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Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-05-03

A wife in San Francisco lately put
petition for divorce in the court, on the
ground that her husband was eon-
founded fool The judge, who was an
old bachelor, would not admit the plea.
because, he said, every man who gets
married would be liable to the same i'm.
putation.
A young lady at home from boarding
school, for the holidays, was asked if she
would have some more roast beef, when
she replied No, | thank you; CASTRO
nomical safety admonishes me tha.
have arrived at the ultimate stage Of de-
glution consistent with dietetic integrity"
She was never asked if she'd have anv-
thing more again.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-10-12
Letters Of Recommendation.

A gentlemen advertised for IL boy
to assist him in the Office, and near
ly fifty applicants presented thom
selves to him. Out of the whole
number, he, in short time, selected
one and dismissed tho rest.
II should like to know" said a
friend, ION what ground you selected
that boy who had not a single rec
ommendation r
"You are mistaken, said the gen
tleman; she had a great many. He
wiped his feet when he came in, and
closed the door after him, showing
that he was careful. He gave up
his seat instantly to that lame old
man, showing that he was Kind and
thoughtful. He took of his cap
when he came in, and answered my
questions promptly and respectfully
showing he was polite and gentle.
manly. He picked up the book
which had purposely laid upon the
floor, and replaced it on the table !;
while all the rest stepped over it or
showed it aside, and be waited quiet
ly for his turn, instead of pushing
and orowding, showing that he was
honest and orderly. When talked
with him J noticed that his clothes
were carefully brushed, his hair in
nice order, his teeth as white as milk;
and whom he wrote his name, / no.
|ticed that his finger nails were clean,
instead Of being tipped with jet, like
that handsome little fellow in the
blue jacket. Don't call those things
Nctters of recommendation 1 can
ell moro about a BOY by using my
&es ter minutes than all the fine
lttters be can bring me-"
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-10-12

The old story comes from the
Treasury Department, but one the
people never tire Of hearing. The
reduction OF the public debt during
The month OF September was about
S13,5O0,O0O. Add to this the fact that
$500, 900, 900 have been borrowed at
5 per cent, to replace an equal amount
of bonds bearing 6 per ceut, saving
two millions year in interest when
the transaction is fully consummated
and the other fact that Congress will
doubtless reduce the annual taxation
when it assemblies from thirty to
fifty millions more, and the whole
government financial situation is ap.
parent. The nation is steadily win
ming its way to low taxes, and q
rapid extinction of all it's peounlary
obhgations.-Chicago Post.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-10-12
DARING RonpnTY.
5000 Taken From . Railroad Tick
ct Aren't at Midday.

The bolder a robbery is planned,
it appears, the more successful is the
result. At all large gatherings like
the great fair about opening at this
place, thieves and robbers usually
oongregate in large numbers, and
from the boldest and most daring
known to the craft.
Shortly after dinner yesterday, q
daring and successful robbery was
executed at the railroad ticket Office
at the right center Of the main room
of the Southern Hotel. Mr. II, l.
Downs, the ticket agent in charge of
the Office there, had placed in his
bank book some $4,000, including q
check of $40. and desiring to add
to tue amount from some funds
at his residence he placed the book
and money in little counter drawer,
and, expecting the Office boy back
in q moment, he hurried out, leaving
no one in charge. Itappears he had
been carefully watched by sumo pro-
fessional thief. The boy returned in
short time and found the drawer
open and the money gone.
Mr.. Downs on his return was
startled at tie loss. All the money
was gone excepting the check of $40
above mentioned, and not the slight
est clue to the robbery. The large
general room in which the Office Is
located was almost full of people
about the time OF the robbery. The
Cincinnati Council delegation and
their friends occupied the main por-
tion of space between the Office and
the registering counter Of the hotel,
and the thiet or thieves had the mat.
ter well fixed. All it required was a
bold, strategic move, and it was ac-
complished.
Detectives are busy working up the
case, with but little clue to work upon
and indeed little hope, with all their
skill. of securing either the money or
thief. The bills were of the denomi-
nations of $50, S20 and SO, but few
small bills among the lot.
The above are simply the state
ment OF one of the hotel attaches, and
are correct in the main. The sup
position is. as above stated, that the
party committing the robbery was
carefully watching Mr.. Downs at the
time he was getting his money ready
to deposit in the bank, and knew
what disposition he made of it before
he fett.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-10-12
Boys LETTER.

