The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-03-06
GLEANINGs.

The largest wheat train yet reported
on the Northern Pacific had Ito cars,
and was three-quarters of mile long.
This country produces annually five
and half billion oysters, or, to state
the fact more clearly, one hundred
millions week.
A Philadelphia barber engages only
men with the understanding that they
remain silent, ask no questions and not
contradict the opinions OF the custom
ers.
The electric light 10 pronounced by
On English scientist, who claims to
have exhaustively examined into the
subject, the only illuminant by which
the surrounding atmosphere Is not VI
tiated.
Proprietor Singerly, OF the Philadel-
phia Record, who Is singularly fond Of
real estate investments, owns $50
houses in the Quaker City, and pro-
poses TO build $50 more, at On average
cost Of $4,000 each.
A lady In Nashville, Tenn, keeps
five cats, two dogs, two canaries, .
monkey, and swearing parrot, and
yet she is very indignant at her neigh
bors because they think that this do
mestic menagerie 10 q nuisance.
The blaze of . gas well near Pitts
burg has lured as many IS fifty wild
geese and duck to an untimely death.
The light deceives the poor birds and
they fly into the blaze. The heat is 90
intense that not even charred bone 10
left.
The Sacramento River puzzles the
Oldest inhabitants by its eccentric &C.
tons. When IL IL high at o certain
point ii Is quite low ct all points low
er down, and foods near its head are
no proof that there will not be o scarci-
ty Of water at its mouth.
II has been calculated that Vassar
College girls eat $500 pancakes every
morning. This Is equal to 1889, 900
pancakes year, which, with 90 aver
age diameter OF five inches, would ex-
tend 302 miles in straight line; or,
they could be built into single column
nearly eight miles high.
The camphor laurel, a native of
China, and the tree from which most
OF the camphOr OF commerce il obtain
ed, seems 10 have been introduced sue
cessfully into California, one tree In
Sacramento having attained q height
of thirty feet. The wood, every part
OF which smells strongly of camphor.
10 light and durable, not liable to in
jury from insects, and much favored by
cabinet-makers.
From the record of inundatiOns which
have for ages been the scourge of Hol-
land, il would appear that during the
thirteen centuries one Of the larger
foods has occurred on an average once
in seven years. About 500 years ago
the sea broke through its restraining
dykes and $1,000 persons are said to
have persisted. In single night in
1921. seventy-two villages and 100000
human beings were swept away.
Had the Chinese come in upon US
from the West in their unlimited
swarms, they might have made our
nation powerless to bless anybody very
long, and instead Of sharing Of bene-
fits with others, there would have been
no benefits to be shared. Il is proba-
BILE that the tide Of immigration was
already too great before the question
arose about admitting the Mon
golian race, Charity must end before
Il reduces the giver to rags.-Profsssor
Suing, Of Chicago.
A hotel is to be built in Pittsburg
seven stories high, with the kitchen on
the top floor, and an electric fire escape
In every room. The escape is to be
operated from the Office. BY touching
q button there the guests are stimuli
taneously aroused. every window thrown
open. and flexible ladder loosened
that reaches to the ground. The next
thing needed is an automatic appliance
to gently lift q man out of his bed and
deposit him in the patrol wagon. Some
men 90 to bed In hotels too drunk to
save themselves in any other way.