The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-11-06

The latest fancy in note paper is of a
distressingly bright red tint, and it Is
known as FL Mehdi.
In Garfield county, Colorado. there
are 137 single men and only sixty-eight
unmarried women.
Paper is taking the place of wood in
the manufacture of lead pencils. Gas
pipes are also made Of paper.
The potato, introduced in England
in 1000, was first eaten rs asweetmeat,
stewed in sack wine and sugar.
Five thousand cigarettes are habitu-
ally sent by a North Carolina manufac-
tory to the church fairs the managers
hear of.
The municipal debts of the five prin-
cipal cities OF New York are: New
York, 800. 844. 05G; Brooklyn. $37, 49,
$50; Buffalo, S7,97l. 267; Rochester,
So, 2S4, 900, and Albany. So 1913, 900.
Thomas Stevens, who lraversed
America OH a bicycle tour round the
world, and has crossed Europe,
writes back that good country roads
are the exception in this country, but
common in the parts of the old world
through which he has passed.
Paper baskets for farm and factory
use are now manufactured. The rims
are protected by n wooden hoop on
each side, both nailed together, and the
large baskets (two-bushel size) are
strengthened by wooden ribs, and fur
nished with iron bottoms and ribs.
The Buffalo Courier is posing as Mrs
Toodles in regard to the Niagara Falls
park. 1t computes that in something
like II million years the falls will have
rcceded beyond the parks limits, and
the expense incurred to secure it for
the public will have been useless.
Lenses of rock crystal taken from
the ruins of Nineveh," said Il member
at the meeting OF the microscopes in
Cleveland the other day, Suggest
that microscopes may have been used
in those days" No one knows, in,
deed, who did invent the magnifyine
glass.
.'For tifty-three years." says Gen.
Toombs, my dear wife was my CON
stant friend. companion, and adviser.
We Travelled four continents of the
world together and visited many is
lands of the seas. Now she is waiting
for me, with the same sweet faith she
SO well illustrated here"
An Improvement has been devised
on the old-fashioned ''scarecrow"-a
pole supporting Il dilapidated hat ant
tattered coat and trousers stuffed witt
straw. 1t is Il scarecrow windmill with
sleigh-bells attached. The wind makes
the fan go round. and it jingles the
bells, greatly to the annoyance of the
crows,
Rev. Edward Everett Hale believes
in good living, and considerable of it,
for the literary man. He works from
thirty to sixty minutes before break
fast on a cup of weak coffee and
soda biscuit. He has five meals after
that. A hearty breakfast is one, al
extended lunch is another. dinner a
half-past 2 is the third, tea at 6 or =;
the fourth, and supper jnst before bed
time Tie nth. Never go to bed il
any danger of being hungry" is ont
of his notices. People are KEEP
awake by hunger quite as much as by
a bad conscience"
There have been some curious cause.
of fire in New York within the last few
months. One woman let a roast GEL
on fire in the oven, and the blazing la
ran all over the kitchen floor. The fire
in a smoke house got SO hot that the
hams and sides of bacon blazed up anG
the flames poured out OF the doors anG
threatened to burn the whole building.
Stacking lime fired one building. In
twenty-seven cases the flames burst
spontaneously from piles of rags Oh
rubbish, fifteen of the piles being only
rags. In two cases some men care.
lessly exposed some phosphorus tC
the air SO that it blazed. Sulphur was
fired in another case while workmer
were handling it. The friction Of ma
chinery fired two different shops.