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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-03-10
SympathetiC Pictures.


The following simple directions for max.
ing picture which will adapt itself 10 cir
cumstances, and also for making inks of
various kinds are from the JOuradl # Com
MCrcc.
A quarter of pound Of logwood boiled
with an ounce vi powdered alum, and the
same quantity of cream Of tartar, with half
the quantity of water, TO which add, while 1t
is warm, an ounce each of sugar and gnm ar
able, will make a cheap red ink, although
Booth adds crystals Of lartaras and cochin
cal
Solutions of indigo with pieces of alumina
and mixed with cD0. will make blue ink.
Verdigris distii Il With vinegar and mixed
with a little gum Nil make green INK.
Saiion, with sl IN and gum water, will
make a yellow u X.
The muriate at hllt, when diluted with
water so as to fnru u pale ink solution, will
be Invisible uni subjected TO II gentle heat
when he wIitnr ppears a beautiful blue.
The salt of nj, Be" added will turn the writ
ing green. 4 ditn'. solution of chloride OF
copper, treated In pa same way, will turn i
bright yellow unClr hea.
We suggested some years ago On interest
ing experiment. Take an ordinary simple
landscape picture printed in black on white
ground, representing winter scene, with
81 n
Copy this III india ink, or if the paper Is
suitable use it as II Is Over this paint sky
with the salt of cobalt, the application OF
which when cold Will scarcely stain the pal-
or.
Then add the salt of nickel, and carefully
paint in the grass upon the brown, frozen
earth, and adorn all the trees and shrubs with
foliage. This, too, when Try, will be wholly
, invisible.
Take dilute solution of chloride OF cop.
per and paint in daisies ami marigoldS, US.
ing the last above named for the stem aud
leaf Frame the picture without glass, and
II will furnish a nevcr-fadng surprise for
visitors.
In the cold 1t is a winter landscape; hold
il TO the fire, and the heat brings out bright
sky, green grass and foliage, bright yellow
daisies, etc; in short, il warns into a sum.
mer picture. Removed from the heat the
colors fade at once TO the desolateGcss of the
original design.
The cobalt may be used for blue flowers as
well as for the sky; the copper for a golden
sunset, and any skillful child can try the
experiment.
When nearly ali the little German states
were swept away by Biz, Lichtenstein wa
left Ii has 8 06s inhabitants, 800 OF which
make up the population of Naduz, its capital
The duke, who chiefly resides on his vssi
Austrian estates, pays the expenditure ct the
state out OF his private income. So his lccky
subjects go tax free Lately there has been a
tempest in their teapo; all along OF the duke's
having sanctioned an &C; of the parliament
of L. in reference TO gold standard, and Coo
of the strongest peasants marched into the
capital and demanded the revocation of the
obnoxious act, or threatening they would re
volt TO Austria. The governor pscifed them
by temporIzing policy. and thus obyiaicd
this frightful political convulsioD. Naduz
stands In the valley of the Rhine and IN the
frontier Of the Grisons, Swi'z. II ought 10 be
delightfully."- cheap.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-03-10

