The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-02-23
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A county clerk In Texas enjoys the
distinction Of having himself issued the
license for his own marriage.
Tho COssacks now serving IN the
Russian army number 500. 900. their
officers, 3,942.
A Jackson, Crenn.) dog goes on two
legs, both on the right side Of his body.
The other legs are broken.
MIR. William Black is supposed to be
making the largest income Of any Eng
lish novelist living.
Cheesequake Greek. for which $4O,-
600 has been appropriated. il. according
to the Atlanta Constitution. only twelve
inches deep.
Boston proposes to have a college
which Is to educate doctors and "psy as
much attention TO their moral as to their
medical training"
The report comes from Victoria,
British Columbia. that Chinese women
are struggled into the United States dis
guised as Indians. Thirty-twO are said
to have crossed the line in that garb.
Madagascar il rather larger than
France. A belt of almost virgin forest
runs around the island. The population
is about 100000. and the soil will
easily support 0.000.0OO. India-rubber
is principal export. The mineral
wealth Is enormous.
The inscription "Ysnat'' ON a lar In a
Philadelphia Indian Doctors shop. puz-
zled reporter until he discovered that
it was .'Tansy'' spelled backward.
With this clue he read other names of
mysterious medicines with clearer I'M
derstanding than before.
Is the war overp The Ninth and
Tenth Regiments of Rhode Island Vol
unteers, who were in the service of the
government in 1868 for three months,
claim that they were never mustered
out, and are entitled to full pay to date.
1t will require S5.0O0.O0O to pay them.
A San Francisco doctor has restored
lady of that city to peril It health by
removing one of her kidneys. This
operation, called rephrectomy. is so
rarely undertaken that the world has
only seventy-thres cases of the kind re-
corded.
Two boys have been convicted in Cal
ifornia of robbing Cinnamon. and San
Francisco journal sees in this a reaction
from the feeling against the Chinese.
who have hitherto been unable to get
protection from the law against thieves
and DULLES.
A Reading (Pa.) journalist interview.
\ tramp: I'VE read the papers. and the
latest. too. often feel amused to see
yer editors offerin' rewards for the ar.
rest OF them persons as steals paper.
from doors. It's tramps almost every
time"
A richly attired Boston lady took
from n wagon. standing by the curb.
stone. a large blanket and carefully
covered the shivering horse attached to
the vehicle. She departed unconcerned
at the applause which spontaneously
came from the crowd which her unusual
but kindly act had collected.
In this fertile land of plenty 1t seems
incredible that 5000. 900 bushels OF po-
.atoes should be imported in q single
year, and yet this was the case last
year as shown by the government reve.
nue. records. Import duties amounting
to considerably over Sl,0O0.O0O were
paid.
It is a fact not generally known that
Alaska has one Of the largest rivers in
the world. The Yukon is navigable for
1000 miles and SO wide along its lower
course that one bank cannot be seen
from the other. The distance across its
five mouths and intervening de!tas 10
seventy miles.
Postmaster General Fawcett, who has
been in such i'll health that it was exc
rrcted that he would die, i; one of the
most popular men in England. He is
over six feet tall, and is a very strong
man. Although he is totally blind. ho
rides. rows and skates well. He will
sometimes walk eighteen mile; Of Oh
afternoon. He was born in 1888.
Hereafter the owner of coal land ia
Pennsylvania will DO more careful in
leasing his property for mining pur-
poses. The Supreme Court of the state
has decided that petroleum is, In the
geological sense OF the term. a mineral,
and that persons leasing Glands and
minerals are entitled to whatever oil
NAV DO struck b3low the surface.
a New York artist hits masculine
vanity hard rap when he says that
man, a magnificent specimen. called
upon him in answer to an advertisement
for model. and. after exhibiting his
nude form, said that he WAS independ-
emily we'll Off and did not care to pose.
the mans only desire was. the artist
thinks. to show his wonderfully perfect
development
Some of the accounts of the growth
of the German carp show that twill at
tain very large size in a remarkably
short period OF time. The commissioner
of agriculture of the state OF Georgia
mentions carp of fifteen pounds of only
three years growth. The first distribu-
tion OF carp in Georgia was in 1879.
Since then the United States fish COM
missioners have distributed fifteen
thousand young fish to various parties
In tho state.
Leonardo da Vinci thus forshadowed
the telephones: when one is upon q
lake. il no puts the opening of trunl.
pet into the water and holds the point
of the tube to his ear. he can perceive
whether ships are moving ut a remote
distance. the same thing occurs If he
thrusts the tube into the ground. for
then. also. he will hear what is going on
far away"
A movement among Texas stock men
to disarm their COWBOYS was derided at
first. but is now said to be making con.
siderable Roadway. Several stock men
announced that they would not employ
anybody who carried deadly weapon.
It was predicted that they would soon
be compelled to rescind this order, but
the Stock Journal says that they find no
difficulty in getting and keeping EN-.
plOyes, and that, as soon Us the plan Is
pat on trial on adjoining ranches. the
COWBOYS will become its strongest ad.
vocates.
When porter on Pullman palace
car learns that one of the passengers Is
a .'spotter" or detective for the com.
pany he marks that spotter by cutting
three crosses on the bottom Of the heel
OF one OF his boots. The porter who
next shines tho spoilers boots sees the
marks, informs the conductor, and they
two are honest as the day Is long while
the detective remains aboard. 1t has
been suggested that spotter be put on
each car, but this naturally gives rise to
the question. "Who would watch the
spottcr?"
j. A. Gotch, noted London archi-
tect, is considered the great authority
on male attire. He says that the Chin
mey.pot hat Is positively ugly. the
swHllow-tail inartistic, and the artificial
necktie an abomination. The proper
covering for the neck should be tied In
a knot. The shirt, he thinks. Is objec-
tjonable, as It is worn only for the cuffs.