The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-04-21
CREAM OF OUR EXCHANGES.


TAG editor olthe Rush City (MinnJ 7i"ea nav
ing taken occasion recently TO make some pFe'
ty severe remarks about local physician, thc
Dr. called on hin, to take satisfaction out o. LIs
hide After locking arms with the Gator 'hC
tvs waltZcd around the room few times, anu
then the editor inhis subsequent account OF the
interview says:
The Doc;or kicked over a two. gallon JuG oil /
INK. wbich of course We didn't like, because II
was new ink and besides, 1t spolcu thc LOOKS o.
The floor We took the Doctor Tor sPohgG an, anu
snnned the ink up as quickly as possible. That's
what made the Doctor mad. lie then showed us
over chair and We rolled around awhile, and
Anon we began to feel like fight, and we don't
Joubt but what we would have had quarrel
very soon, but the Doctor suddenly concluded
ne didn't care whether We took back what we
mad said or not, and, as there was not any pros
pect of our taking IL back right OIL, he conclud-
cd 10 quit Just as we got ready To begin.
The use Of scientific terms by professional
gentlemen in ordinary conversation sometimes
lead to strange mistakes. At murder trial at
Gainesville, Tenn, last week. DIR. Lockhart, Of
Polksylllc was called as witness and asked by
the prosecution: "Wherc did the pistol ball enter
the deceased" The doctor promptly replied,
Just above the sterno-cayiculaT articulation
Stop stop." cried his honor; docs anybody
know this mah:n Whereupon DR.. Green testi-
FED that he never knew DR.. Lockhart to drink;
but Dr. Rogers said he thought that DR.. i. might
be drinking little. Judge Rice thought he
was drunk good deal" and ordered him to
jail to get sober
GOV. Pillsbury, of MINI, has appointed the
Goth inst, as day Of fasting and prayer in that
state TO avert the grass.hOpper scourgo The
90, 10, fac inn, Int |
not expected to commence prcyng until about
the Isl OF May
The following from the CourierJoUaQl, is the
most lucid exposition we have yet seen of the
visit of the Hayes committee Of five to Ncw
Orleans:
We're going along down to New orlcans!"
We're going along down TO New Orleansw
exert: :, Nam o, ~
Tartan;
were going along down to New Orlcansm
were going along down to New Or!cansm
III:
80 see that quadroOn BALI. c
Lyman Tnmbu he went there"
Ll'wcacc:
80 Johuny Sherman, he went there"
KcIea2l. >
And Governor Palmer, he went thcrc!'
"Wlo,r Gm,ral Garfield, he went there" s
hor..
YEA >hellablrgcr, he went thcrc!"
M.
80 see that quadroon blw -,
"Wall, around, walk around, around 50 walk ,
We are gong down to New Orleans, +
To sec that quadroon bali! 3
The house Of the editor Of the Pontiac FIRE. -,
TrQ}cr WAS entered by burglars one night -,
last weck and his pants pockets r.lcd of the ac-
oumulated wealth Of the last ycar-syiy cents :
When will editors learn to- be less reckless with
their money, and instead OF carrying such large
sums around with tncm, kccpl: lockcdup in the G
bank. t
The sweet singer q. v. c. Is prompt with his c
little ode fos Chamberlain:
Put away his little carpet.
Bag, for he will want 10 nccr; 6
Little Daniel is dlsgustcd-- n
lie has walked of on his car
Gone North to grow up with the country 8
The Strcaior Rcnao,' spells it "3riator" and c
"Dr,awa" 7
MrS, Sar.ors has named her lrst.bom Jules, 9
10 honor u is supposed, Of Julius Caesar. {
The wI,cs OF Ola Satan are iusdous beyond
conception. "Orcu, often" Gays Mrs. Van Cott, /
"cycn now the deyil comes tome and Temps me ,
20 evil thoughts. Standing Oh the platform in d
the blaze OF rAc chandelier a scrawny sinner ,
lopcs up the centre aisle one can't help saying
softly 10 herself ir-I-lookcd-.ika tha,-wo.
inau- Tdpad''
Simpkus seldom Gets mp before noon. His
wife calls Aim "tar style" because lc is the lat
est thing o..
Don't go go shc Black His to get rich Iii,
far ca-ier 10 organize he Insurance company
aud pay Yourself u salary Of $4,000 per year. G
Tue "GAGo LAW ENFORCED.
Young acUes came down from old Vermont
To have little "a sport Ir
And, when he told the boys that same
They al said: Hold the Fort"
II have 10 fort The which to hold: /
Pm sure you've lost your wits" Ii
Remarked voting Jones. Whcrcat they said: ,
Young man, 20 shoot your Spitz"
Go shoot my Spit! 'rhc lord forbid
These things should come 10 pass" /
And then they said wipe oil your chin,
And 20 and try blue-glass'
And then the startled Jones did turn
Away from these young men. 1
Md, wondering al their curious ways ,
MaGu tracks Cor home again.
--Eos'oa cloJ..
As The columns OF .he Record are not devoted
exclusively 20 the subject Of Infant Baptism"
we are compelled To reject the twentv.two paWe 1
communication ON that subject from a friend in
PlAinfc!d.-Joiiet Record
Large numbers OF able-bodicd men arc moving
away from Ohio and into somc Kind Of Federal
Office.
The BLACK Killers are relociay over u,c t,,u,
u the first girl baby in that wild, Indian bauntc5
country. The parents ought 70 call her siony'
san Cheyenne.-Iis0Hr.
comet has appeared in the constellation, 70
casus, the hone OF poets, and fears are cy,rrs..
ed that Mr.. Tupper has been lost at,ca