Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-03-03

and yanked me up and down,
I''tiusted'i quick
Texas Is looking hopefully for.
ward 10 three penitentaries.
Mrs. Holmes, of Ka,ic King infa.
my, according to hsr own statement,
is "cick Of the hoal business"
When Pittsburg ladies want to
compliment gentleman's moustache
they call IL real camel's hair"
-Transmission of money BY post in
Russia is expressly forbidden, and the
money is liable to confiscation.
If you want to get an idea of how
the Brooklyn court.room looks during
the trial, look at box of sardines.
-Of 5000 babies born in Paris
every year, 10000 are "put out to
nurse'-that is, put out TO. be pat
out.
| B. F. Butler is expected to take a
hand in the Beecher trial next week or
the week after, as one of Tilton's
| counsel.
The scandal has doubled the sale
| Of Beecher's pews, and run Tilton's
Tempest Tossed" into the thirteenth
edition.
-Huldah B. Loud is a prominent
Massachusetts suffragist, and when
she don't shriek We suppose che talks
like thunder.
When q Comstocker wants to dis
parage another. he says: when you
thoroughly prospect him, you'll find
no bonanza in him"
Tho Arabs have one advantage, IL
will be long time before Joaquin
Miller's poems are translated into their
langusge-St. Joe Herald.
"A kentucky paper speaks of a
man who had narrow escape from q
sun stroke, he having stood only two
feet from man who was struck.
Jennie June thinks . sleigh-ride
incomplete without an oyster supper
at one end and kiss at the other,
with hand squeezing between"
-"There's nothing soliloquized
John Henry, "that cuts up . family
like having the head sit down on q
buzz saw.1Cincinnati Gazette.
OF the 700 members of the French
Assembly all but twenty are bald.
headed, some of them inside and out,
we should Judge by their actions.
The Centennial building in Phila.
dciphia will cover twenty acres, and.
to lessen the fatigue Of thorough
visit, an elevated railway is project
cd.
"A man in Southwestern Missouri
has discovered that the rock fence ON
his farm is made OF zinc ore, and Q
neighbor finds himself with chimney
of the same material.
All the axes and buck saws found
in the ruins Of Pompeii are OF light
make, as IL constructed for woman's
use. Those old ancients knew their
little business.
-"Prance out come more pancakes" /"
warned VIM. McDufi, as he sat at .
table In Kansas City, and as the wait
er wouldn't prance 'em, Mr.. McDuff
split his ear with bowie-knife.
Tho editor of the Burlington
Hatckeye went out hunting the other
day. He banged away for two hours
at tin rooster on neighbor's barn.
He thoughtit it was grey eagle.
Tho traveller who sojourns in San
Francisco's new hotel will reflect with
delight that eleven persons besides
himself have keys to his door, and
know the place better than be does.
"A woman at 'Ilnn, Unlo, ien anu
broke her arm, but she refused two
| offers of assistance because the men
were strangers to her and there was
no one around to Introduce them to
her.
Vermont clergymsn are never per-
mitted to kiss the ladies they have
just made brides. The dear creatures
put up their hands with the remark :
"There, that'll do. I've seen you fol-
lows afore."
AT Youngstown, Ohio, the partial
stoppagc of the coal and iron works
has caused great destitution, and over
800 people are fed daily at the soup
house, A grand charity ball will be
given on the 26th.
"A Florida railroad made nineteen
cents clear last year. Now, what kind
Of an institution Is that? Why doesn't
1t get into debt, like State canal or a
State prison, and be something or
somebody?
Anything to beat Sa.an,' was the
legend suggested by Danbnry poll.
tician when asked to name something
appropriate as an inscription on q ban
ner for Young Mems Christian AS
socistion.
Experiments recently made in
England indicate that wagons are
most easily drawn, on all kinds of
roads, when the fore aud hind wheels
are of the same size, and when the pole
lies lower than the axle.
The Sioux City Journal tells of .
station agent near there who wanted
to use red lantern, but had no globe,
he wrote to the superintendent to
send him q gallon OF red signal oil.
The superintendent sent him his dis.
charge. 81
-"And now, Mrs. Sullivan" said
the counsel, "will you be kind enough
to tell the jury whether your hns-
band was in the habit Of striking you
with impunity?' "Wid what, sir ?"
"With impunity" "He wuz, sir, now
and thin, but he sthruck me oftheuer
wild his phist"
Thomas Mast the artist, told Z
correspondent that last summer he re-
ceived Q genuine proposition of mar.
riage from an sdmiring young lady in
Ohio, who referred to General Scheuck
and Ex-Governor Dennison as TO her
position. The artist said: 81 sent
her back q cartoon of Mrs. Mast and
the children, labeled "Thc only objec.
tions.'"
In one Of the public schools yester-
day, Johnny and Jimmy got into q
quarrel and werc called up for IL.
"He stole oranges" said johnny, "and
/ kin prove it, ~ cay didnt," was
the prompt response 'but hs stole
apples, aud wouldn't give me the first