Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-05-12
Miscellaneous
A watch-w ord-Tick.

"A Bourbon Slatc--A state of in
toxication
How TO take life easy-Bc care,es
with kerosene.
| A rough cstimate-Guessing vol
can knock q man down.
AN Irish editor congratulates him
self that half the lies told about hin
amt true.
Tho Agricultural Hall for tn
Centennial exposition at Philadelphia
| covers ten acres.
France is the greatest wheat pro
ducing country in the world. She
produced in 1873, the enormous quan
| tity of 332, 209, 900 bushels. The Unit.
ed States rank second in this respect
and Russia third.
A dumb barber in New Jer.
sey town is getting all the custom
and has been obliged to hire four
mule assistants. BARRIERS who are not
"dumb" should cut this out and paste
it on their coat sleeve.
The Directors ofthe story County
Agricultural Society met ON Monday
last and established the premium lis,
for the coming year. Among the rest
of the attractions offered Is premium
of $500 for horse trotting.-Nerada
Watchman.
-"Henrieita,' said lady to her
new girl, "when there's bad news,
oarii irIrlc c1v- fa-cs1r npls,t;on, oJ-nu.
let the boarders know it before din
ner. 1t may seem strange to ycu,
Henrietta, but suoh things make a
great difference in the eating in the
course of year."
A little girl at school read thus;
"The widow lived on small limbacy
left her by relative "What did
you call that word z" asked the teach
er; "the word is legacy, not limbacy."
"But." said the little girl "my sister
says must cay limb, not leg"-Bos-
ton Courier.
--COwden Clarke tells story of a
gentleman who lately, in making re-
turn OF his income to the Tax Com
missioners, wrote on the paper: "For
the last three years my income has
been somewhat under fl50 in future
1t will be more precarious, as the man
is dead of whom borrowed the mon
ey."
Golden hair is common with the
barmaids Of London. 1t is produced
with a powerful solution of chemicals,
making very beautiful tint, and
stink intense enough to knock over
an Egyptian pyramid. The introduce
ton OF the dye has given healthy
stimulus to the manufacture of patent
clothespins,
Prof. Miles, of the Michigan Ag.
ricultural College says THE results
of our own experiments in pig feeding
show conclusiyely that animals, when
properly fed, give much better re-
suit for the feed consumed during the
first few months of their lives than
they do after they reach maturity
While the ladies of Oneida, New
York, were working at the polls for
the election ofa no-license Board of
Excise, one of them received the fol-
lowing note: My Dear Wife-I have
washed the baby, put her to bed and
stirred up the pancakes. What shall
do next? Your loving husband,-"
Such a man is handy to have in any
family, especially one in which the fe-
male head has taste for politics.
DIR. Earner says in the Testern
Agrtcnlturdlist for April that carbolic
acid is altogether the best and cheap.
est remedy for lice on chickens, cattle,
horses or sheep. Take small GUAM
tity of lard, mix few drops of car
bolic acid with it apply freely to the
animal infected with parasites, and it
removes them. 1t is equally
destructive of the wolf worm in the
back of cattle, or ofticks on sheep.
"A boy who had served in a Grand
River avenue grocery store for two
weeks, came home highly eiated the
other night, and told his father he had
been promoted.
"How 7" asked the old man.
Why, I've been down cellar all the
time sorting over potatoes, and now
they've rafsed me up Stare to pick
over beansI"
Tho Captain of o steamboat seeing
an irishman smoking away abaft the
wheelhouse, stepped up to him, and
said:
Don't you see that notice stuck up
there?"
"D'ye name that Bit O. painted tin -
HTo be sure do. Why don't you
follow it?n
IL haven't sayn il move. It's nailed
fast, I'm considerin."
Il mean have You read thatnotice 7"
"Diyil q bit; shure l don't know
how to rade.n
"Well, it says: mo smoking al.
lowed here"
'Be the powers 1t doesn't cousarn
me a smite, thin, for never smoked
'aloud in my life."