Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-06-19

experience is good school mas
ter. but he does charge sucll fearful
wages.
Great is bankruptcy. SAYS Carlvle:
1t brings an end to all shanls under TIE
sun.
Land was recently sold in the city
oil London at the rate of $50 foot.
or over $s,00O,O00 am acre.
oeorgia farmers are swinging their
cradle in their wheatfields, and their
wives are doing the same thing in the
house.
Cooing is Well enough before maj
riage, but the billing iosn't generally
come until after. and then Il comes
from the grocer.
new orleans bar rooms now keen
ambulances ON hand to deliver over
loaded customers at their residences
and remove the dead.
| There is colored woman in Phifa.
delphia who win poison or shoot
mother-in.laws for ten cents and her
board while putting mp the job.
Notwithstanding that the recent tor
nado in Iowa blew the feathers off the
poultry, we have vet to hear single
instance Of a woman losing her false
hair.
| Lemenade, ice creme, sody waiter
and frute," is the way sign reads at a
new refreshment stand which has lust
sprung up on South Water Street, Pc.
oris, Ill.
IN accordance with an act of the
thlrty.ninth congress, associate Justice
Clifford, of the Supreme Court, will
act as Chief Justice till the President
fills the vacancy. W ~
| Did you know" said cunning
Gentlle to jew, "that they hang Jews
! and JacEasses together in Portland "
indeed J" retorted Solomon, eden ii
IS veil dat You and ish not dere."
| A drunken fellow got kicked out OF
saloon III Battle Greek, Mich, ON
"circus day., and took his revenge by
mounting dry goods box near by aud
delivering temperance lecture to a
large crowd.
| II is said that "neccssity Is the moth
er of invention" but go to the Patent
| Office in Washington, and thcy will
tell you that invention Is the mother
of necessity. Nine inventors out OF
ten die poor the other tenth die mad"
| A Peoria girl, on her marriage.
sold her piano and bought sewing
machine and materials enough to make
full suits for her husband and herself,
and straiyhtway went TO work max
ing them up. Her sisters are already
all married.
A young lady who has been travel
ing out West as a drummer for large
| wholesale grocery house has been dis
charged by her employer because she
induced the retail dealers to order
more goods than they were able to dis
pose Of or pay for.
A new mode of excursion has been
originated by the Bangorians, Me.
They 60 upon the river some distance
and float down on the RATS. They
call 1t exciting.
! HeinrfO Hcine says: "If all Eu-
4 rope were to become prison, Ameri-
ca would still present a ioop-hole or
escape, and, God be praised, that
is~f cs."ae = 'a-par than the Dungeon
ITSELF
| A land lord at Cedar Rapids, lows.
has raised the price of board since he
heard that VIM. A. Seward gave the
town complimentary notice in his
"Travels Around the World
i For fifty years Professor Agassiz
has busted himself hunting bugs. The
Keokuk Gate City knows of several
hotels in Iowa, where he could find
more than he wanted in five minutes
after touching the bed.
Mistress-"Mary, 60 into the sitting
room, please, and tell me how the ther-
mometer stands Mary (after inves-
tigating)-"lt stands OH the mantle
| piece just agin' the WALL"
1 Queen Victoria's chief physician
says that "housework is admirably
calculated to preserve robust woman
and to strengthen one who is weak.
| An hour in the laundry is better thaa
| a vial of iron"
| When you cannot see how you are
to "get along" visit few of yonr sick
or poor neighbors, and then come back
and try again. If it does not seem to
work well, repeat the prescription,
taking with you some delicacy or
COMFORT
! An Iowa farmer spent several weeks
in cultivating mullen plants, under
the supposition that they were tobac-
co. When he learned the truth he
chewed the end of his hoe handle into
splinters.
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e pslnss LAS. Sunasy
iuna ons " .hess enuBins huinsn
naou L =, M's Maleule, seiAeo ae1
usDa.,u nn ~ ane nair anu threW nim
n;,an,a G seeonu SC, ,,,, s,ory @ porch' causing
injuries ina' VIII Eli MN
! Last FRIDAY. Mrs. Covle an old lady
ll;yino in the esst mart of M paso nnt
ner head out OF WINDOW during the
STORM ana was struck by lightning.
Sne was stunned Tor moment, ana