The Ottawa free trader., 1884-05-03
GIEANINGS.
Cook stoves are worth $3.50 apiece at
C0ur d'Alene.

MlSN ray ilcnuIA lS local euiLoT u "a
paper in Lansing, Mich.
A dog fight was held in Cincinnati
for the benefit of the poor
A voter in the city OF Boston bears
the name of "Hieronymus Papp."
A perfectly white peacock, the only
one in this country, is on exhibition in
Boston.
The New York Steam Heating Com
pany has steam laid through five miles
Of streets.
Eighteen thousand homesteads have
been entered in Florida during the
past year.
Concord, N. H., has been taken in to
the amount of $750,000 by mining
stock sharps.
OF the 100 members Of the Iowa
House fifty say that they have no re-
ligious preferences.
Georgia is to try the experiment of
building a new Capitol at an estimated
cost of 81, ,000,0 900.
A Vermont man has parrot that he
has succeeded in teaching to recite
nearly half the Twenty-third Psalm.
Professor j. l.. Smiths private col
lection of meteoritcs, the largest in the
world, has been bought 10y Harvard
College for SO, 900.
A bill has passed the Rhode Island
House Of Representatives. forbidding
the location of dram-shops within 400
feet of school-houses.
Peter Mitchell was long noted, at
Charlestown, Ind, for keeping his ex-
penditures rigidly within 80 cents
day. He has left $4,000
The British Minister'S daughter is
said to be great beauty. She inheri-
ted her lovely face, with it's sad, dark
eyes, from Spanish mother.
The Supreme Court OF Kansas decides
that the circulation of an offensive ar
ticle concerning candidate for office
is "a privileged proceeding"
There were 23,3lO houses built in
London and the suburbs in 1882, form
ing sos naw streets and one new square,
and covering distance of sevcnty-tive
and half miles.
Recent examination of q large num-
Der of wells used for drinking water in
different sections of New Hampshire
shows that 80 per cent. of them are
contaminated
Charles White, of Tnorndike, Me-,
has three yokes of oxen whose united
weight is l2,2l0 pounds. One yoke
measures eight feet four inches, and
weighs A, S65 pounds.
The little Countess of Lowenhaupt is
one of the prettiest women in the for
eign circle in Washington. She is
typical Swedish beauty, with golden
hair. blue eyes, and fair white skin.
A COW horn measuring four feet
eleven inches in length, and eighteen
inches around the base, is on exhibition
at Monticello. Fla, and is supposed to
be the largest cow-horn in the world.
George Parsons Lathrop, the novelist,
is short, stout and erect He has q
large head, curly black hair and black
mustache and goatee. His manners
are agreeable and his conversation
sparkling.
NJ Mace, the great French detective
and the terror of the Paris evil-doer, is
lust about five feet tall, if it be proper
to use the term tall as applied to such
a stature. He has been thirty years in
the service.
Forty cents week is all that it costs
John w. Nisscy, of Mount Carmel, Pa,
who is sixty-tve years old and weighs
us pounds, TO live. His diet is dry
bread and hot water, and has been SO
for the last seven wears.
The consumption of oleomargarine
in Maine is immense and daily increas-
ing. One Portland firm sells from
twenty to forty tons a month. and near
ly all of the hotels and restaurants
throughout the state use it.
A society has been recently formed
in London to advocate the improve
ment and cheapening of the diet, one
of its main objects being to show that
flesh diet is much more costly than
vegetable one, and less nOurishing
Mr.. Allen; of Waterbury, Conn, says
that city is the capital of the brass
manufacture in America, makes the
sheet or bar or brass wire from the
Cleveland pig metal, and with popu-
lation of $4,000 has about 5000 opera
tives.
Wooden pavement is in marked dis
favor in Berlin. What is known as
Vienna head pavement is taking its
place The wooden article laid down
in the neighborhood of the Crown
Princes palace has failed after short
year of trial.
Eliza Howard Powers, of Paterson,
N. j., who spent fortune during the
war in caring for the sick and wounded,
is now an invalid and in needy circum-
stances. She has asked the govern
ment for 81, 500, and it is probable that
she will soon get it.
A New York concern makes profit
of million dollars year counter
feitng the labels used on foreign cham
pagne bottles. 1t is in this way that
pure American wines made in st.
Louis and California reach the stom-
achs that compose Boston and New
York society.
A prominent doctor of Oakland, Cal,