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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-02-09

Admiral Aiamatsu, of the japanese navy,
has invented a new floating fort for coast de-
fense This fort is to be built on a kind of
vessel made of steel and $50 feet in length.
The armor is to DO II inches thick, and the
bridge will be specially protected with a steel
bulwark of inches. 1t is to have double
screw and engines of 200 horse power, capa-
BILE Of attaining speed of three miles an
hour On the first bridge will DO placed
twelve ID centimetre cannon, and on the sec
ond eight 20 centimetre. The crew will num-
Der $50 men, and each floating fort is esti-
mated to cost 100000, but this is obviously
a mistake, perhaps 10000 is meant. New
York World
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-02-09
An Alligator in a Tree.

john wilson, living near here cut big
cypress tree in the swamp north of town, and
found therein live alligator seven feet long
AS the opening in the tree was not half large
enough for the gator TO get through, the
presumption is that it crawled in when quite
young and lived ON other animals and rep
tiles that sought refuge in the same tree
Astor Fla) Cor New York Sun.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-02-09

FIG 2 VIBRATION BY MAGNETIC IMPULSE.
In the accompanying engravings, repro
duced from the journal quoted from, Fig.
shows how bar of steel may be set in active
vibration y 'rops of water. The bar is
supported at modal points upon angular
pieces of wood Above the center of the bar
is arranged faucet, which communicates
with the water supply The bar is first vi
brated by hand and the faucet is adjusted so
that the water drops in unison with the vi
brations of the bar. The motion of the bar
is then stopped, and the water is allowed to
drop on it. The bar soon begins to vibrate,
and in short time the vibration acquires
considerable amplitude In Fig 2 is shown
an experiment in which the intermittent
pull of an electro magnet is made to ac-
complish the same thing. In this case the
steel bar forms part Of the circuit The
magnet is provided with light wooden
spring pressed arm, carrying contact point
and a conductor. This arm is arranged to
follow the bar up and down through the
upper half of its excursion, breaking the con-
tact at the median position of the bar The
magnet becomes alternately magnetized and
demagnetized, and the bar is alternately
pulled down and released. The bar used in
these experiments is Z. inch thick, "a inches
wide and feet long
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-02-09
Roses worth a Dollar Apiece.

"Do you know" said the polite lady clerk
of one of our floral establishments, that at a
recent fashionable wedding in this city the
brides bouquet cost S5Op
"How was thatr
"Well, the order from the groom was for
fifty roses, and as they were of very rare
species We had to send on to the Botanical gar
dens in Washington for them The order
was for fifty brides roses, which cost 81
apiece - Cincinnati Telegram.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-02-09

ii never joke, and why should tell you
faisehood"
"Then you wish that we should meet here
after as strangers"
"That is about the size Of my wish; |
would gladly be n sister TO you, but fear
Won might some time consider such relation
ship near enough to attempt to borrow money
on the strength of it, Therefore, think it
better that we should 80 our respective
ways
This decision is final"
"Quitc so, Mr. Argyle"
"Thon listen, Miss De Reille," eSclaims
Bertrand, whose form seemed suddenly to
grow about ten feet tall, while triumphant
light blazeS from his eyes ard his words come
quick and sharp, like the rattle of peas in
cheese box. lyon think you have the bulge
on me. but you are wrong When | gave
you that deed did not tell you that re-
tanned the deed Of four times the amount OF
land gave to you. The same boom that
struck your possession swept over mine also,
sold out. am today the proud possessor
Of a cool million, thus, thus are you pun
ished for your pertdyi Farewell, Miss DE
Relle, we meet henceforth as strangers, |
would not accept your love though 1t were
rendered me on golden tray. You have
trampled under foot the honest love and the
million dollars Of one who would have done
all to serve you. go, FAREWELL he laughs
best that laughs last; ha-ha-ha, ha-ha- ha-ha"
"Stay, Bertrand; come back; return, did
not mean il, forgive me forh--
But Bertrand, with a last shrill, strident
laugh, had fled. -Pittsburg Telegraph.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-02-09

