The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-06-18
CREAM OF OUR EXCHANGES.


the question is, (which side is he on? ?"
The Record says children are allowed such
smusements as the following:
a three year old girl in Elgin cut her throat
with razor last week. within An inch or two of
the lugular vein. She was playing with it, Nice
plaything for an infant.
Parents are very kind up there They don't
deny their little ones any pretty little play thing
The Henry Republican says the marshal of
that place has sold the grass growing in the pub-
lie square at auction.
AS tho hogs and cows about Ottawa, "enioy-
ing the freedom of the city" as they do, haye
eaten up the grass in the Court House square
we suggest that the Marshal sell those hogs and
cows at auction, as being the next best thing
TO do
The Lacon Hn,e Journal thus describes case
OF deep malignity:
A hired girl in the employ Of a certain City
Mayor, for some fancied grievance, left the
bosom OF his shirts limp 4s dish rag, and starch.
ed the tail stiff AS clap.board. Can fiendish.
ness go farther?
The same paper tells how man was found in
tears, one morning lately at hotel at Lacon,
and, on being tenderly inquired Of Is to the
cause, said
He lived in Chicago, from whence he had been
absent several months, aud the distillery oiors
reminded him so powerfully Of home that his
feelings overcame him. He spent the day at an
open west window, irhalihg the delightful
aroma, with u feeling Of intense enjoyment.
The 4th Of July will be observed by grand
picnic a, Strea,or. Everybody will get, or Dor.
row, basket Of provisions, 60 to q grove, and at
the signal "Chor," business will begin.
The Wilmington Independent, after swinging
around the circle awhile, has come to the con.
clu.ion that B. C. Cook is tie best man tor Con.
gress in this district. Cook must have been
there lately! How's that for low. Mr. Cin)
Dependsat
The Chicago Interior, . religious paper, thus
explain. why the devil was not drowned in the
food:
When Noah was taking all the animals in the
ark, the donkey had TT Of the sulks and would
no, 20 in, but went backward, 80 that Noah got
mad and said: Enter you devil I" and the
devil, who was only waiting for . chance, slip.
pid in q. once; and this explains why the devil
WAS not drowned in the food. ....
The Lee County Democrat has discovered per.
petusl motion. The editor Knows Of some prin.
tiers bills that have tsen running over two
years. We can double discount that and give
him twenty years.
The following good thing happened to Ger.
tain Chicago child's paper. The editor received
letter from a subscriber, saying:
Our little Anna died last week. after reading
the last number of your valuable paper.
No wonder! Such trash a. many of them pub
lsh would kill even . man grown!
The good people of Freeport are seriously de.
batting the question, "How to get rid OF the Can.
ada thistle" 1t seems some of their streets, and
several Of the farm. around, are being overrun
with this serious nuisance.
A radical journal in St. Louis says that its
party has nothing to fear from the democracy.
Of course not They are in fear Of the boss Of
the big lake, whose dominioas they expect to
visit shortly.
A Salt Lake psper asserts in this wise:
The grassboppers are cleaning everything be.
fore them in Utah. At last accounts, they were
meditsting attack on the brick buildings in
Salt Lake City.
Anna Dickinson says that "thers il no work q
man can do but that will be better done BY hav.
ing Q woman at his side" How about currying
kicking mule, Anna p White Pine Ne,cs.
The Macomb Eagle has something agin" con.
gressmen. The Eagle screams thusly:
Congress has voted an appropriation Of $780,.
ONO ",o supply Deficiencies Of compensation and
mileage" II they don't supply their own def.
cienc,es pretty soon, they needn't make any cal
culations for mileage next year.
The Eagie has been at work six months or
more to prove that the editor of its radical CO.
temporary has been stealing funds from the city
treasury, and at length has produced his proofs
aud established the fact Now what good will
it do: Isn't that radical editor better radical
than ever ? Verify, Mr.. Eagle, yours was Loves
labor lost" You have aided that fellow In estab.
fishing his reputation as first class radical pol.
itician. He will probably be sent to Congress
next. ...
The Eagle makes good hit, as follows:
Many of our contemporaries are noted for tho
vivor with which at every dull season they urge
poor fellows, who have not dollar in the world,
to 20 west and buy farm. An idea, neat but
not gaudy.
The publisher of the Earlvills Gazette mskes
some capital hits on that penurious class Of PEG.
pie who make it practice Of borrowing news.
papers He knows some men out there who
come to HIM to borrow the FREE TRADER, which
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