The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-02-28
GLEANINGS.

A large land transaction, 1t appears, which
has been in process of negotiation for some
weeks, between Mr. James II. Drake, lane
commissioner Of the st, Paul and Sioux City
Railroad, and representatives Of land ant
colonization company of London, England
WAS virtually closed by cable a few days ago
This transaction involves the sale of 200 00(
acres Of land in Northern Iowa and MOBILES
county, Minnesota, for immediate settlement
al So per acre. The colOnistS will be allowed
to pay the London company for the land in
,nstallmcnts, from the proceeds of the crops
and will be encouraged to make prompt and
permanent improvements This is the one di
rect result of the recent visit Of the royal com
mission to that state.
Paris is still complaining of unusual cold
Some of the ole tcrrOrs Of winter in France
have gone by forever as far as the capital is
concerned, for, however severe the frost
! wolves do not now troop through the streets
in search of food, but the criterion of the
years severity, the freezing of the Seine, re
mains the same. This river has been frozen
over only nine times during the century, one
of the most sudden and intense frosts of that
period being that of 1867, when the Paris and
London steam packets were ice.bound just as
| If they had been in the Arctic seas From
1910 to 1914 the Seine was annually frozen
over.
In the early settlement Of Illinois and Mis-
souri, two trappcrs were gong down the Mis-
sissippI river to New Orleans on hatboat
Every we'll regulated boat in those days car
ried plenty of whisky aboard. The trappers
tapped a barrel with a glmet and sucked the
whisky through a straw The MissOurlan
"pukcd," but the Illinois man, like his sue
cessors, being proof against so weak bever
are kept his down. From that day Illinois
men were called suckers and Missourians
"Pukes."
In the month of January the actual net pro
duction of ore from the Robert +. Lee mine
was over $30l 900, while the entire expense Of
producing this ore was less than ten thousand
dollars, or profit of over $290,000. Is there
another mine in the world where the produc
ton is so great in proportion to the expense
I-LeadcHe Herald
A Chicago firm, proprietors of a paten,
medicine, say that in their first year, on an eX
penditure of 5000 for advertising, they sold
$150000; the next year $4,000 were paid for
advertising, and sales rose to $2S3,O0O; and
the third year $150000 in advertising brough,
sales up to 100000.
-Four hundred men are employed in the
Plano shops, ana during last year they re-
ccived $4,000 in the shape of wages AT
these shops last year there were built $500
reapers, 1000 binders and 1000 mowers
The sales by the Aurora Silver Plate Manu-.
featuring Company for the past year were
nearly 100000. From sixty to seventy people
are regularly employed in the factory, while
five statesmen are on the road.
For 1879 Nebraska gives the largest aver
age yield OF corn per acre, amounting to forty
five bushels, and Colorado the largest average
of wheat, amounting to % bushels per acre.
Thirty.two business men of Joliet have
signed an application FOR charter for Board
of Trade for that city, which will be sent tc
Springfield.