The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-03-13
CREAM OF OUR EXCHANGES.

The big snow is a God-send to us, says the Mil
YANKEE Necs. We owe q bill up in st. Paul of
1850, but it is hardly possible that the mails will
get working satisfactorily to us before the 18th
Of July.
The Sandusky register contained no editor ial
and one local item for Gour days, on account OF
repairs to the Office. The repairs consisted Of
putting lock on a door and washing the wiz
dows.-Free Press.
There is one disadvantage in having girls in
the composing room. The young man who goes
up to see how much matter is left over seems to
have terrible time finding the galleys-it takes
him an hour gencrally.-HH Sent.
The editor of St. Louis paper has been writ
ing on the care Of the ear His articles are
necessarily photographer, He has written
several lengthy articles, but he has not yet cX-
hausted the subject. The 81. Louis editorial ear
is Observation-Disclosures city, Ill.,, Hratd.
What often makes the print err? Echo, the
printer
Men who SET UP TIE |atost--Morning paper
compositors,
The annihiators Of time and spacc(sy --Slovcn-
" compositors
OF all subscription papers newspaper is the
hardes. to start
Is the T;mes that tried mons souls the one
that Is published at Chicago?
Tramping printers will go anywhcrc-even
from the World to The Sun
Jonah must have been and old compo,, for
they cast him over for the next roller,
Montana paper thinks there is an
awful fuss being made over the Beecher trial.
Why it says, right out here is Bill Casey. He
went into family, married one girl, spoiled
mother, and has run away with the third and
yet there Is no trial, no statements, no nothing,
emily just the old man with q rife looking around
after Bill
An exchange says: They would have had a
religious revival in La Crosse the other week
but for the way harness were cut up and horses
shaved outside the church door while the
preacher was starting the good work within. A
man can't be good after finding his horses tail
and name cut off, That's fact. Under such
circumstances religion Is about the last thing n
man wants.
The st. Louis Glote tries TO make its subscri-
bers willing to die by predicting the approach of
shS tIuio wien NnShSl buail NIdW lHc lUculeS
for his operas from Bancroft's histories. Imag
inc Washington singing, cannot tell lie,
father in minor key, with drum accompani-
ment representing the blows OF the Ratchet
The Yates Co. Chroaicle says that the BoS Com
posituS is a new species of the OK tribe--the re-
suit Of hybrdization. We know better. 1t is a
Latin term for the tramp pr!nter-the peripatetic
typeslinger who makes periodical havoc in we'll.
ordered composing
Forbearance IL not always a virtue, even in a
clergyman. Imagine the feelings of the rural
divine who, after getting fifty cents for marrying
couple, found that the bridegroom had gone
Of with his new silk hat.
Ananias recently appeared at scance In
Louisville, and was Immediately engaged as u
regular contributor TO Louisville PAGER.
Some people don't get enough Of themselves
living with themselves every day, SO they keep n
journal --Beecher.
That's not so bad as writing letters.
A Texas damsel has sued an admirer for
breaking her nose while trying To- kiss her
against her will.
The Globe says that the Rutlaad sportsman
who predicted mild and open winter, because
the hair On squirrels tails was not so thick as
usual, had his ears frozen four inches deep III,
the other morning.
This weather is rough on the night policeman
His ears nearly freeze while be waits for the ser
peaut TO get out Of sight before he can dodg
into the nearest grocery.-Na. Seat.
A man was seen coming out Of Texas news
paper Office with one eye gouged out, his nos
spread all over bis face, like piece OF beef, an
one Of his ears ehewed of. To policeman VIII
interried him, he replied: j didn't Ike an Al
tiele tina. 'peared in the paper last week, an
vent in TO see the man that writ II lie wa