The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1883-03-09
GLEANINGs.


More billiard tables are in Use in Won
ezuela in proportion to the population
than in the United. States.
American furniture IL coming into
use in Scotland "because it is so COM
Portable and easily kept Clean" says
Consul Wells OF Glasgow.
A San Francisco grocer had woman
prosecuted for theft. though she was
ninety-six years old. and what she stole
was handful Of snuff. worth 5 cents.
| The oldest person ever arraigned for
murder is u woman seventy-fvc wears
Of age. now On trial in Paterson, N. j.,
for poisoning. Hcrindifierence denotes
her familiarity with crime.
Here is the portrait of Gambett.. at
nine years Of age, drawn BY one Of his
schoOlmasters: Leon Gamletta is 4
dirty little pig Of n violent character.
but intelligent and witty"
The people Of Santa Fee. New Mexico.
whose town was first settled 1913 years
ago, are making arrangements for
grand tertiO-millennial celebration in
honor OF the event.
The Encyclopedia Britannica, work
Of $4,000 pages. is to be cclipsed in size
| by the works of Samuel Arden Smith,
who is going to write complete history
Of the Smith family.
Central Park, New York, is said to be
in such an unhealthful condition that
$20O.OOO must needs be expended to
remedy the evil. The sewers and drains
are defective.
The new Produce Exchange now build
f! ing in New York will contain about 49,
0O0. 900 bricks when completed, and will
be the largest brick building in the
world.
A busy doctor sent in certificate of
death the other day, and accidentally
signed his name in the space for cause
Of death" Theregistrar says he wishes
the profession would be as accurate
generally.
London Truth: "The masher Tin
America) is the man who. in the Rom
any or gypsy language. has the .masha-
va or fetching eye. The mash is the
maiden who quails under the wicked
orb
In the opinion OF Professor Hutton, in
locomotive. the honor of first utilizing
the traction engine in this country be-
longs to the engineer, Howard Evans.
and the event dates back as far rs 1904.
One OF the most attractive places in
! the country to-day Is that Georgia town
where an epidemic is carrying of the
| cats by the score. The nature of tho
epidemic is unknown. and the citizens
have made no efforts to ascertain it,
A man in Blacksburgh, Va. imagines
himself horse. He runs wildly through
the streets. beats himself with switch
and increases his speed Mt his own COM
mand to "gce mp there" Hchas ''gone
to grass" as it were, in the upper story.
Just as the Rev. Elisha Blackshear, of
Thomasville, Ga, pronounced James
White and Delilah AdersOn man and
wife they fell into the arms of the attend
ants, dead. They were both affected
with heart disease.
Verdict of Baltimore CorOner's jury
over dead cOlOred woman: 1--WE find
that she came 10 her death through nat
ural causes --cramp collie. produced by
eating sausage for breakfast land in the
opinion Of the jury the sausage was
good.
The practical joker evidently is abroad
in Prince Edwards Island. Recently,
while lecture was being held there,
the door and windows of the hall were
nailed up from the outside. and the au-
dience had TO climb out through the
second story windows.
The New York San assumes the re-
sponsibiliiy OF the interesting statement
that .'wOmen. childiess in Europe after
years of marriage. often have families
in Australia California is not. then,
the only country which has a glorious
climate.
The wife of the Rev. George Bankers
was bitten hy u rat while Il guest ut the
Markham House. in Atlanta. Ga, one
night last summer. Inflammation set
ting in, she suffered greatly. Her hns-
band now brings suit for $4,000 dam
ages against the proprietors Of the hotel.
An Auburn sportsman Is said to have
captured an immense owl of the arctic
species while hunting in BrOOme COtn-
f, ty, New York. II is nearly white and
huge looking fowl, being so completely
envclOped in feathers that the long,
sharp claws and hooked beak are hard
ly visible.
Under the head of BODILY Dcformities
in GirlhOod. il is remarked in the Pop
aiar Science Monthly that '.the ingenu-
| ity of an Edison could not devise ma
chine so favorable to the production of
flat-foot rs the tight-ftting, high-hecled.
long-,opped boot at present worn by
girls.
! There is power even in small hair
pin. A New York woman produced 3
strange one in court, which she had
found in her husbands bed, and di-
vorce was readily granted. The whole
neighbOrhood had previously testified
against the brute. but the hair-pin did
! the business.
Louisville is making great prepare
tons for an industrial exhibition to be-
gin next August. Residents have sub
scribed $250,O0O to put up building
covering thirteen acres, and the rail-
road companies likely TO be benefited
are expected to give Us much more.
The show will last 100 days. and cotton
| will be the chief feature.
There are now living in San Francis
co, within few blocks of each other,
five generations of one family. The
great-great-grandfather is seventy-one
years of age; the great-grandmOther,
fifty-six; the grandmother, thirty-eight;
her son, twenty-one. and his baby daugh-
ter, six months. They have been pho
tographed in group.
A hardware merchant of Liberty
street, Pittsburg, has become insane
and possessed Of peculiar mania. He
imagincs that he is dead, and he will
not take any food. He declares that as
he is corpse IL would not be proper to
eat ANYTHING, and his physicians have
been compelled to pour soup and beef
tea between,his clenchcd teeth to pre-
vent him from starving.
The Household Hints contributor
of the New York Post says: There is
probably no moment in young moth
er's life when her past education ap-
pears soinadequate as the moment when
She is left alone for the first time with
her first baby; the sense Of responsible
ty which she then feels weighs upon her
like great burden, and ono that is not
to be lifted.
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