The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-07-06
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do the work Il twenty men.
Estimates hive been prepared show
ing that Petei Cooper gave away ST.
100000 during his life.
The late Surgeon General Barnes, of
Washington, IN u will of fifty words, left
all his properly to his wife.
The annual cattle sales in the United
States are reported to amount to $780,
0O0, 900.
Twenty-fiv, pounds of unmarked dy-
Mantle were found travelling alone in
seat in u Western railroad train.
In Rio Ja,eiro they cover their bur-
ial Baskets with black, red or velvet ma
terial, bordep,d with gilt tinsel.
The first metal found in the ruins of
the Tuileries was coined into Il medal
and presented to Victor Hugo.
The Kansas man who was blown off
the roof of his house by tornado
says he doesn't want any more wind
fails.
Fifty thousand dollars is the estimated
annual income in rents for the arches
ut the New York end of the East River
bridge.
The late 4. ii. Stephens, of Georgia,
loaned money to l2O young men. to en-
able them t. get IN education. Most of
the money was repaid.
Interest in Emerson is constantly in
creasing in England. Cheap editions Of
his works are beginning to be printed
there.
Mr.. James G. Flood, of bonanza
fame, will build II $l,O0O.OOO house on
the top of the highest San Francisco
hill.
Jefferson Davis, told an interviewer
the other day that John Quincy Adams
was the most genial gentleman he ever
knew.
San Diego is pronounced the best of
the health resorts of the Pacific Coast,
rs far as dry and equable climate
is concerned, by n recent investigator.
MANY farmers who secure for them
selves all the labor-saving improve
mcnts are slow in arranging similar
helps for their wives.
Thomas McElrath. Horace Greeley's
first partner in the publication Of the
7ribnne, is said to be writing 4 history
OF New York journalism.
All the locomotive manufactures in
Prussia cannot make twice rs many en-
gines in year rs the Baldwin LocomO-
tive Works alone.
BY the order of Prince Alexander. of
Bulgaria, an official history is being
prepared of the part played by the Bull
garian volunteers during the Russo
Turkish war;
Rattlesnake skins are much used in
Florida for ladies' belts, and slippers
are also made of the same material, the
rattles serving as ornaments thereon in
stead of bows or tassels.
Forestry Association, Mr. John G.Whit-
tier says that he is panied and indignant
at the wanton destruction of the forests
in the New England States.
Young Daniel Boone, a great-grand-
son of the explorer of Kentucky, de-
livers parcels for one of the great Broad
way firms of New York on salary Of
$50 week.
Four convicts in the Ohio pententiary
have each chopped finger of in order
to enjoy rest in the hospital. Another
poured melted lead in his shoe, and will
probably lose his leg.
The Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk
Company founded by United States
Consul Page in 1866 with $l2 ZOO, has
now capital of 81, 900, 900, and turned
out 30, 600, 900 cans last year.
The modern philosopher who declared
that 1.-The men of isms are the men of
genius" will, Oh second thought, find IN
exception To his rule in the man with
the rheumatism.
Professor +. Stone Virgins, of Can.
ada. who doesn't know much about the
weather Of the future, is about to start
on lecturing tour. He has already
been well advertised.
A man in st. Tammany, La, freed a
wildcat, and set fire to the underground
to smoke him out. The lire got away
and burned forty panels Of fence for u
neighbor. and the wildcat got away also.
The Norwegian StOrthung has re-
solved that every able-bodied adult in
Norway shall receive musket and
be taught to use it, at the States ex-
pense.
The block from which was cut the
pedestal for the statue of Peter the
Great at ST. Petersburg weighed about
1,5OO tons, and yet it was transported
four miles.
II is said that when General Diaz learn
ed what programme of entertainment
had been prepared for him in Boston he
gasped-in Spanish: "Great heavens!
If only live through it!'
A slab of marble, marked &c. Gross
Brock" has remained i'm the freight Of
flee ut Greenville, Ala, for the past
seventeen years. 1t was originally in
tended to be erected over some soldiers
grave. Whose? Where?
Chinese cheap labor turns out not to
be so cheap after all. The railroad con-
tractors of the Pacific coast have now
discovered that Scandinavians and men
of other natiOnalities pay betterth than the
Chinese.
A scientist makes out that it is not the
sound of sweet music that entrances the
lizard, but the pleasing sensation of the
sound waves on their cutaneOus surface.
A double chord struck violently OH a
piano will kill them dead.
LAS far rs we know" says Texas
Sittings, "there is not single instance
on record in Texas of murderer of
means having been punished by law. no
matter how many hOmicides he COM
mitted."
The Oldest person in Norfolk, Conn.
Is widow of 90 years. She was the
sixth wife of man of whom it needs To
be said that mo woman in Norfolk
need despair Of getting married as long
as he lived"
Senator Logan's refusal to let his age
be known is tie subject of Washington
gossip. One explanation of it is that
he had not reached the constitutional
age when he FIRST became member Of
Congress.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson says
that intemperance was greater at Hair
ward when lie was a student than it is |
to-day; that Harvard is no worse now
than the average of American colleges, |
and not nearly 50 bad as European
ones.
The new married wOman's property |
act" i'm England encourages woman TO
lend money to anybody except her hus-
band. II enables her to sue him, and TO
be witness against him. 1t also renders
her liable to maintain both her husband
NIL al; .l,.ar