The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-03-19
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Knocking Bird above all other music
Parnell is supposed to receive more
letters and answer fewer than an Other
conspicuous politician now IN public
life.
A minister in Rocks County. Kansas,
rides forty miles and breaches four ser.
mons every Sunday for Il salary of 5000
a year.
Professor Baird says that fair estimate
of the annual product of the American
fisheries would not fall short of $780,
100000.
The geological formation through
which the Mcrsey Tunnel passes is the
new red sandstone rock. and has proved
easy of excavation.
Death from exposure, was the ver-
dict recently rendered by Helena, nj.
T., jllry on the body of horse thiei
who had been hanged by vigilantes.
Julian Hawthorne and George p.
Lathrop are said to contemplate starting
family weekly in New York, which
is to be without whit of politics or re-
ligiOn.
There is an association i'm Paris whose
object is to help drunkards home al
night. If the patient is too far gone to
give his address. the club cares for him
till he can.
The Shah of Persia llOesn line aniline
dyes. He is reported to have issued an
order that the heads of any workmen
using these dyes shall he nailed mp over
his workshop.
Joel Chandler Harris Uncle Remus)
is himself actually an African by birth,
for he was born at Joel. on the north
east coast of Africa. while his parents
were engaged i'm missionary labor in
that country.
By the wreck of bank i'm Lancaster,
Mass, recently. widow lost her whole
fortune-$2. whereupon an I'M
known person in Boston arranged to
pay her 1920 annually representing six
per cent interest on her loss) as long as
she lived.
The Chinese Minister in Washington
is over 60 years of age. The only En-
glish sentences the Minister can use are:
"How do You dO?" 'GOod-by," and
champagne is good" He is now, it is
said, wrestling with the phrase '.Set 'em
up again.
j. Il. Barnum's show property at
Bridgeport, which is on the list at 800,
600, has finally been exempted from tax
alton by the Board of Relief. '.Conse-
quently," says the Farmer, 1.-the Bridge
port enterprise which shows the heaviest
profits pays no tax.
Pilgrim Hall. Plymouth. has been ell
riched by the addition TO its collection OF
the long, narrow. sguarc-tOed pink satin
slipper that was once worn by Mrs.
Susanna White. widow of William White
of the Mayilower. and second wife of
Gov. Edward Win>low. There is no
doubt us to its authenticity.
The immense prehistoric shell heaps
at DamariScotta. Me-. are being dug up
and shipped TO Boston to be ground in
TO dust and sold aS poultry food. These
deposits. which are described in Ernest
Ingersoll's Census Report on American
Oyster Industries" have long been an
object of great interest to antiquarians.
A man who went huntin" in the wild
mountainous region near Stratton. VT,
recently, was found dead after three
days with his gun lodged in the crevice
OF the rocks, where apparently il had
accidentally discharged both barrels in
to his body. The snow was tramped
hard about his corpse by the efforts Of
his dog to arouse and comfort his mas
ter.
Mr.. Labouchcre SAYS in Truth: THE
best temperance drink is milk. This the
Americans have discovered, and they
consume it largely 1T their meals. Here
this would be regarded rs odd, ] was
at a hotel the other day and drank milk
with my dinner: the walters and the
guests stared at me rs though were Il
calf. Those who find milk indigestible
should put little lime-watcr in it.
1t is said that New York scientist is
devoting himself exclusively to the dis
covery of some means of making the
shells of eggs transparent without injury
to their membraneous lining. His OBJ
ject is to make study of the changes
and processes by which life is developed
from the ovum. From unitarian
point of view. transparent eggs would
be desideratum for the purchaser.
There are immense deposits of borax
at Soda Springs. Teals' Marsh and other
points along the line of the Northern
Pacific Road, and several hundred tons
are each month shipped to San Francis
co. An effort is also being made to pro-
duce carbonate of soda from Owens
Lake, and it is hoped that will become a
thriving industry. The marble quarries
are also attracting much attention.
In order to settle the question rs to
the proper treatment of persons who
have been frozen, DIR. Laptchinski has
made series of very careful expert
ments upon dogs. He found that, OF
twenty animals treated by the method Of
gradual resuscitatiOn i'm cold room
fourteen perished; of twenty placed a
once in warm room. eight died. while
twenty put Immediately into hot batl
recovered quickly and without acct
dent.
Signor Martini. one of the largest
owners of house property i'm the city OF
Genoa, had feeling of gratitude to his
| tenants. who. by their regularity OF pay
ment. had enabled him to spend his de
clining wears in comfort. When hi.
| will was opened il was discovered thai
the old gentleman had instructed his
executors that all his tenants. rich and
poor, male and female, were to reside
rent free i'm the houses then occupied by
them. il they desired TO do so. as long al
they lived.
At Mount Pleasant, in the potteries il
Stafordshire. England. is 10 be found {
child whose extraordinary growth ex
cites wonder. Little Alice, as she j.
humororisly called, is but four years o
age, vet turns the scale ut $50 pounds
| the circumference of her waist being nc
less than five feet, while her height is
four feet. So that literally she is broader
than she is long. She is bright. intelli
gent, and remarkably pretty. her heat
being crowned with a mass of COLDER
hair. Her appetite is enormous.
A member of the Geological Surve,
says that Salt Lake will be of grea
| value i'm the near future. not only on &C
count of the common salt it will pro
ducc, but also for the sodium sulphate j
| contains. The latter is separated in ,
focculent precipitatc by the cold weathe
of midwinter, and annually thrown M
OH the shore i'm enormous quantities
There are many other lakes in the fa
west whence an inexhaustible supply o
commercial alkalies may be obtained a
small cost. Mono Lake. California alop'