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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-04-05
A GEOLOGICAL ROMANCE.

If,sDi,yd 6y an Unusuoi Flor 81 Aa'mdl Spirits
No swectcr girl eve ever gnu
Than Betty Martens daughter sue.
With sable hare, small, tapir waist,
And l,ps you'd gopher miles 10 taste;
Brisht, lambent eyes, like the ga1cllc,
sheen pcrtly brought to bear so well;
Ape pretty lass, it was avowcd,
al whom her marmot TO he PROUD,
Deer girl. loved her as my life
And vowed TO hcilcr for my wife.
Alas! u sailor, on the sly,
Had cast on her his wcthcr eye
He said nv love for her was bosh
And my affection musquash
He'd dog her footsteps everywhere,
Anteatcr in the casy-chair;
He'd setter round, this sailor chap,
And pointer out upon the map
Where once pirate cruiser boar
Him captive to foreign shore.
The cruel Captain far outdid
The yacks and crimes of Robert Md.
lie oft would whale Jack with the cat
And say: 'Mv buck, doe you like that.
"What makes you stag around SO, say,
The ca,amounts to something, hey
Then he would seal it with an oath,
And say: ''You are q lazy sloth.
I'm staryc YOU down, my sailor fine,
Until for beef and porcupinc."
And, fairly horse with iicndish laughter,
Would say: "Icncetorth, mind what giraffe tcr.'
In short, the many risks he ran
Might well llama drawer mail
Then he was wrecked and castor shore
While iccby clnging 10 anOa,
Hycna cleft among the rocks
He crcpt, SIMS shoes and minus OK.
And when he fain would goat tO bed,
He had to lion leaves, instead
Then Sue would say, with troubled face
How koodoo live in such place"
And straghtway into tears would melt
And say: ''lIow badger must have felt,
While he, the brute, woodchuck her chin
And say: "Ayc.ayc, my laSs!' and grin.
Excuse these steers. It's over now.
There's naught like grief the hart can COW.
Eackass d her to be his, and she
She gave Jackal, and Tilted me.
And now. alas the little mink-
Is bound to him with iIymcn's lynx.
--lbo,bS +, .idooiS, in Uf,od f,,' Press.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-04-05
Famous pinafOre.

has yot come to their knowledge about the
much talked OF III. VI. $. PinaiOrc, or The
Lass that Loved Sailor" IL is nautical
comic opera, the liOrclto music 10y the cclcbra.
ted English composer Arthur sullivan IL Is
hardly necessary To- say that il is Just now the
popular tavoritc in the eastern cities, where 1t
is performed by professionals and no CnG ut
amateur companies, being constantly "rccciycd
with screams Of laughter Josephine, II
Icharming young daughter OF Captain Corco.
ran, has Condcscendcd % fall in love with
Ralph tackstraw, II foremost hand on her
fathers ship; and the love is mutual Sir
Joseph Porter, X. G, b., the First Lord OF Al.
miraty Is also "a suitor for .ioscphnc's hand,
favored by her father, Other characters, prom
incnt in working ont the plot, are Dick Dead
eye, "a deformcd sailor, Little Buttercup, u bum.
boat woman (vcndor Of provisions, fruit, etc.,
and llcbc, II handsome cousin of Sir Joseph.
There are two nCls--thc scene Of both laid
upon the deck OF the Pinaiorc. The first act
opens with the following chorus of sailors
We sail the ocean blue,
And our sauCy ships beauty,
We're sober men aud true,
And attentive to our duty.
When the balls whistle free over the
bright blue sea,
We stand by oar guns all day;
When At anchor We ride on the
Portsmouth tide
We have plenty Of time for ply
Thi, act is occupied with explaining the
situation as already described, and with de-
claration of love by Ralph, his acceptance and
the lovers plot to clope that night
The second act opens at night There Is Il
scene between the Captain and
Buttcrcup; hesitating solloquy by Jose.
phinc, and "a formal declaration by Sir Joseph,
La. but l.
in rank need cause her no anxiety. Her reCcp-
ton OF this assurance makes lin happy,
when, In fact, 1t has only removed her remain.
ing sCruplcs about clipping with Ralph. Her
purpose however is disclosed by the malicious
Deadcye and the lovers are Intercepted when
on the point of leaving the ship. The Cap
tain's ungaardcd words of wrath cause him to
be confined by Sir Joseph, who also arrests
Ralph for his presumptuouS plot Here Little
Buttcrcup reveals her important secret, which
is tina; the Captain and Ralph had been eX-
changed in infancy, she having been their
nurse; thereupon both prisoners are released.
Ralph becomes captain, and Captain Corcoran
sinks to the rank of Il foremost hand. As SrI
Joseph cannot marrya common sailors daugh-
ter, he consoles himself with the hand of his
cousin Ilebc; Ralph marrieS Josephine, and
the cX-Captain is aflirncrd 10 Little Duttcrcup.
In the language of Mr.. Smith Weed, these
are THE bones of the transaction simple |
enough, silly enough, but ailording scope for
situations, absurdities and comicall- /!
tics IN abundance. and set off with very enjoy, |
able music-ars, duets, concerted pieces, and
choruses, with fine instrumentation.
The following passage occurs IN song by
the captain, with chorus:
Capt Though related to peer,
can handle, reef and steer
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-04-05
Facts that We nov.

