The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-08-23

| A Philadelphia reporter, invited TO accompany
Wise on his balloon voyage across The ocean, &c.
elncd on the ground that it involved the danger
Of compelling him TO take wotcr' something
he had no taste for
The Odcl weekly says its failure to get the
FREE TRADER two weeks ago was not because
the postmaster held it for postage. "Since our
postmaster undertook to hold Il mule by the NINA
lcg, he hasn't held anything but the post Once
and the sympathies of the community"
The Oglc county Reporter apologies for blum
derng compostor who made the types say
lovers of the Tepsichoeden art" and says what
he ought to have set up was Lovers OF the
Tersichoean art" This is equal TO Beemus last
week correcting the autobiography" OF the re-
pabliroo. Mistakes will happen, &c.
This looks suspicious. The EariyilIe "".c''
says, of thirty couples of married people th"t
recently went on a two days excursion from mat
city, but four husbands had their own wives, ana
re, re,so We don't like the looks of that rice
rersd at all.
The grave accusation is urged against the
Mayor of Rock island, the richest resident Oh
He owes the school fund over $500,
Why don't ne do like Elder Scammon, Of Chi
cago-who has owed the school fund 100000 for
the last sixteen years? Make the steal big
enough, and nobody will bother him about 1t.
An English lady has written a book TO show
how lady may live on SO aycar. 1t didntcost
Eve anything like that.
There is something in Dreams no matter how
much the would be WISE may scof at warnings
A Boston paper says:
Mrs. Brown, of Gloucester, Massachusetts,,
dreamed the other night that her absent husband
was dead In the morning she irantically iele
grapLcd and found that he was entirely alive
and well But ere nghfall her poodle upset her
band box and got at her new fall bonnet and
pulled the charming thing to fragments,
The Chicago papers are bloyating the achieve
ments of spiritualist namcd Brown, who claims
10 be able TO tell the thoughts Of others by phySi
al contact He was brought, by way of test, in
contact with number of Chicago editors, and in |
several notable instances was entirely successful.
The chief citation of the editors arises from the
proof the experiment affords that at least some
Chicago editors think, and are thus on par |
with an average Newfoundland dog.
The editor of the ChenDa Times is in a rage. !
he says the freedom Of the press has been yio- |
entity outraged in his person. He was booted
,ut Of a store into the street for ncglecting to
oay his rent
Does one woman in fifty fill the lower part OF
Ter lungs with airY' is the stern inquiry Of 4 |
anitary exchange. The editor of that paper
never heard the voice Of an Infatuated mother. |
n-law.
The telegraph reports marriage on board a
Ycstern train. 1t was a railroadt tie.
"Stump.taicd monopolst' is the chastc cpithet
he Chicago Times applies to Elder Scammon, d
he IateT-OccGa
They are having very exciting times at Rye
each, and the Rye has good deal more TO do
It'll it than the Beach.
The editor Of the Richmond Ea9lher acknowl- |
dyes call from the editor of the CdmdSioa and
lys he "illuminatcs the Office with the light. !
4--.-- - rToouu ~ Ia, , !
cen western imitation of Jersey lightning.
T.~y i."Nu ,...r,'.. J,,.o on O,grspuu couon I
lonopolist in Massachusetts, who was induced,
y some malicious wag, TO supply his factory
iris with chewing gum under the notion that il
ouiu AI"p thcIT WISHING tIihc III thihlhS. Inc
lot ought To have known that girls talk twice
fast with gum in the mouth rs without it.
CW'owJiHgle is the name applied 10y The Louis
lie Layer to its contemporary the rou'a1.
,ut7n
A Kentucky editors speaks Of local genius who
Is been pcrscvcring contributor to the office
skct for several years. I
" Love-" says an anorous writer, Is an inter
Il transport" The same might b" said Of {
nal boat Il