The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-11-17
They All DO 1t,

At a meeting of the Chicago Academy of Sci
cnCcs, held on last Tuesday evening, GOV. BrosS
read paper on :" Starved Rock and Deer Park in
La Sale county, cOnfinipg himself chiefly to-
their topography. DR.. f. Andrews followed with
paper on "Thc Formation of Cayerns and Ra-
vines near Starved Rock" and showed that,
while five different forces are generally at work,
only one force acted in the formation Of the cav
ems and raynes in question.
There being no quorum at the council meeting
Of last Tuesday evening, ii was adjourned till last
evening
There is young man in this village that is the
father Of a coming event The young lady lives
at Ottawa, and her father is spooking around with
doublcbarrcled shotgun Bang! SO says the
Strcator Monitor.
As the p. m. pub. still slops over frequently,
its dissertations on plastcrs cannot be personal
Renaissance.
Church gocrs returning home from service on
last Sunday night were RECALLED with the clegan-
cics of fight near the Congregational church.
II was perhaps more pointed and considerably
more concise than the temperance lecture, hut
hardly SO cdyfying 10 the general public.
Thos. Brown, who sustained II compound
fracture Of both lees and other injuries by the
cars in Mendoza on the night Of the 2sth of Sep
TENDER, has so far recovered that he was able to
be removed to his home in Galesburg on Mon
day The authorities Of the Chicago, Burlington
IL Quincy Railroad deserve credit for the attcn-
ton bestowed on the unfortunate man during his
great suffering. He was kept at the best hotel
in the city, had two of the best physicians, and
four of the employees of the road, besides his moth
or and other members of his family In constant
attendance upon him, the Company defraying all
expenses.
The hop given at Wlis's by the Ottawa Cigar
some 20 or 50 couples present who, through the
excellent management, had a splendid dance, of
some 20 odd numbers.
One Ed. Harrigan stole an oycrcoat at Whites
Hotel on Tuesday last for which manocuvrc Judge
Miller sentenced him to the county Jail for 80
days and fined him $40 and costs
Blessed is the man who never steals an umbrcl-
Ia But where are the blessed Echo answers,
WHARF
La Sale gets sand for the manufacture of glass
from Ottawa; Pittsburg gets II great deal of
Lcrs from Utica and neither makes the quality Of
glass that is made in Ottawa. Why the canal is
not lined with glass works is one of the myster-
les we cannot understand Cheap land, cheap
building material, cheap fuel, cheap sand, com
pcting freight lines to all great centres Of trade,
ought to stir up things in that direction, e>pec-
tally rs Ottawa glass ranks rs the first quality in
the trade. ..".
Mr.. Jacobsohn believes that one swallow tail
doesn't make Il Boston Quintcttc Club, and there.
fore all of the musicians wear one.
lie THE horse left George +. and the last hdlf
OF the wagon George picked himself up In time
to see the horse and Jo,r wheels Of the wagon
going around Captain Kennedy's corner, at the
rate OF mile minutc.-P. ". PUB.
] George wants to know, show can these things
be-" Give it up, George.
j The new stone cutters ON Main ST. are about laid
on the south side of the street from La Sale st.
to Clinton ST., and one of the dirtiest CATERS in
the city made clean.
The talented youth who plays the "dcyir'
about our Office, and Tcutonic youth appren-
! tccd 10 a barber, were found late one night this
week under window in East Ottawa, "seren-
ading," as they called it, Their song consisted
Of two lines of Muleahy's Gone away" varied
81 times. They sang II So "tlnc," however,
that nobody could tell the difference" they
said; but somehow during the oath rendition a
scuttlc OF coal ashes "drapped."
The twilight has turned It's attention to edu-
catonal topics. As "sold' reading matter,
elucidating the problems Of education they "lay
over anything imaginable-eyen superior 10
Mark Twain's map Of Paris.
Judge Hubbard, in arguing a case before
the supreme court of Iowa, in which a com