The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-03-03
GLEANINGs.

Appropriate name for II bulldog
Agrippa.
The limit OF interest on money in
South Carolina has been raised by the
Legislature from to 10 per cent
An Englis& visitor to America writes
to the Manchester Er01diHCr that he ate
the best dinner of mir lifc in II New York
club.
A New York man has a iinger-ring
with the ten commandments engraved
on it in such small caaractcrs that they
can only be read with the aid Ola micro
scope
A Providence merchant ordered from
an Atlanta, Ga. broker 10000 twenty
dollar Confederate bills for use in ad-
yertising. The broker filled the order
and had S3,000,0O0 left,
| A three-year-old boy At Springicld,O.,
smokes the strongest cigars and pipes
and chews tobacco constantly. He is
said to be remarkably brightand healthy
, looking,
! IL ~ said that the life of the poet
Whittier is much disturbed by women.
One wealthy widow actually proposed
to him, and other women have made
violent love to him without avail
According to 4 scientific paper all an
imal life will be destroyed in this coun-
try in 1900, or shortly thereafter by
the carbonic dioNide contained in coal
smoke,
A Texas paper is inclined TO the be-
lief that the tramp nuisance will have
an end just so soon as woman is brought
up TO habits of economy and industry
and learns to support husband.
Ii was lately shown in suit in Paris
that married man had paid over $50, i
600 blackmail rather than have his wife
know that he had written IN actress two
llove-letters.
II Is estimated that no fewer Nan A.
600 women are annually catghs stealing
from Paris counters, and the number of
titled ladies seized with Elcptomania
while examining the fSskions is almost
Incredible.
That there has h+AAn deterioration
in st. Louis society is denied by the
Po@-DiSpatcN h+Mnkcn men are now
tolerated At weddings in that city.
whereas formerly nobody was permitted
te keep sobet on such IN occasion.
I A New York man who was thrown
from the rear platform of a street ear
bye sudden jolt of the vehicle. and
ives thereby injured for life, has Just
been awarded verdict for SO 900 dam.
cages.
Jennie b. Henry, of New Castle, Pa,
sent up II toy balloon, with her name
and address attached. and requested the
finder to notify her. In thirty days she
was advised that it had descended At
Stanbcrry, Miss.
Mrs Garfield has set apart one large
room in her new house in Cleveland
Ohio, for the preservation and display
of the numerous tributes of affection anC
respect received by President Garfield
during his illness and by her after hi
death.
In Australia and New Zealand 1000,
600 people have already 10000, 0O'
sheep. and have an area sufficient 70
the easy pasture of 200, 900, 900 sheep 4
the least. With onc-twelfth of our pop
ulation, they have twice our aggregate
stock Of sheep.
| The statute of limitations has acR,
, to depriyca Philadelphia lawye" o.
, fee of 10000 He had for many year
been lcgai adviser to Il man of immons
: wealth. and had not asked for con pen
sation until long after his wealthy ol'ent
demise.
1t is reported that Il new 1rgarilatlo
, called '.The Three Drink Da
| League" has been formed among tn
, department clerks in Washington. An
, member who takes more .han tire
= drinks per day is fined -. As far a
J known. there is nothing 20 t.rbid thre
: fingers 10 - drink.
An Illinois farmer find. The smoke c
t corn-cob, an infalIible Preventive Of ho
; cholera. He puts his Pig, in - tigi
t room once u week and treats them TO
} smoke-balh Of about ten minutes. dur;
lion, They never have the cholera.
is possible that they might not be aflec
l ed with it if they we're not smoked.
Recently an assembly Of two huudre
, men from all parts q Germany founde
, n German Colonial-un;pn in Frankfort
/. Its chief aim is'to direct emigration
such 4 manner rs to make il benelici;
to commerce. This is =, ne effected b
p the foundation Of branch houses in fol
5 eign seaport ,cwTs.