The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-07-19
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.


recently: when 1 was young man
studying for the ministry, l came to
the conclusion that it was good time
to retire from the passionate of a church
when one got to be forty. When / got
to be forty 1 changed my mind, and
thought fifty was the proper age for
retiring then 1 later came to see
things still differently and decided
that when was sixty 1 should drop
the work. But don't give the mat
ter any thought now"
Mrs. Louis Botha, the wife of the
Boer general, who has become so pro-
minent in her efforts to bring about
peace, is of Irish extraction, being the
great grand niece of Robert Emmett.
When entertained at dinner at Pre-
toria by Lord Roberts, she suggested
that feminine influences would be ne
cessary to bring peace to Africa, and
her recent efforts to cause a cessation
of the war prove that she is as practi-
cal in diplomacy as she is apt in point
ing way.
A woman, who is of high social
distinction in America. was presented
to the Kaiser at some dinner that was
not attended with royal state. She
was talking to him when she was
offered famous German salad. 1t
was handed on her right and the
Kaiser was on her left, which put her
in a predicament. She did not dare
turn her face from the emperor to help
herself to the salad. The situation
was too much for her. The emperor,
seeing the condition at glance, look
ed at her for an instant and laughed,
as he said: "a Kaiser can wait, but
a salad cannot. -
Joaquin Miller is likely to beco me
an oil magnate within the next few
months. A few years ago, while lee
turing in Texsa. the poet made good
deal of money, and bought a tract of
seven hundred acres. He let the land
alone and is now told that oil has
been found on all sides of his property
and that his tract of seven hundred
acres is supposed to be in the best part
of the oil belt.
DIR. Harlow Brooks has bee ap-
pointed pathologist to the New York
Geological Park. The animals fur
nish a splendid field for the study of
comparative pathology. A laboratory
will be fitted up for Doctor Brooks
use. He will make regular visits to
the park to examine into the hygenic
conditions of the animals and recon-
mend such treatment, and to make
such autopsies and microscopic studies
as will tend to advance our knowledge
of the prevention and treatment of
diseases peculiar to animals.
Paris is said to have been deeply
stirred by the action of the ex- Empress
Eugene in recently presenting to the
municipality the cradle of the Prince
Imperial, who was killed in the Zulu
war. The cradle is beautiful work
of art, and even the extreme republi-
can can smile at the little imperial
crown over the white satin pillow.
The widow of Napoleon III, is now in
her seventy-sixth year. Since the fall
of the empire, she has made her home
in England.
Here is an interesting story of Eleo-
nora Duse regarding the famous &C
tress' infancy. She was born in a
wagon near Venice. and was being
taken to church for baptism accord
mig to local custom in glass cradle
ornamented with gold when detach-
ment of Australian soldiers came
along. Regarding this sumptuous
cradle as a shrine full of holy relics,
they respectfully presented arms. This
mistake delighted the father. Eleonora
Duse, however, had to pass through
great trials and privation before she
achieved her great success in Verona
at the age of eighteen in the character
of Juliet
AO4A W. ~. Oh 11OI hO, pI6Sl-
dent of the Canadian Pacific railroad,
is very enthusiastic with regard to the
future of the island of Cuba. He is
interested in building a railroad
lengthwise of the island, connecting
the two chief seaport cities, and he
looks for rapid social and industrial
development For raising sugar and
tobacco he says that no country in the
world begins to equal Cuba, and there
are rich deposits of iron, manganese
and other metals and enormous areas
of valuable timber that have not yet
begun to be exploited. He speaks
highly of the Cuban climate, and says
that the sanitary improvements now
in progress will put an end to yellow
fever. The island in fact is now prac-
tically free from that. disease for the
first time in four hundred wears