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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-28

y. b. Hawks 10 now receiving one Of the
laeesot and bit sslscted stocks of Spring
81 banms Millinery ever brought into
aeuthen Iowa, which will b sold ct reas-
elAbb prices. The ladies ere especially in
Md % call and inspect them.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-28

You viii ave money BY buying yoal
White Lad and Linsosd Oh q
WILLIAMSON Is KEELxy's.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-28

The potato bugs are on the rampage
again. Here In town, where they find
NO potato vines, they &c for tomato
planta with vim.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-28

WIN DO veil b rmsmh~ Tat NcCuIlous1
= 1lLSusx pay Cash Tor I'll NE batlss
and egg they can est.-BEing tAsA -
cpposate ths Post Ola. Ottunwa.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-28

For oil kinds Of work in the Photo
graphic art 60 TO Hover's gallery In Post
0fics Block on Market st. nov ddtw.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-28

Fine selections Of Wall Pspss, Ooth and
Paper Curtains u WiliiAmsoa 3 Ksllsy' q
TIE lowest prices. m7w4t
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-28

Picture frames, all atylos and siEes, At
Hoyss's. Union Block, Main street.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-28

Tho attention Of people wanting
homes 10 invited to the advsrtissmsat
of. D. DsviA n to-day's papse.
Cooper addition Of 30 asres y o. o.
the most handsome pissss ofgresnd N
know Of adjoining Tie city. NJ.
Dsvin can b found q Haniiton &
Chambers ONCE for the preseot.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-28

Yankee Robinson 10 billing IL sity
for bis Grand Msnagsris and Circus,
which ID 70 b here on the Oh Of Jano.
The Rhi-no-es.rous viii b alo0g
when Yankee comes.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-28

n. b. Hawks has on band . large stock
OF the cslsbeatsd Madame Foy Ccrsets.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-28

There isno pain which the Gen.
tau Imminent will not relieve no
swelling u VIII not subdue. and no
lamensss which 1t Will not cure.
Thisis strong language. but Il is
true. II has produced more cures
d rhsunaAtiam, neuralgia, lockjaw
ualgy. epealns, swelling. csked.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-28

We are informed that Mr.. Roberts,
formerly of the Keystone House. Gen.
terville, succeeds Mr.. Eichslbergsr, at
Bloomfield, in the hotel businsss.-
Happening to know Mr.. Roberta well
- hotel keeper, we take pleasure in
recommending al travellers to b. SURE
to stop with him when they 20 that
way, - they will be kindly and oour.
teously treated, and have the best fare
the country affords.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-28

We know . political farmer who
sang 20 many psalms and fought the
railroads and middle man % much,
and generally saved the country 70
such an extent last summer that he
didn't raise more than about half
enough crop 10 get through with. We
observed him last Saturday buying
corn at ffty-hvs cents per bushsl, and
hay ct twelve dollars per ton. end hs
looked - cheerful ~ . funeral pro-
cessiOu.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-28

Y. Gsaaa Duks M,sholash thopsht %
beineaae. sf
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-28

Y. n. Hawks has q 3l.9S splsadid
two-button Kid Glove.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-28

Ana sewing AAchins gives the best sasis-
faction - the user, II paid for most readily
and Ii the best Of I'll 70 soil. II there y NO
- Domestic, agent in your town, apply 70
DOAEsTIOH q. u. CO., New York,
LA Dies SEN for elegant fnahlon beck
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-28

Try Hovsrs new Rallesy Tor -FOUR pao.
turss and picture frames. Main stFsst.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-28

Fine Rsmbssndt's Photographs nads at
Hovsrs Up:oa Blook.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-28

CouMty AsscUnscMts f053.A.
We are indebted 10 w. H. Caldwell,
County Auditor, for the following
comparison Of the assessment of 1879,
~>,ekh kh~k ~ YQ9A
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-28
NEW OFFERS! 5 I, z
NEW IDEAsl
See the GrandGfts

dour rireide Fnll 10 ID MkaiDeE.
Entirely asw sal saprseeAssssA. anA
susA - Win interest every enc. Ysu
miss IL n Pea dent ssna for samples asA
tall paEsssslass whleA ~aes ssat lsss!
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1874-02-19
To Purify the Breath.

