The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-10-01
CREAM OF OUR EXCHANGES.

A fashionable paper gives Us the startling in
formation that the fashion for full dress in Paris
is now nothing but feathers in the hair. lady
attired in this unique costume would create n
decided sensation our streets.
Out in Africa the nabobs are considered Sin
full court costume" when they are dressed in
shirt collar and tooth-pick.
Some other .rbes of q Black rep-bl-can's," in
that region get themselves up little more elab-
ora.ely, with tattooed fancy work on their cheeks
and ring in the nose.
Nothing like style you observe!
An exchange very shrewdly observes: The
issues before the people this fall are not con.
nectei with the war between Prussia and France,
but between the people and radical swindlers in
general.
Yes, and we hope to see them confined to the
true issues. This raising a cloud of dust about
a matter which does not concern the citizens of
this country is an old radical dodge, and it would
be well to expose their tricks at once.
We never knew any party more successful in
getting up false issue, than the radicals.
The Republican Congressional Convention of
thethird district of Illinois, which re-nominated
Mr.. Burchard, adopted the following resolution:
"That are in favor of tariff for revenue
50 adjusted MS not to become preludicial to the
industrial pursuits of our country"
The question is: Is this a tariff for protection
or free trade
Every republican seeking office can easily
explain it to suit the free trader the revenaer or
the protectionist
Radical republican demogoguism is pretty
we'll exemplifed in this as well as in the state
republican platform.
Old Horace Greeley has the war.phobia badly.
He drinks blood, dimes gore, and sweetens his
coffee with widows and orphans tears, and
swears the war between France and Prussia
shall go on or he will know why.-N0bile Regis
ter.
The census takers have some funny experien-
ces. In Indiana young lady was discovered
who was happy in the name of Jane Juliette
Isadora Aramnta Muskadora Peeks. How SOL
emn that name will look on tombsone In
Ohio family found where the first was
named Imprimis the second Fins, and three 9TH
ers Appendix, Addendum and Erratum.
In Iowa, this is how they learn lessons in nat
ural history:
A girl from DesMones went to Grand juno.
ton ruralizing and as she was thus engaged
"kitty crossed her path She pursued it and
caught it, and" smelt sO-pah ~ She never
Will wear those clothes again. She has learned
lesson in Natural History. This is the living
truth, for AL. Swain OF the UCtd LtgM was
along-and-his clothes are all burned too-
Err.
In France the Marselllaise has become the
national Him. while in Prussia Bismarck is
decidedly the national Herr,
The musquito as public singer, draws well
but never gives satisfaction.
A man in Milwaukee bought secondhand
table, and burst a leg off, when three hundred
and fifty dollars IN gold ran out of an augur
hole in the end of the leg. Quite a number of
other people have broken up their tables, but
they didn't pan out any gold to speak Of
The st. Louis social evil" policy has come
70 grief One of the arrested demt.a0nde took
her case to court and it was decided that the
tax imposed upon prostitutes was without war;
So ends one more attempt to check this growing
evil,
Another proof that religion and morality cam
not be SUCCESSFULLY controlled by law.
The editor Of the Macomb Eagle is evidently
hard up for locals" Hear him:
"When a Iwister a twisting would twist him
twine for twisting his twist he three times
doth entwine' but the difficulties to be over
come in the manufacture of Irvine are nothing
in comparison with those experienced in getting
up local items for a newspaper
The Lacon L0Re JoHI1,al very uujustly says:
"The Chicago Times ommited, on account of
its hostility to the Germans, the name of Mr..
Eeinse, Of Peoria, from the ticket published in
its columns of the following day"
The only reply to the above is that it
is not true. TIE telegraph from Springfield to
the Times spelled his name wrongly, as is usual
with the telegram. The Times corrected it at
once Try again, liz. JouTHay.
at will interest everybody" remarks Maine
Journal, to know that the Sedgeeunkedunk is
a romantic stream in Brewer, and that the Sow
adabscook it III Carmel. The source Of the Je.
rusa!em crickets has not yet been discovered
although it is thought that ii must be somewhere
in the vicinity of the Muslucomungumjuwip
pslocoit.'
just as we expected!
An indianapolis German had occasion recent
ly TO bury large wife, and squabbled with
the sexton about the lee Dat in not big
grave said the discousolate husband. " Not IA
big grave Indignantly responded the sexton,
"why hang it, that's l. cellar"
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