The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1871-01-21
HOME MATTERS.
PEPPER, SALT AND SPICE.

FEFFEH, SALT AND SPICE.
II your lamp threatens to explode seize il. run
out doors, throw it into the street, then run and
jump on it, Is prominent mrrchaat did with
his tho other evening. This is new and rsli.
able method Of putting out your lamp before
going to bed. TOR instance .... A young gentleman
asks as whether "hs had better quit xoins to
prayer meetings and attend the Ottawa L.gisla.
tureT" BY all means tho latter. He Is no help
to the prayer meetings, and the Legislature
might do him some good -. During . spirited
debate between married pair on the woman
suffrage question, the male party, becoming
disguised, said Indignantly to his other half:
IF you don't stop your internal howlinr on that
ousssd question I'll have a hook put on your
mouth" "Nery well" responded she, while pen.
sivsly looking 1t the Circuit Clerks Office. "vou
may send Charlie over He didn't send -. We
discover, from dog-otype by Bowman, tina. the
Republican has new carrier as we'll as q new
editor Tho former is = spotted dog. He it
must have been who wrote the carriers address
for that paper, ~ it was doy-gerel. We do not
exactly intimate that the carriers OF the RepuJ.
dean are all dogs but it Is cred liable 70 the dog.
that they are net all carriers OF thai paper ....
Prescott has sort OF maosnic robe Itiseom.
posed Of mink, coon and pole cd.us .felinus skins,
and La Sale county Astrschan sheep. wool
fringe II 10 . beautiful aad valuable robe, and
oil its materials grew or we're eanghs and pre-.
pared for their present USE in this osunty. ....
Speaking Of this reminds u Of the value of tho
skns Of :hs pole eotus felinus Congress ought
to pass Law protecting these pretty little beasts
% ~ to make then multiply more rapidly.
Encourage home manufactures" by al MEANS
The peculiar odor OF etfuvis o: the skunk 10
disasreeabls 10 some -. Prescott offers Us ten
cents day 10 hunt these handsome little AMI.
mails, and remarked with smile that wa child.
ish and bland he thought We could beat the
skunks at their own ganei Soma OF the
youthful members OF the Ottawa Legislature
meet afternoons in = law Office south OF the FREE
TRADER offios aud reherS the speeches they OK.
poet to make in the Legislature. Their lofty
believing, stamping on the aoor, pounding the
table and other oratorical exercises freq ent
ly heard in our saRctum like tho roaring Of die.
tant thunder. As yet these Young orators have
not been heard in the Legislature, but when they
do speak they will DOUBTLESS make Rome
how'll 90. A few mornings ago a couple OF dis.
tiuguishsd citizens Of this burg concluded to
put powder in their TASKS, sho. in their poushes
cap, in their pockets, AID 90 on grand hunt.
ing expedition of towards the Vermillion river,
in pursuit of that most dangerous Of all wild
animals that abound in the forests Of l., Salle
county, viz: the rabbit. SO, at the unoomfort.
able hour OF A. n. they went across the river
and plunged into the woods and snow together
They walked on, and on, and on, stumbling over
logs, running against fences, sliding dowa hills
when they didn't want 70, &c, nc. At about
o'clock they concluded they were pretty thor.
ouyhly lost, aud on meeting a boy one Of the
chaps addressed him thus,y: Say, Bub, Is this
the Vermillion rivsr1" pointing to . stream
close by. "Vermillion HI! ThAts tho Hi.
nsis, and there's Ottawa, y mills and half
above!" They had been swung around in cir.
clsi for three hours! They camo home, and
didn't shoot clam" .... We met radical yes
terday who was still slectioneerins for Logan
for Y. s. Senator! They probably started him
out with such "boost' some weeks ago that he
has been unable to check tho motion or bring
to vet