The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-12-28
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CREAM or OUR EXCHANGES.

He is bound to make things hum around in
his vicinity.
Tn, P.aiadealer of Cleveland, Ohio speaks OF
the "equine.oxialr storm that has RACED there
OF late.
A. ori.in.l pennsylvania editor comes out
fairly and squ.rely. He calls his paper " An
air. Old sheet, devoted 10 wind. whisky, wicked.
ness nd other religious matters Vox Populus,
Vox Belzebub."
Hanillng green velret poisoned lady at
Sharpsvi.la, lad. Before she found it out she
kissed her htJle boy, and he is also suffering
Exchange.
The moral OF the above item is thai ladies'
dressed in green velvet should not kiss lil.Ie
boys-nor big ones either.
The Louisville eIoNrRd! says it is estimated
that two hundred and fifty thousand sides of
leather were destroyed by the fire in Boston No
such destruction of leather has occurred in this
country since the editor OF the st. Louis Globe
had his last pair OF brogans made.
The Fire NJ lrshal of Milwaukee ldvertises for
oSen to draw fire engines with. An engine pro-
PEELED by Slow paced oxen to fire would be
is in distress, because of the epizdctic-heAce
these steers.
An ed tor spe. 'ug of the weakness OF the fair
sex for new tangled styles, says:
The ladies complain that the present styles of
hats exceedingly hone,y; bu5 they buy them
nevertheless. They would buy hedgehog II it
had bugles on il.
Thsse VINO can't live comfortably without
chestnuts, find as IN otf.ss' to tie worm bus-
ness, that they are more Numerous to the pint,
and larger and fater this year than ommon.
1t will be sean by :he iollo~!ns. from the
Terre HtuJe EGpreSS, tnst there ate still! /. lew
bull pups left in the country:
a bold and original juvenile specul.tor from
the country, aged eleven years, brought six 6ull
pups into the city TO sell yesterday. He dis.
played his wares upon II prominent street corner.
los .rds evening he went down u the river ia o
sort Of weary, lie ,rtOroken way, and drowned
the .iuIescent GaIines.
Tn- Is all the result OF the "curuel' On ball
purps At W 'shiugton 10y party there who de.
votes his gigantic intellect to purps, stone quar-.
ries aud lost horses.
Here'sa story with II moral for tne boys:
A h.tle ooy ran away from school 70 40 ches
num-. Daflog he expedition he tell twic.
GU, or one tree IT, the lntaineut d niger of his
lie, Vas tucked by Oh The other bows whose
bI-ath 80 materially le-seued by stun Bill nv
against his rjyIn.ou; ran silver into his knee
an" ~"s hi ten violently upon the neck by n ne
KIND OF bug. When he got home his father
anoilod hlm with the boss eud OF billiard cus
and the next day at school the teacher escorted
him twice around the room by his poorest ear
He says that chsstndts are SO wormy this veal
that it don't pay to 70 .0er them.
Here is sample of a sentimental obituary
notice:
A sanguine young Ohio blacksmith had faith
in his ability to make himself the receptacle 10,
four rints OF raw whisky within fifteen minutes
He wogered twenty five dollars to that effect
with sceptic Of his neiy hb0rhood, and made
the village bar.room tina scene of his british per
Torrance. Upon his neat and unornament tai
Tombstone, now IN process of construction, will
be inscribed the simple eptaph, He smiled
and died."
An exchange tells US that an Ohio girl driv
en- to frenzy by boil on her nose, lately com
mitted suicide" Ii she had reflected for q mo
ulsnt what ridiculous corpse she would make
she would have been alive to-day.
AhS AitusNHie |cSS says
An intoxicated printer in East St. Louis wan
dered into n shoe shop in fit of meutal aberra
ton and set up several stickfuls of shoe pegs
and took proof of his matter ia the boot pres
before he realized his awful condition.
The Home Journal man Is vexed, He 10 nae
sionateIy found Of sausage. He ssys: ut i,
time u law was passed compelling the removal Of
brass collars before cutting up Dogs" Bras,
collars may DO Objectionable, but they give ,
beautiful yellow hue to the sausage, adding il
beauty what they de,ract in p,lstablensss.
There is boy in st. Joseph, No., who wear
shoes which are seventeen and u quarter niche,
long, and seventeen inches round the iustsp
Worms don't have much show in this neixhbor
hood.-Erchaage.
Here the question comes up: Is it right e
exterminate poor, helpless little worme in thi
manner?
The early bird cen secure his worm withou
any trouble, BY buying n few chestnuts of AL,
street deaer-E.r.
There Is said to be "a man in Illinois who n,
had the small pox five times. A man who il
mean enough thus to mouopolize tho smell DO,
Ola whole community, ought to be tar.ed All,
feathered. Co0rier.JouyRdi
Why thus abuse the man? WHY DENY him
few luSuries such as his peculiar taste seems 4
crave?
Every now and then some newspaper favor
US with some precoc;ous youths composition
Here is one from the State Register.
II occurred In "A E,rs. Nv.,J