The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-03-14
Hen-fruit Is about as scarce as hens teeth.
A dozen eggs cost you nearly as much as
marriage certificate.

A dozen eggs cost you nearly as much as q
marriage certificate.
4 -
II there is any extended work going
on among those who are anxious to fill the
various offices at the approaching city cleo.
ton, very little of 1t has yet come to the
surface. Even the few that have ventvred
out on the arena by declaring themselves
have not commenced shaking hands with
the voters However, don't be alarmed
there will be music in the air when they
all get down to business then the buttons
II fly.
renewing his acquaintance" is what the
Sreator Monitor classifies 1t when sub.
scriber calls at the office and pays his sub
scription. 1t does indeed make the pub
Usher of newspaper sociable and friendly
like with his patrons when they make 1t
a point to get acquainted" with him in
that manner once a year. The cash in
advance is always the speediest way of in
PRODUCING yourself to the publisher. While
you may not think any more of him it
raises you wonderfully in his estimation.
***
Old winter hates to leave us. No doubt
the cold hearted wretch would like to stay
always, but it is high time for gentle spring
to knock him out in the first round
|
| The Aurora Herald reports as an item of
news that "two babies have been born
there within week"
***
One Of our exchanges perpetrated neat
sell at which many republican papers bit
at with the hunger of a shark for anything
which sounded like prophecy of ill-omen
of the new administration. The paper in
question said that four months from the
day of Cleveland's Inauguration every
wholesale house in Chicago would be
closed, and not bank in the city
would be doing business. -Four months
from the day of Inauguration happens to
be the fourth of July, when all large bust
ness establishments are closed.
***
The editors of the Signal and the RepuJ-
lie and Sun, Joliet, having nothing else to
disagree about, are now quaareling over
the price of hay. Now that the country is
safe under q democratic administration,
the depression from politics to hay seems to
have been easily accomplished.
*x*
None of the papers of this city but for
got to state that March came in like a
lamb, &c. Such forgetfulness on the part
of the dailies is not evidence of enterprise.
*
A south-side girl refused to kiss her
fiancee goodnight as he was parting with
her last Wednesday night at II o'clock.
She interposed the Lenten regulations
which forbade tasting meat on fast days.
If he had remained an hour longer she
could have no legal objection. This is
pointer for the young fellow.
X
A Joliet editor whoops up the account
of the Inauguration with classical hurrah,
heading ii with the following: Post Nj
bila Jubia. Remuda De Pasturage. Haze
Bizerros Gordes. Riva Bien, Qui Rira lie
Dernier" A medley of Latin, Italian and
French, as heading, leads one to believe
that there must be a great many linguists
in that section of country, or else he is
wasting his parade of the languages on the
desert air. 1t were better for him that he
stick to his mother tongue or else take a
walk across the pons assinorum.
***
On the day after the Inauguration of Mr..
Cleveland, Prof. Tufts, of the High School,
took occasion to remark to his pupils that
five of the Cabinet appointments were
graduates of colleges--Lamar of Emery
College; Endicott of Harvard College;
Garland of St. JosepL's College; Whitney
Of Yale College; Villas of the Wisconsin
State University, and Bayard of the Wash
ington High School. The Professor added
that while Dan Manning did not receive a
collegiate course, he obtained his educa-
Ton in the office of the Albany Argus,
which was just as good place as any COL
ege. Who knows but that some of the
graduates from the newspaper offices of
Ottawa may yet receive some promi-
nent foreign or domestic appointment un-
Ter the NLINth Congress?
The recent semi-political novel noticed
lere some time since "THE SHADOW OF THE
WAR" - Whose authorship has been my
'tery) is now known to have been written
~ DR.. Stephen T. Robinson, practicing
physician of Edwardsville, Ill. His residence
IN South Carolina for number of years af- |
er the war made him familiar with the act
nal workings of reconstruction, and the Pc
,uliar mysteries and historical significance