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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-12-10
Statistics of the Sensational Drama.

Somebody with n passion for statistics
has taken the trouble to dissect the sem
satiOnal dramas of Alphonse d'Ennery,
and he reports that they require the CO.
operation of Is widows; 16 sons and
daughters of persons executed; 80 or
phans of the male and 112 of the female
sex; GO blind persons, and 10 feigning
blindness; 93 DETAINED virgins, 90 fratri-
cides, 8 patricides, 145 foundlings; 60
lost and 116 kidnapped children; 1874 ex-
changed or foisted; 212 false wills, ZIG
stolen pocketbooks; 1913 duels with swords,
1853 with pistols, 2 with sabres, 8 with
knives and 10 with axes; 43 fires, 1913 muir
ders with weapons and 1876 with poison;
46 drownings; 26 guilty and &c innocent
galley convicts, so freed and 80 escaped
prisoners, n adulterers, GA seducers, 115
burglaries, 206 distraints, 70 lunatics, 60
cretins and % feigning lunatics, 113 false
marriages and al bigamists.
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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-12-10
Now Waternrnof Garment.

The English shower proof cloth has
been found wanting, because it allows
water to penetrate it if any pressure
comes upon it; so that if the weareI
take horse car after being out in the
rain, and be lucky enough to get seat
in it, her dress is dampened. A London
firm, noting this, has endeavored to
please both the ladies and the Lancet,
and has succeeded as far as the latter is
concerned, having extracted a kindly
notice from it. The new garment is OF
shower proof cloth, coated with India
rubber placed between it and its lining.
On the shoulders the rubber coating is
omitted, and thus ventilation is obtained
Scientific Journal
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-12-10

The Observer yesterday met q Canadian
newspaper man who happens to be well
acquainted with "Prof." E. Stone Wig
gins. What is the fellow-honest crank
or malicious humbugs" inquired the OBJ
server. A little of both, perhaps" re-
joined my acquaintance. "He is an anna
teur and shallow astronomer with sort
of mania for running afoul of every au-
thority from Sir Isaac Newton to Richard
Proctor. Still, doubt if he would ever
have been much heard Of or noticed but
for his wife. She is the clever member
of the firm, and knows the money value
of notoriety even wher; attended by the
most arrant sort of charlatanism. She
is the guide and mentor of E Stone Vic
gins.-New York Graphic.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-12-10
NUMBER rs
SUNRISE.

The east Is blossoming! Yea, q rose,
Vast as the heavens, soft as q kiss
Sweet as the presence Of a woman Is
Rises and reaches, and widens and GROVE
Large and luminous, up from the sea
And out of the sea, as blossoming tree.
Richer and richer, SO higher and higher,
Deeper and deeper 1t takes its hue;
Brighter and brighter IL reaches through
The space of heaven and the place Of stars,
Till all Is rich as a rose can be,
And my rose leaves fall into pillows of fire,
Then beams reach upward as arms from the sea;
Then lances and arrows are aimed at me,
Then lances and spangles and spars and bars
Are broken and shivered and strewn on the sea;
AND, around and about me, tower and spire
Start from the pillows Like tongues of fire.
Joaquin Miller
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-12-10
Singular Condolences of "I3."

