The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-02-07
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The Chicago, Rock leland & Pacific IS said
TO be surveying line from Davenport, Iowa,
to Muscatlne, along the Mississippi river.


The Chicago, Rock leland 4 Pacific IS said
70 be surveying line from Davenport, lows,
to Muscatlne, along the Mississippi river.
The first locomotive that ever ran on al
American track was an English,built engine,
the Stourbridge lion, which ran one and one
! half miles and back to Honesdale, Penn, Au-
gust 8, 1899, and never was used again.-Age.
The Supreme Court Of Iowa has decided
that railroad companies are liable for the
full price of booded cattle killed by them.
The lower courts have heretofore held that
only the price on common cattle could be
recovered
Perhaps the cheapest travelling in the world
| is that by the Old Colony llne-rall and boat
between new York aud Boston, $50 miles for
one dollar, with berths free, and no extra
charge for seasickness. Much Of the year the
trip is n delightful one.
About three million dollars worth of win
dow glass plate glass, looking glass plate and
glass ware was imported at New York last
year. The value Of glass and glassware en-
ported during the same season is little over
$3.50 900.
Yet when you tell a protectonist that his
system" makes glass making 30 expensive
that it cannot be exported, he calls you fool.
Yet every glass-maker will tell you the tariff
Is an injury to the industry.
In consequence of the rapid extension of
their business the Pullman Car Company hnd
their Detroit shops insufficient, and have De
tcrmincd to build additional shops next spring
somewhere in this state II Is understood that
they desire to locate within thirty or forty
miles of Chicago, and Aurora's Business
Mems Association Is going to make an effort
to secure the shops.
The aggregate steam power of the world is
at present 3, 100000 horse power employed IN
stationery engines, and 10000 600 horse power
IN locomotive engines This steam power is
equal TO the working force Of 25OOO,O0O horses,
and one horse consumes three times rs much
food "a one man. The steam power, therefore,
is equal to the saving of 75OOO,0OO human be
ings This force is maintained without the
consumption of animal fosd, except by the
miners who dig the coal, and the force main.
tanned in their muscles is to the force general
ed by the product Of their labor, about to
1880
A distinguished painter Of Vienpa recently
exhibited at the Kunstlerhans an historical
painting, the chief attraction OF which was
the magnificent head of an old man. A few
days later the painter received call from o.
mysterious visitor who, after conpllmcntlng
him on the mastery execution Of his picture,
asked him in confidence the name and address
of the person who had sat as model for the
old man. The painter good naturedly salts
fled the visitors wish. A few hours later two
detectives proceeded to arrest the handsome
old man, Venceslas Gunesel by name, who be
sides being the model immortalized by the
Viennese painter, was likewise notorious
iail. breaker and one of the most dangerous
garrOters IN Vienna
A writer describing Nassau, n. p, in the
London Queen SAYS THE subaqueous gardens
of the Bahamas are one of the most interest
ing scenes imaginable and more than fulfil
any ideas that fancy may create about them.
They are really fairy gardens, for far down IN
the clear, green water wave brilliant sea grass,
flowers and vines, while many species of fish,
varying in hue and size from the green and
golden mnnows, not two ounces in weight,
perhaps to the ponderous Jewish, clad in
coat of silver mail, and weighing over
over five hundred pounds, dash through the
shrubbery, or placidly float IN grotto
Conches in which pinkIsh pearls are con
cealed may also be found there and with them
nearly every species Of fish indigenous to
tropical seas.
Barnum's tattooed Greek sailor is on eXhi-
btion in Albany, and the advertisement says:
|"He has upon his body 100000 punctures,
and it was all done by q female savage. The
poor man lost drop of blood and shed tear
for every puncture and was the only one OF
twenty-tour who survived the operation. The
woman who did the tattOoing worked six hours
a day for ninety days before the task was com
peted" A mathematician Of the Albany IT.
press figures as follows: "The woman must
have given him 81 punctures second Then,
if he lost one drop Of blood with every pune
ture, he lost, estimating the usual number OF
drops to pint, and taking a pint for pound,
j, 1888 pounds Or to put it differently, just
$3.50 gallons of blood, or trifle over twenty
barrels during ninety days. Tears don't weigh
as much as blood, SO punching the two togeth-
err the gentleman from Albania must have lost
about So tons of those fluids within
three months" Barnum's agent retorts that,
| if the Greek were not wonderful man, he
would not have been exhibited.
The planet Mars is now approaching the
well-knOwn group Of stars called the Pleiades,
or Sailors Stars. Tuesday of next week he
will be only about two degrees south from AL
cyone of the third magnitude, the leading
brilliant of the group. This star, Alcyone, is
memorable as being the one selected by Mad
Ter, some forty years ago, as the probable cen
| trail sun, about which our sun is moving In
mighty circuit which requires some 1S,OOO,OOO
wears to describe it, Our readers may be in
terested IN knowing that this idea of central
sun is untenable. The sun is undoubtedly
moving IN the present directlono OF the conste.
lation Hercules, as was long since deemed
probable; but it may be owing to the attrac-
| lions of many stars, and not to that one orb.
A little calculation is sufficient to show that
star at the distance of Sirius could not pull
the solar system through space at the rate of
(say) five miles per second, without containing
some ninety thousand times as much matter as
our sun. In that case the analogies indicate
that the "star" would be at least three hundred
times as bright an object to us as Sirius is
now; the latter being to us very much the
brightest of all the stars Indeed, we are war