Very properly follows the recipe for gay pas
titles for purifying the breath, which they do,
not merely by Disgusting it, but by reaching the
root of the difficulty, and arresting decay in the
teeth, and nentralizing acidity of the stomach
when dyspepsia is at work. The mixture is very
simple: chlorate of lime, seven drachms; vanilla
sugar, three dTacbms; gnfnarabic five draehms-tO
be mixed with warm water to a stiff paste, rolled,
and cut into pastillcs. Madam Celnart Archy
advises all good wives to let their spouses know
that these lozenges entirely remove the traces
of tobacco in the breath. As good wife will
hardly interfere with favorite habit of her
husband who is fond of smoking, the least any
gentleman can do is 20 render his presence as
acceptable as possible after that indulgence
Another pastille preferable on some accounts to
the above, but owing its efficacy to to the same
principle, is: chlorate of sodium, twenty four
grains; powdered sugar one ounce; gum adra-
ganth, twenty grains; perfumer's essential oil,
two drachms Powder the chlorate in a glass
mortar; put the powder in n cup, and pour in a
little water; let it settle, and pour off. Repeat
the process three times with fresh water, filter
ing what is poured off each time, and mix the
gum and sugar with it, adding the perfume last.
-HGTpdTs Bdzdr.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1874-02-19
Brackets.

There is nothing that adds more to the at
Effectiveness of the home than brackets in the
corners of the room, which usually become the
receptacles of of flowers, natural or artifi-
cal, small plaster casts, that cost only trife
and are pretty, and numberless other little orna-
ments that are always finding their way into the
house, and are often broken and ruined because
there is no place TO put them except OH the la
BILE. Brackets sold at the furniture stores are
rather expensive, bnt may be made at home, and
any boy with a sharp jack knife may find world
of amusement in cutting up old cigar-boxes and
making brackets which, vanished, hand
some as any that can be purchased at the stores.
To make these, one requires small key-bole
saw, sharp jack-knife, and bits of two or three
sizes. Patterns of the various parts should first
be cut from stiff brown paper, and trimmed till
they fit each other exactly. If the brackets are
quite small, they may be made Of cigar-boxcs;
if large, pine or black walnut board may be
used. Pine can he stained and vanished, and it
is snch an easy wood to work in that we recon-
mend it to beginners in the bracket making art.
Lay the pattern cut from designs of your own
on the wood and mark it round with pencil.
With knife, the saw, and the bit remove all
the wood to be taken away, and scrape the edges
smooth with piece of glass. After the pieces
are prepared they shouid DO fastened together
with glue and headless tacks, then stained and
varuished. little practice will give one more
insight into the mysteries of the art than long
written instructions.-E<.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1874-02-19
The Chrome Ru.ine..