Curious people will be interested in the
following strange condolences in the
life of Richard Wagner, in which the
number ID figures extensively enough to
satisfy the most superstitious Scotchman
of them all. Wagner was born I'm 1918
and died on the 18th of the month; there
are 10 letters in his name, and the sum
of the figures in 1918 equals Is. The full
date of his death was the 18th day of the
second month in '83; it makes 10 twice
viz, first 10, and again 2x8x3 -13. He
composed just 10 works. His first and
determining impression in favor of
dramatic career was formed on the 18th
of the month. He was influenced in his
choice emphatically by hearing Weber's
"Freischutk, :" and by Wilhelmine Shcroe-
der Devrient. The latter went upon the
stage on the 18th of October, 1919, and
the "Freischutz" was completed on May
IS, 1920, and first performed in Dresden,
Wagner's home, in 1929 QxSx2x2-13).
Weber died in Wagner's 18th year. Wag-
ner's first public appearance as musical
parsonage dates from the year he entered
the Leipsic university as student of
music-1S13 QxSx1x3 - 49,. The stage
at Riga, where he became director, was
opened on the 18th day of September,
1887, and he there began the compost
ton of "Rienzi," which he completed in
Paris in 1910 Qx8x4-13. On the 18th
of April, 1915, he completed his "Tann-
hauser," and it was performed in Paris
on March Is, 1861, and on the 18th of
August, 1875, he began the first of his
"Baireuth" dramas. The 18th of Sep
TENDER, 1882, was Wagner's last day at
"Baireuth" before leaving for Venice.
He saw Liszt for the last time in Venice
on January Is, 1883, and he died on the
18th of February, in the 18th year Of the
new German confederation. There are q
few among many other similar coinci-
dences in his hfe.-John A. Butler in
Chicago Times.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-12-10
Realism on the Stage.

Stage realism is carried to its limit
when Mr.. Joseph Murphy makes horse
shoe on the stage in the character OF
Kerry Cow. Mr.. Murphy was black
smith before concentrating his genius to
the services of the drama, and thus grace
fully utilities, for the establishment Of
his present profession, the knowledge &C.
CURED in the past. But why should the
force of realism stop here? Surely there
must be some stage struck carpenter,
some inspired cobbler, who can be added
to the ranks of Thespis, and, borrowing
from his former calling, can adOrn his
histrionic efforts with the products of his
handicraft. What a prodigious effect If
the carpenter here should make his own
ladder on the stage wherewith to rescue
the imprisoned heroine. How the house
would come down to the gallant cObbler
when he sewed up pair of shoes before
their eyes, or half soled and heeled an old
boot to show his practiced hand had not
forgot it's cunning. 1t would be well
worth paying $3.50 to see, and all the old
boots could be preserved and on the hun
dredth night distributed as souvenirs to
the ladies.
The variations ON this idea are so nu-
merous and SO obvious that they need
only be indicated to the intelligent mod
ern playwright. The butcher, the baker,
the candlestick maker, the tinker, the
tailor, every sort of mechanic and artisan
could be put upon the stage in the exer-
else of his particular calling, and in these
days of elevation of labor success could
not be doubted On the contrary, the
overwhelming popularity of the idea
would soon compel actors who have not
had the advantage of an early training in
the mechanical arts to acquire them for
stage purposes, just as now they take les
sons in fencing or dancing or singing, or
in rare instances learn English and elo-
cution. What pioneer In this unbroken
path will make fortune by giving US
"Crispin and Chloe; or, The Conscien-
tiOtls Cobbler?',-New York Hour
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-12-10
On the Rail In Russia.

A trip from Berlin to St. Petersburg
takes about thirty-six hours. You start
at y q. m. in an express train and do not
strike the "sleepers" till you reach Wis
ballen. The Russian conveniencies for
night travel are almost perfect. The
compartments are large, the beds good,
the ventilation is scientific and the motion
easy. The springy gait of the carriage
rocks you to sleep. The attendants are
all alive and do not ask for or seem to
expect fees. The train stops often and
long enough after daylight to refresh"
the hungriest and thirstiest of mortals.
At the tidy looking stations-wooden
one story, painted yellow, each with
boxes Of flowers in the windows-he
finds glasses of delicious coffee or strong
tea, "screeching" hot The latter Is
served from the ''sainovar'' or big urn,
and is on tap night and day. A slice OF
lemon floating on top makes this cheer
ing drink look like brandy punch. There
also may be had the whitest bread, the
most golden butter, and dainty Russian
dishes, OF which am most happy to re-
call mutton and rice drowned in a brown
sauce that would kindle an appetite under
the ribs of death.
On the tongue of a polite Russian this
language is musical and fluent. We
heard its accents first at Wisballen, where
the baggage inspection takes place. 1t Is
no joke for persons who have been travel
ing for fifteen hours from Berlin to be
walked at midnight and put through q
custom house ordeal. AS I stepped of
the train into the cold and damp of the
Wisballen station pleasant voice saluted
my ear with long sentence, of which
caught only the word passport. Look
ing up I saw, by the dim light of Ian
tern, Russian officer of gigantic stat
ure. He was most becomingly dressed
in blue tunic, flowing trousers tucked
into highly polished boots, an Astra-
khan fur cap with red top and white
pompon; and a long sword trailed from
his side to the floor. His large healthy
face beamed benevolence. If he had
asked for my pocket book 1 believe I
should have given it up to him without
hesitation. i handed him Mr.. Bayard's
valued certificate of my citizenship,
with the single word american" You
should have seen the smile on his face
stretch into positive laugh of welcome.
in St Petersburg.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-12-10

