The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-02-15
MANKATo FREE Press.
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY. Is. 1884.
GLEANINGS.

Lady Wilde, Oscars mother, says
she will never rest satisfied until ''she
has shot an American editor.
A female orang-outang In Philadel-
phia dearly loves little dog and re-
fuses to be separated from 1t.
DR.. Gibbons, of Lancaster, Pa, an
old Quaker abolitionist. Is dead. He
never saw the inside of q theatre and
never read novel.
Charles Peters, of New York, ''never
felt well unless he was drunk" and
when he had no money to buy whisky
with he killed himself.
Philadelphia brewers have $50. 900
worth of signs swinging In that city,
and have raised the price Of beer 81 q
barrel to meet the expense.
A Baltimore lawsuit developes the
fact that o young widow In that city
three years ago married her father-in-
law.
TIE South Carolina Legislature has
passed q bill declaring unlawful all
contracts for the sale of articles for fu-
ture delivery.
Judge Ingalls, purchased lot in the
village of Greenwich. N. Y, adjoining
the house where he was born, not that
he wanted the ground, but because the
owner was about to cut down q noble
old elm which stood upon it.
An expert Gin a London will case)
lately stated that pencil marks rubbed
out revive when the texture of the paper
returns to its normal condition. The
existence of these marks proved most
embarrassing in the case in question.
A Japanese official who has spent
two years in Corea reports that he has
never seen the face of a Corean woman.
The men never use the name of q wo-
man or girl in conversation, but speak
of such mans wife, daughter or sister.
Barbara Frietchie's clock is said to be
in existence yet, with its hands fixed at
10 o'clock, the hour at which its pendu-
lum was shot away by soldiers bullet.
Its final destination will be the Smith.
sonian Institute.
Philadelphia's new post-office, which
is soon to be occupied, cost about 49,
100000. Its dimensions are IT'S feet
inches on Chestnut street, 175 feet !
inch on Market street, and 4S4 feet on
Ninth street; height of the dome above
the curb, ITO feet.
Coal is produced in forty counties OF
Illinois. The total amount mined dur.
ing the last twelve months was TO-
sos, 791 tons. The capital employed
exceeds $1O.0OO,OOO, and $4,000 men
are given work. The value of the coal
at the mines was $l5,31O,521.
A Paris letter says: Marriages are
arranged in France. with very few ex.
ceptions, on pure business principles.
They don't sell young girls in France
like calves and colts US they do in Ger
many, but they sometimes come pretty
close to it."
The days of fabulous rates of interest
in California seem to be past. The
savings banks in San Francisco are
lending money on mortgages at 6 per
cent and paying the mortgage tax, and
vet they cannot find a market for more
than third of their money.
M. Bechamp terminated a recent
lecture in Paris by saying that if the
thousandth part of the sum expended
for warlike purposes were devoted TO
rendering towns and cities healthy,
legions of lives would be saved and
riches and strength thus multiplied be-
yond calculation.
There is said to be full million dol.
lars of unclaimed deposits, in the saw
ings banks of Massachusetts,. There is
no State law requiring the publication
of such deposits, but these accounts
can never become the legal property OF
the bank, however long they may re-
main unclaimed.
While the ship Dashing Wave was
being repaired at Tacoma, w. T., a
short time since, a six-pound cannon
ball was found firmly imbedded in the
wood. 1t was shot into the vessel as
she was leaving Galveston harbor with
a cargo of cotton during the war of tho
rebellion.
A Long Island man tried a novel ex-
pertinent. He went into court in the
dual role of plaintiff and defendant.
He claimed that a certain estate,
of which he was executor, owed him
money, and so began suit against him
self as executor. He would have won
the case, but the Judge said such con-
duct was intolerable, took the estate
from him and threw him out of court.
John L. Mcmillan, who is making q
type-setting machine in lion, N. Y,
with which he expects to set 5000 ems
an hour, says that $500, 600 was spent
on the Alden type-setting and distri-
buting machine before it was given up
as impracticable, and that 81, 900, 600
was wasted on the Page machine,
whose patent right was subsequently
sold for $4,000.
A crematory association has been
formed in Washington, and congress is
to be asked to give it a charter. A
German physician has given lot on
which to erect crematory similar to
that in Washington, Pa. One Of its
members says that the expense of burn
ing body will not be more than $35,
and that soon they may be able to re-
duce it to $50.
The Denver (Col) Tribune asserts
that during the past year millions Of
dollars have been invested in stock and
ranches in that State. the money COM
ing from widely separated places, and
it expresses the hope that the rascals
who schemed so unscrupulously to de-
fraud the public through mining deals
may not succeed in like way in cattle
matters.
John Calvert, of Logan County, Ken
lucky, set steel trap to catch an owl
that had been poaching upon his hem
merry. The next morning the trap was
gone. A night or two later he was
aroused by q noise on the housetop,
and, taking his gun. he went out A
large bird was struggling on the house.
top. 1t was the owl, with the missing
trap on its legs.
Cave City, in Calaveras County, Cal,
once had 1000 inhabitants, but after
the failure of the gravel mines the peo-
pie moved away, and now the lefty"
consists of hotel, a saloon, and a hay
stack. In graveyard on the hill above
the town are sixteen graves. and in
fifteen of them are the remains of men
who died with their boots on between
1850 and 1856. The cave from which
the "city" takes its name penetrates
the mountain side about 800 feet, and
contains over hundred human skelo-
tons-probably of Indians.
A correspondent of the New York
Sun gives some very interesting facts
in regard to the coiored people Of Wash
ington, who number $4,000. They en-
Joy all the social and political rights
the law can give them without protest
or annoyance, but in society the color
line is rigidly drawn. No colored fami-
ly, no matter what their wealth or in
fuence, is received by the whites upon