There is such thing having anything too
bad; this chrome business is having a great run
among cheap newspapers, and it is becoming an
noying to the people We have stood the con-
slant arrival of daubs, aud paid express charges
without 4 murmur, until this last indgnity was
heaped upon rs, and now the lion within us is
aroused few days ago the gentlemanly ex-
press man came in with a nat package. Instinc-
lively We knew it contained colored pictures of
highly -colored females, or impossible dogs; but
we paid the charges, and at our leisure opened
the package Not content with sending ms one
there were three pictures in the package. and to
make the otfense more hideOus. the confounded
sculch came from a Christian paper the Christian
at Wsrk or some such improbability. We have
boarded those hideous caricatures for three DAYS
They have frightened some of our best customers
out of the office We took one of them TO the
barn, and the COW saw it and has persistentIy re.
Insed 10 give milk since. The picture is terror.
In the foreground is an old mare and two mule
colts, lying down, all unconscious that right
above two wolves are inst ready to pounce upon
them. The artist seems to have thrown q good
deal of soul into the ears of the smallest mule
colt, and the tail of one of the wolves is woven
into his hind leg so perfectly that you can't tell
where the leg ends and tail begins The whole
effect OF the picture reminds the true artist of a
jar of preserved huckeberries spilled on the eel
lar stairs, and stepped in by number eight foot,
in state Of anxiety. Zone Of our frequent WIS.,
ltors says the picture represents a sheep and two
lambs, instead Of wolves there are two dogs
Well, there is no artistic eye but has its faults
Ii may be sheep and dogs, but we would have
taken our solemn affidavit they were mules and
wolves But this is neither here nor there
What we want to illustrate is the cheek of that
ChristiaR at Work. Yesterday was the holy Sab
bath, and We received on that day a letter from
the supreme idiot VIII runs the Christiaa at York
Informing us that the aforesaid pictures had been
sent MS, and that we were expected to do adver-
Using for them to the extent of so. Now, we
are nothing bnt poor, weak creatures, and don't
want row with Christian at Work; but if
worse comes TO worse. we will perish houOrsbly
with our face to the foe before we will do one
cents worth of advertising-any more than this
article-for those blasted things, and the Chris
tan can work on us all winter without success
twenty dollars! What do You take us for!-Ld
Crosse LIBERAL D.&serat
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1874-02-19
How Much Food for . m.r.e,

A correspondent of the Country Gentleman saws:
The amount of food necessary to support an
animal varies with its age sex, temperament,
the climate the amount of work it does and vari-
ous other conditions. The quantity needed to
carry on the functions of the body, when at rest
has been very accurately determined by long
continuous and careful experiments. The re-
suit of these labOrs cannot give in a clearer or
more condensed form than by translating pas
sage from Magnes' work on the subject, with the
Weights changed from the French standards to
those in use in our own country.
NJ. Boussingault kept horse weighing 500
pounds for a month, without increase or diman-
ton of weight, on a ration composed of hay, l65
pounds; oats, pounds.
NJ. Boussingault admits (the hay was the sec
opd CROP that the ration contained 5 ounces of
nitrogen, and VIC value at ST pounds the carbon
contained in the respiratory elements; hence it
follows thatit represented very nearly p pounds
IL ounces of hay; in other words, Al pounds of
hay for each 100 pounds Of the weight of the ami
NAL.
By measuring the carbonc acid exhaled by
animals, we can prove the values deducted from
the amount of nourishment consumed
Considering the works of various authors and
his own experiments, Allibert concludes that
horse weighing 800 pounds, exhales in twenty
four hours pounds ounces of carbon, equal to
81 ounces for every 100 pounds of the horses
weight, (this is nearly the amount of carbon,
that We have shewn to be contained in pounds
of hay); that a horse weighing 1000 pounds ex-
hales IN twenty-four hours, pounds ounces of
carbon, equal to ounces for every 100 pounds of
the horses weight, Quantity contained in Is
pounds of hay).
Basing our conclusions on these different
observations, we believe We admit that the
ration necessary to sustain a horse (without
work. is, for each 100 pounds of the weight of
the animal:
ls pounds of hay for a horse weighing / $50 lbs.
20 pounds of bay for horse weighing $50 lbs.
% pounds Of hay for horse weighing 1,1OO lbs.
"a pounds of hay for a horse weighing $50 lbs
The ration of support is then greater for the
small animals than the larger ones; if this is not
sufficient, the animal is nOurished at the expense
Of its own substance, and becomes poor With
every animal it is only the nnurishment consumed
in excess of the ration Of support that gives use
full products, consequently there is advantage in
having given work dOue in the shortest time,
and 10y a small number of animals, strongly fed,
in order to diminish as much as possible the
nourishment lost as ration of support.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1874-02-19
ArIrr,..tisn 20 Dinner.

