The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-11-27
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
Rockford H., is to have twenty thousand
dollar opera house
1t took little over $4,000 to pay the Rock
ford watch factory hands Monday. The an
nua pay roll is about $4,000.
Sales on the Elgn Board of trade last week
footed up f53940.75. Cheese brought SO to
cents and butter 80 to 81 cents
The Plano Harvester Works, employing las,
wear 600 men, have been removed 20 Chicago.
Some 800 hands 90 with the works to Chica
90, 80 of whom are heads of families.
There is talk of establishing a large pillow
factory IN Elgln, and the project is meeting
with considerable success. The committee
appointed for the purpose Of raising funds re-
port the prospect very good.
The census gives Rock Island 1O7 manufac-
featuring establishments, employing l,474
hands, and producing S2,G90,02l. The wages
paid last year were S565,G4.
A scheme for changing the channel Of the
st. Lawrence at Montreal, by building an i'm
mense dixie at a cost of $7,0O0,0OO, is under
reconsideration. The advantages would be a
saltwater harbor, water power for mills, and
the protection of the lower part of the city
against annual freshcs.
1t is stated that eighty four passenger trains
will enter and leave the new depot on Canal
street in Chicago every twenty.four hours
The Fort Wayne road will operate twenty four,
the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul sixteen,
the Burlington twenty-siX, the PAN Handle"
ten, and the Chicago and Alton eight.
Track laying on the Southern Pacific road
| is progressing eastward mt n remarkable rate
On one day in October 1880 feet, or 81 miles
were laid, and on the following day IA POO feet
or 2.G9 miles The road has now entered New
Mexico some thirty miles, and before the end
of the year doubtless will have reached the
border of Old Mexico at Ell Paso.-Hailpdy
Age.
Coke is used instead Of coal very largely in
England, with the very desirable result OF
avolding smoke. The Pittsburgh Telegraph
now says that the Pittsburgh Spring company
has been experimenting with coke as sub.
stitute for coal IN nearly every department Of
its establishment, with most satisfactory re
suits Mr.. French states that it effects very
important saving of expense, and avoids al
most all the dirt and smoke, unavoidable when
coal is used.-Raiiody AQe.
The Rockford Glucose or Grape sugar build,
ing will be the largest one west OF Chicago 1t
has 4 900 wagon loads of stone in the founda-
Der and timber in its construction. When in
full operation it will consume 5000 bushels Of
corn per day, and it will require twenty-five
tons Of coal per day to run It's boilers and ma.
chinery. 1t will require train of sixteen cars
to supply 1t with corn and fuel each day
Rockford Jourhal
Mr.. James Redpath, who is to be indicted
by the English Government for his sedltious
speeches IN Ireland, was born at Berwick on
Tweed in 1888 and came to America with his
parents in 1913. AT the age of 10 he became
connected with the Men Iork T'4Juhe He
was in Kansas from 1865 to 1857 and took an
active part in the free soil struggle During
the civil war he helped to organize the cOlored
schools in Charleston, s. G.. Afterward he be-
came interested in the movement for Haytian
Independence, and was one Of the joint com
mssloners sent by that Government to Wash
ington. In 1868 he went into the lecture agen-
cy business. At one time Mr. Redpath was
very friendly with Gen. Butler, and did a great
deal toward securing the Generals second
nomination to Congress in 1868. He consld.
ers the Irish race at this moment to be strug-
Cling against opprcSsorS, ana this is probably
the reason why he first went to Ireland as a
correspondent, and attcrward took an active
part in the agitation He Will have only him
self to blame If he is put into an English pris-
on.
Senator Hoar, in presenting the nominations
for officers of the American Antiquarian So
Cety at the recent annual meeting, spoke as
follows of Bancroft the historian "lIe is the
only person living whose judgment would
change the place IN public estimation held by
any of the great statesmen of the revolution
airy times. He has had the rare good fortune
among men of letters to have proposed to him.
self great task, requiring lifetime for its
accomplishment, the successful achievement
of which is enough to make any life illustri- |
Gus, and to have lived to complete 1t with pow
ers of body and mind undimnished 1t Is his |
fate to know, while alive, the estimate in which
he Will be held by pOsterity. In his case that
knowledge can only be source pleasure and |
satisfaction. In this Mr. Bancroft resembles
Glbbon. We all remember Gibbons delight
full account of the completion of his great
work. In another thing alone among great
historians, Mr.. Bancroft resembles Gibbon.
AS an artist he has accomplished that most
difficult task of composing history made up
of many separate threads, which must keep |
on side by side, yet all be subordinate to one
man and predominant stream. But his mar
rative never loses its constant and fascinating
interest. No other historian, believe, except
Gibbon, has attempted this without becoming
insutierably dull"
An idiot who, perhaps, surpasses all rivals
in memory, and In the capacity to make mathe-
NAUTICAL calculations in his head, was recently
examined before the students of the medico-
surgical academy Of st, Petersburg He is -
years old. In his youth he was noted for his
brilliant ability, but was addicted 10 the i'm
moderate use of liquors, and led dissipated
life He was attacked by an acute disease.
When he recovered lie was found To have lost
all his mental faculties except memory and
the power of mathematical calculation. These
proporuonately rs his understand
ing and power of logical thinking vanished.
Now he Is a living photograph and calculat-
ing apparatus. In the lecture room Prot Mer-