Mr.. Walter, of the London Times, recently
addressed temperance conference IN LONDON
In the course of his speech he said:
"Any man who knew the different Gus
toms existing in rural and urban districts
knew that while beer-drinkinc vas the vice
of ;he country, spiritdrinking was III" vice OF
The town THIS difference arose from physi
cal causes for which the pIor were not al
,yavs rcsnonsible In tOwIs the poor often
lived in damp, unhealthy Dwellings,, and thcir
systems were so EXHAUSTED by bad air and
unwhoIesome rooms thar they flew 10 spirits
ms the best way of raising their own for The
time and of escaping from the mental and
physical depression which those unhealthy
conditions of life ard atmosphere always
produced.
an the country, however, the people lived
much out of doors, and enjoyed plenty of
fresh air; they did not suffer from the de
pressing iafluences caused bv the unhealthy
conditions and occupations Of The urban poor :;
and their temptation was to drink something
which supplied rather than maddened them.
Now, would it not be possible in The country
TO get beer Of better or of different quality :?
lie had frequently Travelled in Germany
where far greater quantity OF heer was
drank than IN this country. Mr.. Bass had
told him that his production of beer was as
nothing compared with the quantity breWed
by some Bavaran firms, But IN Bavaria you
could drink a paiful OF beer without being
any the worse for it, 1t was fresh, bright
pleasant to the taste, hut it was no, heady
1t had none OF the qualities which, when they
once got hold of man, completely mastered
him and made a beast of him. People ala
not get drunk on Bavarian beer
"The same remark applied to the United
States, where he had lately been travelling
The lager beer sold there was much like the
Bavarian beer. 1t was drunk to great ex
tent by Germans. There were enormous
brewerles of it in New York and other places;
and it was comparatively harmless. whole
some and exhleratlng. The result was far
less drunkenness IN the United States than
with us, and this not in consequence OF Maine
Liquor laws-for in those parts of the coun-
try of which he spoke Maine liquor laws did
not exist and would not be tolerated-but
partly from the influence OF climate, partly
also from better education and greater self
respect among the population, and also on
account Of this lighter beverage. Among the
native Americans, at all events. there was
very little drunkenness. He believed that he
only saw one case during his visit"
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GOOD BOOKS FOR ALL.

For sale by OsMAN HAPEMAN, IS La Sale ST., Ottawa,
Ills Any Of these Books will be forwarded BY mail. post
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-03-10

The easiest way 10 get rid Of s;umps Of
trees is to bore hole in the top, say one or
two inches, and eighteen inches deep. Put
in the hole from one TO two ounces of salt.
peire, fill up the hole with water and plug up
tight In the spring take out the plug, pour
IN half gill of Kerosene oil, and set FIRE to il
The stump will burn entirely up even to the
smallest knot.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-03-10
FccundIty of OuaIls.

The Indiana Legislature has bill pending
to prohibit the shooting OF quails for five
wears We hope it will be amended, fer
though the quail Is a friend to the farmers,
there may be too much Of good thing. =,
Each pair Ct quails produces an average of
ten chicks per year-many, in favorable sea-
sons, hatch out sixteen in brood, and then
hatch a second brood. IT we estimate only
the small number of 00O0n quais in Indiana
to start with Though there are probably ten
times that number, and take ten per year as
the produce of each pair, the figures Will
simply be stndendous, and we present them
to the Indiana Legislature for consideration ::
First year. total ....... ........ 3,WO,0OO
Second year. total. ............. 1o,OOh,OOO
Third year, total. -. ...... lUoUOO'Ooo
Fourth year, total ......... -. 64SOOO,OOO
Fifth year, total ............... 3 ,oSS 100000
We would have to station an army along
the Ohio river to prevent an invasion OF Ken
lucky after these birs had eaten everything
visible in Indiana There wouldn't be bug
left IN that state, and the birds would require
grain to live upon. Estimating gill of
grain per day for each bird, it would require
about IL, 100000 bushels per day to feed them.
We enter our protest in advance, and shall
demand, if Indiana does pass that law, that
the state shall raise the grain to feed the
birds, and shall put up bird net three hun
dred feet high along the Ohio to keep thei
inhabitants from invading Kentucky.
We can stand a law protecting them for
two years, but beyond that we must demand
a halt.-LOutSriiie, AZ, Commercial.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-03-10

A young lad, whose teacher is rather free
with the roo, remarked the other day, That
they had too many hollerdsys at their
scaou!r
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-02

stood, but it did not jar him or blow the
can from his hand. The powder that
was blown into his face will disfigure
him somewhat.
BELoIT COLLEGE has been favored
with gift from Rev. Henry Porter, now
a missionary in China, of a fac siDaite i'm
preston of the Inscriptions of the famous
" HISTORIAN Tablet" This ancient stone
is a black marble, discovered in the city
of Singan, western China, in 1928, where
it was set up in the year Isl. 1t Is in
scribed in ancient Chinese and Syriac
characters which record the carrying
into China of the Christian reli-
gion as taught by Nestorius, by Nesto-
rian priests who made pilgrimage to
that pagan region in the year 636, were
most heartily welcomed by the emperor,
and for period of 145 years they and
their successors enjoyed the utmost favor
and encouragement of the government.
1t Is mounted upon an elegant piece of
Chinese figured linen, with a paper or
parchment back, and is very rare and
valuable addition to the college collec-
ton.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-02