DEAR JIMMY: Ask your mother
to bring you up here right off. It's
gay. There's fishing here, and plen-
ty of worms to catch 'em WITH
You stick the hook in em and they
wiggle bully. Fishin's funnier when
you don't catch the hook in the seat
of your pantaloons, so you can't sit
down and can't fish all the way
home. | did that the other day and
Mr.. Jenkyns, cousin Laura's beau,
ask't me ii l was sole or . hoel.-
Suppose he thought that he was GO
ing to be funny, but | did't see it
Bimeby, l saw him cut piece out OF
cousin Laura's hair, where her hook
caught, and kiss 1t like great baby
and put it in his pocket. So l told
on 'em at tea, and every body latt.
They nave cows here and | 60 TO
see them MIXED. They don't pump
it out with their tails, like you and |
thought they did, but they squeeze
it out Of bag that comes on pur-
pose, i suppose. MIXED the other
night. 1t was very hard to squeeze
and it would not go into tho pail
Some went into my eyes, and the
rest went up my slesve. / don't like
turkey COCKS neither; they rutfie
themselves up and run at you. They
are very pherocious bird, and
disagreeable to live with. Chickens
are nicer we eat them they put 'em
under "baril" at night and Bill and
I kill them in the morning. We
have bully fun wringing their necks
You'd better come here right off and
bring shot gun for there are bears
here--anyhow we saw fox and
candy, because we can't get any here
and a popgun and some bows and
arrows and things. Perhaps we can
shoot deer. 1 think Mr.. Jenkyns Is
blamed fool. He made me believe
he he found deer's track the other
day and when looked at it, it was
only tho marks of cousin Laura's
boot don't see what makes him SO
sappy about girls. We won't will
we? I'd be ashamed. I'm going to ride
old Sam tomorrow He is . horse.
You ride HIM bar back and it is very
hard to stick on, he feels so squirmy.
Give my love to all the boys and tell
them I'm. having bully time, only
| hate old Jenkyns. No more at pre-
sent from.
Yours truly, ROBBIE.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-10-12
A Hagerstown paper records ter.

A Hagerstown paper records a ter
rible casa,pf glanders in a human be
ing. A man named Martin living
near Waverton, Washington county,
Md, accidentally got some ofthe vi
rus from tho nosesor mouth Of q CLAN
derous horse into cut upon one Of
his thumbs, and short time there-
after was taken with frightful spasms
succeeded by fearful sickness and
prostration. Medical assistance was
obtained, and, although every reason
able attention was given the man,
he died in o most horrible manner,
some six or seven days aftorwarj.-
His body became mass of ulcers,
and at tho time of dissolution the
flesh literally fell 90 pieces from the
bones.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-10-12
Rsvengful Puntshmsnt.

We once knew Of q little child
who had stolen a couple OF figs off
tho desert dish on the day of dinner
party. The theft was discovered
and her father made her wear the
figs on string round her neck the
whole evening, with full exP!ana
tions why. We heard the story
when the child had grown up to be a
woman, and from her lips; and she
said that TO this hour she suffered
from the shame OF that evening. IL
was burnt into her, and made a
wound ineffaceable for life. 1t was
tremendous punishment for the
fault, being in 80 young q child as
tshe was--only five years old--onc
that might have been punished and
reformed by milder measures. 1t
seems to have been a mistake, judg-
ing from the bitterness with which
the fathers character, was spoken
of--she said that she ceased to love
him from that day and from the
stern and laveless nature OF the
woman herself II seemed to have
cast all the softness out OF her. Anc
though, to be sure, she stole no more
figs, yet she had learncd lesson t
keep her fingers from wandering in
to forbidden places at too severe ,
cost. The policy of humiliation is !
dangerous one at all times and OF
all occasions, and lar moro soul
have been crashed by this, than sin
have been confirmed by over sell
leniency. To destroy all selfrespec
is to destroy all healing power an
to prevent all possibility OF a re
bound. In dealing with tho faulty
however hard we may be on the sir
we ought always to leave "a way Q
restoration to the siuner.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-10-12
Grace Greenwood on tho Marrow
0uage.

