The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-03-12
CREAM OF OUR EXCHANGES.


all the leading questions of the day" The
"leading question OF the day" to be discussed
at the next meeting is, Whether spenithrift
is of more benefit TO society than the miser :"
We suggest AS the Z" Heading question of the day
for discussion by the same society, (which is
the wusstest, a scolding wife smoking CHM
ney?"
The same paper gives two columns of cores
pondence from Joliet lady in Paris who de-
scribes play witnessed in the gay city, in the
last scene of which there I" a brilliant assem-
blage of fairies, some in airy gossamer covering,
floating about through space; others reclining
upon flower beds, with scarcely an Ewes apron"
as an apology for clothing. There were num-
Der of peculiar things interviewer in this play
decidedly "Frenchy," aud to which I could
scarcely allude, without shocking American
taste Her husband it is proper to remark, was
with her."
The Iowa Enterprise refuses to support AS
candidate for representative "a man who is a
whisky barrel in the morning and u barrel Of
whisky 1T night"
The editor of the Rorndout Frecn,qi,, in MOTTO
ing the receipt of the wedding cards of Mark
Twain and Miss Olivia l.. Langdon, of Elmra,
says: He is to stop lecturiug and for his sake
we hope she won't commence
Miss Tennessee Clafn the wonderful child"
and female Wall street broker. at the age OF six
teen eloped with fellow, by whom she was
abandoned after three days of married life.
That's where she got her knowledge of selling
short.
The Cleveland Herald says in ten years the
taxes in that city have increased seven fold, and
that local taxation this year is equal to sixteen
dollars head on every man, woman and child
in the city. In two years the municipal taxa
ton has increased fifty per cent. Well may the
Herald exolaim: "Where are we drifting: -
Aurora has just elected to the mayoralty of
that city Mr.. Walker, foreman of the blacksmith
shop in the Burlington Il. r. car works The
HeraM says this Should teach our young men
the fact that an honest, intelligent mechanic
may occupy as high place in the esteem Of the
people men with whittier hands, who think it
Necessity to adopt some profession in order to
secure the respect of their fellow men,"
Bosh Heavy honor to be mayor of Aurora
The wonder is they didn't elect a niger
The Schuyler Citizen says that it is the general
opinion among farmers in that county that the
winter grain is badly injured by the freezes and
thaws OF the season.
Two drunken men incarcerated in jail at Cam
ton says the Fulton Ledger, set fire to the straw
in their cell, and were SO badly burned that one
of them will die and the other will bear a dis
figured face the rest of his day. There's a
warnin'
Hamlin, the Wizard Oil man, deserves a pre-
MUM for nventing the last advertising dodge.
He has hired first class quartette club of singers
who go about giving free concerts singing the
virtues of the oil. Of course. crowded houses
attend them everywhere, and the sales are "tre-
MENUS"
A woman, in Lee county, says the Dixon TEL
d9raM, gave her child pill of opium, and the
child went dead"
Every one your own doctor sometimes will
work as in this case.
Our devil says, when he was baby, and
got SICK, his mother ever gave him any weaker
medicine than good spanking" and 10! now
he is a fat, stout boy and lives q bully'
The Chatfield (Minnesota) Democrat states
that the people of "a certain town in the western
portion CT Iowa were astonished to receive their
mail several hours earlier than usual, one day,
Owing to the Tact that a pack of hungry wolves
chased the mail carrier fourteen miles, for
lunch The Dem0crdt recommends the rov.
eminent to pUt wolves on all the stage lines in
that region
The citizens of La Sale are to have a bridge
- across- tho Invite termillion. Says the Peru
Herald:
The bridge at Peru is about completed. Re.
lglous revivals are exceedingly numerous A
frenchman, at La Sale, tried to suicide, but il
Is thought medical aid will save him When he
gets well, let him be changed
The above paper is vigorously lenouncing the
jury tor not hanging Murphy.
The Mendoza Ch1onicde, almost zoe. into de.
Htum treHCHS at the mention of Mendoza whisky
Well, it ought to know it's been long enough
In its midst to have had EN- every day.
The Tazewell Registers avs: North Brook.
field has baby born with only one ear" Who
is Mrs. North Brookte.ds" or does the babv
belong TO an entire town
The Mason City Ne,cs says two pounds of but.
ter sold In that town, ii careinlly raked over
will yield enough hair to make a "sw,tch."
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