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Sharp County record., 1883-04-12
Journalistic CuriOSities.

Sore amusing curiosties o. journa.
ism are related of the pre- s in India.
Some time ago native paper of All
medabad published one of its issues on
yellow pa er. Its readers were at loss
to account Tor the trans ormation, when
a week afterward it came out on dark
green paper, with an editorial note ex-
pla ming the reason, which was that
their stock Of ordinary white raper had
been exhausted. Consequently the
propi etUr was obliged to use some COL
ored pa CT which was intended or
wrappers. Another native journal in
Guzerat disap' cared from the scene TO
two consecutive weeks. On the third
week it appeared with an ologet;cnote,
stating that readers were not served in
consequen ce of the editors sister being
ILL., A third was in similar way tenn
porarily eclipsed In this case the editor
had to proceed to Bombay as witness
in a small cause court case. Lately the
Sunashar Bah0itl1, of Ahmedabad, has
hit upon the original idea of printing
its first side, heading and all, on the
fourth page. 1t has carried out the SIM
gular programme consistently. To
read the paper you have to begin from
the end and finish at the beginning.
Sharp County record., 1883-04-12

also whistle as signal to other toys,
and now a popular genius has developed
the use of it as Il profession.
For heavens sake dry up that
whistling," said the grocery man to
the bad boy. There is no sense in such
whistling. What do you whistle for
anyway"
Il am practicing my profession,
said the bad boy. 81 have always been
a GOOD whistler, and have decided 10
turn my talent to account. l am going
to hire an office and put out sign:
Boys Furnished to Whistle for Lost
Dogs You see there are dogs lost ev-
cry day, and any man would give half a
dollar to boy to find his dog. | can
hire out to whistle for dogs, and can 90
around whistling' and enjoying myself
and make money. Don you think it is
good scheme?" asked the boy of the
groceryman.
A lady who suspected her servant of
drinking the cider when she sent him
into the cellar, commanded him to whis
tie all the time he was absent.
Sailors whistle for fair wind. The
sportsman whistles to his hounds.
He ca It off his friends as a huntsman his pack
For he knew when he pleased he could whistle
them back.
1t is not considered in good taste for
Girls to whistle, and there are very few
who can do it even toerably well, per-
haps because they are under the spell
of that prediction in doggerel which
some secular st. Paul promulgated for
the sex:
Whistling girls and Growing hens
Always come to some bad end.
A girl is usually too volatile to
whistle; she Fuckers her rosy mouth,
shuts both eyes, screws up her face, and
just as she gets ready to whistle goes
off into fit OF laughter, and spoils it
all. But once in a while some demure
little maiden will whistle, and it is posi-
lively much more frequent phenomena
in nature than hen that crows.
q" But oh, the whistling girl we met,
As blthe is she as any bird;
And from her lips morn, noon ana eve,
The merriest OF tr lis are heard.
From task to ask with lightsOme step
She hastens whisting as she goes;
And her deft hands charm what they touch
And order from disorder grows"
There is something pathetic in a
whistled tune; the businessman sitting
up at night trying to make his ledgers
balance, hears some late pedestrian, boy
or man, whistle the Last Rose of Sum-
mer' or bonnie Doom" and straight
way the pen drops from his tired hand
and the bewildering figures disappear
and in their place he sees hcme and the
mother who lived there, and he catches
the song of the robins in the old orchard
and the scent of the sweet briar that
grew bv the door.
Away, away, tormenting cares,
OF earth and folly born"
He is at home again, and as the I'M
known whistler passes on and the ten
der, wandering air dies away, the eyes
of the listener are dim with tears,
Sand his heart is filled with longing pain
To be whistling boy again.
Detroit Post and Tribune.
Sharp County record., 1883-04-12
Curiositics of the English ExCheQuer.