exception of Roger S. Green to be cher
justice of Washington territory, wee ). H.
Lewis, resigned.
THE Acknowledgement has decided that
the office of general appraiser OF merchah
disc for the south is not warranted by the
revised statutes therefore ex-Congressman
Morey, of Louisiana, no longer holds the
place.
THE secretary of the treasury Will issue
call for ten million bonds for the syndicate,
being the 47th call. The bonds are consois
of 1865, dated July l, '65, and are seven mil
lion coupons and three million registered
bonds.
THE secretary of war has issued an order
saying the employees for whose payment no
appropriation has been made Tor the next
fiscal year will be allowed to continue on
duty only in eases where their services are
absolutely necessary and ordered by proper
authority, and where they will stipulate
they do so voluntarily, and without contract
or agreement may be furnished with GER
tifcate showing the time for which such
service is rendered, but the holder has no
claim for compensation unless Congress
shall make appropriation therefor. Quar-
termasters and paymasters clerks, ETC., are
affected bv this order.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-02
GENERAL.

THE creditors of the city of Savannah held
meeting at New York on the 10Th. About
100000 was represented. A proposition
to accept so cents on the dollar was carried
The funded and contingent debt of the city
is over four million.
THROUGH official channels rumor has
reached the state department that Mexico is
about to declare an additional tax of 10 per
cent. on al imports into that country.
ADvICES from San Domingo to the 9th
inst, state that political conspiracy was
discovered on Nay eth in San Domingo city.
Thirty persons implicated were arrested and
others took refuge in different consulates.
Great conservation prevailed and revolu-
ton seemed imminent Maladmnistration
of finance seemed to be the principal cause
of discomfort
THE Hon. A. IL. Stephens has recovered
sufficiently to be able to return to Georgia
in special car. He seems to be stronger
now than for three years previous, although
his long illness has somewhat reduced his
already meagre weight. He tips the scales
now at 20 pounds, and is easily carried
about in the arms of his stalwart negro SER
want.
of'nER instructions from the New York
custom mouse Investigating committee fifty
clerks in various divisions of the custom
house are already marked for dismissal and
heads of divisions are instructed to report
how many can be dispensed with in their
departments.
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An Energetic Cripple.
From the Boston Journal.

The enterprise of recent employee of
the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford Railroad cannot be too much
praised. While taking trunk out of a
baggage car from Boston in the Spring
field depot some time ago, he was thrown
down and hurt. He suffered terribly and
crawled around on crutches until the Bos-
ton and Albany and the New Haven
roads united and gave him $4,000, when
he was instantaneously and completely
cured. Shortly afterward man on the
Boston and Albany road was killed, and
the company gave the widow $1,000.
The former cripple who had scored
$1,000 already, soon married her and thus
counted $4,000. He recovered his health
so completely that he was able to work
again on the railroad, but finally, not
being hurt again within a reasonable
time, he retired to farm which he had
bought with part of the proceeds of
his former calamities, and where he is
living in peace and quietness and under
the consolation of the reflection that vir-
tue is its own reward.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-02
Tracking Noted Names

The exchange list gives the following
facts in regard to the present where
abouts and doings of our great men.
George Washington recently put up at
the Stockbridge, Mass, station house, and
has been brought before the Brooklyn
courts for deserving his wife Elizabeth.
Andrew Jackson S a policeman at San
Jose, Cal, and is also, in the tolls of the
law for burglary at San Francisco. Sam
Adams has just been pardoned out of
Sing Sing, and William Writ heads a
gang of Philadelphia burglars Patrick
Henry, Andrew Johnson, Stephen A.
Douglass, and John c. Fremont are on
the tramp in various parts of the coun-
try. William Penn is foreman of New
Jersey fire company, and is in trouble
for deserving his wife, and Horace
Greeley keeps a hotel in Santa Barbara
and has been arrested in South Carolina
for chicken stealing. Napoleon Bona
parte is on the New Orleans Grand Jury.
G.. Garibaldi drives Chicago express
wagon. Thomas Moore is in the DAYTON.
Ohio Poorhouse, and Julius Caesar keeps
hotel at San Jose, California.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-02
FOREIGN NOTES.

