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

The party in the village store be-
lieved Mr.. Darling when he said that
he rugged wheeled truck under
a broken-backcd sow, so that she
could get around as we'll as before
the accident; but their confidence in
his word was shaken when he said
that her next litter of pigs were born
with similar trucks under them.
An Englishman predicted twenty
years ago that if gutta percha be used
for submarine Geographic purposes
an animal with special appetite fol-
that substance would be found o,
created. The Popular Science Month.
ly now says that the anticipated de-
| stfoyer has appeared, and that he is
about a quarter Of an inch in length
The frequent Interruptions of cable
communications are ascribcd by the
writer to the propensity of this di-
minutivc creature to take his meals
out of gutta percha.
Reports of the hog crop and the ef-
feet of the cholera in hogs in West
ern Missouri, Kansas, Southeastern
Nebraska, and Southwestern Iowa
show that in the three former Sec
tioms the crop win be larger than last
year, and the cholera has done but
little harm, while in the latter sec
ton the crop will be smaller than last
year, and the cholera has been quite
destructive.
A college professor, who was very
rigid as to grammar, suspecting that
a surreptitious game of cards was
going on in one of the college rooms,
knocked at the door. "Who's there p
was the response. "It's me-Profes-
sor Simpson," was the reply. .rYou
lie" roared one of the students.
Professor Simpson neyer'd say Its
me.' He'd say 1T is II so you be
of, or I'll break your hcad!' The
professor saw the boys had him, and
quietly left.
The breach OF fraternal relations
which has existed between the North
crn and Southern branches Of the
Methodist church in the United States
has SO far been healed that large
number of representatives of the de-
nomination of North and South met
Wednesday in Louisville, XIV, to rat
ify the action of the Northern Con-
ference at Baltimore, last Summer,
looking to reunion. The separation
occurred at the National Conference
at Louisville in 1914, and the thirty
two years of estrangement is now
happily ended.
Hon. Willard Warner, of Alabama.
in q letter to the Cincinnati CONNER
cial, on the subject of intimidation Of
voters by United States troops, says
III have resided in Alabama for eley-
en- years, and | speak that which l
know when say this cry is the sheer
est bosh. United States troops have
never intcrfcred with or intimldateL
any honost voter In the South who
was DESTROYS of casting his vote rs he
ploasod aud willing to allow others the
same right. Their sole Office has been
to restrain violent interference by
Democrats with the right of each vo-
ter to cast his ballot as he pleased. No
honest man was ever afraid Of United
States troops in the South, and any
prctensc to the contrary is idlc.'
at is a wonder to me, Captain w,
you do not get married." "Well,
ma'am, ! never think of it; for the
woman I'd have might not have me.
and then, you know, vice versa
"Yes, but what kind Of a lady would
suit you and the widow looked her
sweetest. 1t was right here the Cap
tain's wonderful nerve never forsook
him, but setting his eye steadily at
the widows, he hardened his heart
and replied: MADAM, she must be
50 years old to a second, and worth
$500, 600" ut is getting so chilly out
here must go for my shawl said the
widow, and she looked frigid zones
at the Captain as she brushed him by
with a toss of her head.-Erchange.