Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-04-07

-00r0 20 produce short cr0ps-tno
BARRIERS shears.
s-Signs Of spring-the lightning.rod
men arc on the road. Il,
"A poor relation-A story told by
. suffering man.
TO make . man short-try to bor-
row i've dollars Of him.
Chicago intends to have . botsn-
ical garden. 1t already has . beer
garden.
"A puppy and an ACCORDION was
the marriage fee offered TO q Cedar
Springs clergyman, the other day.
1t 10 not go much from scarcity of
funds as an abundance OF experience
that dry goods clerks rarely marry.
"A giraffe At the New York Hip
podrome caught cold, aud they put .
mustard plaster seven feet long on its
throat.
Nevada 10 overrun with men seek.
ing work ct the mines, but are unable
to obtain it. - their services are not
needed. sNt
widows can properly wear
mourning for 18 months, unless the
weeds are sooner removed by . Sec
ond husband.
The st. Joe Herald wickedly sug.
gests that the Kansas people 20 to
work instoad Of waiting for the next
crop of graashoppers.
1t 10 no harm to shoot q cat IN
Vermont but II you happen to miss
the cot and kill boy, the authorities
make IN awful fuss over it.
Charleston, VT, rejoices In . fe.
male dentist, whose "crowning effort"
the local papers ssy, was her pulling
nve double teeth for . man few days
ago. .a tfsv
"As long a. I've played old sledge,"
said John Henry, "this Jaeger. DeKo.
ven business IL the arst time ever
knew low to beat high ON square
game"
"A New Orleans paper says the
dollar stores In that city are places
where you can buy twenty-five cent
article you don't want, for four times
its value.
-Smith's wife wanted one Of the
aroan petticoats" talked about in the
fashion magazines, but let Smith of
of on condition that he furnish the
parlor with bay window.
The man who wanted Brother
Hammond to pray for s'newspaper
proprietor who is reckless in prepar-
ing affidavits," must be confused on
the "lafgest circulation" question.
An Ohio youth is to be hanged
next March for killing q small boy to
obtain possession OF . pound OF brown
sugar. It was the principle of the
thing, not the sugar, which influenced
the jury.
Tho snow is 90 deep in the hill
towns Of Massachusetts, that tho own
ers Of sap orchards are unable to tap
their trees - usual, and serious fall
ing of In the crop IL expected in con-
sequence.
The spire Of 6trasburg Cathedral
II NO longer the higheat in Europe.
The steeple Of the Church Of st. Mich.
olss, st Hamburg, lust completed. 10
472 fest high, being six feet higher
than Strssbnrg.
-aI loved Charles" said she, wip-
ing her eyes with the hem Of her over
Skirt II loved Charles - much as any
woman could love Q man, but when he
commenced wearing sPit-curls, just
dropped him."
-''Julius, why didn't you oblong
your stay at the Springs?" "Kase,
Mr.. SNOW, dey charge too much"
"How 20, Julius7" "Why, de landlord
charged dis culed individual wild
stealing dc spoons"
-Bergh had Q man fined $25 tho
other day because he made big black
dog operate cider mill ON the tread
mill plan. although the dog had been
st 1t cheerfully for years, and would
rather run the mill than to eat his din.
| ner.
The English preacher, whose fash-
ionable congregation drew many
pickpocketa, mentioned just before the
service that there was an All. Seeing
Eye, to which there wero NO secrets,
and also that there were half dozen
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