Grace Greenwood writes rs fol-
lows to the New York Times.
II should have chronicled some
time ago an excursion on the Den
yer and Rio Grande narrow guage
railroad. We went out about fifteen
miles-as far as tho rails were then
laid. 1t was q charming day. We
had pleasant company Of citizens
and tourists, and all went merry as
a marriage bell, in the old days,
when marriages were Of some ac-
count. On this railway you are
struck at once with the reduced pro-
portions of everything from the To-
comotive, which seems like a small
variety Of the iron horse'-a very
little mustang-to the windows and
lamps in the cars. The cars them
selves are bright, pretty, diminutive
affairs, cozy and comfortable. II
seems like playing at railroading, es
pecially ss there is marvelously little
noise or motion. Never have l
known train to glide along SO
smoothly and quietly. The little en-
gine 'buckled right down to her
work, like Chiquita, and made no
ado about it, when | grievc to say,
suddenly baked, and had to be
switched We took another horse
and and went merriiy to the end OF
the road. Here wo all allghted and
watched the mon laying the rails
and driving spikes. The remorseless
officers Of the road insisted on your
correspondent paying her way by
driving o spike. 1t was cruel task
on my muscular christianity The
newspaper said that l drove the
spike home triumphantly.' But !
really thought it wouldn't go home
till morning This narrow guage
road, when finished to El Paso, will
be wonderful route-for pleasure as
we'll as comme,ce- it will be al
most unrivailed tor variety and gran.
deur of scenery. The mountain
views, the pictures OF river, and park
and plain, between Denver and Col.
orada City are especially magnif
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-10-12

HUMAN VANITY.-ln the Memoirs
of Charles Mayne Yong there is a
striking illustration of the in
fuehce of vanity as an ele-
ment in human motive. During the
first French revolution, Lafayette,
desiring to disperse mob composed
OF the most brutal rabble in Paris or
dered young officer of artillery to
load and rain on them two guns.
Before the command to fire was Civ
en-, the officer begged to be allowed
to try a milder remedy. He was
told 1t was useless to attempt to rea-
son with such brutes. "But do not
mean to appeal to their reason he
replied, "but to their vanity" Per-
mission being then reluctantly given
he approached the crowd and brief
ly addressed them "Respectable per-
sons will have the goodness to with
draw I have orders to fire only on
the 'capaille.'" And Immediately as
nobody wished to be considered of
of the 'canaille, the entire crowd
proved its claim to be ranked among
respectable persons by scampcring off
rs fast as possible.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-10-12
Some European goyernments seem

Some European governments seem
very much at o loss to know what to
do with the Jews. la Algeria, their
liberties are to be SO restricted that
their wealth and progress may not
offend the idle and quarrelsome native
population. In Prussia, where they
have been allowed some show of
liberty since 1847, efforts arc being
made to ameliorato their condition
still further. Prominent Jews have
been invited to take part in this new
movement. Before 1861 Jews wero
forbiddea TO live in Central Russia,
nor were they allowed to enter Rus
sian territory without a special per-
NIT. Since 1861 all Russia has been
open to them, and no regulation
of their position and privileges seem
to be difficult. tits very strange that
the expedient OF letting people OF
every shade OF religious belief live
together without Interference has
never suggested itself to the Russian
government.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-10-12
Steam carriages are now u common
things in the bouievards of Paris.


