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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-04-20

SAG HARBoR r, l., April l Free to the
stranger in Paris. The Louvre Luxembourg
and Versailles picture galleries and museums
save on certain notified days. Versailles an
hours ride out of town by street car. Less
by rail- Four hundred rooms in the palace
Needs a fortnight to take it all in. Most
folks tire themselves to death trying to do it
in two hours.
Go in the morning to Louvre Luxembourg
Many rooms. Few pictures in room. Chances
plenty TO get room with few fine pictures all
to yourself. II so, stay there Try one room
per day. Hotel Cluny. Don't forget that.
Part of old Roman palace. Full of old fur
niture, armor and crockery. Very ancient
Bed at Versailles palace left just as last made
up for Louis XIV. High bed King and
queen must have got in it per step ladder
And out, ditto.
Royal morning order thus: "Ring bell for
royal step ladder man. Naicsties wish to
climb out of bed"
Sail in grand sewer free once a week, I'm
der Rue Rivoli. Wide as a canal Lit with
gas. Must apply to project Of Paris for
permit. Part of way by hand car. Part
by gondola. Nice cane seats on gou-
dola Poled along. Usually four or five
sondolas in procession. Side shows dur
ing sail. Views up small sewers. Brooks
and rivuets pouring into big sewer.
General smell musty. Nearly two miles in
length. Go down at hole in Place du Chate-
let. Come up at hole near Church of Made
line Sunshine, on the whole, preferable to
sewer Good thing 20 do-once.
Next free shOw-catacOmbs Full Of bones
and stones. Entrance at Rue d'Enfer
Hell Gate in English. Suggestive as re-
CARDS French popular idea Of future destina-
ton. Narrow subterranean passage. Each
visitor carries candle Guide at head. Pro-
cession Of candles. On right bones. Nothing
but bones. Bones 10 the right. Bones to the
left. Bones in heaps. Frescoes Of bones over
head. Fancy work in skulls and cross bones.
Other fancy work in knee and thigh bones.
Ranges of bones in dark abysses. Lost in
darkness. Skulls with holes in them. Made
by grave digger's pick. Dug from hired
graves. Common folks hire grave from two
to five years. Anatomy then dug up. Carried
to catacombs. Slung in pell nell. Grave
ready for next tenant.
Good idea on part Of city to give stranger
such privileges. Keeps him in city another
day. Leaves so much more money in Paris.
Indirect way Of making sewer and skeletons
yield revenue to city. Monsieur sharp man
on the cash question.
PRENTICE MULFoRs.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-04-20

The direct use of electricity as a labor saw
ing machine has been applied at the great
steel works, Cleveland O., where a large
electro magnet is used, suspended from a
crane, to pick up steel bars and billets.
To keep frost, etc, off plate glass windows,
keep the inside air dry, or inner sash tight,
so that the air in window inclosurc will be
cold and ventilated from the outside. A
partial remedy is to have ventilating open
ings in the top of the window casing.
Ohio and Michigan are better provided
with public school libraries than any other
states. The former has l9l and the latter
154 volumes for every 100 pupils in average
attendance In the southern states no public
school libraries of any consequence are re-
ported.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-04-20

Magyar, Italian and German with tuency,
and was verscd in Latin, then the legal Ian
guage of Hungary. During his captivity he
learned English from Bible and dictionary,
and was able to make n public address in that
tongue on landing at Southampton.
The Austrian government suppressed the
papers he edited and condemned him to four
years imprisonment; the people rose in re-
volt and he was chosen governor of reyo-
lutionary organization. But large section
of the Slavs, led by tho Croat chief, Ban
Jellachch, armed against him; Russia at
once supported the Slavs and the contest was
quickly decided Kossuth fled into Turkey
and Gorgey, pressed by overwhelming num-
bers, surrendered. Austria demanded the
surrender of KOsSuth, and the Turks pro
posed to him to turn Mohammedan so they
would have a religious plea for refusing.
Then it was discovered that he was of the
Lutheran faith, which, apparently, no one
had thought Of inquiring about before
England and France now notified the
Turks that they need not surrender the pa
.triot, and the United States sent the war
steamer Mississippi to bring him to America
as the nations guest. Ho arrived in New
York Dec 5, 1851, and for a few weeks en-
ioyed a wonderful ovation. The sensation
did not last long, and he went to Paris and
other capitals for aid; but the cause of Hun
gary was forgotten in the Crimean war and
other excitements Austria lost her Italian
provinces by the war of 1859 and had to come
to terms with Hungary Generalamnesty was
declared and the Hungarian diets powers re
stored; the two nations became one as TO the
crown and two as to legislation and there
was no moro cause for agitation. Kossuth
protested and retired. His countrymen 10y
ally supported the new system, but main
tanned their respect for the old agitator.
For twenty-seyen years he has been an Ital.
ian, practically, and his two sons are bust.
ness men in Turin.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-04-20

