Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24
News and other items. !.

A paper advcrtises for girls for
cooking"
a stamp yon cant buy--the s,amp
of . gentleman.
Smoking viii kill lice on plants, bu,
for boys comb is the best.
The highest rate of interest that ONT
ever pays, is for bo,Toced trow5le.
A Jersey girl jumped rome gs
times, and was taken home senseless
Fortunc-tellers make rs per day b,
travelling the rural districts of indiana
There are seventy female student.
In the State Agricultural College oI
Iowa,
Infants are charged double admis.
sion prices 10 New Orleans shows and
theatres.
A western paper styles sensational,
clergyman performers ON the moral
trspcxe. -
There were lO,l56 deaths and $50
births in Chicago for the year ending
March 81, 1873.
Cincinnati men amuse themselves by
cutting all the pretty pictures ont oi
the library books.
A wealthy Californian named Lick
has given 100000 all At one lick, 70. !
memorial to Tom Paine.
r
a Chicago policeman has lust "re-
ired on q snug little fortune of one
hundred thousand dollars.
The Springfield Mass, aeon,,,;.o,,
says: we confess that at times we
are wishy-washy.. Correct.
Bowling Green, KY, boasts of an
apple-trce eighty.three years old, tina,
bears twelve kinds Of apples.
An Ohio congregation9eccntly pei.
ted the pastor with unmark etable eggs
for preaching temperance sermon.
The New York Dist. Atty saws that
the greatest criminals of New Y York are
the young men ofsixtecn and eighteen.
Keep 'em alive boy keep 'em alive.
said an old physician to his Young
brother practitioner. Dead men pay
no bills.'
A new invention, which cannot fail
to become popular, is q double. .bIa,icd
to0th-pick, which may also be nsed as
a hair-cOmb.
A little darkey in Euiaula. Alaba.
ma, lately sold bony companion in a
sack for old iron, and got forty i've
cents for him.
One hundred and thirty-eight ocean
steamers are now running between
America and Europe. Forty i've new
ones are on the stocks
The latest natural productions in
pennsylvania are calf with thick
fleece of wool and dog which gets drunk
regularly every day.
Within the last forty.five dsys there
have occurred fOrty-two railroad acci-
dents, killing twenty-six persons and
injuring ninety seven.
Doctor Johnston used to saw that
the habit of looking at the best side
Of things was worth more than a
thousand pounds . year.
q Pennsylyanix Congressman u
credited with saying that lie will nay
his debts with his back pay, thus plac-
ing it where it will do the most good,
A Missouri farmer being asked il
raising hemp was u good business, an-
swered: can't sartin say; but its
surely better than being raised BY it.''
A Boston Clergyman suggested sun
day, TO some young '.ladies" in his con-
gregation, THAT they should vacste their
seats rather than interrupt the services
by talking.
The pound sterling OF Great Britain,
after the lst of next January, Is to be
legally valued in the United States. at
four dollars and eighty-six cents, Six
and a half mills.
The returns from April Fools Dav
are beginning to come in. A Boston,
ian asked few friends around to a
strawberry supper :aboat twenty came.
and there was enc strawberry.
Beecl,er says laymen have as good
brains as ministers, amy day, and there
is hardly congregation that would
not be better OF II some laymsn was
in the pulpit and the minister IN the
pew.
An old lady, walking with her two.
grOwN up daughters ON a moonlight
night, displayed her knowledge of as-
troaomy by pointing heavenward. and
exclaiming: "Oh, my dears, do look
at them beautiful stars, Juniper and
March