Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-08-25


for it--and do not intend any more to say
what Office will take and what will not.
[Cheers.
Hornets killed a Connecticut farm
hand recently.
Jenny Limbs husband - Gold
schmidt-is as bald.headed as bill
lard ball.
-Kindergartcns arc being establish
ed In many Of our Western towns and
cities.
Tho noxt thing, probably will DO
. "scarc" about the frost killing the
corn crop.
Over twelve million dollars arc
estimated to have been lost by strikes
In England this season.
king Kalakaua has been making
speech to his people on temperance.
II all accounts are true, they nccd
talking to.
AT somo of the watering places
ladies have introduced tho fashion of
bathing masked, and aftor look at
their forms nobody blames them.
AT recent bull fight in Madrid.
for the benefit of q society for the re-
lief of widows and orphans, eight
bulls, twelve horses aud two men
were killed.
Josh Billings remarks: "Thc only
way to git thru this world and escape
~ M ,r0 nd nh So In AoY, l. a,
road. You kant travel the main turn
pike and do it."
Ladies, emancipatc your canaries.
Bergh says you are heartlcss to keep
them prisoners. Better let them out
to freeze in the first Fall storm, he
seems to think.
There arc evidences of increased
economy in dress and "style" at the
Eastern watering-places. Necessity
is sometimes the mother of sense as
we'll 40 of invention.
Seventeen brass bands recently
gave grand band picnic at Lake
Pleasant, Mass, at which nearly ID,
600 people -wero driven wild before
they cOuld get home again.
A Mississippi planter. who owned
many slaves fn the bad Old days, now
boasts that all his "niggcrs" have turn
ed out we'll. Not one of them has
been elected to the Legislature.
Mo more gros-grain, big bowed,
long END sashes, If you please. says
Madame Modiste, but instead, wear q
band OF narrow ribbon around your
waists with lot Of streamcrs at the
left side.
AS slight token of the esteem in
which they held him, some acquaint.
ances of Mr.. Samuel Granger, OF Mis-
souri,, recently presented him with o
very servicablo pull-back necktie.
The gentleman was one Of tho most
successful and widely-rcspected horse
thieves in the Southwest country.
Andrew johnson, four years ago,
said to Brownlow: "Dealh has al
ready laid his icy fingers upon You!
And yet you sit, poor galvanized
corpse, and laugh in the face of the
King of Terrorist" And now the
shriveled Parson, in tolerAbly good
shape, sits and listens to the clods as
they fall on Andy's coflin.-Atianta
Herald.
There 10 . remarkable cat living
In Whitncyville, Conn.,, near Lake
Whitney. 1t 10 seven or eight years
Of age, and goes fishing for its meals.
It will stand in the water up to its
thighs and catch small fish and cells.
Some Of the latter have been twenty
inches long. The greatest achieve
ment of this cat was tho capture re-
Gently Of . fish weighing three pou ads.
The animal cornered the fish in shall
low water, and then pushed it ashore.
An Iowa girl has . chest containing
two feather beds,s dozen cotton sheets,
"a piliow-cases, six bed quilts, six
table cloths, six comforters, and three
dozen towels, and her father has given
her two cows and ten sheep. And vet
the young Patrons around there hest
tate about marrying her, because she
10 cross.eyed, and they cannot tell
which she means when she miles at
the crowd in. church. - Milfoaukee
Netcs.
The editor Of the Ukiah (Cal,) Dom
ocrat having recently suggested that
there were other vocati0ns more suit.
able for woman than editing news-
paper during . political campaign,
Mrs. Belle Lynch, of the Ukiah Dis
patch thus annihilates him: "If only
men are to fight the battle of this cam
paign, the editor Of the Democrat had
better put ON checked apron, got q
hank of yarn and some knitting needles
and pair Of brass mounted spectaclcs
and retire from the stormy conflict"
The An gels.
Conversation at q fashionable water
ing place. Middle aged party cnvieus
Of the belle Of the room, and deter
mined to put her down: