The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-08-18
GLEANINGs.

Mr.. Merricks star-route argument
made 200,000 words-just about l5o,0oO
too many.
Mr.. William II. Vanderbilt is man
of some weight. rs well as OF great
wealth. He tips the scales at 2lO pounds.
There are 1900 thieves in London
known to the police, and perhaps rs
many policemen known to the thieves
1t is not until we have pissed through
the furnace that we are made to Know
how much dross there is III our COM
position. cotton.
Cultured Bostonians at Newport turn
up their EmcrSonian noses at rich New
Workers. and they cry aloud, What is
money without learning?'
General Longstreet' son failed to pass
the examination at the Naval Academy,
and he has been given clerkship in the
Interior Department.
DR.. Brehm, the distinguished German
naturalist, intends to visit America next
January, and give a series of fifty lect-
ures.
Two hundred thousand dozen eggs
imported from Europe in nine months!
It's about time that the American hen
demanded protection for her infant in
dustry. 49, Jtica HeraId.
There are six equestrian statues in
Washington more than in any other
city in the world. They are of Wash
iugton. Jackson. Greene, Scott, Nc
Pherson and Thomas.
King Kalakua has raised rumpus in
his realm by Introducing short-weight
dollar, on which he neglected to put 4
pious maxim To atone for the deficiency
of silver.
Mr.. George w. Childs, of the Phila-
delphia Public Ledger, has purchased
the new Germantown Telegraph from
its veteran editor and owner, Major
Philip r. Freas.
The wives of w. j. Florence, of the
late Barney Williams and of George
Brown, of theatrical and chophouse
fame, were the Pray sisters, who were
dancers on the stage before they became
regular actresses.
A writer In Gardening Illustrated uses
thin gutta-percha in his grating opera
tions. Pieces about two inches square
are put in hot water, and placed around
the graft. He likes it better than the
common mixture for the purpose.
Mr.. w. w. Thomas, of Maine, the
new Minister to Sweden, is a lineal des-
cendant of George Cleves, who founded
the city of Portland, Me-. in 1886. He
is Al years old, q graduate of BOwdoin.
and a lawyer.
Let us beware of losing our enthusi-
asms. Let us .ger glory in something,
and strive to retain our admiration for
all that would ennoble, and our interest
/ in all that would enrich and bcautify
our life.-PhtNipS Brooks.
For the last four years the rainfall in
Denver for the month of May has been
steadily increasing. The increase OF
! 1881 over 1880 was 100 per cent; OF 1881
over 1881, 50 per cent; 1888 over 1882,
nearly 100 per cent; increase of 1883
over 1880, nearly 400 per cent.
Two young ladies of Ames, Mich
lille CROSSING Il railroad bridge n few
days ago. were so frightened at the APP
proach of Il train they could not move.
The engineer succeeded in stopping the
engine as the cow-catcher touched the
dress of one of the girls.
Professor William II. Brewer, Of the
Yale Scientific School, is convinced that
the "hieher the enlightenment of the
people the greater the variety of uses to
which horses are applied, and the Ameri-
can trotting horse is special product
Of the highest civilization the world has
yet seen.
The meanest dead-heading yet report
ed is in Portland Me-, where the Mayor
and Board of Aldermen have voted
themselves admission 10 all places of
amusement free, and have decided to
wear badge "of sOmo appropriate de-
sign so that their indemnity may DO
known to the doorkccpcr
If the new project of carrying tie
Mediterranean INTO Palestine be sucGS'
fully carried out. the Red Sea andtht
Mediterranean will be united and Il )ody
Of water formed about POO miles long,
varying in width from three to tcr miles
and deep enough to float the largest
ships.
When the Seminole war il FLORIDA
closed, in 1887, the remnant Of the Zero
cious tribe plunged into the everglades
, and have never reappeared In ordei
to find out what is going on in that un'
explored and unknown section OF tht
state parry is being formed in Ne"
+ Orleans ia ipypstirntp
+ A Judge in California was very much
( puzzled by phrase used by a witness,
who depoSed that he had seen i'll the
plaintiffs field "a right smart chan2n
of hogs. On asking an explanation, he
learned that in the vcrnacular of the
place "a right smart chance" meant
fourteen, and the jury was so charged
There are eighty firms and individuals
in San Francisco who are assessed fol-
more than 100000 personal property.
The highest assessment OF this Kind OF
property is S2,132,6S0. Thirteen per,
sons are assessed for more than $780,
600 each. The entire assessment of per.
sonal property in the cityiS 1894, 500.
an increase of 81, S27, so over last year