Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-11-17
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"Belles' call a great many people to
church.
To do business man must have
dollars and sense.
Did you ever know a country town
that hadn't the best brass band in the
State?
In Norway, the longest days are
three months; the morning papers are
published quarterly.
The Great Eastern steamship is be.
ing refurnished at an expense OF $780,.
600, for Centennial trips.
One hundred and sixty Baptist con.
grcgatlOns In this country nod to {
Rev. Mr.. Smith every Sunday.
The American railroads, on the av.
erage, cost per milo $50, ,4S0, while tht
British roads cost over $3.50, 900 pei
mile.
The Centennial commissioner
have closed the booka, and requests fol
space by exhibitors will hereafter &c
unheeded.
Judge Pershing is glad he has held
on to the bench now. SIT is well to
hold on to the old lovo until you are
sure of the new"
Is there . country editor in the
world who can speak favorably of q
new paper and not wish it succese. OF
oovy n,,e
A New Jersey female institute con.
tains 81 red-headed girls, and the
principal dispenses with gas and all
artificial light.-NorIsto,cn Herald.
Gathering autum leaves was former.
ly a fashionable amsement, but since
irruption OF the pinch-back dress
the gathering has been confined to
boys.
When England comes to use her
big gun that takes two hours to load,
on the field Of battle, she will be liable
to have her army kicked into another
nation.
The castor bean Is cultivated in Kan
sas, and q castor oil factory has been
erected at Fort Scott. Even the West
is not without this pleasant and ex.
hilarating beverage.
Will some benevolently inclined
friend donate MS a newspaper publish
ed this fall that does not allude TO the
fact that "the melancholy days have
come" ?-Bric-a- Brac.
"Tell me, Mary, how to Woo Thee, .
is the title Of recent disty. Give
her pair of diamond earrings and a
tortoise-shell comb for her back hair.
-Ncsc York Commercial Advertiser.
Lincoln illustrated hi. feelings a,
the way Ohio went in 1872, by telling
the story of boy who stubbed his
toe, and who said he was too big to
cry, and 1t hurt too bad too laugh
This is about the sentiment of the
Democracy over the Pennsylvania
election Toledo Blade.
"Ps, be youa Universalist ~ "No
my con the Universalists indulge IN
the belief that there 10 no hell
could not be Univcrsalist." .Pa, /
there isn't any bad place like that, vii
the water companies aud gas compa
nies 60 to heaveni" We'll, l don
know, my son, they may. There's n,
telling what might be done if Their
should be plenty OF room on the er
treme back seats"
i Miss Butler, a daughter OF watch
man on the South VI western Railroad @
Georgia, was 10 the habit Of puttin
her foot upon the track and anatchin
1t away again just in time to miss tn
passing train. Frequently she stoo
boldly in front ofthe train and jumpe
to one side when it was but q few fec
from her. Perhaps 1t is unnecessar
to state that Miss Butler is uow n
more. She did not Jump quick enoug
the last time che esssyed her prett
feat.
| A faithful and unassuming ncwsps
per carrier, In San Francisco, tell
this: "l've been serving q mornin
newspaper all along to man who ha
never left his bead for seven years
Got tho rheumatic. There's 4 hol
busted in one Of tho windows, abou
two inches wide, and it's two storie
high. | shoot II up through that eli
at twenty minutes past tlvc ever,
morEin, and il strikes him In the fac
and wakos him mp. Ono these darl
mornin's when there's high wind,
takes some mighty lively calculation /,
hit the place just right. One mornin
dropped it ON the foot Of tho bet
and didn't wake him, so he atoppe.
the paper next day.