The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1871-07-22
CREAM OF OUR EXCHANGES.


Greeleys is not the only manuscript in the
setting up of which the printers make amusing
blunders An exchange mentions the case Of
nrinting a s.rmon, the text of which was, 4" Be
We therefore steadfast." The horror of the di'
vine may be imagined when he found it printed
"Be We there for breakfast"
A country editor who carries concealed wea'
pons is searching for the writer on health who
sent the editors wife a circular recommending
that carpets should be taken mp and beaten every
month.
again on good terms Turkey without some
grease don't amount to much.
The Home Journal gives this seasonabe eau
ton:
Gentlemen with large mouths are respectfully
requested to quit lounging about the doors OF
our business places Little children, unaccom.
panied by their parents, are frequently lost by
straying into the wrong entrance
The Gardner Journal elegantly and satistact-
orily conveys the information that the Fourth Of
July at that place was a "ring.tailed snorter."
A lady was noticed quitting Canadian ferry
boat at Buffalo the other day with an immense
panier An old Liverpool exciseman, acting as
detective, smell the fox and tapped it with q
sharp knife. 1t ietted out some three gallons Of
English in.
Over in HANK .kee, says the Gazette when a
girl quarrels with her lever. she communicates
the important fact to her friend by the remark
that she isn't con squeezing terms with that
fraud any more" An Ottawa girl would say
more simply and elegantly, "John and don't
rub snosts now
1t is the Louisville Cou,Ser-,lournal that SAWS.
aow that California has sent Grant q magnif.
cent palace.csr he will never be happy until
somebody makes him a present of Il railroad.
The Jonesboro Gazette claims Union county to
De the healthest region in illinois, and says
When the Cairo and st. Louis railroad is com.
pleted. the people of these cities will come and
spend the hot summer months upon our beaut-
full hills or in our valleys, which are supplied
with cool, pure water from numerous springs.
The idea of tempting Cairo or st. Louis
hummer with the offer of "pure water!'
Here is q hard one on Fairbury, the new rail
Ioau CeHVer III Livingston oouhty. IL Is going
Che rounds" of all the papers:
The body of lady who died suddenly at Fair.
bury, short time ago, was taken to Vermont
ior burial because there Was no cemetry in Fair.
bury.
We commend to the Fairburyans the follow.
ing:
They have new cenetry in Oomulgee coun.
ty, Georgia, and, according TO local paper,
''the Hon. E. W. Tyson is the first gentleman
who ha, had the pleasure Of being buried in this
delightful retreat"
The Macomb Eag,e is guilty Of the treason4.
bic utterance, that 1.-THE age of young lady is
now EXPIRE sod according to the style oi her
skirt by saying that eighteen springs have pass.
ed over her head"
A Memphis paper alludes to a contemporary
as "the focal point of million.fngered scorn'
The Milwaukee Sentinel prefers Grant to
Greeley candidate for the presidency fol rea.
sons which it states as follows:
Which will be our safest leader, the hero of
Vicksburg or the farmer Of Chappaqua? A
CLEAN of steel in the background will be lore
rsassuring than the hay vision OF fields Of
gourds.
Upon which Dan Rice's COsnorolite, Q repub.
lican paper, remarks Clean Of steel is good
but i. would be better if the substantive were
spelt correctly