The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-12-13
GLEANINGS.

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acres.
Freckles are in fashion in England.
Labouchere says they are the outward
sign of inward iron.
The London Underground Railway
runs l,l2l trains during its working
day of twenty-one hours.
A splinter of deer's hoof, with pow
erful microscopes and poarized light,
is as wonderful to see as the rain
bow.
In the Montana cattle towns news
paper, shave, and a glass OF whisky
all cost the same price, pamely, 20
cents.
Mrs. Cagley, the wife of an English
Life Guardsman. is said to be the com
ing London beauty. She was Miss
Campbell, and the daughter of music
dealer.
Merchant travellers in southern states
amuse themselves in beating the local
authorities out of the tax on drummers.
They frequently do it. The average
drummer is pretty sleek.
Murder hole" is the name given to
a mysterious hole in the ground near
Salem, Va. 1t is forty by sixty feet in
size, ane 1856 feet deep. The average
temperature at the bottom is forty-four
degrees.
The leading hotel at Hawkinsville,
Ga, will not take lady boarders. The
landlord says he wants all the merchant
travellers, but he doesn't want any
trouble. He calls his house the Drum
mers' Stag Hotel.
Mrs. Matthew Webb, a widow of the
swimmer swamped at Niagara Falls,
complains that she never received the
$S, 900 known to have been subscribed
for her benefit by friends of her hus-
band in England.
A Georgia paper relates case of a
fox standing his ground, fighting a
dog and a man in open ground until
killed-the first time fox was ever
known to face danger when there was
q chance to run away.
Little or no jewelry will be worn by
fashionable men. and even watch chains
are to be discarded. The nearest thing
to watch chain is plain gold thread,
which goes around the neck and comes
out through one of the button holes.-
Providence Journal.
The time honored custom of sending
the editor slight token of the wedding
feast is about to be revived. Of this
we are truly glad. Bless you, it gives
an inspiration to our pencil to write
from behind basketful of the frag-
nlents of a wedding feast arterra's
(Ga.) Anseriea"
An old Derby hat may be converted
into a dainty work basket. Cover the
outside with shirred satin of any color
and tie broad band of the same about
the crown, with bow and ends on
one side Line the inside with any
pretty material, and make handle OF
twisted ribbon. Handy Housewife.
It is said than when Sarah Bernhard
plays Lady Macbeth she so keeps to
literal historical accuracy that she APP
pears on the stage with her feet as
heaven fashioned them. This is akin
to the actor who when he appeared in
..Othello' so entered into the spirit of
the part that he blacked himself all
over.
The Mississippi steamboat-me have
a general superstition against all boats
whose name begins with the letter NJ.
One captain says, Il have never known
boat on the Western waters that
commenced with the letter NJ that has
not either burned up, sunk, or been
IL al tnr
to her owners.
Military critics attach great impor-
lance to the discovery of a German
aeronaut, who claims that. by the use
of compressed carbonic acid he can
ascend or descend al pleasure. and says
he can 90 up or down until he meets a
current of horizontal air that suits him.
He adds that he can reach an enemy's
territory and ascend again without
fresh supply of gas.
1t turns out that the new an@sthetic
muriate of cocoaine, which has been
found so useful in delicate operations
on the eye, was formerly used by spec
ialists to blunt the >ensibilties Of the
throat. Muriate of cOcoaine. by The
by, is muratic acid combined chemi-
cally with the active principle of the
South American cocoa plant.
Once kite-fyer attached TO the tail
of a large kite kitten, sewcd in a can
vas bag with netting over the mouth
to give it air. When the kite was at
is greatest height--some 200 feet or
more-the mewing of the kitten could
be distinctly heard by those holding the
string. To the clearnnss of the air was
attributed the hearing of the kittens
voice, and no telephone patent was APP
piled for.
wooden wool is now used as
cheap and useful dressing for wounds
and is being prepared extensively as a
commercial staple for surgical dress
ings. 1t is finely ground wood, such
as is extensively used in the manufac-
ture of paper. 1t is clean-looking,
delicate tibered, soft. yellowish-white