The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-03-20
CREAM OF OUR EXCHANGES

The following is the latest style OF sale bill;
i will offer for sale
Aud that without fail
On Monday March the first
If the weather is fine
As the clock strikes pine,
A horse that's not the worst
He's eight years Old
II am not fooled
And just weighs half ton,
Is nearly & bay,
Is mixed with gray,
Is lightning on 4 run.
Yours, &c EX UNo.
This Is what the Amboy Journal calls "Pious
honesty--lcaying your newspaper in the post
Office 'uncalled for after you have taken it out
two months over the time you paid for, and then
putting five cent contribution IN the box to
tucate the heathen.'
To a correspondent who asks If Katie Putnam,
the actress, is descendant Of the gallant Israel
Putnam, we answer that We do not know whether
she Israely so related or not-Danb,1y Ne'rs.
Josh Billings has been writing for the pre- SIS
nearly twenty years, and he doesn't know how
to spell any better now than the day he com
menced.-NOrristotcn Herald
Eli Perkins, according to the vcracious ST.
Louis Journal, is now suffering from cold in the
head This shows that nature abhors a vacucm.
Detroit boys composition: "The horse runs;
SO does the Gazele; SO does my nose
postal card recently read by vigilant clerk
expressed these sentiments: Mr.. II shall
open rriyet schulz at my house and yoa can
com one turn free, and learn manores.
In new version Of the sermon on the mount
We find the following appropriate sentence;
blessed are the mercful, for they shall sprinkle
ashes on the sidewalks in the time of ice"
A. Oakley Hall, the witty epigrammatic ex
mayor-and- editor Of New York, is about to lead
Miss Ada Dyas, the actress to the altar She
kinks hers is the biggest haul Of the season.
correspondent asks us to please extend his
sympathy TO the jury who tainted when Mrs
Putnam related T. rs habit Of kissing his gen
tlemen iricnds"-Boston GlObe.
Troy stove firm has received a letter from
the west in relation to the purchase of heater
for a church, which concludes as follows: "Thc
heater furnished by you for the church at
works bully. Give us your rock bottom prices,
as we are poor, bat very pious
Some of the Lacon boys played joke on Ellis
worth of the Lacon Journal, last week. Ellis
werth's Office is in the basement under the
bank. The boys filed up the stairway with snow
and packed it down. Whsn the editor of the
Journal came down, he found that he was snow.
ed out and we don't know that he sworc, but he
did an awful thinkin'
The sandusky Register is guilty Of the strong
est typographical error on record; Large well
masOned sermons are essential to the health OF
any large town They cannot be operated, how
ever, without water to flush them and carry
away and assist in purifying the filth" Are VT
not in need Of bothy is the question now before
the people.
The New York Herald recently contained sew
eral cuts from photographs taken under the di-
rcction OF Prof. Peters, OF Clinton. illustrative
of the transit Of Venus. These beautiful pic.
lures will yiyedty call 20 the mind Of every lover
Of art, Venus or astronomy the graceful appear.
ance OF a section OF a Rhode Island greening
with a big wUrm-hole In it-Rone S6atinel.
This is the season OF the year when the editor
shouts up the pipe 10 the foreman, THE article
sent up yesterday headed Spring Has COME,
you can hold over. "-Cinet.ldti Sat. Night.
The Chicago Tribune says that II Waterloo OF
the ST. Louis Republican really has devil fish in
his room, it will &c the first devil fish on record
who has ever gone into partnership with a sar
dine.
A eolored gentleman Of Montgomery, Ala,
has, we notice, Unexpectedly left vacancy IL
the Jury box 10 accept a position on the cit
chain gang, kindly rendered him In consequence,
Of a Misunderstanding about the ownership o
some hogs.-Commercidi AdrnfsSer.
II you want a newspaper TO publish your poe
try and to be anxious TO secure it always star
OF with: ale faded away like a summer flower.
indianapolis papers announce that Limbur
ger cheese factory Is " be established there
ana In the nexs colnnn they find iault with tn
adOr arising from one fife big sewers. Be con
slstcnf gentlemen