Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-07-21

An Iowa man is writing new
bible.
Spain has twenty-four political
parties, and still it is not happy.
Lots of women condemn the "pull
back" dresses. but somehow they are
all woron of ugly form.
Although in its infancy. the raisin
crop of California is estimated to yield
a profit of 100000 annually.
If your chickens cat potato bugs
don't make pie of the chickens. A
family in Michigan was badly poison
cd in that way.
An Atlanta paper sensibly pro-
poses that an immense crop of Georgia
blackberries now ripening shall! be
turned to account by bcing shipped to
the North in fresh state or dried.
"A poet has been decorating himself
with the query: Where are sill the
birds that sang, hundred years ago ?"
We give it up: but suppose they arc
nesthididing somewhere in eternity.
The following conundrum gained
the first prize at the charity ball at
Toledo: Why is lady at our ball like
an arrow? Because she can't 60 off
without bow, and is in culver until
she gets one.
When man in Syria has tho hy-
drophobia, they keep him in dark
room awhile, and then drop him from
an eminence into the sea. The au-
thorities are silent as to what becomes
of him then.
1t has been discovered that the
water in the we'll in the public square
at Eaton, O., is strongly imprcgnated
with minerals-especially in snlphu-
retted hydrogen. Perhaps somebody
flung a dead cat intoit.
In Palmer, Mass says local pa
per, "they reel off 500 yards of carpet
daily That's reel nice - but we
know fellows who reel of bare floor
just as often and don't think any thing
Of it.--Noah's Sunday Times.
-Housebreaking must be very
greatly on the increase. or the bachc-
Tor who vowed few weeks ago that
he made it practice TO stay away
from weddings, would not have since
remarked, Yes, think I'll get mar
ried. I'm tired of laying awake nights
looking for burglars"
-"Mother wants to know If Won
won't please to lend her your preserv-
ing kettle-'cause as how she wants to
preserve?" eve would with pleas.
ure, boy, but the fact lie, the last time
we lentit to your mother she preserved
it SO efTectually that we have never
seen it since" "Well, you needn't be
so sassy about your old kettle mother
wouldn't have troubled you agin only
we seed you have new one"
"A blind man had been sitting one
day and pleasantly chatting with some
visitors for an hour, when one of them
wished the company good morning
and left the room. "What white teeth
that lady has" said the. sarcastic blind
man. "How can you possibly tell
that ?" said friend. because" was
the ready answer, "for the last half
hour she has done nothing but laugh"
The other day at Nenaugh, Ire
land, two passengers having been con-
veyed to a certain distance on hired
car, finding when they were about to
leave it that the driver was drunk,
tied him to the car SO that he might
not fall off on his return home. The
horse took the car and the driver back
to the place from which he had start
cd, and it was then found that the
driver. in struggling to free himself
from the cords had become strangled,
There arc many who are anxious
for fame; who are longing for a good
office which they will probably fill
badly; who think Lille wonueriuliy
well spent if they can amass a sum of
money with which they will not know
what to do with them they have got
1T. venture to put before them q
new ambition--that of becoming pleas
ant to their fellow creatures. 1t is a
path in which they will not be jostled
by crowd fcompe.itors --James 4.
Fields.