The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1884-09-26
GLEANINGs.

clothes are patched in front rather than
behind. Is current farm note.
White frosted glass globes for cham
deliers arc no longer the fashion. Col
ored ones are taking their place.
Tho thirty-eight states of the Union
contain 2,299 counties. Texas leads
of with Isl, and Georgia follows with
127.
Biologists say that II no new deposits
are found. the coal beds of the earth
will be completely exhausted in 1885
years.
Philadelphia Is almost ready for Gu
| BILE propulsion of street cars, having
eighteen miles of cable ready to put
down.
| Twenty-one thousand widows of SOL
diers of tho war of 1912 are stated to
be still drawing pensions from the gov
eminent.
The Germans steadily increase their
navy. Twenty-Five torpedo boats are
now under construction, besides many
larger vessels.
Arizona produced more than 17.0O0.-
600 pounds of copper last year and will
probably produce about %, 200, 900
pounds this year.
The emancipation laws of Brazil are
poorly enforced, and many thousands
who were long ago entitled to freedom
remain in bondage.
| A horse can scarcely lift two-thirds
Of its own weight, while one small
specimen of Juno beetle can lift sixty
six times its own weight.
A few years ago the women of India
were not allowed to learn to read.
Now there are 126, 34S girls attending
schools established for them.
| 1t is almost impossible to take fish
with net from Indian river, Florida,
as the sharks attack the nets when
filed with fish and thus tear them to
pieces.
The orange tree at Versailles, known
as the Great Constable, is nearly 500
years old. 1t was planted in 1922 by
Eleanor of Carlisle, wife of Charles Ill,
King of Navarro.
The cod fishery At Iceland has proved
total failure this season, and great
distress exists in consequence. The
privations are said TO be more severe
than prevailed during the famine two
years ago.
In one of number of eggs that Mrs.
Patrick Sullivan, of ShebOygan, was
breaking for II breakfast omelette the
other day, n minnow two inches long
was found imbedded between the white
and the yolk.
! An English gentleman named Sum-
ner. who was found dead in his bed ut
the Midland Hotel, London, left an es-
tate of So, 600, 900 and had not made
| his will. The nearest heirs t-law is a
farmer rs years old.
The natives of the coast of New
Guinea, having no iron, shave them
selves now with Il piece of glass. For
merry they shaved with flint, which
they could sharpen quite well and used
with considerable deXtcriLy.
According to the Denver Republican
there are 1,500,00O cattle roaming
over the ranges Of Colorado, with n
valuation estimated ut $40. 900. 900.
The nominal value of sheep, horses,
mules and other live stock in the State
is put ut $l3,O00,0OO.
In Queensland immunity from pun
| ishment induces the white men 10 think
nothing of taking the lives of the hi
tives, and the latter are killed for steal
| ing few pieces of tobacco. rs was the
case with skipper at Dufanre Island.
For trifiing theft he shot three men
whom he suspected.
OF the native population of Texas. 90
| per cent is Southern aud The remain
| der of Northern extraction. OF the peo-
| pie who have settled in that state, New
| England has contributed 1904, the rest
OF the country north of the Ohio river
60, 3O5, and the older Southern States
have furnished 500 379.
A regulation is in force ut the Hague
by which every one in whose house an
| infectious disease exists is bound to
hang upon the front door q notice to
| that effect. and to state the nature OF
| the malady. so that any one whose
business takes them to the house may
risk the danger or not rs he sees fit.
There is living near Bonneville, Fla,
a colored man with the classical name
of Romeo, who is welded to fair maid
of his tribe called Juliet. This happy
couple have twins, whom they have
named Romulus and Remus. This in
teresting family is conveyed to church
on Sundays by q horse named Pontius
Plate.
The Empress Eugene is now busy on
tho book she has had in mind, if only
rarely in hand, since the death of the
| Prince Imperial, and arrangements are
already being made for the publication
of her memoirs. which will be pro-
duced simultaneously in England and
France. The book is being ''done"
into English under the supervision Of a
lady of the highest rank, to whom the
Empress is much attached.
DIR. Gamgee. of Birmingham, Eng,
has been interesting the Paris surgeons
with his artificial sponge. 1t is made
of cotton, rendered absorbent and
treated with antiSeptics. One of them
the size of a walnut will absorb water
until it reaches the dimensions of u
cricket ball. One of its most impor-
tant advantages is chcapness; this quail
ity makes it unnecessary to use it more
than once, so that sponge infection"
becomes an easily obviatcd evil.
1t appears that the Territory of Arr
IONA, instead of being wholly treeless
waste. has in its central portion an ex-
tensivc white pine forest. Last year
the mill at flagstaff. owned by Z. +.
Aver. of Chicago, President of the Mex
lean Lumber Company. cut $4,000. 600
out of 1000, 600, 600 feet of lumber the
forest is said to contain. Yards stocked
from this mill will be established at all
the principal towns on tho Mexican
Central railway.
The manager of a leading New York
business house shows his wisdom, ac-
cording to his own testimony, by ad-
vertising largely during the dull sea-
son. He says: Just us soon as we
find lull in trade we begin to do ex-
ira advertising and make larger in
ducements than ever. and we find peo-
pie will buy even in what are called
the dull months of the year if you will
make it an object for them, and also
let them know by a'well worded adj
vertisement just what you have got to
SELL"
Many beautiful and hitherto un-
known colors have been obtained in re.
: cent years by the chemical treatment