The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-02-17
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For she'll be seasick all the same
The charge for the Edison light in
New York is now at the rate of $2 an
hour for light equal to 200 candles, OF
about the cost of gas at 50 q thousand
cubic feet. Meters for the registry OF
the current used are being put in as
fast as they can be made and tested.
St. Louis physicians and druggists
unite in denouncing soothing syrups"
as poisonous, and consequently danger
Gus, especially when administered to
children by inexperienced and ignorant
persons Many deaths are said to have
been caused by their use.
Governor Blackburn, OF Kentucky
leads off in the pardon business. DIR.
ing his administrator of nearly four
years lie has paTdoncd mere than 1900
criminals, ren.it(ed fines uf more than
81, 100000 and granted respites to other
fines to the amc.pt of some Sl,OOO,OOO
A Bost6nian Says there were twenty
four stormy Sundays last year, and that
tho average in Boston during the past
fifteen years has been ISL stormy Sum
days year. The Bostonian seems to
have kept careful note of his excuses
for lot attending church.
Miss Jessie F. Detchon, of Philadel-
phia, the sister of Miss Adelaide Detchon,
the actress, is one Of the two practicing
female dentists of this country. She is
graduate of the Pennsylvania Dental
College, the alma mater of the lady who
is private tooth carpenter TO the En-
press of Gerinsny. II II Nfi
Judge James Garland, Of Lynchburg,
Va, has just retired from the bench at
the age of ninety-one. History records
but one instance before this Of a. Judge
reaching his ninetieth year. while vet
performing the duties of the bench.
That was Sir John More, and Judge
Garland exceeds even him.
Whygo. Igo. Mosquito, Morecabbage,
Dabelcabbage, Bailcabbage, Yesyoucab-
bage, Cusecabbage, Mehigh, Yrmush,
Mycat. Crowbait, Cheek, Botherbroom
and Overcoat are the names Of Allen
town, Pa. miners whose nation alities
arc shrouded in mystery. Scrae Of
them, however, are supposed to have
come from Havana. .
An Anti Vaccination Society has been
formed at Cape Town, Africa. where
the negroes are bitterly opposed to vac
cination, The populatio1 1T the town
is about 10000 people, a@d 1urirg the
last two months 5000 Of them have
been afflicted with smallpox, and 2, 400
have died from the disease. Tt will take
a great deal of characterization litera-
ture to confute such an argGment asst this.
The daughter of ,Covington, KY,
woman, who was worth 100000, was so
badly treated that she went to Cincin-
natl and hired out as q house servant
When her mother f0und out where she
was she went TO her-employers and babe
them beware Of her. The girl was dis
charged. She ssasd her mother for
SANDER. and the Odd lady compromised
by promising to settle half of her estate
upon her wiilful child. -.''tf c =.
Mary Anderson, the ACTRESS. was, tits
said, really "masheF' on Oscar Wilde.
They met at fashionable reception in
New York. and she became "a victim.
Mary's mamma and papa objected to
his calls. Al.aw, grown self-wiled, met
Oscar by appointment at Long Branch,
and spent one whole day wandering up
and down the pebblv strand with him.
This AL happened last summcr-if at all.
The new penal code in New York has
alarmed the Chinese wa>herwomen,
who have been notified by the police
that the Y must close their shops on Sun
day, or else be fined and 90 to Jail. So
they make Il virtue of necessity and say
that they are going to close anyhow,
for they ego to Mclean mans Sunday
School" Then they put on their doors
some such notice a. this: 'Noiis.
Sunda- No washee. no Gomez. Man
gochwrchee. New codee. Quong Long"
The record a. Il milker of the wonder
ful COW owned by A. ID. Hull. of Char
lestown, \. H.. is attracting considera-
bic attention III that section from cattle
breeders and dairymen. She is years
old. and from grade jersey and
Ayrshire COW imported bv Sherman
Paris Her weight is $50 pounds, which,
in the space of ~ DAYS, has been ex
ceeded by that of her milk. which
yJ3 pounds Is ounces. The
first milking weighed as pounds 10
ounces, the last 53 pounds ounces, AMI
averaged upward Of so pounds per day
Tor eleven days OF the time weighed.
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