The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-12-21
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lust wan,eo 10 kuo~ bo~ it sas d.ns.' Then
he damned his hands iu:o his Empty porkets
and bitterly ruttered. Bliud aid fcoi.
didn't think thu cuss could ~ei a beat
u all like that y go. "A certain prominent citi.
Sea nj Msrsaii,rs, @no does business In that city,
bat resides III q Wa, ihas app,rel'ly treating
on as III re suburb OF n .r-ei'ies---s Hy de
PIX Ia of Caicay0-esme 70 somewhat justin
soo .,ief on l.st Saturday evening. Ouawa
owed him one Tor Ills slur upon her pretensions,
sud, having paid it, is nov happy. This is but
another illustration of "Truth crushed TO
EARTH &c, or "ViIl,iny is to be punished
sooner or later" or "Brsa,hes there q man with
soul So dead or How high MP WAS dot 7" or
M Try had lutte lamb" or my Of those old
trite sayings. He was coming home III the eve
uing men toned at nine o'clock, and. h wing &C.
cI-on To cross the CON Il, thought he would not
cross any oi LIE bridges. but take near cut.
tie got up Oh the canal and ran msrrily long
| the ice, singing, Oh! hsppy are we to night,
boys, as weie going home when he saw
nice road, evidently vel! Travelled, along ahead
OF him. He knew from experience that roads
we're made to use, and he tried this one. As he
struck the road lie was glteiully yelling, "Oh!
amt yer glad yer out of the wilderness, out of
the will He didn't finish the sentence.
There was sound Of II kersplast, and then
chilly sensation crept over him as he touched
the bottom of the oana When he came up,
md IS soon "a, he could get tho water out of bis
mouth, he shouted, sly, hello there! Sve
hsre say, ho there, you! Here's Teller i'll
the canal p Hs was hauled out. He don't
| sing now lie has got cold. lie is opposed to
the canal and will sign petition TO dave it
Blodgett a Bantam. A h,,lthy old bantam he
it, weighing AS he does 240 lbs with nj. coat off
His Citing weight is simply enormous 1T
is said that the only one of the Ottawa sharpefs
who got upa "ring" lately to beat blind man
out of al his money "3 card monte" near
Strea,or, on the railroad, and who didn't invest,
! was q certain Reverend gentlemen. He tells
that when he saw how slick the boys were
beaten by the party, that he (the Reverend
"never laughed 30 much in his liza favorite
VAPiO'sioh VI MIS- nv III Al*aIu LIN
laugh and thought it WAS the whistle for L" down
brakes" and stopped the cars :. Saw Bowman
the other day on the caIs trying to worry his
way slong towards Chicago on passes. He ex-
hbited to the conductor pass to n free soup
| house 10 st. Louis ons to the penitentiary at
Joliet; three dead-head tickets to snake and
fat girl show at the fair grounds; pass through
he S.reator coal mines; 2 ditto La Sale glass
| works. glass works are in the basement OF
the Hathaway House; Two ends of tickets to
Humpty Dsmpty. II. the Opera House DO.
qua five cent nicklc fine tooth comb: wad
OF chewing gum; two unpaid wash bills box
rent bill at the pos, Office, and seven second.
| handed wooden toothpicks. The conductor
sheok his head and sadly remarked, "too thin
Bowmsn threatenon to get OUT and stracgle up
the tow-path OF the canal. The conductor re.
minded him that there il Il law forbidsug ami.
mails to run at large. We Informed the conduc.
tor that there also y law against cruelty 10
animals. When We got off at Morris, Bowman
was still riding, and FINLEY, the conductor, was
still industriously trying to collect that fare
Whether no succeeded before the train reached
Chicago il not known -. This is a konundruA
for Kullen: We are informed that the aristo
cratic people of East Ottawa ex periencc daily
shocks to their refined sensibihties, because OF g
dead dog that has been allowed to lie on one o.
the most public streets of that portion OF ouI
fair oity for three wesks or So and that Mat de
fuuct purp is no loss than kullens kilt" Hi
zer's kold korpus" Why don't the Marsha
"rsach for" Kullen and make him go for that
dead dorgue "A, the Musical Convention
We were astounded 2 times. One of the Profess
ora compared the musical gem, minnie Brown,
to a butterfly that fits across our path, giving IL
ind scribabie pleasure fer moment. As he sal,
this he pointed to the young men IN Che room
adding: II eco the young men are lookin,
across ut the ndies, the butterflies of this occa
sion" Thereupon the young men looked confus
ed and guilty, while the girls blushed and locke,
injuredly ut the boys az if to say: "It we ar
pretty butterflies, ace can't help it," We obsery
ed with pain that once, when dozen prett
pirls hocked around him, like butterflies aroun
. mud puddle, N. B. He was more than twic
"A handsome Ms mud puddle,l that ho wa
dreadfully careless about where he put his ann
1t may be the custom down east, but out her
ateh 10 dangerous. Western girls are warm hear
ed-very much so--and we know of not less the
three instances where men by a SIMILAR accide,
have had their arms withsred up, az it wer
Sill the girls are pretty. end we should
tempted TO ,oaist an arm or two in that way.