The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-09-27
The Gossiper.


The Gossiper.
Who sh dot dakcs me ply der hand
IND speaks so awful nice und bland,
Und urges me to join his band!
Dot candidate.
Who ish dot treats me very schyccd,
Ven on der conner OF der strccd
We habben Just while to meet
Dot candidate.
Who ish dot singin' awful gay,
Just like a lark all of der day,
Nit airy winks would fly away;
Dotcandidatc
Who lsh dot covers ub his head,
IND wishes he vas only dead
Der odder man hat win, you bed
Dot candidate,
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The Streator Free Press is particularly
delighted with the greenback nominations
and saws il means defeat TO the
democratic candidates" Considering that
Is men composed the "mass convention
of the greenback party the other day which
nominated the ticket, the Free Press, il
would seem, is whistling to keep its cour-
age up, rather than uttering a deliberate
opinion founded on fact.
VIM. Meyer, of Chicago, and Henry Bel,
linghausen, of Peru, addressed a German
Democratic outdoor meeting south side of
the court house last evening. There was
no procession, a small gathering and little
enthusasm.-RepubIican:
This was probably written two hours be
fore the meeting took place! However
if so or not, it is gross misrepresentation
There are not so very many German voters
in Ottawa TO compose mass meeting. Yet
crowd Of 300 who will listen for two hours
or more to German speech must be com.
posed of Germans more or less Interested.
Indeed, 1t was big meeting in every re,
spect, which the Republicans yesterday
generally admitted.
The oyster has again put in an appear
ance; and devotees of the tOothsome bivalve
will rejoice in the reports from the beds
that the crop will be very large
How long do oysters live asks the
London W0rLd-nterested in the fact that
the best oysters in London are grown at
the American oyster banks. 1t is mixed |
question, in answering which the Uaaid
says: at is certain that few die of old
age and those who do die
Unhouscld, disappointed, unaneal'd;
No reckoning made, but sent to their account,
With all their ilnperfections on their head.
There is work of M. Victor Meuner,
entitled Les Grandes Peches' in which it
is stated that oysters live for ten years,
which, as Alexandra Dumas says is long
enough for an animal that has no eyes to
see nor nose to smell nor ears to hear.
What boots it how long he lives so long as
he gasps his last breath as he glides
through the rosy tunnel of his murderer's
throat In fact, he is mystery A sulin
airy poet sings
L'hultre est I'm hasard, un eClair
tlui passc avec les mois en- r.
" That Is the usual legend. Perhaps it $
was invented to warn the uninitated that ,
are at their best In the months
whose names do not possess that letter
W hen our frequenters of restaurants have
become thoroughly convinced that the
10 usse is generally the component part of ,
all the oyster sauce they eat they will pay /
a tardy homage to that excellent little mol !
lusc, which is preferred by connoisseurs 9
even to the oyster itself What number of -,
oysters a person can swallow at sitting :
seems difficult question to decide. Bril- y
lat Savarin declares that it Is no uncommon :
thing at great feasts where oysters form the T.
dish, for several of the quests (
to eat gross of them-twelve dozen, and y
a hundred and forty four! He calculated q
hat such a number would weigh three &
pounds, and that still the Gargantuan con ,
'umer could proceed comfortably after fl
wards with his dinner; whereas had il Il
)een three pounds of meat he had digested
ne would have been obliged to cry, Hold O
enough u
Brillat Savarin himself, at his celebrat. n
I'd luncheon to his two old friends of the n
Rue de BAG, offers them each two dozen as ii
ghet. And he tells an annecdote of a Il
riend of his, great amateur, to whom he W
,ffered surfeit of oysters, but that after C,
liz friend had accomplished his thirty Il
econd dozen, and was still proceeding Wig a,
rously, the host thought it time to suggest
inner, at which his friend behaved him. al
elf as hungry man ought This seems II,
D settle the question of the digestlbility of Il
be oyster, for Billat- Savarin is generally n
The eight, or at the most, the a,
oxen provided AS hors.9guores nowadays if
rom an honorable economy need not h,
tighten the weakest digestion. The best CO
nings to drink with them is claret glass W
q Il. 4.