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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-04-05

/. +. LINDER, IN Il little volume of "Rcmi
niscenccs" written before his death gave the
subioined sketch of Dan Voorhees,. tho tall
alive, it would be no more than fair that Noor
hecs should make the rctort courteous and say
rs much for Under for certainly in his best
days-say from 1915 10 1855, it would have
been hard to find "A man in Europe or Amcri
lea who surpassed |. +. Lindcr in the powers
.ut olOcutlOn.' Here is what he wrote Of
voorhees,:
| will here introduce the name Of :. man
not of our state, but who Is almost one OF us,
for he has prsctlccd law up and down the
Wabash country, on both sides OF that river
as well in Illinois is in indiana mean Dan
Voorhees,, of Terrc liautc, Indiana. | have
had great hesitation about giving sketch of
his career because | do not wish to rc-publish
what has heretofore been published thousand
tunes IN reference 10 his political career, his
speeches in congress and elsewhere.
Dan does not belong to Indiana alone, but
he belongs To the nation. He is emphatlcally
a national character He has made speeches
in congress that would do honor to "A Burke. Il
Fox, or Lord Chatham. have sat under
his speeches many u time perfectly cntranccd
and bcwitchcd 10y his cIoqucncc. | really
think that can in truth say that never heard
so fine II speaker. | can't give my readers II
better description Of Dams cloqucnce than
what the old Ranger Gov Reynolds, sand of
Henry Clay. Being called upon by lis young
cr men (whO knew that the old Ranger had
often heard Clay, Webster and Calhoun al.
dress the Senate of the United States. to know
what he thought Of Mr. Clay's clOQuence, and
to give us some idea of it. Wei, " said he
gentlemen, fancy fifty iddlcs finely played
and all in full blast at the same time and YOU
have only reached the halfway point to the
cnchanmcnt and charm produced by his voice
and cloqucncC' But said one of our mum
Der, Gov Reynolds, YOU certainly overlooked
! Mr.. Calhoun and Daniel Webster" No.
! haven't said he ~ have heard them al in
their pride and power, and a the summit Of
| their fame, and tell you, gentlemen, set them
| beside Henry Clay and measure them with
| hjm aud they would strike HIM about the
waistband of hi, brooches. And so { think in
reference 10 the modern orators and speakers
whcr compared with Daniel W. Voorhees,, for
] | am Tree to confess | would rather here him
speak, when under the proper inspiration, than
! listen 10 the finest band Of music that ever
| filled The ar with IT. mclodic-
! There is not q man in Europe or America
who ever surpassed Dan Noorhcc, IN the pow
crs OF cloculion. Now / don want my read.
crS Ia understand tina, mean 10 cXalt Dan to
| the rank uI great statesman or philosopher;
! only mean 10 Say "a, "a great jury lawyer and
popular dcclaimcr be has no cqual-and there
! | stop
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-04-05