One of the most unique and fortunate ac-
cidents ever recorded happened at the Cleve-
land, Lorraine and Wheeling railroad, just
over the river The yard engine was left on
the track with steam up, while the crew went
TO dinner In some unknown way, it is sup
posed by the tampering Of small boys, the
trottlo was opened just as a passenger train
passed and the switch was thrown open. The
engine quickly acquired momentum until it
was dashing Mt speed Of sixty miles an hour
over the crooked tracks, for the most part
built on high trestes Over the river it
whizzed past the astonished people along the
line clear to Bellairo, five miles from the
starting point, where it crashed into long
train Of freight ears heavily laden with coke
The engine was demolished and it rained
coke for rods in all directions, the train being
broken into atoms BY the merest accident
nobody was hurt, but the money loss was
heavy Wheeling Cor. ST. Louis Republic.
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u,ornovED.

I cannot think the dead come ever back;
Else thou, my mother wouldst not calmly ITO
Within thy grassy tent, but swiftly fly
Back through the shadows and lonely track
To seek the child who does thy comfort lack
The bliss Of heaven thou woudSt thy soul deny
And. though SO weary, all It's peace put by,
Rather than loneliness my heart should rack
Do souls return my mother, and my KISS
AnointS not any sad eycs' Come back ana prove
How tleepcr than the grave Is thy dear love!
Never lin now dilst thou the pathway mss
That led 10 ne Alas, no couriers move
From heaven to earth! Thine absence proVeth
This May Riley Smith.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-02-09

cluded Samuel j. Tilden had been resur-
rected Many people who resemble Charles
Sumner find his counterpart in Senator Nor
rill, of Vermont. A. J. Warner, an ex-con-
gresham from Ohio, was on the floor of the
house recently, and people talked about his
resemblance TO Garfield. Congressman
Cutcheon, of Michigan, also looks like Gar
held, but, strange to say, he doesn't
much resemble Warner. They all have
the same type of face, Warmers and Cutch-
cons being the extremes and Car
fields the mean. When James Mcmillan,
the new senator from Michigan, paid "A brief
visit to the Capitol ten days ago the vigilant
remarked his resemblance to the late President
Arthur. Senator Culloms resemblance to
Abraham Lincoln has been often mentioned
They have simply the same type of face The
expression is quite different a remarkable
similarity in both type and expression may
he found in the faces of Congressman Adams,
of Illinois, and Bayne, of Pennsylvania, who
sit side 10y side They are both heavily
bearded men, which makes the double all
the more remarkable, for men with big
boards rarely resemble other men very closely
Adams aud Bayne look enough alike to he
twin brothers, though their similarity is of late
suffering from the fact that Bayne'S beard is
becoming sprinkled with gray, while Adams
is still deep brown. Men who know them
well can easily distinguish one from the other
by this, even at distance, but the Chicago
newspaper correspondent who sent off to his
paper long account of speech made by
Adams of Chicago, which was in fact made
by Bayne, had no difficulty in making salts
factory excuse for himself. Even Senator
Farwell, who has been Adams neighbor for
two years, once introduced friend to Bayne
as "a member from my town" Another
Chicago congressman, Durham, has in times
past been mistaken for Senator Logan,
though the resemblance there is chiefly in a
swarthy complexion and fierce mustache.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-02-09
GREAT MEMS DOUBLES.
STORIES ABOUT REsEMBLANCES
THAT CAUSE CONFUSION.
President Fleet Iiarri>on's New jersey
Double How Newspaper Man Fooled
Col Dan Iamont--The Men Who Re-
s.mbic President Cleveland.
Lsneclnl Correspondence.l

WAsHINGToN, Feb 1 -- Cen Harrisons
iouhc wu, at indianapolis the other day in
the person of a Mr. llovet, OF New Jersey,
who wa, mistaken for the president-elect 10y
largcuumbcr of the lntter's friends Almost
every prominent public man has his double
The number of men who look like other men
Is ustouishiugy large. When Lew +. Morton
was on the floor of the senate week or two
igo people IN the galleries saw him and CON
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-02-09
French Dressing Gowns.

