The Ottawa free trader., 1883-06-23
GLEANINGS.


Italy produces more silk than China
and the two nations furnish nearly
three-quarters of the world supply.
More than 800 Americans are reported
to be studying art in Paris. What
place Paris is for study. > anyway
The largest man in the British service
is Lieutenant Switzerland. of the Fifty
sixth Regiment. He is s feet 4 inches
high, and weighs about 3Gf pounds.
Mrs. Sarah Ray, q washerwoman of
Leadville, and the first female who
dared set footin the place, has amassed
fortune of 81, 900, coo by investing her
earnings in mining shares.
The widowed Baroness Rothschild is
said to have set apart 100000 for the
establishment of home at Versailles
for aged and destitute authors and Jour
nalists.
In Japan last year Z, 223. PA telegraph
messages were dispatched, 9s per cent.
of which were in the native tongue.
What a collie the wires must have
l. had.
At the show-roomso of Il firm of cutters
in Sheffield England, is exhibited an AT
rican elephants tusk five feet long
twenty-one inches in girth, and weigh
ing 0pounds-
The Cunard Steamship Company
made over million last year, out OF
which ample provision was made for
depreciation. and a dividend of iper
cent. per annum paid.
Four hundred and fifty miles Of thread
are made each day in American mills,
and yet the women can't get enough
clothes to made them happy. Thirty
wears ago all the thread was imported.
The b0rers of an artesian well in San
Bernardino. Cal, have encountered ut
the depth of 2S0feet tree which stands
pcrpendicularly. Great pieces OF the
wood, which appears to be sycamore,
are brought up in the pipes.
Miss Dawes. the daughter of Senator
Dawes, decided that Pittsfeld, Mass,
ought to have public park. She made
plan, and used pen and tongue so per-
lsuasively that the town has voted IN
favor of the scheme.
me IoWU III tNlIFti Nltth. WIZ 'N'N
Sl25, 900 for its water-wOrks, and there
are only about twenty-five business men
in the place to pay the consequent taxes.
They want to compromise on $50
600.
Mr. Reddick, a colored divine. VOWS
that he will vindicate his rights for hav-
inc been turned out of refreshment
a. Dn1+,,,,,r. &. Ohio Paii-
road, on the ground, it is said. that
President Garrett had tabooed ''cullud
pussons.
Mrs. Richards, Of Richford, Vt, has
brought suit under the recently enacted
damage act, for $1,000 against Dan
Moore, of East Berkshire. for the loss OF
her husband, who was accidentally kill
ed while intoxicated with liquor alleged
to have been sold him by Moore.
The Russian Government has the OPP
ton this year of buying up many Of its
railroads which have completed their
twentieth year. Should it do 50, the
Government stock may rise consider
ABLY. as Russia, though in financial
straits. has never repudiated her obii-
gallOHn'
A man went nome the other night and
found his house locked up. After Infinite
trouble he managed to gain entrance
Through a back window. and then dis
covered on the parlor table u note from
his wife reading: II have gone out.
You will find the key on the side Of the
step
This advertisement appeared in a
newspaper at Rivna. New South Wales,
and shows the progress of higher civil
ization there: Wanted, a cultured gen
tleman capable Of milking goats. \
university man preferred. Applications,
with testimonials as to proficiency, TO
be addressed, etc.
The Custom House at Dunkirk. y.
Y. last year cost the government 81
792 and returned collections Of $50, 20;
the one at Beaufort. s. c., cost S2,19i
and returned Sl3.oi; the one at Bur-
lipgton, Nj, cost S2l and returned a.