Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-29

| will be tho fashion for next year.
Striped kid gloves. which make
your hand look as hileons AS a snakes
skin, arc in fashion.
| A company has been formed in
the west of France TO work up grass
hoppers into ''rcd bait foe the sar,line
fisheries.
| ---"ilow much ia meirc?" asks a
Cleveland paper Wal. Till the gas
man comes arouna-he'll give you lib.
eral figures.
Frog catching ia a money making
business as Cast!eion. N. Y. A man
and two boys made $3.50 At it in one
month recently.
AT last society has struck some
thing that will make Tins easier for
| the medical fraternity. They are hsv-
ing green-cnrn soci4bles in Wisconsin
III yom only lived on The sea coast
of Texas YOU could "a out and gaiher
= ton of .alt in a halt All hour, snd yon
could get % cents for il by hauling it
Is miles.
When they catch man gathering
Delaware peaches at midnight they
preserve whatever good traits he has
in him by shooting half pint Of salt
into his legs.
According to the published state
menta the Summer which has Just
ended has been cooler by i've degrees
than the average season for the last
eighty-six years.
"A quaint old man, Boston
clergyman OF the last generation, was
accustomed to say that bread is the
staff of life, but bread aud butter ia a
gold-headed cane
The Marshall, GA, Messenger
cries: "For the Lords sake, friend,
don't keep telling an editor how to
run his paper! Let the poor devil
find 1t cut himself"
You can family imagine the feelings
OF the Michigan man who cut out q
big piece of meat from his leg, think
q rattlesnake had bitten him, and then
found out that il was bee-sting.
The man who sits around whit
Ting waiting for something to turn
up, ia sure TO be rewarded for his per-
severance at last-w hen he will see
his own toes turn up.
Tremendous storms have prevail
ed throughout New Mexico tor the
pact few daya. and the town of Lac
Cruces was nearly destroyed by the
bursting of what is called a water
spout.
"A somewhat illiteratc Thomas
street woman, having read in q poem
about "simoon that swept the plains"
is urging her husband TO get one o.
them new.fangled things tor her to
use in her kitchen.
Above the suspended corpse of a
suicide In England were chalked these
words: II take the pleasure OF writ
ing these few lines if it will be a
warning 10 all Young men, and never
live with mother-in-lsw.'
~ Who - ~,,,,niru th~t sss,sctino any
how Alta funeral service in Pa,ter-
son. n. j., lately William LLOYD Gar
rison "rose right up in meetin'" and
disputed the theories of the minister
Rev. Mr.. Grinnell.
There are some conliding people
left in Troy. An apple woman in tina,
city will trust All alderman over Sun.
day for tifty-tive cents worth of fruit,
bnt ii may be added that's she's around
mighty early Monday merning.
II lived with him nineteen years.
says an Indiana applicant for divorce,
land all the clothes he exc. beuyht me
Was q bunch OF hair pins and \ tooth
brush. You can see by this what a
hard time she had to keep well dress
cd.
A Chicago chemist, owing TO the
on-psyment OF his lee, refuses to re-
turn the stomach of dead man sent
to him for Analysis. Although the
chemist has now two stomachs, he
does't appear to have any bowcls--of
com passion
These eccentric men are 40 funny,
sometimes. Now here WAS a fellow
who walked into Troy music store
the other day. called for = piece
music entitled "Act on the Square,"
and while the clerk was looking for it.
walked of with a $3.50 banjo.
A Wyoming jury. composed of
seven men and live women, were shut
up for two DAYS and Two nights and
yet they couldn't agree. Ii ia said
that if they had remained ont for sew
| entecn years there wonla have been
| no verdict. as the five women talked
the seven men deaf the first six hours.
| BTO0l}y0 AygUs
"A hundred and fifty years ago,
when they wished to build city
where Baltimore now stands. old Mr..
Carroll sold for the purpose sixty
acres OF land at forty shillings per
acre, and agreed to take pay in to-
bacco at a penny per pound. II he
had kept the price OF his tobacco un-
it up at compound interest. he would
have had more money than the city,
with al! its buildings, is worth.
In the Ohio State Penitentiary the
convicts are not allowed to read any
thing which will inform them what is
going on outside their prison walls.
The Warden scrutinizes carefully all
correspondence passing in and out of
his hands, and nothing in the shape of
newspaper Of the day, nor any book
likely to convey an idea Of the progress
Of events in the world. is permitted to
reach the inmates.
II was doing pretty well with my
paper writes an Iowa editor, shut
there was man who kept telling me
how | ought to run il, until | made a
proposition that he take it off my
hands. He did and now, at the end
Of three months, l take it back at his
earnest appeal, as he has all he can do
to watch his libel suits. p. S.-Look-
ing over the books. find that he has
collected ahead on the few advertise.
ments that are left"