The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-09-29
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Tor each iuhabitant.
pruilcntinry conyicts ut Laramie,
Wyoming Territory, turl ont 10000
brock, week.
One Of the judges appointed by Gov
error Butter finds that woman came
to her death by being struck by q "ci!-
l,nder' Of u locomotive engine.
An eccentric loun@er in Tazewell
c unity, Iowa, has placed thirteen large
arm-chairs in as many stores, so be can
always have seat when he calls.
4 Three hundred and four suits for di-
vorce were brought in Cuyahoga coun-
w. Ohio, last year, seventy-One of them
on the ground of marital iniidclity.
Tue registered debt of Berlin is about
1000, 900 marks, on which the surplus
profits OF the gas works pays the entire
interest.
Most of the deviltry done in Ger
many, England and Ireland now is
blamed on German-Americans, Irish
Americans, and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
lawns can be cured of ants by blow
iliis Persian powder into the holes the
ans make in the ground. Anyway,
4 Boston man who has tried it says so.
There is q man up in Vermont whose
brains, according to one OF the medical
journals, have dried up, so that they
rattle around like beans in bladder
every time he shakes his head.
The largest object-glass in use is the
twenty-six inch lens at Washington,
with focal length of thirty-three feet.
Its light gathering power Is 10, 900 times
that Of the unaided eye.
The favorle perfume of the Empress
Josephine was musk. A Boston editor
,sensIbly suggests that people who blame
Napoleon for diyorcing her should stop
to consider this.
Large quantities of land are being
leased in Lima, Livingston County, n.
Y, for the purpose of boring for salt.
lit is believed that Lima is over a rich
salt bed.
Over 700 miles of subterranean tele
graph lines are completed in France,
and 1000 miles are in course OF con-
slruction to be completed by the end of
this year.
One firm in Gates county, North Car
Dina, owns thirty miles of narrow
gauge railway, connecting five of its
saw-mills. 1t does the largest lumber
business in the State.
Prof. Alexander Graham Bell is col
Letting books, pamphlets, etc, on cleo
Ilricity, and preparing q photography
of the science. He has already indeXed
the titles of more than 10000 works.
There is now no living member of the
group pictured by Carpenters cele-
bratGd painting of Signing the Procla-
nation Montgomery Blair was the
eighth and last.
Mr.. Ellison has had all he wants of
Iphonographs. The more | think of
that photograph, he says, ''the more |
am convinced that it would have been
n terrible thing to seta machine to work
recording all that a person said.
A Prussian law requires peddlers to
"bchave politely, clean their boots on
entering u house, and bow when offer
| inc wares" The pcripatetic vendors in
this country evidently never heard of
THAT law.
Those who have seen the.od burying
ground at ProvincctOwn will appreciate
the remark Of the bright young Boston
GIRL who said she should not want To be
buried there. when die, said she,
II would rather be Crcmatcd once for
all than to he buried there and siZzie.
The shad. although until seven years
lago stranger on the Pacific coast, has
multiplied since its introduction to an
lexlrnt truly remarkable. They are now
| to Ice found all along the coast OF Cali
forna. and northward are making their
way rapidly
Matrimony between persons Of the
same blood in France IS forbidden by
law only TO parents, grandparents. and
! tuli and hal,-brother, and sisters. Mar
Iriagc, between unclcs and nicccS, aunts
and nephcws are permissible.
The Pecatonica NeWS has this: I'VE
set up notice yesterday for Il boy
wanted, and last evening before our
forms went to press one madc It's al
vent in our household w eight eight
pounds. Who says advertising docan +
pay?'
observation-disclosures extends very far
along the animal series. Parrots hold
their food by preference in the right
foot, and, though we cannot speak pos
itivcly, wasps, beetles, and spiders seem
to use the right anterior foot most COM
monty.
The factory bells of Lawrence. Mass,
have always been noted for their har-
mony of tone and tune. This is the
work of Henry X. Oliver, who is an ac-
complishcd musician, and who was con
ncctcd with the manufacturing inter
csts of the city in IFS infancy. He
selected all the bells with reference TO
harmony.
Nature in mood of uncommon. not
to say lavish, libcrality, has provided 4
recently-born Alabama girl with three
tongues. If this singularly gifted young
lady should ever reach years OF matur-
ity and get married it is safe to say that
her husband will not ovcrstay his limit
ut the club more than once. NcD lOrG
Hour.
A bachelor who was tired OF single