The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-12-20

Then come, my love, and live with me;
And bcautay my lonely den,
As patient as a tumblcbec
And busy as setting hen.
The Louisville Courier.JournHl says: "Out OF
fourteen men sitting in a Cincinnati hotel office
not one could explain what antidote' means
One Thoughtful was person who dotted on his
aunt"
The Danbury he,cs says: ave have received
request from an anxious mother in Brookield to
write some verses about her little daughter, who
is very ILL., We should like to do it, but we can't
write poetry. Besides, we don't see what bene-
lit our poetry would be to her sick girl, unless
she thinks the reading Of it would induce the
patient to look more hopefully upon death"
Mark Twain sympathizes with the woman
movement, when the movement" is around a
washtub.
Mr. Gerald Massey will lecture in this city to.
night. His discourse has the novel and inter
rogative title, Why Does Not God XIII the
DevilT' II we were compelled to answer that
coDuDdrum az venture, We should say, because
IL is not cXpedient to leave the Chicago Times
without an editor at present-.St Louis Globe.
Thoway they do things in Georgia would disgust
Tribune reporter and make Perteet's head swim.
"Gitout Of the way thar" was what the Geor-
Cia Perfect SAID he shot his wife. Leave
him thar 10 XIX was the brief sentence Of the
committee as they drew him up to limb.
The obituary poet of the Philadelphia Ledger
grows brighter and brighter with every new
eifcrt One grows inpatient as it were, to read
hisfnal, climactic effort in an obtualy for him
self Here is how he drops the curtain on the
career Of little Jane; n,.A'.|N.
"On Little James too brief career,
The curtain sadly drops,
She waltzed away to Paradise
From eating celery tops"
The Cherokee 4tssocate, published at Tahlcquah,
in the Indian territory, alludes to m ARRAY in
which two men we're killed and man and wo.
man severely wouudcd as "quitc n serious diff
Guilty"
The Philadelphis Press says the presidents
warm support in his message of the improve
mcnts IN Washington has added much 10 the
value Of property there. 1t always pays to ad-
yertise. t- t|IEt
Norwegian, al Plano, last week about to
take his tirst ride on the rail- entered the car
with his dog but the conductor telling him the
dog could not be allowed to ride he quietly
hitehed hiFl by rope 10 the rear earl As the
train started. however, brakeman kindly cut
the rope
IN Sacramento, loafcrs have become such
nuisance, tLat the telegraph company have adop-
ted the following plan, with excellent results:
box, running the full length CT the front of
the Office on the outside has heretofore furnished
. tempting seat for the habitues This has been
covered with zine, which has been conncctt d
with The batteries that Ecrc contained in the
box. pcrsen sitting on the box without touch
ing his hands thereto, will not feel the electricity
but If his hands drop OH the box, or he puts
them thereon to assist him in rising, he receives
such sudden and astonishing shock rs sends
him a. unbelievable number of feet toward the
lofty roof and the adjacent river.
in New Yori come of the more notable churches
have queer, hut not uncXprc, sivc popular names,
For instance; ....
DIR. Tyng's uet church IL The Church OF the
Holy Oh Cloth; llGpworths Is the llippodrome;
DR.. Storrs', from the stccplc, Is known Us the
Corn Cob: DR.. Believes as the Church of the
Holy zebra or the "Church Of the Infinite Beet
steak - . Baptist church Is christoned Wash
Tub: a Calrinistic tabernacle the Furnace; o. H.
frothingham's the Insurance Office; aud Mr.
Powers the Church Of the Holy Turtle.
Here are iwy headlines in the order in which
they appear ia q contemporary only reducing
the type from startling black letter 10 plain
Roman: ..r... t. ar.-.. OH.
"The-deItb az Queen Victoria anRoiinCed on
the New York Cotton Exchange"
a meeting To he held erpresshc1ihc indig-
nation Of citizens. Oh. Zee trg H-r .
The editor ~ the Miilington ED,,,p,5ss talks
by the "unerr.ng light Of experience, whcn he
says: ,.....
"Tnl not getting married so much as was"
is The lates way 81 saying no. TO an imipassion-
cd suitpr.
Printing Offices are sometimes put TO base
uses, but the Office Of the Streator haaifor s the
FIRST We have been called upon to contemplate rs
q CONSTABLE Dalton Is heavy on temperance, We
know and doubtless is put Ia occasional straits
to obtain q steady supply Of milk. An advertise
1nept in the .Voaa,r reads as follows #E
EsTsAr-Taken up, on Prairie Creek, Dee. m
a dark brindle cow medium size. six years old.
Information may De left At ilie .V@aifor once,
srheTe t5s 90 T. ~