The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-02-06
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There are $3.50 postofiess In the
State Of PenuSylvAnh.
The now American Episcopal church
in Paris cost $500, 900.
The Chinese have known the ne Of
artssian wells from time immsmorial.
There are only sight lawyers IN Phil
adslphia that have benin practice over
80 year,.
Bismarck wants to have established
moro direct passenger communication
between Berlin and London.
There are 30 hunting packs in En-
gland, comprising 10000 hounds.
Their annual cost Is $4,000.
| Englishmen eat brown bread with
their oysters, while Americans only eat
lemon juice and pepper on them.
The Brewer gold mine in North Car.
olina has yielded more than d, 000. 900.
and the Dora Mine 9l,l00,o 900 and mp
ward.
BY paying his daughter $500 year
to run his kitchen, Lord Coleridgs
saved enough money to make the trip
to America.
John SwintOn says the saddest sound
heard In New York IL the hammering
OF the tough beef-steak set on boarding
house tables.
A Chinese doctor at Victoria, b. c..
Is reported TO have made some remark
| able cures In cases where white phys
icians have failed.
Hundreds Of people are said to b.
actually starving In the North Of En-.
gland, with many thousand more hum
cry and destitute.
The hot water cure has become .
craze. A New York druggist claims
he has 1000 disciples now swallowing
tumblerfuls before breakfast.
Miss NJ. E. Braddon, the most profit
lc Of English story writers,in privatelifs
10 Mrs. Maxwell. and owns up to have
reached the mature age Of ffty-six.
The total number Of hogs slaughter
ed annually 10 the United States r. esti-
mated at so, 000, 900. the average. Dress
ed weight being 175 pounds each
Pearl-rimmed eyeglasses of violet
color are now used extensively by fash
ionables of both sexes in New York.
The originator was a Vassar school
girl.
Bacon at Is cents pound, says the
Fort Worth Gazette, is q greater barrier
to the advancement and growth of
Texas than either short crops or lack of
water. ..
Eating a small piece of soap at stated
intervals is recommended by Berlin
physician as better remedy for dys-
pepsia and sour stomach than soda,
magnesia or lime water.
The best cabinet Rhine wine of the
vintage Of 1868 is reserved especially
for the imperial table at Berlin. It is
worth $3.50 a bottle. 1t is made
from grapes picked one by one out of
the Rhineish vineyards on account of
their perfection.
Many towns on the Pacific coast
forbid Indians to come within their
limits after nightfall--not because
the noble red man Is dangerous, but be-
cause he Is thief and sneak, and his
wife, who accompanies him, more upon
his order and for his profit.
General Berdan, of sharp-shootinr
fame, to whose daughter Mr.. F. Mar
ion Crawford has Just been married,
was sometime ago offered field mar
shalship by the Sultan, but he declined
it, saying he could never wear any 9TH
er than the American uniform.
Dom Pedro, when recently starting
on pleasure trip on q small steam
yacht down the Bahai ell Todos Santes,
from Rio de Janeiro, fell overheard,
and was hauled out of the briny by q
naval engineer officer and an army OIL
GER Both were made Barons.
Recent vital statistics show that un-
der the age Of fifteen there are more
boys than girls, but after the fifteenth
year there are more women than men.
and between the ages Of ninety and
one hundred the proportion 10 three TO
two IN favor Of women.
A literary man asked friend who
was personally familiar with the home
life OF the Lyttons whether he thought
Lord Lytton ever did really bite his
wife. The reply was: That I cannot
say; but know that II had l..Ysa -
ly week with her should have done
Washington is the paradise Of smok-
ers. A drummer says: There are
more cigars and tobacco used there
than any other place in this country of
its size. This is explained by the fact
that great many Of the Government
employees have nothing to do but sit
around, smoke and talk Of politics.
A Bostonian writes: II cured my
self of an annoying habit OF stammer-
ing by inhaling deep breath between
every few words, and by never allow
ing myself to speak unless the lungs
were fully inflated. A little careful at
tention soon made the practice habit,
and now never stammer unless much
excited"
After much experimenting DIR. Rich
ardson has found satisfactory means
Of causing painless death, and has intro
duced it into the Home for Lost Dogs
in London. The animals to be killed
are placed in chamber charged with
a mixture of carbolic oxide and chloro-
form vapor, when they TRANQUILITY fall
asleep and wake no more.
President-el Cleveland is a fine
dancer and will. it is said. "trip the
light fantastic toe" at his inaugural
ball. He. will be the first President
since Lincoln who would or could go
through the merry. may figures Of the
cotillion or reel. General Jackson and
wife danced at a ball, given In their
honor, to the tune Of "Possum up
Gum Tree. ~ augusta Chronicle.
Oscar Wilde suggests that for the fu-
ture ladies should leave offstays entire
~ and adopt the Eastern garb, notably
as regards the combinations and slip
pers. Like other geniuses. heis forget
ful Of details, and does not say how
slippers are to be worn on muddy day
In November. For men he recommends
the period of the Charleses as being the
most b. oming (not to say the most ex-
pensiveJ ge from which TO copy.
Representative j. Randolph Tucker,
the intimate friend Of Garfield, relates
that the latter once asked him IL he
knew where the National motto, '.E
Pluribus Unum." came from. Tucker
admitted that he did not. WELL" it
comes from description in Horace, of
the preparation Of Roman salad and
he turned to it. There. surely enough,
was the list Of ingredients. and the re-
mark that the result was sc pluribus
unum.
Lord Salisbury deserves his success.
for during his recent campaign in Scot
land he appeared on q railway platform
and addressed crowd, clad from his
waistband upward in full evening dress,
and below In full Highland Costume.