The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-01-11
GLEANINGs.
The first recorded shipment of An

The French executioners rame is
Dibler.
They make paper barrels at Akron,
Ohio.
John Demijohn, of Peru. Ind, refus-
cd to change his name and thereby lost
"a wife worth 100000.
The Mormon missions in the Sand
witch Islands have published report
claiming membership of 5000. The
church owns large sugar plantation.
Mineola has the longest wagon road
bridge in Texas, if not in the world.
| 1t is across the Sabine River and swamp
"a mile and three quarters.
The remains of Harvey, discoverer of
the circulation of the blood, have been
placed in a thousand-dollar marble
coffin by the Royal College of Physi-
clans.
During the last thirty years the
Church of England has raised $3.50, OOO,-
600 fOr the building and repairing of
churches and cathedrals, and $500, O00.-
600 for endowments.
The wine products of California the
present year will be about 10000, 900
gallons, 1000, 900 gallons less than that
of 1882, and about 100000 gallons
less than the expected product.
King Cetewayo has now entirely re-
covered from his wounds, but is in q
very unhappy state of mind. His
.'army' has dwindled down 10 about
sixty men and women.
The highest point on the Rocky Noun
,ains reached by the Northern Pacific
Railroad is 1900 feet below the summit
of the Sicrras, Oh the Central Pacific
Railroad
The elegant pastime known as the
'cake walk" hitherto known among
the colored circles of society, has been
introduced at elite entertainments ia
Philadelphia with great success.
Ii is somewhat noteworthy that,
while the aggregate vote for Governor
in Ohio was 7l8, l66. there were, as the
official count shows. only eleven scatter
ing votes, all the rest being given To
the four regularly nominated caudi-
dates.
One of the Chinese generals named
Fang seems to have q fancy for tall
grenadicrs something like that of the
old Prussian King Frederick Not long
ago ne gave man eight feet and five
inches high a large salary for acting on
his bodyguard.
II is said that no arrests for carving
concealed weapons have been made In
Kentucky since Proctor Knots inaugu-
ration as Governor. Whether the boys
have left their guns at home or a Con-
ccaled weapon is no longer contraband
OF war is not stated.
The Georgian mouth waters while
he talks of postum, hedgcd in with
brown gravy and sweet potatoes with
sugar on them. \ Georgia editor, who
attended a hunt and the subsequent
feast, remarks: Ii was the first pos
sum WE ever ate, but if our legs hold
out il will not be the last one. -
Jonathan Davis was Il bachelor OF
sixty-five and Elizabeth Elyctt q maiden
of sixty. They had lived in the same
county i'll Georgia all these years, but
they met for the first time at an evening
party last week. 1t was case Of love
at first sight on both sides. Jonathan
proposed, and they We're married then
and there.
has, it is said, probably the largest col
lection of shells in the state. and an ex-
cellent collection of stones. among
which is an agate that is said to be the
largest vet discovered. He is farmer,
but has spent the past two winters in
Florida. where great part Of his col
lection was obtained.
One Mormon superstition is that
children. when ill, NAV be cured by the
laying-on of hands. More than 5000
Of the little ones are said to have died
in the last twenty-five years who might
have been saved by medicine The
lay ing-on Of hands is of no benefit To q
child, except whsn he talks back to the
pld man.
William Mather, who is in this coun-
try under a commission from the Brit
ish Government, to investigate and
report upon the condition and progress
of technical education in America, finds
in the United States "a manufacturing
skill and engineering ingenuity that
cannot be observed anywhere else in
the world"
DR.. Philip Livingstone Jones.
Brooklyn physician, was reported TO be
worth $l,000,0O0 According 10 his
will offered for probate recently. he is
worth only about $1,000, but it is
thought he had forgotten he was the
owner of several valuable pieces Of
suburban property, being very absent
minded about everything except mai
ters relating to his profession.
An ingenious English manufacturer
hau h,r. az Ia Ill
OF cOiled spring succeeded in dispens-
ing with the need of driving sewing
machines by hand or foot. A few turns
OF handle winds up sufficient power
to keep machine going at full speed
for over an hour. 1t is completely I'M
der control rs to the rate of stitching
and stopping, and can be applied to
any existing machine at moderate cost.
COnnecticut's Board of Health is in
vestigating poisonous wood from
Panama, termed cokobola. 1t takes II
brilliant polish, and is much used for
knife-handles and ornamentation, but
poisons the men who work it. Child
rem playing in its sawdust have had
their feet poisoned. and at alarge faoto-
~ in Elm street. Bridgeport, chickens
have died after eating the dust that had
settled on the grass.
The new edifice to be erected in ST.
Petersburg as memorial of the late
Car, and which is 10 stand upon the
spot where the Gar fell, will be an old
MuScovite structure of the seventeenth
century style. 1t will have six cupolas.
resting on columns of porphyry given
by the present Car. The entrance
will be from the opposite side OF the
canal, through detached belfry and
over 4 bridge.
Mules are used instead of horses In
the mines and tunnels in the West
Mr.. Adolph Sutro describes those in his
famous tunnel as the miners pets. and
are cared for with rs much tenderness
as children. The animals become so
accustomed to darkness that they can
not see on emerging into sunlight, and,
to obviate this difficulty. the men in the
SutrO tunnel are in the habit of cover
ing the right eye of the mule while in
darkness and the left eye when in the
light, so that the animal will always
have the full Use of nj least one optic.
a family living near De Soto, H..
have a coon, three years old, which
was caught when still blind An old
cat at once took charge OF and cared
for il as If it were one of its own little
ones. Now the coon takes care OF it.
self, although the cot continues TO feed
II with mouse and rat dainties The
children in the house have taught
the coon any number of little tricks,
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