IT is said that a note has been communi
Gated to all conservative provincial papers
in France, stating that during the three
months interval between the dissolution of
the chamber and tho general elections Presi-
dent Mcmahon is perfectly entitled to decree
a state of seige. Signatures are being
solicited among Paris tradesmen to a petition
to the president, representing that recent
events are paralyzing trade.
IT is now declared that Don Carlos was not
expelled from France, but went voluntarily
to save the French government from embar-
rassment.
1T is officially announced that Emperor
William has recalled Prince Bismarck to
consider the situation in France and the
probable effect of the change of ministry
upon the relations of France and Germany.
THERE were seventy-eight deaths from
smallpox in London last week, against fifty
four the week before.
ABOUT 10000 men are already locked out
from the Clyde ship building yards. The
number will probably be trebled in few
days.
DURING Whit Monday amusements at
Hull, Eng, a balloon about to ascend was
blown against a gas jet and exploded.
Eighty-six of the spectators were injured;
six dangerously.
a VERSAILLES dispatch says of the scene
in the chamber previous to adjournment
that some of the members were actually
scuffiing.
THE administration of France falls back
into the hands from which universal suffrage
snatched it at the last election
DURING the late earthquake along the
coast of Peru, seventy ships were totally lost
and forty damaged.
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Standing Army of Sixty Three Men.

The Prlncipality OF Monaco, is repre-
sented abroad by two "envoys extra
ordinary and ministers plenipotentiary, ,"
and by forty-eight consuls and vice-con-
suls. The internal administration is
conducted by a Governor General, Il
Secretary General, three Councillors of
of State, one Secretary of State, one
Bishop, eleven Priests, one Chancellor
and one Secretary of the Order of st.
Charles, thirteen Judges, one Treasurer
General, one Councillor for Naval At
fairs, one Port Captain and one Port
Lieutenant, one Artillery Guardsman,
one Editor of the Official Journal, one
Chief of the Police, twelve " Agents"
and twenty-eight Carbineers or Gend-
armes. The military forces of the States
consist, in addition to the one Artillery
Guardsman, of one Colonel, one Major,
one Captain, one Lieutenant, five non
commissioned officers and siXty-three
soldiers. The court of Monaco embraces
a household establishment of respectable
dimensions, including, as it does, a Chap
lain, an honorary chaplain, two aides-de
camp, an orderly officer, Chamberlain,
a Secretary, a Physician-in-chief,a Com
mandant of the Palace, an Aide-de-camp
to the hereditary prince, a lady-of-honor
to the princess mother, and five "supe-
rior officers of the guards-of-honor."
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-02
NEWS In BRIEF.
THE EAST.

