The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-12-27
GleaningS.

France consumes now seventy -folr million
tons Of coal, against seven millions in 1850.
! The English miner raises nearly double per
man what his French brother miner raises.
During the year ending November 30, the
arrivals of foreign Immigrants at New York
numbered l3405S against 81 ,2j5 for the pre-
cedlng twelve months, an increase of over CD =
per cent.
The report Of the chief grain inspector at
Chicago shows that the excess of grain in
spected during the past year over the quantity
| inspected during any previous year was S,3l6,-
71S bushels, aggregating 1913, 4j9,262 bushels.
OF the shipments of grain from Chicago
eastward tor the week ending Dec. 6, 73l ,6lS
bushels were by rail and G0j, 1876 bushels by
| lake, showing remarkable continuance of
water shipments after the date when nayi ga
ton usually closes.
Noel lie Vasseur one of the Oldest settlers.
of Kankakee county, died last week. He was
born in Canada IN 1893: established trading
post at Mackinac in 1869 in the interests of the
Hudson Bay Company; and traded with the
Indians for years along Lake Michigan and in
eastern Illinois, and induced a large number
of French Canadians to make the first settle
ments in Kankakec county.
America is ahead again. At the Intcrna-
tlonal Exhibition of Science in France our
Signal-Service weather prophets have been
awarded the diploma for the most perfect sys-
TEN of collecting and utilizing meteorological
data for the benefit of commerce and naviga-
ton The diploma Is the highest reward &C
corded. Old Probabilities ought to be able 10
get up small boom on the strength of this
successful mpetitlon-SjgRal
At the great sugar refinery in Peoria where
len is adj of n osh IL
and pnt under heavy pressure; it is not fer.
mentcd, nor do any acids or anything else
come in contact with it, II comes out perfect
| ly sweet and pure, and with about One-half the
saCCharine matter squeezed from It, This pro-
duct the sugar company grind and sell, under
the name of Sugar Corn Meal and Feed, and
it is said to be received with great favor by
dairy farmers who feed it to their cattle with
the most favorable results.
! In 1868 the Grundy county supervisors, to
avoid a draft for soldiers in that county OF
fcred bounty Of $40 to volunteers. Her
quota was filled up by volunteers. Those who
enlisted at home were paid the bounty but
those who volunteered in the field were re-
fused the bounty vixen they demanded it on
their return, the danger Of a draft then being
past Last week Tuesday couse for the vete
ran volunteers presented their claim for this
bounty to the beard and asked for payment
! Counsel for the board advised them that they
need not pay the claim and after hot discus
sion the board concluded they would not pay
it.
There il popular brewery in Munich
called the Hofbrauhaus-COurt Brewery-in
which noble and plebeian mingle freely, the
best of lager, like the cold hand of death, rem
dering all equal The quantity Of beer there
imblbcd may be Judged from the recent obser
Of iSit Oh in a
newspaper. At thirty-five minutes past ten in
the forenoon two fresh hogsheads were tapped
One of them was empty at torty-eight minutes
and the other at fifty lone minutes pastte This
{ would be about 1000 glasses sold in sixteen
lminutes.-dOubtlcss an exceptional occurrence
even there.
h The so-called New Process" of grinding
wheat SAYS the Rural Nep Yorker, is one OF
the most important technical improvements OF
the present century, inasmuch as ii adds at
least one dollar to the market value Of every
barrel of -four manufactured under il, besides
producing from every bushel OF wheat several
pounds of flour more than can be obtained by
, the ordinary method of grinding. The patent
or new process flour contains an unusually large
!, proportion of the phOsphates and nltrogenOus
portion of the grain, and therefore more nu-
tritiOus, as well rs purer, winter finer and
more valuable than ordinary flour. Another
important advantage OF this method OF grind
ing is that It brings to more profitable use the
enormous quantity of spring wheat raised in
the Northwestern States and Territories, and
adds at least ten per cent to what the value OF
the corps would be if ground by the ordinary
/ process Before the introduction Of this meth
cd these wheats were more or less neglected
. and deprecated, but now il is found that they
make the best quality of -four BY the new pro-
lcess