The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1871-01-07
BREyITIES.

The story that Jenny Lind and hsr
husband have separated is contradicted.
Madison, Wisconsin, has 229 more
women than men.
A citizen of Maine Is executing an
order for sixty thousand base ball bats.
| Lynn, Mass, has elected six women to
the school committee
The income of Yale College last year
was 800, LISTS expenditures were $685.
$40.
The real property held by the churches
in Cincinnati is estimated to be worth
about 100000.
"A Massachusetts farmer made two
thousand dollars last fall by selling bur
dock roots.
There were Al ,415,0O0 cigars produced
in Illinois during the year ending June 30,
1870.
"A dog beat a locomotive in half mile
race, on the Oregon l. California road. the
other day.
Counterfeit eos on the Merchants
National Bank of New York have made
their appearance in Milwaukee.
Mrs. Alice Cooley, sculptoress of
Natchez Miss, is working on half size
bust of General Lee.
| "a iSNtuiSi III -Nt"alh, ~.
stated that the largest theatre, the largest
circus and the largest distillery in the
United States were owned by women.
AT recent Methodist fair at Burling-
ton, Iowa, a vote on the presentation of a
doll to the favorite little Miss of the fair
yielded $2SO45.
There is one Methodist in Massachu.
sets to every thirty eight inhabitants. In
| 1850 there was one for every forty-three
inhabitants.
There are fifty-two Southern Metho-
dist churches in Maryland, nearly all of
which have been built or purchased with
in five years
Upon the bell of the new Episcopal
Church in NewtOwn is the inscription,
IL to the church the living call, and to the
grave do summon all"
Said a member of church 10 another,
81 can give five dollars to this object and
not feel it," "Then," said his companion,
give ten and feel it."
1t is proposed by some of the Cana
dian Methodists to hold great Methodist
Convention in Ontario, after the manner
of our State Conventions.
Only two weddings have ever taken
place in the North Church, Middletown.
which was celebrated a few days ago.
San Francisco is attempting, and it is
believed successfully, to cultivate oysters
in her harbor None but small and infe.
rior bivalves are indigenous near that city
The lady occupant Of a brown stone
mansion in Brooklyn Went up on the roof
of her house, the other day, and using
mortar and trowel expertly, took down and
relaid defective chimney.
Who can blame men for not wanting
TO hold babies, when they read that at
Prescott, Massachusetts, the other night.
j. c. Smith, while holding a baby, fell
dead from his chair?
1t may be laid down as universal
principle, says the New York World that
men dislike TO be kicked down stairs, es.
pecially when the stairs are long and tor
tuous
New York deyours nearly thousand
barrels of eggs a day. Each barrel con.
tains eighty dozen, or more-so that the
actual daily consumption is no, far from
million eggs, and the cost to the consum-
ers about $780, coo year.
"A citizen of Valparaiso, Ind, has
brought suit for the recovery of $50, a
wager on certain election return, he hav.
ing discovered that the man with whom
he was betting knew the exact figures, and
therefore had 81 sure thing
The Newport Or H. NeuS says that
there is clergyman, and a doctor of
divinity at that, in Rhode Island who has
oiiiciated five times at the marriage of one
man, and all five of the women 10 whom
the man was married are still living.
"A man with one eye laid wager with
another person that he (the one eyed per
som saw more than the other. The wager
was accepted you have lost says the
first 81 can see two eyes in your face, and
you can only see one in nine
Some horsemen say that bleeding will
sometimes restore the sight to horse
partially blind Not being well up in
equine matters we cannot endorse the as
sertion, but we do know that to open
mans eyes you have only TO bleed his
pockets.
The Detroit Tribune says a girl in 81.
Paul used arsenic to improve her complex
ion, notwithstanding her friends told her
it was dangerous. They had to use crow
bars to break the crust Of the ground for
the grave, on account of the cold weather.
"A Saccaappa (Me) woman has been
blind for several years, yet performs all the
household labor for herself, husband, and
two children, with the exception of occa-
sonal help in washing, which she pays for
in knitting, and besides this knits great
deal for pay.
"A Paris paper gives the following:
"The Surgeon General is reviewing the
Garde Mobile. A young garde steps for
ward. And on what ground do you claim
an exemption i have palpitaton of
the heart SO much the better says the
Surgeon, turning to the next, if your heart
palptates for your country"
"A bereaved widower, while receiving
with due Acknowledgements the coincidence
of friends-that 1t was indeed a great loss,
n cod bereavement that he had suffered