Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-01-05
MisceIlaDeous.

The winter is severe In Austria.
An y official is one who gets $40 a
day.
Buggins thinks that dynamite il a
contraction for die any minute.
.She Stops to Conquer. was writ.
ten before the days of pin-back skirts
Philadelphia hotel keepers promise
not to charge more than s. day al
the Centennial.
Guilty, with some doubts about
his being the man who did il. is Il
Hoosier verdict.
Four encouragement occupy me.
NAL positions in the service of the
House. ut Washington.
The proposed new Constitution of
Texas permits nine jurors in panel
OF twelve to return n verdict.
Grasshoppers are in great demand
for bait in the French sardinc fisher
les. suppose we send them ours?
An old lady got of the train al
Dubuque the other day and wanted
to know III she was IN lie city Of Re-
bukuc.'
4 highway robber in Brooklyn.antl
an cN-copVict, when asked by the JUS
tice what he was arraigncd tor,repIiod
Working ut my trade"
One day when Mrs. Darlington
heard the minister say there would be
nave in the new church. she 0bsev-
ed that she knew who the party was.
No Chinese bank has failed for five
hundred years. When the last failure
took place the officers heads were cut
offand flung into q corner with the
other assets.
A Michigan Dutchman. summoned
to identify stolen hog, being asked
if the hog had any ear marks. replied.
DE only ear marks vat saw vas his
tail vas cut off,
Said young man to his bachelor
uncle: What advice would YOU give
a young man who was contemplating
matrimony." 81 would advise him TO
keep on contemplating it,
A Russian paper reports that the
Cossacks of the Don believe that the
end of the world is at hand. Many
of them have given up all their prop
crty, and have ordered their collins.
A New Orleans paper. which prints
a long editorial headed THE treasure
of wickedness profits nothing" has its
first page entirely occupied with the
advertisement of a huge lottery swim
die.
Beware AT social gatherings. of the
Young man or young woman who
constantly says, "when ! was i'm Eu-
rope" They have already bored sew
eral go1d-natnred people to DEATH
". j.. Noa.
Says scientific autl0rifv-"The
wine crop of France this year would
fill a ditch three and half feet wide.
three and a half feet deep, and 1900
miles long Now, don't Won wish
you were Il ditch:
Providence seems to watch over the
little man with q big wife. aud teaches
him that one of the principal condi-
tons of domestic tranquility IS to al
ways keep his dandcr at low tide
Broohiya Argus.
An Iowa exchange calls attention
to sad omission in the list of woods
for exhibition ut the Ccntennial-..a
specimen Of wood taken on subscrip-
ton toa country paper that was de-
livered when promised"
A married woman of Columbia. Ga.
and her unmarried, but engaged. sis
ter, had fight as TO the looks Of hus-
band and loyer, and the engaged
young woman knocked ont her sisters
left eyc-ball with II poker.
Prof. Gustavns Ilinrichs. the Iowa
weather prophet and reporter, makes
his predictions as follows: IF this
winter conforms TO the laws manifest
in the winters Of the past 81 years. we
shall this year have a MILD h,co win-
ter
A Waterloo firm keeps in lis show
the skull of a human being.
labeled. This was n drummer" and
ibtt SuICuSO SdItsblIuu WHO stFlkes
hat town makes il point 10 visit that
store and spit tobacco juice on the
stove.
The law requires all Insurance COM
panies doing business in this State to
pay into the State treasury tax OF .
per cent. on the total amount of their
business done in the State. In 1874
his tax amounted TO x5l.IS2 20: in
1915 to $54.425.97.
What.a broad country and n varied
climate we have. Friday when il
was so warm here and so sprino-like
III over Iowa. Northern New York
had eighteen inches Of snow. and New
Hampshire had the mercury % de-
grecs below zero.
The Rochester Democrat jaws this
way: Her mother had said that she
set out wine on New Years
1ay-it should be coffee: and she re-
with much indignation
What. would yOn have me drive
Charles 10 those drinking saloons z"