The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-06-04
GLEANINGS.

dry reading.
London is to have church for
the deaf and dumb.
1t is proposed to form "ladies'
club" in Philadelphia.
There arc said to be three million
Methodist communicates in the
world.
An almost unbroken grain field of
$50, 900 acres exists in Paradise VAL
ley, California.
A food in the Brazos river, in Tex
as, washed away seventeen negroes
and the grain crop.
The German scientific expedition
to the magnetic pole has sailed on its
voyage of exploration.
The wholesale price of lager beer
is to be advanced from S12 to S14
per barrel in New York.
Two thousand dollars worth Of
flowers were used at a recent fash
ionablc wedding in New York.
A peach tree in Goodman, Miss,
has taken to bearing perfect roses
There are no rose bushes near it.
1t is said if bald headed people
work in the sun with their hats off,
good crop of hair will be the result.
A calf of lead color and covered
with wool is being reared in West
Chester, Pa. 1t is but few weeks
old.
Ice foot thick and a boquet Of
wild flowers were gathered from the
same lot in Danbury Ct, on Satur-
day.
Billiard tables are being made
much smaller nowadays. The large
cumbersome tables have gone out of
fashion.
A silver wedding has been celebra.
ted in Indiana, much to the aston.
ishment Of the citizens of that State
of divorce.
Cactus plants, fifty feet high, that
grow up like cigar, and bear deli
cious fruit, have been cdisovered in
Arizona.
The Iowa State Eclectic Medical
Association will be held IN the city
of Des Moines on. Wednesday, the
Sd of June.
Saratoga trunks are now made of
wicker work, which is much light
err than the usual material, and about
as durable.
A police officer Of Boston in three
years has arrested 331 thieves, OF
whom 240 pleaded guilty, and the
rest were convicted.
The French railways warn persons
that their lines arc no longer of use
for suicidal purposes, as they hay G
put cow>catchers on all locomotives
San Francisco is so largely built
made land that the timbers of old
wharves were recently exhumed hall
a mile from the present water fro Mt
The new California machine for
laying railroad tracks is. laying ties
and rails on the Valley and Sacra-
mento Road at the rate of two miles
daily.
Itcost a Berkshire family for six
months tour in Europe recently,
$50, 0O0' while another family expen.
ded 100000 in a less time, for the
same pleasure.
| Oliver Aimes, President of the
Union Pacific railroad says there is
no doubt bnt that through railway
communication between the Atlantic
and Pacific will be established by
1869.
| There is story from France of q
man who has served out a prison
term Of 100 years, and returned to hit
native village ut the age of leo to
spend the remainder of his days hon
orably.
! In Salt Lake City they have a way
Of combining the standard drams
and violent sensations. At recent
representation of one of Shakespeare
plays, acrobatic novelties were per
formed between the acts.
| A penitent on his death bed, re-
Gently, sent one dollar to man in
Sawton, Vt, to pay for o half pint
of brandy, with sugars stolen twenty
| years ago. Poverty and poor health
were the causes of the theft.
During a very dull day last week
a party of ladies visited the New
York gold-room. The brokers pres
ent, in order to keep up appearances
initiated a Knocked Bedlam, and duly
astonished their visi tors.
| En- exchange relates having seer
an infant of three months old loaded
with earrings, bracelets and Other
Jewels. The mother had barbarious
| ly pierced her child's ears because
earrings would look cunning" or
the baby.
Not long ago the Church of Mour
ON, in Russia, fell down. Tho altar
alone was not destroyed. 1t wa.
erected more than three centuries
ago by John Wassellewitch, the Ter
rible, after his successful campaign
against Kazan.
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!, The grasshoppers have entirely de
stroyed the wheat crop in Texas coun
ties of Bell, Williamson, Cornell anG
Mclean. The pests are all owe,
Northern Texas, and it is feared tina,
the wheat crop will be destroyed
throughout the entire region.
! A writer in the Springfield GIL,
Journal attributes the recent deaths
Of cattle in that vicinity to the ami
mails having eaten the leaves of the
Buckeye horse-chestnut, which il
now in full foliage. Cows kert in
pastures were not affected, and the
suggestion is worth investigating.
| A legal decision has been made in
New York to the effect that a bank
is liable if its paying teller pronoun.
ces check or certificate good,
even although it DO o forgery, pro.
vided the holder of the check act on
the statement of the teller, and suf.
fers loss thereby.
T.