Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-10-23

A young lady at Grafton, Ohio. has
made one paper of pins last her eleven
years.
] A Pottsville pa man ate peck of
raw tomatoes at ono sitting the other
day.
Massachusetts, children are getting
bcwitchcd, as they did in the days of
the Salem excitement.
| Cleveland boasts that her homes are
| surpassed in comfort and elegance by
no other American city.
"lTave you heard my last song.'
asked music writer Of gruil critic.
Il hope so,' was the reply.
| Pcrc lIyacinthc has been elected
curate at Geneva, by the Old Cathc-
| lies.
General Butler has given $50 of his
| back-pay to Massachusetts, brass
band
| 1t is thought that Walt Whitman has
| written his last batch OF nOndescript.
lie is deathly sick.
| Cairo has only two policemen, and
these spend half the time fighting
TO see who shall be Chief and who the
'iforce."
The shrinkage in railway stocks and
| bonds since the beginning of the fl
nancial stringency is estimated at $2O0,-
| e00.000.
| Ridiculously enough, a two hundred
pound poetess is writing about what
she would do ''if she were sun
1 BEAM"
The Secretary of the Interior has re-
ceived official dispatches confirming
the press reports Of the release of Sa-
tanta and Big Tree.
| The total imports at the port of New
York, last week, were $7,2l9, TOT. of
| which $5,12S,5S5 were general mer-
chandise, and S2,O91.l .ll2 dry goods.
NJ. Ranc has been sentenced to death
by French "council of War. on some
| worthless, trumped-up charge. He is
the gentleman who had n scratching
match with Paul Cassagnac.
A colored professor at Washington
called Fred Douglass. Jr., q ..liar,"
with an adjective pretiyed, and Fred
Knocked him down in less than sec-
ond.
st. Louis surgeons are wise set.
After probing three hours to find a
bullet in mans back, they discovered
that the victim had been hit with a
beer bottle.
| a cotemnorary observes that "the
religious newspapers have a lonesome
and deserted look without their regn-
lar instalments of Northern Pacific
advertisements inserted "a editori-
ais.
Honesty is the best policy. n re-
porter Of Louisville paper recently
found pocket-book filled with mon
ey, and Immediately handed it over to
the police, because the money was
| counterfeit.
1 Ii is now announced on the authors
| tv of that ''eminent physician" that
it is not healthy To rise before s o'clock
in the morning. This applies only TO
men Wives rise at and start the
fire as heretofore.
Travelling along the sea coast OF
Florida, tourist, noting the barreness
of the country, asked a native what
4 they lived on olive on 2" replied the
man. "why. we live on fish and strang-
crs.
! A san Franciscan dropped tobac-
co Juice on his clean shirt front. and
his wife laid him out with a flat iron.
You may triflc with the weed for a
while, but it's bound to fetch yon
sooner or later.
| A lady was examining an applicant
for the office of maid-of-all-w ork,
when she Intercepted her as follows :
"Weil. Mary, can you sconr tinware
| with alacrity:' ..No ma am. i always
scour ii with sand.r
A New Orleans girl ate pound OF
CASTLE soap TO get rid of freckles.
The mourners remarked very peace
full expression about the mouth at the
funeral, but the freckles were as num-
erous as ever.
| An Ithaca On. " dispatch says
Mortimer Nj. Leggett. son of the Hon.
III. ID. Leggett, United States Com
missioner of Patents, was killed by
falling from the clifton Six-Mile creek,
Friday night.
! Congressman Waddell intends 10
prove beyond the possibility OF a
doubt" that North Carolina was in
habited by q civilized colony OF Cau-
cassians, at least 1000 years before
Columbus was born. They were
probably the '.iirst families" of that
section.
All the Masonic grand bodies OF the
State of Missouri, excepting the Grand
Lodge, held their annual session at st.
Louis last week. The reports pre-.
sented show the order to be in high.
ly prosperous condition. There are
500 lodges in the State, with mem
bership exceeding 10000. The Grand
Lodge will meet at st. Louis within a
few days.
| Governor Straw, of New liamp-
shire, who was one of the judges of a
baby show at the State Fair, last week
was surprised Saturday evening by
finding on his doorstep an infant
about two months old. Having had
enough Of babies for one week. the
Governor turned the infant over TO the
police authorities.
| 1t is shown by statistical investiga-
ton that the increase in communicates
of Evangelical denominations in the
United States, from 1870 TO 1872, is
more than G00,000. or little more than
eleven per cent. in two years, and that.
continued at this rate through the
next decade, the increase will be fifty
| five per cent. in 1880, or at least ten
millions of communicates. The much.
talked-of decline of Professionalism is
thus rendered iallacious, in this com,
try at least.
| It's related that upon one occasion,
when Commodore Judkins was in
command of the Scotia, ftlssy little
gentleman came to him just as the
steamer was leaving Liverpool, and
asked him if he thought the Scotia
would arrive at New York upon 9
certain day, in time for him to catcl
the noon train for Philadelphia. Jud
u "