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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-02-27
The Mexican in His Glory.

A letter from the City of Mexico
says: "a Mexican grandee In eques-
TRAN costume Is the most stunning
sight to be seen In the entire country.
He often, including his saddle, wears
$1,000 worth of clothes and things.
From the crown Of his head to the soles
of his feet he is a thing to be admired
and wondered at. Beginning at the
top, his sombrero costs any where from
$50 to $3.50. No Thoroughbred gentle
man ever wears one worth less than
$25, and even the man who blacks your
boots has as much and sometimes more
than that invested In his hat. A friend
of mine, who was away all summer.
paid his footman, or 'portero, $42 back
wages on his return. The fellow spent
$50 for a sombrero, and gave the bal.
ance to his family. Then the eques-
trian has handsomely embroidered
velvet or cashmere jacket, q pale pink
sash. silver-mounted revolver In Q sill
ver-mounted belt, O sword that Il
worth $50 or S75, solid silver buttons.
sometimes in double rows with loops
or chains down the seams Of his trous-
ers, which are often of leather. Then
his silver spurs and patent-lsather
boots sit gracefully upon silver-plated
stirrup, which is attached to o saddle
that may be worth anywhere from CSC
to $500. Suits for boys 10 and ~ years
of age, with full outfit. from sombrero
to sword, can be purchased, and are
often seen on dusky youngsters riding
out with their papas or grooms."
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-02-27

When q new drama has proved sue
cessful, it is customary for the audience
TO call the author before the curtain,
They have curiosity to see what sort
OF man it is that created the play that
has amused and instructed them. There
is something very much like this in re.
gard to our great newspapers; their edi-
torial utterapces are ali anonymous, but
there is generally tradition of some
half-shadowy parsonage who has estab-
lished the journal, given it its character,
and constantly directs it; and the public
like to have him come before the curtain
now and then, TO address them in his
own person. This Murat Halstead, OF
the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, has
done in the March number of the ,Nort,
American Review, to which he contributes
an article on 1.-THE Revival of Sectional
ISM" In the same number, Archdeacon
Farrar presents his views on Future
Retribution," and Prof. N. X. Davis
discusses 1.-THE Moral Aspects of Viyi-
section" in q way that brings together
briefly nearly everything that any person
OF note has said on the subjects. Max
Muller describes the astonishing ideas
Of the Buddhists on the subject of Char.
ity, and John George Romanes opens
upa great subject with an article on
Mind in Men and Animals" The 9TH
er articles are one by President Gilman
on Titles Chiefly scholastic), one by
Judge John A. Jameson on Speculation
in Politics." and one by John w. John
ston on Railway Land-grants."
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-02-27
Loss and Gain.
CHAPTER
II ws M, taken s'1,s DC. . 2 year ago

II Wae tdken e1ck year ago
With bilious fever"
my doctor pronounced me cured, but
I got sick again, with terrible pains In
my back and sides, and ! got 90 bad
Could not move
shrunk!
From 22S lbs. to 1901 had been doc.
good. l did not expect to live more
Bitters. Directly my appetite returned
my pains left me, my entire system
seemed renewed as il by magic, and af
ter using several bottles, am not only
as sound as sovereign, but weigh more
than did before. To Hop Bitters ]
owe my life." r. FiTzPATRIcK.
Dublin, June 6, 81.
CHAPTER II.
"Malden, Mass, Feb. I, 1880. Gentlemen
! have suffered with attacks of sick headache
Neuralgia, female trouble, for years IN
the most terrible and excruciating man
ner.
No medicine or doctor could give me
relief or cure, until used Hop Bitters.
THE first bottle
Nearly cured me-"
The second made me as well and stronI
as when child,
and have peen so to this day."
My husband was an invalid for twenty
years with serious
"Kidney, liver and urinary complaint
Pronounced by Boston's best physi
Clans
"Incurable - 10.
Seven bottles of your Bitters cured hin
and know of the
elves of eight persons"
In my neighborhood that have beer
saved by your bitters,
And many more are using them witt
great benefit.
''They almost
Do miracles?" Mrs. II. ID. Sldk.
How TO GET sIcK.-Expose yourself da!
and night; eat too much without exercise
| work too hard without rcst; doctor all tn
| time; take all the vile uostrums advertised
and then you want to know how 10 get Iesl
which Is answered In three words-Take Hol
Bitters.
~ None genuine without bunch o
gre en- Hops on tho white label. Shun all tn
vile, poisonous stuff with "Hop" or "Hops
/ In their name.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-02-27
Tha alaan Of Death.

