Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-06-12
News and other Items.

Vermont has three female stage
drivers.
aCaptain Jack cocktails" are prcva-
lent in New York.
Pine land in Mississippi sells for
| from 20 to 30 cents per acre.
An edct has been issued i'm Japan
that the natives shall eat bread instead
Of rice.
Postal cards are quoted in some
country towns at 100 per cent pre-
| MUM.
Some one who won't tell his name,
has given Union College, New York,
| 5000
The Popular Science Monthly says
that children are made deaf by boxing
their ears.
Among the Arabs the inability of
the wife to make bread is q good cause
for divorce.
A Tennessee farmer has harvested
ten bushels OF unadulterated caterpil-
lars, thus far.
Postal cards addressed to ''the pref
test girl in town, are quite numer-
GUS in many places.
A shrewd Connecticut Yankee is
peddling colored flax seed under the
name of ."Bloom of Paradise
Three New Hampshire brothers re-
Ivyy mn tnI NJ Il r. 49,
and granddaughter.
The simple minded Puritans Of Ply
mouth, Mass, call their shoe -shop "the
pedalprotectoron.'
A number of fools are going to cat
| for the championship Of Iowa. The
match comes of at Atlantic.
sim not getting married rs much as
III was,' il the latest way OF
saying "no,. to an impassioned suitor.
a Des MOines woman gave her hus-
band morphine to cure him of chew
ing tobacco. She now sleeps one in a
bed.
Among the elegant attractions that
will greet Saratoga guests this season
is q series of contests among genuine
English bulldogs.
The Albany, (N. Y.) love powder
doctors. Thomas and Brown. win be
allowed to practice for few months
in the penitentiary. =
Intensely swell young gentlemen
have their cigars manufactured eX-
pressly for them, and ornamented with
monograms in gold.
| 1t is stated that many professional
thieves have left New York for the
West since the passage of the act au.
thorizing their arrests as suspicious
characters.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean says
Lucca mounts the diatronic ladder
with the tread Of a queen" The treat
of u queen ascending ladder mus
indeed be an enchantment.
An exchange says: +" The lady lovers
of croquet are getting the necessar,
implements ready for prosecution O
the fashionable and eXhilirafing game.
This means striped Stockings.
An exchange says that one of tht
best directions to follow for success il
society is this: Talk to the young la
dies, and listen when the old ones tall
to you" But think how hard thii
would be for the young ladies'.
| Says an exchange: When you Sc,
la bareheaded man following COW
through the front gate, and filing th,
air with garden implements and pro
70 nttx, x,Ou M y l-,,ouu that b;s ,o I,Ixa a..
plants have been set out"
Some questions very naturally sug
gest themselves to an inquiring mind
An amateur farmer wonders "why
on all this fair earth, the ground il
spread bottom-side up, so that it mus
be turned over with plough before
crops can be raised"
The Norristown, (Pa.) Herald says
Local option is working wonders il
some counties. In Danville il ha
raised the price of crackers to 10 cent
apiece, and the dealer has such larg,
profit on them that he throws glas
of whisky in.
The will of resident of Middlesex
Del, recently deceased, has the fol
lowing clause :"And bequeath to my
beloved son John the sum of 81, will
which to buy rope long and strons
enough to hang that Irish wife o
his"
| Certainly the Western newspaper
are forming a style Of literature peculi
ariy their own. A Fort Wayne paper
discoursing upon the death of a maj
who fell asleep ON railroad track ant
was killed, says: $" He was fast asleep
firmly clasped in the arms of boil
Morpheus and Somnus, and was onl,
awakened by the glorious light tha
shonc from the judgment seat in tn,
world beyond the river"
Surely the genius who invented
wooden nutmegs, and oats. mad
of deal chips can not yet b.
"played ont" A State of Maine maj
is about to apply for q patent for an az
tificial oyster, made out Of flour paste
tapioca. salt, and water. The invento
places these in secondhand oyster shell
which are carefully glued round tn
edges. There can be no dispute abon
the success of this invention.