The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-05-17
GLEANINGS.

Dakota has thirty national banks
with an aggregate capital OF No5l,-
$780,
The manufacture of perfume from To-
cal-grown flowers il becoming an ex-
tensive industry in Florida.
The average weekly receipts OF but
ter in New York last year were l.5OO-
600 pounds. At present the week y re-
ceipts are over 100000.
Great impetus is lent to culinary ac-
complshmcnts in Norway from the fact
that no girl is allowed to have beau
until she can make bread.
| The New York Board of Health has
experimental on some adulterated mus
tard sold In that market, and o dog
whose meat allowance was spiced with
the continent, died in three days
Almond growing is declared to be a
failure in Northern California. the fruit
blossoming too early and not bearing a
full crop. General Bidwell has recent
ly grated his almond orchard to
prunes.
James Riley, telegraph messengers
was lOuui III Vic sticteS VI A>SW L VI q
raving maniac. He kept crying con-
stantly: Il am Butts, the boy detec-
tive" HIS brain was turned by boy
novels.
Slavery still exists in China. The
female slaves are by far the most
numerous. The average price is
from $40 to so per head. Young and
healthy girls of twelve sometimes fetch
rs high rs 800
j. S. Fogg, of Boston. is President OF
the syndicate of bankers and capital
lists Of the Hub who have 800, 100000
/ invested in the Northwest. Their Sc
curities are land mortgages, bonds and
commercial paper
The widow of General Fitzpatrick is
soon expected home from Chilli, and
her friends are raising 5000 to dis
charge mortgage on her late hus-
bands house in New Jersey so that
she can come to an uniucumbered home
There are only two American books
which have a market value approxima-
ting 81, 600; they are the Bay Psalm
Book. " which has been sold as high as
1900, and Eliot's Indian Bible-"Up-
Biblum God" in the abort sinal tongue.
Captain Hoxie, the husband of Vim
ME Roam the sculptress, has had alb
solutely snow-whte hair ever since he
was twenty four, and his features are
like cameo; the only vivid color
about his face is in his eyes which are
purple-blue.
1t is significant fact, according to q
New York criminal lawyer. that among
all the nations of the world whose peo-
pie have made the United States their
home, it may be exceptionally recorded
of the Japanese that no one has been
convicted of a criminal offense in an
American court.
There is place in the Blue Ridge
Mountains in West Virginia, where
snow melts as fast as il falls, and
and where the temperature of the
ground never reaches the freezing
point. Vegetation is almost a month
ahead of the surrounding sections
There is about one acre of this warm
area The State Geologist is of the
opinion that there may be volcano
slumbering few hundred feet below
the surface.
The following are said 10 be the six
teen American inventions Of world
wide adoption: The cotton gin, the
planning machine, the grass mower and
reaper, the rotary printing press, steam
navigation, the hot-air machine, the
sewing machine, the India rubber in
dustry, the machine manufacture Of
horseshoes, the sand blast for craving,
the guage lathe, the grain elevator, ar
titicial ice making on large scale, the
electromagnetic in its practical applica-
ton and the telephone.
A citizen of Fitchburg, Mass, whose
house, barn and shed were overrun
with rats, tried method which he
had heard recommended to get rid OF
them, though without any expectation
of it's success. He caught a rat in q
trap, and, with piece OF lighted pa
per, singed off the hair OF its back, tax
ing care not to burn or hurt the hide.
He then let the rat 90 back to its old
haunts, and within three days every
rodent but the singed one had quit the
premises.
The common sparrow, that was new
er great favorite in Great Britain, IL
now looked upon as pest in the I'm
tied States, where the bird was lately
welcomed, housed, fed and protected
by law. 1t has been found that the
sparrow does drive away birds, does
play havoc with the flower garden and
the winery and the orchard, and does
not destroy grubs and worms when bet
ter fare can be had. The squirrel has
also fallen into disfavor 1t is alleged
by naturalists that the squirrel robs
birds nests and destroys fruit--in fact,
some have considered this little animal
sort of tree rat.
DR.. Murray Gibbes reports, in the
London Medical Journal, thirty-seven
cases of dipthcria claimed to have been
cured by saturating the atmosphere OF
the room in which the patient was
placed with the vapor of eucalyptus
globules. The atmosphere must be
constantly loaded with steam. and the
vapor Of the eucalyptus is obtained by
pouring boiling water on the dried
| ioayas To assist nature in THROWING