The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-01-25
HOME MATTERS.
PEPPER AND NALT.

ago she GooC lemp!ars q MOTIFS, ~ couples
stroag, can Nsrsei les a sleigh ride, stop
ping 81 Tn. /. 18th. The sitls and boys con-
pr sing tho c.upie. were very young and cor
respondinsly innocent. They got up a new
kind of p.rIor game, called swapping gum"
1t oumsi-,s Of boys, girls and gum. \ boy is
bl;ndtolded nd his hands are tied behind him.
The Trick COZ lists i'll getting the gum out Of tie
girls mouth with his teeth. Sem. girls can
hold out with having their lips snawed IA hour
before they give up the gum During the re-
coal Vera yb!; "a - resort 10 various otr- eep,
to keep peopl. from borrowing. The postmaster
hit upon the happy evpedrent OF locking up his
coal hole, = big box "a the rsir of his den, and
marking upon it in huss letters "Sileratus.'
49,. Those who are euriou. TO know about it are
informed that Frank, the devil IN the Adgert,ser
Office, hasn't cut his hay yet He thinks tha.
to harvest 1t now would be to get a thin crop.
go. Messersmiih, the altitudinops auc'ioni-t,
recently, =. Norwegian bail, Undertook to bite
a mole of muscular d,msels lips. She Gin.
terviewed' hin with the toe Of a No. shoe.
He is 6 ieot 3 iaches long. When she got
through coz Z hin 70 So away from there, he
had left tIocl; ,rly quarter of mile long
IN the mud. lie mbled off from the ,nce that
distance on his back They have a barter at
the Beckwith whose name is Aherns-pro.
nounced "earns." He earned ali be got during
the late Good Iemplars' visit 80. Beck with says
the next time he takes bath in the canal at OF.
t,wa he will require the city council to warm
the water. Back. is Il good fellow, and tue
champion billiard stabber Of the village. The
Beckwith hotel still fourishes. The propretors
say that ii We had stayed away the las. Satur.
day IL the Old year their books would have
shown a small profit at the end of the year. bat
now it is different, if not otherwise
Henry Wa!ther lately sent for party named
Capt. kellogg to insure man against accident.
The Cap. gathered up the necessary blanks, went
to Walther's, aud wanted to see the man. Wal
Their took the CtptinS out and introduced him
to the pasteboard man in front of the store.
The insurance man went away. He wen, to
his Office and loaded bis shot gun, aud h.. given
instructions that, if any one couos there for in.
| surance from Walther's, to "shoot him ON the
spot. go. During the session Of the Board OF
Supervisors last week, some merrimeat was &C.
casioned by the introduction of the following
resolution:
WHEREAS, Jim Cross has been around this
Board Tor several days, laughing and talking
very loud, and otherwise conducting himself a
an insane m.nner: Therefore,
RSsDIreI That lii, Cross 10 a l,n.,:, a. .
the Sheriff Of this county be instructed to hand.
cuff him at once and take him to the poor house
| ForristAl moved its adoption. IL4ugh.er.
Lynch moved Its reference to committee on psu.
| pers. Nichol wanted it to 90 to committee ON
! court house and jill. Donlevy thought. the
| committee on equalization could handle it. En-.
erNo" desired to put it under the table. Finally
Jilh yeas turned over to the custody of the
Sheriff The tall and graceful shape of r F
heyos, Esq, OF Joliet, was seen gliding pas. our
office yesterday. 1, is to be regretted tina. he so
soon abandoned the delightful accomplishment
of vocal and instrumental music and 50 abruptly
- he seems to have done. The world will never
realize the loss it has sustained. Though he
took but single lesson, that ono effort deve!-
oped in his voice power that is rarely heard
With 1t be Gan raise q fellows hair with the
same ease that an Indian would with a sc,lpins
knife 80. The editor OF the Ottawa Republican
asks the conuadrum "What sensitive s.iacto.
ries the editors of the two county p.pers have
when they smell the pestileu,ial odors from the
sewers of Chicago from under the ice" 30 We
related fact atte.ted by every one who has
lately been within ten rods OF the dams in the
Illinois river. OF course the editor Of the Otta-
VA Republican can't smell the odor. He can't
tell Limburger chees, from eau de rose by means
OF his nose. He hiss poked that nose around too
much. He has thrust that nose into other peo.
pies affairs 20 much that he has worn it off at
the corners, stovo it in, drove it up, 5uuted the
point. and collapsed the smelling apparatus
thereof. The nearest he ever came to it was
when, after his dog had lain dead for four weeks
tho street in front Of his house, he said TO the
hired girl one morning: "Katie, wish you'd
lend me some of your hair oH--it smells fra.
granty." "Oh I" calculated she, "sure 't;snt
hay.rile 70 smells, but it's your Kizer' that's
dead upon ,he road abroad feminist the house."
The benefits OF advertising were never bet.
ter illustrated than recently, in notice we gave
of the dcplcr.blc condition of affairs at the pc.
lice court. We mentioned that for four weeks
not drunk or disorierly' or other case hid
come before his honor, and that the conr. and
the City Marshal, by reason OF no bu,ir..-, had
become SO Financially reduced that they were
compelled to chew paper wais a substitute