The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-04-28

TO all distressed supcrilultics, "Get
work and do it we'll" To change Car.
lyle's dictum, Blessed is the woman
J who has found her work. Let her ask
as parties, witnesses or jurors, and are
even excluded from the schools. Con-
gress has not shown that it is aware of
their existence
/ The safest kind Of school building or
other public institution or hall is one
like n certain California church, the
pastor of which, when it was dedicated,
said: There are fourteen entrances to
this cdilicc, and if any one hears any
thing here that displcascS him, he has a
choice of fourteen exits by which to
leave
! Mrs. Augustus Roberts, living at
1ilghmantdn, Md, attempted suicide
by swallowing pin. She also had pre-
pared a quantity of broken glass that
she proposed swallowing. bat in which
she was prevented by members of the
family, who gained knowledge of her
intentions The effects which the pin
will produce have not yet developed.
The cooking school is now an assured
success in Boston. OF course, it Is
artistic, as witness the latest recipe for
baked beans "Lct your beans simmer
in warm water long time, with
moasscs and mustard; then put in the
pork and bake long time. A small
green onion adds delicious () flavor. ~
Could anything be more truly csthctic?
! In order to get hi, views Of Patrick
Henry, Josiah Quincy asked John
/ Randolph who was the greatest orator
he had ever heard. Randolph replied
at was u woman. She was slave.
She was a mother. and her rostrum was
the auction-block. have heard no
man speak like that II was over
/ puwerlng.'
The loose money found in the straw
of the strcct-cars is generally per-
quisilc of the drivers, and the feelings
of one Of them toward richly dressed
lady in Il New York car the other day
may be imagined when he saw her pick
up q gold dollar while searching for her
dropped nickel, insisted on his chang
ing it, paying her fare and then pursn-
ing her search for the nickel.
The stamp, of the largest dcnomina-
ton used under the internal revenue
system, which is pretty well broken up
by the tariff bill, were for $4,000, and
they were used to stamp SlO,0OO,OOO
railroad bonds. OF course, they were
not called for every day, but there was
an actual demand for them. The $1,000
stamp was two inches wide and three
inches long.
An English traveller in India has
lately sent home II unique photograph.
Being an amateur photographer, he was
about to catch view of magnificent
group of tropical trees on the river bank.
and had placed his hcadunder the cloth,
when one crocodile after another rose
to the surface of the water, until
whole herd OF them was to be seen.
Then they sprawled themselves. with
mouths wide open, for noon sicota,
and an accurate picture Of twenty OF the
reptiles was the result.
1t is the custom in most families who
give attention to the concerns of the
table To serve oatmeal and milk at
breakfast. Excellent as this custom Is.
il may be varied occasionally with good
effect. One way to do this Is to make
u hasty pudding of Graham flour; it
should be made like ordinary Indian
meal pudding, with the exception that
the Graham must first be wet with cold
water; it must be stirred cOnstantly;'it
will require about twenty minutes
steady boiling, and should be we'll
sailed.
Professor Boil announced several
years ago that the rctina of the eye re-
tanned the last impressions made on it
previous to death and recommended
that in eases of murder the victims
eyes be promptly examined with a
powerful glass, or photographed by the
use of strong lenses, by which means he
thought a picture of the murderer might
| frequently be obtained. DR.. Ayers has
just finished Il series of experiments, in
which lie examined over thousand
eyes OF animals and persons, but failed
TO find single impression on them that
could he constructed into the form OF
the last object bchcld. The nearest
approach was by photographing the
eye of rabbit that had been paralyzed
! by atrophine, but that was too imper-
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