The Ottawa free trader., 1872-09-14
CREAM OF EXCHANGES.


Many crswHs hat many wear
Lend hand;
Never in the sunlight glare;
Diamonds eyer ia thom shine,
Yet they hold light divine
Lend hand.
Hold light that ne'er shall fade
Lend hand;
Beauty, art hath never made;
For these crowns that good men wear,
Everlasting are, as rare
LenG hand
Would you own SO brigh. crown?
Lend hand;
When you see II brother down,
Lead him from the deep, dark night,
Place him in the morning light
Lend hand.
An Arkansas local solioquizes thus:
Some Of our exchanges are publishing as
curious item a statement to the effect that a
horse in Iowa pulled the plug out of the bung.
hole OF barrel for the purpose of shaking his
thilst, We 60 not see anything extraordinary
in the occurrence. Now, if the horse had pulled
the barrel of the bunghole and slaked his
thirst with the plug, or if the barrel had pulled
the bunghole Of the plug and slaked It's thirst
with the horse, or If the plug had pulled the
horse out of tie barrel and slaked its thirst
with the bun. hole or if the bunghole HAD
pulled the thirst out Of the horse and slaked
the plug with the barrel, or If the barrel had
pulled the horse out OF the bunghole and plug.
ged its thirst with slake it might be worth
while to make some fuss over it.,
Will some OF the numerous law fledgings in
this city leave chewing their tooth.picks, and
fp fho t., 4
fortune await the one who solves this difficulty:
4 Cincinnati wife left her husbands board,
but took the bed with her. He is puzzled to
know how to word legal notice of warning to
prospective creditors,-Er
1t is reported that T. r. Barnum has offered
Blatant Duncan permanent situation to appear
In ?. T.'s big show as the Champion FAilist Of
America.-thscGgo San.
Tho height of enjoyment-to live next door
to one Of the members of the brass band. and
hear him 'blow his horn" till midnight, for
'praotlce.' Its immense.- Waukeg0n Rt,iot
The only thing equalling the above immens.
i:y. is to occupy double.bedded room with the
man who fondly dotes on the snare drum.
The Moravia Ners contains the following I'D.
vertisement:
Losr.--A small gold gentlemsn's ring, be-
tween Saturday evening and Monduy Oh the
road near Montville The person finding such
an article can retu1n it to lis owner by calling
at this office ind paying charges
Parks, Of Aurora, the Hon. B. F., is paid $2,.
5OO and travelling expenses for his service to
Grant in this canvass He says: THAT it was
as good thi.g as wanted. .Erchange.
Said frey supporter of the one.mun power
few days since to a well known citizen whom hs
net upon one of the river boats: "Do you think
there could possibly be named more utterly un-
desirablc incompetent, inefficient man for the
Presidency than Horace Greeley? "Why, yes
responded the Judge il bis quietest and blan1e.t
manner, IL do know one of that description.
"Who!" SAID the fiery man. His name is
Grant" said the Judge and the fiery one became
suddenly col, and the conversation on his part
esgged.-DetroH Free Press.
Police business has materially improved dur.
ing the past week, consequently the Marshal aud
bis aids are in excellent good humor, aud our
justices wear the most smiling ceuntenanccs We
have noticed for u month.-AurOra Beacon:
Imagine the cachinnaton of these mirthful
Aurora official dignitaries if first.class, cool.
blooded murder happened in their midst.
There is prooably no truth in the repsrt that "a
young elephant was shipped over railroad the
other day, by u menagerie man, and when the
animal arrived at its destination the baggage
master refused to give it up because the menag.
erie man had no check for the elephants trunk
Er.
We append something for the benefit of the
tanner club of this city, which will be OF intimate
benefit in the proposed operation upon tho hide Of
the crooked armed paragraphist of the Ottawa
Republican.
Carbolic acid has at last somew wha, subsided
into an ordinary article. The tauuer. have
taken possession OF it, aid fnd BY experiment
that IT is just the article for them in the no,
days OF July and August. One of their great. =,
troubles has been TO preserve hides from decom.
pos:.ion at ,his period, and they have been
Obliged at times to employ very strong mea.
sures with them, which, while they preserved
the hides. spoiled them III certain degree by
making leather less valuable. 1t is found
that earbo!ic acid preserves the hides from de-
cay, and it is e'''. said improves the leather to
euch degree tat the tanners all wonder why
the usefulness oi the article was not discovered
before.-Er.
The Dai.bury Neses having untruthfully said
hostoh proposed TO get up stupendous gift Ell.
terprise, with Rhode Island for the principa
prize, the Providence Hcraid says that the low
ess prizes IRE to be the busts of the principa
Connecticut editors the heads done in wood
otter the model oi the never rto.be.ioryot,e,
wooden nutinegs. which have made the reputa
tion OF the State in foreign countries. Ame,,
can Newspaper RcpOrl,r.
Mosby ssys whichever radical gets disap
pointed IN getting AN office, or gets kicked ou
for hio rascali,y he az once begins to talk will
an air of indignant virtue Of reform in Govern
ment, purity in politics. Of repotism and VII,