The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-01-12

Preparations are being made to dis.
cover another comet One that will moi
up SO early in the morning is preferred.
A German arithmetician has been
calculating the aggregate number of
combinations in the game of dominoes,
and has shown them to be 84.528, 2ll,-
$40! Two players. playing four games
a minute. would only exhaust these
combinations in 100000 years.
The Indian school ut Carlisle, Pa,
has $50 pupils on its roll. The exper-
iment last summer of sending the chill
dren out among the farmers of the
neighborhOod was SO successful that
the plan has been adopted. and about
fifty of the Indian children now under
the care of the institution will be placed
with farmers during the winter and at
tend the public schools.
A man has Just been released from
the penitentiary of Pennsylvania who
has been in prison thirty years. He
was forger. and was convicted and
sentenced in 1852. What changes that
man will find in the world. and what
his thoughts must bep He owned q
house and lot which was worth about
$500 when he went to prison, and the
increase in its value and the income it
has brought him now give him for
tune of $40. 900 to start again in life.
The Cambria iron-works at Johns
town, Pa, has thirty-five miles of rail-
road on its property, and employs ten
large and ten small locomotive engines
for yard service. The 900, 900 tons Of
coal and limestone annually used in
the manufacture Of iron and steel at
these works are mined by the company,
as we'll as q part of 400, 600 tons of iron
ore required by it. The works are val
ued at $1,000. 900, and give employment
to nearly 5000 men.
One of the youngest suicides in the
history of crime was Maurice Barrow,
age ten, who. deliberately hanged him
self last month at the Boys Industrial
School. Feltham, England. He was not
driven to desperation by outrageous
treatment, but on the contrary came to
the conclusion that life was not worth
living because the labor-master pre-.
vented him from bursting frog which
he had skilfuAy inflated with q blow
pipe. The jury found that he hanged
himself while Of sound mind. THAT"
said the coroner, lis felo-de-se;" and so
the verdict was recorded.
A writer in the Industrial Reviev ad.
vises the introduction of the bamboo in
the Southern States. Though capable
of growing on the uplands, It is said to
be especially suited to and valuable for
low-lying, marshy regions, such %
fringe the South Atlantic and Gulf
States. Its uses are numerous. As Q
timber for building and construction
purposes, for the tools, implements, etc.,
1t Is we'll known. As an article of food
its young shoots serve as substitutes for
vegetables. and are pronounced deli.
cious. Bamboo curry and chow-chow
are excellent. The growing plant 10
invaluable also as defense against ma
laria, sweeping fires and cyclones.
DR.. Frank Hamilton sticks to his orig
inal proposition. In the Popular Sci.
ence Monthly he insists again that safe
ty lies alone 10 open fire. places. station.
airy wash-bowls and the Punishment Of
all sewer connection to an out-building
entirely separated from the living
rooms. Authorities are quoted to prove
that no plumbing can exclude sewer
gas. and that no traps can DO consider.
ed safe. DR.. Hamilton insists that tyk
phoid fevers, diphtheria, scarlatina and
the general weakness and prostration
which aff1ict so many city jewellers are
ell traceable to sewer emanations.
Royal Woodward, the owner Of the
largest private library in Albany, died
recently at his residence in that city.
For many years he had been selling
sewing silk, carrying his stock In Q
large handbag. He amassed quite
property and invested much of his
wealth in books, of which he Is suppos.
ed to have left more than $4,000 vol
umes. His tastes ran in the direction
Of theology. genealogies and town his
tories. His library was never arranged,
but was slowed from cellar to garres,
In parlor and woodshed. He also own.
ed large collections of engrayings and
autographs. Mr. Woodward was an
honorary member of number of anti.
quarian and literary societies In this
country and Europe.