The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-08-29
GLEANINGs.

In Southern and Middle England 3d.
900 women steer canal boats.
A Delaware farmer has plowed under
40 900 behring's as fertilizer.
Senator Fair has sent his children
with his divorced wife to Europe.
Lady Wilde, the mother of Oscar,
has book of poems ready for the
press.
Over 400, 900, 600 gallons of petroleum,
valued at $60.000.000, were exported
lastyear.
The square parasol is called the
"ugly girls parasol.n 1t has great
sale in Boston.
There are in London $4,000 Polish
Russian Jews who have sought refuge
from persecution.
Millions of caterpillars are stripping
the leaves from the live oak trees at
Cloverdale, Cal.
An Englishman succeeded in reduc-
ing his weight five and half pounds
in one week by dieting.
1t has been said of Millet's eau
gelus' that it is the only picture in
which sound has been painted.
DR.. Dio Lewis says the coming man
and woman will not be smaller at the
waist than at other parts of the body.
James McCabe. a pauper in Mars
Hill, Me-, died a short time ago. He
was over one hundred and ten years
of age.
A new publication of recipes gives
prominence to an ''anti-spree mixture.
and tells people how to relieve drunk
| enness."
DR.. Alfred Carpenter, an English
| physician, thinks that drunkenness is
| disease which can be cured only by
heightened abstention.
The disease from which the King of
| Spain suffers is the wasting away CT
| the arterial tissues, which produces
tendency in the blood vessels to start
out and rupture.
| A Boston woman warns train boys
through the Globe that elf they throw
any of Colonel Ingersoll's lectures in
my lap I shall certainly throw them
| out of the window"
The gambling bells of Europe are
full of monomaniacs. They think they
have discovered some system by which
to break the bank. But the bank al
ways breaks them ut last.
Rubinstein, the musician, always
| closes his eyes when he plays. He
says he doesn't wish to see how many
| rude people there arc who are not pay
| ing attention to his music.
Bishop Arthur Cleveland Coke says
that the play houses of Western New
York are worthy of Sodom and
Gomorrah, and that the grand juries
ought to indict them as nuisances.
Ella Wheeler's husband. it is re-
ported, tips the scales at $50 pounds
and has q fist like sledge hammer.
He has list of newspaper idiots on
whom he will call before snow flies.
A fine seal, weighing something over
100 pounds, was caught in a net by
fishermen in Lake Ontario last week.
Seals in Lake Ontario are rarity,
though they have been caught in the
waters before.
Mount Moriah, happy hamlet in
| Somerset county, Pennsylvania, has
neither undertaken nor doctor, and
does very well without them. It has
dozen persons ranging from seventy
five to eighty-six years old.
George Williams, of New York.
while cunning on Peconic Bay. placed
the muzzle of his gun in the water and
discharged it to see what the result
would be. He will never see again.
The gun burst, and both his eyes were
destroyed. -.
p. G. Plant, Macon banker, has
solved the problem of utilizing the
swamp lands of his section of Georgia,
by setting out $4,000 willow cuttings
on twenty-eight acres, the produce of
which for ten years to come has been
contracted for by manufacturer of
New York City.
A remarkable case of change of col
or is exciting the medical men of Santa
Barbara. Cal. Four years ago a man
named Pima was of very dark COM
plexion. White blotches began to ap-
pear on his skin, and now he is as
white as any man, save on parts of his
face and hands.
Texas forty years ago was practically
desert, and the handful of settlers
lived pretty much on game. To-day
there are more than 100000 cattle,
| sheep, horses, mules and swine i'm the
state, and the cotton crop last year
was worth more than the cotton crop of
the entire United States in 1S43.
The Two Republics, a paper pub.
lished in the City of Mexico, recently
contained the following item: 1.-THE
Mexican papers in this city have found
q fruitful source for the display of
photographic wit in treating of the
American visitors, who first pity, then
embrace the pulque Jug"
Since the establishment of the system
more than twenty years ago only
ninety national banks have failed. and
the.lOss to creditors has not exceeded
SO. 200, 900, the average loss being about
20 per cent in each case. The average
annual loss to depositors by the failure
of national banks has been only one.
twentieth of per cent.
The people of Albany, have the repu-
tation of consuming more opium than
is consumed in any other city of. its
size in this country. The 80, 600 inhabit-
ants of New York's capital city needed
nearly 1000 pounds of the insidious
drug last year, beside nearly 5000
ounces of morphia and between $780,
600 and 600, 900 morphia pills.
A contributor to London scientific
paper says that a very simple and
effective way of coloring a meerschaum
bowl is by painting it while you are
smoking, and after it becomes warm,
with the creamy surface of good milk
(or creamy. by means of common
hair pencil, which brings out the brown
and yellow colors beautifully, and as
by magic.
Dr. Dio Lewis, the fresh-air fend,
has been compelled to stop all manual
work and retire to farm in New
Jersey to rest. His health is COM
pletely broken down. To read this
mans terse and epigrammatic screeds
on health and how to keep it, one
would suppose that he possessed the
secret of living hundred years at the
very least calculation.
All people have not learned the art
of leaving room in an appropriate
manner. When you are ready to de-
part do SO at once, gracefully and po-
litely, and with no dallying. Don't
say: '.It's about time | was going"
and settle back and talk on aimlcssly
for another ten minutes. There is no
need of being Extensively abrupt, but
when you are ready to go-go. -Euery
Other Saturday.
Balaclava, although its name will be
ever famous in history as associated
with the famous light cavalry charge,
has hitherto remained an unimportant
town. 1t is, however, now beginning
to develop resources, and bids fair to
hecoma a fashionable resort for inval-