The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-10-24

News and Other Itsms.
The pre-hysteric period before tight
lacing was invented.
Louisiana is scourged by the worst
drought since 1850.
A high Japanese dignitary is his
Grace of Fifty-fve Umbrellas.
An entire circus company has been
arrested In Arkansas for murder.
Forty.ivc dollars is the price for
making up plain dress in New York.
Seventy thousand Texas cattle paw
the tortured earth at Wacheta, Kansas.
The noodles will wear embroidered
coat cuffs and lappels this coming sea-
son.
Kansas City is operating corner
in murders and mysterious disappear
ances.
The bean crop is unusually large this
year and rcjoiccs the heart of the aver
age Yankee.
Imitation tortoise-shell ornaments
are known among cheap jewelers. as
mock-turtle. =
What know about tidal waves"
is the subject Of a new discourse pre-
pared by II. G.
A disguised Kansas pioneer says
that Barnum's mummy is ''nothin but
u jerked Injun."
A number of live English noblemen
will give New York society a lordly
Kansas seances have developed the
fact that the spirit lives after death,
and gradually loses its intellect.
An old cynic says: with many
women, going to church is little better
than looking into bonnet shop"
The. coming winter viii be severe
onc-a fact indicated by the unusual
thickness Of the bed-bug's cocoon.
The Secretary of the Treasury is said
to have decided that imported chig-
mons areliable to extra duty World.
No gentleman will occupy more than
one seat at a time, unless he be twins.
Would that the same were trHe of the
ladies. 9*4 Zoe
II is because the denizens put such
a high color into their accounts of the
region that we have a Territory CALI
ed Colorado. a4. y
The Titusville A5end Presse has
started an interesting Deutsche Spolte.
be edited by gentleman with d
fractured jaw.
The Arizona diamonds having failed,
EankeoNoferprise has commenced
manufacturing UAem by the ton in
Brooklyn, N. Y. -. -,
If you are shoemaker and live in
Chicago, you can beat your wife with
IA base ball club for the sum of seven
hundred dollars.
1t will require great deal of effort
on the part of the Republicans of Indi-
ana to prevent Dan VOORHEES, from
supporting Grant
Beecher says Northern New Hamp-
shire is the great hunting ground Of
the world. You may hunt all day there
and get nothing.
The most famous Of Mr.. Sewards's s
sayings was his statement about the
g irrcpressible conflict" made in his
great speech of October 25, 1858.
There is fatal defect in the Harvard
system Of examinations for women.-
1t is proposed to classify them by their
age. How win it ever be discovered
A prudent matchmaking mamma,
gives the following candid advice to
her daughter: "Oh, marry the man
you love, girl. if he is as rich as Cre-
sus."
A pupil in one Of the public schools
recently revised an old saying found
in his grammar, as follows: [" 1t is bet
ter to give than to receive--a good
licking
Rev. Mrs. Hines, a lady preacher
over 70 years old. is travelling over the
mountains to California, exhorting the
wayward, wherever she finds them, TO
repent.
A very pretty bow and knot for the
hair, in parti-colored ribbons in the
form of rosebud, are worn now.--
The set is called "the Lucca." They
are very pretty.
A student who has been afflicted
with a sermon, one honr and a half long,
grumblingly says that these professors
study SO much about eternity that they
have no conception of time.
The New Orleans papers complain
that seven-eighths of the commun:ca-
tions sent them and signed "tax-pay,
err are by persons who possess moi
the iee-simple to yallcr dog"
Miss Sing zee. of San Francisco, -
warm, brown beauty" has abandoned
the barbarous Chinese style of head
dress, and permits her wealth of jet
black hair to seek her waist.
The literary critic of the Bosto,
Globe says he has sometimes thought
that, to few clergymen, the desire Il
get into the newspapers during lif'
was almost u strong as the desire to ge
into Heaven after DEATH
A man got up at night in Iowa Cit.
and thrashed his wife till he woke ul
the whole house, and then made he
aud everybody else believe he had beer
asleep all the time and didn't know
what he had been about.
The grossest instance of humbug ",
have met with for long time is tha
of an individual who advertises fo
sale, Siberian bloodhound. which h,
calls g A l,',whan every one possessing
the ordinary rudiments of an Englisl
education ought to know that tn,
beast is X o. W0yld.
NJ. Geoffroy Saint Hilaire OF Franc,
has Just received from Japan, tw,
golden fish sent to him by NJ. Dumas
French Consul. They are luminous a
night, their phosphorescence being s.
vivid that the keeper of the aquarium
on their first appearance, thought that
| fire had broken out.
| Here is an extract we clipped out 0
one of the introductory chapters OF
thrilling tale in New York paper !
is good: "She went to the center table
| where, amid albums, ANIMALS, and tn
New York Sickly, lay copy of th
Holy Bible, and, taking up the news
paper, began to reads'-- Iitus. Press.
4 A dancing master with an eye b
business has Introduced for the seaso
a quadriIle called the "kiss quardrille,