The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-12-16
GLEANINGS.

be made from sweet potatoes.
Ayoung woman in Oil City possesses a
bass voice with compass to ID nat on
the bass cleft. w
An infant at Fairfield, S. C.,3 months
old, tips the beam Mt three pounds and
two ounces.
A writer in Temple Bar says that the
most unobtrusively we'll behaved man
toward woman is well-bred Ameri-
can"
With the opening of navigation, next
year, the experiment of cable towing
will be renewed on the free Erie canal.
The fleet of cable-towing boats are now
lying in winter quarters at Lockport.
The dam across the ChattahoOchee
river, at Columbus, Ga, is nearly COM
pleted. 1t is the largest in the South.
masonry.
Mrs. Langtry thinks Vanderbilt's rail-
road mars the beauty of the scenery
along the Hudson. Perhaps Mrs. Lang
try hasn't heard what Mr.. Vanderbilt
said.
Queen Victoria, it is said, has spent
but twelve days in Ireland during a
forty years reign. The result is that
she accordingly "hears" from the En-
erald Isle.
A San Francisco tailor in financial
distress loaded a pistol with powder and
water the two being separated by q
thick wad) and blew off the top of his
head, the crown flying fifty feet through
the air.
The success of Mormon missionaries
in gaining proselytes at the south is SO
great that the Atlanta Post-Appeal says
that if they can not be kept out of the
country by peaceable means, forcible
methods will become justiiiable.
A Boston man has made, in the public
prints of that city, very sensible sug-
gestion to the effect that the Fire De-
partment should be supplied with large
nets into which, when supported by
poles, persons in danger of incarceration
could jump from any height.
A veterinary surgeon of Binghamton,
N. Y, has successfully removed one
half of the tongue of n valuable horse.
upon which was an epiphytical cancer,
without much blood or trouble to the
horse. A perfect cure will be affected.
The best veterinary surgeons OF COrt-
land and Syracuse pronounced the case
incurable and amputation impossi-
bic.
The Yale catalogue for 1928 shows
a total of 1896 students in the various
departments, an increase OF over the
last catalogue. They are divided rs
follows: Theology 106, medicine 30,
law 70, graduate fl, undergraduate
academical 6l5, Sheffield scientific
school 2O6, fine arts 40. This makes q
total of Lilo, from which % names are
to be deducted for double insertion.
Mr. Winans, of Baltimore, pays $780,
600 year for Il vast tract OF deer
forests, extending from one side of Scot
land to the other. Not content with
this, he has Just leased another estate,
and has brought suit against the owners
for failing to eject the shepherds and
crofters who are on it.
A Worcester, Mass, man, who has
observed the comparative ease with
which people '.do' their thirty and for
ty miles in one evening, on roller skates,
makes the prediction that the time is
not far distant when smooth, covered
ways for the accommodation of way
farers so equipped will be as common as
rail and drive ways are now.
A male professional beauty is on ex-
hibition in an upper Broadway. New
York. show window. He is of the
blonde type. with light hair curling
close to his shapely head, the most reg
ular of features, complexion as pink
and white rs o girls, eyes of dawn gray
and the form of an athlete. The women
crowd up to the plate glass that alone
protects him from being grabbed He
is employed in making candy, and it
sells fast, probably because the fair adj
| mirers want. to know which is sweetest,
he or it.
Abdul Kerim Pasha, who is coming
TO America to make arrangements for
the emigration or some of Arab Pa
cha's followers, is one of the most IA
nous oriental scholars. He is gradu-
ate of Cambridge University and an
lCCluICl. 1lC u
Homer into Arabic, and several
works into English, and has been deco
rated by Italy, Russia, France and Tur-
key.
Three million acres of Texas lands
have been sold to syndicate said to
represent capitalists who have amassed
large fortunes by land speculatiOns in
the northwest. The price was so cents
an acre, and all the large solid blocks
in the Texas land market remaining I'M
sold were taken. The names of St.
Paul and Minneapolis men are mem
toned as being in the syndicate, and it
: is certain that Minneapolis man was
the agent who completed the negotia-
tions.
Sturgeon is sometimes more blunt
than polite. For instance, in his recent
answer to neighbor who asked him to
support a certain candidate for election
to the School Board on the ground of
his belonging to the Blue Ribbon Ar
my, he replied: do you think ! am