The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-05-18
GLEANINGs.


Pennsylvania railroad.
Gen. Rosser, the cavalryman, expect.
To buy Il farm in the valley of Virginia
there to pass the rest of his life.
| All Wong, bright young Celestial
is reporting Chinese news in New YOrk
in both the Chinese and English Ian
guages.
About 1000 applications for employ
mcnt were received by London mar
who advertised only once that he desired
to hire a clerk ut salary Of $l5 9
week.
There is Il creek several miles from
Waynesboro, Ga, which is 80 highly i'm
prcgnated with lime that it will take tn,
hair oil Il horses legs in passing
through il.
A man in Winthrop, Me, plays tn,
piano, organ, violin, banjo, cOrnet, fife
xylophone, bones and guitar. and wills
ties like nightingale. The Main,
people are proud Of him.
OF all who composed the Unitea
States Senate which assembled i'm July
1861, only Mr.. Anthony and Mr.. Sher
man can be said To be still in active pol
itical life. The rest are dead or re-
tired.
A man was discovered few day.
ago. concealed behind the door of {
back entry in house near Boston
When asked what he wanted, he said
beg pardon, should have knocked
DO you want your life insured?"
The countries of England and Vale.
spend $l5, 900; third Of it for pO
lice, and 81, 400, 900 for roads. About
half the entire receipts are from lOca
taxation, nearly all the rest being from
the imperial treasury.
Mr.. Charles A. Parsons. a brother o.
Lord Rosse. of telescope fame, and Q
friend of Mr.. George w. Childs, is in
Philadelphia with his bride. He visits
this country to study its latest invented
machinery.
An effort is to be made at Ottawa,
Canada, to train to harness the twin
moose recently purchased by the Gov.
ernor General. The Marquis will prob
ably send them to the park at Windsor
Castle.
A Kansas paper in its dramatic per.
sOnals'' makes pleased mention of the
fact that 1.-THE donkey which will appear
on the stage at the Whitley Opera
House this evening is quartered at the
Gilchrist livery stable"
In response to an advertisement for
twenty young men to appear rs peas
ants and cOurtiers i'm new piece at the
Madison Square Theatre, $50 people OF
every age, size and complexion presen.
ted themselves rs applicants.
The city government of Cincinnati
has found the police patrol wagon sys.
TEN SO etlicacious that il has apprOpria.
ted $4,000 for the purchase and equip.
| ment Of four more wagons, and 100 tel.
ephone boxes. with complete electric
apparatus.
Mrs. David Davis. nee Burr. is dis.
tan, relative of the famous Aaron Burr
When her mother took the rich old Bos.
ton merchant, Ellery, for second hus.
band, she was running small millin.
cry store in New York, and chat is how
Mrs. Davis became rich.
Phlologists say that the "Eenty,
mccnty, NINETY, mo-" and "Eny,
mceny, mony, mike" which children
use for counting in some of their games,
and which are commonly considered
gibbcrish. are in reality the sole survi.
val of the language spoken by the ear.
Hest inhabitants Of the British Isles.
The tax-gathercr has a fine thing in
Madeira, and the taxpayer is lucky il
he has anything left. About Is pei
| cent. is paid on property. So for horse,
10 per cent. house rent. $50 year fol
mercantile tax, and. on top of all this,
per cent. on the total taxes paid of all
kinds.
The Cable Construction and Maintcn.
ance Company earned almost half q
million clear last year, ont of which
dividends were paid ut the rate OF 20
per cent. and over 100000 carried
over. The laying of submarine cables
evidently is not an Improbable bust
ness.
Connecticut demands law to pro-
tcct railroad brakcmen. The Hartford
| COnr0nL SAYS: Nobody doubts the
story now going through the news
papers that Il railroad Superintendent
told an applicant forthe place OF brake
man that he had no vacancy then, but
somebody would be killed OIL in few
days. IT is too true to be questioned. :"
A correspondent Of the Western
Rural recently sent sample Of sugar
boa al ut country store for good cane
SUGAR. An analysis instituted by that
| paper showed that 30 per cent. of it was
grape sugar (ma3e from corn, and
worth about cents pound,) and it
also contained large quantities of
| sulphur. The chemist prOnOunces it u
vile compound.
A Swedc once laid q wager that he
would 90 down one of the almost per-
| pendicular ladders in II Lake Superior
| iron mine, face foremost, with q can OF
nitro-glycerine i'm his hand. Not only
did he do il, but crowd of his fellow
miners gathered to witness the feat, al
| though one false step would have been
certain death to the reckless fellow, and
half the lOOkers-on might also have been
killed.
Mr.. q. +. Watts, II. A., English ar
| list. tells his cOuntrywOmen that cx-
tremc tightness of dress is u very hazard
Gus experiment. Even beautiful arms,
when very tightly enclosed, look not a
little like sausagcs. But it is always to
be remembered that folds, with their in.
finite changeablenoss of shade, light
and shadow, are more beautiful than
any thing, excepting that perfection Of
form which is rarely found.
There have now been sixty years of
American novels, for it is about that
time since Cooper dashed into prOmin-
cnce with his Spy" and his sea stories,
| and his character of LeatherstOckings.
He was our forlorn hope for some years,
since Irving could not properly be call
ed q novelist; but now our authors, like
misfOrtunes, ''cOme not single spies,
but in battaliOns," and there Is ruck
of novels, good, bad and worse"
A remarkable family lives in Lee
County, about four miles from Beatty
vile, Ky. IL is that of William b.
Burns. He and his wife were both born
Oh the same day, Sept. rs, 1929. They
have nine sons-in-law and q son for each
daughter; they have ninety-nine grand
children; they never saw all their child.
rem on the same day. He boldly as
serts that he and his nine sOns-in-law
| can throw down any other man and his
s0ns-in-law in the United States for
100000.
NJ. A. Roujon tells of dog that can
pronounce the words ma mamah. Con-
sidering the intelligence of dogs. it is
perhaps matter of surprise that such
stories are not cOmmOner. II has been
suggested that the cause may be in the
| difference in structure of the vocal or.
gans. At all events. the lower nam.
malta, as rule. do not hear human
speech. 1t is the parrot. and not the