Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-11-24
MisceIlanaeAus.
81 Drinking men occasionally sober
up, il only for the pleasure Of getting
drunk again.

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81 drinking men occasionally sobe
up, il only for the pleasure Of gettin!
drunk again. z
Christmas is coming, and when TIN
ron is called that morning every littl
child should be able to answer. 'sPrcs
ent.ra a9aejaN esdfaast to mift
lit has beer asserted, and neve1
contradicted, that no observant boy
can fasten his thoughts on his Creator
who sits opposite to a cross-eyed wo
man in church. n
WAS the crowd tumultuous p in
quircd one man OF another, who had
just come from mass meeting. "Tot
multuous,' replied the .other. s'Oh
no, just about multuous enough to
comfortably fill the hall
An Arkansas man ate apint of saw.
dust few days ago, on a bet. An in
telligent ply ysician, who was called in,
told him that he would have pain in
lumber region ii he stuck to such board
as that. n..s.f ,..a8,, s+1 ei,.5,as,t.,t
A revival is raging At Amandaville,
KY, under the management Of local
Talmadge, who says; II know I am
a fool, and | glory in it; just such as
am God scnt to knock the socks
from under the sinner's heelss atH
The Centennial Exhibition viii be
opened on May 10, 1876, and will re-
main open every day, except Sunday,
until November 10. There will be 4
fixed price OF 30 cents for admission
to all the buildings and grounds.
"Now," said . citizen of Rawlins,
Wyoming Territory, at recent dance,
syou see that heifer In red dress !:
that's my wife; an ct yer dance with
her more n two times, psrd, Ill shute
the hull top NV yer he'd off. What'n
yer drink ?"
This ia tho kind Of weather that
makes tho dashing Young man wish
that instead Of spending . dollar and
. half in that massive diamond pin
last Summer he had judiciously in
vested it in a pair Of Winter drawers.
Norwich Bulletin. " WI s-t
Itdocsn't do for a fastidious man to
marry one OF those too gushing crea.
lures who are utterly untaintod by the
conventionAlities of society. A Cleve-
land man recently consulted divorce
lawyer because his wife ran into .
room full Of company with turkey
bone in her mouth. laN anHt#aa5
A Ganger, At ST. Louis, Colonel
John McFsll, wrote cutting letter to
Secretary BristOw, some months ago,
rendering his resignation. In that
letter ho set forth the temptations to
which = gauger IL subject, and he
glOritied in his moral strength BY
which he had resisted all attempts to
bribe him made by wicked distillers.
r. y. Colonel McFall has Just plead.
oil guilty to nine indictments found
against him for completely with the
whiskey ring. U
This ia from the Lewiston, ME
's.Jonrnsl:" "A man called into .
store In this city Friday, and asked
for sheet Of paper ON which to write
a letter. After writing a while, the
noticed him scratching on
. slip Of psper, and shortly came this
request: ''Look here friend, It's some
time since | wrote much won't you
show me how to makesz. want TO
write Isaiah p The merchant helped
him ont OF his difficulty" i
Qnitc stir has been created in
Paris by the refusal OF the Govern
ment 10 recognize title of nobility
by the Pope, or to permit
the newly made nobleman to bear it
1t all 1t says that the Pope is no
longer temporal sovereign, and has no
right TO confer titles of nobility which
shall come in competition with those
granted by the monarchs Of the earth.
This creates q stir, because the Pope
has been quito liberal with those ia
vors of late, and there are . number of
Counts and Dukes in the French c9pi-
tal Who apread- their feathers among
from the "Hoiy Roman Empire"