D. Hunting ana nshlng hhift. b. large Check.
THE POPULAR FLANNEL SHIRT
velopment Of the upper half of his body.
Probably the men Of the upper strata enyied
him The shirt made the man look so thor
oughly comfortable. But then there was too
much barbaric splendor about the color of
the garments. 1t set them thinking, AT any
rate Their thoughts ran something like
this: "This business of being obliged to pay
tribute of suffering to remorSeless conven-
tionality by wearing in midsummer stiff
white shirt that melts into an insuiferabe
nuisance inside of two hours, and a collar and
pair Of cuffs that wilt like n violet before
CRATE fire before we have walked half a mile
this is a torture we have endured long
enough, it's an imposition upon mankind in
general, and its got to gow
SO they revolted.
1t was nota frenzied, uncomfortable revolt,
and there was no going to extremes. They
based their case on an intense appreciation of
their inalienable rights. They did not bios
som out attred in shirts with all the gor-
geousness of hue of those of Turkish soldiers
or Nebraska cowboys.
But if you had happened to ride on an ele-
waited train in New York city, for instance,
ON any day during the past two or three
summers YOU would have observed how wide
spread were the effects of the revolt You
would have seen faultlessly dressed young
swells, who had all their lives been enamOred
of fancy boiled white shirts wearing deli
catcly colored and corded flannel shirts, with
sailors knot ties substantial looking, middle
aged men, brokers and lawyers probably,
wearing spotlessly white flannel shirts, sub
dued by gray or black ties; even old men of
most tremendous dignity, clad in somber
black, but wearing flannel shirts and four
finland cravats just tho same. Mingled with
an appearance of cool comfort these men had
a look of subdued but eternal defiance, as
though daring anybody to question their
right to wear any sort of shirt they chose,
sirrah.
At the dinner table, at the seaside, in the
country, flannel shirts everywhere. And the
fiat has gone forth that the flannel shirt is to
rule the coming summer and linen shirt
makers and laundrymen are gnashing their
teeth and asking the steely stars, Can such
things be-" 1t was only short time ago
that one of the largest fancy shirt manufac-
tories in the United States failed ON account
of the flannel shirt craze.
The flannel shirts this year are to be beauti-
full in design and color, and the varieties
ADAPTED to men of different classes and ages
are almost numberless. 1t is predicted that
everybody will wear them. What is more
sensible than an airy, comfortable flannel
shirt. or in fact, what more hand5ome9 All
hail its triumph
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-04-20
Signaling mt Sea,

It is announced that Great Britain, France,
Germany, Spain, Italy, Denmark, the Meth
erlands, Norway and Sweden, Brazil, Uru-
quay, Chill, Japan and the Sandwich Islands
have signted their intention of sending rep
resentatives to the international conference
which is shortly to Toe held to consider some
means of signaling at sea that will render
collisions less liable to occur than under the
present system. The proposed conference is
the result of letter addressed to the differ
ent maritime powers of the world by the
president of the United States asking their
cooperation in this matter. The date and
place for holding the meeting yet remain to
he fixed
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-04-20
LOUIS kOSSUTH.
sketch of the Champion of Freedom, Now
Said to BE Near Death.

