Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-08
Miscellaneous.

Bowling and smiling she crossed the street
With love OF tied back on;
melon rind glided from under her feet;
And then her tied-back was gone.
She rose from Seat with a mattyred air,
And gathered the things she wore;
She l0okedilke one that was willing to swear,
But then she never swore.
China has appropriated 10000
taels to the Centennial. Pigs tails,
probably.
The Boston Herald thinks it is an
additional reason why Grant should
step down and out, that we are now
out OF eX-presidents.
"A New York tailor says that if
all men would pay cash down for
clothes, the taiors could knock thirty
per cent. off Ito prices.
An inquiry for Stamped ante
lopes" caused Kentucky postmaster
to look Indignantly at a would-be col
orcd customer the other day.
"A new play "Ambition," tho work
of an Illinois man, is shortly to be
brought ont in Chicago. 1t winds up
with beautiful mortgage scene.
-"Do you take kindly to mental
service ?" asked lady of an applicant.
well, yes, the hymeneal!" answered
the girl.
brooklyn people are making their
wills and settling up their estates in
anticipation of possible invitation to
servo on the next Beecher jury.
Mr.. Benjamin Ginning some
time since presented the poor Of the
city of Liverpool with 1000, upon
which wag wrote, "a good d. Gin
ming"
Now, ladies, listen 10 this. A
Canadian priest has given notice that
he will refuse the sacrament to those
wearing low-necked dresses or pull
back skirts.
Any young man who has not beer
in jail and is tired of standing round
fighting flee, will find that this is 8
good time to go out to California and
start bank.
"A story is told of an Irishma1
who, bound over to keep the peace
az ainst all Her Majesty's subjects, ex
claimed: "Then heaven help the frs
foreigner meetp'
The San Antonio Herald is right
1t says no man with any regard for hi
family should fight in bar-rOOm un
less he is paid-up subscriber to boil
daily papers.
Lovers of high church ceremonies
are informed that the church at Beth
lehem Heights, N. H., is many fee
higher than any other ecclesiastical es
tablishment in the United States.
An Irishman, giving his testimon.
in one of our courts few days since
in a riot case, said: "Be jabers, til,
first man saw coming at me when
got up was two brickbats."
THAT horse looks as If he'd beer
fed on barrel staves," said the ferr,
master the other day to man whl
was taking bony nag over to Jersey
l"Ycs," replied the other, "I'm takinf
him over to Jersey to re-coopcr-ate.
"A Partingtonian juryman in Yer
mont recently informed his fcllow-ju
rors, with great gravity, that "no eX
ternal magnetism being visual, h,
would vote in the defensive" No at
tempt was made to change his decis
ion.
| "A Cincinnati paper attacks tn
New York Herald for using tho wor,
SCENTS" Bnt the Herald is right
| There are gents" plenty of them
They carry little canes, cat with forl
only, and smoke to excess. The worl,
would be wilderness without it
"gents."
| The now Palace Hotel at San Fran
cisco, one of tho rocks on which Rails
ston split, will cost, if it is complete,
according to present planp, 100000
and tho furniture $4,000, 900 more. l
is to be completed and opened thi
Fall--no unforeseen reverses overta
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