The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1871-01-28
HOME MATTERS.
PEPPER, SALT AND SPICR.

A German, not we'll posted in our language,
having heard Yankee call his son Henry "Hen"
and "Hsnk," and seeing sone prairie hens fly
ing over the city the other day, rushed in q
saloon and exclaimed: by Shorge, poys. the
prairie HANKS ish begin ter ly".. :. Oae evening
last week, a surprise party was gotten up in town
to make Q raid upon a wealthy farmer In the
country. Three slei9hs were filed with lads
and blooming lss.es. and they started. One
team out trottsd the others, arrived at the farm.
er's house and waited for the Others One hour
passed, then two, then three, four and five, but
still they did not come, aud towards morning,
after spending solemn evening, they returned.
Another sleigh, the one with the music, beer.
oysters and atch, got lost, remained in the snow
until morning. drank up the stuff IN the bottles,
ate the oysters, fried in snow, and also returned.
The other went astray in different direction,
got swamped in a snow bank and upset, spilling
the girls out who, when the snow got on their
bare ankles, squealei aloud, and called upon
their beaux to save them ere they persisted, as
it wers," or words to that effect. Then the boys
6shed the girls out of the snow and carried them
to the fence, where they sat them, and there
they remained, like so many turkeys in a farm
er's barn yard, till daylight. A surprise party
is good thing until the surprise party gets sur.
prised in some such manner as we have de.
tailed above,. go. The RcpuJlican endorsed
Mr.. Furness as being the best man for conductor
on the new rairo ,d-result, Mr. T. did not get
it. He and SIN Morse should add to their
prayers, From the Ottawa RsDuJltc15t's friend.
ship, Good Lord deliver as" -. Quin Whitman
is disguised. He bought 90 very nice pear trees
last spring, and had them set out in his "gar.
dng,"-total cost, S3j. They all lived, and when
il came time for them 70 shut ap their leaves
quarters in good style The other night those
dangerous and voraciou, wild animals known as
rabbits, had convention in the aforesaid gar
ding" and girded every tree. Quiu is dissa.s.
fed with the world; he wants to be nun. He
offers liberal bounty for rabbit scaps. 8. =. The
Rspu5l.c,'n rehashes An Imaginary joke which we
last week wrote about oursslf, on the skunk ques.
tion and of course tickles itself with the notion
that its readers will think it original with that
enterprisins paper. For secondhand things thai.
paper is original. 1t is second rate even on
skunk stories. We are to have An amateur
fem ale minstrel troupe here, SO rumor says, with
"Si' and Ira for end ladies and ballet girls
Harvey, Of the Park House, banjo solo Spence
sentimental b.lladis:; Ben. Phelps, jew.harper ;
Bowman, triagle Beemus, mouth orsan-lf he
can got one big enough-tno: the mouth, but the
organ J flying trapeze, Prescott; Kate Fisher q
Mazsppa feat, Jim Gross, tied IN saw horse.
Music by Gideons B and. Admission free. All
who do not attend are to be charged 81. D.. Sere.
ma, on the new railroad, is to have bran new
saloon Of her own. "Give the boys there little
more practice on up says sporting man
here, and he will back that town against any
in La Sale county