The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-03-29
THE APRIL MAGAZINES.
HARPER's MAGAZINE.


U,pprn,s MAGAZINE.
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Illustrations, there brihg no less "lAn clShI
i've. and its table Of content, covers every Va
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TICS poems '.''' ~. -,
Rcade, NHNIt Coi''h' ANN 'Hl'' / ""VAc'"l
writing fiction for the same magazine, mus
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ton. HE leading lII"s,I"'''' articles are
Santa Domingo, by ;. 5, Conant; The Ocean
Lv Cho. Nnr,lhoH. PIGEON Novapcrs by +
- ,1..,.,.I ,I,,,r,,i,. nv por,o Cro,,r
30 A'o"".''' "'''
Then we have utePiy interesting article Oh
the Agricultural Luborcrs in England; sketch
of Horace Grrrlcy. by .Iunius Henri Browne
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old Stager; with ScyeFaI S'orlcS' poems Easy
Chair, Monthly Record, Drawer, &c
m. f,I,ovvin,r cytract from Sonto Domipon
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in the great lndu-AIlcah Empire OF Hayu:
PAPER CURRENCY IN SAN DoMINGo.-From
schooner for Cape Haytien, datance of
about sixty miles His first experience in the
negro republic was anything but pleasant.
Starting in tie evening, and expecting to
reach port by daybreak, there was not Il
OF food on board. Delayed by n
calm, the schooner did not come to anchor
until noon. The custom-hOuse officers were
at breakfast, and kept our hungry voyager
waiting two hours for permission to land,
and then the aggravating police authorities
took up all the rest of the day in examining
his papers before he was allowed to crafty
his raging appetite, What will you hayeY
asked the polite waiter, when, worn out with
hunger and vexation, he seated himself at
3afe table. Everything, anything-beer,
bread, fruit, chcese-bring it all at once"
vas the response; and the walters prompt
compliance tended greatly to soothe the trav.
,ler's eXasperated sensibiliies.
The next morning Mr. Hazard experienced
millionaire; lis Hrst ACT on rising was 10
'nd asli fnr 0cocktaiI" II was wcII fnbr;
,ated and cnioyed with zest Then ensued
he following dialogue:
allow muchy' | asked.
Thirty dollars, monsieur"
81 start back horrorstruck. Thirty dol
ars for a drink! | see it. am a poor
miserable American, dsowned by his gov.
rnment, in foreign land, and these barba-
ians know il, and now they want to swindle
ne. But the old spirit of rs comes strong
lpon me, and | get reckless. | VOW will
lot pay it; and drawing from my pocket |
liver coin of the realm of America, value
en- cents, declare it is all the money have. |
ITO nv amazcment the mild bar.keeper
avs, 4 haven't the change, Sir
IAh! | begin to see it; and with a prince
Y air | say ooh, keep the CHANGER"
Later in the day Mr.. Hazard was informed
" the banker TO whom he applied TO have
raft for few hundred dollars cashcd, that
ne dollar in gold was worth 400 dollars in
apcr currency of the country, and that if he
ad his draft cashed he would need half
Oxen mule.carts to take away the bills, He
If the draft at the bank, and drew only n
wv thousands for spending money,
Tho foIIowip,, i fro, Miss roororl,s 49,
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Gle On carrier fIgeohs:
SPEED OF THE CARRIERPIGEON.-
)eed of the carrier-pigeon has been general
overrated. Careful experiments have
lOWn that thirty miles an hour is the aver
&c, although, in Il few authenticated in
ances thrice that speed has been attained
l 1903 an English gentleman laid large
ager that his pigeons could fly thrtv.tive q
lies an hour. To decide the question three
his trained birds were taken exactly that |
stance from his residence, and let loose in
e presence OF witnesses. They arrived !
)me together in just tifty-three minutes, or a
ven minutes ahead of time. In 1893, dur L
2 the great annual trial of carrier.pigeons r
Client, twenty.iour birds were let fv at a
ouen, one hundred and fifty miles distant, a
five minutes before ten in the morning. u
heir flight was carefully timed, one of a
EN- reached Client in one hour and thirty o
inutcs, having traverscd the distance at the a
arvclous rate of more than ninety miles an II
,ur. Sixteen made the Journey in two p
,urs and a half. Several were never heard q
ON. In the East wonderful stories are told
their speed and endurance, The traveller
thgow tells us that one will carry a letter y
ON Babylon to Aleppo in forty.eicht hours, Il
e places being thirty DAYS tourney apart Fl
; the slow modes of travel used in the East lie