Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-10-04

and fast dwindling.
The Centennial relic-hunters who
visit Warrington have Whitfield the
Speakers desk in the House Of Repre-
sentatives almost to nothing.
An Ohio Judge decides that wo-
man can hire out as a "prctty waiter
girl if she wants to, the law being
unconstitutional which says "no."
Some coins lately found near Jcru-
salem are shekels and half shekels of
Judea, silver, with cup of mama on
one side and the budding rod on the
other.
Notwithstanding the Grange Law,
the Rock Island Railroad declares a
semi-annual dividend of four per
cent, and the B. Il NJ. road goes half
a cent better.
Over two hundred Germans who
had left the United States for Ger
many, returned recently in one ves-
sci. They found the times harder
there than here. d,
Just before you drop that demo-
cratic vote it would be well enough
to sOlilOquizc little like this: Gam
l ready to give my check to meet the
rebel debt ?"
In Morrissey's New York gambling
dens the republican nominee for Gov
erner of Indiana invariably brings
the most money as "tirst choice in
the "pools."
Official returns from all but two
small counties in Arkansas give Mil
Ter (dem.), 70,39S; Bishop (rep.), &c.
73S; Miller's majority, 33,66O. The
democratic majority in 1874 was To-
4O3. Ea,.a r.
1t is now estimated that 100000
visitors will have attended the Cen
tennial Exhibition at its close, and
that the stockholders will be repaid
80 per cent. of their subscriptions
There is a tailor in Lincoln, Neb..
named Damrow, and he is always
around when q man orders a suit Of
clothes and doesn't pay for them.
| This is the message Camden, Me-,
man sent to his father the morning
after election: "Republican majority
in my house of one over last year.
weight twelve pounds"
An Indiana woman who has three
husbands, says there is one good
thing about getting married, any
how-"a woman gets new pair of
shoes then If she doesn't any other
time"
/ Ieander p. Richardson, who was
killed by the Indians near Fort Lara
mie in July last, announces that he
will devote part of the season of
1S76-77 to lccturing.
Seal-skin sacks will be worn again
next winter. The man Of the house
should begin to stop paving grocery
bills, in order to be prepared for that
time.
| Observes the Philadelphia Bulletin:
"When a Centennial woman sees the
baggage transfer wagon stop at her
boarding house she feels like loco
motive at the end of through trip
as if she is nearing her close"
| Mummies are drug in the market
at New York. A collection from
Peru was put up at auction, the other
day, and the best specimen brought
only $ll, while small ones were sold
for so cents apiece. Ho
A A New Haven, Conn.,, paper sets up
the claim that there are dozen beau
tiful women in that city as perfectly
beautiful in form, color or feature as
any chiseled or painted by the great
masters, not excepting the Venus OF
Milo and Madonnas of Raphael.
A dreamy philosopher has discov-
. cred that mosquitoes are animated
by the souls of wicked men, who have
gone to their last account. If this il
SO, good many wicked mems souls
are being plastercd up against bed.
, room walls.
: Nineteen million fifty-eight thou.
sand two hundred and fifty-two dol.
lars in silver coin have been paid out
by the Treasury Department for the
redemption of fractional currency
and in payment of obligations, since
! the 18th of April last, leaving bal
ance of $2,OOO,OOO Of such coin or
hand at this date.
/, A Norwalk lady Of strong demo
cratic affiliations, confesses her dis
satisfaction with Tilden because ma
i ture has placed no beard on his face
s She says: "The idea of man kiss.
: ing lady and no beard to scratch il
the osculative sign" That settles it
Tilden's want of beard just finishe,
lin as Presidential candidat,
/, !. nong the ladies.-Nor,calk Gazette
Many years ago a crazy Millerit,
: pr 0phesied that Syracuse was goine
to sink through the crust into the un
fathomablc lake of salt water tha
evidently underlies the region there
about. His rawlings actually had tn,
effect of impelling nearly halfa hun.
a dred families to move away to Oman
! dagu Hill, some miles from the city
= (then village) that didn't sink worti
! a cent. Most of them came back
: feeling very foolish, and having I,
!, suffer no end of jeering and ridicule
There is a play called "Pique," o
which the Utica IN. w Herald says
"They went to the theater last nigh
and were happy. But they quarrelel
: all the way home, Horace insistin,
e that the name of the piece was pro
r nounced "Pikc," while she knew
! was "Pekay,' and she had dress 0
a that article. The policeman VIII
heard them making up at the gate
didn't peek"
v A Spanish capitalist advocates tn
4 connection of Africa and Europe b,
e q tunnel under the Straits of Gibral
! tar. He desires to obtain for this en-
terprise $aO,0O0,O0O, and says that
with this tunnel and the one betwce,
: Calais and Dover completed, the rail
= road companies might soon be adver
!, tising that they would take passen
> gers from London to Calcutta "with
: out change of cars"
"The finest pageant ever Witncssc,
, in America" is to take place in Phils
I, delphia about the first of October
! Commissioners of tho Exposition ar
= = now making final arrangements
T There are TO be fifteen knights--thir
= teen to represent the original States
,r and one to represent the Unitc
D Stctes, and one the Centennial. Til
10 contest is to be for very magnificen
et prize. The Queen of Love and Beau
il ty-the most beautiful woman, ID I
n re(eive the crown from the victoriou
knight.