The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-08-13
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Miss Cleveland's new. book will be
spiced with incidents of her Washington
The Rev. Arthur Gray-Howe, an En-
glish clergyman who died a short time
ago, left S2O,00O,O00 to two sons.
Mrs Buckingham, the richest woman
fruit-farmer in California, has an orch
ard mile long, with row after row of
pear, cherry, peach, and apricot trees.
Senator Brown of Georgia is hard at
work on book which will be largely
devoted to showing the material and so
cial progress of the South since the
| war.
In one of the earliest accounts of New
| England the statement is made that
| prior to 1859 the people of Boston de-
pended for their fircwood upon trees out
on the islands and brought to the town
| in boats.
Alfred Poole, of Denver, Colo, has
struck it rich. He recently bought three
boxes of unclaimed freight for merely
nominal sum. On opening them each
was found to contain a brick of solid
gold worth about $4,000.
An extraordinary fact in connection
with the Russian cOnscripts drafted into
the ranks in 1885 is shown by some
statistics just published. The total num-
Der of conscripts accepted was 847, 587,
OF whom no fewer than 1880 were
Jews.
A Swedish physician, one Grusdlbach,
has discovered perfect cure for every
knnyVn a la &c
as if they were carcasses of New Zealand
mutton, freezes them into state of in
sensibility, and when, after a year or
two, they are thawcd again and set
on their legs, they are in the best of
health, strength and spirits.
A widow in India is thing accursed.
She must do all the family drudgery,
never entertain cheerful thought, even,
or dream of marrying again. Yet a
man of sixty will marry a girl of eight,
knowing well to what life his death
will consign her There are 30, 900
widows in Calcutta alone, and it is sup
posed that there must be 6, 600, 900 in the
country at large.
An officer of the school of artillery at
Fountainebleau committed suicide in an
extraordinary manner. He went to the
depot of material at the butts of Avran,
and loaded piece of cannon with a
box OF canister shot, containing about
120 bullets, lcveled the mouth of the gun
to the height of his breast, placed him.
self before it and discharged it. He
was blown to pieces.
A silver tObacco-box which John,
Alden carried in his pocket when, in
the cOurtship of Miles Siandish, he pre-
sented to Priscilla Mullins the captains
proposal of marriage, is now the pro-
perry of Mrs. Nj. McFadden, of Ale
gheny City, descendant of John
Alden, belonging to the ninth genera
ton in the regular descent. Her little
silver tobacco-boX is a curiosity to visi-
tors. 1t is supposed to be nearly 800
years old.
Judge Ranncy. member of congress,
has a curious way OF aiding his men,
DRY. When he is looking up a case and
reading the papers in it he notices
nothing going on around him, and
when he comes to point which he
wants to remember he writes it down on
n piece of paper. He does not keep the
paper or pay any attention to it. The
writing of it down fixes it Us indelibly
in his mind as though he had stenciled
it upon his brain.
Holman Hunt had newspaper caller
at his London studio the other day. Mr..
Hunt has beaming and bearded face,
and an eye rs kind us can be. IL am
at work, as you see,' said Mr.. Hunt,
restoring my early picture Rienzi.'
which, having been damaged and fallen
into ignorant hands. or worse, as we
suspect, has become more or less obliter-
atcd in parts. Experts say that it has
been willfully baked in an oven, and
otherwise manipulated by some I'M
scrupulous dealer, so that it might be
made to look like Il quattrocento work,
and be disposed of as SUCH So l am re-
storing it for the owner"