The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1885-07-03

DAAIoin OuyS uoT pOSLal caro- supply
from Germany; the last order given the
successful bidder being 10000. 900
cards.
After serving ten years in the peni-
Tertiary for murder. Memphis negro,
after his release, called at the police
station and demanded the gun used by
MIN In committing the crime.
West Virginia has two tin mines in
successful operation. One is near the
city OF Huntington, Cabell county, and
the other about five miles from Grants
wife, IN Calhoun county, on Laurel
river.
Sixty thousand New Workers use
roller skates, and there are over five
hundred Of the manufactures in the
United States, who sell 10000 pairs q
week. The business gives employment
to 100000 men.
Before l left Vienna they told me
that the Americans were a nation of
liars; that / would find them all brag
and buster. Now, when l shall 90
back and tell them all have seen they
will say am liar, toe" Herr Som
aenthdl.
Fig trees flourish everywhere in CAL
ifornia except high up on the noun
tains, and the cultivation of them is an
exceedingly profitable industry. A
man in Los Angeles county last season
sold 1862. IA worth of figs from only
one acre.
An experienced theatrical trainer, an
Englishman, says that American girls
learn the elements of the profession
much more rapidly than do their En-
glish sisters, and manifest, what is rare
abroad, desire to master every branch
OF the art, including stage manage
ment.
The gold ring which Hoosick, N.
T., man lost in his stable several weeks
since, was found few days ago press
ed over the calk in the shoe of horse
that was being shod. The horse had
been driven all over the neighboring
country every day in the meantime,
but, singular to relate, the ring We
not injured.
A little Schenectady girl plays a nice
| game this way: She rings house bell
about dusk. When the door is opened
she sobs violently, saying that she has
lost cents near by, and wants q Ian
tern to look for 1t. Instead of Ian
tern, which she does not want, she is
given the cents which she does want.
Then she goes on to the next house.
Nesobury Register.
Sardou is thus described By the Paris
correspondent of the Philadelphia Iele-
graph: HE is very peculiar looking,
is the author Of 'Theodora,' small and
spare in figure, and alert and bright
eyed as lizard. The lower part OF his
face has something of the fine antique
mold of the same portion of the coun-
tenance of Edwin Booth. He spoke
with enthusiastic delight of two of the
Interpreters Of his work-namely: Sar.
ah Bernhardt and the elder Coquelin."
Nottoway county, Virginia, the re-
gion inhabited by the first settlers, and
made interesting by "reminiscences of
Captain John Smith and Pocahontas, is
fast returning to its primeval condition.
''In twenty years 1t will be wilder
ness" prophesies visitor. The resi-
dents are old and sad. Tho young
have gone to more promising regions.
Deer browse where cattle fed, and the
oak and pine cover great plantations
where the negro once cultivated corn
and tobacco.
The Duchess of Norfolk claims the
possession of the finest rubies in the
United Kingdom. Any woman of
reasonable means may wear diamonds,
but only an imperial wealth ever per-
mits her to number rubies among her
jewels. The Duchess of Norfolk would
undoubtedly give all these priceless gems
to obtain sight for her little son, whose
future Is shrouded in mental as well as
in physical darkness; but the oldest
and richest Dukedom in England can
not buy health for its sole heir.
1t is said by some one curious in
these matters that there is not Chin
ney nor q cooking-stove in Havana;
not carpeted room nor feather pill
low. This is but another way Of saying
that there, with good sense, the people
know how to adapt their domestic
economy to the torrid character Of the
climate; but here in our Northern cities
the cooking-stove, the chimney the
carpet and other heat-engendering par
aphernalia are in full blast Just the
same when the mercury is SO in the
shade as when it Is below zero. (Which
is the barbarianp"
A 'new' method of dressing
wounds, by which their healing is said
to be fastened, and the pain made to
disappear at once, has been brought
into public notice by French surgeon,
though it has for ages been practiced
by skillful old women, who used to
dampen the soft linen cloths for cover
ing the dressings OF superficial wounds
with weak infusion OF valerian root.
The French surgeon applies the COM
presses wet with decoction of thirty
parts of the same root in 1000 parts Of
water. He states expressly that this
treatment Is of no avail in the case Of
deep wounds.
There Is no nickel in a cent-piece.
The alloy used In making that coin is
composed of 95 per cent of copper and
per cent Of tin and zinc. Its intrin-
sic value is about one-tenth of cent.
The report that counterfeits are in
circulation is doubted, as the profits
would be small. The old penny was
made of pure copper and was intrin-
sically worth one-third of cent. An
attempt at counterfeiting them was
once made. The frauds were manu-
featured at Birmingham, England. But
the same cause made that enterprise q
failure. 1t needed too many to make q
profit Of any amount.
1t looks as though the ladies of the
White House In their turn are about as
fully representative of American insti-
tutions as the men who take their turn
as executive tenants there. Mrs. Hayes
and Mrs. Garfield were teachers, and
Miss Cleveland has not only been o
lecturer in schools, but such a success
full one, 1t Is said, as to have repurchas-
ed with her earnings the old family
homestead for her mother. American
'first families" are constantly recruit
cd from the workers, and the presiden-
tial line of wives and sisters Is no ex-
ception to the rules that made the old
aristocracy in all the old cities.
deLphid Ledger.
Some time ago member of promi-
nent Washington street firm went to
New York for few days on business,
and staid at the Metropolitan hotel.
The day after he had registered there q
dispatch was received by his partner in
Boston reading: "Send me $50.
have been robbed. do not wish it
known here. Direct my name, New
York postoffice. This looked little
fishy. The merchant here autographed
his absent partner to obtain what mon
ey he needed from certain friend, and
tell him the whole story, but sent no
money. He received the reply: Ell
have not been robbed. want no
money. What are you giving usp"
This Is another evidence of the ex-