The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1871-02-18
eetfa'na Err GRADER.
cREAm OF OUR EXCHANGES.

there improve their good locke by riding down
hill" Does the editor of n paper take COCA
.-oOEs at them while they are doing it 7
An exchange says:
Still another WY II killing cat has been
found O.e died recently IN New 1orx from
licking the lace Of II lady who had Just dressed
herself tor the street and had improved her
complexion,
The Grundy HtraH very grsvely says:
There are in Germany. at present upwards OF
+wspt,-fye thousand widows and one hund red
and twenty titherlesS ohi'drea.
One bu1Gytd aa@ hceny .t5sther|es, chadren
Too much. Charlie, olr.'t you redua" this mum
Der by child or too
The Boston AIGe,fiSer says:
Last night must have been the rodest OF the
season. A thermometer was set outside u win
dow in this office when the mercury instantly
fell four stories, carrying tn entire thsr,omcter
with it.
An eastern y :per states in it's fashion columns
that the latest fancy of Miss Flor. McFIinsey Is
so iniulI re in ibums of locks of hair. wherein
are par4ded for puDlic inspection the trophe, of
her coquctti-h conquests. It's "a sort OF stylish
II cslp-bet."
come OF our ~ tdNh DeiieH Coulu wear a large
re'l-flled "bel,' of this kind il they choose.
A 1X0 country newspaper, one of those radical
Concerns that Greeley mentions being ted by
government pap, and not kno wing how else ito
lawn the hand tina feeds it" proposes that Con.
ayress Should reconstruct the state Of Kentucky
Here is good essay on the pig:
A pig carrying whisp Of straw in his mouth
portcnd. rain. Minor showers occur without
the intervention of the pig, Nicely roasted, he
is very good.
The Laytay ette Ind.) Journal says:
We saw i man at the hay market yesterday,
who followed poor some distance. and took
a whi-p of hay out of her mouth which she had
fched from his load. That man will never die
poor.
The Wooi.tock SeHtind says that "Auror4, in
years past, must have been good place tor prin-
ters to tramp away from, scarce number of
the Auror, Beacon appears that does not make
mention of half dozen or mo-e individuals now
filling positions from peanut peddlsrs up to
rCOmmD 4Jre of a canal boat, who were formerly
Aurora prl.ters.'
\ French authorizes says "A kiss gives more
pleasure th.n anything else in the world" To
5his su American editor responds That writer
evidently never experienced the childish rapture
Of descending The p.rlor stairs by sliding down
the bani.,ers"
The Ottawa Hepuj5ecan has poor opinion OF
Its cilhen-. 1t says that "moral oourage--,he
dare t. 90 right, though fools sneer and the
world deriae" is what lnakes the true man, and
adds rh4t there lightly few of that kind in
Ottawa. We suppose it tells the TRUTH Wood-
.jord Sentinel
The above amounts to nothing. No one pays
any attention to the Ottawa R'pu5!ican, in Of
tawa. OF course people abroad are liable to be
"taken in" 10y it; as the sentinel was.
The French style of cooking during the latter
part Of the siege was not such az to be sought
after by epirure.. Imagine bill of fare with
The following items: "Ro ut tsnderlon OF horse
flesh with fet OF mules elrs--a Ia u.ode Ra.
pot-pie-canws sauce--Trenoh style. E,atrees
Mule hde,--hoof sauce Horse head pudding
Cat skin rauce,' &C., &c
One II line editor has sued aaother Maine edi.
Tor for dri!m Mon OF character, and the defense
g understood to be that, in the first place, the
plaintiff had no character to speak of, and that
even il he had, nothing the defendant could say
would injure anybody.
a Chicago editor says that "half the people
who attend entertainments don't know the dir.
ference between symphony and ssrdine"
That may all be; but as to the last article per.
haps they have never seen said editor at an en-
tertaiument-Kaa&dkc67 imes
The Idaes is rash. 1t has offended every
'"sardine" in Chicago
Mendoza is 30 have grand calico ball. at
Which premiums are offered for the handsomest
'salico dress to tho best lady dancer; and to the
homliest man present. We expect to be there
and rake in the latter premium
An exchange records this item:
A Young man lately saw a lalY acrnss tn. wav