The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-01-24
Table Talk,

The summer days have come and gone,
Octobcr's hues have left the hill;
No more, at peep Of rosy dawn,
The hunters horn sounds clear and shrill
But still, when evening comes with gloom,
Or coldly beams the wlntry morn,
He seeks his favorie sample room,
And winds his small but mellow horn.
A professor In the manly art OF selfdefen.e:
boxing fencing, use Of Indian clubs, etc, is Civ
Ing lessons in the city. which accounts for so
many physognomics being in the repair shops.
South Ottawa has Ten Cent Society. The
boys have "hired hall''-most praiseworlhy, Of
course; but the neighbors suggest that there are
better ones in the next county. The object OF
This lasdabe society is self-improvement, hence
reading and music I'll up the hours. The read
Ing Is OF high class-an ancient and honorable
volume Of hfty-two numbers, Of infinite interest
and variety. A penny ante, with coin bearing
the female bust divine and three bars on the re-
verse being the limit In music, they are now
engaged in Gilmores "Christmas gift to the ma.
ton"-"Columbia, the 'new national hymn"
The sublime hymn can be heard for mile and II
half from the society hall. When the full chorus
take the road"
The ''pome" on the inside comes to us anony..
nous; we suspect the young man Of the La Sale
Press il the guilty party it corresponds with his
recipe.
A south. of.town school house was on Saturday
last the scene OF terrific combat fight. 1t seems
ihu, club meets at the school house aforesaid for
the purpose, ost.nsibly, Of replenishing the fast
disappearing stock of Websters, Clays, Cal
No nd lint II,
. eItain disciple OF Hsculapius had to Tor does)
do most Of the talking. Such difficult problems
for debate, requiring professional knowledge, as
"Can a thin man determine by his own unaided
instincts when in pain, whether he has II stom.
sch- or back -acher' or, "Did a long cared man
In prehistoric days have the power OF waving
then as signal Of distress, and If so why SO"
such questions, we say, shut out the rest Of
The club and left the modern physician master OF
a he surveyed; not always to the satisfaction Of
the embryo statesmen, bursting with undev-
FRED elOqueuce on the Maine question. Fortu-
natey (or unfortunately on Saturday Al"
happened in. The generous fumes from his cap.
sunni cavity gave fancy her wings" lie wanted
L. AXE hand. SO did Hscuapius. But "a j."
rap.ured the floor and played it alone, ri Ct dynis
lie began with the creation, ,righted the "mis-
'eas- Of Moses, traversed history with bound,
ow Shakespeare right and left, quoted the en-
.ration against Catillne, reviewed Bacon and
philosophers, annhilated the politicians and
M with a-"Now, you old St. Come,
ds your points. Cut 'er loose, old man. Let
agile Zap" &c, &c. The meeting wound up
a bang and Al :" retired But the end was
ct, for SO great AN insult TO ''our dignity"
4 only be expisted in blood and go-o-ah; ,
u. Come, deflng his coat, waded into the
tunale "A.-J." and whaled him. There
ne no further opposition. The government
debating club will become centralized,
ne DR.. viii be returned to Congress as q
arb
e Guards contemplate fine entertain