The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-05-28
GLEANINGS.

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Knoxville, Tenn, has a factory
which turns out ton and a half %,
railroad spikes per day.
Four successful cooperative socir-
ties numbering 1000 members, have
been organized within the last year.
It is officially stated that 1900 EN-.
igrants have been conveyed to the
African coast during the past year.
There are seventy miles Of street
railways completed, and more con-
templated, in New Orleans. ~
A magnificent dining car called
the "Delmonico" is to bc put on the
Chicago and st. Louis Railway JGne
1st. s.p asFs ar.f3
1t is said that Chicago will expend
81 365, 900 on parks, streets and 9th
or public works this season.
Two hundred and ten Sandwish
emigrants arrived at Milwaukee last
Wednesday.
Down in Maine there is a man
who drinks a pound Of tea per week
-as he says to improve his memory.
The Government Clerks at Wash.
ington are about to organize among
themselves kind of a ''Loan and De
post Association"
Three tobacco factories of Brook
lyn, with an aggregate capacity of
10000 pounds per day, are said 10 be
swindling the government.
Gen. O'Neil, the Fenlan, is report
ed to have contracted for the man
ufacture Of q large numbdr OF fire
arms by the Colt Company at Hart
ford.
Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, is 10
uveil the statue of Thomas II. Ben
ton, her father, which is to be put in
position in st. Iouis, on the 27th OF
this month.
The Valley Telegraph Company
opened an office at Minneapolis few
days ago, and commenced working
a line between that point aud ST.
Paul on Wednesday, at reduced
rate.
The New York thieves are repor.
ted to have found it necessary 10 in
vent new gibberish since the com
mon "thieves' latin" has been so
thoroughly learned by the city po-
lice that it is useless to them.
A raft containing 5000, 900 ieet of
lumber and 1000, 900 lath and shin
giles, is noticed by the Sank Center
Wis, Herald, as probably the largest
ever foated in one body in that
State.
A little life-boat, in which two ad-
venturers of Chicago propose 10 at
tempt to cross the Atlantic this sum
mer, is being built in that city. She
is called the "Little Western" and is
nearly completed.
The Canadian Governor General :
salary has finally been reduced 10
$4,000
John A. Olmstead, of New York,
has invented boat which can he
doubled up into trunk.
Breckenridge is among the other
ruins in Rome.
The Portrait Queen Victoria gave
to George Peabody was received at
the Peabody Institute in the newly
named town of Peabody. on Tnes-
day.
The oldest inhabitant in Connect
cut now lives at East Lyme, in her
108th year, and "her name is" Dillah
I4add. For the benefit Of Messrs.
Trask and Parton, it may stated that
for sixty years she has found com
fort in her clay pipe, and retains
good bodily health yet, and held
her memory till a year since.
The crop prospects in Canada are
all favorable.
The indictment against the Cler-
kenwell Fenian prisonets is said to
be 60 feet long.
.Whistling taught in six easy les
sons" is advertised in Connecticut.
Josh Billings says: ''Thc best
cure / know of for tight boots. i.
small feet"
A Portland lady who has kept
count claims to have used thirty
miles of spool cotton within twelve
years.
A man living near Albany, N. \.
last week wiped the oil from til,
bowl of a tobacco pipe, and apple
it to q burn ON the lip of his littl,
daughter. The child died in convnl
sions in twenty-four hours after.
The New Jersey Legislature talk
of imposing an annual tax of on,
dollar on each bachelor in that stat,
who cannot prove that during ,h,
year he made two bona tide offers o
marriage and was refused.
The man who now pays the lar
gest income tax in Newburyport
Mass, began life by working in til,
Newburyport Herald Office for two
dollars and q half a week.
leo cream killed the late Marshal
Narvarez, Of Spain, and canned pine
apples caused Senator Howards i'll
ness. Tho laws Of nature won't be
violated even for an impeachment
trial, aa