Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-07-03
News and other Items.

A cow in Scott county, Ky, gives
nine gallons of milk III a day.
Virginia papers think that an end
has been put to dueling i'll that State
An Erie Canal boat plods along un-
der the name of 'Polly Wiggle~wag-
glc."
South Carolina farmers advertise
for geese to clear the grass out of their
crops.
The average Mississippian's highest
ambition is TO acquire a half-interest
in a scow-boat.
New Hampshire has found way to
feed her State Prison convicts on III
cents per day.
The total taxable wealth of Missouri
is 1851, 46O,936. Nearly one-half be.
longs to st. Louis county.
Springfield, H., had sand-spout
last Thursday. Those in the vicinity
Immediately busted"
Works are now being erected in
| Pittsburg to manufacture pressed
| pricB with enaineieu facing
A New York statistician has dis.
covered that three brick houses are con-
sumed to two frame ones.
New York has town named Eden,
and the 'stwo great rivers flowing
through it" are whisky and beer.
| IA prudent man." says witty
Frenchman, ''is like a pin his head
prevents him from going too far
The regions around the Red River
of the North raises four splendid crops
annually snow, ice, water and mos
quitoes.
| The authorities of Davis county, ILL.,,
are in pursuit of a gang of horse
| thieves, who when last seen, were in
female attire.
STEALING money is serious bust
nes," says a Colorado paper, "but you
can Kill a man and all they ask is, that
you don't leave him in the way"
The Japanese charge d affairs on
Thursday arranged with the Post
office department for convention be-
tween the United States and Japan.
The Agricultural Bureau reports
that the wheat crop is looking fully
as well as at this season last year. Oats
and rye promise an increased yield.
A correspondent wants to know if
we can tell him how TO keep his glass
es on his nose. We suggest that he
sandpaper his proboscis.- Troy Press
| The anti-Chlnese organizations of
California are raising funds to send
emissaries to Oregon to stir up the
people of that State against the Celes.
| tials.
Tennessee is the first on the road
| with steam wagon. IL is to run on
the road between Nashville and Pnlas-
XII, and carries sixty passengers with
ease.
Boston banks use postal cards TO
notify their customers that their notes
are due, and the customers are indig-
nant at the publicity thus given to
their affairs.
Justice is lively at Bowling Green,
Ky. A man has just been discharged
| without a trial, after seven months
confinement on suspicion of stealing
half can of oysters.
| The Signal Service Bureau claims
that during 1872 80 per cent. of its
weather probabilities were verified,
and 20 per cent. of its cautionary sig
nails were realized by storms.
Girard, Erie county, Pa, claims to
have a child which weighed but three
ounces at its birth, and seven ounces
when it was but three weeks old. All
| its organs are said to be perfect.
A girl not tar from Holden, Kansas
was at q dance last week, and when
| asked to dance with one our city chaps,
replied: 81 can't dance these round
figures they always make me puke."
A Trenton, Tenn, doctor exhibits a
worm half am inch long, "haying
horns and fangs," which he found
upon the root of lady's tooth which
he had extracted" That's what he
says.
The cholera has made its appearance
in Louisiana, No, fifty miles south of
Quincy, Ill. One white man died We'd
nesday, and one white man and four
negroes died Thursday of the fatal
disease.
The lahorers at certain Missouri
mining work are discussing the prob.
lem: Ought copper dresser, when
the whistle ilows for II, to empty his
shovel of the sand or throw il back on
the pile y
A piece Of glass an inch long was
recently taken from the skull of
Rochester man in whose head it had
been embedded for twenty years.
He complained occasionally of a pane
in his head.
The English papers now announce
that they have no faith in SANKEY'S
story that he found Livingstone.
Without doubt he landed on the Afri-
can coast, but they do not believe that
he journeyed further.
Mrs. Brown, of Burlington, Iowa,
sings her ''Hush, my babe" to her in
FAINT son William, who measures
twelve months one way and one hun
dred pounds the ether. She spanks
him with pile-driver.
Intelligence from the Sioux country
indicates that il may soon be necessary
to have a major general and a few
peace commissioners massacred up
that way to appease the restless dispo-
sitions of our red brethren.
II hope you will be able to support
me, said n young woman while out
walking with her intended during
somewhat slippery state of the pave
ment. "Why, yes replied the some
what hesitating swain, with little
assistance from your father There
was some confusion, and profound
silence.
A Washington dispatch says: "The
Commissioner of Internal Revenue Is
extremely gratiiied at the result of the
fiscal years collections from internal
revenue sources, and has no doubt that
the service, which is now said to be in
tirst-class working order, will so COM
mend itself to Congress and the coun-
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