Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-08-21
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honest milk peddler."
The last census In Michigan shows
thirty-three centenarians.
The world is to come to an end
next month,
Keep often the grass" reads a
sign IN the Dayton park,
The grasshoppers arc operating in
some parts OF Wisconsin.
Philadelphia continues to call for
song for the Centennial. Try Gold
Hundred"
Three years ago one could see all
there Is to be seen at Niagara Falls for
fifty cents. Now it costs Sill so.
The atlantic Monthly talks about
people being " scienced" out of their
religious faith
A Punch "a man's-head-where-
ever-you-meet-him Society has been
organized in California.
Kentucky insurance companies don't
pay up, and are being driven out of
existence.
"A family travelled all day and all
night in Jasper county, Ind. to see p.
L. Barnum's show.
The Duke of Goodwood is in Gin
cinnati. He is q bovine, and weighs
but 1850 pounds.
"A schoolmistreas at Oxford, N. Y.
has to work in the hay and harvest
fields Saturday 10 pay her board.
Operators have agreed that the
State surplus of wheat in Minnesota
will exceed 100000.
The Democrats of Virginia de-
clare that race and color are the only
issue.
A tombstone maker in Boston CHS
els &c. 0. D." on large portion OF
his tombstones. He says it stands for
Goal Oil Death"
The president of western normal
school is named Hoss, and the organ
of rival school calls his a one-hoss
institution.
Blanton Duncan is quietly catching
bass at Putin Bay. 1t is said that he
has better luck than In "bobbingn for
political fuckers last year.
The statistical man proves that q
person in the United States Ia SIX
times Is likely TO kill himself as light
ning is to kill him.
A young st. Louis man playfully
shot his neighbor's daughter because
she wouldn't go into the house when
he told her to.
Since the ravages Of the cholera In
Nashville, municipal politics are hog
and anti-hog; the hog party believ.
ing In the hog as scavenger.
A child WAS born in Raymond, N.
H., July 10, with fashions bly, shaped
waterfall on the back OF Ito head, OF
good dimensions.
Wichita, Kan, the new center of the
cattle trade, has mile Of business
houses, and population Of $500. The
streets are full Of life, and the hotels
running over.
The st. Louis Catholic priest who
set the fashion of reading from the
| pulpit each week the names Of drunken
practitioners 10 worn out and discourag.
ed with the task.
A man ct Fond du Lac tookhis Goa,
of with rapidity the other day The
fywheel OF a saw mill helped him
and between them they made good
time.
| William Allen the Democratic nom
inee for Governor of Ohio, was asev
eral years ago dubbed "Petticoat Aller
for circulating the slanderous story
that William Henry Harrison was
coward,
"What shall give my boy to max,
him honored and respected p write
| an affectionate father. Education ant
moral precepts were once required I,
accomplish this purpose, but q dia
mond pin now covers the ground.
A Pennsylvania paper says: Glib
eral Republicanism Is not in yer
vigorous condition anywhere In tn
country-not even among the stock
holders OF the New York Tribune, VIII
have not received dividend since tn
paper became its organ"
| Omaha Pcrsonal.--W. III. Madden
commonly known as "Fatty," tn
great American traveller arrived i
the city yesterday and sampled fort
kegs Of beer, besides attending III
circus and eating eight straight meal
| Of the Wyoming.