The mode of death TO which the ami
mails are subject Is that by anmsthesia,
not by sohocation or asphyxia. oPhysi-
ologically, there is O distinctive differ
ence between these modes of death.
Death by an@sthesia Is death by sleep;
death by asphyxia is death by depriva.
ton of air. Death by an@sthesia is typ.
ically represented in death by chloro-
form; death by asphyxia Is typically
represented in drowning, or in INNER.
sion in carbonic-acid gas. When proper
ly carried out, death by anesthesia il by
far the most certain and least violent OF
the two processes, although both are
probably painless. 1t is worthy of rec.
ord, however, that all animals are not
equally susceptible to the action of the
narcotic vapors. Cats, for instance, lie
asleep much longer than dogs before
they cease to breathe. They fall into
sleep as rapidly as dogs, but do not pass
80 quickly INTO the final sleep. There ID
difference between different animals
of the same kind. Some dogs die al,
most instantly-in fact, as they fall
asleep; others fall asleep and continue
to sleep for several minutes before they
cease to live. In the first observations
before had rendered the narcotic at.
mosphere over-poweringly active for al
cases, there were few instances, nine
in the first seven hundred, in which the
animals slept on from half an hour unit
an hour after all their comrades haG
died. Finding out this strange peculiar
ity, increased the amount of narcotic
vapor until all succumbed very nearly
at the same minute, and in the last sia
thousand there has been no recurrence
of the prolonged insensibility. The ami
mails are now commonly all asleep in
from two to three minutes, and have
ceased to exist in further period of the
same duration.-From "The Painless En-
tinction Of Life" by DR.. B. W. Richardson
in Popular Science Monthly for March.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-02-27
The Bugbear Gold.

.Cold as Q bugbsar causes people .
oyercrowd their beds with wooden
stuffs, blankets, and suchliko. The bed.
clothing. even for old people, should be
light, though warm. There Is nothing
better than sider.down, when you can
get IT, The night-dresses Of old people
should be comfortable, and especially
should they be. warm through the
shoulders; this Is the place which cold
likes, as foe, to assail about s In the
morning, when the morsel of fire has
got low or gone out. Let them beware
Of It'll
"Cold as q bugbear plays much mis-
chief In the nursery. Thousands of
children In this country are coddled to
death, and many actually stifled In bed.
They call It being overlaid; II Is being
smothered. That Ia the right name
for it.n
"But the children must be kept
warmp"
BLESS their innocence! yes. The bed
as soft as down, the clothes as soft as
soft can be, but smooth withal,
without any tendency to rumple up, or
cover mouth or face. This Is warmth;
this Is comfort. The room, too, should
be moderately warm; no more, pray
you; and the air ought to be as pure
and sweet as the odor Of roses. Is 1t so
In most nurseriesp Nay, for your bug
bear cold steps in and seals doors and
windows. No wonder that when baby
wakes up 1t Is poevish and fretful.
"Your bugbear cold Is the best friend
your tailor has, for even the young men
wear double the weight Of clothes on O
winters day than they ought to. They
sweat themselves In consequence, so
cold, the foe, steps In and ends many q
life. Top-coats, In my opinion, should
never be worn, except while riding by
rail. or driving, or when standing
about in draught; then they cannot
be too thick and coy. II worn at all
when walking, they should be very
thin. Very light waterproofs should be
worn when walking in winter-worn
| over the arm. ] mean, and never put
on except when 1t Is raining. But the
warmer the socks the better, and the
shoes ought to be moderately strong
and thick, for many an ailment Il
caught from standing about on damp,
cold ground.
Damp is much more to be dreaded
than cold, but even this should not
be made bugbear Of; would rather
have damp inner clothing than a damp
coat; the understanding, indeed, of
everyone who perspires freely and east
ly Ii seldom, II ever free from damp.
When I was newly married, sir, the
little woman who owns me used to air
my handkerchiefs, my newspaper, and
my table-napkin. She knows better
now. But preserve me and you. and
everyone from sleeping in a damp
room. "-A family Physician in Cas-
sells Magazine for FEB.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-02-27
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly

