The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-10-03

In Iowa they compare the enthusi-
asm for Greeley to the racing qualities
of the mud turtle.
When q man falls down precipice
in Omaha, and they cannot find q rope,
they lower him a bottle of whisky as
an elevator. VI
So far as we can learn there is not
Greeley Republican in Appanoosc
county, and In one towns ship it is said
there is not q single Democrat who
will vote for Greeley. Crow is not
their diet ente,'uille Citizen.
A reporter of the Missouri Demo
crat calls woman who had buried
four husbands stmarital quadrilater-
al" This Is good, but why didn't he
say four-cornered widow, and then
everybody would have understood
him.
An ignorant young woman in the
Bernardston library, Saturday even
ing, took book from the shelf and
read, "The Deceit fDescentl Of Man,
by Darwin. "Pshaw! I" she exclaimed,
we needn't 60 to book to find that
out"
An old lady, warm admirer of
Mr.. Greeley, at one of the stations on
the Little Miami road, yesterday, said
she "kn0wed Mr.. Greeley the minute
she seed him, for he hadn't changed q
bit since he had his picture taken for
them fans. "-Ci,a. Commercial, Z.
A Cincinnati youth, guided by the
advice ola fortune teller, sought to
make girl love him, by means of
electricity working under her chair.
When the time came she sprang into
the air about three feet, and when she
came down she landed in her lovers
hair, and took about two handfulls
thercfrom, and then told him that she
hated him.
A curious case of poisoning occur.
red in New York lately. A man on
lighting match, let the head, or phos-
phoric part fall on his finger. It fell,
however, on q cut, and, though he i'm
mediately brushed it of, the finger be-
gan to swell rapidly, and a doctor who
was summoned found the blood had
been poisoned. Immediate amputa-
ton of the hand was the only remedy.
The good effects of associated action
were never better illustrated than in the
establishment of cheese factories in the
United States. The improvements
that have been introduced into the
manufacture of this article of diet have
through this agency been SO great that
the American product now completes
with the best English in the London
markets, whereas 1t was almost unsal-
able twenty years ago.
In the course of an apology for pub
fishing four sermons the st Louis Dem
cTdt says: "Religi0n ought to be of
more concern to the human race than
politics, not to mention the fact that
there is more thought and culture in |
the pulpit than on the rostrum. Occa-
siOnally q sermon is dull, but general
ly political speech is dull, and dull |
sermon is better than dull speech
We wish all pulpit orators were Beech |
ers but anything TO beat Satan"
A couple from the backwoods or
Tennessee, arrived at Nashville on
their bridal tour, and on calling for
room were shown to the elevator,
which, they in their innocence took
for bed room. When the servant,
who had gone for some matches, re-
he found them partially dis
robed, and expressing their dissent at
the closeness of tho room, and the
scanty sleeping accommodations.
/
The production of iron has doubled
within the past sixteen years. in 1856
he total production was 900, 600 tons
IN 1872, l4,OO0,O0O tons. La 1856 the
lverage consumption of iron in the
world was about seventeen pounds
head in 1871 in was thirty pounds
mead. In 1856 in Great Britain the
per head was LA pounds
n the United States it was eighty -four
pounds. In 1871 the consumption in
treat Britain was 200 pounds per head
n the, United States l5O pounds per
read. The consumption Of iron has
'een considered by politico-scientists
n Indication of the social progress Of !,
people. II this be SO the United
'tates is rapidly assuming the most
dvanced position socially Of any ma
ion on the globe. ii6s III