The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-08-04


During this heated term" remarks an eX-
change apropos to the labor strikes, 'work is |
not so much of an object as the income obtain
ed thereby. Were the income certain without
it, very little work would be done; that's the
way we feel about it."
Another exchanges acknowledging the gift
of peck of onions from a subscriber, says, |
1T is such kindnesses as these that always
bring the tears to our eyes"
Sherman didn't catch him. Apprehending
the loss Of his place, Baltimore Custom
house official stayed away from the funeral Of
a friend who was connected with ward club
THE FLIzE.
"Oh. the flies the horrible flies!
Ruzzinp around like election lies;
Dodging about lil" election lies;
Over the butter and into the cream;
Holding conventions all over the bread,
Bitjnp Won, ears and tickling your head
Crawling
Buying
Too busy to die,
BECOME, thou buzzing pestiferous fly"
A party of young men dined sumptuously
at restaurant in Atlanta, and each insisted on
paying the bill. To decide the matter, it was
proposed to blindfold the waiter; and the first
one he caught should pay the bill. He hasn't
caught any of them yet.
Sometimes the good housewife complains
that the bread wont rise, do what you VIII;
but the Bridgeport STANDARD says, a man that
stepped on a banana peel on Main strcct;an
promptly set down on a bottle of yeast In his
coat pocket, rose Immediately.
George Francis Train says "a new power
has developed in himself greater than electri-
city or steam" All, ha! we know. Boil on
the elbow.-Hankeye.
One reason why the Graphic refuses TO pub
fish anything from George Francis Train is
because "Mr. Trains articles are worth 500,
600 apiece to any paper, if they are worth
cent. but times are too hard for ns :" nav -
TINS rate, and we decline to give any man 'cA'
4i,au his due
An exchange says that the soft and mellow
light on n fair moonlight is not more tender
in its glance than the clear and dazzling bright.
ness that beams from the eye of ancwly elected
Justice when addressed as squire
An English clergyman has been committed
for trial for libelng II brother parson. lie
sowed "Whtehead is scamp" in mustard and
cress in his garden
The sccthing Summer days have come,
The sutriest of the year
When mortals turn from gin and rum,
n. 1.,. do and anrs
When apple women, sleek and fat,
plague to poor and rich,
COnsprc to keep our feelings NJ
The cholera morbus pitch.
The philosopher of the Champaign Gosette
remarks that "lf the times are hard and you
must economize, stop your paper, but do not
cut short your allowance of whiskey and to-
bacco. \ good paper in the family is great
comfort 10 the wife and children, but that is
no reason why you should provide them with
weekly luxury at the expense of daily ne
cessityp
Braidwood recently imported about 400 ne
gro miners, and now the Presbyterian church
is in Il fermcnt over the question, rs the pastor
states it, whether the colored miners shall
have the privilege OF meeting with us in pub
lie Worship" Before the 4. Il. c. +. VI. send
any more missionaries to Africa, wouldn't it
be worth while 10 try to christianizc these
Presbyterians a.Braidwood:
We have the pleasure of sitting ON the petit
Jury with number of hardy miners from
Braidwood, and find them 10 be gentlemen OF
the first watcr-J0lid PhdHir.
Ill l;I,.. :, ,,,.l,n ,.n,, Gao, ,p.,r-
Of your element, ~ it were-to find yourself in
the company Of gentlemen?
Public interest in silver payments and tn,
price of lager beer in Cincinnati is divided
with complaints about thumb measure O
this il is necessary TO explain that the bucks
tiers Of that city measure berries and small
fruits in measures without handles, and in 81
doing thrust their thumbs as far as possible in
10 the vessel, and fill the berries around them
thus measuring the thumbs every time the.
sell quart Of berries.
One of the fashions in gentlemen's coats a
the watering places is for the sleeve to tit tight
iy-round the girls waist.
Z Georgia paper says: "'old Uncle Peter
colo-ed, 1909 years Old, is dead" Well, 50 1
Noah.
Balloonisis find passage over New Jerse.
very dangerous. They are frequently shot a
for mosquitoes.
The gentleman who stole "a gold pen from
this Office the other afternoon viii please fol
ward his real name and address, not necessar
! foE publication but a. a guaranty of goo'
hfaiih.-Er
I. HoU keeper is informed that the Balkai
Ne, .,out which she has heard so much
Exhibited in The stove department Q
ennial Exhibition.