For fch is an unusually interesting
number, combining as II does articles OF
presentinterest with those of permanent
value. 1t opens with q careful study by
Isle Lester of Madame Ristort, with q
portrait and several illustrations In char
acter. Prof. Charles A. Joy contributes
an article on q Jersey Cattle-farm, and
Oscanyan furnishes an extremely inter.
esting paper on "The Armenians." "The
Story of Queen Matilda of Denmark and
Count Struenzee" il valuable historical
contribution by F. st. John Brenon, and
Something about Children's Books"
with its quaint fac-simile illustrations,
shows us the juvenile literature loved BY
our grandparents when they were boys
and girls. pate de Foie Gras, by NJ
gent Robinson will appeal to the gourmet,
and Staten Island, its Past and its Pres.
emit" by j. Barnitz Bacon, to the local
antiquarian, while the naturalist will be
equally interested in "rhe Origin of our
Domesticated Animals" by the Rev. M
G. Watkins. The eminent traveller and
author, David Ker, is represented by
two articles, the one "a Meeting with
Afghan Robbers" and the other, From
Sebastopol to Kief," both thrilling and
interesting. All these articles are fully
illustrated. The serial story, 'The Death
mark, " reaches its twenty-fifth chapter,
and there are several short stories and
some beautiful poems. The miscellany
is well selected and entertaining. Pub
lished by Mrs. Frank Leslie, SO, IS and
SO Park Place, New York.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-02-27

Or. Peter Collier, who was formerly
associated with the National Agricul-
tural Bureau as chemist, has publicly
announced that sugar can be made
rom sorghum for o cent pound. II
this Is true. then it certainly Is not only
important but startling. As we are the
great sugar-eaters of the wo Id, con-
'uming $500, 600, 900 pounds every year
and paying about 800, 10000 0 for It, 1t
10 matter of surprising interest to
as that DR.. Collier shall explain how he
ian make sugar for a cent pound.
he is an expert in the business and
ought to know what he is talking about
e he Is correct, we are paying five times
nore than We ought for our sugar. -
CHICAGO Tribune.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-02-27
Arguments mnltitudinous have bee

Arguments multitudinous have been
employed to convince the chronic news
parer borrower, that 1t is contemplate
to SO openly impose on his generous
neighbors, but the following practical
demonstration should be all convincing:
"a great newspaper reader was ont
hunting recently, and storm coming on
he crept into hollow log for shelter.
After the storm abated he endeavored
to crawl out, but found the log swelled
80 that 1t was impossible for him to make
his exit. He endeavored to compress
himself as much as possible, with fndif.
ferent success. He thought of all the
mean things he bad done until finally
his mind reverted TO the fact that in
stead of subscribing for the local paper
he was in the habit of borrowing it from
his neighbor, and thus defrauding the
printer. On this he felt 80 small that
he slipped out of the log without an eff
forf -
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-02-27
RoIossY Kiralrx,s joke.

The city Is full Of adventures who
claim to be professionals, journalists,
and all sorts Of people from all parts Of
the country, who imagine that they
ought to have free admission to the
theatres. though they can in no way
reciprocate or benefit the managers.
On Of these tackled Bolossy Kiralfy fol
pass to the St. Charles Theatre the
other night. Bolossy can smell dead.
head a mile away, and Is always pre-
pared. After hearing the request he
said: "That Is all right; that Is all
right; you must see my brother Imre. "
Thank you, thank YOU" said the pass
fiend. moving about to find the other
kiralfy. After awhile he came back
looking unhappy, and asked: where
Is Mr.. 1mrsp" THAT is al right; that
Is all right" said Bolossy; ''my brother
1mre 10 In New York, but he will see
you when he comes. "-M q. Ricayuns.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-02-27
A FASHION MAGAZINE.

II is prominently magazine for women
and everything relating 10 woman's Dress
Employment, Education and Amusement finds
nlace I'm IT'S DAUaa
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-02-27
The Prince OF Wales Double.

