The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-11-15
GIEASiNGS.

Recently discovered gold mines at
/ Boemmeloe, in NorwaY, are said 10
promise rich rewards for the goid-dlg-
gers.
The Minister OF + ucaiion in G ns-
da believe. too many iarmerS' sons are
leaving the country for the cities and
/ towns.
"Hundred-ieavei roses, some rs
| large as 3 desscr plate, ere said 70 bo
very common in SAINT Il rDara. Call
| fornia.
The colored race in inc United States
is estimated III 1000, 0 strong, and
their property holdings exceed $lOU,-
0UO,0 900.
The golden rules for cholera times.
| and indeed tor I'll other times are TO
keep clean, lead regular life and
never worry.
Jane GRAY SwisShelm said before she
died: 80, out ii 5 good To have lived
and suffered and worked, to know tn 1t
nothing can 90 wrong with us if only
we are right"
An ENGLISH clerk in New York dry
goods store writes to the London Ware
houSemuu that there is no such riLldity
of discipline behind counters here as
he used to endure Al home.
Ex-Governor Curtin, of Pennsylya-
MIA, boasts that he sill remembers the
names of every family of two or more
brothers who enlisted in that State dur
ing the reccnt family quarrel.
There are sixty churches in Montre-
al. The French Cathedral situated
there is the largest church building on
this continent. 1t is built of limestone,
ana ID, 600 people have often been as
semOled under its roof.
There were produced last year about
1000, 0O0,O pounds of Louisiana
cane SUGAR, about 1000. 900 pounds of
sorgham sugar, and 100000 pounds
Of beet sugar IN this country, about
ouc-lweifh Of It's consumption.
In India there are tussles between
man and boast. Man succeeds in kill
i'm oil about %, 900 beasts each year of
the man-eating kind, tigers, wolves,
leopards, hyenas, etc. The beasts Kill
about 4, 900 human beings year.
Mr.. McAuley went by cars from Flat
Rock, Ohio, to town in Kansas. His
dog went with him, but did not like
the prospect, and walked back to his
old home, which he reached in eighteen
days. He not only refused to make
friends with the new tenants, but re-
fused all epicurean follies and did in
week.
\ cloud 50 dense as to prevent per-
sons from reading bold tyne nj midday
passed over Il great part OF Lancashire,
England, recently. The unusual dark
ness lasted ABOUT an hour. From the
accounts given by intelligent observers
of the occurrence the cloud must have
consisted OF finely divided carbon dust.
Rain which fell copiously in some
places was AS black rs ink. AT other
localities where hail or snow fell it
was noticed that each was likewise
black.
In the German Empire seventeen
years AGO there were 800 towns. with
populations OF between 5000 and 2O,-
900, which were without railway &C
commodations. In the year 1880 the
number of such towns was only 1872.
OF towns having populations of be-
tween 1000 and 5000 there are in the
Empire 1875, of which only 46S had
any railway accommodation seventeen
years ago. BY 1880 the number Of
towns SO provided has risen to 932.
An exchange says that New York is
the center of the cigar-making trade.
She has nearly 1000 factories and
turns out 1000, 900, 900 cigars year.
Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois rank
after New York. There were made in
this country last year 8, Ia, 500, 952 CT
CARS, about forty for every pound of
tobacco used. About 80, 900, 900 were
imported. thus making total of about
8. $50, 900, 900, or sixty for every man,
woman and child in tn United States,
and 250 for every man over u years of
age.
The Paseo de la Reforma, in the City
of Mexico, is pronounced by many