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


philadelphia reporter, invited TO accompany
Wise on his balloon voyage acros' me ocean, &c
elincd ON The Ground that it involved the danger
or .ompellipc him TO take water something
he had no taste for
The Odcn U,ckly says its failure to get the
Fvyr Tn,nrr two weeks ago was not because
the postmaster held it for postage. since our
postmaster undertook to hold mule by the nina
leg, he hasn't held anything but the post once
and the synpathics Of the community
The Oglc county Reporter apologies Tor D'''''-
dcring compositor who made the types say
lovers Of the Tcpsichoeden art" and says what
ne ought TO have set up was Lovers OF the
Tersichoean art" This is equal TO Bcemus last
week correcting the photography" OF the ne
puJliran. Mistakes will happen, &c.
This looks suspicious The EariyiIle ""&cHe
says, of thirty couples Of married people Ii"V
recently went on two days excursion from 'HaI
city, hut four husbands had their own wives ana
me, ,,,so. We don't like the looks Of that rice
tyrsa at all.
The grave accusation is urged against me
Mayor of Rock island, the richest resident "i
",
He owes the school fund over SS".
WHY don't ne do like Elder Scammon, Of CHI
caoo-wbo has owed the school fund 100000 for
the last sixteen years? Make the steal hiS
enough and nobody will bother him about IT,
An English lady has written a book to show
how lady may live on SO ayear. 1t didn'tc"st
Eve anything like that
There is something in dreams, no matter how
much the would be WISE may scot 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 tele.
orapLcd and found that he was entirely alive
md vol But ere nighfal her poodle upset her
hand box and rot at her new fall bonnet and
pulled the charming thing to fragments.
The Chicago papers are boyating the achieve
mcnts of a spirtualistnamcd Brown, who claims
Ia be able TO tell the thoughts of others by physl
.al contact He was brought, by way of test, in
contact with auumbcr of Chicago editors, and in |
several notable instances was entirely successful
The chief claton of the editors arises from the
oroor the experiment affords that at least some
Chicago editors Think and are thus on par
with an average Newfoundland dog.
The editor of the ChcnOa TimS is in Il rage
He says the freedom Of the press has been vio-
Icntly outraged in his person. He was booted
out Of a store into the street for ncgecting to |
pay his rent.
Does one woman in fifty fill the lower part OF
her lungs with air| is the stern inquiry of Al
sanitary exchange. The editor of that paper
never heard the voice Of an iniuriatcd mother
n-law.
The telegraph reports marriage on board 4
western train. 1t was a railroad-tie.
stump tailed monopolst' is the chaste epithet
he Chicago Times applies to Elder Scammon, Of
he Iattr- ocean,
They are having very exciting times at Rye
Beach, and the Rye has good deal more to do
With it than the Beach
The editor Of the Richmond E0qa1e acknowl-
dyes a call from the editor of the CaacaSiOR, and
avs he "illuminates the Office with the light
r,'...- r i,vsuu ~ l,.., ,
'cen western imitation of Jersey lightning.
T.~y i..,u ,..t,,. Jo,.. iii II UiurstCu cOutUn
nonopoist in Massachusetts, who was induced,
" some malicious wag, TO supply his factory
iris with chewing gum under the notion that it
would stop their wasting time in talking. The
dot ought to have known that girls talk twice
5 fast with gum in the mouth as without it.
Car;ow.Jnge is the name applicdby the Louis
lille Lcdgrr to its contemporary, the Co,u'i1'-
ou,uH,
A Kentucky editor speaks OF q local genius who
as been q pcrscvcring contributor TO the office
askct for several years.