The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-09-07
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Turkey is $15.000.03O.
| Silver City, N. NJ, pays its publ.
school teachers $3.50 a month.
| Mustardville is the name of q new
town in Washington Territory.
The Army of the Cumberland statu,
of Garfield will ""si $4,000.
A vegetaria il recommended
during hot wea. by those who have
tried it.
A cow insurance company has beer
started by several business men in My.
ersdale, Pa.
In the City of Mexico the general
price OF admission the opera Is cqna
to about 80 cents vi our money. But
then the impressario does not have tc
! Ray the soprano 81, Cooper night.
Flies. mosquitoes and bullfrogs make
the nights horrible in Chattanooga. and
now the Chattanooga Democrat declares
'The'increase of mad dogs becomes
alarmingly great"
More than 700 miles of subterranean
telegraph lines are completed in France,
| and 1890 miles are in course of con.
| struction. and will be completed by the
end of the year.
In the next four months 5000 Nor
mon converts from Europe are expected
in New York. Why not strain the anti
pauper immi grafton order and send
them back Utica Hcrad.
The Rev. Henry Crawford Tucker
served rs Il Baptist clergyman in Geor-
gia for fOrty-Seven years without q sal
| airy. He had three wives and thirty
one children; but no one heard of him
until he died Il short time since.
Rosa Bonheur could draw cattle is
natural as life, and Jesse James could
draw blood that couldn't be distin-
Suished from the genuine article. Both
were DESTROYS of getting on the right
side of the hanging committee.
In Washington il is said that poker
is played ut private houses, in the clubs
and 1T the prominent restaurants, and
if the truth were known the army and
navy officials are not the only men ia
the government service who play.
Mr. Frank &. Bangs, the successful
actor, has decided to quit the stage since
marrying an heires$. 1t is given out
that he will invest $50. 900 in a soap fac
tory. He believes that while there is
life there's soap.
The Emperor of Japan is roofing out
the newspapers which have grown to
power under his encouragement. Elev-
en- journals have just persisted under the
censorship, and IN editor has been i'm
prisoned for writing about the Emperor.
There are in France 1907 registered
prostitutes, 1859 belonging in maisons
de-lolerance,' which number 1928; L.
1873 prostitutes live in their own rooms,
and there are II COO others, it is esti-
mated.
On McDonongh street. Atlanta, there
is Il eat with six legs. The seXtipede
is the property of Il Mr.. johnson. The
additional two legs are lust behind the
eats front legs and are joined to them
BY Il thin skin. The cat moves with
ease and is-not at<s.i awkward.
The United States Fish Commission
has this year distributed throughout
every state and territory i'm the Union
81, 900. 900 white fish, 3O,OOO,O00 shad,
and 10000, 600 of the salmOnid9 spe-
cics. The Commission has also distrib-
ntcd 1900 German carp.
4 traveller through the Merry oasis
discovered seven Jewish families who
have been established there for an I'M
known period of time, and who have
preserved intact the costume, religion
and language of their ancestors, who
were probably Chaldean.
Where IN old fence has been remov-
ed. the crop the first season is no sure
test of the quality or fertility of the soil.
Ii takes one year of thorough culture
to clear out the sOds, bushes and rub
bish that accumulate i'm such places.
After this is well done, the fence row
will usually be rs fertile as any other
part of the field.
referring to the yearly losses by the
Western Hoods. Il contemporary sug-
gcSts that probably the time will come
when the low lands along the course OF
the Mississippi and the Missouri will
not be occupied by permanent habita-
tons. but will be cultivated rs are the
bottom lands OF the Nie-with special
reference TO the recurrence of periodic
overflow"
Il has been found that worm-eaten
and partly d-caved logs make the best
sounding boards for pianos, and within
II few years piano firms have sent agents
through Connecticut Ia find fallen and
partly drcayed chestnut logs, and such
timber has been SOLD ri good prices NJ.
ter the owners had considered il entire
ly useless.
A court i'm Ontario, Canada. has made
the extraordinary decision that divorces
granted in the United States are not
valid in Canada. A woman divorced
from her husband in the State of Mis-
souri, has obtained Il Judgment for ali
monv from her liu ,bani, who was dom
iciled in OatariO, where he was mar
ried second time. and had children
by lis second marriage.
The iphumapity of two Pennsylvania
parents in burning upon the hot stove
the hands of their little boys rs y pun
ishment for stealing. has created much
excitement in the nciahburhaod. They
are parents after InSeph Cooks own
heart. According TO his theology, the
totally depraved young ones were SIM
ply getting forat:ss;p al The hereafter.
A gentle father, who Is Il pillar of So
ciety in the CITY of Brotherly Love,
went to harness shop and got q strap
~ yard long, enc inch Wide at one end
and two at tho other, With this he
wolted his little daughter two or three
times day until the law interfered.
Before he got the strap he used Il knotty
cane.
In draining certain land it often be-
comes necessary to cut bitches long
distance over lrycl sRaCn.. aud sonia-
I,Inos through ridga to secure an outlet.
The laws ot most of the states allow
this to be done on lanl adjacent to that
which is most benefited, and il the ditch
is necessary to drain ,he neighbours
properly ho NAY Gs required to bear his
proportion Of the expense.
Experiments have been conducted nv
DIR. Masure on the evaporation Gf WataE
from the sell Tho soils tested WerS
LONE sand, ehalky spill. consisting OF
sand, 4 per cent; clay, $50 per cent;
gent; chalk, l2.5 per cent; aIay, go pep
gents and ilay nianhre, s.S per cent;
The action, Of the sandy and chalky soil
was very rapid.
Attorney General brewster now
wears iull suit OF acru pongee, with
his cambric ruilies. Professor Baird
wears an entire suit of ecru linen. The
interpreter of the Chinese Legation, with
loose linen pantaloons. wears q long
loose sack, closed up Ia front, Made "a
aheaksd giasham, apd'ofef' it q Sleeve:
less waist. with high neck, of thin black
aallze. His small skull-cap Ia anpar.