The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-01-20
GLEANINGs.

composite, eight second-class and eley-
an third-class carriages, four passen-
gers luggage vans and u horse box.
Rea estate rules very high in the
city Of Mexico. a building on Ciuce dc
Mayo street that was sold few months
since for sac, 900 has just fetched $685.
900. 1t will be used for 4 permanent
bazaar OF French manufactures.
A Portland. Ore, man has new mo-
tor. based upon nothing--that is, upon
vacuum. Another genius Of that city
has discovered perpetual motion. Mad
house circulars thankfully received by
alarmed friends.
A German who has been a Lutheran
and been sprinkled in his infancy, was
asked, when he wished to join the Bap-
fist church. If he had not been baptized.
His answer was "Vell. now, shust y
leedle."
Tho notable thing about Charles
Pcase, who died ut SOmers. Conn. was
that for years he had taken with daily
exactitnde three drinks of whisky, three
cups of strong tea, and goodly pill of
opium.
Two inmates OF the Jail at Portland.
Oregon, built fire in the hands of a
sleeping fellow-prisouer They will
think about it occasionally while serving
the additional sentence imposed for
, their amusement.
A Philadelphia bell ringer, who has
spent forty-tive years ia the business,
A. lad .s.,h,
ringing" it takes eight men twenty
eight hours to complete the peal, and
cat full change ringing is seldom at
tempted.
A Nevada man who has been very
deaf for years. was recently severely
burned about the face and neck and af-
terward found that he could hear per-
fectly well. He attributes his cure to
the shock, but it is too violent remedy
to be generally accepted.
For forty-ive years y Philadelphia
has struggled through the world bear
ing the name of Nathan Ruzanows-
kowski, but has sought and obtained
relief at last, a court granting his Pc
tition to change his name to Nathan
Rosenau.
A preacher in Tennessee tried to es-
tablish church in which there should
be no members who used tobacco and
no beverage but water, and his only
congregation was an old woman who
chewed slippery-clm and believed in
catuip tea for measles.
A convict at the Nevada pententiary
says he was sent to prison for being dis
honest, aud yet he is compelled every
day to cut ont pieces OF pasteboard,
which are put between the soles of
cheap shoes made there and palmed off
on the innocent public as leather.
They tell in San Francisco of n very
wealthy woman who is remarkably
strict in the discipline of her servants.
She defends herself by saying that she
was a servant until five years ago, and,
therefore. knows all about both sides of
the subject.
Mr.. ". ". Story, the sculptor, has
been commissioned to supply statue
of Chief Justice Marshall He is to
have $40, 900 wherewith, and two years
time wherein to complete the work.
When finished it will be given place
to the east of the Capitol building at
Washington.
A London organ-grinder recently
played before the house of an irascible
old gentleman, who furiously and with
wild gcsticulations. ordered him to
move on" The organ-grindcr stolid-
" ground on, and was arrested fer dis
turbance At the trial the Judge asked
him why he did not leave whenre request
ed. mo ,pik Inglese," was the reply.
Well said the Judge, "but you must
have understood his gestures, his mo-
tons Il ;inkee he coma to dauce,"
was the rcjOinder.
Mrs. Ringenary, Locust Gap, North
cumberland county, Pa, for time AS
sisted her husband in drilling and blast
ing in coal mine and seeing more
money in it, equipped herself with a
horse and truck and now supplies con-
sumers with coal. She is besides a
good performer on the violin.
Yorkev Pete, the famous st. Louis
bootblack, who founded boys homo
in that city and was for years regarded
as model leader Of the wielders of the
brush, has gone wrong. While on
trip further west he boarded railroad
train at Truckec, Cal, robbed the pas
sengers of 4 sleeping car, and has been
sent to prison for two years.
The PresSc Ncdicai Beige declares that
although undescribed by alienists. a dis
ease exists which has committed great
ravages, especially in Germany. 1t is
n. mania for new medicines" leading
to the indiscriminate employment of
them in diseases Of the most opposite
character.
The question, How long is 1t necessa-
~ to keep children away from school
after an infectious disease? was an
swered some time since by the Acado-
my of Medicine, Paris. With scarlet
fever, diphtheria. measles and small
pox. isolation is to be maintained for
forty days. Chicken-pox and mumps
lose their contagious power after twcn-
ty-tive days.
The arrest of an elegantly-dressed,
graceful and handsome woman in Phil |
adelphia led to the discovery that she |
had pair of dummy hands, which
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