Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-06-26
News and other items.

One hundred in the shade at Omaha,
A Kansas dog ordinance has a tom
cat amendment.
There are 200 oranges of Patrons OF
Husbandry in Nebraska.
The Kickapoo Indians say: sWoosh
Too much Mackenzie-whoopl"
Omaha is expecting q Boston man
to open a $500, O,OO0 hotel shortly.
Wisconsin farmers paint their names
on the gate posts in lieu of door
plates.
A clerk at Xenia, Ohio, voted him
self 5000 back-pay, and they jugged
him.
The commission house Of TAYLOR
Brothers & Co., st. Louis, has suspen-
ded.
A st. Louis man whose cow was
bitten by mad dog, sold her to the
butcher at once.
The youth OF Memphis extort money
from their mothers by drawing pistols
on them.
A son of William Reynolds, at VIM
terset, Iowa, died from the effect of
stepping on thorn.
Work has been commenced on the
big tunnel through the Rocky Noun
tains, commencing at Blackhawk, Col:
orado.
1t has already cost Stokes $l5O,OOO
to keep his neck from being stretched,
and the end of the expenditures are
not yet visible.
Omaha saloon keepers have what
they call "drnnk CARTS" and customere
whose legs get weak are whirled home
with pIomptness.
A Kansas City mother-in-law lately
established precedent by thrashing
her daughters bridegroom immedi-
ately after the marriage ceremony.
The Hon. Joseph Brooke has COM
menced suit in the Circuit Court of
Pulaski county, Ark, against Gov.
Baxter, of that State, for the office of
Governor.
One of the bluest of Bostonians, on
being requested, by rich and vulgar
young fellow, for permission to marry
zone Of his girls" gave this rather
crushing reply: "Certainly; which
would you prefer. the waitress or the
cook Z"
A few days ago Mary j. Hoover
left her home for walk in the fields
in Mahaska county, Iowa, and not
AZ I'm rvnS nSvrnp h H.
body was found on Saturday in wa
ter-gully, where she had fallen in and
was drowned.
Mrs. Thaxter, in her "Reminiscences
Among the Isles of the Shoals tells
of primitive and unlettered Shoals
man who went to the mainland, and,
discovering frog for the first time,
triumphantly asked: "What kind Of a
id bug do you call that ?'
The Des Moines man who wore q
hat band inscribed "Sweet potato
plants for sale,' has committed suicide
since he heard Of the old Illinois farm
er who walks around the streets of
Springfield with sign on the seat of
his pants, which reads: "Use Browns
patent beehive"
Does advertising pay? Read this !:
The colored show bills which Barnum
will use this year cost $4500O0. His
advertising in the newspapers will cost
$3.50, 900. Total 500, 900, the whole of
which is expended in printers ink
What is the result of all this tremcn-
dous advertising? Receipts exceeding
$1,000 q day, with a net profit of $780,
600 week, $4,000 per month, or
$40, 900 for the entire season.
The rage for horse racing Is at its
height. The Dexter Park Association
of Chicago, proposes to have the big
gest thing ON record in the shape of
horse meetings this season. The July
meeting, which begins July l, and
continues four days, offers horsemen q
chance to compete for VAC, 600 the :2l
race on the third day is for $1,000
The association also announces a full
meeting, the programmes for which
will be issued in July, the second
week, when s75,000 will be offered in
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