Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-05-05

-Iexas papers believe more cattle
Will DC driven out of Western Texas
this year than any previous year.
AT present there are fifteen States
OF Europe which recognize horses,
donkcys and mules as legal food.
A Kansas naturalist claims that
the grasshopper plague was caused by
tho destruction of prairie chickens.
"A Philadelphia dry goods mer.
chant has just received $4,000 insur.
snrance on the life of a bankrupt cred
itor.
Among the latest developments OF
rascality In the guise of commercial
enterprise is the fabrication of sham
quinine.
There is lady in California who
owns hens, and who gives the proceeds
OF all the eggs laid on Sunday to the
cause of home missions.
The Court House at Oshkosh was
saved from the recent conflagration,
but had very narrow escape. The
Post Office was consumed.
What will they do 100 years from
now for q word to express the kind of
. centennial that will be-? Webster
forgot to make any such word as obi.
centennial"
"A writer from one of Gordon's
stations In Central Africa, says both
sexes tinge their hair with fine red
or golden ointment, and that magnifi :.
cent natural chignons are worn by the
men.
Decoration day is properly on
May 30, but as that date falls on Sun
day this year, General Devens, Com
mander-in-Chie of the Grand Army
Of tho Republic, has issued an order
fixing the day on Saturday, May 90.
1t IL proposed that everybody,
man, woman and child, plant an elm,
oak, maple or some other good tree on
the ground where he lives this year, as
. Centennial Offering to those who
may come after them and sit In tho
shade of the same.
After a long and exhaustive trial,
boy in tho High School at Medford
Mass, has been suspended for month
for pinning "April fool" on a tutors
cost-tail. Two girls were sentenced
to weeks pennance each, for aiding
and abctting the ofIense.
Tho New York Central and Hud-
son River Railroad has 1900 miles of
steel rails, 500 locomotives, GOO pas
senger. mai, baggage and express cars
The road passes through twenty-five
counties, seventy cities aud incorpora-
ted villages. which contain four-fifths
Of the taxable property Of the entire
State.
The following notice is conspicu.
ously posted over the counter of a cav
iDgs bank In Clinton place, Brooklyn,
N. ": "Never stamp check before
presenting it at the bank, but give the
teller two cents, and ask him to lick
the stamp and cancel it. The teller
expects to lick all stamps, as it saves
buying lunch, and is, therefore, disap-
pointed when not allowed to do So"
The new Educational law in Ton
ncssee, providing for the establishment
of new normal schools, declares that
the State Board of Education shall
keep such normal schools as may be
established, for white and colored
pupils, entirely distinct and separate
Provided, that the provisions therein
for training and improvement shall be
impartially proportional to the de-
mands of each.
A man came into this office yester-
day and asked tho name OF the firm.
We replied, "Shultz 81 Oungst.n
"Good heavens" said he, "that name is
enough to break mans jaw" He
Immediately discovered that the firm
was enough to break o mans back,
and 10 now laid out in the rear Of this
Office. His friends are requested to
call and remove him before warm
weather sets in."-Creston Gazette
Mr.. James T. Fields proposes to
men who have failed in their ambitious
pursuits In other directions "a new
ambition" for thcm-namely, that of
becoming pleasant to their fellow
creatures. The difficulty in the way
10 that ambitious people are generally
90 selfish that they never care whether
they are pleasant to other people or
not. What they want is that other
people should be pleasant to them.
Mr.. L. W. Cutler, of Denver, Col,
was recently rendered the nomination
Of City Sexton, and in his letter of do.
clination Gays: "The idea of cropping
among tombstones and communing
with ghosts and COLLINS for q livelihood
causes q cold chill to run down my
back. No, gentlemen, must refuee
l would rather be toad. and live up
on the vapor of dungeon than wait
for my follow man to die that I might
grow fat. Please leave me to pursue
the quiet walks of private life."
DIR, Bowditch, Chairman of the
Massachusetts Temperance Assoica.
ton, says: "Drunkards, ii they be in
veterate in their habits, should be de.
prived of all civil rights, In tho Same
manner that the idiot. the insane, the
high criminal. are deprived of
their rights. For example, for
ono offense in public such q
person should not be allowed to
vote or exercise his civil rights for at
least six months, and for q longer
time on repetition ofthe ofiense."
Mark Twain used to run boat
down here, didn't he" inquired a
traveller ofa Mississippi pilot lately.
shark Twain 2" repeated the old riv-
erman, SHARK Twainp Do you mean
him as was Sam Clemens? Wal, yea,
he did try pilotin' yer awhile but he
couldn't do II, couldn't do tall, hadn't
the genus. But tell 70 what" con-
tinued the grizzely veteran, giving his
wheel twist, ''if ye'd a gin him boats
'nough while he was practicin' he'd
q clared tho river of saags, for shuah.'
Some men are exceedingly brave and
full Of fight when they get a little way