The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-01-09

> hoppcr sufferers, took in about 500, PAID ou
1902 81 for expresses and sent the munifccnt ba
an &c of $7.lG by money order to the suhcrn
thousands in Kansas.
John B. Clark, member of Congress. eject froI
the Eleventh Missouri district, having been aC
credited with majority Of 1880, his opponcn
despairs of making it appear as a tie, and vii
not contest the election.
! A number of lady gynnasts are in regula
practice at rooms of the Olympic Club in SAL
Francisco. They do their contortions in sip
pcrs, striped stockings, loose pants and o'he'
things in which costume they are said 10 loon
swectly pretty. They run, jump, swing pun
weights, and do lots Of difficult things. Inc
schoolmarms are given to practice on the trap
exc and horizontal bar, while 1t is noticed tha'
the married women mostly devote their ehor''
TO practise in swinging the heavy clubs
An exchange cordially seconds our suggestion
in the interest of spelling schools ana observes
deep and earnest rcawakening on tins subject
| It adds that one Of the most exalted pleasures
which the human boy is capable, is to 90 tt
spelling school and fight some other boy during
intermission, and 60 home with some girl after
wards
man NAV grow to weigh ton
Who ieasts his mind with pungent fun;
But he who scOrns its simple sway
Oft Yields to crime an easy prey.
To poor man with large family, glory is Of
but little account.
Gen.--never drew his sword but once, and
that was in 4 rattle.
Ode Of a Western wooer in the seighing sea.
son:
The moon it shines along the snow,
The sky is a crimson banner,
Oh, wilt :hou with me a-sleighing 90,
My lovely rcd-halred Hannah;
A wise man may keep his own counsel, conse-
quently has no jobs for strange lawyers.
Mrs. Walings, of Paterson, came a rich Joke
on her husband, by giving him for supper a
broiled cat, making him believe it was rabbit.
Two nights after, when she found him playing
tom cat under the window of the hired girl, she
repented Of her pleasantly, but with carving
knife called him back TO life and duty as a man
and husband,
Beecher has written sweet, hOneyfagling let
ter to the gushing Edna Dean Proctor, congrat-
ulating her on the result OF her trial Henry,
she is too old to catch with writing fluid. Thirty
years ago. sweet sentences in letters marked
with naughty babies without clothes might have
fetched her, but age brings wisdom.
Two weeks ago, when Charles Martin, a col
ored gentleman Of New Orleans, found that the
order Of Tilton had been conferred on him by q
niger preacher of that city, he dind't rush-lnto
The newspapers, but told mutual friend, Now
ook heah Use dun gone quit OBJ dat ar church.
md Ise gwine to vote de Democrat ticketum to
put dat dirty Niger right back in slayeryr
The Times, of Morrison, H., has luxurious
appendage in the shape of a London correspond
,nt, who describes the hanson as vehicle on
two wheels, in which the passenger sits facing
the horses head. When we were in London those
who rode in lIausoms sat facing the horses tail
but the late election may have reversed things
since then.
In a country village Of Iowa, the other day.
here was lawsuit. Mr. Snidcr had Mr. Mitten
arrested for putting crooked pin on his seat in
'hurch. The trial was held in public, but the
Dom by candle light. with no admittance to the
listers The iratc brother told ths court that he
you'd be id if he would be pin-cushon for
,HyJody, as he stood in court with behind hand
Verdict for snider.
There Is something touching in the affection
If the colorcd individual A few days since Il
3eecher among the faithful, colored minister
If marvellous magnetism and grea, love for nut
on, sat in a Jail at Raleigh, ON the ragged edge
If despair, wis hing he were drunk, on a charge
II bastardy. Two sisters of the church paid his
Inc, waited for him at the Jail door, aud when
he came out fell on his neck kissed him. and the
rio of backing boxes walked of arm in arm to
hilariate.
A disgusted Republican of Bowling Green, Ind,
went out few nights since, confscated an arm
full of wood from his neighbours pile, chucked ii
into his stove and sat down before good fire to
pop some corn. just then the front of the stove
landed in his lap flying griddle, shaved his left
ear clear from his head, and he was waited out
of the kitchen window followed by smoke, fire.
hot ashes and dog. It's thought that he will
be cured of his habit aud his wounds about the
same time.
Died in q vain attempt to twist the tail of
mule, is the obituary of country negro.
An eastern paper intimaies that Treasurer
spinner acquired his habit of profanity while
learning to read his own writing.
A French paper says that not one American in
a hundred has a handsome chin. This is due to
The fact that so many Of our fellow-citzcns give
nearly all their time to ;he cultivation Of check
On a breach Of promise trial in New llamp
shire, the lover was sworn To have written let.
ter containing tity-sevcn pages of note paper
to his dulcinea, and the jury cleared him on the
ground that he was either insane or idiotic.
THE NEW YORK CANALS