The finance accounts of the United
Kingdom, recently published, present
some curious details, which throw light
on many OF the peculiar traditions OF
England. Among the miscellaneous
receips for the past year was CON
science money" to the extent OF to, $40
The technical description of this
amount is "money RENTED by sundry
persons for conscience sake" From
these unknown and reformed subjects,
who lave tried to ease their minds by
paving overdue obi atoms, it is long
step to the Hank of England, an institu-
ton of honor unstained, and respecta-
bility almost oppressive, The Nation
received from its directors the sum OIL
El3S 57S as their annual return for the
privilege of issuing circulating notes
Another source of revenue was the
Mint which accoun ed for profit OF
Gl67,OOO on the coinage of silver, while
the manufacture OF penny pieces anu
half.pence brought nearly t3l,OOo' /
The crown claims all wrecks upon the
coasts, when no owner appears for
them, and from these fruits OF disaster
there came profit of about tl'U
Certain guano islands produce I'll, ,O00
each year. Convics LABOR was a sub
stantial source of revenue. Farms
cultivated by prisoners yielded proht
of e., 300. Profits on convict manufact-
ures were more than f16,00O. nder
the head of prisoners labor is set down
a further income of fS, 900. The 1or-
eign Office paid over to the Treasury
Ell, 900 in fees from Consuls. The sum
of about f400 was received for pass
ports. indicating that at the usual price
about four thousand of these o tclal
certiti ates were taken though the Gus
tom is supposed to be falling into DIS
use. The exhibition of the or wn Jew
els in the Tower further helped the
Government to the extent of t2,0,,
through admission fees. For q small
S, IN, few favored people are permit
ted to have keys and use the Home PARK
at Hampton Court and other royal IN
closures, and this custom adds some,
thing to the revenue. Under the heaa
of "Queens household fees Of honor
there is entered the receipt of ESQ lis
ed. The meaning of this item the Lon
don journal is unable to decipher.-~
bankers Magazine. u
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THE FARMERS WIFE.

Ihere is an hour that is to me
The sweetest of the day,
Although it comes when winds are chill
And skies tre dull and gray;
lis whan the day hard work is done,
And br ghtl the fire doth glow,
AND my hu 4 and to his humble home
Comes trl ,dging through the snow.
Why do Bid this hour the best
:, VI all the twenty-fOury
Because hefs all the world to me,
My good imam a. the door;
And whetl Aer rain or hail may fall,
Or winds of winter blow,
Yet Lam lure my husband will
Cone tr Uldgtng through the snow.
The room is tidy fresh and clean,
Ine 0abf Us face is bright;
Wnat matt ter if outside there be
ne da k and stormy night?
me kettlf SINNERS on the stove,
And wei III my heart doth know
nv husbl nd soon Will to h home
Come III Judging through the snow.
A good en- years ago he led
Me b her as his bride,
And eTeM Z since, througl joy and woe,
WeWA struggled side by size.
y~RsE er hard the day may be,
To me things brighter grow
When comes the hour tn t brings MIN nome
A-trudgng through the snow.
~ Y. Ledger.
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Our Young Readers.
THE PATIENT SPHINX.

She doesn't live in Egypt
Not in these lates years;
She SITS in q can seat rocker,
And this is what she hears:
"Mamma, where's my penc!lE
Mamma, where's my hat! -,
"Mamma, what does this N 3anE
Mamma, what is thar
"Who was Gen raj TaylorT o.,
where's this hor id town"
"Have got to do it?'
Say, is rest a noun?'
"Can have cornet!,
Don't W sh had"
ANA, if got rich some day,
Wouldn't you be gIat?'
sThis b ok says the dew-drop'
Climb the morning SKY;
oh, what makes them do so!
Tell the reason why.
Hear the gentle answers,
Making matters pam,
Should she speak in riddles
They will ask again.
Something ails this slipper
Doesn't it look queerE
Must do it over? =,
Fix il, mother dear.
1--WE must write an essay
On a piece of chalk 9,
Mother. what uId you say
"Ma, why don't you talA'
Children, come to auntie!
Let mamma alone!
Tsom times think the patient sphinx
Will really turn to stone) q, ,,,obo,,o
-Annd s. Re d, IN SI' Ntc''o'oS'
Sharp County record., 1883-04-12

