Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-03
"A Little Fun, Now and Then,' =


A head scenter-The pomade man.
ufacturer.
The estate of the late Frank p.
Blair, Jr., is valued at $500.
Diaz wants to be President of Mex
leo, but he will probably Diaz a
traitor.
Society" says Sam Slick, ..is like
pork barrel-the middle good, but
the top and bottom leetle tainted.
The most effective way for boy to
learn his bee sces-By putting his
finger into the hive.
A Political Problem. Can a cross
eyed foreigner be natural-eyzed In
quire at any court of record.
A man in Indiana recently sent
twenty-five cents by mail, pasted on
the back of postal card.
After mature consideration and
careful investigation the London au-
thorities have refused to name new
street after George Washington. No
one hurt.
The Alta California says that it is
as useless to try 10 keep the American
adventures out of the Black Hills as
to keep woman out ofa dry goods
store.
There is an old German proverb to
this effect that q great war leaves the
country with three armies--an army
of cripples, an army of mourners, and
an army of fthieves.
AS Presidential candidate. Judge
David Davis is, without doubt. the
heaviest man that the Democrocy
could put in the field. lie weighs
about four hundred pounds.
The statue of the late George ID.
Prentice editor, poet and humorist,
erected in the city of Louisville, Ky.,
will be unveiled on the Sth of May.
A statue Of the late Senator Baker,
Of Oregon, has been placed in Statu-
AIRY hall in the CapitOla at Washington.
1t is life size, standson handsome
dark pedestal, and is made of pure
white Italian marble.
Esquimaux theologians reverse
heaven and hell, placing the penitant
and saved i'm sheltered world
underground, and keeping the sim
ners above, where they will freeze.
The Toledo Blade talks in this way !.
at is astonishing how many ministers
It takes to conduct the funeral services
ofa rich man, while poor man some
times finds it difficult to obtain the
services of even one minister"
A skating rink accident is thus de-
scribed by Kentucky reporter {:
"Shc struck out; couldn't turn; start
ed for the ceiling; shouted Don't you
look : turned a handspring, and then
sat down. The stripes were brown
and red.'
Never refuse to give friend a
chew OF tobacco. At Courtland,
Tenn, the other day, Frank Taylor
killed Washington Howard with u
club because the latter refused to ac-
commodatc him with little "iine-cut
United States Revenue Supervisor
Tuition has arrived at Washington
from Q six weeks trip in the SOUTH
He says that many of the persons in
dictcd for whisky frauds there have
escaped by challenging the grand Ju-
ries, on the ground that ex-confcder-
ates We're on them.
An Indiana murderer has got of
with q short term because u elairvoy-
ant witness testified that just before
the shooting he saw the heart OF the
accused 80 booming and humping
itself around, scintilating and emit
ting sparks Of firc--an undcniable evil
dencc of insanity.
at fcquently happens. wrote a
traveller in the wilds of Buenos
| Ayers, sthat the owner of thou
sand oxen and horses, and five times
as many sheep, has not a bed in the
house, and is too lazy to take the
wool from the sleeps back to spread
on the ground beneath him. The
skull Of an OK serves him for seat,
and the horn for cup, and this is all
his household furniture.
! The Legislature has legalilzed the
sBarbed wire fence" Ii shall he OF
three or four wires. two of which
shall be barbcd, forty barbs to the
rod posts two rods apart; the top
wire not more than 56 nor less than 4S
inches high, the bottom wire to be
not more than 26 nor less than l6 inch
es from the ground. This is an inn
portant item for farmers to read aud
consider.