President Diaz is said to suggest by his
manner and garb one of the gallant brig
ands who live chiefly in the minds of i'm
apinative writer's.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-12-10
Mountain Meteorological Stations.

The mountain meteorological stations
of Europe are said to somewhat excel in
their equipments and appliances anything
to be found in the western world. Among
these appliances is a superior kind OF ar
rangement, or apparatus, for the auto
matte registration of sunshine the results
of which are tabulated with reference to
the period of possible sunshine for each
day, the record being SO much per cent.
OF this total On the mountain top on
which the highest Austrian weather OBJ
servatory is located, is another interesting
arrangement, namely, a telephone wire
extending from the very summit down
to the village below, this wire in the
summer being suspended on poles, while
in winter, on account of the fierce winds,
it is laid upon the snow, the latter prov
ing q good insulator, as the apparatus
works satisfactorily under these condi-
tons. Tho French, it appears, have the
highest meteorological station in Europe,
and their two largest observatories are, 1t
is claimed, the best appointed in the
world. Much is expected Of the recently
established station on Ben Nevis, Scot
land. This mountain is the highest in
Great Britain, and is close upon the sea-
coast, as well as the track of the great
southwesterly storms which have such
an important influence on the weather in
the British isles-a situation, therefore,
peculiarly favorable.-New York Sun.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-12-10
Cuckoo Clocks That Are Worthless

In his report on clock making in the
Black Forest, Consul Ballew has the fol-
lowing in regard to the clocks the Ameri-
caEs buy, and how the travellers are
sometimes fooled: "The United States
takes trumpeter and cuckoo clocks with
painted dials, also many regulators and
musical clocks. The expectation of these
clocks to the United States is steady, and
will aggregate $50, 600 per year. During
the summer months the Schwarzwald
clock region is visited by many Ameri-
cans, and nearly every visitor purchases
one of these clocks. They are very at
tractive and appear to be cheap, but in
many cases they are made to be sold
only, and an attractive exterior may in
duce many to purchase an almost worth
less article.
One cannot be too particular when pur-
chasing one of these clocks, for when the
cuckoo will not COO any more and the
trumpeter will not blow another blast,
then is their value as curiosities gone,
and when, after few months, they be-
came valueless time keepers, then are
they very poor stock indeed. I have
heard SO many complaints from people
who have purchased these clocks in re-
gard to their general poor quality that I
deem it my duty to make this fact public,
and also to inform would-be purchasers
that If they wish to avoid disappointment,
they should be very particular where and
of whom they purchase, and in no case
to purchase of irresponsible parties. A
few inquiries will generally disclose the
required facts.-Baltimor American.
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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-12-10

A society has been formed by several
Boston people for the purpose Of abolish
ing the perniciOus system of tipping
walters.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-12-10
Parisians in the Country.

