The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-03-08
GLEANINGS.

The State tax of Florida this year is
but 8 mills.
Twelve million clocks were manu-
featured last year.
Horrors of Hotel Life is the title
of book just issued.
A Texas prophet declares that 1884
will "briste and grOan with disaster :"
The Onondaga Indians have a legend
that the mosquito was once as large as
an eagle,
The total value of property in Ken.
lucky owned by the colored people is
80, $50, 400.
Rhode Island savings banks have
f52. 400, 205 intrusted to their care by
l2O, 5s2 depositors.
California is at present producing
not far from $lS, 900, 900 of gold and
silver bullion annually.
Ohio has coal in thirty of thirty-eight
counties, and put out 1920, 229 tons in
1854 gain OF 200, 600 tons.
Statistics show that there are at pres
ent about 1000. 900 people in Great Bri-
tain who receive charitable relief.
When the territory of the United
States is as densely settled as that of
France there will be $50, 600, 600 people
here.
The New York Young Mems Chris
tian Association has membership of
8, $50, of whom 1869 were added last
year.
The Niagara Suspension Bridge is
2 260 feet long, that at Kief, Russia, is
1862 feet, and that between New York
and Brooklyn $3.50 feet.
Mr.. Richard II. Goodman said in an
address before the Vermont Dairymen's
Association that there are now 100, 900
Jersey cows in this country.
Canyon City, Colo, has the largest
artesian we'll in the world. At the
depth of ,220 feet a stream was tapped
which flows 400 gallons minute.
"You are right in supposing | work
hard" said Frederick the Great to
friend 81 do so in order to live, for
nothing has more resemblance to death
than idleness."
American women owe bow TO the
Pail Mall Gazette, which says: amer
lean girls have deserved reputation
for general courage above all their sis
tiers elsewhere
While in Washington, an Illinois
man remarked that he saw only two
classes of people there dressed alike,
the judges of the supreme court and
the walters at Riggs hotel.
The skeleton of a woman has been
found in an old abandoned coal shaft
in Perry county, Ohio Old inhabi-
tants think it is the skeleton of Mary
Donly, who mysteriously disappeared
some fifty years ago.
Colonel John H. Stevens, the agri-
cultural editor of the Minneapolis
Daily Tribune, settled in that city
twenty-eght years ago, and was the
first actual settler there. The city's
population is now estimated at 100, 900.
1t has been noticed by members of
the Kansas State Horticultural Society
that insects injurious to fruits are more
numerous about the railroad stations.
The average loss in that State by the
depredations of insects was "a per cent.
In the ninth century Almamoun in
Mesopotamia, gave the earth's mean
circumference at 13l, 1855, 200 feet. Ten
centuries later, according to Clark's
elements, it is l31, 1881 ,455, so small is
the variation between the ancient and
modern astronomers.
Female quadrupeds have more en-.
durance than males. In the human
race the woman endures longest, and
will bear pain to which the strongest
man succumbs. Zymotic diseases are
more fatal to males, and more male
children die than females.
Hogs sent to the market from Cali
forna have to be trapped in the woods
in about the same manner as bears.
On most of the ranches, it is said, the
swine run as wild as deer through the
woods, and if cornered they will place
themselves Oh the defensive and fight
like tigers.