The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-10-27
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GnTArf'43.
st. Louis has Il lady who cannot re-
frain from stealing buttons.
Lilly" Langtrv admits in legal Gocu-
mcnts that her name is Emily Char
lotte.
One who knows says that in the
country they blow II horn before dinner
but in town they take one.
1t is estimated that 1900 deaths oc-
cur annually in England because of the
defective sewerage system in the cities
Fan parties are popular in Nevada.
The girls faint, and the young men fan
them until they revive.
Sitting Bull has been Frustrated by an
attack of pneumonia. He has not felt
well since John Logan 'jawed" him.
The British are rapidly extending q
network of railways over India. About
$50, 000,00 will be spent this year in
the construction of new roads.
The Canadian Government offers q
bonus of S. for every able-bodied white
man who may settle in British Column
bia.
Twenty years ago there were but
about 5000 people in Portland, Ore. !;
now that vicinity can get up n. street
parade two miles long.
The janitors sweep an average of five
bushels of peanut shucks cast by MUNICH
inc visitors out of the Capitol at Wash
ington daily.
While John Rich was blowing on his
farm in Washington county, New York,
he found an old style sword with silver
trimmings, supposed to have been own
ed by an officer of General Burgovne's
army. There are marks and characters
on the top piece of the sword which 90
to show that the find is q rare one.
A Connecticut negro was recently
shot through the liver and intestnes.
Instead of dying in an hour or two, as
the doctor predicted, he began to eat
heartily, walk about the house, and
curse his wife. The treatment seemed
to agree with him so entirely that it is
now believed he will get well.
! A sea captain who has brought many
gray parrots from Africa, tells n friend
in Hartford that natives bring them in
from the bush and sell them at eight
English shiIings each. He says that
parrots do not show the white of the
eye till they are six months old-so pur-
chasers know when they are buying
young birds.
An clipping couple from Dutch Kills,
Long Island, supposed the parents of
the girl was in Ignorance of their hiding
place. They were greatly surprised,
therefore, when one day about week
after their marriage the old gentleman
walked into their abode and made them
Il present of $1,000, with which to be-
gin life in good style.
a drink Map of Oxford, England
has just been issued, from which it ap-
pears that the inhabitants of that elias
sic town must drink fully rs much as
they study. Oxford has II population
OF only $1,000, and yet there are in it
I319 places licensed to sell liquor. They
are all well patronzed, and intcmper-
ance is very common.
+. b. Harper. owner of LOngfellow
and Ten Brock, says: ''Longfellow is
now sixteen years old and Ten Brock
twelve. | always keep guard over
them both night and day. | have been
offered $50, 600 for Longfcllow, but
wouldn't sell him for 100000, nor
would sell Ten Brock for the same
money. | will keep them as long as
they live, or until | die. | am not mar
ried, but have some poor kin down in
Woodford county, who would like to
have EN-"
\ wonderful story is told about a
horse owned by Mr.. Alonzo Hayes, of
Kittery, Me. Mr.. Hayes has been in
the habit of wetting his horses hay and
sprinkling it with meal. The other day
he wet the hay but forgot the meal.
Soon after, while in the other end of
the stable, he heard the horse coming
out OF his stall, and shouted to him to-
30 back, which he did not ut once do.
Upon going to the stall he found that
the horse had taken the pal con-: ming
.;.,.na.. from g., pace .lI tal put its
contents upon the ag..
iur pa"ch---uH G- center is Gradual
!. moving south. \ faH year, ago.
there We're great orchards in New Jer-
scy. Then Delaware was the chief pro-
Queer. Now Maryland and Virginia
are coming to the front. The LARGEST
peach farms are in Maryland. The
Round Top farm has $4,000 peach
trees. On the estate Of Colonel Wat
kins there are l2O. 600 trees. 4 peach
trees usefulness is over ALTER ten or
twelve years of lite, and the soil on