French fashionable dressing gowns are
marvels of construction. One made in light
green flanuel is cut en- Princesse; on the
shoulders it is deliberately tucked horizon
tally, on the sleeves perpendicularly; fine
feather stitches appear on the square collar
and cuffs; plated cord girdle encircles the
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-02-09
A Prussian Decoration.

The Prussian order of the Iron Gross was
established by Frederick William Ill, March
10, 1918, to honor patriotic bravery in the
war with France Itwas revived by William
/. at the time of the Franco Prussian war.
lS70-7l.
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SCIENCE AND PROGRESS.
SIMPLE EXPERIMENTS IN PHYSICS.
OTHER INTERESTING MATTER.

Harmonic Vibrations Resulting from Regu-
larry Recurring Impulses, which May
BE Very slight-Vibration Caused by
Magnetic impulse.
Impulses which, occurring sinSly or at IT.
regular intervals, are incapable Of producing
any noticeable effects, may, when made reg
ularly, under favorable circumstances, yield
astonishing results. The rattling Of a church
window 10y the air waves generated 10y a par
ticular pipe OF the organ, bridge strained
or broken by the regular tramp of soldiers
or by the trotting of horses, the vibration of
a sig or eight story building 10y a wagon rum
bling over the pavement, factory vibrated
to a dangerous degree by machinery con-
tanned within its walls, mill shaken from
foundation to roof by air waves generated by
water falling over u dam, are all familiar ex-
amples of the power of regular or harmonic
vibrations
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-02-09

Probably more than one double will be
found for Gen Harrison. Three or four
have been found for President Cleveland.
Congressman Cogswell, of Massachusetts, was
at the White House afternoon reception with
some friends recently, and us he stood before
the president shaking hands the somewhat
striking resemblance between them was in
stantly noted and greeted with "A smile by
the onlookers. Two years ago there was
quite sensation in Newspaper Row over
runor that President Cleveland had been
seen walking down Pennsylvania avenue
with an unknown lady on his arm A dozen
vigilant reporters at once started on tour of
investigation, but soon discovered that the
man who had walked down the avenue was
Congressman Cogswell Two other men are
occasionally mistaken for the president
Lawrence Gardner of Washington, and Dis
trict Marshal Wilson. The former sat in
box at the theatre one night and was sur
prised to discover that all the opera glasses in
the house were being leveled at him and the
ladies of his party.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-02-09
MORTON.
GRANT,
TILDEN.
BURROWS.

When informed that he had made mistake,
he slowly rejoiued his companions and said;
ellis nibs won't let on dat he's Blaine. Guess
he's sore COS he's been licked" Mrs. Blaine
once mistook Professor Young for Mr.. Blaines
brother Robert, who greatly resembles the
ex-secretary of state
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-02-09

Gen. Grant had several doubles. Col Zeb
Ward, famous southerner, who has been
warden of penitentiaries nearly all his life,
looked so much like Gen. Grant that he once
took the generals place at public reception
at Little Rock, receiving and shaking hands
with several hundred colored men before the
imposition was discovered The fraud was
fualy exposed by negro who had been one
Of Wards prisoners, and the reception came
to an end. Capt. Davis, now on board the
revenue cutter johnson, ut Milwaukee, is an
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-02-09

