Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-20
ALL SORTS.
Vermont wants hanging abolished.
Wade Hampton is fifty-fivc.

ALL SORTS.
Vermont wants hanging abolished.
Wade Hampton is fifty-fivc.
Maine wants the gallows back.
Expounders of the Constitution are
thickening on every hand.
Sitting Bull is so quiet that he must
he enjoying a bull-doze.
Cigarette smoking is on the increase
in the bluest society of New York.
Susan B. Anthony thinks she would
rather be married than be President.
Danbury Ne,cs. "Tom Thumb is
going West-to grow up with the
country"
Indian scalps, with right car at
tackled, are worth $50 apiece at Dead
wood City.
The city in the United States that
is not fighting for cheaper gas is hard
to put your finger OH.
Edwin Booth is getting rich again.
He has $l50O00 invested in Chicago
real estate and buildings.
The war in Cuba is doing one good
thing-it is knocking daylight out Of
the slave business on that island.
One fellow called another liar in
Deadwood, the other day, "only for
fun" But he got shot just the same.
A Mississippi woman left the COW
she was milking, and went right into
the house, just because bear rubbed
against her.
DIR. S. j. James has grown black tea
at his place five miles from Thomas
Vile, Ga, which compares favorably
with the best imported from China.
George A. Trenholm, Secretary of
the Treasury for the Confederate
Government at the time it collapsed,
died at Charleston, s. c., last Sunday.
The Scotch farmers are being ruin
ed by mice. Weasels, hawks and
owls are treated with respect which
astonishes these long prosecuted an
imals.
A Wisconsin newspaper says: "The
Board of Education has resolved to
erect building large enough to ac-
commodatc 500 students three stories
high"
i In the twenty-seven States from
which official returns have been re-
ceived, Tilden received 3644,5O2
Votes; Hayes, 1888, 4O4; Cooper, o.
1877; Smith, 6,679; Scattering, 1897.
California has more insane people
than any two western states. The
cause is doubtless the greater bust
ness excitement than in the older set
tied states.
J The Choyashinoun Japan paper
, states that about thirty newspaper
writer's confined in the Jail of Kajib-
ASH, have been removed to the Ichi.
|, gaya Jail in Toxic. See what it costs
to be newspaper man in Japan.
: There is prominent divine down
in New York who grieved SO much
4 over the loss of his wife, that his con.
/; gregation had to make up a purse
a and send him to Europe to marry
a another woman whom he had met OH
: a previous trip.
. A Washington special says Con.
+ gress will probably adjourn from
, Friday, the 18th inst, until the second
o Monday in January. In the mean.
i time the select committees will pur
q sue their investigations in the South.
r ern States.
8 The Milwaukee SentineTs reporter
at Oshkosh lets out on himself by
r sending word that Oshkosh gamins
d with long hair, on party nights, sit il
IS the barber-shops and sell their chan
s ces to gentlemen who are in hurry t
It be shaved.
y A Chinese lottery-man, arrested il
u San Francisco the other day, tried Il
" explain by saying: "Me selle tickle
one dollah, maybe you don't make,
hundred dollah, get little piece nic
lpaper lookee like hundred doilah
Il allie same, jes' good for big fool! !"
I'll The Pella Blade says: 'The mos
o difficult thing for fellow to do is t
j. court a girl with both the old folks il
n the room. While they are AROUND
! the usual looseness about the arms i
s not perceptible, and his feet arc al
i ways in the way"
s "Dar's gwine to be wah," remarked
q a colOred citizen, "an' all We niggahs
IS mout jess well git ready for active
: business" (which side shall W.
Q take ?" asked one of his hearers
: "You niggahs can take jes' wat sid'
e yer please Use gwine to take d.
q Canada side !"-Nc,c YORK; World
:, A thrifty German, in Massachu
" sets town, whose setting hen woult
- not stay on her eggs till they wer'
a Matched, recently put his wife in bee
II for two days, with the eggs in boz
beside her, and thereby three chick
ems were saved to the world.
"A locomotive engineer, who hat
been discharged for some cause, CAV,
vent to his spite, eminently character
st istic of American humor. He said j
% was about time he left the company
n anyhow, for the sake of his life, TO
''there was nothing left of the ole
, ack but two strcaks of rust and tn
u -.ght of way"
The little daughter of q noted East
ern politician, who likes to travel OF
]. his war record, the other day, unwit
70 tingly furnished the Opposition
with a good joke on her papa. 4
one armed soldier came to the hous,
is begging assistance, and the little CIR
h in condoling him, said, lispingly
l. "My father wath tholdier, but h
lie didn't got hurt. He wath pruden
9. tholdier."
n A tourist describes the sale of sna il
l. in the town of Tivoli, near Rome, as
e source of much profit to the peasant
If of that district in rainy weather
Is when this curious edible is abundan
in the olive groves. The flavor 1
20 pronounced delicious, more so thai
(, scollops or oysters. When artisticall,
y not long decline this much-dcspiset
: crustacean
When Mike was counting Kit,
= Mill, he begged-as lovers often will
Yin accents softly spoken, that sh,
:, ono lock of her golden hair from he
- - fair head to him would spare, by wa,
:. of love token. Now Mike ant
= Kate are man and wife, their court
e ings turned to married strife, and {
= sad difference makes it; though still
attracted by her hair, he ne'er now
: begs lock she'll spare, but out il
e handsfull takes it.
: An inebrated Jerseyman in New
y York, led by flaming posters adver
y Using the play of"The Forty Thieves,
:, at Niblo's, went to the boX-office ant
4 called for ticket-at the same tim
~ throwing down IS greenback. o.
~ receiving in return So and a tickle
Che had expected to pay about fit.
~ cents), the astonishcd countryman
&c looking first at the money and then a
u the ticket, exclaimed: "H-h-hoy
W much dyer ask to (hic) see these s.For
E. ty Thieves?" The ticket-seller in
st formed him that the price was s:
le "Well," said Jersey, throwing bac
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