The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-09-13
GLEANINGS.

III not overloaded EsquimauN dog
will easily draw sledge sixty mi. "a
day.
An American company is layins
artificial stone pavements in the City OF
Mexico.
Bucks County, PENNSYLVANIA, i,
credited with young lady whose hair
sweeps the floor.
1t is one of Cad stones peculiaritieS
that he cares very little what he eats,
when he eats it, or where.
Paris is the Cincinnati of Europe,
OF 800 men tried for murder during tn
past year only five were convicted.
Turtle-fghting is one of the rare
amusements of the civilized denizcn,
of Staten Island. 1t is said to b.
more enjoyable than cock-fghting.
The Oldest apothecary shop in Berlin,
which in 1883 might celebrate the l00,h
anniversary Of its existence, has just
been sold for the sum of $500, 0OO,
A Washington correspondent SAYS
that Senator has 80 pay out OF his
own pocket from eight hundred to .
thousand dollars Tor postage stamps.
A ninety-year-ol colored man OF
Tallahassee, while out hunting recently,
killed three bears, an alligator, arattlc-
snake, ten skunks, and cut three bee
trees.
The famous Rugby colony in Tennes-
see is about to turn its attention TO
vine-growing. 1t has proved failure
in every other direction except the
moral one.
During the first six months Of this
year nearly $50, 900, 600 has been in
vested in buildings in New York, an
increase Of $4,000, 600 over the cor
responding period last year.
A Calcutta paper tells of railway
station in India who recently sent the
following dispatch to headquarters:
Train just due. Tiger jumping about
the platform. Please telegraph orders. "
1t has come out in trial at London
that the boquets presented by enthusi-
astc adorers to the queens of song are
many of them sold ut once. The great
prima donna disposes by contract of
all the bouquets she receives.
Lighting recently struck tree or
Governor Stanford 5 California ranch.
and the Cinnamon employed on the
place could not be induced to pick up
the debris, rs they considered that it
was the work of an evil spirit.
Bayard Taylor's father and mother,
still living up in the nineties in years,
inhabit the beautiful country house
which Bayard builtyears ago ut Kenneth
Square, Pa, and which since his death
has fruitlessly been offered for sale.
Although Baltimore is termed the
Monumental City, there are really
fewer monuments to be seen there than
in almost any other place. The only
monument of note is that erected by
the state as a tribute to Washington,
An English firm of soap manufactur-
ers spends about $l6O, 900 year ad-
vertising. 1t employs capable artists,
essayist and poets, and sends 4 package
of soap gratuitously to each of the in
fants whose birth is announced in the
London Times.
No end of amusement has been alloat
in Washington during the past winter
over the mistakes of Gen. Sheridan.
The general, of course, moves in the
very highest circles of society, and
during the season he has been intro
duced to hundreds of ladies and gentle
men, He is one of the most polite and
agreeable of gentlemen, and mas a per-
feet horror of offending anyone through
an intentional oversight. After the
general had been to a few receptions
he found that he was totally unable to
recall the names and even the faces o!
fully two-thirds of the persons who
had been introduced to him. Driven
to desperation, he adopted the novel
plan of bowling to everybody. Now no
one thinks of Introducing u friend to
Gen. Sheridan. The proper thing in
society is to Introduce yourself. The
general won't know tho difference, and
be will greet you with all the ailability
of an old friend.