Women willneve" be allowed to vote
until they are able to bride their
tongues. .-Drammer Saddle be the
day and full of wheel and whoa when
there are no wagon tongues. VIM eh,tt
Times. Sirs, single ladies might take
exceptions to your racy puns.
PAIN Register. Yes, it may stirrup a
row and trace OF anarchy may rein
Whitehall Times.
The Ottawa free trader., 1883-06-23
OHIO DEMOCR hCY

The largest Democratic convention even
held in OHIO met at Columbus on Wedncs'
day, Every county in tie state was not
only fully reprcs cntcd, but many counuc,
sent double delegations to cast their single
vote. And aside from the delegate hun
dreds of prominent democrats from all
parts of the state attended as spectators.
Hon John McSweency, Of Wooster, was
made President, llaHkod by 3 suitable com
plement Of vice presidents and secretaries.
The convention proceeded without pre-
liminary waste Of time y the business be.
fore it, Of nominating II state ticket headed
with a candidate for Governor Three
candidates We're presented: Judge Uoad
ley of Cincinnati, Gen. Durbin Ward, and
Judge Geddes; the choice falling on the
second ballot, upon Judge Hoadley The
balance OF the ticket was made up as tol-
lows:
Supreme Judge short term, Martin ID.
Follctt, Washington county
Supreme Judge Gong term, Sclwin
Owen, Williams county.
Supreme Court Clerk, John j. Cruik.
shank, Miami county
Attorney-GcnerGl, James Lawrence,
Cuyahoga county.
Auditor of State, Emil keiseweter,
Franklin county.
Treasurer of State, Peter Brady, san
dusky county.
Leroy ID. Brown, of Butler county, was
for School Commissioner, and
James =. Martin, of Green county, for
member of the Board Of Public Works
A short platform was adopted, the fol-
loving beng the resolution covering the.
tariff question:
9. We favor tariff for revenue, limited
to the necessities Of government economi-
cally administered, and so adjusted TO its |
application as to prevent unequal burdens,
encourage productive industries at home,
afford just compensation to labor but not
to create or foster monOpolies.
The convention was so large and the
more than usually itedand
earnest, because every one felt certain that
q nomination was equivalent to an cleo
ton, the success of the democrats IN Ohlol
next fall being regarded as one OF those
fixed certaintles that no intelligent politi-I
clan questions any more than he would a.
decree of fate,
The Ottawa free trader., 1883-06-23
CHICAGO AND HIGH LICENSE.

No doubt the high license bill, in CIT ies
where licenses heretofore have been as low
as S25 to $50 year, operates as great
hardship. There are in such cities many
small saloons, often clean, decent places N
the outskirts of town, kept by widows or
lnfrm people, whom the new law,
once enforced, will in many cases reduce
to indlgence if not beggary. There are
such cases IN Ottawa, where the license fec
has heretofore been but $50, and where,
after the 1st of July, forty of her sixty five
saloon keepers will be compelled to 60 out
of business The SAINT situation, but o!
course on much larger scale was found
at Chicago. There also the license tee had
been but $50, and the city had over 5000
licensed saloons. or these it is believed
the $500 license of the Legislature would
close up 1900, reducing at once, as Mayor
Harrison puts it, $4,000 people to beggary
To avoid such q result the city council, on
the advice of Mayor Harrison, has under
taken the bold experiment of crcumvent
ing the legislature for the coming year by
passing an ordinance 10 terminate the pres
ept licenses in that city with the 1st OF
April last, and to grant new licenses for q
year from that date at 500, adding So as
clerks fees; and under this regulation, the
saloon keepers are Crowding by hundreds
to the city hal and taking out licenses for
the coming year.
1t is doubtful, however, whether this eX
pedient can be made to stick. The courts
of this state, we believe, have uniformly
held !lquor licenses TO be mere police reg
ulations and not contracts. City govern
ments derive all their powers from the
Legislature, and the legislature has full
power at its will to change or nullify any
of their ordinances or local regulations
| II cities, therefore, have been III the habit
of granting licenses for $50 year and th(
legislature says such licenses, from a Ger
tain date, must be charged at rate OF no
less than $500 year, licenses not being il
the nature of contracts, the Legislative
mandate, it would seem, must be obeyed
But this, with other matters connected
with the new license law, no doubt th'
courts will IN due time be called upon tt
The Ottawa free trader., 1883-06-23

