The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-09-18
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Two per cent ofthe voting population
Of Bell County. Kentucky, is charged
with murder.
| There are 248 cities and towns in the
United States having a population of
10000 and upwards.
| Cremation in Paris will soon be avail
able for the general public at the small
cost of 81 so for each operation.
The descendants of the common brook
trout sent to Tasmania have shown q
remarkable tendency to vary In shape
and markings. Furthermore, they are
migrating to salt water, and thus be-
| coming anadromous. The same Is true
of the New Zealand acclimatants.
There are some thirty Postoffices men,
toned by q Washington letter writer
as paying their incumbents less than
III a year. The postmaster at Redalia,
| N. G. drew nine cents last year, but
under the 2-cent rate 1t Is probable he
will not receive more than six cents.
Ex-Governor Anthony once said:
1.-THE average Kansas town will vote
bonds to buy a can to tie to dogs
tail" Many Kansas towns that ten
years ago had bright prospects are to-
day as dead as an Egyptian mummy
because of recklessness in going into
debt.-Abiiene (Kas.) Chronicle.
Take slip of paper and place there
on, in figures, your age in years, drop
ping months. weeks and days. Multiply
the sum by q; then add to the result
obtained the figures 3. 1858; add 2, and
then divide by two. Subtract from the
result obtained the number of your
years on earth and see if you do not
obtain figures you will not be likely to
forget.
There is an old lamp-post on the cor
ner of Whitehall and Alabama streets,
in Atlanta, in front of the james Bank,
that bears the scar made by one of
city twenty-one years ago. A shell ex-
ploded and part of it went through
the hollow post, about two feet from
the ground. and another cut away the
top of the stone corner post, which still
does service.
The death of Is. U. Shines, of Milton
Mills, recalls an incident that occurred
about thirty years ago. He was u mer-
chant and very shrewd man. One
day he discovered that his till had been
robbed, and he resolved to say nothing
about it to any one, not even to the
members of his family. Some three
months afterward one of his customers
said TO him: "Did you ever find out
who took that money out of your tillp"
Mr.. Shines replied: 81 never have till
now, but now l know it was you, as l
have never told any one that lost it,"
And he made the man pay him the
amount. - Worcester
Four miles back from the coast of
Southern New Jersey are the ruins of
tn, deserted village of Allaire. The
place was the Utopian dream of James
ID. Allaire, a wealthy visionary, who
built it about 1910, embodying various
reformatory and socialistic ideas. He
intended that it should be a manufac-
turing center, with stores where the in
habitants could buy at low prices, and
with schools for the higher education
of all the children. The enterprise was
quick and total failure. The walls of
the factories are tumbled down and
overgrown, and cracked bell lies at
the foot of the steeple from which it fell
years ago.
Cold water bathing may prove bene-
fetal or injurious. The readiest test
OF benefit is the glow of free surface
circulation, or ut least the absence of
any decided chill after immersion.
Those who take to it should begin in
summer, not winter, and so become
gradually accustomed to its lowest
temperature. No one should linger over
it; three or four minutes are ample.
After immersion the body should be
quickly and well dried and rubbed be-
fore dressing. Light gymnastic or
dumb-bell or club exercise may occupy
the next few minutes, the clothes being
partly on if the weather Is cold, and
breakfast, or cup of warm tea or cof-
fee. should shortly follow, to prevent
chilling
Five years ago remarkably bright
and pretty girl of seventeen worked in
San Francisco laundry. The son OF
wealthy parents fell in love with her.
She returned his passion, but said she
would not marry him, as he wished,
because she was uneducated and coarse.
Then he offered to send her away to
school. She accepted this offer. Du-
ring the ensuing four years she was in
Montreal convent, very apt and stu
dious. The training wrought all the
change that was desirable, and the
wedding took place, with long tour
in Europe afterward. The couple re-
turned to San Francisco lately. To
show that she had neither forgotten
nor was ashamed of her former en-
ployment, the bride gave q grand sup
per to those of her old companions who
could be brought together.
Miss Ramie Austin, an actress. has
had herself photographed as the Barth-
oldi Liberty. The artist is the same
who photographed well-known act
ress in the act of swinging vigorously
from a high belfry, her hands clasped
to the tongue of the bell, under which
he caused to be placed the familiar
legend, "Curfew shall not toll tonight"
picture had been suspended full length
upon an invisible wire running up from
the floor Of the photograph gallery at
q steep angle. He also photographed
Ida Mule in impossible positions. Miss
Austin in form and features is we'll fit
ted for the undertaking. She was en-
veloped in a brOnze-cOlored garment
which chung in graceful folds about her
figure, her white arms holding the tab
let and torch.
Mr.. Meiggs carried his famous rail-
road from Lima TO the crest of the An
DIES, over three miles high, at cost of
1927, 600. 900 and 1000 human lives, but
died before completing it. About fifty
miles of track remain to be built. A
contract for its construction has just
been made by a brother of Mayor Grace
of New York. 1t is said that the sem
sation of riding up this railroad, tOgeth-
err with the rapid ascent from the sea
level to the mountains crest, produces
a sickness called .'sirocche," often IA
tai, and usually sending people to bed
for several weeks. The symptoms are
q terrible pressure upon the temples,
nausea, bleeding at the nose and cars,
and faintness. but the effects can be
avoided by taking precautions and OBJ
serving rules that experience has sug-
gested. the chief one being to drink
glass of brandy and keep perfectly
quiet as the slightest degree OF exer-
else will floor the strongest man.
Prof John M. Langston's admission
to the United States supreme court was
on motion of Con. Garfield. in one OF
the most eloquent speeches ever made
by him. An interesting incident oc-
cured just after the professor was ad-
mitted. While Garfield was making
his address, Judge Jeremiah Black was
standing by, apparently well pleased
with what was taking place. Langston
got the idea that he was Thaddeus