The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-04-03
GLEANINGS.

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ern Australian coast valued ut $50, 900
1t is said that japanese women hay,
never seen and do not know the use o
pins.
The Smiths now at Yale Colleg
number fifteen and at Harvard no los
than tweaty-three.
Miss Cleveland, the future mistress
OF the White House, Is said to possess
the rare faculty of never forgetting .
face or the name that goes with it.
The Emperor of Russia has an annua
salary of $S,2l0,000; the Emperor O
Austria, 81, 900, 600; Victoria, so, 200, 900
The royal plate of st. James Palace il
worth SlO,OOO.OOO The Queens hair
dresser gets $4,000 q year.
The wealthiest man in the world Il
the Chinese banker, Han-Qua, of Can
ton. He pays taxes upon an estate O
f9O, OOO, 900, and is estimated to b,
worth 1000. 900, 900 taels, which, in oul
money, would be about 81, $50, 900, 600
A Dublin authority says that unit
the marriage of the present Queen NJ
English nobleman travelled on a railway
in England. He sent his baggage by
rail, but travelled by coach, so that hi
might not meet tradesmen on the same
level.
Acknowledgement Drum is said to
agree with Gen. o. o. Howard in the
opinion that deserters from the army
ought to be branded. He says thai
during the last five years 10,901 sol.
diers have deserted from the regular
army-or nearly every other man.
In small blasts l pound of powder
will loosen about 4! tons; in large
blasts, pound of powder will loosen
about % tons. One man can bore,
with bit l inch in diameter, from sc
inches to 100 inches per day of 10 hours
in granite, or 800 inches to 400 inches
per day in limestone.
In Oregon the coyotes have killed
enough sheep this season to pay all the
herders employed. These destructive
brutes lie concealed in tall grass OF
among rocks or brush, and when band
of sheep is allowed to scatter they attack
them, and are not satisfied with killing
the sheep, but as soon as one has been
fatally wounded they fly to another and
Stay as many as possible.
There are in existence rather more
than 40 Egyptian obelisks. OF these
England possesses 4; America, l; Ger.
many, l; France, 2; Italy Gncludine
Rome, which has 12), II, and Constan.
tinoplc, 2. The remainder, many OF
which are fallen or broken, are still in
Egypt. The smallest is the Lepsius
obelisk in the Royal Museum at Berlin,
which is two feet one and half inches
high and weighs 200 pounds ;the largest,
unfinished, of Assouan' still in quarries
at Syene, the estimated weight of which
is rather more than 800, 900 pounds.
A German forest keeper, 80 years old
not wishing to carry to the grave an
important secret had published in the
Leipsic Journal recipe he had used
for fifty years, and which he says has
saved several men and great number
OF animals from horrible death by
hydrophobia. The bite must be bathed
as soon as possible with warm vinegar
and water, and when this has dried, q
few drops of muriatic acid poured upon
the wound will destroy the poison of the
saliva and relieve the patient from all
present or future danger.
A series of astronomical observations
will soon begin at the Naval Observa-
tory to determine, with the utmost
nicely, the latitude of the spot where
the instrument is located. Two years
will be required for the work. Similar
series of observations will be made by
the Portuguese astronomers at Lisbon,
and ultimately at national observatories
in several other parts of the world.
The purpose of these undertakings is to
secure a standard by which comparison
may be made ten, twenty and fifty
years hence, to determine if in the mean
geographical changes, which are sup.
posed to be taking place in the center
of the globe, have altered the position
of its center of gravity.