The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-10-15
CREAM OF OUR EXCHANGES.
A powerful number--A potent 5.
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A powerful number--A potentS.
Often depressed in spirits-sugar
Pursuit of the hostiles-A dog hunting feas.
viii Thomas and Parkhurst call for coffee and
epstles for two! Tunes,
Guiteau and the Ohio man haven't subscribed
n cent TO the Mrs. Garfield fund.-.
An exchange asks: "What will the Ohio man
yetg' He will get-left.-ib.
Queen Victoria. though 6S years old, is worth
eighty millions OF dollars. What must she have
been worth when a winsome young LADY,
II YOU wish to know the climate OF any high
mountain, why 90 to 1t and climb 1t.
A man being tormented with corns, kicked MS
foot through window, and the pane was gone.
The proper place for undressed kids Ia in bath
Embellishments Republican.
It's little thing TO speak Of but the chimney
sweep has got the inside track on business That
just scots him.
In the long list of articles for footwear, its
the slipper that brings up the rear-oi dlsooe'
dent boy.-lStdte Register.
The man who can rule woman can tame the
widest panther. 1t is none OF our business, but
that's what the wild beast fellows say.
Truly great men never die. George Washing
ton Is barber in New Orleans, and Thad Stew
ems keeps a saloon in Brooklyn.
Emerson says: "If student convince you that
Won are wrong, acknowledge 1t cheerfully and
hug him.
Suppose the student is young lady?
p w Wilcox, the "Mendota Carpenter" is
nrenarinr lecture on "The Life and Character
nf General James A. Garfield. "And thus the peo-
ole are still to safer for Guiteaus crime.-Stea'
tor FIRE. Press.
DIR. Bliss has made long personal statement
as TO his conduct OF the late presidents case III
contains little more truth than his bulletins
did; it admits that the late president Is dead
en-. Times.
boarding house keeper in Leadvlle, Colp
shot one OF his guests just as he was sitting down
TO the table. The guest had paid for his meal in
advance, and The landlord had an eye to bust.
ness.
She eager gaZed far up the street,
Then, turning gazed she down,
And DER her features fair and sweet
There crept pain stamped frown.
When sure no one was near to laugh,
Or brazenly brow beat her,
And muttered, "Durn skeeter"
The La Sale aldermen vote themselves $3each
for every meeting Of the city council they attend.
Ottawa would find 1t more profitable to pay her
councilmen SO each for every meeting they don't
attend.
'Farcwelln was the title OF poem sent to a
newspaper; and the cruel editor, in acknowledg-
ing its receipt, said at is good thing that the
gifted authoress babe it goodbye; she will never
see il again"
The merits OF certain diplomatist being on
the taps, Washington Irving said In alluson to
his pomposity: "Ah, he is great man; and, In
his own estimation, a very great mana man OF
grea. weight. When he goes to the West the
East tips up"
Professor Harris, Boston scientific sharp,
SAYS: "There IL a coming OF the macroc0sm IN
to the microcosm.' Well, what OF IL! II lhe
microcOsm Is larger than the macrocosm, and
the macrocosm wants to 20 in, and has got q
ticket, we don't see what Is to prevent II. Give
us something new.-Ieck's Sun.
stood on the porch at evening,
When the sun went silently down.
And the June-bug bright, In the starry night
Flew merrily through the town
o. sweet were the gentle zephyrs
That blew from the balmy south,
And red were the lips and sweet were the sips
That took from the pretty mouth.
Her tiny waist was encircled
BY my arm 80 strong and true
Said |, "Whose ducky are you, love"
yours" she murmured, 'and whose are you"
o, the haowcd hours OF intervening!
o, the cruel caprice OF Fate!
Her father, unknd came up from behind
And fired me over the gate
Prof. Swing says OF Harrison, the famous hoy
preacher" who is some rs years of age, that he
is probably called,a boy preacher because, "hav
ing been boy he became fosslized at that age
and did not like the common run OF urchins
pass on to manhood. But while there is no dis
putting the correctness OF his title, let the same
fact Justify the hope that he is the last OF the
series"
The new style Of bangs Is eXcruciatnglJ
"sweet" You know they were first cut like the
name OF Texas pony, and were combed straight
down, half covering the forehead. They theI
took different kink, and were twisted into half
moon spitcurls, and pasted fast, looking like
scro.work cornicc around thatch roof. Their,
was some symmetry about both those fashions
but now the bangs have gone to the other eX
IRENE. They look for all the world like brusi
heap struck by cyclone, or den OF snakes petri
ged while contorted with the Jim jams.--Hoopes
t0lpn Chronicle.
DIsENCHANTMENT.
The evening star its vesper lamp
Above the west had lit
The dusky curtains OF the night
Were following over 1t.
lie seized her waist and clasped her hand
And told his tale Of love;
He called her every tender name,
"My darling" duck" and dove"
tremor shook her fairy form,
Her eyes began to blink;
Her pulse rose to a hundred, and
She cried ~ Think think"
He sighed: "You think you love me"' fol
His soul was on the rack.
"0h, no." she yelled; II think bug
Is crawling down my backr'
--Nelc orleans Times.