The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-02-27

est newspaper and in another paragraph says,
'When q man processes honesty nowadays, keep
your eye peeled for thief
Advice to newspaper proprictors-lf you wish
to arrange for foreign correspondence go to a
good firm of bankers, They are always able to
furnish letters of credit.
And now the Davenport Democrat has to apollo
gize to Matilda Fletcher for an error of one OF
its cempositors. The editor wrote that she had
invented cylindrical trunk and the typo put
1t up cylindrical drunk.
The Dayton Empire makes bold to remark that
when an intelligent compostJr makes isca
year read ball year, it may be reasonably
concluded that his mind was wandering toward
the nutriment it most needed
It's truly astonishing how the papers, while
they persist IN charging man dollar an inch
for advertising when living, cheerfully give up a
whole column OF space for nothing when his
obituary comes along.-Suaday Times.
That's true charity.
A practical Psychologist asserts that Nature
does all the cleaning necessary for the inside OF
the ear, and thata attempt on our part to clean
it insures disorder.
This will be good news for the editor of the
Pee Welt will save him much unnecessary
labor.
A boot-black's father says he never enjoys him.
self more than when he sees the son shine,
Mary Ann don't see anything so very sad IN
the phrase might have BEEN When she was
told she might have Ben she was glad of it.
A real estate owner, having let all of his
houses bu, one, was asked If that unlet house
was his last yes, last, but not leased was his
reply.
man was boas,ing that he had been married
for twenty years and had never given his wife a
cross word
Those who know him say he didn't dare to.
The magician who astonished his audience by
changing canary bird into rabbit has for.
mdablc rival in the man who turned bushel OF
potatoes into barrel.
The Cincinnati Commercial dominates William
Cullen Bryant, who is eighty for the Presidency
How grandly his messages would read in Ho.
merle verse.
Our friend Nichols, Of the Springfield, Ohio,
Republic, went diminishing around spelling
school the other evening and got noored. We
ion't exactly understand why a newspaper man
should NEEDLE with spelling.
An advertisement in New York paper runs
his way:
Would 1t not be well for residents of Long
Island or Jersey who anticipate being drowned
'r frozen to death en- route, to step up to the
office of the--lnsurance Company and prepare
or the worst"
New name for fog-Air apparent.
Spring is coming Lettus have peas.
A Cleveland druggist is named Whyborn. No.
body knows-RGnie Sent.
Mercury was bashful, last night, and went
Town out Of sight.-Boston Globe.
There are words which are worth as much as
he best actions, for they contain the germ of
hem all.
A book has been published called Half Hours
nth insects The author was not n regular
oardcr.
Men who travel barcfootcd around a newly |
arpcted bed room often find themselves on the |
'rong tack
The school authorities of Pittsburgh have in
ugurated "A new plan, and forbidden any study
mt of school hours.
Never sigh ever what might have been, but
make the best of what is. This bit of philosophy
valuable to the married man.
Does anybody know Of small boy who
couldn't freeze to death rather than wear over
oat, scarf and mittens ?-Roch. Dem.
Newark policeman had pair of boots half
olcd last fall with boarding house beef-steak,
nd he hasn't had wet feet all winter.
The Worcester Press declares Senator Logans
'cent speech to be the herald of a linguistic
lillennium, when singular nouns and plural
cribs shah lie down together and a little con-
lnction shall lead them