The Ottawa free trader., 1876-07-29

! By single vote, and that against the Jail.
Yet, in this proud array of Supervisors,
Who would not his duty do, and build
A Jail in which no law is violated who
Would bear to grunt and sweat in contempla.
tion of
The terrors and contempts mandaats brings,
But that the dread of the aforesaid relegation
Back to the country from whose bourne
No Supervisor e'er returns-unseats the will
And makes us rather shirk our duty here
Than boldly face it, and ne'er hold Office more.
Thus Office does make towards of us all;
Thus the native hue OF bare, plain duty,
Is painted Ger with bright, official colors,
And thus the old, foul prison pen is left
A monument to violated law. ANON.
During the practice of the Fire Department
on Wednesday evening, stream of water struck
a youth arrayed In new suit of linen, and wash.
ed all the buttsns off. II he had had l3 hands
and pair OF ice tongs he could have found a
place for each to hold his raiment on.
This is the season when The estimable young
man lifts his hat to a lady and drops therefrom
two cabbage leaves and damp sponge. Where
upon he passes on wrestling with his soul in ST.
! lencc, until he turns the first corner. Then he
says; go mercilul Hevings, what is dea'h by
sun-stroke compared to this,'
The livery business is lively of a Sunday now,
thanks to the enforcement of the Sunday law
and the revving fashion of Sunday pic-nics.
The love for pic.ncs and beer is rampant, and
the transportation of beer and croQuet sets to
the far off jungles, COW pastures and shaded
islands, gives ample employment to the curry
comb jugglcrs, and leaders Of the mule gender
One friend had to postpone funeral last sun
day because Of the scarcity of conyeyances, the
supply being reduced to one team composed of
a Norman stallion and mule.
We have lady in Ottawa so tender hearted
and -----, that she will beat not even an egg.
oh, shell us.n
1t Is well authenticated fact that clean cuffs
nave an unaccountable tendency to secrete
themselves somewhere in the immediate neigh
Dor hood OF the elbows, while dirty ones exhibit
wilful and cXasperating determination to re-
main obtrusiyey in the vicinity of the knuchles
| The revival feeling may be spreading, but it
hasn't got down deep enough yet to effect ar
reGragcs on country newspaper books. When it
does VIC shall be happier than we are now.
The mule is the most unhealthy animal in the
world unhealthy to have around.
Oh, happy Adam he saw eight Ccnteunials,
! Wonder if Rabcnsten made his "bocl," in his
day.
Damthcfze!
More poetry comes form disoydercd liver
than from inspiration. Several thousand stan.
zas in the course Of few months come from
orandy and water, which Is but another name
for inspiration.
4 nm est is the Robcst work Of a MOSQUITO bar.
a girl, in the presence of her beau, will leave
half her ice cream aud afterwards sneak into the
cellar and eat seven pickles and all the cold po.
tatoes she can lay her hands on.
As piece Of imaginative literature, the Re.
puJ'caD's article on the reservoir IS success; as
piece OF information, 1t is a. correct aud useful
as the statement that aud are H.
Ed. R9gg took a mine mp to Msrscilles last
Saturday " TO c'ean out" the grangcrs, aud was
sroopcd at the furious rate OF 2Otoj. The nine
don't board at the lie Bon-ron this week. Free
lunches are none too good for them.
Hon, S. =. has determined 10 don pair OF
oyeralls and go south. lie caught cold on Wed
nesday in trying to pass between two empty ice
wagons.
We do not want TO interfere with the sale OF
clocks, but We do most solemnly protest agaius:
clocks that strike every half hour. We knew II
was only o'clock when We arrived in front OF
that house and whom we ,rot bn,nc aud found
that IL was only ten o'clock we hustled around
the house TO see if we couldn't get some Of the
= old lady boarders to finish out our accustom.
ed spark-twelve o'clock being our modest hour
Of adjournment "oh, darn it give me needle 4"
- young lady living on Madison street has a
delicate hand that only covers IL. good sized
peach blows, without leaving a spruut visible.
/ say Jim, bring up that glD,s rooster and
clean us out once more before You wiring his
head or
D.. Il say, James, were you 1T that picnic yes
terday Sunday NO, was oil hunting that
Internal COW" Now, look-a- here, jim that
COW has got TO be sold. Its AL very nice to have
fresh milk and make ones own batter, but can't
mo, can't see E,y husband walking his legs of
. hunting up COW every sunday Oh, whats
the use Of" Never mind. that COW shall be-
made up into roasts and steaks before to-mor.
roW night, you hear me'' gyc, byc, baby. 20 To
seepy; seepy, boy baby, seep. secP, seep.
| The great reduction IN summer clothing. Good
all wool suits from s7.OO to $1,000 at " sticfe *
Co.'S.