The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-12-30
GLEANINGs.

has wardrobe said 10 be worth Sl5U,-
900.
The Cinnamon of Evanston, Wyom-
ing, have built large Masonic temple
and dedicated it according to the GUS
toms of their country.
Parties in western New York are fur
nishing maple logs to he shipped to
Belgium. They are quite curiosity
over there.
Miss Mary Probyn, the girl author OF
MANY dainty verses, has new volume
in press. 1t is entitled Gentleman
Jack, and Other Poems,"
A fine pointer dog died at Charlotte,
N. c., very mysteriously. An autopsy
revealed over a quarter of q pound OF
nails in his stomach.
Sixteen years ago Syracuse girl in
trusted lamb to farmer. A few days
ago she was awarded Judgment Of
$3.50 for the increase of the lamb.
"When | was a student" said dis
tingushed professor of medicine, II
thought | had q remedy for nearly every
disease. At present l only wish l pos
sessed sure one for single malady, y
1t is stated that Il carp pond in She
nandoah county, Virginia, has in it
thousands of carp from six and eight
pounds down to those of last summer
Matching. The pond was stocked only
two years ago.
The attorney general of Pennsylvania
has written an opinion to the effect that
the governor has not the power to re-
store to citizenship person who has
lost the franchise by reason of convic-
ton for violation of the election laws.
Gov. Stephens, of Georgia, gives to
his official duties the closest personal at
tention, has no redtape, no circumlocu-
ton. His Office hours are all the hours
of the day, and he listens patiently to
every one of his many visitors that con-
stantly throng about his rooms.
The Minneapolis Tribune says that
goats are the best land cleaners known.
1t mentions that a herd of ten hundred
entirely cleared n piece of brushland,
consisting of five hundred acres, in three
years. So complete was the work that
not vestige of underground was left.
A Philadelphia man has invented y
doll which creeps, sings and, If wound
up at bed time, will yell like wild In
dian right in the middle Of the night.
The Philadelphia NcwS man advises all
young fellows contemplating matrimony
to buy one and see how they like ii.
\ car factory in Georgia is alleged to
have paid 20 per cent. cash dividend
and passed y per cent. cash to- reserve
fund the first year of its operation. 1t
built six hundred ears that year, and
has capacity of over twelve hundred
per annum This year it is doing even
better.
A valuable COW belonging to the Hon.
Harrison Bailey, of Kentucky, broke
into corn-feld and gorged herself SO
that she was about to die a surgeon
made an incision in her side and took
out over six bushels of corn, corn-stalks
and grass. The opening healed up,
and the cow is doing as well as ever.
A California farmer hunts wild geese
with COW. He has trained the animal
to walk slowly out into the field where
flock of geese has settled on the grain.
She brOwses meanwhile and he walks
alongside on the side away from the
geese. When within shooting distance
he gently murmurs, $500, boss" and
the obedient bovine lies down. He rests
his fowling piece over her back and
blazes away, both barrels at once, and
bags thirty or forty OF the geese.
The value of Tennessee mountain
lands, of which Col. Sellers held title to
vast estates. is illustrated by a story
told by The lockwood (Tenn.) Repubh-
can. Col. Duncan this week made q
present to Mr.. Stith of one thousand
}, acres of mountain land by way of COM
pensation for the preservation of his life
last week Mr.. Stith shortly afterward
gave Col. Duncan five hundred acres of
the land for drink of apple brandy,
4 and within the next half hour gave him
back the other five hundred acres for
the same consideration.
\ London society publication says
that - gentleman should only offer his
left arm to his wife. The only time
when n lady is placed on a gentleman's
left is during the marriage service. when
the position indicates subiection.' 1t is
. HOW III OIucl iol bcl- pctN'i pau
ers to remark that the subsection is of
4 very temporary nature.
Queen Victoria seems to be treated
with deplorable dsrcspcct by the mer-
chant princes of London. Her Majesty
statue in the central area of the Royal
Exchange is reported by the London
Times to be in disgracefully dirty con-
dition. with the right arm broken Oft at
the elbow certainly not an agreeable
object for her loyal subjects to contem-
plate.
According to a comprehensive statisti-
cal return lately published in Germany,
there are in Europe ninety-two cities
I with more than 100000 inhabitants, out
of which four capitals show each over a
million population, rs follows: London,
1922, 4l0; Paris, 2.225,910; Berlin, l.
l25, 800; Vienna, 1,l03,1l0 Out of the
ninety-two cities and towns referred to,
England claims &c, Germany l6, Italy
II, France 10 and Russia 8. The others
are divided among the smaller states.
There were in the United States in 1880,