When a man Is taken by q barber
into the back room of shop, or behind
a curtain, instead of being reclined IN q
public chair, the supposition is that
dye Is to be used on him. Therefore,
when / changed to get a glimpse of
what was going on in an obscure corner
of my barber's establishment, l was
astonished to see that 1t was not the
common practice Of hiding gray hair.
Nothing was being done to the natural
brown of the subjects beard or cram
ium, but on the top of his head the deft
scissors of the artisan were causing
baroness. Artificial badness was be-
ing caused. When the man emerged,
there was mere lock left on his poll,
and this remnant was carefully parted
in way to make the utmost of it, as
though the hirsute scarcity was a mat
ter Of regret. The barber regarded the
secret as a professional one, not to be
divulged, and I owe it to chance that
l am able to give the true explanation.
The badness was artitically created in
order to complete a likeness to the
Prince of Wales. / forbear to name
this proud double of Victoria's heir, but
no belongs to locally well-known
family, and Is q familiar loungcr at
places of fashionable resort. Nature
has given him the big nose, slightly
bullying eyes, pouting lips, and general
outlines Of Wales, and he perfects the
semblauce by trimming full beard
and thinning the hair. In his address,
too, he initiates the original. He spent
n SEASON in Iondon and IL Ia sold thot
on one occasion he was mistaken for
the Prince. That event decided his
career. All his hours are hours of leis-
ure, and his purse is long. suppose
he will 60 on posing as a counterpart
Of royalty to the end Of his life.--NeIo
York Correspondence Buffalo Express.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-02-27
The ALASKA Glacier.

Alaska's magnificent glacier drags
slowly on its dreary way at the proba-
BILE rate Of a quarter of a mile per year.
At the face or front 1t presents per-
pendicular wall of Ice 500 feet thick,
and varies from to 10 miles in width,
extending back to the north probably
$50 miles. Hundreds of tons Of ice are
falling of the face of this great glacier
every few minutes into the bay, splash
ing the water more than fifty feet high,
and rolling up waves that toss the ships
like small toy boats. The appearance
Of the ice, the most pure in the world,
Is dazzling to the eye, all the tints of
blue, from the most delicate to the
deepest indigo, being represented.
The top surface abounds with little
hillocks and miniature mountains of
Ice. Great areas of earth, gravel, and
large rocks the size OF house are car
ried on the top of this ice-field from
placo to place, as this great foe, more
than thousand feet deep of solid ice,
moves toward the ea.-Philadelphia
Record.
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Seven Manuals of Fancy Work

For s. so will be sent postpaid, the Domestic
Monthly for one year, aud
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-02-27
THE DOMESTIC MONTHLY
FASHION AND LITERATURE

For 1888 will complete its XXI. Volume. II
is a proiusely illustrated magazine OF 70 large
400 h,ANnfl.h tn
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Good Sound Praachino

The minister of q fashionable church
in Harrisburg, who was being continual.
ly interrupted by the violent coughing
of one of his flock, stopped suddenly in
the midst of his sermon and requested
the congregation to take up collection
for the purpose of supplying the noisy
brother with bottle of Red Star Cough
Cure. This nswly-dlscovered anti-nar
cotic remedy is becoming extremely
popular on account of. its wonderful
efficacy. Postmaster Adreon, of Balti
more, endorses 1t highly, and the Com
missioner of Health Of the same cit,
certifies officially that it is a most vain
able and effective discovery.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-02-27

