Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-02-06
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Cars run from toppa to Jerusalem in
two hours.
Matilda Heron is. seriously i'll in
New York. %ss
Gail Hamilton, It'll reported, has the
small pox.
The Austrian army numbers 1.269,-
900 men.
Mexico is beginning to build cotton
factories.
Twelve hundred tomatoes to the vine
is California average.
Josephine Mansfield is called Prin-
cess of Erie in Paris.
Homely servant girls are in dethond
in Topeka, Kansas.
Thos. s. Perry is the new editor of
the North American RerieO.
Brignoli was Kissed at Nice recently.
He didn't think it "nice" at all. i.
Fort Wayne Ind, is to have $780,
600 pin factory. Some pin money.
j. r. Emmett, the actor, is said to be
the son Of Robert Emmett's brother.
Dickens is finishing "Edwin Drood'
through New England "mejum."
Hon. Joseph Medill has written
letter in favor of postal telegraphy.
Gen. Julius White and daughter
have started for the Argentine via Eu-
rope.
What should Clergyman preach
about? About a quarter of an hour
of course.
A daughter of Minister Schenck is
reported to be engaged to q British
nobleman.
A New York Judge was called out
Of bed the other night and cowhided
by q woman.
A Western editor says ola neighbor
with quivering eyelid shat he slut
tiers in the left eye"
There are $4,000 threshing ma
chimes in the United States, not count
ing the school-marms.
| An Illinois farmer ships car load
of corn per day, and has 100000 BUSH
els yet to dispose of.
A New Orleans suicide left note
rebuking his rich relations for not set
ting him up in business.
Massachusetts has one mile of rail-
road to every four and three-quarters
square miles of territory.
DR.. Livingstone expects to draw
seven years arrears Of salary as Brit
ish consul to Central Africa.
Parton's paper on jefferson in the
atlantic for February is pronounced
the best paper he ever wrote.
An original portrait of Davy Crock
EFT has passed into possession of the
New York Historical Society.
New York killed a man each
week during the past year, and has
four dead ones to start on for 1873.
| Duckwheat festivals have been in
augurated by n progressive Sunday
school teacher, at Rochester, MINI.
| A Fastidious Alabama boy shot his
father because he didn buy HIM
as good pair of boots as he wanted.
The pleasantest things in the world are
! pleasant thoughts, and the greatest arl
in life is to have us many as possible
A Wheeling man is doing business
at the sign of Hony, beens, caned orn
caned tomatoes, buck wheel flour, ra.
sons.
Phoebe, Nevada, leaves its natural
healthfulness to be inferred from the
fact that no one has ever died natural
death there.
| An Omaha bride was married bare
foot because her lovers kinfolks dress.
ed that way, and she did not wish te
appear proud.
| A French writer says: .The seasons
in London are equally divided-there
arc four months Of winter, four OF fog
and four of rain.
How I Found Robinson Crusoe,'
| is the title of an English burlesque, in
| which Stanley and Bates are both ri.
diculed unmercilessly.
j A Canandaigua man froze to death
the other day while stealing wood
He was found with stick of cord
wood lying across his body.
i The Kentucky Legislature all drew
blanks in the Louisville Library Lotto
ry. Now they want to pass a law
abolishing institutions of chance.
1
Editing a newspaper is very much
like raking the fire-every one think.
he can perform the operation better
than the man who holds the poker.
i The Kansas daily papers don't take
much interest in the Legislature, excepl
when some member gets his eye goug,
ed or is knocked down with chair.
The humane and enlightened citizen.
of Madison, Ohio, threatened to stone
man to death for caring for the re.
mains of q man who died Of smallpox
/ Bayard Taylor, now resident o.
Gotha, is engaged on novel, the scene
of which is laid in Germany, in which
country it will be published next June
1 A wag of q student declared that q
certain dull preacher was q revivalis1
las there was "a great awakening
atter the delivery of all his discourses
| DR.. Samuel G. Howe, the resident
director Of the SANTANA bay company
| will reside permanently in San Do,
mingo, as will also his wife, julia
Ward Howe.
| The vitality of the human race i.
said to be increasing. 6Iercules would
have succumbed under the weight o,
invective that life insurance agent
bears without winking.
| A lady wished q seat. A portly
handsome gentlemen brought one and
seated the lady. .sOh! you're Jewell
said she, "Oh! no." he replied, I'm
a jeweler; hare just set the jewell
| A young lady in Iowa recently
whipped out an incipient CONFEDERATION
with her stockings. She had heard
that fireman used "hose" III stopping
fires, and is now satisfied that they are
the proper thing.
The Prince Of Wales takes all tho