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

The proudest day in woman's ilIe
Is her first son day.
The feet of Gainesville Ella mer-
chant are thirty inches long.
Lieutenant Very's system of night
signals has been adopted in tho navy.
The most pronounced lie on record is
that of q young man who asserts that
he likes his girls small brother.
The fashion of short sleeves never
made pretty arms, but it is more than
probable that pretty arms made short
sleeves fashionable.
A French physician says that raw
oysters and chicken soup will nourish
any girl through at least six disappoint-
ments in love.
A training-school for servants has
been established in st. Louis. Will
they teach pretty house-maid not to
scream when the old man kisses her. by
mistake?
At q recent test of plain boiler fiues
in England against corrugated flues the
former collapsed at 225 pounds per
square inch. while the latter withstood
1920 pounds per square inch.
A farmer at Fargo, ID. r., has very
profitable supply Of fuel in the product
Of gas we'll struck on his premises.
He uses the gas for heating, cooking
and Illuminating purposes.
The first locomotive ever built south
of the Ohio River has just been COM
pleted in Chattanooga. The material
used in every part of the work was pro-
duced in Tennessee.
An Indianapolis paper estimates that
the farmers of that State are yearly
swindled out of $2,0OO.OOO by tricks
which the newspapers have exposed
over and over again.
Out Of twenty-eight samples of ''pure
cider vinegar" submitted to q Cincin-
natl chemist for analysis every one turn
ed out to be base fraud, being made
of acids and drugs.
The late H. d. Hirst of Germantown,
Pa, was remarkable for his mania for
roses. He had in his collection about
1900 rose trees, which he cared for with
religious faithfulneSs. He literally lived
in q bower of rare and beauteous roses.
The old elm known as Washington
Irving's tree" that had for so many
years stood in Battery Park. New York,
was cut down q few days ago. 1t -four
ished at the time of the revolutionary
| war.
With his hands fixed immovable in a
bear trap Maine hunter sat staring
death in the face till gaunt starvation
came to his relief. He left his home
last spring. His remains were found
only few days ago.
A child with a shell upon its back
and claws upon its hands and feet, with
q head very much resembling a turtles,
Is Q reported natural curiosity in the
vicinity of De View, Woodruff county,
Ark. 1t was still-born, and weighed
four or FIVE pounds.
A curious story comes from Indiana,
where tool manufacturing company
shipped an invoice of steel pitchforks to
Italy. Tho implements were SO smooth,
sharp. and highly-fnished that the par
ties to whom they were sent refused to
receive them, because they feared that
the natives would use them as deadly
weapons.
| 1ucTc WIS u tlilc "lcu Tic CuEOpcdu
pilgrim could be instantly known by
the cut of her clothes, but these delight
full ear-marks can be no longer monop-
olized by ladies who have crossed the
raging main to secure them. The stay
at-home wears as chic n toilet. though
she probably pays double what it would
cost abroad. The distinction is felt in
the pocket, but it is not observed in the
street.
DR.. Wilson, of Meriden, has found
that malarial disease invaded Connec.
ticut in 1860, in the town of Southport,
in wave scarcely more than twenty
miles wide, spreading laterally from
this line of progress only after reaching
the northern boundary Of the state, and
occupying about fifteen years in its
march. This migratory feature of the
disease has not been heretofore noticed
in America, though not unknown on
| the continent of Europe.