Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-02-17
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A cooperative mill--A free
fight.
"A rare fower-the pink of polite. |
ness.
The best preparation to keep a |
lady's hand "free from chaps" is q re.
port that she has no money.
The Empress of China is reported
to have died from grief at the death of
her husband, the Emperor.
The proposed new Territory of
Pembina embraces 1900 square miles
and contains about 10000 inhabitants.
Jolly times in Florida: The pro-
gramme Of each day is sleep, cat, fish
or shoot, and then little moro sleep
and cat.
1t is melancholy fact that those
who declare war are never called upon
to do the slightest amusement OF this
nature.
Michigan men don't feel az though
they had elopcd If they don't leave .
Wife and four children in destitute
circumstances.
1t 10 with little-soulcd people as it
is with narrow.nccked bottles-the
less they have In them tho more noise
they make in pouring it ont.
"A wag being asked the name of
the inventor of butter stamps, replied
that it was probably Cadmus, as he
first brought letters into Greece.
Tho girl who stuck her quid of
gum on the stovepipe at night, 20 that
her sister couldn't find it, had her con-
fidence melted away early In the NOR
ming.
Bully for the Connecticut Board
ing house keeper who eplintered her
pudding mixer over the head of . chap
who slandered her female boarders.-
He won't dough 1t again.
Washington Irving once alluded
to man Of superior pomposity 40 20
great man, and, In his own estimation,
4 man of great weight. When he
goes to the West, he thinks the East
tips up."
Tho Secretary of War has issued q
circular inviting officers and soldiers
TO hunt mp articles of historic and
scientific value of interest to the mill
tsry service, for the formation Of q
war museum.
The Mormons, it is said, are grow
ing tired of the faith committed to
them by Brigham and the Fathers, and
are rapidly going over to Spiritualism.
Especially 10 this the case with the
elderly sisters.
"A circuit preacher in Missouri
prayed for rain one night at farmers
house, and the farmer, who had .
horse race arranged for the next day,
was 90 mad that he turned the good
man out of doors.
Henry Stanton says: "rhere is
no open door tor the moneyless man"
Per contra, Dobb says that whenever
he 10 moneyless everybody seems dis
posed to show him the door, and ask
him to step out to boot.
| --Mrs. Stokes, whose husband was
engaged in that little affair with Fisk,
IL said to be one Of the most peacocky
looking women on Broadway. This
is better than weeping but It should
also be a warning to other men.
Miss Mary Hillhouse, of New
Haven, left to her pastor, Rev. DR..
HAYWOOD, . legacy of 81, 900. to be
paid to him at Christmas. And tho
Doctor feels constrained to say. "Bles-
sed are the dead who die in the Lord"
| This is the way Milwaukee pa.
per puts it.: 1--WE don't want to be
rude, but the procession of gentlemen
which filed through the Office yester-
day, all day, asking who's Cameron P
was and interruption to the business
of the office"
| During . trial the Judge called
elderly man arose ana sSa...,, ""u .. Hi'
she 10 gone" "Where has he gone "
asked the Judge in no tender tonc.
81 don't know, but he is dead" was
the guarded answer.
"A lecturer, addressing an audi
ence, contended with tiresome prolix.
ity that art could not improve without
mature, until one of his hearers, losing
all patience, set the room in roar by
exclaiming: Elbow would You look