Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-10-30
news and other Items.
Ohio has l5S Oranges.
Young ladies' eeouomy-never throw
away good match.

Ohio has lJs Oranges.
Young ladies' ecouomy--nevert throw
away good match.
Atchison, Kan. has - ..rcmoutni,..
4ical Society
| The people "f Utah want branch
mint.
/ The public debt of Massachusetts i.
over ~. 100000.
Paper hats constitute The latest fash
ionablc papyromania.
boston like, the idea OF postal street.
ears and wants 10 try them.
The assessed value OF live stock il
Iowa is S36,52l,3if.
| \ Fort Wayne merchant advcrti,es
his goods at "oxymn."
Il A lady reporter scnt to an agrcultu.
raj fair wrote of lot of pigs "TLey
look too sweet to live minute
| Another cross-breea campaign lie
haiieu to the rugged wood is The wav
4 Western paper puts it.
a new newspaper. edited by wo-
men. has been established at Puehls.
| Mexico.
! The Kentucky papers are puckered
up over the prospect OF a good per.
simmon crop.
The conscience fund OF the Treasury
has not received contribution for the
last three months.
| kate Field says that if she were 81
| nan she'd marry a French woman or
none al all.
Litchfield, Connecticut, chronicles
tue first skating casnality of the sea-
son.
/ Northwestern Ohio is reapipo a
rich return from its extensive annie
torclNrds,
Foreign correspondents say that the
Princess Of Wales grows more bcauti.
fnl with advancing years.
| Singing 'sTbc Ham Fat Man in lii.
streets of Boston at midnight is pnn-
ished by fine of $50.
The Philadelphia papers now 90
| three whole days at a time without say
| ing anything abont the Centennial.
| The Quincy papers are publishing
| learnyd disquisitions on the problem:
t"Whe do mules kick 2"
The indianapolis Exposition nets a
handsome deficit of 1896 This sort
| of Expose is troublesome to the stock
| holders.
l The oldest Mason is dead again. AT
North Hector. n. Y. named Sesh
Sqnires, and aged 96 He became 3
mason in 1904.
/ 4 Memphis woman who was afraid
of the yellow fever sold piano for
I &25 il orter 10 get means TO leave
town.
At u Boston restaurant n supply OF
live trou, is kept in tank, so that epi-
cures may pick ont which fish they
| will have cooked
| New York glove store has adopt
ed the Paris custom of having pretty
young girls to lit on the gloves pnr-
| chased by laaies aud gentlemen.
The Rich iamil. OF Nmrrfv, ,,.... I.
hold reunion at Chelsea. The Rich
I are uot so plenty rs they used to be.
1
/ Lawrence, kau., j. having "homr
camp.lneetings." You 90 to meeting
at tue Methodist Church and camp at
home.
u hate to die wanted TO wear my
blue redingote TO Mrs. George par
ty.' were the diving words Of the bell
of Kansas City.
In the Philadelphia post-oiiice tho
| marble alone will cost nearly five mil
lions and half. And il will not he
1 done in time for the Centennial
| 4 new cause of diyoree-incompa
| lbllity OF temperament of the wife,
| relativcs-is recognized by The Califor-
| MIA courts.
Mrs. Jane sylvester, of Lineolnyile
Me, is now knitting with set of nee
| dies ON which she knit stockings for
| the soldiers in the war of 1872. and
I also in the late war.
Worth. the Paris man -modiste. EN-.
ploys twenty-women 10 make toilets
He merely lays back in his chair
| shuts tn his eyes and makes sugges-
| Gons.
| Ohio has graduated another female
lawyer, and the papers say that she
| steps three feet six inches in her morn
ing walks.
When fliny Fay and wife. started
from Muscatine to visi. California
they were presented with 800 in cash
and now two-thirds of the people are
| talking abou, leaving town
\ Maryland man had fight with a
! stonecutler abou, tombstone, and
| both were killed: and the opposition
stonecn,ter in the village secured the
| contract on all three tombstones.
| Mr.. Eooic, of Wisconsin,, while yisi-
/ ting the Win0na fair. patrOnized
/! !lung.testing machine. The exertion-
made his lungs bleed. aud in four
hours he was corpse.
I The Minnesota law compelling sa-
| loon keepers 10 pay ten dollars annual
~ to the support of the State lnebriate
Asylum has yielded twelve thousand
dollars this year.
The total amount spent by the Chi
cago, Alton aud ST. Louis Railroad
Company. consequent upon the l.e-
mont disaster. will exceed the sum oil
| &l2a,0D.
A lady recently applied 10 fire in
surance company for position as
agent. When asked what her qualiti-
cations We're she touched her unb'ush-
ing check.
\ plain spoken casnist says there i,
no absolute sin in horsc-racing, but that
Ii there is anything provoking in this
world il is to bet your money on the
| wrong horse ana be obliged to steal :,
ride home or go afoot.
| Commodore Vanderbilt, having los,
some S70O.ct0 by the decline OF stocks
is fl object Of sympathy. But as he
las some S3o.a00,000 remaining. il.t
sympathy need no, take the form OF {.
contribution.