The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-07-30

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Some one With : god memory for sseh, might
make very peada6ls srticle from the best re-
nembefed and most Characteristic sayings of
Americans. Hero ere feW which may servo q
specimens of what might be done With time and
Samuel Adams, known for many things, eel.
dom has his name associated with the phrase
first spplisd By him to Ensland-"Nation of
shopkeepsss" - D. g.,
II Wa John Wesley, and not Charles Sumner.
Who first spoke Of slavery (the slave traae) a.
'the sum of al villaines"
Ffanklin said many things that have passed
into naxims, bat nothing that is better remem-
bered than-"He paid dear, very dear, for his
whistle"
Washington made but few epigrammatic
speeches. Hero is one: ITO be prepared for war
is the most effeotual means of preserving peace"
Did You evss hear old John Dickinson Well,
he wrote OF Amseicans in 1865: by uniting we
stand, by dividing We fall"
Patrick Henry, as every school-boy knows,
gave US Give me liberty or give me death, and
If this be treason, make the most of it."
Thomas Paine hsd many quotable epigramma.
tic sentences: "Rose like q rocket, fell like
stick Zone step from tho sublime to the ridicu.
lous."
Jefferson's writings are 20 besprinkled that it
10 difficult to select. In despair We jump at
Few die and none resign" certainly as appli.
cable to ofoehelders now as it was in Jefferson's
time.
Josiah Quincy, Jr., said "Whosoever, when
soevsr, Of howsoevsr We shall be called on to
make our exit We shall die freemen."
Henry Lee gave Washington his immortal
title OF First in war, first in peace, and first in
the hearts of his countrymen."
GhaP1aa Gnfoovuorkh DsunIu -
Of millions for defence, but not one cent for
tribute"
"Peaceably if we can, forcibiy if we must" is
from Josiah Quincy, 1911.
John Adams did not say alive or die, survive
or perish, I'm for the constitution" but Daniel
Webster did say it for him.
Davie Crockett, the illustrious author of BE
sure yon are right then go ahead"
Andrew jackson gave 10 "The Union-it must
be preserved"
Benton almost lost his original identity IN
"Old Bullion" from his "hsrd money" doctrines.
Governor Throop, of New York, was called
"Snall Light Throop" for years, from phrase in
. Thanksgiving Proclamation.
SCOTS 'hasty plate of soup lasted all his life
time. RI E7-l' sE-|.}t't
Taylor's battle order, "A little more grape,
Captain Bragg" will be quoted after he Is for
gotten by "all the world and the rest of man
kind"
Seward isknown for the "irrepressible conflict"
wherever the English language is spoken.
Msrcys patched breeches are az we'll remem.
bered as his State papers
Rufus Choate gave us "glittering generalities."
Our own Bill Allen, the "Chinese Cong" is
responsible for "54.40 or fight"
Tom COrwin's "welcome with bloody hands to
hospital graves" gave him more unenviable crit.
cism than any other saying of his life
New Haven paper says that it is consoling
to remember that the extra heat is entirely
owing to the fact that we are now il what IL
called the 'sun-spot period" and that we are
getting near the end Of it. Professor Smith,
the astronomer royal for Scotland, says that last
winter was the first Of cold cycle, of which
next winter, and probably that Of 1912, will
be exceedingly severe" He is of the opinion
that "the actual occasion of the waves of terres.
trial temperature 10 to be found among tho pro-
minences of the SUM-" We can, therefore, de.
rive comfort from rejecting that if ice is dear
this summer, coal will he great deal dearer
next winter, 80 that those who cannot afford ice
now, OF coal, then, are sure to be nice and chilly
in December. ... ,-.......
The Swans of the n Y. American Institute
Farmers Club, have discussed the king. bird,
and come to the conclusion that he does not
destroy bees. A correspondent of the Ne,o
England Farmer says that he doubts this de-
cision, and recently watched king-bird fly
ing about swarm Of bees. His observations
convinced him that the bird was there for the
very purpose of catching the workers as they
returned to the hive, loaded with honey, and
also that he was succeeding at the business
very finely. A few days since neighbor shot
king-bird which was fitting about among
his swarms, and upon dissecting him, found
ten Of the bees in his stomach. Now if the
klng-birds don't eat bees, how came bees
there! ,s -s-.. s.s ..
It has been estimated, after giving good deal
Of attention TO the subject, that the whole amount
Of forti6cation wall in China, if put together.
would build one 20 feet high and 10 feet thick,
entirely round the globe, and would require 5000
men to work steadily for 1900 years to accom-
plish the work. The walls of Pekin are wonder
Gus structures and there are many others like
them, to say nothing Of the great wall on the
frontier.
To this day the pulpit in which John Calvin,
the eminent religious reformer, preached, and
the chair in which he sat, are preserved in the
cathredal of st. Pierre, in Geneva. Calvin died |
in the year 1864, aud was buried il the cemetery
of Plain Palais, Geneva The monument over |
his grave is the only one of this extraordinary
man. 1t is square stone, eight inches wide by |
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