How =" SIR the WSD-Take . polished
metallic surface oi two feet or more, with a
straight edge large haud-saw will answer
the purpose. Take a windy day, whether hot
or cold. clear or cloudy, only let it not rain or
the air he murky. in other words let the air
he dry md clear, bu, tins is not essential.
Hold your metallic surface "a, right angles To
The direction Of the wind e., if the wind is
north, hold your surface east and vest, bu, in
stead Of holding the surface vertical, incline It
about ~ 70 the horizon 20 that the wind
striking glance aud flows over the edge keep
ing II siraight a. water over "A dam. Now
sight carefully over The edge at some minute
aud sharply defined object and you will sec
Tie air iipw over as wafer flows over q dam.
Make your obseryaliuns caniully, anl you
viii hardly iail 10 sec the air, no matter how
cod the result, is even better when the sun is
'0bscurcd
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-04-30
How He Kept His Word.

Over two years ago, gentleman
connected with large china store in
Boston was on his way home from
Washington. He met on the train an
attractive little girl, and they soon be-
came we'll acquainted. So pleased was
the gentleman with his young friend,
that, on parting, he said he would send
her 9 beautiful china tea-set as q sou
t'e,.tr Of their meeting.
When he had packed the china,
he found, to his chsgrin, that he
had failed to obtain the little girls full
name and address. He, however, sent
the present to the clerk Of the hotel at
which he had stopped in Washington,
and asked him to search out little
girl with pretty curls, named Minnie,
whose father was clerk in the General
Post0ffice. The clerk did his best to
execute the mission, but failed to find
the man in department where hum
dreds of men are employed.
Two years passed, and it often panied
the gentleman to think that child
should believe that he, q Boston man,
had not kept his word. One day, hav-
ing mentioned the incident and his re-
grets to bright young lady, she re-
marked:
'.rm sure can find little Minnie.''
Being asked to make the attempt,
she adopted q simple method. She
reasoned that, even among q thousand
fathers employed in the Postofice,
there would not be many who pos
sessed such an attractive daughter, and
that hors vorx, a%fro MI unmnoo v,n,,o< loun
made her known to all the fathers
associates. Acting upon this SUPPOSE
ton, she sent postal card to the de-
partment, inquiring for the name Of
the gentleman who had . little girl am
swering the meager description given
by her friend.
The card passed from one clerk to
another, and soon found the father.
Minnie, in = few days. was delighted
by receiving the beautiful gift which
had been 60 long waiting for her. She
also learned that man from Boston
keeps his word.
What : blessing it would be for our
country II every one was as anxious as
this gent eman to keep his promise, and
preserve the faith Of childhood In o
mans word! Yosttb's Conn a,,io,,.
"a DoNALDsoNymLE,L Ia, paper says:
There isa novelty here il the way Of
. Court House. Il Is avery small Hat
boat covered ii. Being discovered
floating down the river twas pulled
ashore, and IL now occupied on court.
days BY His Honor the colored Justioo
of the Peace to settle disputes.
-. Dewey" he said, :. j think was
telling you, after I came home last.
night, about the Necessity Of aome rs-
trenohmont ii orr exponditures,W was
not - :. Vsll, really, Pys otten.
John, 3, she answered, nonchalantly;i
g. turn o. tho phonograph and 80, g
{ He turned & on, and u Il said, VS.,
$. hazs na.zssa (hic) azzeri
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-04-30

= GRIN story Of life IN 3 lighthouse
comes from the Burman coast, and Is
printed din the Rang oss Times. a teie-
gram having announced that the light
Of the Alguada reef was NOT visibls, 8
steamer was dispatched to ascertain
the cause. The Captain, on landing,
discovered two q the men IL tho light
house dead, while : third Va lying Il
. precarious state. The keeper stated
that signals Of distress, such q :. Iwant
immediate help, = and I. Man dying
had been exhibited BY him Tor about
twenty days. AZ q last resort, ~ his
signals having failed 70 attract attain.
ton. hes darksned the lights On IL
Bassisn aide, feeling certain that this.
step would NOT I'll @ attxaot a&sention:
TO the. li&hfhouse. And %, nth IL
dsad and The dying. watohod 1orre-
sHef, which came q In.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-04-30
A New Dodge.

