate
Fairbanks scales. is now over 90 yea
old.
/ Steward William Trump. one 81 "
ident Garialtr@ atttiidants. has openc
Il restaurant near the Treasury Buildln
+ in Washington.
r A Florida gentleman spreads musli
Q under his orange trees to catch the blo
, SONS when they fall. He will CONVEX
. them into perfumery.
The Cathedral in Pueblo. Mexico.
the largest house of worship on the COZ
tinent. II was commenced more !ha
three centuries ago, and cost 81. 200. O0i
General Francis A. Walker think
that all the work of the Census Burna
will be ready for publication by the lirs
of next July.
With 10000 lawyers in this country
one physician TO every thirteen families
ana the colleges in full operation. W,
ought to be able to get along.
In Cincinnati, says the Eicriricia,
the telephone has achieved a wide dc
gree OF usefulness. 40 villages haYin.
been brought within speaking distance
OF the city.
Lucy Hooper says that great MANY
Americans who want To ..Sre Maple.
and die. do see Naples AMI die. IN,
Italian malarial fever carrying them of
with astonishing promptncss.
The New Jersey law prohibiting the
employment OF children under Ii wears
of age. will result in the discharge of be.
tween 5000 and 1909 of them AT Patcr-
son alone.
Meat is an unknown quantity in Ger.
tain agricultural villages in England.
ami yGt John Brown died worth ~. 900
900. 1t pays better TO wait on ROYALTY
than to till the soil
| a Pennsylvania court has, decided
that the transfer of credits and debts by
telephone is rs valid rs that bv word of
mouth. in which there is no actua! evil
dcncc in writing cs the transaction.
Almond culture is quite successful in
California. Four varieties are grown.
The crop Of 1881 was 300. 900 pounds.
| about half OF which was used TO supply
the home trade and the balance shpped
East
A South Carolina court has decided
that where person adopts prrilous
employment, knowing it To be such,
and is killed in the pursuit of his avoca-
ton, his heirs have no recourse against
the employer.
Telegraph poles cost about 81 each:
the wire stretched on them costs about
SO mile. the rrnSs-a,u .ae.,. s--..-,4-
cents each bv the hundred for liwht
wires, and to 3 cents for heavy wires
Four states in New England have
made more or less changes in their di-
vorce laws for the better within five
years. Divorces have, in consequence.
fallen off nearly one-third in Vermont.
One-fourth i'm Connecticut, and the chan
gcs made i'm Maine laws will insure a
further reduction.
A species of wild potato has been dis
covered Oh the table lands of Southwes-
tern Arizona, in attitudes of 5000 to
$4,000 feet, which is spoken of as supe-
riOr in the taste and flavor to the best
cultivated potatoes. Experiments in
the cultivation of the plant are being
made in the State Agricultural School
Of California.
At one of the railroad stations in the
north of ireland the following notice
was posted: Hereafter. when trains
moving in IN opposite direction are APP
proaching each other on separate lines,
conductors and engineers will bring
their trains to dead halt. and be very
careful not to proceed until each train
has passed the other
Herr Krupp, the Prussian gun manu-
facturcr, intends to found new town
entirely for his workmen, under the
name of Neu-Kruppingen. The people
of Essen are beginning TO object to the
great manufacturer colonies being in
c!uded in their boundaries, rs they are
chiefly inhabited by poor people, who
are thus not profitable tax-papers.
Women are rigidly excluded from ST.
MalO. II place fifty miles from New Or
leans, Inhabited by about half hun
dred Malays. They have lived there for
~ years. having originally deserted from
French ships when little more than boys. |
They are described as low, ignorant |
and ferOciOlls, with mixed Chinese and |
japanese features. They live by fish
ing, and gambling among themselves is
about their only diversion.
Geneva in Switzerland harbors about
10000 foreigners. Of these 100 are
Russian Nihilists, German soldiers and
French anarchists. While they are
avowed enemies of the present social Or
ganiZatiOn throughout the civilized !
world, they behave themselves so well
that only small police force is required
in Geneva. They are treated with great |
tolerance and therefore seek to avoid |
abusing the trust imposed i'm them.
A large elm tree ut Norwich Tow II
has moved house. The tree is more
than 40 years old, and the trunk reaches |
a height of thirty feet before limb
branches out. During the March winds
the limbs spreading over the house
swept Oft part of the chimney and il was |
removed. The tree, which stands ut |
the northeast corner of the house. has |
grown SO large that it raised and moved |
the house one foot from its original pO-
sitiOn.
The statistics of the United States |
prove that hay is among the foremost |
crops raised in this country, if not the |
very first. At the present time there |
are estimated to be in the United States
10000, 900 sheep, 40, 200, 900 cattle, and
10000. 900 horses. In twO-thirds of the !
country these animals require to be fed |
from three to five months, and they will |
consume an aggregate Of9O, OOO, 0O0tOns, |
which, at s. per ton, represents the |
enormous sum of $3.50, 100000. Is not |
hay, therefore king?
A bill has been passed by the pro- |
vince of Ontario, Canada. Cor the en-
enlargement of tree planting. Ii pro- |
vi,les that any municipality may pay |
out of the public funds u bonus not ex-
ceeding Is cents for every tree-ash. |
Eastwood, beech. birch. butternut, &C.
dar, cherry, chestnut. elm. hickory. ma
pie. oak, pine. stssafras, spruce, w;.inut |
or whitcword-planted along high
way or farm boun larry line or within |
six feet of such boundary line.
A favorite anlidotc for rattlesnake
poison in Mexico is, says DR.. Croft in |
Chemical NcTs, n strong solution of 10 |
dine in potassium iodide. The author |
has tested some of the poison itself with |
nj ,at Itch