The information that Louis Kossuth ut the
age Of 81 is slowly dying of exhaustion rouses
thousand curious "reminiscences in the
minds of old readers of American papers; for
there was e season when the name "kossuth"
figured in ten thousand columns, blazed in
flaming colors on many brands of goods, gave
title to popular organizations and even to
hats and other articles of apparel. No for
eigner since Lafayette had excited such en-
thusiasm in the United States. He returned
to Europe and the reaction came; it was
charged that he had collected money for
Hungary and used it himself This Islander
died, and he fell into the ranks of the many
thousand forgotten unfortunates Hungary
was reconciled to Austria, the Pan-Slavic
party took control, and koSsuth, in disgust
and despair, retired to Turin, Italy, where
| he has lived for twenty-seven years,
| Lajos louis koSsuth was born April %,
| 1902, and his blood was chiefly Slavic, despite
the fact that his family adhered to the Mag
var party, and he eventually became its lead
er. The union between Austria and Hungary
was originally an equal one, free as it is now,
and there We're no more loyal subjects than
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-04-20

was elected n member of the Indiana legisla-
ture, and in 1885 he was sent to the senate
Two years ago he was chosen chairman Of
the Republican state central committee. In
1888 he served as delegate at large to the
Chicago Republican convention, and at one
time was spoken of as a candidate for gov
ernor, but declined to permit his name TO be
used on account Of his connection with the
state committee He is SAID to be the best
political organizer in the state. He is good
speaker, though he has not been trained as
such.
Ellis Il. Roberts, appointed assistant treas
urer in New York by President Harrison,
was born in Utica, n. Y, in 1927 He began
life as printer, but entered Yale college and
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-04-20

Of it by reading in the play bill the announce
ment of his sons first appearance, duly under.
lined 'Foolp was all he said when he read
this announcement, and this remark was not
understood TO signify encouragement When
night camo and Edwin had dressed his father
for GlOster and himself for Tressil tho &C.
centric parent who, beneath an outward as
pect of Indifference, loved his son with the
f0ndest affection, took a chair, lit n cigar and
viewing the youth with critical eye, made
this enquiry:
"'Do you know that you are supposed T.
have been riding hard and farf
Eyes, sir
"'Where are your spursP
"'T haven't any
"'Take mine,' holding out one booted leg,
"Tho boy took the spurs and went on for
his little scene with King Henry VI When
he returned his father was still sitting neg
ligentiy in the chair. 'Gvemc my spurs, he
said, again holding out his leg; and this was
all the comment that Edwin Booths first APP
pearanco ever elected from the parent whom
be idolized. Helearned subsequently, though,
that bis father had been down 70 tho wing
and had watched this first effort with evident
interest and satisfaction, and then FASTENED
back TO his nonchalant pose In the dressing
room. There never, surely, could have been
q more singular being than Junius Brutus
Booth This little trait Of character is but
one Of thousands that marked him as unique
rersJn.n
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-04-20
The "Breadwinners" Again.

The following throws light on the author
ship of the "Breadwinners, story on the
labor question which created a sensation q
Few years ago:
If any one will read "Castilian Days" in
connection with the story they will find nu'
smerous instances in which the same idea Is
Expressed in both books in substantially the
same language. Both books describe 'spir'
itual seancen in about the same way, and, in
fact, abound in passages of remarkable SINH
larity, which satisfy me that only Col John
Hay could have written the ''Breadwinners-n
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-04-20
THE CHOCTAW NATION.
Amazing Contrast Between the West Of
1883 and the Present.
Especial Correspondence

Especial Correspondence
Fort GIBSON, |. T., March %. The rapidity
with which the country beyond the Missouri
line has been settled is a trite subject, but the
admission of the two Dakotas and the excite
ment about Oklahoma brings 1t all up in Il
fresh and interesting way. Books published
since the civil war tell of the great stage lines
from the Missouri TO the mining towns in the
Rocky mountains, and as late as 1872 buffa-
loes by the thousand still ranged in the Smoky
Hill region OF Kansas. Many thousands Of
men scarcely past middle life tell with pleas
ant Renaissance of 'outtittng at st. Joe" or
Independence for the long, long journey with
mules or oxen "acroSs the plains and n year
after the war closed Omaha was Just begin
ming to take on the airs of a city. Council
Bluffs was noted long before as frontier
settlement"
In the national archives and lying about
old book stores one may find official reports
of expeditions made some thirty years ago,
which describe condition that now seems a
thousand years in the past. ''Fremont's
Narrative" was sensational book in 1874,
and Capt. Stansbury's Survey of the Great
Salt Lake" in 1919, contains statements APP
parently more descriptive of Turkestan or
Siberia than of any place we now know NJ
Central North America. One of these re-
ports now possesses a special interest. The
military appropriation act OF March 8, lS53,
directed explorations ON or near the line OF
tho 3Jth parallel "to ascertain the most prac-
ticable and economical route for "a railroad
from the Mississippi 10 the Pacific ocean,
and party was ut once organized under tho
command of First Lieut.. A. w Whipple and
Second Lieut. |. c. Ives, of the Typographical
engineers, which started from Fort Smith on
tha ol Of ,IulV
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-04-20
A SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENT.
zAE>

