Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-03-13
News and other Items.

The Jesuit order al present is said to
number S,951.
yiogne is i light, soft wooden fabric
for spring dresses.
The grass on the Texas prairies is
putting forth rapidly.
"A s'clean street candidate for May
or is clamored for in ST. Louis.
A hen in Kansas City, lays four eggs
Il day, and has been doing ii for three
months.
A splendid maple sugar season IS
predicted, owing to the depth of frost
this winter.
A three feet vain of silver ore is re-
ported to have been found in Blanco
county. Texas.
Boston has just launched the only
clipper ship built in the United States
for several years.
The fine new government postoffice
at Omaha will be ready for use the
coming summer.
Maysville, Ky, has tried to harmon
ize snare drum with church masic,
but it was no go.
The London Times considers that no
census is equal to that of the United
States in interest.
With all our newspapers in the
u. S., we have only one newspaper to
every 1868 inhabitants.
A Cincinnati paper has got it down
TO fine point when il speaks Of Cor
oner's Investigations"
Agricultural reports are to be sold
for fifty cents each. Who is to fix the
price of Paten, Office reports?
A San Francisco saloon keeper
marks his INDECENT customers on the
head with lemon-squeezer'
Philadelphia ladies now come for
ward and declare that female clerks
are bundles of .'sass" aud impudence.
A phantom mule, ridden by spec
trail miner, frightens the souls of Ken
tuckmen workmen in Taylor county.
A Boston Judge andjury have ruled
that human blood cannot be detected
from animal blood after 1t becomes
dry.
A Kansas editor is in favor of put
ting up the United States Senatorship
at public auction for the. benefit of the
State.
Philadelphia wants the dress. man
ners and customs of l776 commemo-
rated in the coming Centennial by
those who attend.
A Philadelphia boy has shown the
world the value of picking up small
things. He has stolen over 300 door
mats since November.
Kid vests, made long and without
sleeves. are the latest novelties in Ia
dies attire. They are worn like the
velvet vests of last fall.
Mrs. Jennie Brown, of WISCONSIN,
saved three men from u watery grave,
and by whom she has been rewarded
with fifty yards of watercd silk.
a Sacramento lawyer paid 800 for
frankly telling the Judge. at Is my
opinion that you are All old fool The
Judge don't like candid opinions.
A fine Nebraska cow has been sent
to England by the European agent of
q Western railway for exhibition as 3
specimen OF American stock raising,
A ST. Louis exchange says that all
questions of international law, have
been referred at Washington to Caleb
Gushing. for more than three centuries
past.
The new fashioned three-decker la
dies bonnets for the theatre, are con-
strueted with window in front and
rear TO enable those behind to see what
is going on.
A merchant at Topeka, recently lost
$3.50 in cash As his wife and one of
his clerks has not been heard of since.
he is apprehensipe that they We're muir
dered for his money.
Col. Scott. OF Penn, controls sixty
three railroads, with total length of
5000 miles, and value of S6Io.0oQ,-
600, together with $50 miles OF canal
and line of steamships.
George Francis Train writes from
the 1onibs to the New York Sun that
Rosens weig. the murder of Alice
Bowiesby, will be dead man in less
than sixty days unless he has more ex-
ercise. Poor man.
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