A Washington newspaper man who greatly
resembles Secretary Whitney once walked
past Col. Lamont and into the presidents
work room without the formaity of sending
in his card. Another newspaper man, on
wager, walked upon the floor of the house
and took the seat of Delegate Game, from
Utah, without attracting any attention. Col.
Yeatman, of the war department, was once
mistaken for eX Congressman Calkins, big
and handsome man from indianapolis, by
some young ladies in charge of booth at
church fair. Yeatman tried to beg off
and explain, but the young ladies so persist
emily insisted he was Calkins, and paid him
so many pretty compliments, that he sur
rendered and handed them his months sal
ary Pension Commissioner Black has a
double in Delegate Clifford, of Dakota, who
will probably go into the senate as soon as
Dakota becomes a state
Senators Quay and Davis look much alike
with their hats ON. Congressman Jehu Ba-
ker has been mistaken for the late Vice Presi-
dent Hendricks, though by persons who did
llOU KNOW tllitl VI lutlll Ntlg "ti wv
ernor Gray, of Indiana, and w. }. Arkell, OF
New York, father Of the editor of Judge, are
as like as two peas out OF the same pod.
Steve Dorsey has a perfect double in Maurice
Powers, New York politician, Con-
gresham W. l.. Scott, of Erie, once lost
wager OH his confidence that certain gen.
tleman was Amos Cummings, of New York,
but who turned out to be Senator Jacobs, of
Brooklyn Probably r. d, Frazier, OF
Memphis, could go to New York and buy
million shares of stock without a dollar, sim
plv because he is double of Jay Gould.
Gen. A. T. Pierson, of Pittsburg, was once
mistaken for Gen. Sheridan by two Chicago
men who had known Sheridan well when he
lived in their city. They insisted that Pier
son should accompany them to their room,
where they entertained him royalty before
discovering their mistake. Mrs. Cleveland
once had double on the streets of Washing
ton. Senator Germans resemblance to Car
dinal Gibbons has been pointed out. Robert
Lincoln looks wonderfully like George 7.
Chester, of Buffalo, and Dan Lamont has
double in A. A. Freeman, of Lacrosse.
ROBERT GRAVES.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-02-09
"How arcN W, ecneral' did not know you
We're IN Ch ago When did you come"

] Still another man who somewhat resem-
bles Gen. Grant is Congressman Burrows, Of
Michigan, prominent candidate for speaker,
Burrows has the square, solid type of face OF
Grant, and head much like the dead gen
erals in shape and color. The man from
Michigan is much joked with about his re-
semhlance TO Grant and his Christian name
of julius Cesar, and hardly a day passes
that he is not told he should be able TO win
the speakership or any other battle, being
named after one Of the great captains of the
world and looking like another. Several of
the aspirants for the speakership have doubles
in life or history. Reed is known rs the man
who looks like Shakespeare while Mckinley
has for years been called the little Napoleon,
The resemblance In these cases is not entirely
fanciiul, for Reed is fat and modern
Shakespeare, while Mckinley looks strangely
like Napoleon, though his deep set, luminous
eyes are more like those of Daniel Webster.
Bell, the Washington photographer who has
had a greater number OF sittings from public
men than any other camera artist, is "A Reed
in private life, while Gof, the brilliant West
Virginia leader, is another Mckinley. Golf
and Mckinley are warm friends, room near
each other in the Ebbitt house, and one is
often mistaken for the other Nobody has
been found who looks like "Joe" Cannon.
His double will have to be sought in the hay
fields of his own Illinois
Gen Harrison's cabinet possibilities have
Il IAh nlnr
looks enough like Congressman Henderson,
of North Carolina, to be his twin Depew's
resemblance to Adam Forepaugh is well
known, Allison has IA counterpart in Repre-
sentative Heard, of Missouri, and Con
gresham Thomas, of Illinois, looks like
Milliken, of Maine. Editor Clarkson,
of Iowa, has n remarkable double III the
person of EX-CongreSsman j. Hale Sypher,
of Louisiana. Sypher was in New York
during the last campaign, and at Republican
headquarters was frequently mistaken for
Clarkson. Mr.. Blaine has two striking
doubles. Col William l.. Schafer, New
York politician, has been addressed as the
Hon James c. Blaine from one end of the
country to the other, and even in Europe
As one of the Republican parades passed the
reviewing stand in Madison Square, New
York last fall, Col. Schafer occupied "A CON
spicuous position on the platform. Cheer
after cheer went up from the marching column
for Blaine, Blaine, Blaine of Maine" and
Col Schafer modestly withdrew. Professor
Charles B. Young, of Washington, looks as
much like Blaine as Schafer does. During
the campaign of 1884 Professor Young was at
Bar Harbor at the same time that Mr.. Blaine
was there and the Office seekers used to mix
the two men up and chase after first one and
then the other, greatly to BIaine's delight and
the professors disgust. a few days after the
November election, says bright newspaper
man who know, the professor well, Professor
Young was mistaken for Blaine by some
Washington newsboys, one of whom made
boldto ask: "How's yer feelin' Mr.. Blainep
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-02-09
FARM FOR SALE.

