Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-01-09
In do.eanting upoa thed earth Of Sc,
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| In de.eanting upo. thed earth Of ser.
want girls, in Chicago, the Post OF that
! city takes occasion to remark that tho
"unaeconnIable neglect of Providence
| to create al ieast ole servant for every
lady who is brought into the world.
| has long been felt grievance by civil
| lied humanity.
Speaking of the sad aftiictiun OF u
citizen OF Indiana who hail recently
| lost his wife. local editor says: ''fhc
broken hearted mar erected pine
slab over his wife's grave, and present.
| ed four hundred dollar piano TO tho
young lady who was 50 kind to him
in his slliiciion."
A little girl was lately reprovcd for
play ing out, doors. with boys, and in
formed that being seven years old.
| "she was too big for that now" But
with all Imaginable innocence, she re-
! piled: "Why. grandma, the bigger we
grow the better we like EN-" Grand
ma took time to think.
\ man in Youngstown bet thilt,
dollars one bitter cold day that he could
walk to Warren. lie spoiled u forty
| five dollar suit OF clothes. fourteen
dollar pair OF boots. paid q doctor ten
dollars to thaw out his ears, and was
arrested at Warren as suspicious, char
acter and locked up two days In Jail
4 He won his bet.
1 The now shops OF the Pennsylvania
Central Railroad Company, to be built
between the Hatkensack and Fassaic
rivers, near Jersey City, will he, when
completed, the largest structures Of the
kind in the world. Some idea of their
immense size may be Obtained from
the statement that one of the walls isa
mile ia length.
There is an abbey in Ireland, Billy
| Florence eays, where they show two
| skulls Of Shakespeare--one when he
| was man. and one when he Was lit
tie boy--showing conclnsiyeiy that W.
shakespeare was born An lrishmai. and
lived an lrishman all his life. and still
these Englishmen claim him
One day Hiron went TO see Noltaire,
but did not find him at home. In or
der to excite his ire, lie wrote on the
door, .sOld Villain. Two days after
ward he met the author OF the Hen
riade' in the street Il was ut your
house. he said to yoltaire, with a
| sneer. "but did not find you at home.
II know" replied Voltaire: "yon left
| your name on the door,
Here is food for the snperstitioas.-
! Fourteen wears ago an aged lady OF
! Portland. Maine. fell dead from heart
disease " hile winding up AN old fash
ioned clock The time was ten min
utes before ten in the morning. Ever
| since then the clock has stopped At
| ten OH the anniversary OF her death.
Ii is said 10 have never once failed
| in the fourteen years that have passed.
The marine losses of November
among vessels belonging 70 or bound
to or from parts OF the United State,
amount 10 forty-one totally lost and
missing. OF this number twentv-four
were wrecked. four abandoned, three
| sunk by collision, three f0undered and
| four are missing. The total value OF
| these vessels. exclusive of cargoes. ia
estimated at xi2S.O00.
| rhe New York Hall saye: "rLey
! appear to be cursed with some veIy
| bad preachinu in Iowa. A minister IN
! Hardin county in that State. lately had
to sue for his salary. which amounted
| to the munificent sum OF 1880, and
I the defense was wan. of consideration.
| The preaching wasn't worth the mon
ey. Perhaps the salvation Ut that conf
mnnity was not Of sufficient impor-
Hnce TO justify more expensive ea-
! hortation.s atii st
4 ONcE IL EiGHr YEARs.-M. PauI Ja-
/ net. French writer. has shown that
since the wears l79S. there have been
1 twelve different governments in
France, the average duration Of which
has been from seven to eight years
| What is curious in this connection is
that none of these governments has
been the expression Of the free will of
the people, but all hAye been usurped.
Every eight years therefore, force in
France oyerthrows the regular author
ity. aud creates new regime of chance.
| which is itself in time destroyed by
the same weapons that had raised it,
Whether the government OF n. Theirs
| will survive the allotted eight years
| remains to be seen.