The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-12-21
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CREAM OF OUR EXCHANGES.

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A nan named Peck, who murdered Mrs. Al
mira Cheney, in ColerIine, Mss, i've years ago
and ,ybn has been in an insane asylum ever
since. h,s boon discharged, cured, and will be
tried for murder this acknowledgement
Tley offer very poor inducements for insane
men TO "refo-m.' 'Twere better that follow
had let that insanity work on indefinitely.
There is some complaint that tho quality of
gas burned in the street lamps at Chicago is not
sufficiently brilliant. A country editor suggests
that the lamp posts should be white washed to
keep people from running into them To PEG.
pie whose noses are not rendered useless for
smelling purposes, such precausiou would be
unnecessary, az the gas "speaks for itself" How
would it do 70 tie L fierce watch DOG to each
post? or, put up fence around them? Any.
thing to protect the post.
Hero is an amusing accsunt of cat-hunt,
given by lively paper, the Rochelle Inde.
pendent:
A man named Hes'y put two charges of pow
der and shot into gun, on Saturday to shoot Il
cat with. The cat hast't since been seen, but
Mr.. Healy's shoulder is about three inches out
of plum, and be- has two new places to smell
through.
Liberal editors h.vs advanced various theories
as TO the cause ot the disastrous result of the
late election. i. length She Danvile Aryus
seems to have hi: the nail on the head with the
following:
All the talk about 1. great speculation in wool
is simply an Hntlclimtx. Tile great wool spscu-
lation Of the present century ended in the
NJ ,harh u-ha 0cit
zens OF African decent chose the President of the
United St,t
This melancholy item VIC take from a reliable
newspaper
a Myesyillc cat, who had previously won
golden opinions from her mistress by her squr.
rel hunting proclivities, lately Cast gloom over
the family by bringing in a skunk she had
captured.
A woraan is said to have come to town the
other dag, at Springfield, to buy lower jaw for
her son, who had been kiowius down gun bar
rel.-EGcbange.
Wouldn't it be veil - coax women who are
given to too much g. blowing to blow in u gun
barrel IS means of tsking "thc jaw" out Of
them?
Here ia new game for the boys lie more
lively than drowning kittens, Try l., wh.n.
ever the weather i, agreeable and you feel in
want OF . !ltc smusemeut:
Two ht,le Macon boys went on. to have som q
fun with -h7t gun the other day. One Of them
took his stand behind tree and held out his h IT.
There being ,one iIltlc delay on the p .rt of the
shooter, RE holder Of the hat .,ucl: his head ont
to see WIN w.. the matter. Il Wa just in time
to discover TAe family physician says it is
CIR, NJ
hold.-SacuHnah NcIcy.
The Sheridan NslOs Letter sgyo that city is
to have picking and canning company" We
have one at Ottawa. The members get pickled
on whisky and can't 90 home till toward
morning.
" Man or Monkey ~ is the question being dis.
oussed by Ellsworth, of the Lacon Jouyqal. He
takes the attirmativs.--La Sale Press.
This will make it hard for the monkeys; even
worse than when Darwin proved their relation
to man Ellsworth, don't do it!
man swallowed charge of bird shot the
other day. He took it out of the muzzle Of
gun.-Eachange.
Yes, and it shattered his appetite.
Beemus, the man that run the Ottawa Iude.
pen0ent, has taken tho crank off that organ and
hung it up, and now sits in tho sanctum Of the
ottawa fFee lrdder again, devoting his ensr.
gies to the cure of dyspepsia and all other dis.
eases Of like nature.-OdeU Weekly.
Here is a new use for soap. We commend il
to the girls:
AN Evansville, Ind. bride puts head on her
darling with bar of hard soap,
A correspondent wants to know Win that ,r.,
ssrd Ia that built ell the roofs in Boston.
a Danforth, Maine, girl recently attempted
10 clean the cd mans gun. The undertaken
took the gun az part payment for tho csfiu,
One-half of the false hair worn bv American
women comes from prisons and lunutic asylums.
--E1chaage. ""'''
that's why woman who wants TO be ex.
tremsly fashionable tries to look as nearly Xix. ,
luuaic as possible!
The Philadelphia North .Aa..rican having
stated that "a big Indian OF the Arrarahoe per
suasion has embraced Christi,nity IN Wa,hinv
ton, the New Orean. Times remark, tim,
"a mighty small ludl IA could embrace all IN,
Christianity there is now"
FROM 'he iollowihs it is evident tina. Thu
young aiic. OF rcrrc Hsute nsed ,.einv 10.
~ "as A'pi'Ssuy ."une post otrse clerk /,
te'ie ilSu''' the other day, who me. |. voutle
man acquaintance upon til. .tr,,. and ,.;1
~ oar pFo*n' there IN lister in the no.
oiHce ior you II w"s fun 20 s.e Mr. Brow
oiush ""u o'ch "p "Rain-t the fence and slid
oo"h INV "'' oNt''o'i until sho had passed ON
of sight. lie was badly scared. I'm, - ~.
all about It when he went tn a., IN ~ v"