things in the bouievards of Paris.
All three cables across the Atlantic
are in working order.
The Post Offices of England deliv-
cred about 962, ,723, 900 letters last
year,
Anna Dickinson's new lecture ID
on Compulsory Education
James Parton is called peice OF
Fanny Ferniture by an exchange.
A man named Henry GriMm, sui
eided near Wapello on Sunday night
of last week. That was grim
death.
| On Tuesday OF last week Parry
Keever, of Wapolio, lost his barn by
fire. Damage, about 500.
The Missouri is so low at Sioux
City that the ferry boat can hard
ly navigate her course across tho
river.
The proverbial "going south
ward OF wild geese has generally
commenced, indicating the approach
Of cold weather.
A mortgage for S2,l00,00O was
recorded in Sioux City, Saturday, by
the Sioux City and st. Paul Railroad
Company, to secure that amount OF
bonds.
Mayor Hall has endeavored to
suppress Harpers' Weekly as libelous
and indecent. Thos, Mast appears
to be an able opponent OF the ring.
A Muscatine woman attempted to
lead calf and carry u hoe at once,
the other day. The doctor thinks
the wound in her torehcrd made by
the hoe may prove fatal, without ex-
ira caution.
The mackerel fishermen Of Maine
report the season perfect failure.
| The.celebrated "Comanche Bill" is
delighting Chicago with his pres
ence in Indian costume.
A man spoke twice after having
his heart cut out by q circular saw at
Columbus, Ind, last Monday. ~
Busines is duh in Keokuk.
A man in Quasqueton has raised
Siberian crab-apples both sweet and
sour, from the same tree, this year.
The payroll for the workmen en-
I poyed On the new State House, for
the week ending Sept. 23d, was ST.
250.10. ..s,..s
A hotel near Birmingham was
burned on Tuesday oflast week.
Less small, above Insurance..
1 Mr.. joaquin Miller, the Poet OF the
Sierras, has arrived in. New York.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-10-12

SINCE that witty man, Charles II
Webb, retired from journalism and
tho Alder, to rejoice in the felicities
of connubial life, and revel in tho
large sum of money which he. in
conjunction with Mr.. Drew, Mr.. Van
derbilt, and other capitalists has re-
alizod, by those peculiar upheavals in
stocks which the public records tell
us sometimes occur in Wall street
since then he has seldom been hoard
oil. When he was one Of "us" doing
semi reportorial duty at one OF the
fairs ofthe American Institute, he
found it necessary TO take seat be-
hind a pyramid Of backing and
write no his notes. He had just COM
pleted glowing euiogium on the
merits of a patent bean sitter, when
he was interrupted by tall country
man who asked:
"Haow dc yer sell yer blackin',
mister?
"I don't sell it," said the absorb
ed writer.
"Don't gin it away, du yer?" said
the querlst, handling q box covet-
ously.
"I haven't give any away yet" !"
replied the still busy knight of the
pencil.
"Hain't got any objections to my
takin' a box have ye2" persisted the
torment.
"Not the least in the world said
the now thoroughly aroused joker,
camly closing his book and beaming
blankiy upon the interrogater.
The countryman Immediately seiz-
ed upon a box Of polish, sharp boy
standing near followed his example /;
tho news of free blacking spread
among othor sharp boys, and the
pyramid of blacking was soon rednc-
ed to plane, when the newspaper
man was overtaken little distance
further in the hall by the backing
dealer irate and red faced, with two
policemen, who had the original of
fender and halt dozen boys in
custody.
"W hat tho blazcs do you mean2"
said the polish man, in any thing but
polished language, "by setting peo-
pie to stealing my blacking.
"My dear sir" said the phono-
grapher, urbanely, "the gentleman
asked me if had any objections to
his taking box of the backing, and
| didn't have any objections and /
don't know VIII, should have" And
ho walked quietly on in pursuit Of
his labors, leaving Messrs. Day Il
Martin to charge a gross of paste
blacking to profit and loss.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-10-12
STORING WINTER AppLEs.-A CO..

STORING WINTER AppLEs.-A cor
respondent of Laws of Life, who
claims to bavo extended experience
is decidedly of the opinion that ap.
pies keep far better when put into
close boxes OR barrels, and secluded
as much as possible from the air
When thus stored he says they will
come out in the spring full and plump
as when taken from the tree. Many
varieties, as the Talman Sweet, Spit
zenburg, and those kinds that are
not considered as long keepers, and
shrivel badly, will do well treated in
this way. l have, he continues, found
universally that they keep better to
let them lie without picking over. L.
is much better to pile them into a
large bin across the celler, say six or
seven feet wide, and cover them up
tight, than to lay them on the
shelves. once saw such BIN that
man had kept through the winter.
About the first Of April, be thought
he would open the window on the
side of the cellar next to the bin to
let in the air, that they might keep
better; was at his place, and be
called my at, ention to the fact. Two
windows over the bin were opened
about one third, rotted for as much
as foot in depth, and the remaining
part on eiGher side we're not rotted
at all. Another instance: A neigh
Dor of mine had about five hundred
bushels in pile In cellar. As they
became o little speckled, he COM
menced picking them over when
about half done, be got tired and
concluded to let them go. When
marketed about six weeks after, he
found thai one third of those picked
over were not fit Tor market, while
all but one twentieth of the others
were coed. This / have seen in sew
eral Instances. Ifyou wish to try the
| experiment, make box as tight rs a
carpenter can make II, ,and when pack
ing from the orchard, ill it and nail it
fast. Let it lie in the orchard till il
is in danger of freezing; then put it
in the cellar. Put the same quanti-
ty on the shelves for trial. l am
pretty sure one experiment will con-
vince.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-10-12

