Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-09-04
News and other items

Civility costs nothing ANA buys ev-
erything.
Five Cincinnati doctors refused to
turn ont of bed after midnight to see a
dying man.
An old Western gamester wants to
| know If the veto of mo more passes"
applies to railroad euchre.
Such is the enterprise of Philadel-
phia medical students, that they buy
bodies for dissection before they are
dead.
Green Bay has female sign pain
ter. She painted the word "I'attler''
on a neighbors door, and was fined
$50 FOR it.
At Kansas City, the other day, a
| young man riding in a funeral process
sion got mad at friend and shot him
through the chin.
Public whipping as a punishment
for crime will be wiped out in Ken
tucky in few months, when the re-
vised statutes go into operation.
A man should never be ashamed to
| own he has been in the wrong, which
is but saying, in other words, that he
is wiser to-day than he was yestcr-
| day.
The Mississippi river is now called
'the steamboat graveyard" by people
who think it sweetcr to be smashed on
railroad than to be blown up on
| steamer.
A Cincinnati man, on his dying bed,
remembered that his wife was smok.
ing some hams, aud no said: "Now,
Henrietta, don't 60 to snuffling around
and forget them hams
LII Marion, Tenn, the court adjour-
ned for dinner and all cleared out, for
getting the prisoner, who was on trial
tor murder. After waiting some time
he walked around to the Jail and Or
! dcred his dinner sent to his room,
A woman in San Francisco proposes
to walk one thousand miles in one
thousand hours, and her husband, who
is Methodist preacher, wishes the
bet was for ten times the distance, and
that she would march off in a straight
line.
Twenty-eight years ago a Buffalo
man said to his wife, miranda, I'm
going down TO Tins after a bed cord"
That was the last seen of him until
Monday, when he entered the house
with BEDFORD and said hc'd fix that
bed now.
A new scholar in the Louisville in.
oy,t hot
primary geography, "What is a strait"
, answered. at beats two pair. !" II
turned out that he was the youngest
son of the editor-in-chief of the Cour-
ier-Journal.
A New York lawyer tried to clear
his gambler client, recently, by show.
ing that he used marked cards, and
therefore the Offense was not within
the statute against "games of chance"
being. instead, dead sure thing"
The dodge didn't work.
On Friday last, Keokuk entertained
two distinguished gentleman from
Vienna, Count Ernest Pontzen, calcu-
lator for the Imperial Bank OF Aus
tria, and Emit LAUDER, supervising en-
gineer of all the Imperial works
around Vienna.
William M. Tweed has ordered a
camera obscura, similar to the one in
Central Park, for his summer house at
Greenwich, and will crawl into the
most obscure part of it when the next
indictment ia out for him.
Dennis O'Shaughncssy advertises az
follows in the Columbus Republican
ST hopahy vivn nation thut snx, ,,;ro
Bridget has left my bed and board,
and l will not pay her debts, as we
are not married, and never were.
A Georgia paper recently contained
the following item in its society Cos
sip: feThe amiable and delicious Miss
PilkingtOn, whose charms of mind and
person have turned the heads Of our
gallants, now does her hair in braids,
and patronizes this paper exclusively
in her personal make-up.n