The Ottawa free trader., 1876-02-12
CREAM OUR EXCHANGES.

Georgia eNcutuSc ItlotCo lhS 'fPS''N'~N
Of a man in Macon who kept up his New Years
until after dark, and says that dog on the front
s.oop is a very poor substitute for door-mat.
We doesn't remember whether he sat down on
the substitute or not, but his pantaloons seemed
10 be somewhat worn behind.
The papers in his part of the Estate are motto
ug a difference OF between 80 deg. and 10 deg.
in the weather of Friday noon and Saturday
morning. We took our thermometer in by the
fire SO we wouldn't have to be running out all
the time to see if it was growing cold. Lhcrc
wasn't much of change around hcrc.--Ie6t"
ttegtSter.
Professor Proctor is going about telling thal
our sun is much inferior to other great lights I'D
the universe AS If itwere not enough Tor poor
down -trodden man to know that his gas Is u
failure. he has to be taunted with the fact that
even the daylight is far from being iirs'ra'e
article.
George Washington Childsthc obituary editor
~ the Pbila Let7ger can now take back seat. A
New York Sun reporter las viewed the remains
Of Mrs. Smith and his soul gushes OUT as 'oi-
lows
Neuralgia worked on Mrs Smith
Till meath the sod II laid her,
She was worthy Methodist,
And served as crusader
Another Charlie Ross turned up last week near
Uuiontown, Pa. When questioned, he said his
name was Charlie Ross and that he had lived IN
Philadelphia when at home. He answered the
description of Charlie Ross, with the exception
that he was redheaded, frecklcd grcy.cyed and
nine wears old, while little Ross was fair.haircd
brown.eyed, with fair, clear skin, and between
i've and six years old.
Scientists in these days make no difficulty OF
telling us when and how this world was created
and how the moon was swung up to It's place,
and what planets are inhabited and by what sort
Of animals, but we should like TO see them ex-
pound this problem:
The man comes home late at night, taxes off
his boots and puts them under the lounge, and
,ams foot stool after them and piles chairs up
in front Of the lounge, and morning dawnS 10
find one OF those boots in the hall and the other
M the Kitchen, and yet the wife solemnly vows
she never touched them!
Young lady IN Paris has started an cstab,
lishnent for the preservation and the propaga-
ton of the ant species in France. She sells her
eggs at a high profit to bird fancers MS food for
pheasants, which have great taste for Them
Tx.
Whose eggs, did you say?
This couplet may be seen upon an old tavern
sign in Connecticut consisting Of gate swing
ing from the limb of tree before the house:
This gate hangs well, and hndersnone,
Refresh, and pay, and travel on.
Though the Clays and the Marshalls are dead
those Kentucky papers 10 well enough once il
a while Here for instance is the Livingston
Ira remarking:
How often have we seen the blooming maidel
upon whose face smiles danced like sunbeam
upon the bosom of the sea, and whose HE CAV
promise Of happiness unaIloyed and hope unrc
quitcd, sitting with huge wad of gum in he
mouth and her beautiful chin irising and iallin
like wave upon the ocean,"
II you don't want your wife to bother you e,
cry day with the remark, Don't forget tina
worsted," Just mention to her the pretty girl VIII
tends the worsted counter where You got III
last.
The lawyers around Peoria are working u
the project Of redistrctlng the state, SO as to c'
tablish a United States court at that city. A
Peoria has three or four large distillcrcs, II
wonder her lawyers want II |. $. Court there.
An old bachelor At Pontiac has written pla
called The Twins lie makes one ol I'll
twins ten and the other fifteen years old! Il,
,vho+ co, an old bachelor know obout suc
"n"' ~" Eva
things anyhow?
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chock lnll.
Pike and pickercl are biting at the Kankak,
feeder Wilmington "dzet"
That's bad II they Keep on long enough bI
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Robert Toombs isn't always spouting treaso
Recently i'll lecture at Macan, Ga, lie said |