+ But this can be shown without the aid Of
an air pump by cutting circle of paper a
little smaller than the coin, placing it upon
the upper side, and allowing both to drop
together from horizontal position Fig y.
The paper, says La Nature in explanation, is
protected from the action of the air by the
coin, and both will reach the floor at the
same moment. If, on the contrary, the coin
and paper are separated from each other, and
dropped at the same time Gig. p, the lighter
body will be retarded by the friction Of the
air, and will be much longer in reaching the
floor than the heavier one.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-04-20

A new article has been introduced called
waxed paper bags, and designed for holding
eatables, etc, which lose their good qualities
on drying or the escape Of their aroma
Jars are also kept intact in these bags. The
exterior of the bags is like any paper bag,
but the interior surface is lined with thin
film of fine paraine wax, that, it is claimed,
renders the bag substantially air tight and
water proof. The cost is but trihe more
than that of the common bag.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-04-20
"'Where are your spursP
" 4 haven't any,


The latest story about the superstition Of
actors is told at the expense of Edwin Booth.
It is avowed by one who has had thousands OF
opportunities TO see the famous tragedian be-
hind the scenes that before the play begins on
opening night he regularly goes through the
first speech backwards. Ii be cannot say the
lines Of his first backwards without blunder
he IL convinced that the engagement will be
e failure Detroit Free Press.
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en- gagged in the
ban king business
and made a large
fortune, which the
son inherited. Mr..
Huston has for
some years been at
the head of th Q
ban king house
established by his
father. He also
owns and operates.
several farms, be-
sides being engaged
in manufacturing
Ell terprises. In
1883 Mr.. Huston
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-04-20
EDWIN BOOTHS DEBUT.

How His Father, Junius Brutus Booth
Looked Upon It,
Edwin Booths sudden stroke of paralysi,
in Rochester, N. Y, and Lawrence Barrett
announcement that his colleague had proba
bly, appeared ON the stage for the last time
had the effect OF calling forth numerous storie.
about the great tragedan. William Winter
the well known dramatic critic, and one OF
the actors most intimate friends, thus de
scribes Booths first appearance on the stage
"Junius Brutus Booth, his father-the riva
of Edmund Kean-was then keeping an en-
gagement at the Boston museum. and Edwin
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-04-20

legislature. In 1870 he was sent TO congress
as Republican, and served on the committee
of ways and means. Mr.. Roberts was made
doctor of laws from Hamilton college In
1869 and from Yale in 1884. He has been
president OF the Fort Schuyler club and Of
the Oneida society. He has delivered a num-
Der of public addresses, and is the author Of
"Ths Planting and Growth Of tee Empire
State
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-04-20

First, the air being cold Is denser, and the
heated air and gases from the fire are COM
paratively more buoyant. Consequently
there is a greater draught. Then the air,
being denSer, contains more oxygen in an
equal volume, and that gas being quickly
supplied, the combustion is fiercer and more
perfect. In frosty weather, too, the atmos-
phere is comparatively free from moisture,
which of course has tendency to damp a
fro
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-04-20

those Hungarians
who supported the
throne of Nj aria
Il heresa; but in
time all the inter
ests of the eastern
section were sacri-
feed for those of
Austria and the
Italian provinces.
Then the agitation
for reform began,
and Kossuth, who
was one of tn O
greatest scholars of
his time, became a
leader. He spoke
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-04-20

rs usual, was in at
tend as his
dresser. Tressil
had been cast to the
prOmpter of the
thea tire, but il
CHANGED that this
person wished tc
avoid tho duty OF
acting it, and that
, he succeeded in per.
, suading Edwin &c
undertake it. This
arrangement was
made without the
e | d cr b DOT h IS
knowledge, and he
Ipl, La.ap,a a,yora
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-04-20
1t Makes You Hungry