$ You're reporter, are your in-
quired . broad-shouldered, stumpy-.
looking man yesterday. s. was read
in that thing in your paper about the
fellows wot's a-swindlin' bar-tenders
with that paddock trick. That's emily
one out of hundred tricks the round
ers are up to. Here's new wrinkle:
There came into my place the other
night . sick-lookin' young Teller with
nice, white-lookin' hands, that I
dropped to right away. There was
several of the boys in there takin' their
nip. BY and BY the talk got on sleight-
of-hand tricks. see the strangers
eyes begin to glisten, a-sort Of as
though he was about to show his hand.
He asks for glass of water, and takes
it in his hand. Then he outs with q
nice white, perfumed Handkerchief.
Then he inquiries has any gentleman
q half dollarp' OF course one was pro-
duced, cause the boys want to see
what's up next. Then he takes the
half dollar between his fingers, put the
perfumed handkerchief over both and
GOVERN the glass. Then he gets one
of the company to take hold of q round
ish thing in the Handkerchief, which
anybody would swear was the half.dol-
lar. Now, let her DROP he says,
withdrawn his own hand. And drop
she does, and the jingle is heard plain
enough, but you can't see anything,
cause the handkerchief covers the
glass. Then the niger in the wood
pile comes in. 'Tll bet any gentle
man here the genteel Teller ses, that
that half-dollar amt in the glass %,
git out half tho bows saw. WHY. we
heard it DROP We'll, ii you're all SO
dead sure,' he ses. why don't you
put your stamps up that it is in
there? The upshot is that, thinkin'
they had sure thing of it, two Of 'em
did bet him dollar, just for the fun OF
the thing. Then he lifts off the hand
kercher and they all crowd around him
and peep in the tumbler, and nary half
dollar is there. III be gosh blamed
ses each of the fellers who lost their
cash, if that amt wonderful Then
his nibs pockets his winnins, and emp.
ties his glass Of water, but not too
quick for me to see that he catches be.
tween his fingers roundish piece O,
glass, just the size of q half-dollar.
That's what fixed their fints. When
that rascal pretended to drop the half
dollar in the glass, he let fall that cir
cular thing, which he must have had
concealed in his coat.sleeye beforehand,
and substituted it for the half-dollar.
OF course, when it fell into the tum-
bier, it just fitted the bottom. and, 'e-
ing transparent, when the fel)ers
looked in they couldn't tell it from he
bottom of the tulnbler. Maybe they
wasn't mad when ! told 'em, after he'd
gone, about that glass thing" -Phi1a-
delpbia Times.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-04-30

slip your chain again. you Emperor, I
gf You no supper!''
And the Snowman and his trained
bear, who had performed for Johnny
all the tricks that he knew, s'posing he
was an audience, started for the road
to continue their travels, while little
Johnny, forgetting all about BIZ. errand,
scampered home.
He says the promise don't count, and
hc will grow up and shoot bear.
8 Yes-but don't take tame one.
Johnny, slyly says his mother.
Golden Ruiz.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-04-30
The Story Of q Toad.

