The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-04-23
NUMBER III
MISSING LINKS.

The old-fashioned red leather prayer.
book covers rcappear, after being out Of
date for forty years or so.
81 hear" says writer in the Boston
Herald, "that good Boston divine
strenuously objects to having his ser.
mons printed on the same page with adj.
vertisements of good Old Bourbon"
A Japanese inventor has discovered q
means of making paper from seaweed.
| 1t Is thick in texture, and, from its
Transparency, can be substituted for glass
in windows, and, when colored, makes
an excellent imitation of stained glass
If somebody will invent a plan for
extinguishing the fools who, at theatri.
cal performances, call for repetitions Of
any hit of the play. after three-fourths
of the audience has enough of it, that
somebody will win the gratitude of the
public.
There is steady growth in the use Of
the trawl by our fishermen on the New.
foundland banks, and 80 much has this
instrument been enlarged and perfected
that some schoOners now set rs much as
fourteen miles of trawl, with twelve or
fourteen thousand hooks.
At Bucharest the ladies adopted a
curious mode of showing their apprecia.
ton of Nine. PATHS singing Suddenly
during the performance they stood up
and threw white pigeons, with ribbons
around their necks on the stage 1t was
literally covered with them.
OF the duke of Seville, who has lately
made himself Extensively conspicuous in
Spain, it is said that he once went to a
ball without any cravat. The reason
was that Just before dressing he had dis.
missed his valet for insolence, and did
not know how to tie a cravat himself
Jerry Thomas, the inventor of Tom
and jerry" on one occasion narrowly
escaped death at the hands of an in.
furiated congregation in Mexico. He
rode into church during the service
and began to light cigar at one of the
altar tapers, when the natives attacked
him for his sacrilegious conduct, and he
was only saved from death by the in.
tercession of the British Consul, to whom
he fled for protection.
Justice Field tells how his pride had
fall. When he was young man he
was particularly proud Of his erect form
and fine. curling hair. Walking one
day with head well up he ran against a
cart and injured his knee. The injury
resulted in permanent lameness and a
consequent stoop In his shoulders.
Afterward hard study produced brain
fever, and fy-blister cured the fever
and destroyed his waving locks.
One of the reasons for the low price Of
quinine lies in the fact that the cinchona
trees are no longer destroyed in the
harvesting. The old plan was to cut
them down and strip off the bark when
they were ten years old. Then the idea
was adopted of tearing off long strips
and filling the bare places with moss.
The present method Is to scrape off the
outer layer of tho bark, the portion
richest in quinine, and this does not in.
terfere with the growth of the tree. The
bark is scraped half round at one opera.
ton. the other half being scraped six
months afterward. The process may be
repeated year after year.
A recovery from hydrophobia is re.
lated as having occurred in q remote
part of Ireland, the patient being the
eldest son of the family, fine lad Of
nineteen. His recovery appearing hope.
less from the strong symptoms of hydro
| phobia which he exhibited, the doctors
decided upon bleeding him to death as
the only alternative to the barbarous
plan of smothering under feather bed,
which was then common. A vein was
opened. and he was locked into an out
house and left to die. But toward even
| ing the milkmaid of the household,
passing near the spot with her pail, was
amazed to hear the sufferers voice faint.
ly asking for something to drink"
Overjoyed at this unmistakable sign OF
recovery, she lost no time in summon.
ing assistance, and the young mans life
was saved, the physicians ascribing his
extraordinary escape to the carrying of
OF the poison by the copious flow OF
blood.