Il was observed that certain rich man never
invited any one TO dine with him. "Ill bet a
wager" said weg, al get an invitation from
him" The wager being accepted, he goes next
day to the rich mans honse, about the time he
was TO dine, and tells the servant he must speak
with his master Immediately, for he cOud save
him thousand pOunds'" Out came the master.
Whats that, siri You can save me Thousand
poundsf" "fes, air, can; but see you are at
dinner. I will 60 myself and dine, and call
again" "Ob. pray, sir, come and take dinner
with me-" al shall be troublesome" "No not
at ALL" The invitation was accepted. And as
soon dinner was over, and the family retired,
the conversation was reeumed. "Well, SIR" said
the man of the house, snow to your business
Pray let me know how ] am to save thousand
ponds" why, sir" said the other, AZ hear
you have daughter to dispose of in marriage"
Il have, sir" /" And that you intend to portion
her with ten thousand poundsF AZ do sir"
"Why, then, sir, let me have her, aud will take
Der az nine thousand!'
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1874-02-19
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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1874-02-19

TREES IN WINTER.-A remarkable paper has
recently been contributed to German magazine
by Professor Mohr, showing not only that the
sap does not freeze in trees and plants which
live through harl winters, but also the reason
why it does not freeze. He says that though it
is true water, as VIC generally see and under-
stand it, freezes at thirty-two degrees, IL does
not do so when its particles are finely divided.
Tropical plants have large cells, and these are
the ones in which the sap freezes, but in plants
with very small cells, in which the liquid particles
are finely divided there freezing the liquids
until after the structure has received injury of
some sort. This is true, he says, of insects and
insect Pupe. They never freeze; but cut ore
apart, soon after the humors soldify, aud, on
thawing. lief dies.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1874-02-19

WILLARD SALISBURY and James McDougall
were often very amusing men by the incoherence
or unexpected lucidity of their remarks. Sauls-
bury almost equaled the great dying joke of Ar
temus Ward, where be left large fortune, which
had no existence, to his friends in Europe and
America, and set them hunting for it, Salisbury
forgot when his term in the Senate expired, at
noon on the 4th of March, and retaining his seat
proceeded to make speech in the chair of his
successor. Another Senator rose to a point of
order.
What is your point Of order!" said Salisbury.
The gentleman is not a member of the Sem
ate"
salisbury sat down with twinkle in his eye,
and, turning round, said to Garrett Davis:
81 had forgotten all about it. l was going TO
give Chandler h-lp
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1874-02-19

SEA-SICKSEss.-The opinion so commonly held
in regard to sea-sicknes, namely, that it is due
either to a congestion a the BRAIN OF to a CON-
motion in the abdominal yiscera caused by the
molten of the vessel, are very plauSiby combat
ted by NJ. Pellerin, who, in paper read before
the French Academy, attributes the malady to a
deransed circulation of the blood produced by
the alternate rolling and beaving of the vessel.
The result Of this, he says is not congestion of
the brain, which is, on the contrary, deprived of
some of the blood required to keep up stmu-
lus of that nervous Gentle; that sensation which
is felt in sea-sickuess resembling peculiarly what
he felt immediately after letting of blood when
the patient sits OF stands, viz: disposition to
vomit, or actual vomiting. In support of this
opinion mention is made of the fact that persons
who are liable to sea sickness experieuce its ef
fccts in much slighter degree when they are in
horizontal position, the relief thus afforded
being like that which is produced in the same
position when person is in a state of syncope.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1874-02-19
Msefnl aud Curious.
RULES ron HANpLrNe A GUN.