Eyes, I was one of the pioneer jour
nalists on the Pacific coast" said Ed
ward G. Kimball to reporter for the
New York Mail and Express, and right
well do ! remember what tough time
we newspaper men used to have among
the miners and desperadoes of those
early days. left New York in 1916,
on the clipper ship Brooklyn for San
Francisco. took with me an old
fashioned Ramage wooden printing
press, such as is now on exhibition at
the museum in Washington, a few
fonts of long primer and BREWER type,
and o small stock Of medium-sized pa
per. The voyage around the Horn
consumed six months. On arriving
at Yerba Buena, for that was the name
by which the present city of San Fran
cisco was then known, hunted about
some time before l could find a place
to set up my press. At length / hired
loft in an old windmill, and a day or
two later opened the first newspaper
Office that had been established in the
town. The Star was the name OF my
venture. The first issue contained
news already six months old. That
made no difference to the boys about
town, as the paper contained the first
intelligence OF events In the east which
they had seen for months. The Star
was medium-sized sheet, having
three columns to the page, and was
sold at 122 cents copy. My first sup
plement contained an account of the
battle Of Buena Vista, and was receiv-
al NTH vnuoh eur,nrioa hr y,x on, hso,;k
ers. / got many compliments for my
enterprise In publishing the account OF
the battle, although 1t had taken place
five months before. 1t Is needless to
say that was obliged to do all the
writing, type-setting, and press-work
on the paper myself. / wrote and COM
posed my editorials in type while stand
ing at the case. Soon after ] had be-
come well established in my windmill
Office, the mining fever broke out, and
being unable to resist the fever myself,
announced in my paper one morning
that had decided to start for the min
ing country at once, but promised my
readers that should my life be spared,
would come back sometime and con-
tnue the publication Of the Star. So,
in the language Of the town, ! pulled
mp stakes, packed my printing-press
and outfit in cart, and started for
Sacramento. Finding the same diff
Guilty there that I had experienced in
San Francisco In obtaining a place for
an Office, ] concluded to build an Of
flee. which ] did, although timber
could be bought only at fabulous prices.
and shingles cost $3.50 per thousand.
In that hut started the Placer Times,
the first newspaper established in Sac
ramento. The sun was so hot the first
summer that 1t melted the rollers with
which the ink was applied to the type,
and so had rough time of it In get
ting out my weekly.
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Everyday foiiteness.

It is astonishing how many people
there are in the world who do not know
intuitively what common polteness
dictates; but still more astonishing
how many there are who, knowing
what II dictates, DO not seem to reflect
that in discarding the rules of polite
ness they indirectly sacrifice themselves
by ignoring rules deduced for the CON-
fort Of all from the experience of man.
kind; for the purpose, first Of all, to
prevent mankind's treading on each
others toes, and then, in the higher
grade. to make their pathway through
life pleasant. Trifes, 1t Is said, make
mp the sum Of life; but, paradoxically,
nothing is, therefore, triie that goes
to make up a sum which, for the most
favored of mortals, may indeed be in
excess of his deserts, but which is for
any one never absolutely great. 1t Is
only by making the fund Of comfort a
great tontine that mon, women and
children can secure the full amount OF
whatever life has in 1t of possible en-
joyment. Philadelphia Telegraph.
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CHEAPEST GOOD MAGAzINE.

The Domestic Monthly presents every year
900 pages OF choice original matter and over
Go Illustrations engraved expressly for It. II
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The Good Ola Times.

"What sort of an old man will the
present young man maker" asked the
old State street horse car conductor,
as he tried to pass plugged quarter
on one Of the passengers.
1.-THE old man of to-day Is sort of a
decaying landmark of the good old
times when it was the fashion to wear
one hat all tho year around and flaps
were stylish on pantaloons The old
man of to-day can sit down and tell
you about the time when there wasn't
no steam cars and no street cars, and
when q wildcat bill went the same as
gold. He know'd General jackson and
Scott, and was in the Seminole war and
at Monterey. He danced the Virginia
reel when he was young man on the
grass, and courted his wife at candy
Iulliu' and married under an apple
tree and had an Unfair the day after.
Them was the good days. How l re-
member them myself. But tho old
men of to-day who tell you these stories
are gettin' mighty few, and they are
generally crowded in the corner. i
sometimes see 'em on this car when it
is crowded, and they have to stand up
all the way. see these young things
ridin' up and down that they call
dudes. They are dressed like dolls,
and are perfumcd all over with essences,
and wear tight pantaloons and silk hats
and round top hats and long coats like
u coachman. They live just like but.
terHies. Tell me what kind of old men
they'll makep What'll they know,
and what'll they have to tellp When
think of 1t I'm glad to think won't be
here to see 'em. I'd rather die than
to have to live to see such a thing.
The idee of dude gettin' to be an old
man! No, sir. don't want to sec that
sight. They'll be q disgrace to old
age and gray hairs. "-Chicago Herald.
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DOMESTIC MONTHLY,
BROADWAY, Cor. 18th STREET,
p. o. Box 1896. NEW YoRK