When Parisians live In the country, a.
hundreds of them do during the summer
months, they consider 1t necessary to
change their mode of living altogether.
They give up their dissipated town man
ners and cultivate pastoral simplicity
with great zeal, although the chalet or
villa where they pass their villegiature
may not be more than six or seven miles
by rail from Paris. They buy goats and
drink their milk, lunch and dine reg
| ularly out of doors, and 60 to bed at
nine or ten o'clock. am not so sure
that they get up at a correspondingly
early hour In the morning, but they have
no sooner finished with dinner than they
begin to yawn.
To the thorough going Partisan, the In
duence Of the country Is decidedly
sporific. He is never really happy and
gay SO long as he is away from his dear
boulevards. He considers himself lover
of nature, because he likes to dine In the
bosquet of some restaurant; in reality he
| Is nothing of the sort He L. lover Of
sprightly conversation, theatres, gas and
good living. All the sounds and sights
Of the country soon become to him quite
| distressing when he Is shut up In their
midst, and his spirits would 60 up many
degrees II he could only hear the muffied
roar Of the stresk-PAris Cor. Bosom
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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-12-10

The last census shows 2,O00, 600 Chris
tians in India.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-12-10

BAPTIST CHURCH. - L. L.. PATTERSON,
~ Pastor. Services every sabbath nj
1880 a. m. and $50 p. m. Young people :
Meeting al 200 y. IN. sabbath school at 1900
tn. Prayer meeting every Thursday evening
AT 80 y. IN. Covenant meeting on Thursday
evening before the first Sabbath in each
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-03-31
HOMES ARCHANGEL.
Some Startling Facts for Women No
Worthy of This Appe1Iatfon.

Some Startling Facts for Women Not
Worthy of This Appellation.
Alecture entitled Mothers, the Health
Officers of Home" was delivered by
DR.. Oscar c. De Wolf before the
Woman's Physiological Institute re-
Gently. The doctor said the average
American woman's conception of home
was sadly defective. She judged the
home from the society standpoint in
stead of the reverse. There were many
features of fashionable life which pre-
vented woman from becoming the
watchful and effective guardian which
she ought to be of the sanitary condition
of her home. Woman's use of narcotic
and alcoholic stimulants was no longer
limited to individual cases. Every
physician in this city knew it was quite
prevalent and was producing a harvest
of death. Mothers could not SOW tares
and reap wheat for their children. The
doctor trusted that the public instructor
in the year 2286-four hundred years
hence-for the purpose of showing how
deficientwomen in the nineteenth century
were in guarding the health OF their
children would produce a Chicago daily
paper dated February %, 1886. From
this he would read the mortality
report that fifty per cent. Of
the deaths were those of chill
dren under five years of age, and the
equally suggestive fact that the glass
manufacturers of the United States
made ten million nursing-bottles during
1885. The philosopher of that day
would read the advertisements and come
to the conclusion that the manufacture
OF food for infants was gigantic Ma.
tional enterprise in 1886. If he would
put these facts together he would de-
tect the causes which sweep SO many
infants into an untimely grave. 1t was
the fruit of the American mothers re-
fusal to nurse her children. If the
thousands Of little sleepers in Calvary,
Graceland and Rosehill could be given
voices there would be a terrible arraign-
ment of the women of fashion of this
city. The doctor said the mother could
not afford to accept the doctrine of the
survival of the fittest; that would roll
us back to the barbarism of the four
teenth century. In this country forty
babies out of every hundred born died
in their infancy; in Norway only eigh-
teen out of one hundred died. If wom-
en- would give less attention to their
dressmakers, to theaters and society
events and more attention to their
babies it would be better for the babies.
Sanitary law should have its birth in
the home, and woman should be the
homes archangel. That size was not
was mans fault as much as hers.
The hall was filled with ladies, who
heartily applauded the doctor. Chicago
Tribune.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-03-31
HOME AND FARM.

