Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-01-09
News and other Items.

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a worthless bond--A vagabond.
A set-up job--nursing sick man.
Jet is once more in great favor for
bonnet and dress trimmings.
1t Is a sure sign Of an early spring to
see cat intently watching small hole
in the wall.
A pumpkin pie ten feet in diameter
and four feet deep graced California
dinner lately.
a girl In indianapolis, who has
500, 600 advertises for sealed propos-
ais for marriage.
"Sambo, did you ever see the Cats
XIII mountains 2" "No, sab; but I've
seen 'em kill mice.n
Waste of wealth Is sometimes re-
trieved; waste of health seldom; but
tue waste oil time never.
The Danbury man who cant afford
to take newspaper paid three dollars
for another dog, recently.
Vanderbilt offers to bet $lO,OUO that
he will live fifteen years more, which
would make him ninety three.
The Chinese claim that Noall's rea
name was Ah-Boo, and that he was "A
Chinaman residing nslr Pekin.
One style Of bonnet is called MAN
sard" because it takes great deal OF
"man's hard earningA to pay for
'em."
A foolish youth in Girard, Kansas,
lately paid $28 express charges on a
box Of saw-dust which he supposed
contained the queer.
Anne Maria Dorothea Elizabeth
Broxelman wanders about the streets
of Covington, KY, asking every man
she meets to marry her.
An Illinois jury recently found u
verdict that q man ''came to his death
unexpectedly" The circumstances
seemed to warrant the statement.
Some workmen in Jersey City dock
found mans head the other day. and
are now trying to find the mau that
lost it, No one has claimed ii so far
The Nebraska Indians are allowed
TO ride free on all trains they can jump
on while the former are in notion
The tribe is being reduced very rapid
ly.
Washipston's tomb il adorned with
one OF the neatest cod liver oil signs
that gifted feuee-dauber ever slapped
on any prominent object in that vicin-
ity.
A Petersburg firm has received a
bale Of vegetable wool grown in
Franklin county, n. G. 1t Is planted
and cultivated somewhat similarly TO
cotton,
This question agitates Lawrence,
Kansas Should n young man leave
his music lesson TO split wood when
his mother 10 at home and in perfect
health?"
The horse sn which Cardigan rode
when he led the famous charge of the
Light Brigade has just died, aged thir-
ty. He survived his gallant master
four years.
II cost Topeka man $50 u 10 kiss
another mans wife. The twenty sew
en cents was added by the Judge tor
winking at the injurned husband OF the
kissed woman.
The Stock Raisers' Association vi
West Texas have been regulating the
price Of beef cattle as follows: First
class teams SIS; second class SIG.
third class sl3.
Fifteen hundred and thirty -one
buildings have been erected in ST.
Louis during the past year at the cosl
Of $5,6S4,000 OF these buildings on
ly 50 are frame.
An order has been issued from the
Navy Department dlsmissing from the
Naval Academy two more Of the ca
dcts who were implicated in the haz-
ing OF the colored cadet.
A doctor at Paris invented new
kind of medicine and gave his servant
new calico dress to take dose. He
afterward changed the order to a
shrond, and has hired another girl.
Wedding cards in Denver consist of
the jack of diamonds and the queen of
hearts, with the contracting parties
named thereon: If tho brides mother
isliving, the ten OF clubs is included.
Harriet Root. by her familiarity with
square roots, compelled forty male
contestants for q clerkship at Wash
ington to root hog or die" fora liy-
ing, while she fills the position sought.
According to the Boston Post, pro-
gressiye Kentucky divine SAYS that
Satan spends portion Of his time In
III m unv ~ hnvv- ~ - q
the clergy always know where to find
the devil.
Elegant people will. in the future,
desist from describing suddenly cold
weather AZ "cold snap" or .cold
SPELL" The proper English for the oc-
casion is that we are experiencing a
polar wave
According 10 ST. Paul paper.
noses, ears and fingers, which have
been broken of hile in frozen and
crisp condition. may be picked up in
large quantities from the sidewalks of
that frosty city.
An original Pennsylvania editor
comes out fairly and squarely. He
calls his paper san airy old sheet, sie.
voted to wind. whisky, wickedness
and other religious matters. yox pop
ulus, vox Belzebnb.'
An English marketman has written
to the London Times a letter, In " hich
he states that the English poor are
very unreasonable in complaining of
the scarcity Of meat when rabbits are
only fifteen cents pound.
"My dear said the sentimental
Mrs. Waddles. "home, YOU know, is
always the dearest spot on earth."-
Well, yes" said the practical MIR.
Waddies, " II does cost Inc abou, twice
a. much as any other spot"
What is the use Of trying TO be
honest% r. asked young man the 9th
er day OF a friend. "Oh, YOU ought
to try it once and sec" was the reply.
And the Young man wanted to put a
head on his plain spoken friend,
"How far is it to Cub creek 2. asked
traveller Of a Dutch woman. .Only
shoost little Ways" rs il four. six
eight or ten miles ?" impatiently asked
the stranger, "Yas, dinks il is" 40.
renely replied the unmoved gatekeep.
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A Western paper says that an Eng
lish lord is shooting prairie dogs in