A shrcwd eonnubiai strategist oil
Elmira, Pa, feels better now. His
wife found out that he did not love
her and swcetened her tea with
laudanum. The sly widower care
fully collected an insurance policy on
her life and then recovered damages
from the druggist who sold her the
poison.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-10-12

During heavy shower, New
Londoner noticed poor fellow asleep
on the sidewalk, and soaked through.
He gently aroused and admonlshed
hln of his exposure. $50 away"
said the inebriate, "go away now, do.
This shower (hic) is doing me (hic)
and the rest Of the crops a (hic)
darned sight OF good (hic) ! tell you =
--.Eachange.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-10-12
A North Carolina paper, as an in.

A North Carolina paper, as an in-
stance of the changes of fortune
wrought by the war; states that "a
-.-iaa@lady trvn, ei,o cvuuery wss in
town Tuesday, hunting cooks
place in some nice family. Many
years ago her grandfather owned
$50 slaves and six plantations, and
at the close of the war her fathe a
bushel of gold. Her husband was
poor man, and died in the war, and
now this independent and worthy
widow woman prefers TO cook in
some nice family rather than live de-
pendent on other folks.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-10-12

Gen. James Totten, WHO WIS Gen.
Lyons principal artillery officer. y,
the battle Of Wilson's Greek and
who, since served under sev,ral other
Generals during the war, died oct. 3,
at the residence OF Gen. Geo. X.
Smith, at Scdalia, Mo.
The Welsh colony in Patagonia is
the modern Utopia. They have no
lnnatics, blind, deaf, or dumb, and no
paupers or poor law. There is no
taxation.
Mr.. Beecher thinks it high time
girls were taught little practical
natural history, and so shan,ed out
of screaming and half fainting at the
sight Of a worm, toad or snake.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-10-12

An enormous woman, one Caro-.
lima Hecnan, is now on exhibiuon in
London. Her age is said to be %
year, and weight 500 pounds. She
measures seven feet around tho body,
twenty-six inches around tho arm,
and three feet and six inches across
the shoulders. 1t is added thst un
like most fat people, this large lady
is able to sustain greatp hysical ex
ertion, is handsome and pleasing
and "highly intelligent" not in th,
least ''drowsy," nor is her face "fat
aud greasy.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-10-12

II love to look upon u young
man. There is a hidden potency
concealed within bis breast which
charms and pains me 7" The daugh-
ter of a clergyman happening to find
the above sentence at the close OF
q piece OF her fathers manuscript,
as he had left it in his study, sat
down and added athens my SEN
timents exactly, papa-all but the
pains -
In Connecticut, Monday, the Re.
publicans won numerous victories in
various town elections:
A shoemaker in Deoorah commit
ted suicide Monday morning, by
shooting himself through tho head
lntemperance was evidently the
cause for the act.
Alta trot at st. Joseph, Mo-, Gold
smith Maid won the race in 2:24 ,2:ls
and 2:23-the second heat being tn,
| fastest time ever made on any tracl
west ofthe Mississippi. The driver
of the Maid says that the secons
heat was really tho best she eve
made, considering the condition o
the track.
| In regard to newspapers, young
ladies nowadays prefere those which
makes the most hustle.
Alta recent Indians wedding, tn
bride and bridegroom and slxteen @
the guests were deaf and dumb. u.
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-10-12
The San Francisco Altu saws: "Th

The San Francisco Ahu says: "fhe
great progress that has been made
in labor-saving machinery is welhil-
lustrated by the fact that no less
than seventy farmers have been cut
to pieces by moving machines this
season in Illinois. 1t would have
taken the most expert chopper
a lane sime to have done this with
the old fashioned ak