Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-17

! ln one respect cOnviCts are sensible
people. They like short sentences.
Stones make some of the New Or
leans cotton bales unduly shelly"
Froude 10 10 be sent to the House OF
Commons, by the Orangemen of the
North.
The Grand Duke Alexis, when last
heard from, had reached Manila in his
travels.
| The Empress Eugene pays frequent
visits to her husbands toomb at CHS
elhnrst.
The Portuguese police are keeping Il
sharp lookout for the Communist, Gen.
Cluseret.
An Oregon paper tells OF boiling
lake from whose bosom black smoke
rises continually.
The Williams Guards, of Auburn, n.
Y, has changed its name, and is now
"The Sewsrd Corps"
Hon. John J Ingalls,, United States
Senator from Kansas, is visiting his
parents at Hayerhill, Mass.
New Jersey legislators relieve the
monotony Of dull session by throw
Ing "spit.balls. At each Others heads.
An Ohio man killed ayonng" goose
the other day and discovered III its
crop gold ring his daughter lost ten
years ago.
A Pennsylvania farmer says he rare
ly gets a good seeding with grass when
the seed Is sown with oats. That ia
| our experience.
! The farmers in Morgan county, ILL.,.
. report that at least ono-haif, il not two
| thirds of the honey-bees have heen
killed by the severe winter just passed
Redding, CAL, doctors shoot at little
| white dogs and hit men. Then they
get their names into the papers By
/ generously volunteering to attend their
| victims.
1t is stated that iii Scotland one
! young man to every LOCO of popnla.
ton goes to college: in Germany, onr
TO every 1850; in England, one to
every $500.
Mrs. Dorcas Ann panbiaricum, Of
Louisville, beat her husband the other
| day. Well, a woman ought 10 be ex-
pected to rebel against such name as
that occasionally. ,sa -
The whole cost of our $1,000 miles
LOT Railroad is about S3,437, ,6aS, 7I9
which is a sum not much greater than
England has spent on her 1900 miles
of railroad.
| "a triumph OF the newspapers is
the fattering epithet applied to the
smoking out OF Mr. Caidwcn, by no
| less an authority than Alexander
\ Caldwell, ex-United States Senate.
The British Government is about to
| make some practical effort to check the
Chinese coolie trade, which is develop
4 ing the same iniquities in the China
seas as the slave trade did formerly Oh
the coast of Africa.
a boy at North Adams has declailn-
ed "On Linden when the sun was low"
3iO times, and expects soon to be pro-
NOTED to prose, and take when my
eyes shall be turned TO behold fer the
last time the sun in heaven
4 San Francisco paper ha, Il deeerip-
tion OF q school committee thus: Per
sonal pen-pictures Of public pilicod-
\ dies. Eccentric etchings OF elastic
educators. Diabolical dissection OF
dizzy dignitaries. Remogsele-sly roast
ed by our rosming reporter
The one thing a farmer should not
do. Is to buy patent right for town,
4 county, or any other amount OF terri
tory. II he buys BIZ will get beat out
of his money every time. and we don,
believe one Of our readers, OF his own
knowledge, can say TO the contrary.
/ At late meeting OF rhe Orleans
county, IN. " Farmers Club, several
members spoke in favor OF adopting
the ten-hoar system on farms. Men
can do as much in ten hours ss in long
er time, on the average, il they ork
brisk. and ten hours good work are
enough for team in one day.
The Jubilee Singers, troupe OF col.
ored persons belonging 10 Fisk Uni.
yersity, ffenn.,) started out last year
intending to raise $4,000 toward,
erecting a new building for the bettcI
,, accommodation of the institution
they raised nearly So, Coo, and propose
now 10 Increase the amount TO $1Oeo0
I a young woman, applicant for !
school in Ulster county, sent 10 tb,
committee . composition" beginning
Looking from the window, sec tn,
beautiful hills and mountains, CLOTHED
in snow. the spire OF the church stoe
pie pointing toward heaven. and pco
pie, all strange TO me, yet with smil
they seem TO say, i think know you
4 J business, Miss