The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-07-21
CREAM OF OUR EXCHANGES.

ton:
"You double each story you tell,
lou double each sight that You see;
Your names double II double u,
Double double Cd"
The effectiveness of powerful preaching"
finds an apt illustration in the following incident
mentioned by the N. Y. Dispatch
Not long since preacher Of our acquaintance
described a pond in which he had seen many
fine fish, and brought it in as an Illustration in
one Of his discourses. On the following Sunday
morning SIX deacons were missing from thelr
pews but when the pastor took stroll after
service he saw the absent six sitting on the yer.
bank of that identical pond and half a
DAM :. we're bobbing on the surface Of that
dozen covks :
slTea-n
The NNeE York plan Of getting rid Of dogs by
drowning is recommended by the ST. houf'
,;loBe. Democrat for that city, With THIS pro''So
uOf course it would be necessary to get Il pou""
,,.orer who could be relied on not to klll oog
more than once, our last pound keeper having
heen paid by the head, and having '"'o'ne'
which he killed fifteen or twenty times' al h'!
cents EACH"
III. supposed that Gov. Chamberlain IN the
opening quotation OF his Woodstock speeeh-l
see hand you cannot seei hear call you
cannot hear,"--was quoting from Sehenck on
Poker.
The following neat reply OF Miss Stevens is re.
ported from London to an Englishman who ask.
ed her: what change do you see in society since
YOU were last hcre% Replied the heiress The
only difference is, that many people that lett
unmarried are now married, but more that /
left married are unmarried
"The Rhabdoskidopheros" IS the name of a
new STYLE of umbrella The advantage Of 1t is
that nobody can ask to borrow it.
This submarine telegraph is truly wonderful
institution. Thus within few days after the
fact it enables us to announce that the Governor
Of Ceylon has appointed Alexander Barthole-
meues de Zilva Rajacaruna WicNremaratue to be
Atapattn Mudaliyar of Matara
When an Illinois man goes out to the Black
Hills, and desires to live peaceably, he proclaims
himself an ex,judgc OF two baby shows lntre-
MD courage and reckless disregard OF danger
command great respect out there.
schooner that sailed from st. John to Liver
pool last March with q cargo of planks has not
been heard from. 1t is feared she has gone by the
board.-N. Y. Com. AdO. Joist what we think /;
though she may beam merely detained by an ac-
cident, and we may hear from her lafter while.
--TGlobe Democrat. Heard from at atht. Had
her timber shiyered in storm and stud in
below Hatteras and got bcached on the shingIc.
~ would not live Away
| ask not to stay"
SO he ate green peach
And was carted away.-HdWk. rye.
Five or six years OF married llfc,' remarks a
veteran observer, twill often reduce naturally
irascible man 10 such condition OF angelic hu-
manity that it wouldn't be safe to trust him with
q pair Of wings"
Most Of the Maine hotels have no wine lists.
The Bangor House, however, still has the
heading on its bill Of fare, but beneath it
there is only this: ave would If we could"
The neatcst thing OF this hot season is, as we
see by a report in a Chicago paper IN associa-
ton of colored people calling itself the "Ambro-
sial Club"
Either the editor OF the Aurora NecS has been
shamefuy sold on his Hebrew poetry, or he is
an unspeakably nasty dirty brute.
A double grayestone in Bennington, Vt, bears
these inscriptions:
Matha, Anna,
wife o. wife Of John {.
John G. Cook, Cook, died 2ith
died q Dec, Dec. ISL, in
1910, the 18th year
IA the 18th year OF her age.
of her age.
study Of the dates and age, Is interesting.
HAYES HYMN.
Oh, might | read my title clear,
Through all the frauds and lies,
That I'll my days and nights with fear,
And mock my feigned surprise!
Then Cameron's tricky arts were vain
Against me to prevail,
IA scnrn the blows of Brother Blaine
Aud darts OF Sister Gail. ". \. Sun.
Mrs. Liyermore win lecture this fall on the
Coming Man" .iust like women; only most OF
them lecture 10 the coming INDEPENDENTLY
the one that's coming in at midnight with his
boots in his hand
churn full Of ice cream was accidentally oy.
erturned at a pic mic in this county few days
ago and nine candidates got their trowscrs
soiled.---Uacomb Eagle.
Either your ice cream was heap TOO Thin 20
Re good, or the story is too thin.
The United States isn't so hard up for credit
yet. The new four per cent. loan is already
quoted in London al lO21. per cent Now If W,
could get law passed 10 make Uncle sam en-
dorse for lis
4 Watseka real estate AGENT Germans IL
trouble on account Of his chrography. Hayin.
paid the taxes on some lroquois lands for a Chi
cago man aud lacked - cents Of having enough
money he wrote 10 his Chicago customer
Please send IS cts. balance on taxes, aud oblgc
Sc" The Chicago man studied over that CHR
ography two days, and then interpreted it as Al
order for - lbs Of bologna sausages, which b
sent
Bits Of fun from the newspapers The wors
spectacle II rage, establishment, and tlseppo!ni
ment we ever saw was that Of couple of dog
trying 10 fight with ;hei muZzies On.-Rsatssfe
Dsn,O-r0'. II makes a man feel madder than
nest Of June bugs 10 dance hornpipe IN from
% a lady on the street three minutes before b
can control himself 20 o. 10 Jet her pass witbou