The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-12-13
GLEANINGS.


Morris has organized relief ASSOCIATION for
work this winter
The Elgin condensng factory has orders
ahead for 2I00 cases, OF 49, POO cans of con
densed mlk-and can't fill them.
The local of the Kankakce GazCtte follow an
item on the bicycle, which may account for
the dizziness" of many Of them.
Indiana has the largest school fund of any
state, 1T comprises Sll 600 in school prop
erty and S9,O0O0 900 in the state treasury, IA to-
tai of $20000000, or $40 to every child in the
public schools.
The new Pullman palace cars are very luXu.
rious, costing each $4,000 Ordinary passen.
ger cars cost $4,000, drawlng-room cars, S.
600, mail and baggage cars, $4,000 each, box
cars 800
Pekin has an artesian we'll 1t is 975 feet
deep and the water is sulphurons. The Times
says, During the coming spring the company
Will fence the four blocks into one park, plant
trees make paths and carriage ways and set
out shrubbey"
Since the Elgn city marshal was empower
ed to take charge of truan,s from public
schools he hasn't had any complaints. He
was to receive notice OF pupils absenting them
selves without proper consent and provide for
them at his popular place of resort.
The Elgin Canning Factory dragged most
heavily till the past two or three years, when
1t has begun to pay. The product this year is
81, 9S5 cans tomatoes, 1852 cans pumpkins,
1924 cans squashes and 15G 925 cans sweet
corn-the latter the outcome of 800 acres. 1t
has been thought that 500 acres was all that
one factory could dispose of.
| The railway mail service of the country now
employees 1893 route agents, 1901 railway
postal clerks, PAT mail messengers and 1874
local agents. making a total of 1865. The
growth of this service, organized but few
years ago, has been remarkable, and the con.
slant extension of railway lines makes the rap
| Id increase certain.
The idea of cars for hunting, which has been
introduced by the Chicago & Northwestern
road, is destined to become popular in the
West Mr.. jerome Marble and a party of
Massachusetts gentlemen recently returned
from a hunting excursion to Western Iowa,
having killed nearly 1000 birds and two deer.
Several new hunting cars are now building
for the Chicago 81 orth-Westen.
The largest grain elevator in the world has
| Just been completed in Chicago by Messrs.
Armour, Dole e Co., its capacity being 1 800.
600 bushels. There are now twenty,one ele-
vators in Chicago, having total capacity of
49, 5000-say seventeen mIllions--of bushels.
Allowing 400 bushels to the car load, these
storehouses can hold the contents of 1887
freight cars, equivalent to q string OF cars $50
miles long
Mr. KassOn, our Minister to Austria, warns
exporters of American meat to look sharp to
. their rights. The American export trade has
| become so aggressive that means are being
sought to discourage the use OF Aner.
can exports. He mentions instances of the
publication in the Austrian press of large seiZ-
ures of American hams at Trieste containing
as it was stated, richlnT. To test the matter,
an offer was made to have them examined with
an equal number of Austrian hams, but no
Vienna paper would publish the offer.
The dlslillers would not have made and bar
relied 1882, 62l gallons of whisky and other
such fiery potabes during the last fiscal year,
if they had not had an intelligent confidence
in their ability to find customers at paying
prices 1t IS a slight relief to know that 49,
600 600 gallons or So were sent across the seas
to fire the brains and gnaw the stomachs Of
the efIee despots and their subjects; but, even
with this deduction, there was left on hand the
enormous quantity Of 56,S9300O IN round
numbers)of whiskey and its congeners for home
consumption. Even if all Americans took
their liquor STRAIGHTFORWARD they don't and
if the average price of drink was ten cents
which, we are informed, is not the fact--the
gurgllng of the last swallow of this colossal
potatlon down the free and equal American
throat will represent the expenditure of be.
tween $341 600 600 and $i5l QO0, 600, according
to the size of the average bar drink. And the
dlstllerles are still at work, Sun.