The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-01-20


host charbig, lovely add beautiful Of tho sca.a1.
Dode you thig SO? Whad If wud Las d fiddle
cold id diz head SO that ones do23 is stobh mp
= on caddod expect thu. .lIs world win i4H.
dothing i'd dit bud fud, cad you? Id, indeed.
That editor evidently had t.e 4.
An exchange KIN. ., 81 r..r man +o sr-e...
county. Kansas, who haaa. ,4y u 1000 Aea. OF
cattle in the world.
They must be that kind of Seattle" which can
best be driven and herded with comb.
a southern paper gives us the following senti-
mental obituary:
David r. Dickey, OF Randolph, Tennessee, wa
gered that he could eat four bottles of branded
peaches. and drink the liquor and two tumblers
of raw whisky. He lost by one peach. His exc
cutors promptly paid the stakes.
What is this but another warning against
too free use Of peaches?
Here is an ingenious combination of Latin and
English in poetry.-Jack Horner and Bopeep:
Parvus Jacobus Horner
Sedebat in corner,
Edens Christmas pie;
Inscrtt thumb
E1traherit plum,
Clamans, Quid sharp puer am 1.
Parvius Ropeep
Ennis, her sheep,
Eft nescit where to fad EN-;
De.ere alone
Et venient homo
Cum omnibus claudis behind EN-
A rather hard story is told of . railroad acct
dent at Ottawa. A car in freight train got off
the track near the Fox river bridge, and on
reaching the bridge the truck fell through into
the river. The train ran on to Seneca, twelve
miles east, drawing the car on pair of trucks,
without anvb body discovering that an ything was
wrong Wilmington INDEPENDENT.
The above is easily accounted for. Mcintosh,
OF the aforesaid paper, was in that car His su.
perabundant amount Of gas and steam kept the
thing up.
Nc has been so much worried at the conduct
OF Henry Snspp. radical NJ. G. of this district,
that in writing an item about the weather he
calls it an internally cold snSpp, and spells it
with two p's.
The latest sentimental ballad sweet thing
is "bury your dog in the garden" 1t will make
the grapevine grow.-Es.
This is good specimen Of dog.gerel.
The advantages of youthful piety are shown
very elegantly in the following:
AS the 4:30 train reached Stamford SATURDAY.
night, an antique looking dame thrust her head
out OF the window opposite the retreshment room
door, and briefly shouted Sonny" A bright
little boy came up to the window. Little boy"
said she, "have you 4 mother2" Eyes, ma'am."
"Do you love herr" eyes, maam." DO you 20
to school :" "Yss, ma'am." And are you faith.
Jul to your studiss!" Yes, ma'a,n. "Do you
say your prayers every nightr" Yes. msam."
maam." II think l can, too," said the LADY,
looking steadily down on the manly face. Here
IL five cents to get me an apple Remember,
God sees ou."-Harttord Post.
The following shows the benefits of humility !:
1t is oS ftty-ssven years since the battle of
New Orleans was fought, and vet wo have con-
siderably over hundred veterans in the citv.
One of them, in his statement to the Pension
Agent who inquired his age, said
dat old"
But, my man, I'm referring to the war of
1917, explained the official
''Ot course You are"
well then, if you are only forty years of aye
You could not have been there
"Couldn't Il"
mop
And ain. no We erun :"
"Now
well then boss; iis mike me volunteer. I
amt proud about it.'-N D. PccyYne.
a Caiitorni. hunter, who went ten miles IN
where game was plenty. nd then found h, had
bgoushta box IT pill" in.,,sd OF percussion cans.
returned home IN disSust.--Er.
This is like the error committed bv Co, Ko,.
logg, one OF the wittie-t Of Wiscon.in's ea;tor.
who recently went GU, punuing with "A "broocl
londer," s"d finding ~ flock OF prairie chickens
fired into them and killed two and then rs,
home ten miles tor his r-a'of 40 az to lie able ia
reload and go on with hi. sport.
The Hartford Covrd1' hardly knows whethc,
Columbus dld good thing OF not in discovering
this country, uul uoraz,s thus The Indian,
never thanked him, for one party. The Africans
had small grounds to DO grateful for the ma,ke
he opened for them. Here are two continents
that have no r.e Tor him. He led Spain into ,
dane Of great c""'otstions, which ended in he
gorgeous ruin. Io introduced tobacco into Eu