The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-06-07
GLEANINGS.

Fifty thousand Northerners are now
In Florida.
Dakota has $50 newspapers, most OF
them dailies.
Henry Ward Bcecher will be seven-
ty-two in June.
An Ohio physician is preparing a
medical lexicon in fOrty-two languages
The proposed reform bill in England
will enfranchise about two million
men.
w. p. Elliott, of Lewiston, Pa, nine
ty-one years OF age, is still editing a
paper.
The Southern BiUouac argues that
the mound builders were drowned by
floods.
The old Confederate Notifications
around Athens, Ga. are now being
leveled.
During 1888 n Philadelphia establish
ment turned out 557 locomotives, OF
which ISL were exported.
Mrs. Hannah Simon. of Newark. N.
j., recently celebrated her nincty-ninth
birthday by wallzing for ten minutes
Boston is going to displace electric
street lights with gas Her 38l electric
lights cost last year $83,749, while
9,623 gas lamps cost $3.50, 3ol.
1t is several centuries since Italy has
taken part in polar expeditions. but
one is now about to be sent out under
the command of Captain Fendacaro. OF
the Italian navy.
English newspapers say that the
adoption of black silk gowns by the
Judges of the New York Court OF APP
peals is due to the visit to this country
of Lord Coleridge.
1t is affirmed in Egypt that Ell Mehdi
possesses eighteen wives. and that his
vakeel possesses twenty-four. The Mos
lens in Khartoum "are. Mortified at the
Medhi's exceeding the number per.
mitted in the Koran"
A member Of Congress, in recon-.
mending the appointment of naval
cadet to the Annapolis Academy, states
in his letter to the Navy Departments
that the young man will be found fis-
cally qualified, he is sure.
An immense aerOlite fell on the
Rancho Redeo de las Agnas, twelve
miles west of Los Angeles, blowing a
deep hole in the ground. The light
was visible from Los Angeles, and the
explosion was heard for miles
Since the commencement of work on
the canal the population Of Aspinwall,
Panama, has suddenly increased from
1900 or 1000 to 5000 or 10000, and
building has extended into the swamps.
where there are no streets graded.
The region south of Ccdarville, Kan,
is infested with wild dogs. which have
already killed two large steers, nearly
wiped out two iocks of sheep, and
eaten two filters of pigs. The dogs are
more difficult to capture than wolves.
Leatheroid is q new substance manu-
featured in Maine principally of cotton
paper. 1t looks like leather, but is
harder and very elastic, and no amount
of tossing about or hammering will
break it. This suggests its use for
trunks.
Mrs. Livermore's little book, What
Shall We DO with Our DaughtersP' has
been translated and published in Paris,
quite superhuously, as most French
men know enough to marry off their
daughters at the first favorable oppor-
tunity.
The Washington Monument Com
mission has granted authority to an
electric light company to erect ten
electric lights on the top of the Wash
ton monument. They expect that the
lights will be so effective that the city
will be illuminated as far out rs the
northern boundary.
The annual rainfall in this country,
according to the Weather Signal, is
lowest in New Mexico Q3 inches) and
California Q8 inches), and highest in
Oregon (49 inches) and Alabama Csc
inches). The annual rainfall in the
British Islands among the mountains
is Al inches, on the plains rs inches;
As inches of rain falls on the west side
Of England, ~ on the east side.