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

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City, II In straight lines, would extenC
from San Francisco to London.
Port Said. at the northern terminu.
OF the Suez Canal, is generally believed
to be the wickedest place on earth.
In London new form of gas lamp
has been invented which gives the
light OF 200 candles at penny ar
hour.
An eagle that died in Vienna moi
long ago Is said TO have been In captiv'
ity for period Of not less than II
years.
There are 10000. 900 school children
in the United States, 10000, 600 Of
whom are enrolled in the public
schools.
The Superior Cosrt Of San Francisco
holds that Chinese child born in this
country Is entitled to admission to the
public schools.
There are $3.50 cooperative societies
In Germany, with o membership of over
1000, 900, and last year they purchased
over 1915. 100000 worth of goods.
The relationships of the royal family
Of Madagascar are decidedly mixed.
The Queen, a beautiful girl of nineteen.
Is married to her Prime Minister, who
Is also her mothers husband.
Gentleman Of fashion now sport from
three to seven finger rings In addition
to the gold or silver bangles now so
frequently worn by them. This is very
clearly usurping women's rights.
The New England Divorce Reform
League proposes TO take measures to
make itself national organization.
Chicago and Philadelphia should GER
tainly be included In some way.
The fibre OF the hop-yine Is said by
some French paper-manufacturers to
be the best substitute for rags yet dis
covered. It's advantages are great
length, strength, fexibility, and deli
cacy.
Colonizing is becoming mania with
the nations Of Europe, but Americans
keep their heads level, don't go until
they are ready, and then quietly step
aboard the lightning express for
Canada.
A distinguished professor asks IL
twenty-six letters through the opera
ton OF tho law Of Formulation can give
$4,000 words in Webster's unabridged
how many expressions can the tifty-fiye
animate muscles of the human face
giyep
Mrs. +. b. Croker has completed a
new conservatory at San Francisco and
the structure ranks as second in size OF
its sort in thu United States. The
green house covers IA, 900 square feet of
ground and is inclosed with $4,000
square feet of sash.
An analysis of railroad accidents
compared with the amount of travel
tends to show that If a person were to
travel ten hours day at speed of ten
miles an hour during every day in the
year he would probably be killed at the
end of 1885 years.
Clara Belle is authority for the state
ment that the swell damsel of the pc
Rod takes snuff The saving explana-
ton is appended, however, that it is
not ground tobacco, but daintily per-
fumed white powder. The effect upon
noses can only be guessed at.
A sportsman in Cumberland, Va,
sighted flock Of turkeys the other day
and told his dog to lie down. The
dog obeyed, and he went after the
fowls. Five hours afterward the man
came back TO look for the dog, and
found him lying where he had left him.
1t is related of an itinerant wild
Western clergyman who, having be-
come enamored of beautiful daughter
OF Zion, and there being no justice of
the peace or other minister of the Cos
pei near by, married himself to the
lady according to the ritual of the
church. ...'
Mr.. Lawrence Barrett speaks enthus-
iastically of Robert Browning. "a
grand type of manhood!' he says, ga
magnificent writer; broad, ruddy, not
too tall; with snowy hair and mus
tache and goatee beard; courtly, gra-
cious, perfect talker, and always po-
etical in his thoughts.
The natural tendency of things in the
Western Hemisphere Is very probably
toward Capitalization, the United States
being the central magnet. And there
Is little room for doubt that this tend
ency will receive decided impetus by
the construction OF canal across
Nicaragua. Nashville (7snn.) Ameri-
can.
A new and important discovery of
borax has just been made near San
Bernardino, Cal. 1t is very large
ledge, and assays 81 per cent, of pure
borate of lime. The discovery Is likely
to interfere with the monopoly hitherto
maintained by San Francisco firm,
which has succeeded in controlling the
supply of borax.
English publishers complain because
Froude's Life OF Carlyle" and Yates's
"Reminiscences which are published
in England at sums over twenty dollars
are sold in the United States for twenty
five cents each, This seems to be
good country for the poor book-reader.
Waving the charge OF piracy, the book
publishers in the United States have at
least demonstrated that it pays to cater
to the wants of the people of small
purses. The Current. 49,,
In Great Britain and Ireland the
number of envelopes manufactured in
year is said to be 700, 900, 600; In the
United States they amount to about
$500, 100000. II hand labor were COM
PEELED to do the work now done by ma
chimes in simply making envelopes.
taking no account Of the printing done
by some of them, it would take 1850
workmen. According to the census of
1880 there were l,204 persons engaged
in the manufacture of envelopes at that
time.
Mr.. Stevenson, the Glasgow million
aire who has spent a small fortune put
ting steamboats, on the Central African
lakes and building the wagon road that
Is to connect Nyassa and Tanganyika,
offers to guarantee the building of
narrowguage railroad past the sixty,
miles OF cataracts in the River Shire.
He will furnish the entire funds him
self, II necessary. A steamboat now
runs up tho Zambesi and Shire rivers
to these cataracts, and the steamer llala
plies from the north end of the catar-
acts to the north end Of Nyassa.
A wedding coat made by Andrew
johnson is shown in the Tennessee ex-
hibit at the New Orleans Exhibition.
The coat was made In Johnson's little
tailor shop in Greenville. Tenn, in
1888 or 1880, for Mr.. Ii. Il. Price of that
town. The garment Is made of the
best navy blue cloth, cut in the old
fashioned ''claw-hammer" style. The
collar and lapels arc very broad. and
there are five buttonholes on each side.
When the coat was made there were
twelve large brass buttons, five on each
side and two behind, besides the small
ones on the cuffs of the sleeves. All
tho buttons are now missing except two
on the right breast. With the excep-