One day last summer, when was
down at Aunt James house in the
country, l was standing in. the conserv.
atory, smelling the pretty flowers, with
little Nanny by my side, when saw q
large toad hopping across the floor.
AS a rule, object to toaas, and 1
was going to drive this one away, when
! saw that the poor toad was going
very slowly, as if in pain, and, as Nam
ny described it, . was holding one of its
hands up to one of its eyes, Just like
grown-up person. .
Oh, mammal cried Nanny, sit
has hurt its eye; look swelled it
is" l then saw that the eye was cut
and swollen, and that was the reason
why it kept raising what Nanny called
its hand to its eye.
Let us watch it, said I; :. we will
not hurt it-poor thing!''
The little creature did not seem to
be at all afraid OF us, but remained
near, blowing out it's body, and wink
ing its well eye for several minutes.
Nanny suddenly became so fond of
it that she wanted to take it up and
battle its eye, but this would not al
low.
So she contented herself with putting
q Leaf, with grub or two on It, close
to the toad; and we soon saw it dart
ing its pink tongue out, and catching
and eating them. When the creature
had finished its meal, it hoped slowly
out OF doors, and sat basking in the
sun.
We were glad to sec that the eye
looked better, and SO we left it, The
next day, however, and often after
ward, it came back to the c0nserva-
tory, where Nanny generally managed
to provide food for it. It grew to
know us quite well, and not only made
friends with us, but also with q large
cat, which was great pet of Nanny's.
Our new friend made itself at home in
every part Of the house. One day, to
the surprise Of everyone, it was found
sitting before the kitchen fire, close to
the cat, with it's .'hands'' resting on
pussy's tail, and looking quite affec-
tionately into her face.
Once we noticed that the toad's skin
was split down the whole length of his
body. We watched him and saw him
twist himself until the loose skin grad
ually fell apart and lay in folds on his
sides. We saw him then put one Of
his legs under his arm, press down up
on it and pull it out Of its covering.
He did the same thing with his other
leg, leaving his old pants under his
arms. With his mouth he now pulled
the skin off his arms, and with his two
hands he pushed it into his mouth in 3
little ball, and swallowed it.
Nanny clapped her hands with glee
to see how gay he looked in his bright
new suit. - Church Union.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-04-30
GEO. BLAKE, Generalaaent.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINI

s. d PETERS, IN, Agent
New Ulsa, Iinn.:
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-09-05
Shortening the Atlantic Voyage.

It is proposed to shorten the ocean
voyage by looping a thousand miles
from its length. To seasick travellers this
is a consummation devOutly to be
wished. 1t is to be done by building a
Newfoundland railroad. The Govern
ment Of Newfoundland has addressed
circular to a number of prominent
American contractors inviting their at
tention to a movement which is on foot
looking to the construction of railroad
across the island from st. Johns to st.
Georges Bay, or some other convenient
point on the West coast. A preliminary
survey has proven the practicability of
the scheme and the Legislative Assem-
bly, Of Newfoundland has resolved to
vote an annual subsidy of $4,000 to
any individual or company who will
take the matter in hand, besides grant
ing liberal concession of crown lands
for the purpose. The completion of the
proposed line would have the effect of
opening up enormous deposits of cop
per, iron, coal, nickel, lead and other
minerals, which are now almost inacces-
sible, while it would also cut through
the great pine and spruce forests of the
interior which are also at present utterly
useless. The construction of the rail-
road would shorten the ocean voyage by
enc thousand miles.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-09-05
The Dark Day.

An old lady living on the little Color
ado, says the Arizona Miner, who has
attained to the comfortable old age of
I28 years, was 80 years of age at the
time of the dark day, Of which she has
a vivid recollection, and recalls many
interesting incidents which took place
with her people, the Spanish, and also
the Indians who were more supersti-
tious. The Spaniards buried all their
saints, of which they had a goOdly num-
Der, while the Indians took to feasting
on dogs and other animals. The clark
day" was so called on account of the
remarkable darkness which extended
throughout America. The observation
commenced about 10 o'clock in the
morning of May 10, 1880, and continued
till the middle of the next night. Birds
sang their evening song, disappeared,
and remained silent fowls went to
roost, cattle sought the barnyards, and
candles were lighted in the house. The
true cause Of this remarkable phenOm-
enon is not, and probably will never be
known.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-09-05
me Lonely First Boy.

It is rather difficult, says the Cincin-
natl Saturday Night, to conceive Of Adam
as a boy, we admit, owing to the popular
superstition which has painted him
coming into the world full grown, with
whiskers and moustache complete, and
the prevailing belief that there wasn't
q boy in the world until Eve came and
raised the Old Boy with Adam; yet we
prefer 10 think of our worthy projenitor
as having had something of DoyhoOd,
and we suppose we have as good right %
theorize upon hesubject as any one else.
Adam was probably as mischieVous,
naturally, as boys generally are. In
fact Darwin says he was "a perfect little
monkey" which, we believe, is syno-
nym for mischieYousness the world over.
But he had no companions in his gam
bols. If ne staid out after dark and got
to cutting up, it was all by himself. And
what sport could he have ringing door
bells without a lot of other boys to
scamper away with2 And consider the
melancholy fun of fastening cords across
the walk at night with nobody to trip
over them.