The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-01-03

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experiments rssfssnled it appears that
oysters possess an inheritant power
| to destroy TYPHOID bacilli.o This
was similar to slIp terse New York re.
port: NO tyrsa 81 bacilli found in
oysters exanlia 1923 specinens) z
With the inlproskIasnts which govern
ment scientists. are suggesting in the
planting and bs9Rag of oysters the
quality is being 5lnprpyed. particularly
those from Ches ls.ake bay, much as
the equality Of gdofcc meats and milk
fed chickens is ialig improved to salts
fly the tastes lied by higher stan
dards of living.
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This New fs3afs thirteen nationali-
ties in Chicage aat have Roman Ca
tholic clurctes the latest addition
being Belgian church that. cost the
5000 natives " Belgium in the city
$4,000. This monument to the
zeal of Jesiil a,fiest, Rev. j.. b. De
Sehryver. At TIC dedication the pa
tliotic ItiStAHss sAEaheIs even Claimed
st. Patrick fel Belgium, although
Archbishop Qalgiey aud Bishop Null
doom were present. to deny this for
old Ireland. saericans are too apt
to think BeIgipal us an uninlportant
province in the Netherlands" said MIR.
streyckmans. Belgium has given dy-
nasties to Franeg and saints and sol
diers to the HofIi from the time of
st. Patrick TO khal OF Father de Smet
aud Father nlhal What hero was
greater than Eedieey de Bouillon, the
crusader, who, offered the crown
of Jerusaleiu. saia Ia Yeald never wear
a crown OF gol where his Lord has
worn a crown If thornsgT Flemish
hymns were sisa and 4 sermon in
Flemish was q by Bishop Ga
briefs OF Ogden N Il, then pom
tifciai yespers ang and ser.
mon preaebed$ rsneh by Bishop
Meerschaert
Gynnasiums f6s tie FIRE fighters 6f
Chicago has bsaA proposed by Chief
Koran. because the department has
made such good record for the
year that more exercise is needed for
the men. The are losses of the year
of $4.ooo,oOo are not 50 small as to
be remarkable 90 the Chicago depart
ment when politics Is kept out OF
it, but it is gbteworthy fact that
no fire has got BEYOND the walls with
in which it started Better accomoda-
tions in the tlrehoaaes for the comfort
of the men are Jieeded New York's
department has II hmaIler area to pro-
tect against fire ind twice as many
men in the department, yet the losses
each year are neatly double those in
Chicago, In 1905 the losses in New
York were ST. ,0S2 10 as against sa,-
O62,93i. although View YofG,s depart
ment comprised 2,a71 men and Chi
eago's only 1915.
1t is interesting to observe, by re-
ports issued here, that Louisiana, Texas
South Dakota and Washington were
the states that led the rest in the new
railway completed in 1907. Texas far
out ranked in 1906 oil other states
by total of 635 miles of new line
its closest competitor being South
Dakota, which had 1888 miles. Louisi-
ana has. 3s4 new 1907 miles to brag
of. Texas $3.50, Washington 325 and
South Dakota $685. In the state of
always conservative, no
new track was built in 1907 and the
home of New Jersey corporations and
mosquitoes got half mile. Illinois
didn't do much TO mention, the grand
total OF new mileage for the year be-
ing less than 10 miles that was put
over tile fertile wheat lands of Kan
sas. The aggregate constructions
the United States for the
year was $500, as against 1923 in
1906.
Chicago has made more use of its
great public library during the last
year than ever before. The number
of volumes taken out for home reading
in the twelyemontli ended Dec. |, 1907,
was l,40s,s32, against 1861, 073 for the
preceding year. Of these more than
half were circulated through the
seventy branch delivery stations. In
the reference department. 572,372 vol
umes were issued. The total number
of volumes in the library is 342,667
and 93,667 persons hold cards emitting
them to draw books.
One cannot at this season overlook
the aftermath of Christmas, an oeoa
sion which cost the people of Chicago
and vicinity little item of $l5,-
000,00O-eash or ON charge accounts.
This aftermath is aptIy put into verses
by Wilbur d. Nesbit, poet, novelist. and
dramatist of Chicago in this fashions
Let us pipe little carol, clothe our
thoughts in this apparel,
Garb our dreams in rhyming rainent if
you please;
We have warbIed of the holly in
manner blithe and jolly,
And have praised the mistletoe in
joyful heys;
We have told about the tingle of the
time in lighted ingle