Among the seven indicted star route
thieves whom District OF Columbia Jury
recently acquitted, was Reredell, who at
the commencement of the trial plead guilty.
The amiable gentleman no doubt had
thought il anybody could know whether
he was a star route thief aud conspiratOr it
ought to be himself. But the end OF the
trial showed that he was mistaken-that
the notion that when he and Dorsey and
Brady and the rest cooked up the various
pretty schemes by which they stole several
millions of government money they were
acting like thieves was all wrong, and
that they were really doing something en-.
urely innocent and honest. Reredell
therefore, seeing the Others were not guilty
asked the court to set aside his own plea Of
guilty, and Judge Wylle promptly ORDERED
il done, saying one man cannot be gull
ty OF conspiracy. Reredell's plea houl(
have been, "Gullty if the rest are"
The Ottawa free trader., 1883-06-23
DOWNFALL OF GREASE.

There was tremendous excitement on
the Chicago board Of trade last Saturday
on the announcement of the failure of the
big lard firm of McGcoch, Eyeringham *
Co. The firm belongs to Milwaukee, but
had not only invaded Chicago but all the
other leading trade centers, in bold al
eempt to establish and MAINTAIN corner
on lard. The Armours year or two ago
had made such a tremendous strike by cor.
nering pork, that this Milwaukee firm I'M
aglRed they could in the same way pocket
couple of millions by cornerlng lard.
The simple process was TO buy up or get
control of all the lard in the country and
then make consumers and the shorts pay
enough for II To give them an enormous
profit They figured up the lard crop for
the year and came TO the conclusion that
Si5,000,000 would cover abe whole opera
tion. But the big figures 70 which they
run up lard caused the hog men as rapidly
as hog reached the market 10 convert II
INTO lard, SO ,ha. before they knew it the
The Ottawa free trader., 1883-06-23

one Though very good one) and with ques.
tionable taste came into town playing a gay
and festive march, while the rest OF the city
was in the midst Of religious exercises. The
police naturally ordered their muZzles on.
dota and the north end; and a little later
three carloads from Chicago and the east.
The afternoon was spent in the grove with
music, beer and mcrrymaking, the day wind
Ing up with 4 concert and ball at Turn Hall.
The day passed of without disturbance Of
any kind
The Ottawa free trader., 1883-06-23
DEATH OF JAS. w. sHEAHAN.

The profession of journalism in the west
has lost one Of its abest and most, accom-.
plished representatives in the death of
JAMES W. SHEAIIAN, which occurred at
his home in Chicago early on last Sunday
morning. Mr. Sheahan had attained the
age of 80 years. His health, doubtless
from too close attention to his work, had
become impaired year or two ago, but
his last serious illness set in on the 9TH
inst, under which he gradually faded
away until he fell into his last sleep.
Mr.. Sheahan was a native of Washing
ton City where he commenced his career
as newsbOy. Having prospered IN 1t, he
rext turned up as law student, but soon
gave that up to engage in the more congo
nial and profitable occupation of arcporter
and newspaper correspondent. In this
capacity hei was employed IN lS47 by the
proprietors of the Illinois State Register
to report the proceedings Of the constitu-
tional convention of 1S47. Returning 70
Washington, be attracted the attention Of
Judge Douglas, who made him clerk Of
his committee, and during the grea, Ne
braska Kansas fight that came In with
1854, the democrats having no organ IN
Chicago, Mr.. Sheahan was induced, with
the aid of money advanced by Isaac Cook
and others, 10 come TO Chicago and star,
the Chicago 7tmes. 1t was a splendid
paper and made things SO lively that in
1886 for the first time in several years, the
The Ottawa free trader., 1883-06-23

