The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-03-22
CURRENT EVENTS.

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A Washington man who sued the base
ball manager for 5000 for injuries re.
ceived by foul tip while sitting in the
grand stand, has lost his case.
Ex-secretary Whitney, Dan Lamont,
and Oliver Payne have taken suit oil
offices IN the same building in New York
City. They have their eye upon some
big rapid transit scheme. They want
something not quite as rapid as the
movement by which they became private
citizens, however.
General Slocum, one of Sherman's
chief supporters on his famous march
from Atlanta to the sea, reports that
Sherman, in speaking of death recently,
said: 81 am coward in the face of pain,
and / cannot bear to think fthe physic-
al sensations that NAV attend my death
the choking in the throat, the paralysis
here, the torture there; but that aside, /
think of death as though it were sleep
and rest, and l have no feeling what
ever of dread of the hereafter"
The Oklahoma boomers have deposed
Pawnee Bill for cowardice and elected
Hill as leader. They have fixed the in
vasion for April 10, unless President
Harrison throws open the territory
sooner.
The Bell Telephone Company is re-
ported to have paid Is per cent. on it's
SIC, OO0,O 900 of watered stock last year and
to have lots of money left. This is a
veritable electrical sugar" concern.
Joe Howard, whose means for observ-
alton are excellent, says in the N. Y.
Press:
don't think have seen boy with a
round jacket, or any sort of coat with
out tail, in ten years. We haven't any
bows. They are all young manlets, dudes
and dudelets. They begin smoking
when they are years of age, and they
are pretty well played out by the time
they are Is and 10.
We think this thing is pretty much
confined to the big eastern cities, how
ever.
The average cost per head of feeding
the Yale University crew, now in train
ing, is about $14. Last week they con-
sumed Isl quarts of milk and 300 loaves
of bread, 800 oranges and 10 dozen eggs.
The men consume daily 40 pounds of
roast beef and 25 pounds of steak and
chops. For breakfast thev have steak
and chops, and at dinner they have
roast beef and chicken. At supper cold
roast beef is served, in addition to side
dishes.
A bill has been introduced in the New
York Legislature providing for a COM
mission to consider whether New York
City should not be extended so as to in
clude Brooklyn, Kings County, part of
Queens County, Richmond County and
part of Winchester County. The bill
does not define any limits to the pro-
posed extension. Neither does it make
the extension mandatory, but it APP
points commission to consider the
question and report to the Legislature
what legislation Is necessary.
The "original Astor," 80 far as we
know, although 1t is fair to assume he
had father somewhere, was a very
humble peddler - saving, grubbing,
grasping, penurious, misery, mean
Every cent he made he held on to until
it became dollar, and every dollar un-
til it was hundred; and then, when
land was cheap, with shrewdness and
common sense he put his money in the
earth and the earth. which must last SO
long as time endures, lasts, and the pres
ent generation enjoy their "high life"
by reason of what was done in slow
life," and for no other reason.-[Joe
Howard.
The New York Evening World of Tues
day astonished its multitudinosity of
readers by printing, on its first page. fac
SMILES of the Evening World of March
IL, 10, IA and 15, the blizzard quartet of
1888. Every word was legible, and the
pictures as suggestive now as then. The
World was enabled to do this through IA
cilities afforded by E. M. Gill, who re-
produces books entire in fac simile, and
engravings for all illustrative purposes,
by process known as photo-electrotyp-
ing. AS an evidence of what can be
done in the hurried endeavorings of a
daily newspaper, by this process, the
first page of the World is simply perfect.
The special committee of the board
of education of New York City has pre-
pared report in favor of abollshing the
present marking system in public
schools. 1t is proposed TO substitute for
this arbitrary system of marks on recita-
tons and examinations the teachers
judgment as to the record of proficiency
to which each pupil is entitled. Such
record is to be made up from week to
week from the general knowledge of the
teacher, aided by such memoranda as he
chooses to make for his own guidance.
The pupils work is to be reported as
"perfect," imperfect" or ''failure"
in the various studies pursued, and ac-
count can be taken of genuine fidelity
and improvement as we'll as mere glib
ness in reciting particular lessons.
When years work is concluded the
question of promotion becomes one of
actual fitness for the higher grade of
studies ascertained by the real progress
of the pupil and not by capacity for
examining for an examination.