The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-01-13
PEOPLE AND EVENTS

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Queen Victoria as an unheard of rarity.
A Frenchman has plan for building
a bridge ACROSS the British Channel 100
feet high mss
Another excursion of Mexican editors
will leave the City Of Mexico for this
country in March.
Sam Jones is in Kansas City, but the
people are too busy Specializing in real
estate to listen to him
Mrs. Holloway Evans. of Marion coun.
ty, South Carolina. has given birth to
five children inside of one year
There are excellent prospects of rails
ing $1,000 for Mark Hopkins Memoir
ial Building at Williams College.
Dr. Mary Walker attended the Presi-
dents reception Monday, and attracted
more attention than Mr. Cleveland him
self.
The Australians are said to be the
rteatest hetters in the world. Annually
300. 0W. 600 changes hands over horse
races.
Tie ev DR.. +. E. Bear,sley is about
Ia celebrate the 10th anniversary of his
rectorship al St. Thomas Church, New
Haven.
Lr.rd Harrington, Lord Roseberry,
and Sir Henry James are guests Of the
Prince If Wales at Sandingham Palace
this week.
Something more than $l5, 900 has been
secured for purchasing at Washington a
house for the widow of General W. S.
Hancock.
Edwin Arnold, author Of "The Light
of ASIA" and the translator of many
beautiful Oriental legends into English
verse, has been knighted by Queen Vic
toria.
The latest craze among fashionable
French ladies is the study of astronomy.
Young ladies IN this country have always
been particularly interested in the study
of the heavens.
For the first time in its existence the
Gobelin tapestry factory of Paris has a
strike. The tapissiers say there are too
many Of them, and that the old hands
should be pensioned off.
Sarah Bernhardt is having great sport
with her two young lions, which are al
lowed to play about her studio. Sarah
is now modelling life-size group repre-
senting "The God OF Love Trampling on
Two PROSTATE Female Forms"
The wife of Senator Beck, of Ken
lucky, is descendant Of relative of
George Washington, and part of her
estate comprises land surveyed BY
Washington for the State of Virginia
when Kentucky WIS the western county
of that State.
Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson is visit
ing friends in Philadelphia.
Dr. Mary Walker Ia candidate for
the position of Special Examiner in the
Pension Bureau.
Lord Randolph Churchill was tender
ed reception by the Governor of Mos
COW Wednesday.
Daniel Dougherty, the 'silver.tongued'
of Philadelphia, has opened law Office
in New York.
The Empress of Austria has given Sl2,-
800 toward the fund for monument to
to Heine at Dusseldorf.
Colonel 1ngersolPs daughters say they
do not need any brothers, as "father is
boy enough for one house."
Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone left orders
that no letters should be forwarded to
them from England during their stay in
Itaiy.
Pierre Lombard and a party of friends
have gone to Florida in steam yacht,
and are fishing off the coast for tarpon.
Governor Ross and State Senator Coke
are the leading candidates for United
States Senator before the Texas Leeisla-
ture.
Mrs Charlotte Simonton, of New Rich
mond, Wis, celebrated her Tooth birth
dav last Tuesday. She has son 81
Years old
The death is announced of Privy
Councillor Professor Carl LANCER, Ritter
Won Elenbnrg, one of the most eminent
s,ientiests of Vienna.
Congressman John D. Long, of Massa-
chusetts, says that if General Sheridan
were nominated for President he would |
surely beelected.
Mr.. Powderly will go South, on the
of his physician. No
one Is allowed to see the Grand Master
Workman. His health is far from ro-
hast
The Rev. T. Dewitt Tallnage has &C.
,~pted the chaplaincv of the Thirteenth
of Brooklyn. filling the va
caney left by the death of Henry Ward
Beecher.
Bar,h de Grimm, who used to draw
cartoons for the New York telegram,
passed. has childhood in Russia, and was
4 fellow of present Car. His father
was the Cars tailor.
The only living woman who has ever