democrats elected their mayor IN Chicago
confessidly through the efficient aid of the
Times The paper, however. was not a
notable financial success and In 1850 ii
was sold to Mr.. Mccormick, who soon
afterwards turned it over 10 Mr.. Storey.
After leaving the Times Mr., Sheahan was
employed, during the contest OF 1860, on
the Stdto Pe9iSter, afterwards returning 10
Chicago and starting the POST which u
year or two later he sold 10 the RepuJlic0m
Company, remaining in the Office as Il
writer during the administration of Mr..
Dana Leaving the Republican with Mr..
Dana, Mr. Sheahan next occupied posi-
ton on the Chicago Tribune, which he re
tanned to the time Of his death.
While bIr Sheahan was a brilliant and
forclble writer, and a man of high purpose
and fixed political and moral principles,
he was not in the ordinary sense of the
term a politician. What settled political
he held were no doubt essen
TALLY democratic; but as icauihB writer
on a republican journal he was, as the
Chicago JO,EnaE puts It, "too good sol
dier to let his private opinions clash with
the policy of the great journal on which
he was so long engaged, and, no matter
what private views he held in regard to
men and measures, they were always sub
ordinated to the will Of the chief in com
maud." With the merely partisan discus
sions of the Tribune, however, Mr.. Shea
han in fact had very little to do his strong
hand made its bold mark in the discussion
of those great economic questions, free
trade and financial reform, IN which the
TriJune, though at variance with the bulk
of the republican journals of the country,
has ever occupied so conspicuous and hon
orable a position.
The Ottawa free trader., 1883-06-23
10 Rod.
~ Rod Insect Powder kills at sight
FORBES * LoRRIAUY.

The papers announce that the Three Pd''
railroad is pushing its construction on
through North Judson, Indiana At this
place it will make connections with the At
lantic X Pacific road, which is virtually an
extension Of the Erie. At Plymouth, Indi-
ana 1t connects with the great Pennsylvania
system. Two such desirable connections are
indeed powerful lever in the hands Of any
road. We believe from consulting the map
that were the officers Of the Seneca, Ottawa &
Mendoza road to cross the river at Marseilles
and strike the Indiana, Illinois & Iowa road
at some convenient point, II would be to the
benefit Of all interested. They would find q
powerful auxiliary in the latter named cor
poration, besides having some valuable con-
nectIons rs indicated above.
The Ottawa free trader., 1883-06-23

Several members Of the Ottawa Fire De-
partment went to Joliet on Thursday to par
tlcipate in the Tournament gotten up by the
Joliet department, taking with them the
steamer City OF Ottawa. There was q large
attendance from the surrounding towns and
the contest between the Joliet and Ottawa
was lively, though the Joliet was first class
and the Ottawa only third class machine.
Notwithstanding this difference, many spec
tators claim that Ottawa should have been
awarded the first prize of 800 for throwing
water. The Chicago paper announce that
they got the second prize.
Should circumstances ever SO favor the
Ottawa boys that they may Invite the Joliet
department to visit this city, we feel confident
the visitors will have no cause Of complaint
on the score OF hospitality. 1t is not at all
impossible that a challenge will go forth
from the plucky volunteer department of this
city against their brethren up the canal, in
GLIDING their big steamer, when It'll hoped
there Will be test before impartial judges
to decide to which belongs the palm of
victory
The Ottawa free trader., 1883-06-23

