Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-11-01
ODDS AND ENDS.

DIR. Mary Walker now wears fringe
mp the sides of her pantaloons.
"I'm man of very quiet TASTE"
said he, as he went behind the door
and tasted something.
A democratic newspaper in Penn
sylvania records itself as strongly op-
posed to sectional rankcr."
A man was killed in Georgia for
stealing a kicking mule The mule
was the cxecutioner.
Mrs. Barlow told her husband not
to sit in his shirt sleeves, or he would
catch cold. How can man sit in his
shirt sleeves?
Connubial bliss. A hen-pecked hus-
band declared that the longer he
lived with his wife the more he was
smitten by her.
There is an opening for a minister
in the Black Hills. They had a
preacher there, but he was killed by
the Indians short time ago.
An Irishman at the Centennial in
CURED for the Irish Art Gallery. He
had heard that there was a picture by
Mike Langelow.
One firm in Davenport has bought
and shipped 1900 barrels of potatoes
to single firm in Texas, i'm the mast
month. That's ll.50O bushels.
Worlds fairs are getting so COM
mon that they will soon cease to at
tract any attention. Germany is 10
have one at Berlin in 1882.
The grasshopper has become accli-
mated, and whole colonies of these
industrious mouthed immigrants
have settled down in Kansas for the
| winter.
Spanish bull-fights are not vet a
thing of the past. An athlete Killed
two bulls in the presence of 10000
people couple Of wceksago at Bar
celona.
A farmer in Wakefield, N. HI. re-
Gently dug 100 hills of potatoes in
order to get mess sufficient for
breakfast, and his family was not
large at that.
OF human ingenuity there is no
end. A Paris inventor has made a
rattle snake trap with a system of
pipes which allow his snakeship to
enter but not to retire.
There are twelve miles of street
railway in Atlanta, Ga. The comma
ny owes not dollar, has $4,000
worth of property, and the invest
ment pays 10 per cent.
'1t was the delightful color of the
defendants hair that made me vote
for her acquittal," was the explaua-
ton of a Jersey juror for letting a
murdercss free.
Interesting experiments are being
made at the central telcgraphic bu-
reau in Paris for producing fac
smile of the writing and signature
OF an individual sending a dispatch.
"Why arc parents ever loving the
child which is absent or dead. in
preference to the living one present
in the house 2" some one wants "a
know. We give up the conundrum.
/
When three good little bows Get to-
gether of an afternoon, the chances
arc that there will be either a fight. n
window broken, or some straw dog
will have a pan tied TO his tail.-Neiy
Orleans Bnlletin.
The statistic fiend has discovered
that there are 929,940 horses, nearly
100000 cattle, l,OOO,5OO hogs, 1855
pianos, q, COS melodeons, 155, 72S sew
ing machines, and $4,000 worth of
diamonds in the State of Illinois.
brigham Young's time is up for
meeting that bill of alimony due Mrs.
NO. Nineteen. and again he swears
that he will go to Jail before he will
pay ia decision in which all good
men and women will glory, for there
is where he belongs.
A sister of the late President
Polk died few days ago at Column
bla, Tennessee. She was the last sur
viying member of her immediate
family. which consisted of nine broth
crs and sisters, President Polk being
the eldest.
When circus agent loses his $500
diamond pin, he doesn't sauander a
dollar by advertising for it. He
simply encloses forty cents in a letter
and sendsi it to a New York establish
ment with instructions to send him
another just like the last.
A Chinaman, arrested i'm San Fran
cisco, the other day, was found to
have on coat of mail made of cloth.
cotton batting and paper, thick
enough to turn knife or bullet II
also had pockets for knives and hatch
cts.
A woman was arraigned at the
New York Tombs Police Cont on
the charge of assaulting her husband.
She defended herself by saying that
her husband had insulted her by say
ing: :" Providence has spared YOU the
necessity of making any cxertions of
your own to turn up your nose.'
When you come down to argument
The Broohtyn A,gus always has it.
Ii says: what ails this nation is
want OF confidence, and il suggests
train of very painful reflections Ia see
the mother of family Of religious
boys SO scrupulously particular in
locking the pantry door"
The first time Jerrold saw cele-
brated song writer, the latter said TO
him: loungster, have you sufficient
confidence in me to lend me q gum
ca y "Ob, yes" said Jerrold, "Pye
all the confidence but | haven't the
guinea"
Congressman Thompson, of Glou-
cester, Massachusetts, is afflicted with
stammering. When he was told that
the Old South Church had been sold.
he remarked that it didn't do "for
the Al-m-m-mighty to own cor-cor-
corner lot in Boston,
New York Commercial. They kept
an Arizona man, who had been bitten
by tarantula, drunk for six DAYS,
and he eventually got well, but with
Incompatible stinginess, he refused
to pay the whisky bills and started
out to look for another tarantula.
"Shall l try homeopath or an al
lopath 2" "My dear fellow, il is six
OF one and half dozen of the other.
The allopath kills his patients: the
homeopath lets his de- "Then |
will call in an allopath--the poor wo-
man will suffer less -French Wit.
A woman came slowly along the
Main building. She was in great
perplexity, but being wise woman,
she stopped to ask for information.
and this is what she asked: "Can Won
tell me, sir, is this the other end oil
the building "-Philadelphia Er.
indulge Greene, of Cedar Rapids. for
Sany years member of the Iowa
cupremc Court, chosen by the demo-
cratic party, and until recently life
long democrat, is for Hayes and
Wheeler, and will address the people
of his city in few days. lie has
long personally known Sam Tilden,
and hence cannot support him. u-
1uqne Times.
While everybody is familier with
the term Sublime Porte, by no means