Never handle 9 gun unless you know how, nor
suffer any person, over whom you have control,
TO handle one unless he knows how. You have
no right te endanger your own life, or the lives
OF others. by handling dangerous weapons in any
other than the safest manner.
Always handle q gnn as if it was loaded; new
er let it point at yourself or any else; never
point your gun at any living thing unless you
mean to Kill it. Hardly a week escapes, that
the papers do not not report that some idiot has
snapped gun at come one, snppOsing 1t I'M
loaded, and therefore had the misfortune TO kill
a human being.
Always carry your gun at half Geek, and never
with the hammer ON the cap. A few expert
ments demonstrate its correctness. This rule is
almost invariably violated.
Half-cock the gun; if it will pull off in this
condition, take an axe and split the stock, bend
the barrel, and sell it for old iron.
II II will not pull off put cap on the cone,
and let the STRIKER down upon it; now strike
the door jamb, and if the striker fits the cone
decentiy well, the cap will be exploded This is
what happens when a man carrying loaded gun,
Win the striker down upon the cap, shoots him
self, while riding in a wagon, in tumbling down,
or climbing over fence or stone wall.
Put cap on the cone, and let the striker back
almost to halfeock and let it fall. If the main
spring is good for anything, the cap is exploded.
More accidents happen IN this way than in any
other. gun is carrieti through underbrush,
dragged ont of a beat, pulled on the ground by
the muzzle; poor dogs jamp upon you, the ham,
mer catches in your elsthing; i'll either of these,
and in a hundred other ways the hammer is
liable to be drawn back almost to halfcock, and
then let fall upon the cap. If it is a good one,
an explosion ought always to follow.
Now half-cock your gun, draw the hammer
back nearly to full cock and let it fall. 1t will
stop at the half-cock notch, aud no blow is Civ
ell. So you cock it expecting to get shot, and
are disappointed, hold the muzzle straight up in
the air, and let the cock back at halfcock.
II you know of no other way of ascertaining
whether gun is loaded or not than by putting
it in your mouth and blowing, or if you feel in
cined to draw the cap, retire to to safe distance
and ut once blow out your brains, before you kill
or MAIN other people by stupidity or careless.
ness.-4mericaR Sportsman.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1874-02-19

RYE FLOUR FOR BREAp.-Bread made from
rye is eaten by all ranks Of society in the north
east of Europe, and is scarcely ever absent from
the tables Of the noble and wealthy, because two
sorts OF bread are considered more wholesome
ana more nourishing than the exclusive use of
one. Of the two kinds of bread. the rye and the
hnest wheaton, made at the Vienna bakery of
the Paris Exhibition, and served at the adjoin-
ing lager beer drinking ball, the rye bread was
largely taken in preference. The case Of Ger
man is cited, who in his .own country used to
eat a slice Of wheaton bread and a slice of rye
bread together, and who, on his coming to re-
side in England, suffered much in health from
the entire use of wheaton bread.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1874-02-19

The following strong figure of speech was used
to illustrate the great size of America to Pat
who could not make up his mind about emigrat-
ing;
"Where did the backey come FROM why, from
,Merky, where elsef that sent the first petaty.
Long life to il for both, says IT'
What sort Of place is that, wonderi"
"Merikyi They tell me it's mighty sizable
I'm tould that you might roll England through
1t, an it would hardly make dint in the ground.
There's fresh-water ocean inside of it that you
might dhrown Ireland in, an save Father Math-
ew wonderful sight of trouble; an for Scot
land, yon might stick it in a corner of one eff
their forests, an you'd never be able to find it,
except it might be by the smell of the whskeyI"
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1874-02-19

IT is common mistake to plant pines and
spruee-tirs near the edge Of ones walks and car
riage roads. Few persons know or stop TO in.
quire how large trees will spread as they grow
to maturity. They lock pretty as they stand in
the nursery, aud set at arms length of the walk,
where they can be seen and petted. But in few
years they stretch from fifteen to twenty feet
each side, over the walks aud shrubbery and the
result Of the whole is, that either the trees must
be cnt down or the lower branches hewn of,
which is sure destruction to the trees ANY
method of planting which does not forecast the
future height and breadth of trees, whether
planted in groups or singly is a mistake