Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-09-18
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Women who violate the city ordi-
nances are condemned to sweep the
streets. in Mobile.
There are fourteen admirals and
twenty-five commodores in the Amer-
ican navy,
How natraI it iz for man, when he
makes mistake, TO korrekt il by kuss-
ing somebody else for it.
Don't loaf about the streets and de-
pend on the Lord for your daily bread,
lie isn't running bakery.
Consumptive men can acquire full
chests of lungs by blowing up the pat
ent bustles of their wives.
From the time when the Hodges
were hung is the cheerful title OF 8
series of Kcokuk Iowa) "reminiscences
going through daily there.
An English jury recently returned
a verdict of mot guilty, but we be-
lieve he broke into the house for all OF
that
The Latter-Day Saints have COM
menced building a church at Deloit,
Crawford county. The estimated cost
is Sl,20O.
The following appeared in an Edin-
burg paper: "We regret to find that
the announcement OF The death Of Mr.,
w. is a malicious fabrication"
A Pennsylvania girl went blackber-
rying five weeks ago, and when heard
from the other day was keeping house
for her husband in Georgia.
A tea merchant Of Peoria had his
advertising wagon follow funeral
procession, and it was very properly
tipped into the ditch by the mourn
ers.
A Connecticut camp-meeting has
gotten up revival against the use OF
tobacco. The farmers got mad and
went home without waiting to see
how il turned out.
Brown-tinted note paper is now the
fashion in London. The note sheet Ii
cut in legal shape, and turns at the
top instead of the bottom. The nov
city will soon bet the rage here.
A Detroit (Mich.) boy makes ON an
average over twenty-five dollars per
week at blacking boots and selling
newspapers. and has now in bank
81, 100.
A boy in Springfield, after saying
his customary evening prayer, a night
or two ago, continued, "bless mamma,
and Jenny and Uncle Benny" adding
after moments pause the explanato-
ry remark, ''his name Is Hopkins"
Sixty-nine aspiring young men re-
ceived appointments to West Point
last summer, but thirty of the
appointces failed to pass the rigid cx.
animation required on entering.
We see that there is man in Troy
who did business shout a wear with.
out expending dollar in advertising
His first advertisement was headed
SHERIFF Sale"
DIR. John Stockton Hough thinks
| that women were created, and will
survive man in the process of final ex.
tinction. There's no doubt but shell
have the last word.
The Shah says: '.Vienna is a very
fine city, have no doubt; these hous-
es look very beautiful in front but
| am sure there are many bad places be
hind them. I'll tell you how know
| i smell"
| n Philadelphia paper intimates tha
the Centennial expenses will exceed
the receipts by five or six millions. an(
intimates that Congress is expected L
make up the deficiency Who would
suppose that such q smooth Quake
would have so stiff cheek.
A German editor In Ft. Wayne, Ind.
heard some one say, Consistency
thou art a Jewell" and thinking il
sounded well. introduced it i'm hi:
| next effusion, but he made q mess ol
il, saying, sob. Consistency, ven srt
a diamond PIN"
Several fugitives from Shreveport
who arrived at Little Rock last even
ing reported the yellow fever on ths
increase at that place and everybody
leaving that can get away. OF thre.
telegraph operators at that place one
is down with the fever and the Other
has left.
A rat-trap with mirror set in til,
back part is one Of the latest devices
of inventive genius. The rat espie.
the bait. but at the same time sees, OF
thinks he sees another rat about tl
seize it. This he cannot endure. HI
rushes in and the trap snaps
A German divine who had beer
decorated with atitle sent to the uni
versity a request that the same degree
might be conferred upon his horse, Il
which he received the reply that there
was no precedent for bestowing the
honor upon horse, though the uni.
versity had in one case bestowed i
upon an ass.
The bodies of two sisters, Mrs. Ev,
erett and Mrs. Constable, have beer
found in the ruins of the Alexandri,
palace, which was burned few
months ago, in London. The ladies
disappeared in June, and it is supposed
that they went in to view the ruin
and We're buried by some falling ma
sOnry.
Publishers Of country journals may
not know they are liable to fine O
five dollars each for every advertising
circular they send out inclosed in thei1
papers. The mere printing OF the line
Supplement of the journal" or what
ever tthe name of the paper may be
over the top of these circulars doe!
not relieve them from the penalty.
| A Helena butcher slaughters his
cattle in good enough German and
charges ii up in bad enough English
For instance: "Sop bohn," "bi
schteck," "caf schoppfts,' etc., pure
specimen efforts in the orthograph,
part of the business. 1t is found al
difficult to read the bills as to pay
them. taking the general run of custo
mers.
The st. Augustine (Fls.) Press tell
a horrible story of suffering of LITTLE
Italian boy, who was thrown over
board ut sea in cask by one Captain