Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-10-13

-"Captain," said a fashionable lady
to an old.fashioned naval officer, who
stood up to go through a country
dance with her without gloves. "Cap.
tain, you are perhaps not aware that
You have no gloves on" .Oh, never
mind ma'am," answered the captain /;
"never mind. | can wash my hands
when we've done"
California presents another young
criminal, a boy of fourteen, named
Mcdonald, who has been sent TO the
Industrial School, for having within
two weeks, committed one burglary,
stolen n horse and buggy, chopped a
| boy with Ratchet, cut man with q
knife and stabbed his mother in the
face. His mother appeared and plead
ed hard for him, saying he was "a real
good, obedient little boy"
| "A special dispatch from Missis-
sippi gives the following details of a
recent outrage committed in that
State: "Anthony White, formerly a
resident of Chicago, and at one time a
student at Chicago University, had
been teaching colored school. This
could not be tolerated: he was cap
tured by armed Leagncrp, and while
they were on their way to hang him.
the poor fellow started to run. A vol
ley followed and MORALLY wounded
him. The story is verified by Whites
dying statement"
= A clergyman was preparing his
discourse for Sunday stopping occa-
Lott tn 1l,at ~, H.
ten, and to erase that which he was
disposed to disapprove, when he was
accosted by his little son, who had
numbered but five summers: "Father,
does God tell you what to preach Pr
"Certainly, my child" "Then what
makes you scratch it out ?"
When you call at q farmhouse
and inquire for the proprietor, how
often is the reply, "Gono to town.
This going to town has been the ruin
of moro farmers than grasshoppcrs,
chinch bugs, and army worms. Let
every farmer try 1t once, and keep an
account of every time no goes to town,
day and date, specifying the purpose
| for which each visit was made.-Er.
"A very genteel- looking young
man, wearing kid gloves and carrying
a 1.-the and flexible walking stick,
thought he wonld have joke with u
rusty and venerable farmer on the
fair grounds. "Halloo," said the dan
dy, "are you one of the judges on
hogs p "Waal, yaas, walk right up
and let me lock at you," said the cd
60 hot lock
amid the crowd, and no other judges
on swine saw him.
Some gentlemen were standing re-
Gently at a street corner. when a little
girl approached and ratified Off her
lines in quest Of dino. "Are You an
orphan z" asked ono Of them 1--WE are
only Interested in orphans" No, sir"
replied tho little parrot, thrown on her
own resources to amplify her part,
1--WE are too poor to be orphans" The
maladroitness of this explanation was
too much. She got dime from each
member of the party.
"A minister who had been reprov-
ing one of his Elders for over-indulg-
ence, observed a COW 90 down to a
stream, take y drink, and then turn
away. There" said he to his offend
ing Elder, sis an example for you the
COW has quenched its thirst, and has
retired" "Yes," replied the other,
"that is very true; but suppose anoth-
err cow had come to the other side Of
the stream, and had said, Here's to
you,' there's no saying how long they
might have gone on"
The Burlington Gozette, in imitation
of the Cincinnati Enquirer, keeps
standing at the head of its columns the
following: "The bondholder's dollar
to-day 10 worth $l.2355s, or 1885 cents
more than the peoples dollar" The
Gazette evidently believes this to be
true, and yet is persistently advocating
policy which tends directly to do.
depreciate the peoples dollar and to
rob every laboring man of large pro-
portion Of his daily wages,-Dapea-
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