Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-11-22
ODDS AND ENDS.

ODDS AND ENDS.
The swiftest regular trains between
\ Washington and Baltimore run forty
two miles Of the. distance in fift,
minutes. aEE fa
\ A narrow ridge of gold quartz
. thirty miles long, has been discovered
iii New South Wales. 1t contains al
enormous percentage of gold.
| Eight million dollars have been ex
pended by Pennsylvania since tn,
close of the rebellion for soldiers or
phans. la t@ff
4 fla man says in the prayer.mcet
ing that he has not sinned for tel
years, don't trade with him, lest yo,
lead him into temptation.
In the tigurative language of tn
Charleston contraband when tn,
bombshell fell near him: "Hell hal
laid egg "--LouisriUe Courier
Journal.
! Massachusetts pollcd 257,452 vote
for President giving Hayes 4O,9ft
majority. For Governor, Rice, re
publican, received 81, ,453 majorit,
over Charles Francis Adams.
The importation of horses from
Normandy is now becoming marked
| feature in commerce. The country il
being almost overstocked with thi:
mammoth breed of equines.
A fishing schooner at Cape Eliza
beth, Me-, took in her seine at one
| haul the other day 800 barrels OF
mackerei. She could only hold 200
barrels and had to give the other GOO
away. 1tts
Buttons on the feminine dress arc
smaller this winter. The old ones
worn year or two ago, make good
quoits-though some of them are too
heavy to pitch over ten yards.
An outsider says: "What is the
difference between the heroine of
Whittier's TT Might Have Been and
a brickmaker ?" and answers: zone
is Maud Muller and the other is a
mud mauler. .H-Norristo,cn Herald.
Don't crowd a fashionably dressed
young lady with a big tilter on. 1t
makes her look like she was crawl
ing out from under the cover of an
old-fashioned country road wagon.-
Louisville Courier-.Jomwdl.
The most painful agreement vet
made on the result of the election is
one entered into bya Chicago Demo-
crat, who promises that if his party
does not win he will GO without
whiskey for the next four years.
In 1875 the United States had in
operation 74.65S miles of railroad,
costing $4,65S, ,2OS, ,639. and earning
S4O3, 329, ,7OS year. They transported
that year over 2O0,O00,0OO tons, and
passengers numbering more than five
times the population Of the country,
Tennessee's majority for Tilden
will be about 10000, and her Con-
gressional delegation will stand eight
democrats and two republicans
republican gain of one, Mcfarland,
in the first district. The Legislature,
which will elect two United States
Senators, is democratic by sixty on
Joint ballot.
One day last week, the Portland
Press printed an editorial on the alb
olition of capital punishment in
Maine, and the resulting good effects.
1t was sarcastically headed. "Mur-
dcrers Wanted The Ducksport
tragedy, costing the lives Of three
persons. took place that night.
DIR. Charming was walking ON the
beach at Newport witha lady. "Whcn
| look" said she, "at the sweep of the
ocean and its power, and think of the
infinite range beyond, l feel myself
so small as to be all-insignificant. Do
not your "My dear friend. when
look at the infinite ocean, I do not
think of myself at ALL"
On the second trial of Mary L.
Smith against the Brooklyn florist,
Peter WALTON, for illegally snatching
kiss from her, the jury refused to
give her one cent ofthe 5000 asked
for. The jurors accepted the excuse
of the florist that she was so pretty
he couldn't help it.
a new road is projected from st.
Joseph, Mo-, to pass through Glidden,
Green county, Iowa, and Pomeroy. to
Minnesota: also a road from Council
Bluffs to intersect the Chillicothe
road, on the Iowa State line, in Page
county and one from the State Line
road. in Appanoose county, which is
IN operation from Keokuk.
The New York churches have a cu-
rious prejudice in favor of imported
ministers, which leads the Congreqa-
tionalist to inquire if the American
ministerial stock is giving out. No
less than eight Of the metropolitan
pulpits are filed by fereign-born
clergymen, all Of whom have been
called from active pastorates in their
own country.
The Commissioner of Patents has
been making up little table, which
shows that the greatest number OF
patents issued to any one state las
year, was 3,77l to New York. Penn.
sylyania received 2,034; Massachu
setts, l,4S6 illinois, l,09S Ohio, 1,OSl
The proportion of patents to popula
tion, gives the District of Columbi.
the lead, with one patent for ever,
6l5 of the population: Connecticu
second, with one patent for every
76l; Massachusetts, third, the proper
ton standing one to every 7S7; ant
Rhode Island fourth, with u latent t,
every 943 inhabitants. Arkansas i
not inventive. having received las
year but one patent for every 44,O4:
of her population.