Spring medicine means more nova days than it
did ten years ago. The winterof lsss-s9 hasleft
the nerves all tagged out. The nerves must be
strengthened, the blood purified, liver and
bowels regulated. Paine's Celery Compound
the Spring medicine of to-ddy-does all this.
as nothing else can. Prescribed by Phyaicians.
Recommended by Druggists, Endorsed By Ministers,
Guaranteed by the Manufacturers to DO
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-04-20

was graduated in
1850. He then be-
came principal Of
the Utica academy,
at the same time
teaching Latin at
the Female semin-
airy. In 1851 he be-
came editor and
proprietor Of The
Utica Herald. He
has been three
times a delegate to
r epu blican con-
ventions. In 1867
he was a member
of the New York
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-04-20
UNITED STATES TREASURY.

James y. Huston, Treasurcr-Eliis III. Rob-
erts Appointed Assistant Treasurer.
James n Huston, who has been selected by
President Harrison to be treasurer of the
United States, is a citizen of Indiana He
was born near Greencastle, Pa, about 3G
years ago His father took his family to In
diana and settled in Connersvile, The father
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-04-20
The Best
Spring Medicine.

ain the spring OF 1887 was all run down. I
would get up In the morning with so tired
feeling, and was so weak that Icould hardly get
around. Ib0ughta bottle OF PaineS Celery Com
pound, and before had taken II a week felt
very much better. can cheefully recommend
II 10 all who need building up and strengthens
Ing medicine" Mrs. b. A. Dow, Burlington VT.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-04-20
A Simple Experiment.

Were it not for the resistance of the air
light and heavy bodies would fall with the
same velocity. In the exhausted receiver of
an air pump a coin and piece of paper fall
from the top to the bottom in the same time.
y >>
D
Morning journal and courier., 1889-03-01
PLAYFUL PARIsTANs
Ana the Kind of Stories They Fnjoy-
 A Duke In a


 Duke In Kitchen.
 Two rather good, if dubious, stories are told of the recent election, says Paris cor respondent. It was rumored some days be- fore the event of Sunday that the Due de Broglie had been coquetting with the Bou- langists. This of course the eminent ex statesman and academician speedily denied with emphasis. It is said, however, that the duke, With that bllssful ignorance of num- dane matters which often characterizes emi- nent historians, poets and retired statesmen. resolved to dine a1 Durand's on the night of the election. Had he read the newspapers diligently he would long ago have learned that Durand's was General Boalangers gas- tronomical headquarters. The duke, in all innocence, drove to the restaurant early in the evening, dispatched his dinner in pri- vate room, and was quietly meditatine on historical subjects over his liqueur when he heard terrific din in and outside the cafe. Calling the head waiter, the duke was told the terrible truth. The Boulangists were drinking the health of their chief. and the crowd on the place de Ia Madeleine were 'downing Jacques" with all their might, Gan get away?" said the duke "If I re- main here the papers will put mo down as one of the Boulangists." f'You can't go out, Monsieur le Duc," replied the Ganymede, wlthoqS ..TI q,1, passing the generals people" 44 o'oP Aefe- put tney are con- ing in here too very soon," said the waiter. 'Then put me anywhere" ," implored M. de Broglie, Cont of their way5 There was only the kitchen of the restaurant to offer as 8 hiding place, 50 the duke remained among the cooks and scullions until, eventually, he was able to escape from the cafe. The other story IS to the effect that when Madame Flo- quet drove out on Sunday night to hear about the elections some enterprising bill sticker put a packard on the back of her carriage inscribed, 'tVote for Boulangerp' and with this compromising legend adhering to 1t the vehicle was driven along the boule- yards and into the grounds of the ministry of the interior