The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-07-17
GLEANINGS.
Lord Tennyson writes peerage poetry
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Lord Tennyson writes peerage poetry
exclusively now.
While Pennsylvania petroleum yield.
20 per cent of kerosene with large
residuum of lubricating oil, the Caspian
product yields but % per cent
of kerosene, with a refuse fit only
for fuel.
Buechi, the Berne anatomist, has
made brain model of gigantic size fol
an American museum. It is about -four
feet in height by two and half in
width, and shows the intricate mechan.
ism OF the brain in detail.
Statistics show that the statistical
craze has ragged among statisticians and
others for about five years, and stats
tics further show that the present sta.
tistical craze among statisticians and
others will die out entirely during the
present year.
The Connecticut Senate has passed
the bill providing state bounty of IL
cents to any person planting, protect
ing and cultivating elm, maple, tulip,
ash, Eastwood, oak, black walnut, hick-
DRY, apple, pear or cherry trees, not
more than sixty feet apart, for three
years. along any highway.
A correspondent of the New York
World says: "The Supreme Court OF
the United States, Mr.. Justice Miller
delivering Its unanimous opinion, in
1879 formally adopted the word shyster
as proper and legitimate addition to
the language. The World at the time
called attention to the fact. Since that
time the English Lord Chancellor, Bar.
on Selborne, the highest in rank, l be-
lieve, of the English Judges, has also
used the word, fact which learned
from the World. 1t is good word. "
Joseph Dennison, M. d., of this town,
recently amputated one toe from each
of the feet of four children in the fami-
ly of Captain Joseph Mitchell, in Hamp-
ton. The Captain has twelve children,
and five of the number had six toes on
each foot. This, of course, made their
feet uncomfortably wide, and the doc
tors services were called in. But four
were operated on; the fifth, little
girl, had very small feet, and the NAL
formation is not so noticeable. The
Captain himself has six fingers on each
hand. The popularity is said to be in
herited from his mothers side of the
acknowledgement (Nova Scotia
Monitor.
In Montgomery County, says a Ma
con journal, there is a pear tree eighty
seven years old, which has not failed to
bear q crop of fruit in over eighty
years. The tree was set out by Stat
ford Davis in 1898. The fruit resem-
bles the sand pear in shape and flavor.
The tree is six feet in circumference.
BY the way, it would not be amiss to
state that Mr.. Davis is now a resident
Of Worth County, where he removed
from Montgomery many years ago. He
is now 107 years old. He married four
years ago Cat the age Of 1857 young
lady of eighteen years of age. Mr.
Davis is farmer, and made goot
crop last year. He plowed regularly
through the working season.
The energetic Kissing nightly accord
ed to the heavy villain in the melodra
ma now running at the Baldwin re-
minds old residents of the first theatri
cal performance ever given in Virgins
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play for score of years, and wher
the tombstone troupe opened in ''Othel
lo'' the house presented a packed mas.
of red shirts. The then little famous
Edwin Booth was tho Iago, and 81
faithfully did he portray the traitorou.
friend that the audience lost control o.
itself, and in the second act begar
shooting at the fell conspirator. One
shot struck Othello's swordhilt, and al
hands had to lie down on the stage and
roll into the wings. The indignant
miners were finally quieted and the
play proceeded. but the final denoue.
ment was so taken to heart by the spec.
tators that Booth remained in the thea
tire all night for fear of the vigilantes,
who talked seriously of lynching the
"cold-blooded cuss'' off hand. Virgin
ia City (Nev.) Enterprise.