The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1863-09-05
WIT AND WISDOM.

maidens aim is generally sinsie-like
herself
The Chinese say Yh : the Congoes only
say lah-yohf =.
What valor::in a bald d-headea person to
talk boldly of not yielding hair.
Labor LOst-An organ grinder playing
at the door of Il deaf and dumb asylum
A lazy farmer is 94-:ually dead, and his
farm wears weeds in mourning for HIM.
1t is observable that many. persons al
wars sigh deeply, in the &C. Of thanking
GCd.
Innocence is no security against tempta-
ton; it is exactly what temptation con-
quers.
Wars are not unmitigated evils; civilza-
| ton gets forward, sometimes, on powder
cart.
Society is masked ball, where every
one hides his real character, and reTeals it
| by hiding a. ,,i i
Timon remarks s!:z. asoldier is superior
to a civilian, because tie former is the
ation-al being.
Why is a blacksmith like n safe steod
Because one is q horse -shoer and the other
is q sure horse.
Bacon says that labor conquers ali
things, but idleness copauers more people
than labor does. go, -r~
The world always receives talent Nth
open arp,s, but often does not know what
| to do with genius.
! Misery is the crucible into which destiny
casts a man whenever she desires scoun-
/ drei or demi god.
'Can you tell me how to find the sheriff's
office 2 Yes, every time you earn five
dollars, spend ten
They are going, if they possibly can, to
| -.
! sack the whole concern.
| The Southern Confederacy is called by
some writer's Golgotha, or "place os
skulls OF numskulLS, certainly
NJ. Beecher says there are many persons
who think that Sunday is sponge with
which to wipe out the sins Of the week
| Labor is the parent Of all the lasting
wonders of this world, whether in verse CT
stone, whether poetry or pyramids
Beautiful wethet IDS the gentleman
said when he CHANGED to get tender
piece of mutton on his plate, one day at
dinner.
Many musicians have the power of put.
ting US to sleep by their music. They
are Orpheus and Morpheus in one incar.
| nation.
in a roar" has been presented as an orna-
ment to the lions cage Of the Regents
| Park Gardens.
t Wherefore IS a negro with no HAIR on
his head, like a candidate for club who
! has been rejected by its members? Be-
cause he's black bald individual.
| pat, if Mr.. Jones comes before my re-
turn, tell him that l vii! meet him at two
o'clock" SAY, ay, SIR but what shall L
| tell him if he don't Gomez
| 4 person with an overturned pot of
! Spauldings Prepared Glue Tor any otker
glue) in his lap would b. likely to feel
! pretty we'll stuck up wouldn't he2
A western paper, annoyed by the peri
phrasis " American citizens of African &c.
scent" offers ''unbleached Americans" as a
shorter and more expressive term
A western editor was lately shot in an at~
fray Luckily, the ball came against r
bundle Of unpaid accounts in bis pocket.
Gunpowder could not get through that
I'm afraid you'll forget me, wife, while
I'm away" said brave officer. Never
fear, my dear, the longer you are away in
your country's service, the better shall
like YOU"
! A western editor was recently requested
10 send his paper to distant patron, pro-
vided he would take his pay in trad
d. 81 the end of the year he found that his
A colored firm in Newark, N. j., having
suffered some peculiar embarrassment, re-.
eently closed business, and the senior
member gave to the public the following
! "notis:" . De dissolution OF coparsnip3
heretofo resi- ting twixt me anu Alose ones
in de barber perfession, am heretofo re-
solved. Pussons who ose must pay 10 de
scriber. Dem what de firm ose must call
on Jones, ss de firm is insolved.