THE announcement that the managers of
the Pennsylvania railway have decided
upon reduction of 10 per cent in the
wages and earnings of all their employees
from and after June 1, has created great ex-
element along the whole line. The Times
saws: I" A strike is undoubtedly immin emit
| The employees claim they are already down
to hardpan, and could not make a living
under any further reductions"
THE creditors of Pforcheimer & Retter
jewelers., New York, have accepted a settle
ment at 80 cents on the dollar. A statement
of the affairs of the firm shows the assets to
be $147 ,647; nominal assets 500, 900; real
assets, S39101.
Four inches of snow fell in Boston,
Mass, on the oath inst, and it is feared that
much damage has been done to fruit crops
in that vicinity.
THE New York legislature adjourned sine
die on the 9th inst, and the senate immedi-
ately convened in extra session for executive
business
a REPORT is current that the various
trunk lines will reduce the fare from New
York to Chicago from $23 to SD.
ALL tIe Oiu pOOl StlltrS nave moved 10
New Jersey, and opened establishments in
the different cities near New York. There
is no law against gambling in that state.
ALL the trunk lines running out of New
York city have agreed to pool the revenues
derived from western bound freghts The
Erie and n. Y. Central are each to receive
80 per cent, Pennsylvania % per cent, and
the Baltimore and Ohio 9 per cent. A gen.
eral agent is to be appointed, whose duty it
will be to superintend the signing of all
bills of lading, and to see that the agree
ment is carried out.
AT a meeting of the coal producers and
carriers at New York on DIST inst, it was
agreed to suspend mining from the 18th of
June till the 10Th of July.
The amount OF grain in New York is
100, 754 bushels wheat; 336, 1873 bushels corn !;
7S4,1S5 bushels oats 50, O15 bushels barley;
206,6 bushels rye; 259,17 bushels malt;
1928 bushels peas.
THE New York police have been instruct
ed to see that the Sunday laws against sell
ing excisable drinks are carried out in the
beer gardens and parks.
GOVERNOR ROBINSON who vetoed, and
the members who voted against the appro-
priation TO complete the new capitol build
ing at Albany, New York, were threatened
with violence by mob of so-ealled work
ingmen.
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WASHINGTON.

ACCORDING to previous arrangement a
secret meeting of disatfected Republicans
was held in Washington on the night of the
10Th inst, for the purpose of organizing a
national party. About 80 persons from
different states were present Resolutions
were adopted organizing the meeting into a
national joint body, and permanent officers
were elected, with power to institute
branches throughout the country, with head
quarters ut Washington.
AS throwing some light on the question
whether consuls of 1865, portion of which
loan was recently called in, are held to any
extent in Europe, it is stated that during
February, March and April coupons due
January l, of that loan were received from
foreign holders, through the London syndi-
cate, representing the interest on $4,000
600 in bonds.
\ CHANGE in the method of determining
the tax on whisky, high wines and distilled
products, using weight instead of the present
bulk measurement, IS under consideration
by the officials of the internal revenue
bureau and is favored by some of the largest
diStiilers IN the country. 1t is believed that
the change proposed will secure better
and simpler collection of revenues and at the
same time completely protect distillers, who
are willing to pay taxes due the government,
from losing competition with those rivals in
business who are not.
SECRETARY SHERMAN has decided to APP
point commission TO investigate the Phil
adelphia custom house, similar to the one
now at work at New York.
AT cabinet meeting on the DIST inst,
various appointments were considered,
among them several foreign missions, but no
conclusion was reached in any case with the
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-06-02
a Remarkable Bird.

From the Fort Worth (Texas) Democrat.
Messrs. Twombly & Lyle have on ex-
hibition at the Trinity saloon live peli-
can of large size, which was caught near
Cleburne, and purchased from a WAGNER
by these gentlemen. II is huge bird,
measuring over nine feet from tip to tip
with bill at least a foot long, through
which he takes his food without masti-
cation or culinary preparation. He
swallowed fish yesterday as broad as a
mans hand, without apparent effort.
They have his lirdship in large tub of
water. The big show will not have a
greater curiosity in its ayiary than this
pelican,
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ROSE AND THORN.

She's loveliest of the festal throng
In delicate form and Grecian face;
beautiful, incarnate song;
a marvel of harmonious grace;
ANA yet | know the truth | sneak:
FROM those gray groups she stands apart,
n rose upon her tender cheek,
thorn within her heart!
lnoush bright her eyes bewildering CLEANS,
FAR tremulous lips, and shining hair,
something born OF mournfuI dreams
Breathes round her sad enchanted air.
no ohthesome thoughts at hide and seek
From out her dimples, smiling. start.
IL stiil the rose be on her cheek.
thorn is in her heart
Young lover, tossed 'twixt hope and fear
Your whispered vow and vearninc oros
Yon marble Clytie pillared near
Could move rs soon to soft repIies
Or, if she thrill at words you speak.
Loves memory prompts the sudden start,
The rose has paled upon her check,
The thorn has pierced her heart,
-Hdypey's Bcr-ar.