Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-14
ALL SORTS,


Arizona young ladies carry revolt
vcrs.
Kentucky is troubled with six
daily newspapers.
Square tocd shoes are again coming
into fashion.
France will hereafter punish duel
ling as murder.
There are four thousand Episcopal |
clergymen in the United States.
When does farmer work a mira
Gle? When he turns his horse to |
grass.
| Nevada has named a new county |
"Brandy," to arouse the spirit of i'm
migration.
! The value of church property not
taxed in this country is upward of
soc, 100000.
The popular notion Of genius is--of
one who can do almost anything--ex-
cept make aliying. ai
Snow fell in New, Hamshire on sew
enteen days in April 10 the total
amount of thirty-five inches. eaQ
Harvard University has decided to |
spell the name "Shakspere,' instead Of
shakespeare" as has been its custom. |
A baker has invented q new kind of
| yeast. 1t makes bread SO light that
a pound of it only weighs twelve
ounces.
The Christian Union thinks that
grace before meat is eminently prop.
er; but grace before gluttony is bias
phemy.
Steamers, like sermons, are weakened
by length. Here the simile ends; for
the former goes down easily, while
the latter do not.
Wyoming has finally decided to call
its female justices "Justices of the
Peaces," and to fine any one who
growls about grammar.
| A Kansas girl wouldn't be married
without yellow ribbon around her
waist, and q boy rode eight miles to
| get it while the guests waited.
The murderer Waltz's brain weighed
more than Horace Greeley's, and vet
he didn't know how to read or write.
Here is q sumner for phrenology.
The newest female star in the reli-
gious armament is Mrs. Mary e. Lath-
rop, of the Methodist Episcopal
onu's' :" - p'"eA'' - DA1'no'o'
There lie q large religious revival in
Cedar Falls, Iowa. Two hundred
1people have already Joined she church
ana the Baptists receive q plurality of
them. 81 7B as
.crhe st;nu Of tarat;on y savs H.ll.n
'iswastefnlness.' And yet Hallam, died
fifteen years before the present Legis-
lature Of South Carolina came into ex-
istence.,s sf.ss4e ca - s.,s .,s.
Tbero "a no.h;ns aopa, =, I. i,h.~o,
conscience MIR ;lt,es nrvth;nv seam am tn =,
infiSence the conscience Ike locality;
~ Nevaua ceickel ngnes are neiu ior
inc Denent oI inc cnu h'sn ~ s.n
The Louisiana young women are
signing promise not to mary young
men who frequent drinking saloons
They think that every young gentl eman
should nave wine celiarof ms own.
Sacramento two.year-old urchin
i found his fathers 1cad-pencil astray
on the floor and used IL until lie broke
the noint.a Shortly afferward he adj.
dressed his dnarenf. aPa. jend ma yonr
knife to skin dis pencil.. a7I1
poris where he has ha,te,i : Will; hi ss on
h;s rn,,ta IN HIsdr;d M;nfstcr I!nsh;nc
10 ranaT;rr his vnnth and amid :
mnItitnde ~. coni dinrers' saek;nr
| ohI;vion nj Mr. Gaines ana TarnsndS
Wnod,s hnvl;rg dor.~ - IN '-N'''''>
ne - "sAA-'e-'. > ) 81 .,f
An Ohio man who At first opposed
/ the Woman,s movement, now Acknowl-
was good thing. Instead Of selling
his vote for whisky, he got $3.50 for
| 1t, and has beer. able to buy dog.
-. ~ - .4.,,a.sS .'.s $50
There is man in Ogle county, Hls.
who VIII not have newspaper IN his
house, even II il is given to him. He
owns four dogs, ana never missed but
but one circus IN MS life, ana that was
- Mn nrtse hanfbil1 '--s ~
80 ~
hnd 2 couple that are conrnng. Iney
Il ~sss-~~ - -
that they wouidn,s move quick II tney
were gong 70 Q iunerai. Get Denind
your Jolly married Ioiks VINO nave
Iots OF chlldrcn at nome II yon want %
~. ,,o,,,,,.o , ,;a,,,,;., s.rs at.
80. inno o hnsn gnr imrre.s;ny .b.t;t
w "s e AZ .r,,a.t npss;bIo en;sanh
,rb;nh Gould ha ch;soi.d IN tho tnrh.
stones If some 81 the iore T mstrons
wbnr d.sth saariv romnras from ths
chmrnh .nd tbs war,d sn;aa ~ nvars
m"nh hos nI iI ~ thos. wbo ere o
more than .hav deservad y ~ "
nv ''
The Monticello Gazette says the
Methodist prayer meetings at Dubuque
are not particularly lively and en-
thusiastic gatherings, II credit can be
given to the statement OF Monticello
brother, who returned home and as
serted that the dubuque prayer
meetings We're cold enough to freeze
the hot place over"
! IS !. !.