The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-09-08

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IS iishman. says: We are wild Hindoos
II ! know, and we are towards and vege
tarianS. but we are 200 UOo.OO0 aftc
t. all.
!, Tire .frka,sso> 2rac-Gcr, OF LiDtl,
y Roch. SAYS; III tHc newspapers OF th'
South would pay more attention 10 cdu
- catiouai matter, and ic,, to politics. III,
, difference would SHOW Itself.
Ostrich chicks are Matching out ut tn,
> California ostrich farm nj the rate %
i one day. When Hey come ont of In,
egg they are about the size of a half
grown duck, rhcy grow rapidly.
That anachronism. steamboats, in the
+ Grand Canal NJ Venice. has unpleasant
/, results. The paddc-Whrel> stir up the
: deposited sewage of centuries, and tho
, smell is far from romantic,
Wannamakcr, the great Philadelphia
merchant is said to have done 100000
900 worth OF business last year or this
sum 81 900, 900 We're net profits. His
advertising expenses amounted TO 5000,
600
4 Jersey City dor that had bitten Il
man was taken out five miles nj sea and
cast overheard to drown. II" succeed
ed in swimming to land, and now his
master Swears by the great horn spoon
that he shall not die.
Ischia has ALWAYS horn an ruyiab!e
reputation. Strabo and PIN. who lived
ut the time of Jesus. spcaH OF il vol
canic character and it is said that three
colonies had been driven from the j.
land by earthquakes.
/ The three oldest living compOsiio.', in
PENNSYLVANIA reside in Harrisburg. They
are General Simon Cameron, aged
cighty-six years; George W. Scott, aged
cighty-tive years. and Jacob Babb,. aged
/ eighty-thrce years.
The widow of Lord Frederick Cavcn-
| dish, who was murdered in Phoenix
Park, Dublin, will be married again be-
| fore the termination of the present
year. The second marriage, it is stated,
has the approval of her late husband 5
relatives.
A curious fact has been observed by
Professors Ayrton and Perry: Soft
iron, when heated between red and
white heat. ceases to be attracted by n
magnet. When soft iron is bent between
red and white hot iron it ceases to be
attracted by magnet.
1t is not for simple money that the
pine forest along the Adriatic at Raven
ma, Italy, celebrated by Dante and By-I
ron. and which furnished the ship-yards
of Rome and Venice, are to be cut
down, but because an excavation for a
railroad has so drained the soil the trees
have died.
A Paris dispatch says gentleman
was found insensble in n tirst-class
railway carriage between Paris and
Lyons, who had been stabbed and
robbed. Until Prince or Bishop is
killed the absurd plan of locking up
passengers in their compartments will
likely be continued.
"For fifty-four wears / was an invet-
crate cigar-smoker," says Thurlow
Weed in his autobiography, though
never using tobacco in any other form.
During that period l learn, by Il some
what careful computation. that must
have smoked or given to friends at least
eighty thousand cigars.
Speaking of the use of the cypress
tree, a Georgia paper gives the number
of shingles taken from such trees on
certain plantation as follows: First,
tree, 6,2l0; second tree, 1900; third
tree, 9,6S9; total 23,199. Its manager
stated that he would get 5000 more
from the third tree, thus making total
of 2S 1919 shingles.
Mr.. Labouchere SAYS that the greater
part of the Duchess of Edinburgh'sl
trousseau was sold in London few
years ago As the property Of n lady OF
rank. The roya family. with the oN.
ception of that amiabic and popular
prodigal. the Prince of Wales. npp'Ics
to be very frugal, rs if Il rainy day Nrrr
coming,
An English company, @i.o @ ,..'a'j
Of 81, 900, OOD has bee "r o9 ,I.j
vclop the Hay cock IRON MA.
positc Ottawa. The government has as
sisted the enterprise by offering Il bonus
oi ~. 30 for every ton of ore smclted for
three wears This encouragement is +,
likely to lead to the development of inn !
mense deposits of iron in the Hull
The suggestion is made that steam 5
gongs for locomotives could be so con-
structed rs to send the sound forward
along the track, somewhat on the prin- |
ciple on which rays from the headlights
are reflected. The frequent screaming
Of the whistle is disagreeable to some
passengers and to people who live near ,
10 railroads. We fear the forward pro- |
lection of sound is hardly practicable. l.
There is an apple tree in an orchard
in Adair County, Missouri. that meas j
lres six feet ten inches in circumfer-
,nce near the ground and six feet at
distance of six feet from the ground.
The largest limb measures four feet ten
inches. This mammoth of the orchard
mas yielded forty bushels each year for t
The last ten years, and the fruit is of en- /
,ellent variety.
The house of Mrs. John W. Bigelow,
1t Newport. is furnished with Ven
,tian portico which looks out on the
Dav. aiiording one of the best pictures
N that city. Mrs, BipeloW asked her