Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-04-21
IIISCELLANEOUS.

-"Love thy neighbor as thyself."
Yes, but keep your eyes on him.
Time IL money, and many people
ask for timo when required to pay
money.
The Louisiana sugar planters are
now moro prosperous than at any time
since the war.
NOAH was probably the only per-
son who ever went 10 sea for fear Of
being drowned.
AN Ashtabula, (O.) farmer winters
his stock on bects, and says they arc
the cheapest food for eattlo b can
find.
"A Cincinnati widow blew her
brains ont, the other day, because she
found that her late husband owed
more and owned less than che had
supposed.
| Gov. Porter has pardoned State
Senator McKcnna, of Tennessee, who
was sentenced to the penitentiary for
ive years for marrying his grand
daughter.
Failing Water" is the pretty
name of an Indian maiden mp In Chip.
pewa county, but sho chews tobacco
and wears an old pair of army pants
with horn buttons ON them.-1ilscaM.
kee Nescs.
-"Spring's coming exclaimed An
enthusiast the other day. II saw
red.headed woman peeling potatoes
in the back yard, and singing like .
| Thine softeus all things," they
say but when you run across young
man who parts his hair in the middle
and says ither and nither, you natur-
ally think that time can never make
him any softer than he IL.
| -Yon never. find an old woman
who hasn't liver complaint, rhenma.
tism, lame back, and the dropsy, and
yet they hang ON until the last heir 70
the property. 10 In his second child.
hood and can't enjoy the funeral ser.
mon.
"A man died ut q revival meeting
and . Chicago reporter says, "his
lamp Of life was burned ont, the gol.
den bowl wa broken, the silver chord
loosed. and the spirit had dowa TO its
gfver." He meant to convey the i'm.
J, preston that the man was dead.
81 see very little Of you," said ap
: old gentleman ut fashionable ball, to
| young lady whom he had not met
, for long time before. II know IT,
was the artless reply, "but mother
, wouldn't allow me to wear very low
/, neck dress tonight, the weather 10 90
cold"
i -Chrchill county, Nevada, 10 poor
has no jail, and until last week never
: had . criminal. Him the county Az.
thorieies confined In shaft 200 feet In
. depth, hosting him to the surface
three times day, and giving him bid
9 meals, and then lowering him
I again.
San Francisco has developed The
: worst spoilers yet. The whole town
o went down the other night on the
word "pea" the teacher having OK
5 planned that IL meant the sliding weight
on . scale-bar. It was spelled oil
3 sorts of ways, from, "peuygh" to ''pee'
, but the crowd was too badly scared
Q to think Of pea"
Q AS sho nimbly piled her needle
round the ragged edges. Of coat thai
had been ripped down the back, she
remarked, 10 vein Of philosopher
expostulation which prudent wivel
always employ: John II you cam
? perform at prayer meetin' without
9 throwin' yourself round %, buatin' Of
buttons and tesrin your clothes, you'd
Q better get religion to home"
-Alady was asked by her servant
: about the nature Of the next world
: and whether II would be Just like this
The lady being blessed with . happy
family Of eleven children, has . skele.
! ton IN tho house In the shape Of Z
[. stocking basket, that never gets empty
and at whose side she has spent many
midnight hour In dArning. Will
this spectre before her eyes, she r;
a piled to the girl playfully: ~ dom
stocf ,we,shall be required to: dArr
that's thrue for ron, mum, for eli tn
pictures of angels have ever seer
were barefooted.,'