The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-08-18
CREAM OF OUR EXCHANGES.

sent TO the Elgin asylum, MS INSANITY JULIE %
tablished by poem descriptive OF his state
mind at the time of the murder He says il wa
IA dark! insutferable dark,
A solid backncss, black solidity,
dense profoundncss, profound density
Cnscuptured darkness, setin sightlcsshess
UnQuarried midnight IN nocturnal dress
Illirnitablc, starlcss, moonlcss night,
uncrcate pitch, all warfares to Unite
Untarnshed gloom, pure unadultera'e,
An archetypal universe OF fate
That beats a negro camp-meetnS at HicniEh'
with all the lights put out
The Red Ribbon temperance movement has
struck Mendoza 1t broke out a week ago last
Friday night and has been boiling every night
since at the churches, halls, etc. Two hundred
OF the most solid citizens prcciptably loaded half
: dozen wagons with the best liquor in town and
went on a four weeks fishing tour.
The prejudice against petit juries viii cease if
they generally initiate the Kentucky jury who
Lisgusted with Il suit for a yoke of oxen, which
mad already had five trials rendered the following
verdict:
eve Of the jury lind for the plaintiff one Of the
steers in controversy, or its value $50; and TO
he defendant the other steer, or IL value, $50,
The costs to be equally divided among the parties,
and the yoke to 20 the lawyers
Some men in Wutseka, according TO the Times,
are getting mighty particular. One Of them
bought what was supposed 70 be an empty dry
,,o6s bor,t = store, b"! when he got it home
he found It full Of sire" lGis H' $''"A' amor"
J, and zen: the 1.is aaek
Take Away your Spartan boy and his FOX. IAel
l;.rl, uJ al, In,
he meets his father, and tells what the Suncay.i
school teacher said, while the cigar is burning
hin. is infinitely more worthy Of admiration.
Old but good. 4 letter was lately received att
he Chicago postoiiicc, directed "Io an honest
man" The chief clerk sent it to the dead letter.
department, with the candid confession that the
man did not live in Chicago.
A consignment of mummics from Egypt has
reached New Haven, and the papers maieiouslyl
say Stanley Matthews is now on the way to that
r!ty in hopes OF finding the old Wig party in the
consignment
Mis- Jennie Collins says there are scycnty-iive
crafts exclusively open to women IL tl.iS Guy,
and ONLY nine or ten To men. We always thought
,Ge women were scvenfod as crafty as The men.
Boston Post.
There are many explicit direc.iors ~ - whata
follow should do wher in doubt, bat The averaged
inhabtmt Of San Francisco recognizes but one
Of them When in doubt he Kills a Chinaman.
'.Whcre Is the dollar Of our fathers shrcks
N exchange cycitcdly. You needn't look this
way 60 iEtcnty We're willing 10 be searched.
-R3tklond C0Uitr.
"a know my value tried the bold Jack Blow,
His brazen forehead flushed with foolish pr!de,
'Do YOU replied a way; well, then You khow|
! great deal more than all the world beside
The origin Of the word muh, applied 20 fool,
g., said to be that mut holds a woman's hand
without squeezing it.
There hasn't been any riot IN Worcester but
several young men have purchased comets and
.one TO practicing, and nothing but The utmost
,orbcgrancc can prevent nj outbrc"k- 'off''1r
PirSS.
Jenny Lind, The papers report, Is again /" moth.
er, at ~ years Of age. As she has lost her voice.
she probably thought that the next best way to
sccp up the supply Of family music. =
Il want togo to the bad house. said Ger
man on Il City Point car yesterday. The bell
punch man told him thorc were 4 good many
along the route and asked for particulars. "Vcll,'
IF mine CLOTHES and haf ahchwim. Boston G'oJs,
\ New York exchange makes q note of the fact
that there are only three printcrr'conincd in the
State Pentcntiary ut Auburn, though among The
eonyicts can be found twcntyscvcn clergymen
forty-two lawyers and thirteen doctors.
The OSHKOSH deacon who took up a collection
10 his wifc's funeral "to dcfray expenses" cX
IL i,,ip IN
citing II as a case Of mcanneos. 1t was pure alb
.euce of mind He had always been in the habi
IN church, when the choir struck up "Old Hun
cred" to take up collection, ard when th'
same tune was started as the funeral, j." urcon
-oiously passed the hat aa usual.
rnE OLD, OLD STORY
\ fair maid flushing red
With an unknown feeling,
But shamed to bow her head
For an her lovers knceling;
SO Is the story told.
i Blak,c9par5 Voco..",.
Snd now she married is
To one Of those admirers
She's In the spanking biz,
And builds the morning iirc"s;
So l. the story told.
-[St Louis Jor,rn
Aud through the morning mist,
Ihcrc'l be fierce explosion;
Because she will persist
In firing with kerosion;
So is the story told.
Ba,2iGg'oa Homb'y'.
s Michigan father writes 10 the faculty OF lal,
What are your terms for q year? And does
cost anything extra If my son want, to learn
rcad and write as well rs row boatE'
The -VarliB .Voring Bal has just been c-,al
Ished at Marlin, Texas, and aiiect7 To rank
ability with the J,G,~ms Jaapl'c'de, the Saul
Eg5o, and the Worth Coyoi.ao Natst'H
German dairy maid IN jefferson county lc
head first into a tank Of soft switzcr cheese Ia
week. Here Il is again. 4 woman in The ka-
IS usual.
An old lady wants 10 know what il meant !
mean time Our watch keeps it.-E"'kta'
fgaFtsf.
Lawrence Mass flrm sent an invoice
lager 10 Liverpool last week. Being New Io
lager, the British probably intend to usc il f