Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-05-26
Miscellaneous.

Lord. make US truly thankful oil
what we are about to receivc--these
biscuits amt filten for a dog to eat
Is the way certain Monroe. La. man
asks a blessing.
Among the improvements noticed
by Western paper is the mention
that "onr friend Shaw has set out two
shade trees in front Of tho house he
cheated his mother out Of"
"A mob threw David Reeds negro
Of Nashville, Tenn, over the river
bank, drop of 100 feet, but the blacl
tumbler caught in 9 tree, which broke
his fall, and is yet alive.
On the morning of the 10th, when
Beautiful May" was more than hall
gone, the citizens Of Dwight, H., had
to crack the ice IN their water-troughs
before their horses and cattle could
drink.
Captain" said o son of Erin, a:
the ship was nearing the coast in in.
element weather, "have ye an almenik
on board p "No, haven't" Then,
beja bers, we shall have to take the
weather as it comes"
"A school of mines, a school oi
dentistry, . hospital, and homeo.
pathic school of medicine, are all to be
established in Michigan University, the
State Legislature having made special
appropriations for those purposes.
A conscience stricken debtor. of I'm
Gle Sam, paid 80, 400 into the treasury
8 day or two since, the largest sum
thus far credited to the conscience
fund. 1t camc from Baltimore, and
was simply marked internal Revenue
taxes"
She used to keep bits of broken
china and crockery piled up in con-
venient corner of the closet, when ask
ed her reason for preserving such do.
mestic lumber, she shot lurid glance
at her husband, and merely remarked /:
"He knows what them's for"
1t is reported, with how much
truth has not been discovered, that
since the introduction of the spelling
exercises the orthography of the
scholars OF the academies all over the
States has experienced a marked i'm
provement.
The death-roll of the Schiller calam-
ity foots up three hundred and forty
niDe-of whom one hundred and three
wero women. Not only in tho great
loss Of life, but in the terrible scenes
attendant thereupon, it was one of the
direst disasters in the worlds whole
history.
1t is the opinion of the Newark
Register that good mental habits, rath.
or than the mere amount of instruc.
ton crammed into the children's heads
are what IL needed in our schools. /,
b olds that instruction should be given
with as much directness and simplicity
% possible, and without too slavish an
adherence to Textbooks.
An Arkansas lad came to bis
father and said: "Dad, they amt
knives enuff to sot the table Dad
Whar's big butch, little butch, old case,
cob-handle. granny's knife, and the
one l handled yesterday? That's
enough to sot any gentleman's table,
without you've lost um."
.-Perkius, the American who mar
ried o niece of ex Queen lsabella, ha,
been sentenced to pay 1884 francs
and 60 to prison for two years, by
Paris court, for debt to his boarding
house nistress. Even the presence ol
royalty does not satisfy the rapacious
boarding house keepers for bills due,
Lick OF California. has other woes
than satisfying those whom he is try,
Ing to give his money to. A Sar
Francisco doctor has sued him fol
$4,000 for medical attendance rem
dered In twenty-five years. If Mr.
Lick has been getting doctored at tha,
rate, II cannot be wondered at that he
thought best to make his will.
A resident of Beaubien street called
at the Central station yesterday to re.
late the fact that his wife had rur
away. well we'll try and arres
her, replied the sergeant, after hear
Ing the particulars of tho case. "Tha
wasn't what came for!' said tht
man, with disappointed look; ..
want the detectives to keep her on thu
run !"-Detroit Free Press.