Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-06-23
ALL SORTS.

country.
Philadelphia has 1900 profession
al hcggars, whose gains are moro than
So per day each.
| Some thievish dead b.a stole 80
collins from New Orleans W arehousc
the other night.
"A Detroiter clsims TO have In his
possession the original spurs worn by
Napoleon at Waterloo.
Tho saying "excuse haste and a
bad pen" has been attributed 10 q pig
who ran away from home.
common salt scattered over the
ground will drive away the chinch
| bug. A barrel will sow over ten
acres.
An English msjor has been dis
missed from the army for cheating at
cards. He probably swindled y supe-
rior officer.
"A New York thief has been sent
TO prison for twenty years because he
robbed man of SO. He now wishes
he was Tweed.
The military powers Of Europe
have 2O.OO0,OOO horses ready 10 do bat.
tie, and the next war will be fought
on horseback.
Fools die as certainly as bald
headed men, and it is an unsustained
assertion the saying that "Dcath loves
a shining mark"
Give a man light heart, a white
hat and new suit of linen. and for q
day he is above the cares and deprcs-
sions Of this world.
Why is a church bell moro aiIable
than church organ1 Because one
will go when it is tolled, but tho other
will be 'blowed" first.
Two soles that beat as one," re-
marked the boy to his mother as she
was dealing with him for his sins with
both slippers at once.
In one part of Norway the long
est day is three months. What
spelnid chance for lazy man. to start
a daily paper.-St Louis Globe.
1t is a pleasant thing to see roses
and lilies glowing upon a young
lady's cheek, but bad sign to see
mans face break out In blossoms.
"Jump-up-and-r d-run-away-and-then-
sit-down-again," is the name of an In
dian chief who has just taken tho war
path. We cave. Here's our ha'r.
-Thoy wondered at tho short col
lections in Missouri church, and in-
| vestigation proved that one of the col
lectors had tar in the top of his hat.
The Sultan of Turkey has seven
hundred wives: and yet /: don't cost
him a cent for spring bonnets. lie
makes them go barcheaded, he does.
1t Ia now confidently expected
\ that Tho wm-iington monument will
be finished July 4, 2500. Let's be on
hand to hear the dedication speech.
An Indiana Judge has decided
that ii a woman will shorten pie-crust
| with butter at 50 cents q pound, her
husband has good cause for divorce.
"A choir of 100 voices Is being or
ganized at Salt Lake to add to tho
| noisc and confusion produced by the
big organ in the Mormon Tabcrna-
Gle.
-For sl.s- E~sA A:.sso IL. -Al.a annala of
the judicial history of Montana, a man
has been found guilty of murder in the
frat degree. lie is a mulatto named
w. II. Steers.
"A traveller called for mint-sauce
at hotel the other day, and the watt
er said that they had none, adding /:
Onr cook makes all the mince into
pies, not sauce"
| In some districts Of Georgia they
have improved on compulsory educa-
ton. They pay the teachers two dol
lars per month for each pupil of the
average attendance.
"A new journal called the Ndtio-
nal Protestant has made its appear
ance. Its prospectus assumes that
"Republicanism and Roman Catholo-
cism are incompatible.
| "A little fonr-year- woke up
very early one morning, and seeing
the iull moon from tho window, he
innocently remarked. should think
moon in.'
My DEAR said husband, in
startled tones, after waking his wife
| In the middle of the night, al have
swallowed dose of strychnine ~
"Well, then. do for goodness sake lie
still, or it may come up
The devil in the Austin RecclHe Office,
an initiative boy, noticed that the editor Of
that journal wrote upon the wall Of his
sanctum the date OF every noteworthy oc.
currence, So, when n recent tragedy oc-
CURED, the devil recorded the event on the
wall of the sanctum as follows: "May the
10 ateen rs too men murdard bi won."
| Kentucky leads off in the coming State
elections, on the ed day Of August. Cali
fornia follows on the lst Of September, Ar.
kansas on the 9th, Maine on the 18th Of
the same month, and Ohio and Iowa on the
18th of'October. Then come Pennsylvania
New York Massachusetts and several othel
States, on the 81 Of November1
An Indianapolis editor thus cruelty stab.
brother scribe of horticultural propensi-
ties: "Dan Paine, Of the Neics, has start
ed Babylonian garden on gravel ROO
just back Of his den. II consists Of dem
| ptoHLeN itpSt pittth puiSohi0
with an old quid of tobacco ia tho mi,idl,
distance, and "a dismantied straw hat il
perspective
Tie Count de Grasse was once wonndee
ia the knee with muske. ball. The doc
tors cnt and hacked and made many in
cisions, when, getting out of all, ratienc,
the Count asked why they cut him up S,
much. ave are seeking said the sur
seon, "for the ball" "Why didn't yo,
mention that before? l have the ball il
J my pocket
Ever since the war efforts hav,
been made by divers to recover th,
. safe of the steamer Cumberland -sunl
. in Hampton Roads In 1862, by tn
rebel ram Virginia-which was know
to contain large amount of gol,
. treasure. The safe has at last bee,
found and brought to the surface, afte
I lying under water for thirteen years
Tho warning of the Holyoke dis
aster is being needed at New Yorl
: also, where the Department of Build
0 ing has just been making complet
3 survey of all the churches, and order