The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-11-05
MANKAro FREE Press,
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 5. 1880.
MISSING LINKS.

MESSING LINKS.
The Australian colonies are all legis-
lating against the Chinese.
The room in which Grant died re-
mains untouched in every detail.
A Florida firm is planting 800 acres
with castor beans and will erect an oil
mill.
Blue grass is being received i'm Ore
gon from Kentucky for seeding pur-
poses.
The debt of the city of Berlin amounts
to 157, 500, 900 marks--1l2 marks per
capita.
There is a church to every 1880 in
habitants of Cincinnati. and a saloon to
every 100.
Aerial railway in Georgia." is an
English editors translation of the
Georgia Air Liner
The Russian authorities admit that
there are SSi pententiaries in the coun-
try, with 9i,9l5 occupants.
The first New York city directory con-
tanned 3,S46 names. The centennial
volume for this year has 3l3,922 names.
Among curious words classed as
SoutherniSms are battle, a washing
stick; novated, rumored; kick, to jilt,
and powerful, very.
Lady Hesketh, of California origin,
was the first TO introduce the fashion
among the English ladies of wearing
pink hunting coats.
In Great Britain last year 100000
packs of playing cards were manufac-
tured, and 100000 packs imported from
America and Austria.
An engine of peculiar construction
has been built in Philadelphia to make
the run between that city and New
York i'm ninety minutes.
A Pennsylvania man has a collection
of 200 live rattlcsnakes, He caught
them i'm the spring rs they were leaving
their dons. Some of them are of enor-
nous size.
A Bombay physician asserts that a
gradual increase i'm the size of the skull
among the natives of India is taking
place, which change he ascribeS to the
effects of civilization.
TennysOn has ready several new
| poems, the most notable of which is a
continuance of "Locksley Hail." the
hero reappearing, a broken-down man
of 80, with modified views of life and
liberty.
A deed covering thirty-three pages of
legal cap paper, averaging eleven words
TO the line and thrty-twO lines to the
page. thus containing ll,6l6 words.
was recently recorded in Mcintosh
County, Georgia.
For bait fishing bamboo is the most
durable, though Lakewood is good
enough for all ordinary purposes. Bam-
boo is much the more costly, but il
stands the wear and tear good deal
better than the other sort of thing.
Minneapolis has spirit medium
through whom Parepa Rosa makes her-
self manifest. Ordinarily this medium
cannot carry tune, but under the in
tluence of Parepa Rosa her singing is
artistic. and her voice strikes the high
notes with ease.
| A California stage coach, running
through the Moraga valley, tipped over,
/ anu tIC SCNCtl "CIC
shot down precipice. One young
lady, after falling so feet, fetched up in
the top of tree quite unhurt, and also
quite destitute of clothing. None of the
passengers was seriously damaged.
A New York dealer in dogs holds to
the opinion that often when dogs are
considered mad it is simply because OF
some indigestible substance i'm the sto-
mach, which might be removed by an
emetic. DIR. Mott, who is experiment
ing a la Pasteur, admits that all the
mad dogs he has dissected have been so
afflicted.
The ceilings of each of the late King
Ludwig's bedrooms were painted dark
blue, and through little pieces of glass
cut i'm the shape of stars soft light
shone on the royal sleeper. An artiil-
cial moon was likewise arranged in the
ceiling. artificial palm trees surrounded
the bed. and through branches thereof
might be seen at one end of tho room
an artificial waterfall.
A huge alligator was killed by the
negroes at Line Creek, Ga. recently,
and its head cut off, 1t was then left
until night. and when it was then APP
preached, it is related, the severed head
opened its wide jaws and snapped vi.
ciously dozen times, coming down will
force which would have cut oil Il hand
After the body was skinned the leg.
drew up and stretched out convulsivel,
as if i'm the agony of death, nOtwith-
standing it had been dead seven hours.
The colored people regard this wonder
full vitality rs an evil omen.
There was surprised Italian in Bal
timore one day last week when he stop
ped with his monkey and organ il
front of a saloon where cat was sun
ming itself and began to churn out 81
TrovatOre." AS the monkey went aftel
the pennies there was brief converse
ton between it and the cat and ther
the latter went teeth and claws for thu
formers tail, hanging on while the
Italian pulled the monkey to the top o
the organ by the tail. 1t took him abOu
three minutes to dislOdgc the cat ant
get over his surprise. As he went M
the street, nursing his poor pet. he KEEP
saying: 'Dat catta licka da monk
licka da monk"
The son OF rlch American was IN
Paris with an open credit from his
father on certain banking house there
the head of which ran over to New
York, where he happened to run on the
father The banker reported that the
young man was in good health and
having a good time, but that he was
spending a good deal of money. ave
let him have 10000 last month, ant
just before left Paris he came in fol
5000 more" "What?' cried the father
"poundsp' "Oh, no." replied the bank
er, francs" "Oh," said the fathel
with sigh of relief, 'those little thing
let him have as many of them as h'
wants."
Mrs. Josephine Omohundro, who a
'the Peerless Morlacchi' danced il
many countries, and with "Texa'
Jacks" company appeared in pretty
much every town and hamlet in the
United States, died Mt her home in Eas
Billerica, Mass. recently. She wa!
born in Milan in 1843, and, after a
chewing some fame as danseuse ant
pantomimist on the Continent and in
London, visited this country in 1867
and remained here until her death. Sht
married j. b. Omohundro, Texas
Jack" and became n widow some five
years ago. Since her husbands death
| she has resided i'm Lowell and Billerlca