Judge Pillsbury, who finds that he Will
probably never fully recover from
the wound he received on the Chi
cago and Alton Railroad near Chicago q
year ago. during the strike OF the iron
moulders, has sued the railroad company
for $4,000 damages. He claims that the
officers of the tram knew that riot was In
progress at Twenty,thlrd street, and that
by stopping the train and allowing the
men with arms to get aboard the train they
endangered the lives Of the passengers.
The Ottawa free trader., 1883-06-23
Gen. Crook no doubt thought, when h

Gen. Crook no doubt thought, when he
got back from his Mexican campaign
against the Apaches with his 800 prisoners,
including their most noted chiefs, his job
was finished, and all he had to do was to
dump them down In the San Carlos res
ervatlon, and let the government watch over
and feed them. But agent Wilcox declines
10 Kill the fatted calf to feed the renegade
bucks. The secretary of the interior takes
he side of the agent, and Gen. Crook has
an elephant on his hands. The indians
will not regard their surrender MS binding
unless they can be kindly welcomed at the
reservation. The Indians who have re-
NAMED quietly on the reservation object
to these hostlles being received back, and
altogether the outlook for peacable settle
ment of the Apache question IS not so en-
couraging as 1t was supposed to be few
days ago
The Ottawa free trader., 1883-06-23

II Mr.. Walter a. Wood don't ike the way
the binder trial at Morristown, n. j., came
out how will something little nearer home
suit him? Please read the following ana see
how the Deering corrals the Minneapolis
and the Wood;
Bloomington, H., June 10, 1885
WM. DEERING: The Deering won victory
yesterday at Miuooka over the Wood and the
Minneapolis in green rye. Each machine
measured off piece and took its turn at cut.
ting, while the spectators watched It, lst,
Minneapolis cut their piece, missing six bun
dies. I'd, the Dcering cut its piece ,ciM out
missing It jimd'e on making stop. Sd, the
Wood went 10 work. 1t choked down three
times and took two men to pul! the tangled
grain out of the elevator and biAdcr. Ii took
the Wood half an hour longer than the Deer
ing to cut its piece. None but the agent
voted for the Wood. JAS. GILCHRIsT.
Farmers, be wise and make a good sclec
tion. Don't let a few dollars be the cause Of
your getting a binder that You will always
regret you bought, but buy the Deering,
sold by j, Z. PORTER.
The Ottawa free trader., 1883-06-23

The law further provides for It's own en-
forccment, and prcscribes the proper fines
and penalties 10 be imposed upon thosc
who dlsobey 1t, its passage will no doubt
MAKE 1t embarrassing for the authoy!tio- Of
the larger towns, because 1t will c.mpcI
additional attendance upon their already
ovcrcrOwded schools.
The Ottawa free trader., 1883-06-23
LATER.

have the most complete stock of paints,
&C., in town, and am better prepared to furn.
ish housekeepers with Paint, Colors, Calcim.
ines, Brushes, &C., for house.cleaning season
than ever. Shall be pleased to have those
about to paint call, and my prices shall be be-
low all others, while the quality of stock is
guaranteed to be the best
The Nicola Cigar, which has had such o
large sale and given the best of satisfaction,
has never been equalled as cent cigar;
and the fellow who said II was better than
10 cent cigar was not mistaken ten per cent,
Sold only by Z. Y. Griggs.
The Ottawa free trader., 1883-06-23

Joliet has been having gala week on
account of the State Flremen's Tourna.
ment which met there on Thursday. The
attendance Is quite large, 300 firemen be
ing present from all parts Of the state, and
the city Is crowded with visitors. Engines
and full companies are present from Braid
wood, Peru, Ottawa, Wilmington, Hyde
Park, Oakland, Roseland, Kensingtoh, Chi
cago and other cities