Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-10-08
GRAB BAG.

/ Gum drops-False teeth whic
have fallen ont ''
I Home stretch-tha stretch scroa
the maternal knee
Ministers OF the interior--the COO
and the doctor. 4 5a4l
An Oshkosh Judge got two bar
of soap for : marriage fee. 7 :
| --All who adverties do not get rich
but precious few get rich without II.
Now the Sultan Of Turkey "wish
e. be were dead" DR., Mary Walker
/ 10 there, a,g .s H as
--aSquars meals" cost fourteen cent
each ia Deaver,- Ito prisoners confined
ID tho JAIL.
Josh Billings says: ssTew enjoy /
good reputAshun, Civ publicly and
steal privately"
Men who travel barefooted around
newly carppted bed room often find
themselves on the wrong tack.
-Four Bishops have died, suddenly
within the past year, viz, Bishops Orr,
ArmitaSs, Whitehouse and Lee.
0eneral Leggstt Il collecting up
bic duds, preparatory 70 stepping out
OF his position - Commissioners Of
Patents.
New York 10 to have . new song
with an old refrain shortly. 1t will
begin, "Who left me at baby farm
Ny mother"
"A Dubuque man offers to 60 out
praying with the sick at 43 per day =
"Or drive team, break colts, or run
. cider mill" 8sj i5Rs4 9f@
I. This 10 the latsst form of we'd.
ding invitati0n "Come around and
zee mo capture mother in lrw 1t 8
O'Clock sharp"
q -Won'e some one hurl mailct at
the young man Of the Boston Post !?
He 70 trying 10 revive public interest
In couundfutns. M
"A Delaware man lost his wife and
. race-horse by the same stroke Of
hghtning, and he tried for two hours
70 revive the horse.
aa-In order to procure the where.
wtthAl to quench his thirst for ardent
spirits . Baltimore youth recently
bic wooden leg.
"A Nav Hampshirs wo,nsn, when
dying, made her husband swear on the
bible that hs would never marry sI
woman with sharp nose.
Tho new postal law makes il nee.
esseary for The Post-oAico Department
% furnish shout 1000 post.oiIlccs of
tlis couotry with new scales.
-Toombs says he wiahes his record
Was q good with his God as it il with
bis country. It probably IL. Ills coun.
Try has already damned him.
-"Go TO grassp is swearing when
nsed in New Hampshire. At least
hey are churching . deacon down
here for using the expression.
"A lecturer ON modern education
aid very solemnly 70 his audience
Parents. you may have children, or II
aot, your daughters may have
"A fArzner near Center Point, Linn
:ounty, Iowa, planted Limburger
:hoose near his potato patch aud the
bugs gave his field s'a wide BERTH
The Shakers Of New York num-
ber eighty less than two years ago,
md they've got 10 throw away their
Jingle bedsteads or become IN extinct
act
-"Where ere our boasted liberties 2"
aid . man in indianapolis when he
Vas fined for stealing an umbrella.
as evidently apprehcndcd "rcign"
II terror. a. sies 4si
1t Is now understood In Richmand
hat people Who can't attend church
md "resd their title clear" without
he aid Of opera-glasses had better stay
u heme.
"A Chicago woman dipped her feet
q the Mississippi river at StI.onis, the
,ther day, and the effect was noticed 40
EAr - Memphis, where the water rose
leverAl inches.
-Aississippi IL singuisrly blessed
n Some resPects. ~ traveler there
'ays some Of the land in that State is
70 poor that disturbance could not
,e raised on II.
THE editor Of the Albany Argus
wrote "Defeat Dix," and the types had
{ "Elect Dix" All Of which goes to
how that the editor was wrong and
he types were right. ts