The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-06-22
GLEANINGS

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The Marquis of Lorne is nearly 80
years old, and Princess Louise is just
over IS.
Princess Louise pieces out her hus-
bands $780, 900 income with an income
of $50, 900 of her own.
The novels of Miss Evans, Mrs. South
worth and Mrs. Holmes have been
banished from the Cleveland Public
Library.
ITO add one mile an hour to the speed
OF an ocean steamer you must almost
double your consumption of coal, says
an old Cunard commander.
The Hon. Oliver Ames expects to
spend S40O,O00 in building his new
house on Commonwealth avenue, Bos-
ton.
The Fox river region Of Illinois, ri
which Elgin is the center, is estimated
to produce 2O,0O0,000 gallons Of milk
annually.
A Nevada Indian has just been award
Ell $1,000 damages from the South
ern Pacific Railroad for the loss of q
foot.
About one soldier in every five on
the frontier becomes deserter, and
nearly one man in six of the army rs q
whole.
Hops are now go dear that they are
called brewers diamonds. and $780,
600 worth is not an uncommon stock
on hand at large brewery.
Schuyler Colfax says: 1T is my firm
conviction that many of the anecdotes
that are attributed to Abraham Lincoln
were never uttered by him"
Ex-senator Tabor proposes To build
II house in Denver which shall rival
Vanderbit's and the famed palaces Of
California. So his new wife says.
Alexander Mitchell, the Wisconsin
railway magnate, has in his house in
milwaukee,, probably the finest library
in the West.
The money-order system will be ex-
tended to 334 additional postofiices in
July next. principally in Western and
Northwestern states.
Eli Perkins says that liar who lies
to make his fellow-men happy is ben
efactor; but the liar who lies to make
the world miserable could trade seats
with the devil aud cheat him.
Bi-Sulphide of carbon is attracting at
tention in England as new motor. In
ventOrs have been experimenting with
il for years here, but no one has vet
made it work, easy as it looks in theory
Three thousand depositOrs in Con-
necticut savings bank have not made
inquiries about their money for twenty
years past. The larger part of them
will never be heard Of.
Sir Charles Dixie has framed coll
lection of caricatures of himself, clipped
from the comic papers, which is already
nearly as large rs the Disraeli cartoon
collection of Punch.
The courts of Arkansas have decided
that n man who burns his own house
cannot be punished for arson. The Of
Tense, to be criminal, according to state
law, must be committed on the property
of another.
The fumes from the wine stored in the
great wine vaults in London are so
strong that a person entering them will
Immediately become intoxicated unless
he fOrtities himself beforehand with q
glass Of strong wine internally.
George Alfred Townsend (Gath) has
bought house in New York with the
proceeds of his pen, which, like good
husband, he has promptly given to his
wife-and in which he expects to end
his literary days.
In every tobacco factorya Key West
there is ''reader." Cubans cannot talk
without gesticulation, and in order to
keep them from talking person is en-
ployed to read aloud to tho "hands"
during working hours.
In San Francisco, owing to the spring
fogs. winter rains. earthquakes and
danger of fire. the houses are built, de-
tached from other buildings. of the Sc
quoio, or redwood tree, which burns
slowly.
The waves of the Atlantic Ocean at
tain the various heights of "a, so and 43
feet; those of the Pacific sometimes as
much rs 80 feet high; in the Mediter-
ranean they are l44 feet, and in the
North Sea l3} feet.
Some dealer in old newspaper files
down in Maine has discovered that the
widow Ross. of Lyman, advertised in
the Kennebunk Gazette, May 9. 1880,
for information about her son, Charlie
Ross, who had mysteriously disap-
peared.
The Boston Sheriff who made the an
nexed remark is level-headed: ''Many
women come to me at the Jail and want
to read and talk to the criminals; but
tell them to 60 and read and talk to the
same class that are not as yet criminals.
and keep them from being such"
A remarkable instance of the ingenui-
ty developed by necessity is afforded by
a convict in q Louisiana prison, who
made saw out of the buckle on his
trousers and constructed a key from u
splinter of wood, with which he unlock
ed the chain that bound him to the
floor.
More than half q million people are
employed in the coal mines of Great
Britain, and last year more than IL
thousand were killed in them. the aver
age Of accidents being about three for
every working day in the year. The an
nual product is over 100000 900 tons,
or more than twice that of the United
States.
A st. Louis juror was taken sick in
the courtroom, but was not excused.
1t was mentioned by an attorney, who
said that he had tried the remedy. that
and whisky was good, and
this was ordered by the bailiff. The
Juror refused to take the prescription,
saying he had little faith in doctors, AID
none in lawyers.
Henry Ward Beccher says: ''If you
want to look for heroes in our day YOU
must go down TO the kitchen: you must
go to the sewing attics; you must go
where persons endure everything almost
without a motive; when they divide their
penny with their parents and work ON
days and months and years,
and die in wretchedness and neglect"
Major Henry Bull owns a large and
very valuable lot almost in the center
of the city of Providence, r. l., for
which no deed or title exists. 1t was
purchased from the Indians by one Of
his ancestors in 1886. 1t came very
near passing out of the possession of the
Bulls about 100 years ago through
game of old sledge.
Lucy Hooper writes from Paris to the
Philadelphia Telegraph regarding Sara
Bernhardt as follows: .'She has laid