The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-03-19
NUMBER 80
MISSING LINKS.
Kansas City. with its suburbs. has now
n OODlllatiOn of 17 O00

bands papers in shape for his bio
grapher, who is still TO be selected.
President Cleveland is reported t.
value "Auld Lang Syne" and tn,
"MOcking Bird" above all other music
Parnell is supposed to receive more
letter and answer fewer than an othel
cOnspi> 'ous politician now IN public
life.
A minister in Rocks County. Kansas
rides forty miles and breaches four ser
mons every Sunday for salary of S2O'
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 Mrrsey Tunnel passes is the
new red sandstone rock. and has proved
easy of excavation,
death from eyS osure, was the yer.
dict recently rendered by Il Helena, NJ
T.. jury on the body of a horse thief
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 tt
give his address. the club cares for hin
till he can.
The Shah of Persia dOesn line aniline
dyes. He is reported to have issued an
order that the heads of any workmen
using these dyes shall he nailed up 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 in missionary labor in
that country.
BY the wreck of bank i'm Lancaster,
Mass, recently. widow lost her whole
fortune-$2, OOO-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 i'm 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
mp again"
p. L. Barn..ms show property al
Bridgeport. which is on the list at $780,
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 en-
riched by the addition to its collection OF
the long, narrow. squarc-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>ow. There is no
doubt rs TO its authenticity.
The immense prehistoric shell heaps
at DamarScotia. Me-, are being dug up
and shipped 10 Boston to be ground in.
To dust and sold rs poultry food. These
deposits. which are described in Ernest
Ingersol's Census Report on American
Oyster Industries" have long been an
object of great interest TO antiquarians.
A man who went hunting 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 TrHH: 1.-The
best temperance drink is milk This the
Americans have discovered, and they
consume it largely ut their meals. Here
this would be regarded rs odd, was
ut a hotel the other day and drank milk
with nv dinner: the walters and the
guests stared nj me as though I were IA
calf. Those who find milk indigestible
should put Il 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 us to
the proper treatment of persons who
have been frozen, Dr. Laptchinski has
made a series of very careful expert
ments upon dogs. He found that. OF
twenty animals treated by the method OF
gradual resuscitation in cold room
fourteen persisted; of twenty placed al
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 in 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. if they desired 10 do so. as long a.
they lived.
At Mount Pleasant. in the potteries in
Staflordshire, England. is TO be found .
child whose extraordinary growth ex
cites wonder. Little Alice. as she i;
humorously called. is but four years Of
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 head
being crowned with mass of COLDER
hair. Her appetite is enormous.
A member of the Geological Survey
saws 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.
duce, but also for the sodium sulphate il
contains. The latter is separated i'm d
focculent precipitate by the cold weather
of midwinter, and annually thrown ur
on the shore in enormous quantities.
There are many other lakes in the fal
west whence an inexhaustible supply OF
commercial alkalies may be obtained al
small cost. Mono Lake. California. alone