The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-05-27
CREAMOF OUR EXCHANGES.

The Aurora people paid about 100000 to gel
the car shops of the C., B. & Q. railroad there
and they make it pay. The company buys about
900 cords of wood month for its shops, but the
sbops don't begin to use it all. The Elgin Times
saws 1.-THE people never buy wood at Aurora
they don't have too. A farmer who brought
q load of cord wood there the other day and
tried to give it away TO man, was promptly
:old that If he wanted to give MS Wooa away ne
would have to saw it up, as the railroad com
pany always did sou
Campbell, the Chicago Marshal, has paid back
10 Miss Eddy S2,100 of the money that he and
Blakely scared her into paying. The state Re9-
,stsr says Campbell holds over any other repub-
lican oficehoder in the state. He is the only
man IN the party vino holds receipt for stolen
money.
A chrome with every egg now andWA
NerS. Is that crow-mo rooster!- VMf"aG
Times. Guess so, for a rooster can cfo"-iOo
than a hen.-NorriStOIcn HTdH.
4 celebrated poet advertised that he would
supply lines for any OCCASION" n fisherman
sought him soon after, and wanted "a line
strong enough to catch porpoise."
Rhode Island sends TO the Centennial police
man who measures six feet three inches, That
comes from living in small state Not having
room to spread, he ran up.
The city council OF Aurora refused to appro'
pirate $1,000 to be spent ON powder and creased
poles on the 4th OF July, and the NetcS is indig
nant and cries Flunked.' and says the kouncil
has kicked over the starry flag and the soaring
eagle, and all that sort o thing
The editor Of the Earlville Gazette recently de-
clined to do job of printing for the Driving
Park Association, on the ground OF conscen-
tlous scruples against encouraging horse racing
Every little helps" as the old woman said
when she emptied her kettle into the sea.
The reason why Aurora got, so excited over
raging bulls and stumptail cows was because
they made 1t dangerous for the girls to wear
barber pole stockings and flannel petticoats on
the street.-Ottdwd Free Trader.
But Ottawa is never troubled that way. The
girls don't fool away their money on stockings
and petticoats. They don't wear em.-Aurora
Ners.
yes they do; bu: they wear clothes over
them.
When young man gets the impression that
he's as handsome as picture, isn't il about time
FOR somebody TO take him down?-EI.
No reference TO the youth Of the Mencota
BaAttm
Thomas Jefferson, It should be remembered at
this iuncture, gave us Louisiana; and that would
be enough to entitlc Thomas to the everlastin z
scorp of his country, even If he hadn't started
Fourth Of July celebratons.-St. Louis Rcpub
The Cincinnati Commercial is mean enough TO
say
Zone wonders why Uncle Billy Mckee does
not sell the CD. newspaper that he owns As
the case stands, its force as a moral organ il
somewhat discounted"
The New York Sun OF q late date contains Az
article giving "adyice to young convert" The
editor Of the Sun should print some "advce to
an old sinner" ana read it six times day.-Nor-
rStOlrt Herald.
The Connecticut legislature contains twenty
Yale graduates and doesn't steal as much as some
Legislatures with hardly graduate in them. II
isn't learning that makes talent.
Watseka, Iroquos county isn't quite ripe yet
for that shower OF fire and birthstone The
Hoopestown Chroaiele finds one hsnest man
there yet. HIS name is |. c. Wade. 1--WE had
some dealings with him." says the Chronicle,
and found him to be man Of honor
Col Forney prints two.coumn dream he had
lately. He dreamed that Blaine was elected
president in 1876, Tom Scott in 1850, and Miss
Marian Mitchell in 1884. There was knock at
the door before he could reach that little matter
Of s25,OOO
Who ever heard OF a school Of fish breaking
into a field and eating up the crop! Ana yet a
California newspaper says that large quantities
Of wheat in that state have been destroyed by
dsh during the past winter, owing to the sub
mersion Of the fields by high water, and the fish
feeding on the tender grain roots.
Peter Cooper has gone into politics; from
which we infer that the Indian novel business Is
played oUt.--St. Louis Repub.
No wonder Chicago editors are aghast at the
ignorance OF st. Louis, when II: leading paper
don't know that II was Samuel and not Peter
Cooper that wrote the Leather Stocking novels.
Cable dispatches announce thatthe plague has
broken out at Bagdad Are there two plaques,
\ few days ago the dispatches announced that
Sergeant Bates aud his flag were in Philadelphia
dangerous rival 20 the editor Of the Chicago
Times has been discovered IN Rhode Island
MAJ who has been lying in Que position for nine
ye5rs,-.N0rtcieh Bulletin,
Is this, from the Cincinnati TH,es, merely a
hideous invention: In the charitable town Of
ST. Louis they give tramps bread and butter
with little nitro glyccrinc pills inside, and then
Kick them. They 20 off.
The greenhackers have evidently nominated
Cooper under the supuositOn that he is a stey'r
good man.-thi. Tunes.
Miss Dickinson lost one OF her most valuable
diamonds from lie setting during her debut a,
the Globe theatre ia Boston, but il was found IL.
terward. The four dresses she wore on the uc.
casion were made in New York, and cost 5000
Which shows that though an actress may bc
got up regardless CT expense " II don't insure
good article.
E. NJ. Chamberlin, one Of The leading spirits Il
.ha Ipdfaparnlis convention az ~, 1U,,.r .r-Gg.,