The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-01-06

The name of the chief Ambassador from
Madagascar to France is Ravoninahltriri'
arise.
II rs stated, as u remarkable thing, that
q At. LOUIS horse chews tobacco. Singular
taste most horses choose hay.
Herr Most says he believes in leveling
everything. Herr Most should begin on
his own -Chicago Tribune
The observations of the recent transit OF
Venus developed the existence OF water on
that planet, but nothing stronger.
A prima facie case When clock is &C
cused of being behind time there is some
thing wrong on the face of it.
Washington rumor says Gen, Tccum-
sch Sherman is about to join the Roman
Catholic church. "While the lamp holds
out TO burn" &c.
Mr.. John L. Hayes, the President OF the
Tariff Commission, is said to be devoted TO
poetry. Great sympathy Is felt for the un.
sortuhate mans family.
Judge Tourgee has stopped lecturing on
account of illness. People along the route
laid out by Dir. Tourgee's agent arc begin
n,ng to come home again.
A Boston fllrt, on receiving an offer of
marriage, rushed into the hall and called
I'D stairs, Mother, am / engaged to any.
body nowY"
A Philadelphia journal considers the
question whether babies milk should be
bo,led, and q New York contemporary ex-
presses ignorance that babies have any
milk.
A thing Is SAID TO be transparent when
you can see through It, A German paper
gives US two very good illustrations--frst,
a pane Of glass, and second, a keyhole.
The Phrsnologicdl Journal asks: "Why
should not women whistler They do. A
good many Of them, when they want a new
bonnet, have TO whistle for it.
Tyndall says that men and women ex-
isted on this earth 5OOOOOOO years before
the date of Adam and Eve. MISS Anthony
should not give her schoolmates away in
this manner.
A preacher who was not well acquainted
with the Evolutionary art placed the inflec-
ton on the wrong word, following the
literal italic in 1 Kings. xiii. 81, and
read: "And he spake unto his sons, say
ing, saddle me the ass, and they saddled
Tim"
They toll In San Francisco of a very
wealthy woman who IS remarkably strict
IN the discipline Of her servants. She de-
tends herself by saying that she was ser
want Until five years ago, and therefore
knows all about both sides Of the subject.
Subscribers of the Boomerang VINO find
crossbones and skull, with crest OF metal
lie burial. casket, drawn IN blood on the
wrapper Of their paper, will know that
their subscription has expired. and that
something has got 10 be donc.-Nye's
boomerang.
A dispatch from Madison, Wis, an
nouncing the wedding of two young peo-
pie of that city, states that "the happy pail
will make wedding journey to Mllwau
Kee and Oshkosh" Some people wish t.
we all the dark sides of lite at once--Oh,
eago Tribune.
'ls there such thing rs luck?" asks
correspondent There is. For instance, |
you go home at 2 O'Clock in the morning
after promising your wife to be IN early
and find her asleep, that's luck, but ii ism
70 be depended on.
An Atchison (Kas.) paper says that Will
ayoung lady of that city was walkin
along Commercial street the other day
strange man fell on his knees before he
and solicited her hand In marriage. Sh
hurriedly passed on, leaving the ma
kneeling IN the snow. Even girls,
would seem, sometimes lose their presenc
Of mind.
The Methodists of Decatur, H., desirin
10 promote revival Of religion sent a
invitation to Harrison, the boy prcacle
who was then laborlng at Grand Rapid
The evangelist replied that his terms wei
800 week and board at firstclass hotc
A committee decided, after considering IL
matter carefully, to engage him, and the
course has already resulted in crowde
meetings, numerous conversions, and a
addition Of $500 to the church's income.
A correspondent writes that Snakes
India last year killed no fewer than 1856
human beings" We receive the announc
raent as horrible, even when 1t Is a ia
that three times that number die evel
year IN America with Snakes In the
boots." The bite OF a cobra Is q blessir
compared with death IRON deliriun II
mems.