The undersigned offers for sale his farm of 1853 acres
more or less. situated two miles south and one mile
east of Seneca Ill., In Grundy county with 60 acres OF
corn 10 acres of Timothy balance good timber pasture
one house OFFS bedrooms sitting room and Kitchen and
living water aud good orchard on the premises For
particulars call on Geo. Parker, Of Ottawa or on the
premises. aug25 6m. JOHN SHELLY
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Nhinagn. Alton & St. Louis Railroad

On and after May 9, 1856, trains on the G. Il A. r.
Il. pass Joliet as follows:
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-03-29
The Miniature Kerry Cows.

Of late years the Kerry COW, which re.
ceived its distinctive name from the
county of that name in Ireland, has &C.
CURED its celebrity for quantity and
quality of milk given. The Kerrys are
miniature cattle, the specimen bull being
only three feet, six and half inches in
height at the shoulder, the girth at the
same place being five feet, seven inches.
It will be seen that it has bulk, though
somewhat hamed-not, unusual in
males of great milking breeds. Six to
seven hundred weight, English, is the
weight as given of these cattle.
Mr.. Mahony, an Irish breeder, says of
his herd, mostly heifers with first calf,
that many of them are giving eight to
ten quarts of milk day each, and that
the test shows ten to fifteen per cent. Of
cream. Professor Baldwin, another we'll.
known Irish farmer and breeder, is re.
corded as saying: "The Kerry is small
in size, exceedingly hardy, and can sub
sist on poor and exposed pasture. It
often bears a close resemblance in size,
shape and color to the native cattle of
Wales and Brittany. The color pre-.
ferred is black, with a ridge of white
along the spine, land white streak along
the belly. Cattle of true Kerry descent
are met with of other colors. Thus, ]
have seen them brown, black and white,
and black and brown The horns are fine,
with tendencysto turn upward at the
points The skin is soft, unctuous and
of a fine orange tone, which is visible
about the eyes, the ears and the muzzle.
The milk is peculiarly rich and wei
favored, and the quantity of it yielded,
even on hard fare, is so great that the
Kerry has been styled the poor mans
ow."-Prairie Farmer.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-03-29
The Height Of Meanness.

The height Of meanness has been otter
defined | have heard, for instance,
that it has been reached by man who,
having been rescued from watery grave
in the Serpentine during the skating
season, and duly brought round, after
much trouble, in the Royal Humane So
ciety's receiving house, promptly stole
the graphing irons as he left the place
and sold them for old metal on his way
home Another definition asserts that
the height of meanness consists in giving
blind man shilling and taking full
change for it out of his hat. But the
Woodbridge Ga:ettz now claims for that
town the credit of possessing the mean
est man in the person of misery yeo-
man who refused to allow his daughter
! to receive a sealskin jacket from her
uncle as present because, forsooth, he
could not afford to pay for the camphor
which would be needed to keep the
moths out of it during the summer =
L0udoq Figaro.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-03-29
Naptha IntOxicatfOn.

In several large factories in Germany,
especially in India rubber factories and
establishments for cleaning India rubber,
peculiar morbid symptoms have lately
been observed. The faces of many of
the girls who had not left the factory
during the day, became flushed aud
swollen in the evening, and they could
not walk steadily. An examination of
their clothes and of the workrooms for
brandy, opium, etc, yielded no result,
till an accident led to the solution of the
mystery. In these factories naptha is
used In large quantities, and kept in
special boilers closed against the air.
The girls had succeeded in getting keys
to the boiler valves, and soon learning
the intoxicating effects of naptha, were
in the habit of Sinking unobserved to
the reservoirs to inhale the poison, which
threw them into state of happy forget
fulness and conjured up thousand sweet
dreams of wealth, splendol, happiness,
etc. The secret was revealed by q
novice, who made too deep an inhala-
ton and fell into hysterical commissions
Lancet.