| Rye Gems: Two cups rye, one
quarter cup -four, two teaspoonfuls
| ROYAL powder, sifted together. one egg,
ene-quarter cup of molasses, milk to
mix soft.-The Caterer.
1t is told of kicking horse that he
was cured by suspending sack behind
him filed with hay. At first his kicking
was something terrible, but he subsidized
| entirely when the hay returned toward
his heels every time.--N Y. Times.
| For dainty breakfast dish cut pork
tenderlions in very thin slices; stew
them in little water till they are near
| " done; then put them in a saucepan
and fry them till light brown. Serve on
buttcred toast, and with raw tomatoes
sliced Western Rural.
Fine manure, spread thinly and
evenly upon the moving and pasture
land, will have an excellent effect.
Coarse manure is best when thoroughly
composted, with either peat or swamp
muck, or even with soil, as it becomes
almost entirely homogeneous.-Mo'1t-
real Witness.
The Maryland Farmer, is warmly in
favor of feeding cattle in yards and
sheds instead of pasturing them, at
great expense for fencing and waste OF
food. The cost of fences is, it says, usu-
ally more than the value of the ami
mails pastured, and some times more
than the land inclosed.
An animal impoverished in flesh,
says the National Stoc&n,an, can not
grow or mature, and it must be main
tanned at loss of feed, interest on the
money invested, and of the time of the
farmer. An animal must be kept in
good flesh and thriving to make it grow,
develop and prove profitable.
To broil ham nicely slice the meat
from the ham raw, as thin as you can,
then put it into pan OF cold water; set
it on the stove in stewpan and let it
come to boil; then have your griddle
hot. and broil the meat with little but
ter dropped into the pan and plentiful
sprinklihg of black pepper.-Boston
Bulletin.
Egg Cruel is at once food and medi.
cine. Some have great faith in its
efficacy in chronic dysentery. Boil a
pint of new milk; beat four fresh
eggs to light froth and add to the
milk while it boils; stir together thor
oughly, but do not let it boil again;
sweeten with loaf sugar and CRATE in a
small nutmeg; add little salt. Use
half of it while it is warm, and the
other half in two hours or so.--N E.
Farmer
Ginger pound cake: Six cups of
-four, two cups each of butter, brown
sugar and molasses, eight eggs, table
spoonfuls each of cinnamon, ginger and
soda and two nutmegs. Dissolve the
soda in cup Of sour milk In baking,
take particular pains not to let the cake
scorch, for gingerbread is of all cakes
the easiest to burn. Line the pans with
CREASED paper, aud put brown paper
over the top to prevent the crust form
ing too quickly.-Boston Budget.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-03-31
Matter Poured in the Atlantic.

Prot. Reade, in recent lecture before
the Liverpool Geological Society, re-
ported as the results of his calculations
that one hundred and fifty million tons
of matter were annually poured into
the Gulf of Mexico by the Mississippi
river, which would in the course of Ave
hundred years denude the land to the
extent of one foot over the whole basin.
He also calculates that the Mississippi,
La Plata, the Amazon and St. Law
renee remove an average of one hun
dred tons to the square mile from the
whole American continent. As to the
amount of matter poured into the At
lantic by all the rivers of the world,
Prof. Reade estimates it would, if con-
verified into solid rock, at two tons to
the cubic yard, make cubic mile every
six years. Current.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-03-31
A Bold Kentuckian's Pfle.

They tell in Louisville of a citizen Of that
town who went to New York recently and
lived at one OF the most expensive hotels
there. He stayed four days and asked for
his bill. "Fifty-o ne dollars" said the
clerk. "Guess again, said the Kentuckian.
"You haven't sized my pile yet. I've more
money than that"
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-03-31

1t was Josh Billings who originated
;he phrase that is now national ex-
preston, 1.-THE business end of the
wasp:" and when he said to a lady, "It
is better to be laughed at for not being
married than to be unable to laugh be-
cause you are" he uttered sentence.
to use one Of his own expressions.
-bulging out with frst-class wisdom"
Chicago SATURDAY. Hgrald