The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1850-11-09
Omnium G.athcrum.

INTERESTING EXPERIMENT An amusing and a so
interesting experiment, with electricity may be per
formed as follows Take four glass turnbIers invert
them upon the floor lay board on them le, per.
son stand on the board and another standing on the
ioor. beat him over the back a shor, time, with
hlr-cap, null, on any thing made OF fur or silk
push then apply your finger TO his nose and
spark OF hire will be seen to flash from the nose to
the hnser The room should be dark, when the rx.
psfineni IS made so as to be able to see the flash
MONTGOMERY PRIZE HAvs-Mr Nathan White,
OF Montgomery county, Md gives the following as
the recipe by which the prize ham at the late Fair
was cured
The pork should be perfectly cold before being
up. he hams should be "a ted with bloom nil
WIN portion 81 rel pepper and giIl ot nloass.s
10 rach ham Let THIN remain IN salt five weeks
uhen hnng them up and smoke with hickory wood
"r i've OF fix weeks. About The int of Al nl tnke
thrhl no"l, aud wet them with cold water, aud let
mem be well rubbed with unlenchcd ashes Let
mem remain IN bulk Tor several days. mud then hang
them IN the lott again tor use
TALKING DUrcH While in Mexico the bows had
great many very curious adventures in talking
Spanish TO the lair bune,,s senoritas or bronze CO.
iored hombr's, mud not a few quite humorous nc
counts OF those adventures found their way into the
puoNc prints. But We can recolIec, no instance
winch beats the following cX,rac: from the diary Of
our present accomplished Assistant Marshal.
In taking the census, OF course, he come. in con-
tact with persons from almost every nation on the
globe, many Ut whom know no more abou, the En-
glish language than the man in he moon does about
iankce politics. And, as our Marshal is not much
OF eithcra Frcnchman, Duichnlnn, or Norwegian
but iul-booded Yankee, he was Obliged, for
while. TO employ an interpreter when passing thro
settlements oici,her OF the above counrymen. Hny-
ing paid, ms he thought s,rc, attention to the oues-
tons propounded by his interpreter, and repeating
them over and over in his own mind, h. imagined he
could dispense with his Interpreter and undertake
the task alone
1t may be well to mention hrrc tina, our Marshal
had passed through the greater part of the Mexican
war, and had become quite an adept in the Spanish
language so that he was able to answer every como
&c llama esia1 that was put to him by whole reri-
ment of soldiers Taking this also into account he
started out ON his own hook
The hrst effort he made wns in German settle |
nle,'' III 'hc town Oh. lie came TO farm house,
Bon joure :"
Ihe old lady made polite courtesy. and said
something which he didno, understand, bu, suppo. !
sea u TO be an invitation to"wnk in"
hS men en9nred-" honst Engiisk spraeh +" |
,Ne'n, reptile the good woman, n little confused. |
-, Nine what mean English sprach"
The old lady shook her head as she pointed 10 n
chair and motoned TO him to set down. which h.
ooeyed. Wishing 10 know the name Of the proprl.
ator ne propounded the following interrogatory.
ass isf the ndUmeR OF the HoMpRE rs WIS
Aou,l"' - ''''
"lch rersfehe sic nicht" was the reply.
he Marsha smiled at the singunniy Of the name
as ne wrote It down-"lch Fer.stay e-sy-nicht"
QuANrEs lahres alt is E,rA noMBRr !" was his |
next question.
The old lady, unable to comprehend his questions,
pointed out the window to man who was AZ work
IN the garden. The Marshal went to the door and |
ca!led-"llo. EKER koom her !"
The man came and suspecting the difficulty, ad-
dressed the Marshal in broken English. The re.
nainuer OF the questions were then filled out with
out any difficulty
The next place he came to he was met BY m old
man he snme preliminares were gone through
"mu ie enquiry IN reference to the name, the od
man alfo replied, "Ich rerstshe sic nieht," which
was again set downs rs above. lie then pointed to
and enqured ''e P'''N'''
"Wass ist the nan,n Of nc ,o,,,.I
RirAsr "'''""'' ""u 'h'o'
The old man looked somewhat confused a. h.
again replied, "ieh rersfehe sie nichf" 80 ~
THUNDER! MI called 'lch Fers,ny-svnicb rn
, fa,o, was the reply. The Marshal SETH down
But not being able to proceed any farther he was
obliged to procure another Interpreter; and on sbo.
ng him the li't Of names he had Obtained on his
own hook, they both had hearty laugh over them err.
a. the interpreter explained the mistake. ''''''
The following tickle, WINS voted by Capt Rvnder,
Al the recent election in this county.
For State Teasurer--
For Consrsss-CnuRcniLL Corrtvo.
For Approximations Hisr.
For Sherif--JosErH w. Dow
For Coyoner-JosErH Stout.
Fisr AND WArER.PRocr CExryr.-Pour a min,
ooiynegar into pin, Of milk when the latter has
plly eoaguated clear 1t oithe Jumps and lst II set
Me. then mix the whole well together now siit into
H3nlck-lime. I'LL upon Surfing the whole We obtain
mnk paste. This cement will permanently unite
.nsrols, earihenware, China. &c.-Seientife Am.
Notice.
)EER skins dressed, oil dress. on reasonable
"'msoy @p@l p. TRoaN.