Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-01
Miscellaneous.

My boots are new, my garters too,
My ''pull-back's' ut IL splendid
For, thanks to pins, my dress begins
JUST where Ewes costume ended.
But how can the world defy
Unless my hose is stripede
For as go each gust doth show
MY examinations biped.
Oh. dainty foot oh, gaiter boot!
To p!ety you're shocking!
ne'er can go TO church, for oh
I've no gay striped stocking.
A crocodile race on the Nile is to be
the event of the next month in Egyp.
tian sporting circles.
The chief poet of the Chicago Times
represents the Flora McFlimsey of the
period making these plaintiff remarks
The most pitiable of homicides ;
no who Tor the want of resources is
reduced to the necessity of killing
time.
An aged man sat down on the rail.
road track at Cherubusco, Ind, the
other day, quietly smoked his pipe for
half an hour, and then blew his brains
out with shotgun.
-"Oh, my dear" reads . private
letter recently received by q grass
widower from his wife at Saratoga, ~
love you just as much 40 ever-I want
you to send me fifty dollars by next
mail-yours my darliDg-send check
and not bills.
Some one. who acts as though he
knows, says that the Wisconsin girl
who killed nine wolves last Summer
has thrown herself away on q man
who daren't help her take the clothes
off the line At night, without slung.
shot fastened to his wrist.
"A gentleman from Woonsocke,
was introduced to President Grant, by
Senator Anthony, on Wednesday, q,
the Burnside clambake 10 Bristol
"Here, General" said Anthony, sis one
Of those terrible newspaper men
Mr.. -, of Woonsocket, sixteen mile,
up the Blackstone" Sixteen mileI
In Rhode Island ?" said the President
incredible !"- WOOnsOcket Patriot.
The Nazarenes of Hungary. /.
powerful and growing sect of Quak ers
refuse to render military service, q
the Menonitcs refused In Russia. III.
npshot of the matter will be that th,
Nazarenes will have to shoulder theiI
carpet-bags and 60 somewhere else
Such people are Of no use to Europe
an power at this particular time. Their,
are 10000 of them in Hungy.s
Senior p. G. Armijo, the muttol
millionaire Of New Mexico, sold owe
zoo, GOO pounds of wool last year. Will
his father and q business partner, b,
owns nearly 2,OOO, 600, head of sheep
scattered over . range Of country NOR,
than 300 miles square. He has hat
two losses by Indian raids, ono of 35,
GOO head and tho other of IL, 900, "but,
he says, 81 hardly missed them"
If Eli Perkins tells the truth, thi
must have been dreadful: "The pro
prietors Of Pavilion spring, Saratoga
were fnssing around yesterday at
terrible rate-all because they found
dead rooster in the spring, from which
five hundred people have been drink
lug since the season .opened. They
say they don't care so much about
chicken or two, but they will give go
to be introduced to the man who le
60 of that rooster-dead or alive"
"A California reporter named Rob
ert Ellis got carried up in balloon
some years since, by accident, withou
the professional acr0naut. He was .
daring fellow, and coucl0iled to keev
on. lie disappeared, and tor month
nothing was heard OF him. A hunte
at last picked M this hit on tho p-asrie
II am all right, and am having heap
of fun. l have found the valve cord
and can descend whenever l wish blu
! am going to soc tho thing down to ,
fine point" And shortly after III,
wreck of . balloon hanging to tree
covered with leaves, and the skeleton
of Robert Ellis, were found on the lin
between Nebraska and Dakota.
"A black man, with sober visag
and white cravat, arrived in Bostol
the other day, and went straightwa,
over TO Charlestown. Solemnly b
marched to the foot of Bunker Hill
monument, and took off his hat in IL
shadow. Then he called out In lou,
voice. civilian Graves" aud answer
ed himself. "uere!" And then b
said, "But l am free man, by tn
grace Of God and the proclamation o
the martyr President" He used to b
. slave OF Robert Toombs in Georgia
and he had come all the way TO Bnnke
Hill to get off this little sarcasm Of
his old masters wild prophecy.
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