Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-11-10

MANY men live a life of postpone
mcnt. They are about to attain sue
cess next year or month. Notwith-
standing this. they grow old and die
for time does not wait for dreams.
hut demands action.
An ingenious 1contriNancc -
cvadc the Maine Liquor Law has been
discovered at Bangor. 1t consists of
I barrel within barrel. furnished
with a faucet. which. when turned
one way supplies cider. and when
turned in another supplies lager beer.
lit is not generally known that the
Treasury Department employs two
learned and skillful chemists. one of
whom is constantly engaged in fabri-
eating indeliblc inks, while the other
dcvotes his talents to washing out the
| inks. and. thus far. chemistry has de-
viscd no ink which chemistry cannot
eftacc.
An old gentleman from the East
offered the baggage master at Sacra-
mento, as he thought, a $40 gold piece,
/ but which proved TO be a spiel mark
"a bogus coin. When the fraud was
pointed out to him he said he had
| $500 in that kind of money. and he
showed more spiel marks, which had
been given in exchange for green
backs by a scamp at Omaha.
! A Congress of Free Nlasons was
recently held at Lausanne, Switzer-
land. Ii was voted a grand success.
4 Another ono viii be held in 1877.
either in London or Rome. If in the
! first city its presiding officer would
be the Prince of Wales, and il in the
second, King Victor Emmanuel. as
botll personages belong to the society.
according TO Plus In.
The dispute which is constantly
recurring between sportsmen whether
! the race-horses of England are equal
1 TO those of this country is going to
have a practical settlement by trial
of speed between horses OF the two
countries. Mr.. Sanford. of New y ork.
| having shipped eight Of our most cell
ebrated runners for London, with the
I intention of contesting for the prize
! cups next year.
-Anewspaper is a window through
4 which men look out on all that is GO
4 ing on in Tile world: without a news
/ paper man is shut up in small
4 room and knows little or nothing of
I what is happening outside of himself.
4 In our day the newspapers keep pace
with history and record ii. A news
4 paper viii keep a sensible man in
sympathy with theworld's curren this
tory. Ii isan enfolding encyclopedia.
! an unbound book forever issuing and
never finished.
"A farmer presented check al
4 one Of the Kingston, Canada. banks
for cashing recently. The amount
for which the check called being
large. the teller. 10 save his bills. was
paving part IN sovercigns. which the
farmer, however, refused when they
Were pushed toward him. ''Wlu =
asked The bank clerk. NBekasc its 90,
i'm. down. read i'm Il New York
paper that gould was declinin. lis
not good. III take bills il yc phase.
He was accommodated
IN iss Robinson. teacher of one 81
the lower grades in Baltimore
school, deserves AT least f'honorablc
mention" Fire broke out on one oi
The upper floors. and the pupils came
rushing down in the widest panic
WHEN she ordered one of her assist.
ami teachers TO play a march, and. 90
ing from room to room. she had the
children file ont quietly. without
breaking stcp--or limb.
"a Marlboro Mass.) man has just
received from a gentleman in Silver
City, New Mexico. n box containing
an alligator and a horned toad, which
was transported in The mail bags at a
cost OF only five cents in postage
4 which fact leads the editor of the
Jou,adi, the enterprising local paper
of the village, to remark that "Sena.
tor iIamlin should have the price on
loads and alligators raised at tho